Eminem talks about Top-tier lyricists, praises Kendrick Lamar.
After releasing his new album ‘Music To Be Murdered By‘, Eminem sat down with KXNG Crooked for a new one-hour-long interview where he talks about a lot of things including adjusting to the new era of Hip-Hop. At around 16:00, KXNG Crooked asked Eminem’s perspective on people with longevity, such as himself, adjusting to the new era of hip-hop.
“Yeah, that’s another one of the things that make it fun too is being able to watch Cole and Kendrick come up, and seeing how great they were right off the bat,” says Eminem. “I mean, aside from them, I pay attention to everything that’s going on, all the new shit I try to stay up on, who’s doing what, flow patterns, that kind of shit, because it’s always interesting to me, like DaBaby, I never know where his rhymes are gonna end, and that shit is so interesting to me because he does it so well. It’s the same thing with you and Royce. It’s like, I don’t really know where this is gonna go, and when I get on a song with you or him, I know what I’m gonna get in the sense of the bar it’s gonna be, but I don’t know what I’m gonna get.”
Eminem continues and praised Kendrick Lamar. “I can’t predict our flow pattern, I can never predict anything, it’s the same thing getting on a track with Kendrick. I can never tell what the f*ck he’s gonna do. Cause he is such a chameleon of styles, and he can fu*king do pretty much anything. And he’s so proficient at it, he’s so good at it and you don’t know what you’re gonna get. That to me is like a top-tier lyricist. Because you can get your a*s kicked any day.”
Also, Eminem commented on Lyrics writing, “Man, I was stuck in traffic for like three hours listening to it over and over and over, and I caught something new every single time, and it’s like, “This is gonna take, you know, ’til about 2021 or some shit, before everybody really gets all of it.” And I’m talking about avid fans. You know what I’m saying? When you write on that level, you know, like you said, you say you just put it in anyway, knowing that it could slip by people’s radar.”
Watch the interview below (skip to 16:00).
