Akon details unreleased songs with Eminem.
Akon recently made an appearance on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast, where they discussed religion, music, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Africa and a lot more in one and half hour interview.
At one point in the interview, Akon recalled working with Eminem and revealed that he still has some unreleased beats from the Detroit rapper. “Working with Eminem was amazing. I got to Em through Obie Trice actually. Real name, no gimmicks. I reached out to Paul Rosenberg first, his manager. And Rosenberg was like ‘no problem, we make it happen.’ Everybody knows Rosenberg, he’s like a bulletproof vest, you have to go through him to get to Eminem. I said ‘yo, I need this sh-t fast.’ So I called Obie and said Obie where you at? He said I’m in Detroit. I said where is Em. He said he’s probably in the studio. I said I need to make an introduction for me. He said ‘yeah, when you coming down?’ I said I’m gonna book my flight right now.”
He continued, “So I get there. Obie picks me up at the airport and takes me to this strip club. We had an amazing time. The morning before he takes to studio. I asked what time we had to get there. He said to be ready at 08:30. I’m like that’s early as f–k. He said Bro trust me, if you ain’t there at 08:30…Just be there. So we get into the studio around 09:00. Em is in the studio. I’m ready to walk in and Obie is like ‘wait, he’s working on something.’ So I wait. Then Em comes out. Yo yo what’s up what’s up. Obie says ‘peace, I’m out’ and he goes.”
“I played Em some records. Then I said to play me some stuff. He said, I produce. He said I got beats. So he played me beats and I’m sitting here listening to his beats and I’m like all this sh-t sound like Eminem beats. If he rapped any one of these beats, the sh-t would be a hit without a doubt. Then he played Smack That Beat. And I’m like ‘THIS IS IT’ In my mind, I’m like, this would be even doper if he produced the record, so I’m like this gotta be Eminem record, I just want to be a feature on this motherf–cka.”
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“He goes to lunch. By the time he came back, the song was done. He heard it and he’s like ‘oh f–k, this is a hit.’ I said it would be bigger if you jumped on it. He said you are right. Alright cool, I see you tomorrow. He leaves. He comes back the next day. He has a verse on it. That motherf–cka. And I’m thinking, whose record is this gonna be, is it gonna be mine or his? So he plays me the verse and I’m like this is the best sh-t you ever do. I said we should put it on your album. He said, Nah, I thought it was for your album. This is your sh-t. I said, cool, and in my mind I’m celebrating.”
“We did three records that day. That was the record that he ended up jumping on. The other two, to this day, I still got them. I still got those two records I have not released them yet. Eminem is not on them yet. It’s Eminem-produced beats. And in my mind I’m like ‘okay, I wait to further down the line maybe album number four or five and then I come back to him and replay this records for him so he not gonna forget about it. I gotta go back to Detroit and remind him those records. Those three records was out of here.”
Check out the interview below.
