B.o.B played “Play The Guitar” to Eminem during Studio Session.
B.o.B recently sat down with B High Atl for a new interview, where the rapper recalled Eminem‘s reaction when he played him the “Play the Guitar” song which featured Andre 3000. The song was released in 2011, and was supposed to appear on his second studio album “Strange Clouds” in 2012 but failed to make the cut.
“I remember when I was in the studio with Eminem and I played Eminem ‘Play the Guitar,’” he said. “And I remember Em being like, ‘You just never know where he [Andre 3000] gon’ land at.’ I know what he meant when he said that. First of all, you gotta put this in perspective, I grew up listening to Eminem. He was that ni**a.”
He continued, “Like he [Eminem] was that ni**a and I was watching him listening to Andre 3000’s verse on my song and he was like, ‘Damn, man. You just never know where he’s gon’ land with the flow.’ And I’m just like, ‘Yo, this is wild to me.’ I know what [Eminem] meant by that because… the way Andre approaches verses, he’s like a journalist, he’s storytelling.”
“You know when you see battle rap and they make you go, ‘Oooh!!!’ He’s able to do that just from talking from his perspective and you be like, ‘Damn… I never thought about that’… To this day, I still listen to Dre’s verses and be thinking like, ‘How the f**k did he? Why did he say that like that?’”
Although the two rap legends have not yet collaborated, they are both in love with André 3000. 2019 saw 3 Stacks make a brief cameo on Rick Rubin’s Broken Record podcast, where he stated that he and Em used to geek out over the Bay Area hip-hop group Hieroglyphics. “Me and Eminem, we sat on the phone for about an hour talking about the Hieroglyphics crew,” he said. “We were trading their lyrics on the phone like, ‘Do you remember, man?’ They sparked so much, they opened up a new door for everybody.”
Eminem also honoured a number of MCs on his 2002 single “‘Til I Collapse,” including André 3000. “It goes Reggie, JAY-Z, 2Pac and Biggie/Andre from OutKast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas and then me,” he declared.
Check out the interview below.
