Eminem Annotated his Many Biggest Hits on Genius.
Artists like Nas, Rick Rubin, The Dream, and more have Annotated their work before on Lyrics Site Genius, which was previously known as Rap Genius, and Detroit Rapper Marshall Mathers also joined the list and Talks about the stories behind his 42 hit tracks on the site. Apart from Annotating his work, Eminem also gets verified on Genius.
Eminem has announced a deal with lyric and annotation site Genius, which will entail participation on Eminem.com as well as work with the label Shady Records. “Search Genius for the lyrics to any song and click highlighted lines to learn more about them. (Our community has annotated all of Kanye and Kendrick, but also Hamlet, TV, and movie scripts, Kurt Cobain’s suicide note, and even the Chipotle menu…),” adding “add context, commentary, gifs, or whatever you think will help other people understand them better.” Eminem Said.
Marshall Mathers talks about stories behind his hit tracks like, Lose Yourself, Stan, My Name Is, Sing For The Moment, White America, Rap God, and more as well as his Freestyle at the end of his Movie 8 Mile.
On talking about his Mark The 45 King Produced track “Stan” which features pop singer Dido, Eminem said that, “When I heard ‘Your picture on my wall’, I was like ‘Yo this could be about somebody who takes me too seriously’, so I knew that I was going to write about before I wrote it. A lot of time when I writing songs, I see visions of everything I’m writing, This was one of those“.
On Annotating Fack, “It was a goofy fucking song. I was taking a lot of fucking pills at that time. Ambien will make you do crazy things. Imagine if you took it all day long” Eminem said.
The rapper also shares the stories behind his Guinness world Record holder track “Rap God” which was released 2 years back with his album “The Marshall Mathers LP 2”. Eminem says, “The hook was the first phrase i thought of when i heard the track. I thought ‘okay this has something to it and might be catchy but, I’m a Rap God? Why? if i’m going to say that, I need to validate that“.
Eminem reveals the stories behind his Rap Band D12’s hit track “My Band” and says, “We would always be in the studio, just goofing. we would walk around the studio just saying dumb shit. we would say ‘This thing just pooped up in my head, let me go lay it’, so my band, my salsa. I just said it“.
On talking about his Academy Award-winning track “Lose Yourself“, which featured in his Movie 8 Mile, Marshall Says, “When we were making 8 mile, I was revisiting the old CD from two years before, going through old loops. I found the ‘Lose Yourself’ demo on this session where me and jeff brass were just making beats. Jeff was just sitting on those guitar chords and then it went into something different. I was like, ‘Yo, that section, right there, I gotta make a beat out of that,’ I recorded the demo version of it on the same day I made the beat. I didn’t like the Rhyme, and put it off to the side“.
To check the stories behind all 42 tracks, head to Genius.com here
After checking out @Genius, I had to go on and talk about some of MY tracks.. check them out now: http://t.co/AYBL32WATz
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) April 2, 2015
