Eminem wishes Denaun Porter on his Birthday.
Denaun Porter turns 46 years old today and Eminem decided to wish his close friend with a post on Twitter. “Wish a happy birthday to 1 of my most talented and long time friends @mRpOrTeR!” wrote Eminem. Denaun has been with Eminem since the start of his career and also helped him creating his debut album “Infinite“. Mr. Porter produced Eminem’s debut studio album, Infinite, and was nominated for “Album of the Year” at the Grammys for his work on “The Eminem Show” and “Recovery.”
Wish a happy birthday to 1 of my most talented and long time friends @mRpOrTeR7!
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) December 7, 2020
“Wow, 24 years ago today I began a journey with one of the first Artist I believed in as a producer/ beatmaker and sometime before through creating with him gained one of the closest and best friends in my life. Though the album didn’t sell much it taught us to be ourselves,” wrote Denaun last month, celebrating Eminem’s “Infinite” Anniversary.
In an interview with HNHH earlier this year, Denaun talked about putting together Eminem’s debut album. “First off, I was only doing beats three-four months at that time. I was a novice producer,” says Mr. Porter. “I didn’t know I was good. I had a crew I was with, and I was taking it so seriously I was spending every dime I had to go to the studio. When I met with Em, it was somebody with the same work ethic. He’d be excited about the beats. Once we had the first record — on Infinite the first song we did was “Backstabber.” [Laughs] That’s the first beat I gave him, the first song for that project.”
“Then he started going into what was happening. At that time, it was Nas, AZ, and LL. We were just trying to get radio play. To get noticed by the radio when we was kids. While we were trying to do that, I’d just use everything I had. Soul samples — I wanted people to feel something. All the songs meant something to us, it was really important that we did them. We started off making albums. That’s me and Em’s relationship. So anytime he was working on an album, that was the thing. I started off producing, I didn’t start off making beats. When we got to the studio, Em was like ‘I think this is dope but I want to change the drums.’ Proof had an SP-1200. I didn’t have that kind of stuff. What I made that album on was an Akai SO1, which didn’t even have a sequencer. I did all of that stuff by hand. [Laughs]”
“Then Proof came in and fixed the drums on two or three songs, and that kind of birthed producing. Cause I was like, why didn’t those drums work? So the next time we worked on something was the Slim Shady EP, and I was all the way good to go. I learned something from Infinite and moved straight to the Slim Shady EP, and then moved into the Slim Shady LP. So I got thrown into it as a producer and I learned very fast. When Em would come home and play songs, I had an advantage because I could hear the songs he was working on with Dre. So I already knew what to do to step my game up. I was moving through super fast, man.”
“On Infinite, I knew I wanted it to sound soulful. I wanted people to hear him over some sh*t like that. I knew he could rap. The first thing I told him was “Em, you gotta slow down.” He rapped so fast, I was like man could you say this slower? And that started it.”
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