Logic and Danny Brown talk about Eminem’s old and new stuff.
Logic was the recent guest on Danny Brown’s podcast, where the two shared experiences with anxiety while on tour and performing. On the show, Danny and Logic get into a few Ask Danny questions regarding classical music, relationships, and fan gifts. To wrap up the episode, the two rappers give props to the guys sending in freestyles this week.
In one of the questions, a fan asked about their opinion on Eminem’s old and new music. “What are your thoughts on Eminem nowadays? Obviously the first three records, Slim Shady EP are instant classics I feel he has moments and decent records since but I feel now he has lost touch in terms of making consistently enjoyable music. There is no doubt he can rap. I was wondering, what is your take on him as an artist these days?” the fan asks.
“I think Eminem is having a blast,” says Danny. “That’s really what I think. And I think he’s got to keep going. Of course, he can quit tomorrow and his legacy will still stand. But he’s still out here like, “F**k that! I’m gonna do what I want! I don’t give a f**k”. He sees that sh*t, I’m pretty sure he does. But he doesn’t give a f**k and he’s still going, he’s still busting bars. I appreciate that more than anything. People look at that sh*t like a young man game but let him rock. What if he was caught up on the moment of like, “Man, I gotta make sh*t for y’all f**kers to like”. But I think he’s making sh*t that he enjoys. He probably was doing that shit at one time of his career where he’s like “I gotta make a hit song, I gotta do this and this”. It’s Em, he’s got a legion followers. I actually had a pleasure of opening for him a few times. Me biggest show I eve played was Wembley stadium with Eminem, and it was was amazing. So I can’t ever say nothing bad about Eminem. And I got a lot of my style from him, to be honest, listening to that beginning sh*t.”
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“First three Eminem’s albums were not instant classics,” says Logic. “That motherf**ker was shit on by everybody. Everybody was sh*tting on Eminem. “White boy! Who let the white boy in the house party?” I was where, I remember, I saw that, I grew up with it. He fought for his place in hip hop. And I think the music he makes nowgrown sh*t. He’s talking real sh*t. But he’s also having fun. He’s getting so much fun! He’s new sh*t gets billions of streams when he drops. If it wasn’t good people wouldn’t listen to it. And that’s people who enjoy it. You know we got a song together called “Homicide”. That’s the sh*t I love from Em, when he’s just doing his thing, just rapping a “mannequin”.”
“I’d say the second one, “Slim Shady”, that was an instant classic. That was his most commercial attempt,” added Brown. “That was a lot of Dr.Dre. But my favorite Eminem is the fourth one, “Encore”. That’s the one I identify with the most because he was talking about Detroit. Detroit didn’t have a lot of rappers. Eminem’s pretty much our first big rapper. When he first came out we were supportive of it all day.”
Previously, Brown stated that he feels bad about how the internet treats Eminem. “I feel bad about how they try to treat him now. I feel this is the most purest of him being in hip-hop, to be honest. He’s just being, he’s having fun, he don’t have no pressure to make hit songs or like to be like a big rapper. Before you had all that sh*t, now he’s obviously just making music to have fun because he wouldn’t do he got all the money in the world. They’re trying to make him like a meme and like joke. That kind of sh*t would make me not want to make music right. The fact that he’s still making music, like f**k everybody, he probably is not an internet guy like we are so he probably don’t see none of that sh*t. That sh*t kind of hurts my heart man, because he don’t deserve that sh*t.”
