Eminem Speaks On MMLP2 & If He Feels Like A “Rap God” With Rolling Stone

RS: Are you feeling good about the album at this point?
Eminem: Um, that’s a tough question, man. For the most part, yeah. But I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it. Like I hear ‘Oh fuck! I could have done this better or that better!’ And I’ll work it to death. Obviously if I wasn’t comfortable with it, I wouldn’t put it out. But from the beginning, ever since my career started, I don’t know if I’ve ever been totally like, this is completely it.

RS: Fundamentally, do you feel like a rap god or do you feel like an underdog?
Eminem: I think everything switches back and forth from hour to hour, day by day with me. That whole “Rap God” record pretty much from top to bottom is tongue in cheek. So I mean, do I want to feel like that? Maybe sometimes. Again, it goes back to everybody who competitive raps and does this for just purely the sport of it wants to be the best. Again, that’s why Kendrick’s verse worked so well because he only said what every rapper’s already thinking, If you don’t want to be the best, then why are you rapping?

Full Interview: Rolling Stone

Eminem’s, “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” drops November 5th.

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