Eminem appeared on SIRIUS XM’s The Morning After with Angela Yee on Shade 45, SIRIUS channel 45 and XM channel 66, yesterday.
The Morning After airs Monday – Friday from 8:00 am – noon ET on Shade 45, SIRIUS channel 45 and XM channel 66.
Shade 45 is SIRIUS XM’s uncensored, commercial-free hip-hop channel created by Eminem, Shady Records, Interscope Records and SIRIUS. Below are excerpts from the interview.
Eminem on hip-hop:
ANGELA YEE: Now I was reading about how you said that you were inspired by Lil Wayne and T.I. and their albums. Would you work with Lil Wayne? Because he very badly wants to work with you.
EMINEM: I would. I mean, there hasn’t really, necessarily, been a time for me to like really get out there and do collaborations lately, because I’ve been so locked down in the studio. But I’m open for whatever. There are a lot of artists in the game that I respect. Especially right now. I think I might have mentioned in one of the articles that I did lately, that for a while it seemed like hip-hop was not really in a good place for a good three or four years. It seemed like all anybody really cared about was making a, having a dope beat and making a good hook and there was kind of no substance. It seems to be coming back…with artists like Lil Wayne, artists like T.I., Kanye. I like Kanye a lot too. It just seems like it’s getting back to being in a good place again.
EMINEM: And especially because I am back. So I think that hip-hop will really be in a great place, because I am back.
Eminem on Kim Kardashian:
ANGELA YEE: How do you feel about Kim Kardashian being honored to be in your video? Some people…might get offended. But she took the other route and she said she can’t believe, she’s the biggest fan of yours. She’s very excited.
EMINEM: I don’t know if she’s gonna be honored when the record comes out.
ANGELA YEE: She said it already.
EMINEM: When the actual album comes out, I don’t know if she’s gonna be honored.
ANGELA YEE: Why not?
EMINEM: Nah, I’m kidding.
EMINEM: No, it’s cool. Honestly, Ange, you know me, I’ve spent my career taking shots at celebrities and it’s kinda been…it’s not really meant to….it’s just to be taken at face value. There’s never a deeper meaning, when people think that I’m doing it to just…well I guess I am doing it to just do it…
[Laughing]
ANGELA YEE: …Kim Kardashian, you should be honored. Eminem just spoofed you in a video…
EMINEM: I think it’s cool. She took it like a good sport…I think it’s cool when people do that. And they’re kinda just like, ‘oh, that’s him.’
ANGELA YEE: now you know who you have to spoof next?
EMINEM: Who’s that?
ANGELA YEE: Bill O’Reilly, because he was taking some shots at you.
EMINEM: That guy is funny.
ANGELA YEE: You think he’s funny?
EMINEM: Oh yeah, he’s hilarious. When I seen the thing, when I was surfing the Internet, which I do so much…
[Laughing]
EMINEM: I seen it and I was like….it is what it is.
ANGELA YEE: That’s what he does.
EMINEM: Yeah, it’s exactly, I guess it’s what he does in his world…
ANGELA YEE: He attacks whatever hip-hop artist is at the top of their game, at the moment.
EMINEM: Yeah, exactly.
Eminem on acting:
ANGELA YEE: People want to know about movies and acting. You did 8 Mile. Everybody thought you did a fantastic job in that movie. That’s a classic movie. And then there’s been talk about you being in other things…are you doing anymore acting?
EMINEM: As of right now, I’m not. But we’re open to scripts. And I’m definitely looking to getting back into it…soon. I don’t know exactly how soon, but soon.
PAUL ROSENBERG (Eminem’s manager): He’s got a cameo coming up. But he can’t tell you what it is.
ANGELA YEE: A cameo coming up, OK. You did already, though, the cameo?
EMINEM: Can’t tell you what it is. Or what movie. Or what I did in it.
ANGELA YEE: But you did do a cameo?
EMINEM: Yeah, somewhere along the line….last year.
ANGELA YEE: Is it a comedy or a drama? Can we know that?
EMINEM: Can’t tell you.
ANGELA YEE: A murder mystery?
EMINEM: A murder mystery, comedy, epic, drama, Disney movie.
[Laughing]
PAUL ROSENBERG (Eminem’s manager): That’s coming out this summer.
