Eminem Opens Up About His Nearly Fatal Drug Overdose
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“I remember when I first got sober and all the s—t was out of my system, I remember just being, like, really happy and everything was f—g new to me again,” he said of the album.
“It was the first album and the first time that I had fun recording in a long time.”
“It was like the first time I started having fun with music again, and re-learning how to rap, you remember that whole process. It took a long time for my brain to start working again,” Eminem explained.
He said he recalled Paul Rosenberg, who is the CEO of Def Jam Recordings, asking his doctors whether the rapper may have suffered permanent brain damage.
“Didn’t you ask the doctors when I started recording new s—t, when I first started rapping again, and sent it to you, didn’t you say, ‘I just wanted to make sure he didn’t have brain damage?’ ” he asked.
“Nobody was pushing you, you were just finding your way and doing it slowly, but a record that leaked out, that ‘Detroit Basketball’ record, it wasn’t good,” Paul said.
“It was f—g weird, because as my brain was turning back on, I started going over lines like ‘Wait, that’s not good.’ If you remember, I don’t know which version leaked, but if you remember, there were like, 20 versions of that s—t,” he noted.
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