MAGAZINE: Eminem & Royce Da 5’9″ x COMPLEX

Also known as Bad Meets Evil, Eminem and Royce Da 5’9″ are covering this alternative Complex cover. They have this extensive cover story called “The Oral History of Bad Meets Evil” that can be read in it’s entirety at Complex’s website. Take a look at a few excerpts from their cover story below:

So how does you partnership work, creatively? What’s your process?

E: It changes. Like, he’ll pick a beat sometimes like, “Yo, I think we should rap on this.” So he’d lay a verse and then I’d hear where it’s going and lay a verse. Or I may pick a beat. Or, on a lot of the shit where we’re going back and forth, we have to be in the studio together. He might go in there and lay a rhyme, and just stop and see what I come up with playing off his. And that was the funnest part about making the record. We both have, for the lack of a better term, chemistry, where if I stop here, I know he’s going to be able to pick it up and say something crazy. It’s also the type of relationship where one of us isn’t afraid to say “Yo what if you said this? What if I said this?” and then it doesn’t work and it’s, “Okay, scrap that idea. I might have a better one, hold on.” It’s not about time. It’s not about ego. It’s just fun.

R: We didn’t care about song structure.

E: Yeah. That was another really fun part about this. We weren’t in there necessarily trying to make hits. “Let’s try to make big radio records.” No. It was like, “Let’s get in there and just fucking rap, and make it fun again.”

June 14, 2011 | Categories: Magazines | Leave A Comment »