EMINEM REND HOMMAGE À 2PAC

Après Kendrick avec sa lettre à Eazy-E, c’est au tour d’Eminem de s’essayer à l’essai pour la série Nowstalgia de Paper Magazine, il rend hommage à 2Pac et la faculté qu’il avait à faire passer des émotions via sa musique :

When his mother, Afeni (Shakur), let me produce one of Tupac’s albums — the Loyal to the Game album — I wrote her a letter thanking her for letting me do it. You wouldn’t be able to tell the 18/19-year-old Marshall that he would ever be able to get his hands on some Tupac vocals and have that opportunity. It was such a significant piece of history for me and so much fun. I’m like a kid in a candy store; going nuts with the fact that I’m putting beats under his rhymes. Regardless of how good a rapper someone is, it’s easy for things to eventually get dated. But when you make songs like Tupac did, songs that feel like something, that feeling never goes away. I can put « If I Die 2Nite » in and want to fight somebody the second it comes on. That’s the kind of emotion he sparked. I could put « Dear Mama » in and damn near be in tears. He was just so good at evoking emotions through songs and I picked up so much from that. Biggie had that as well. It was that same kind of thing… he was so good at putting the right words and music together. I would have a hard time believing that they didn’t know what they were doing when they were putting certain words on certain chords of the beat. I would have a hard time believing that it was all accidental. It was true genius.