XXL June Covers (Eminem)
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After the jump, another photo from the feature & excerpt about his drug addiction, Proof’s death, and on T.I., Lil Wayne & Hip-Hop.
On His Drug Addiction
“I wasn’t really mentally. I wasn’t ready to give up drugs. I didn’t really think I had a problem. Basically, I went in, and I came out. I relapsed, and I spent the next three years struggling with it. Also, at that time, I felt like I wanted to pull back, because my drug problem had got so bad. I felt like, Maybe if I take a break, maybe this will help. I started to get into the producer role more…I can still be out there with my music, like with the Re-Up album, but I don’t have to be in the spotlight the whole time.”On Proof’s Death
“Everyone felt his loss, from his kids, to his wife, to everyone. But, for some reason, in hindsight, the way I felt was almost like it happened to just me…Maybe at the time I was a little bit selfish with it. I think it kind of hit me so hard. It just blindsided me. I just went into such a dark place that, with everything, the drugs, my thoughts, everything. And the more drugs I consumed, and it was all depressants I was taking, the more depressed I became, the more self-loathing I became…By the way, I’m just now at the point where I’m better talking about it. It took me so long to get out of that place where I couldn’t even speak about it without crying or wanting to cry…Proof was the anchor. He was everything to D12. And not just the group-for me, personally, he was everything.”On T.I., Lil Wayne & Hip-Hop
“I stayed up on the music, and obviously I watch TV and saw what was going on. And without naming any name, it just felt like hip-hop was going downhill. And it seemed like kinda fast. You know, in them three years, it was like everybody just cares about the hook and the beat; nobody really cares about substance. But with this new T.I. album, with this new Lil Wayne album of recent, it seems like things are looking a lot better now. You can appreciate Lil Wayne using different words to rhyme and actually rhyming words that you know. Or T.I., where you hear shit and you’re like Whoa, ah, I wish I would have thought of that! You know what I mean? Or you hear all the compound-syllable rhyming and all that. It just seems like now the craft is getting cared about more.”
April 14th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I’m actually “Amped” for Relapse. The game can use a lil Slim Shady right now.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
each gayer than the last
April 14th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
^^^
The Way You Move?
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that wasnt a solo hit, technically …. that was really a sleepy brown single … is that it? … at age 35, he has one hit where he carried the hook-man’s weed ? … Big Boi is a glorified career weed carrier, Chief … if there were no 3000, Big Boi would be selling sausage biscuits at Hardee’s … inarguably … maybe shift manager, if 3000 puts in a good word for him …
April 14th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
how do Nas stans feel about AZ and Mega writing parts of his better verses on Illmatic?
^ smh.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Darius = the new Shady
Wyoming = the new Michigan
stay touned my negros
April 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
A tribe called quest aka Bitch, im the space invader Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Joe budden > P.Monch
—–
Paint thinner is a helluva drug
^^
i bet you cant name 3 ways let alone 5 ways why p is better than joey
April 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
*Stops, drops and roffles @ Em as the Punisher*
*Reads back issues to find out if Frank Castle ever dressed up as Brittney Spears*
April 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
oh great … now Barack Obama’s favorite MC is on steroids …
how this nigga suddenly look like Jason Bay of the Red Sox ? …
April 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
50 gonna be mad with Em
April 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
yo those comments about Wayne & TI were basically a slap across Curtis’ grill
LMAO
April 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
If em has some dark tracks on this album it will be good.
If he is worried about substance then it will be good.
I’m excited about Relapse.
but still
Nelly’s Catalouge > Em’s
lol
April 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I swear this dude hates his own face. Why the fuck else would you tat your fucking face up?
^That’s actually a very keen observation. I never looked at it (or his face) from that perspective (nh).
April 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Hilarious!
April 14th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Some things never change lol.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Real talk, I’d rock that Punisher outfit to a Halloween party. With the gun. Real bullets included.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
^^
Wyoming = the new Michigan
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and what city in Wyoming gets to play Detroit in your Action-Fantasy? …
Cheyenne? … the cactus and tumbleweed capital of the world ? ….
GTFOH
April 14th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Wyoming is gully…thats where Dick Cheney is from.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
“You know, in them three years, it was like everybody just cares about the hook and the beat; nobody really cares about substance.”
word. from the guy whose last album was about stupid accents and farting..
April 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
its has a marvel comic inside that dope good to see xxl speading out and doing more than just hip hop in its spread
April 14th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Hov rockin the Yeezys
^
Fish Dicks is Gay-Z’s fahver.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Em’s “Blue Steel” is the truth
April 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Em The Punisher
…
…
Slim Pun
April 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
That Joe Budden “Exxxes” video is pretty dope.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Marvel >>>>>>>>>>> DC
April 14th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Why is eminem sucking TI and Lil Waynes penis now?
April 14th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Land I can tell by the way you’re talking you’ve probably never even given Big Boi an honest listen. But it’s cool, you can’t like everything. He’s been consistent for 6 albums….we’re not talking about fuckin Havoc here.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
myammee >>
April 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Hoskins Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Marvel >>>>>>>>>>> DC
^
DC > Marvel
just for Batman alone (none)
April 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
# TheCo!!inB Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Land I can tell by the way you’re talking you’ve probably never even given Big Boi an honest listen. But it’s cool, you can’t like everything. He’s been consistent for 6 albums….we’re not talking about fuckin Havoc here.
^^
*daps Co!!in*
Thanks for holding up the OutKast stannery in my absence. lol
April 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
# Danielson a.k.a. Dat Mixed Race Nigga Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Hoskins Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Marvel >>>>>>>>>>> DC
^
DC > Marvel
just for Batman alone (none)
^^
batman is probably the only traditional DC comic with any substance. Superman, & the rest of them are real corny. IMO
not saying Marvel doesn’t have corny heros (see the punisher), but I think they more often they do not.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
heros = heroes
April 14th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
DC > Marvel
just for Batman alone (none)
^^^^ *comic geeks it up*
DC killed Batman so Marvel>>>>>>>DC + superman is a lame
April 14th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Kain > Asser Roth
April 14th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
how come Eminem didn’t speak on Asher Roth?
That’s like his sibling.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Eminem is whack!
April 14th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Soulja Boy doing the Stanky Leg in Fake Gucci Shoes, this monkey has no shame.
youtube.com/watch?v=ro0DCOxxG18
April 14th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
DC > Marvel
^^
Co sign for Watchmen and 100 Bullets alone.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Where’s the post about the Little Brother reunion?
Nah is slackin…
April 14th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
D. Billz Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Real talk, I’d rock that Punisher outfit to a Halloween party. With the gun. Real bullets included.
^
and shoot every white person who thinks wearing a du rag and baggy jeans and being “black” for halloween is a costume
April 14th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Marvel > DC ..only if your drunk on rat poison
April 14th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Wyoming = the new Michigan
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Never that! We still have yet to shine musically
You pups got time ya heard.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
up washed
April 14th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
sean coonery Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Soulja Boy doing the Stanky Leg in Fake Gucci Shoes, this monkey has no shame.
youtube.com/watch?v=ro0DCOxxG18
^^^This is straight bullshit, that shit shouldn’t be considered music.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
why he got brown hair?
April 14th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
word up, superman is cheesy as fuck. batman n watchmen are the only think keeping dc alive.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Marvel > DC
ALL DAY. Spider-Man, Iron Man, Luke Cage (the first black superhero), Blade, Wolverine, Sentry, I could go on…
April 14th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Nahright is officially for white boys or want to be white boys
April 14th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
WELL THATS GAY, MARVEL CUT THE CHECK?
April 14th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
DC catalugue of superheroes consits of Gods. Superman, Green lantern Wonder woman.
Marvel is more about Broken Character Hulk, Spiderman, X-men, Iron Man.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
I REALLY THINK BIGGING UP T.I AND WAYNE (ESPECIALLY WAYNE) IS A REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY TO TARGET THERE FAN BASE !
EEMEMBER HE TURNED DOWN WAYNE FOR CARTER 3!
BUT HE DID A JOINT WITH T.I ON RELAPSE WATCH!
April 14th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
big boi ? weed career ? speakerboxxx>love below .
April 14th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
big boi ? weed career ? speakerboxxx>love below .
^^^^
Flip Flop Rock, Reset and Unhappy are all ridiculous songs off a great album. Big Boi is no one’s weed carrier.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
as a FAN of hip hop im excited to see where Em takes this album
as a FAN Little Brother; i wish those 3 would reunite and make that G.o.o.d. music (jus a thought)
as a Fan of Marvel comics. i didnt like the punisher or ghost rider movies. 90′s xmen cartoon ftw
April 14th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Big Boi Andre’s weed carrier? Yall need to get the retarded white boys off this bitch. You would never hear stupidity like that on Cocaine Blunts.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
RJ Orion should be banned for his stupidity and his weak knowledge of rap and hip hop in general. He seriously said the Big Boi was a weed carrier. I want to fight him. right now. leave your south dakota log cabin and meet me at the corner of simpson and ashby in atlanta.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
The most overrated artiste in hip hop history
April 14th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
COSIGN MALO, THEY ARE JUST BLIND DOUCHBAGS WITH EMS BALLS IN THEIR MOUTH.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
is that a new tattoo?
April 15th, 2009 at 3:08 am
Relapse will be ill as long as Em puts out some shit with substance plus dwayne isnt even on hip hop shit right now bum ass is still trying to play guitar on his new records
April 15th, 2009 at 11:47 am
eminem is the best rapper ever x x x love the new pics they r sexyxyxyxy
April 15th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
shhhhhhhhh ooot meeeeeee don’t you really want to love me!!!!!in the spidernet camo ?on brrrr brrrr i ‘ m cold ah ah ah ah it’s in your eyesssssssyou so gorgeus my darling,lovely and sweet
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