Lose Yourself writer: New Zealand ad is ‘blatant rip-off’
Bass, who wrote the guitar riff for Eminem’s Lose Yourself, testifies in the High Court in Wellington about the development of the song with co-writer Luis Resto, who replaced some of the guitar elements with keyboards in order to remove some of the rock feel of the song without losing the hip hop tone.
I picked up a guitar and started playing that opening guitar chord. At that time, I didn’t know if it was a song or not. It took [Eminem] a number of months to author the perfect lyrics that were just right for the beat…It really developed in a little studio we had set up in his trailer [when he was filming 8 Mile].
He denies the chords sound like Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir and says that while he’d heard the chords played before, he’d never heard them in that particular rhythm– by putting an accent on the third beat he says it was as if he was playing guitar and drums at the same time.
The intention was to create a tense, hypnotic feeling. It starts playing, and never goes away. Along with that drum beat, it actually will hypnotize you, where you are feeling that something’s going to happen.
When asked about the National Party’s song:
It’s a blatant rip-off…[It sounds like] Lose Yourself Lite…It doesn’t taste so good, though.
Farrakhan, Eminem meet
In an over 2 1/2-hour dinner in Eminem’s Detroit hotel room, Farrakhan talks about the responsibilities that stars like Eminem have toward society to influence people positively. Spokesperson:
It was a beautiful discussion. Eminem was engaged. His manager (Paul Rosenberg) was engaged. It was a great time and experience…[Farrakhan talked to Eminem about] using his influence and using his power through rap music and hip-hop culture to influence people positively, so our children, our youth, can grow into more positive humans.
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Rolling Stone cover
Eminem appears on the cover of the December 2013 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. He talks about how hip-hop saved his life and channeling the Beastie Boys.
I knew we were about to show the ‘Berzerk’ video, so I was doing what I call the Berzerk face. The whole song to me feels like vintage Beastie Boys. And you know the ‘Pass the Mic’ video where Ad-Rock is making that face, kind of not looking the camera? I was doing my own version.
Shady Records interview
Eminem chats about his rap flow, rap influences, respect from his peers, goals and the next generation of rappers.
My number one goal getting into hip hop would be just to get the respect from other MC’s.
Drug addiction interview
The rapper speaks on his past drug addiction, rehab, relapse and being introduced to the drug Ambien.
When I came out of rehab I was clean for three weeks total. I only stayed in rehab for two weeks because when I went to rehab it felt like everyone else was ready for me to go but I wasn’t ready myself.
60 Minutes interview
Eminem speaks on respect, his childhood, his passion for metaphors and the English language.
I just felt like I want to have all these words at my disposal in my vocabulary at all times whenever I needed to pull them out.
1Xtra interview
Eminem chats about being back in the spotlight, early studio sessions, past drug addiction and sobriety.
The rest of the year I am going to focus on putting out Relapse 2 and go back and help Dre with whatever he needs for his record input or whatever and make sure 50’s album comes out right.
Jonathan Ross Show interview
The rapper speaks about his influences, doing more movies and changing his direction toward writing.
I love music so much this is my passion, this is what I want to do. Not saying that I won’t do a movie ever again but this is me.
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Albums interview
The rapper chats about being a fan of the Batman tv series, coming up with the album title, his Shady Records label and future tours.
It’s not easy being me, it gets hard a lot which doesn’t really make a difference. Sometimes it is, sometimes it has its benefits, dirty hores being thrown at you, at will.
MTV interview
Eminem chats about making his big break into the music industry, getting a buzzclip, negative interviews, and lyrical style.
I was out to impress Dr. Dre to show him what I can do. When I saw Dre nodding his head and laughing at some of the things I was saying and what not I was like, I am in…I made it.
