Eminem Reflects On Career, Previews New Song In Apple Interview
By Edward Cardenas
SOUTHFIELD (CBS Detroit) - Eminem took to the digital airwaves Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview on Apple Music's new worldwide radio channel Beats I.
The Warren-native was the first interviewed by former BBC Radio host Zane Lowe on Beats I, which is part of Apple's new music service which launched Tuesday.
Lowe's interview with Eminem was intertwined with songs from his career along with a discussion about his newest projects, including his role in the boxing movie "Southpaw."
Eminem - who trained with former Kronk Gym trainer Emanuel Steward - was to star in the movie, his first major role since "8 Mile," but when it came to shoot his schedule, it "didn't work with it" because he was finishing the "Marshall Mathers LP 2."
While he no longer is starring in the movie, he will have a presence. His song "Phenomenal" is used in a commercial and will be released a "music film" for the song will be released on Apple TV Friday.
Hey Marshall, you film an action movie and not tell us?@Eminem's #Phenomenal vid coming soonhttp://t.co/ynk2wDIdJIhttps://t.co/k52ipzcqkZ
— Apple Music (@AppleMusic) June 30, 2015
He will also have at least three songs on the soundtrack which debuts on July 24, the same day as the movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal his the theater.
Currently he is having fun "doing little cameos," because "you have to commit" when shooting a full-length movie.
He said that the next movie he is involved in will be one that he has to be "super passionate about" because music is his first passion.
"This is everything to me. This is where everything stems from," he said in the interview.
As for his last movie, and the blockbuster "Lose Yourself" song, it was inspirational.
"If there was no 8 mile there would be no Lose Yourself," he said. "I needed that movie. That movie gave ... a slight edge of inspirtation that I don't think I had at that particular time."
It also made him professionally "hungry" again, despite the fact he was a "hamster" running between trailers while filming the movie and recording songs and writing lyrics on his hand because he didn't have any paper.
"It was intense," he said.