This post is a must read. I stole it directly from
NahRight. Even the image. Lol. But I didn't add or delete anything to or from it. Its that real. Especially
Eskay's comment at the end. Classic.
Here he talks about how much better he feels that T.I. has been spitting since he started writing his rhymes down again, and explains why he can’t employ the Biggie/Jay technique of spitting from the head rather than writing rhymes down.
XXL: That’s wild because I was just talking to Paul [Rosenberg] about how T.I. seems to have caught this amazing fire when he had to stay home on house arrest. He was saying for like the last two albums he was freestyling like on the Jay thing, going in the booth line by line or whatever. T.I. said that you guys had become cool.
Eminem: Yeah, yeah, we definitely built a relationship over you know, just recording and hanging out and shit, just…T.I. reminds me of me in the sense that he’s just a regular dude. He’s just real, he’s real humble, real just chill…just you know what I mean? The way we vibed in the studio and just talked and kicked it, it was like, “wow! This dude is cool.” We just kinda became friends after that. But I watched him do that shit in the studio, and that’s right around the time I kinda started wanting to do it or was kinda doing it but I couldn’t do it as good as him. And from what I heard, I don’t know if this is correct or not, but Lil Wayne does it.
XXL: Oh Yeah.
Eminem: Yeah I’m not as good as those guys when I do that. Like I can’t…I gotta actually sit down. For me, I want to actually write a whole song, because if I start, if I get to the second verse and I get stuck, I don’t want to record it just for nothing you know? So I kinda gotta write a whole song out and know if it’s gonna be a song and then record it. But I watched T.I. do that and was like, “How the fuck is he doing this?” Because it was intricate still you know what I mean like as he was going along like line by line. But when he actually got that time to write, you could definitely tell and I told him many times over the phone the way that he did this record was just, you know… you could tell, you could tell that he actually sat down and he crafted his rhymes. Like he’s got rhymes, he’s got lines that rhyme inside of rhymes and shit like that, which somebody like me can appreciate so much just because you know I do it. I try to do that. So like when you hear someone else do that, it’s like, you know how much time it takes to do it yourself so you can appreciate it,
you know what I mean?
Eskay Comment: Everything’s ass backwards nowadays. Rappers are spitting their album cuts from the dome and then passing off writtens as “freestyles” when it should be the other way around. If you ask me, if anybody needs to leave that memorization shit alone, it’s Wayne. Carter III was alright, but imagine what it could have been if this guy wasn’t feeling himself so tough.
Real talk. Couldn't have said it better myself.