HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE After teaser clips hit the Web in recent days, a much-anticipated interview featuring Eminem has finally hit the Internet airwaves. Sitting down with veteran music journalist Sway Calloway, Slim Shady talks his latest album Kamikaze, addresses some of the targets of his lyrical darts, and much more. At the root of the discussion was the sweeping criticism that Eminem’s Revival album received and much of Kamikaze seems born of responding to those who felt the record was underwhelming. With his latest, Em wanted to shock listeners and not give them a chance to form an opinion ahead of actually hearing the album. “I remember a time in hip-hop when you had to be so different from the next people, or you were trash,” Eminem said. “There’s a shift somewhere that happened where, if it doesn’t sound like everything else, then it’s trash automatically.” Of course, the big elephant in the room was the Machine Gun Kelly beef and why Em felt he had to go after him. While it was speculated that MGK commenting on Em’s daughter Hailie did spark the feud, his reasoning for going after the Cleveland rapper on the “Not Alike” track was deeper. “So I see, ‘Machine Gun Kelly talks about Eminem’s daughter’ or whatever, right? So I’m like, ‘What the f*ck?’ I click on it. Then he starts doing a press run, basically, about Hailie. I’m like, ‘What the f*ck? Yo, my man better chill.’ So, that’s not why I dissed him. The reason I dissed him is actually a lot more petty than that. Now I’m in this f*ckin’ weird thing, because I’m like, ‘I’ve gotta answer this motherf*cker,’” Em said. Check out part one of “The Kamikaze Interview” below. UPDATE: Part two can now be viewed, which gets into the beef with Joe Budden, issues with Slaughterhouse, and more. — Photo: WENN<doc-sep>Could we finally be getting a response to Machine Gun Kelly's "Rap Devil?" While the clip promoting Eminem's upcoming interview with Sway, which airs tonight at 8 PM EST, does not necessarily confirm the fact, it does seem as though the situation will at least get brought up. Em's upcoming video for "Lucky You" drops tomorrow but before then, we will be sitting through his exclusive Kamikaze interview with Sway. The teaser clip is relatively short, starting out blank before going into a snippet of Eminem looking pretty intense, saying, "Now, you're a fucking enemy." We've been waiting for Shady's response to MGK for over a week now and while with every passing day it seems more and more unlikely, this is a promising sign. Of course, he could also be referring to somebody else that he dissed on the album or another person altogether. Perhaps the culprit is Joe Budden, who has been involved in a heated feud with the artist for years. Many of the fans in the comments section are betting on Em responding to MGK tonight, whether on record or by simply ethering him with his words, which would be somewhat upsetting after all this build. Hopefully, we get some sort of reply tonight. What do you think?<doc-sep>
Over the past week, the shots Em fired off on Kamikaze has been the topic of conversation including the ones towards Machine Gun Kelly and Joe Budden. MGK recently shared his response titled, "Rap Devil" which became the top trending video on YouTube and the number one song on iTunes charts shortly after. That being said, there's been a lot of questions that people have had for Eminem this past week and he's addressing some of them on his new interview with Sway. Earlier today, Eminem shared a teaser of what to expect from his forthcoming interview with Sway. During the snippet that was shared today, Em seemed to speak on his beef with Machine Gun Kelly. "Now, you're a fuckin' enemy," he's heard saying which many presume is in response to the shots he fired at Machine Gun Kelly. Em very rarely does any press to promote albums, especially in the past few years. The interviews he's chosen to do have been on his own terms. So you could only expect that whatever he's had to say, he will. The first part of Eminem's interview with Sway has arrived. The rapper’s addresses some of the questions many have had for him within the past year. Em addresses the criticism he faced with Revival and how that helped him push towards creating Kamikaze. Towards the end of part one, he begins to speak on diss records, specifically his beef with MGK. Peep part one of his interview with Sway below.