Eminem, Lil Wayne, and rock legend Ketih Richards grace the cover GQ’s magazine “Gods of Rock issue. Eminem and lil Wayne talks about their past drug addiction and their current state of mind on being sober. In the issue Eminem revisits his former years when he was a ‘newbie’ in the rap game. Eminem said he started using drugs in 2000 when dropped his first LP ‘Marshall Mathers’. As Em recalls his music career unexpectedly heightened and drugs was more of “spare of the moment thing’ but he quickly became addicted soon after. Eminem says his drug addiction grew stronger when he recorded “Encore” in 2004. Lil Wayne story broadens a bit further than drugs. Wayne let’s all out in this issue. Wayne addresses retirement rumors, his relationship with his estranged father, his embedded body of tattoos and more. Here is a excerpts from Eminem and Lil Wayne.
“Five or six songs leaked from the original version of Encore,” Slim Shady recalls. “So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. In my head I was pissed off: ‘Oh well. Songs leaked. Fuck it. I’m just going to take a bunch of fucking pills and go in there and have a party with myself.’ I’m sure the more pills I took, the goofier I got.”.
Eminem on being drug free:
I never understood when people would say it’s a disease. Like, ‘Stop it, d**khead. It’s not a disease!’ But I finally realized, F**k, man – it really is.”
Lil Wayne interview is just as candid and he hold’s nothing back in this issue.
On his time in jail:
“It just helped me on my way, helped me with life. Cleared me up, cleaned me up, opened my eyes to things. I definitely thank God for that moment instead of looking at it as a problem or a bad situation. I needed it.”
On how it feels to be drug free:
“I drank syrup and smoked a lotta weed. I wish I could be back on it. That’s how it fucking feels. ‘How does it feel to be sober?’ I’ll be like, ‘It feels fucked-up.’ What you want me to say? ‘It feels great’? No. I was on something that the doctor prescribed. I was ill, and that was helping me.”
On his relationship with his biological father:
“He don’t give a shit about me. And I don’t give a shit about him. … I don’t want to look like his ass, but I do.”
On why he has so many tattoos:
“I think somebody slipped something in my drink, like a drug that’ll make you get, like, a bunch of tattoos.”
On leaving the rap game:
“I feel like I’ll be a new me, and how good is that? To actually be opening a brand new door of life at 35? That’d be awesome. Totally awesome. I’m looking forward to it.”
Eminem also talks new album and, Weezy talks more about his plans of retirement, his long love for skateboarding and more in the issue. GQ magazine hit stands October 25th.