2 Chainz reflected on his time in the studio with Eminem while speaking to Shannon Sharpe in an episode of the Club Shay Shay podcast. In the conversation, the 47-year-old revealed that the Detroit rapper’s team had some strict guidelines for their session.
“When I did work with Eminem, I couldn’t smoke in there. It was kinda funny,” detailed the Atlanta rapper. “It was his people, not Eminem. Eminem was somewhere writing, but his people are just so concerned with him, they put the speakers outside so I could listen to the beat.”
“I’m outside, it’s a beautiful day in Malibu, I’m just smoking the speaker’s outside. I come back in to do my verse, and the door’s closed and I’m in the booth smoking and I see Em out there and I’m like ‘he in there while I’m recording, this hard’. He’s about to come in and say something and some of his people are like ‘no, don’t go in there, he’s smoking,’ and Em looks like ‘sit the f**k down.’ I guess he was thinking like ‘what do you think I’m about to do?’” he explained.
The “Epiphany” rapper continued, “I remember them tripping on him, and he was not tripping at all.”
Last year, the Detroit musician celebrated 16 years of sobriety since overcoming an addiction to alcohol and drugs earlier in his career. The landmark in his wellness journey was marked with a social media upload that featured the rapper displacing his sobriety medallion.
“My addiction didn’t start in my early days when I was coming up. We used to drink 40s on the porch and just battle rap each other. My drug usage started at the beginning of that first album,” he detailed. “I didn’t take anything hard until I got famous. I was experimenting. I hadn’t found a drug of choice. Back then, you went on tour, and people were just giving you free drugs. I managed it for a little while. And then, it just became, I like this sh*t is too much and I don’t know how to stop.”
In 2022, Eminem and his longtime manager, Paul Rosenberg, reflected on how the Grammy-winner learned to rap again after his near-fatal 2007 overdose.
