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Eminem is in rare promo mode following the December 17 release of
Music To Be Murdered By: Side B. Speaking to Apple Music host Zane Lowe, the sometimes elusive MC went into great detail about some of his earliest influences, favorite rappers and who he believes is criminally underrated.
When specifically asked about Nas, Slim Shady had a mouthful to say about how much he’s influenced him throughout his career.
“There’s too many moments that he had for me to even be able to count and one of the reasons that I picked ‘Halftime’ though is because there’s some rhyme schemes on there that most rappers to this day probably can’t do,” he explained. “And that’s one of the things that has made Nas so great over his career. Like when he, ‘Because when I blast the herb, that’s my word/I’ll be slaying them fast, doing this, that, and the third/But chill, pass the Andre, and let’s slay/I bag bitches up at John Jay and hit a matinee,” he was rhyming entire sente