Joe Budden shares why he hasn’t heard Eminem’s ‘Death of Slim Shady‘ album as of yet.
“I will eventually listen to this, but I haven’t yet. I ain’t even thought about it yet,” he said. “Maybe my life is litter than you guys’ is. In my younger years, I couldn’t imagine a day where I didn’t run to an Eminem project — excluding him dissing me [on] Kamikaze.”
“An Eminem project, you rush to it. I know where he stands as an MC. I know what he does. [But] I didn’t feel that urgency with this. It has nothing to do with him or with music.”
He continued: “I don’t care about none of the Slim Shady shit. I don’t care about fucking Jennifer Aniston or whoever he’s dissing, fucking Nick Storm, Nick Fury, or whoever he’s dissing.”
“For me, Slim Shady helped me to live and stay alive and deal with depression. Back then, that’s what he did for me.
“I was never into the funny shit, but he caught one with that, ‘Guess who’s back, back again.’ I liked that one. But other than that […] I’ma check out the Em album, but I felt good that I have outgrown the urgency of having to rush to it.”
Eminem earns his 11th No. 1 album with “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce),” which earned 281,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. its first week, according to Billboard.
The rapper’s new number one album joins his others, “The Marshall Mathers LP,” “The Eminem Show,” “Encore,” “Curtain Call: The Hits,” “Relapse,” “Recovery,” “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” “Revival,” “Kamikaze” and “Music To Be Murdered By.”