Eminem dished his views on rapping about psychological well being and habit in his newest interview as he revealed that it has been therapeutic for him.
In a dialog with Sway within the Morning present on Sirius XM Radio, the Venom hit-maker was requested how rapping about psychological well being and habit was transformative to him
The rapper, whose actual identify is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, lauded the style saying, “I believe that is one of many nice issues about rap music… is that you can put a lot of your life in it.”
“I used to be simply making an attempt to determine methods to broaden on that and I kinda acquired misplaced,” the 15-time Grammy Award winner added.
Eminem continued: “It’s therapeutic and it’s, you realize, that’s the way it’s at all times been for me.”
Beforehand, the 49-year-old musician has rapped about his psychological well being struggles in his tracks together with his album Restoration through which he wrote lyrics about his habit to prescription tablets.
“In 2007, I overdosed on tablets, and I went into the hospital. I used to be near 230 kilos. I am undecided how I acquired so massive, however I’ve concepts,” he advised Males’s Journal in 2015 discussing his 2007 drug overdose.
He added, “The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I would been taking for years leaves a gap in your abdomen, so to keep away from a stomachache, I used to be continuously consuming — and consuming badly.”