Bizarre, a member of D12 whose friendship with Eminem was forged in the 1990s in Detroit, visited No Jumper podcast and of course, was asked about Mr Mathers.
Q: When The Slim Shady LP came up where were you?
Bizarre: I was in Dallas, Texas, working on that shitty ass security job. I was on my lunch break, walking around the hospital and he called me. That was, “Mr Johnson, you have a call back in the security office”. And I was mad, like, who’s that motherfucker who calls me at work. And he was like, “Bitch, what’s up, it’s Marshal! I’m in LA right now. You gotta come up here. Imma seeing you tomorrow!” So I hung up the phone, told them I quit, quit my job, told my mom I was moving to LA.
Q: Were you completely sure that Em’s career was gonna work out, that all this was gonna work?
Bizarre: I didn’t give a fuck. I went there and I stayed for like a week. Then this label called from Detroit and was gonna sign me. So I was gonna go back to D. He was like, what are you talking about, we just got signed? I said, no, it’s you just got signed. I’ve got my shit to do. So I flew to Detroit, I got signed to the label called Federation Records. So I was doing my shit, he was in LA working on his shit. We had this pact, you know, whoever gets first – comes back and gets everybody else. So once he got on – BAM! – he had his label on, he’s got already signed D12, I had already had a buzz and Atlantic tried to sign me, but I said I’d go to any label where Marshall went ‘cause he was in a bid between Atlantic and Interscope. So Shady went to Interscope and I was like, shit, I’m wherever you go. So I went to Interscope with D12.
However, the host was interested not only in the history of their relationship but in Em’s personality.
Q: People have this morbid fascination with what Em is like because he’s so split off from the normal rap world. How is he able to have this insane level of stardom and be completely removed from hip-hop aside from 3 months album cycle?
B: He’s compulsive. This rap shit is so serious to him he just like fucking sits around and thinks about how to get better. Or thinks about how to make this line tighter. […]How many rappers, including myself, go and re-do their verses three times? And I am being generous right now. Even once?
Maybe the secret of the incredible level of Eminem’s rap is in the fact that he is constantly trying to make it incredible?
Watch the bit about Eminem in the video below:
