Shady Records debutant Ez Mil says he nearly fainted seeing Eminem for the first time, but Em’s jokes helped relieve the tension.
Ez Mil gave an interview to Manila radio station RX931 and told how nervous he was arriving to a secret meeting with Eminem and Dr. Dre and how they liked his beat from the first play:
We was all mind our own business. “The “DU4LI7Y” event in itself is just us. Then suddenly we got hit with this message, like, “Yo, this is gonna be a secret meetinng”. We were like, what?! I had already made the beat for “Realest” by myself. It had the first verse, I think, and a hook, a little bit. It was even before we knew it was THEM, that it was Em and Dre. And when I was hit with the info that we would be meeting Em and Dre. I was pacing the house, I was trying to contain myself. Even the keeping a secret is tough. We went to LA. Meeting them, that was a whole trip. Even going through the lobby. Because Dre was sitting rigth there, in the lobby. And Em was inside the studio, I was peeking through the door. My brother and my mum, we all went in. Then Dre stood up with his huge self and he was like, “Hey, superstar”. What the hell are you talking about?!I shook his hand. And when I saw Em I almost fainted. Thank god I stood up and kept it firm.He stood up and sai, “Ezekiel! Where’ve you been for the last 20 years? All right, you were four”. Then they talked about how they really messed with “Up Down”, they heard it. They said that Em was just going through the wormhole, and then they said it was Paul [Rosenberg, who showed him a song].
Like I said, I had already made the beat and some vocals. Right there at the studio I played it for them. Dre was bobbing and right after the beat was playing he was like, “Yyp, Marshall’s gonna eat that up”. And then Em was at the back [rises a hand], “Yep, give it to me”.
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You can listen to Ez Mil “Realest” feat. Eminem below:
