Interscope co-founder’s son and wrestling promoter Jamie Iovine once again warns people that Marshall Mathers is nothing like what they expect Eminem to be.
Since his early years, having been exposed to many famous and talented musicians, Jamie was able to see some of them, including Eminem, in their natural habitat and see them out of their stage persona. According to Jamie, Marshall is far from being that terrifying battle machine he presents to the public.
In his interview with The Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast, Iovine said:
Eminem’s a funny guy. Eminem is first off, incredibly gifted [and] incredibly talented, but much more of a nerd than a lot of people would think. First off, loves comics, reads them all the time, and if you listen to a lot of his songs, he has a lot of references in there as well.
As the main topic of this interview was wrestling, Iovine talked a lot about Interscope licensing music for wrestlers and matches, including Eminem’s tracks. Eminem is known to be well-known and well-loved by many professional wrestlers. But how well Eminem knows the wrestling world?
They have licensed him a lot. I remember when I was with the company, there was a package that was made for John Cena – Bray Wyatt match at WrestleMania 30. And it was to an Eminem song, and so he’s familiar with it, but he’s not as deep.
This is not really surprising. We know that Marshall follows mostly basketball, box and football than this particular type of entertainment. Another thing that Jamie wanted to add that Marshall is not as loud and assertive as people think and that his interests go beyond hip hop:
And he’s also one of the more quiet people that you’ll ever meet in a person in a one-on-one thing. That’s why he doesn’t do a lot of interviews is because he’s very soft-spoken. When you meet him, you’re expecting mass chainsaw guy, and he’s not.
He’s very reserved, very quiet, very shy is a word I would use, which really surprised me the first time I got to speak with him. You can tell there’s a lot going on behind the eyes. There’s a lot of thinking and analysing, and I think the fact that he’s sober now really has opened him up to a lot more than just hip hop. He’s interested in a lot more things now. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see him be in a lot more movies going forward.
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