Eminem Speaks On Recording 'My Name Is' In His First Studio Session With Dr. Dre For Slim Shady LP

Welcome back to New York's number one video music box. I'm Ray Dijon. We're in the house with Eminem right now. Remember the album is coming soon. 223.99. That's flebler wary. The Slim Shady LP in the house. A little something different for hip-hop as we continue to, you know, make new waves in the hip-hop industry. 15 years on the air. Kicking it strong. Trying to bring you the newest artists first in the tri-state area. Now coming back, um, Hi My Name Is. How'd you come up with that, that concept? I figured like my name was and then I came up with it. Now Dre, like that was, it was really ill because the first, the first, um, the first day me and Dre got down together, we did, we did three songs and My Name Is was the second song that we did. And we was in there. It was like, he, he, he played me the beat and it was like instantly, I just started saying it like, you know, and the beat started talking to me like, hi, my name is like, I started like doing the hook and he looked at me kind of funny, like, you can use that as a hook, you know? It was like, then I was, the more I started saying it, the engineers in the studio started saying it, you know what I'm saying? Everybody was like, oh, hi, my name is, my name is, and I was like, yo, that's him right there. So I just went in and freestyled some verses and then, um, I hadn't had them wrote yet and just went home that same night and just wrote them and then came back the next day. Came back and just laid that down as the hook. And it's interesting because the hook in most cases of a song is like really the most important part of the song at times because it kind of stays in people's mind because right now everybody's running around New York City and Connecticut and New Jersey right now, as far as I'm, I know, you know, walking around and interacting with people in the industry and everybody is, you know, really hung on that hook, hi, my name is, to the point where we're hearing it on radio and people are kind of including it, like, you know, the young artists coming up when I do the talent showcases, they're including that in their own lyrics. Yeah, which is, which is a really good thing. How about coming out of Detroit? Detroit, Michigan is a big city, just like New York, living in Detroit. How'd you actually, like, get started in hip hop? Just, um, just listening to the music, man. When I was, like, nine years old is when I heard my first rap song. I heard Ice-T, Reckless, The Glove, and, like, I was just, like, fascinated by, like, everything, like, all of my friends. I had older cousins that were, what they were into breaking and stuff like that, you know, and, um, you know, just, like, growing up on the music, you know, um, just loving it, just wanting to, wanting to do it, you know what I mean? Like, listening to, like, like, I used to be, like, heavy fans of, like, LL, Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, you know what I mean? Big Daddy Kane, you know, and just, just loving it.