Aside from his Hip-Hop bars throughout the years, Eminem is known to be straight-forward.
In a recent interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Em said that his best rapper of all time is… nobody. According to Slime Shady, the Hip-Hop genre is constantly changing which is why there isn’t one single best rapper for him.
Em said:
“When people compare, when they try to compare eras… Hip-Hop’s went through too many different transitions for anyone really to be the best rapper of all time, because rap has went through transitions, it’s evolved. Now people are doing things with flows that I never could have seen happening. But at the same time, rappers from that [golden age] era meant so much more to that era, just because there were so many innovators and there were so many rappers.”
Eminem continued with “I know I’ve been around for a minute, but I don’t feel like, honestly, in my heart of hearts, I don’t feel like anything I did, anything I’ve done up to this point, is more influential than they were to their era. You know what I’m saying? To me, I will never mean more than they meant to their era. A lot of times, when people ask me what my top favorite rappers are, I don’t even know how to answer that, because there’s so many rappers that have been so great and still are great. And by the way, I think Rakim probably is still great. I haven’t heard anything he’s working on lately, but I guarantee you he ain’t lost that sh*t, because that kind of sh*t don’t go away. It just doesn’t.”
Check out the full conversation between Eminem and Apple Music’s Zane Lowe below.
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