Trivia
- “From The D 2 The LBC” was released as the album’s only single and is one of two previously unreleased songs from the collection. The song peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 51 on the UK Singles Chart.
- The song was originally set to appear on Mount Westmore’s album, with Eminem promoted as the only guest feature.
- In the song’s intro, Eminem points out that a second Eminem and collaboration is long overdue. The time between the release of this song and their last collaboration — “Bitch Please II” — is 22 years.
Words from Eminem, Paul Rosenberg, and Snoop Dogg
“Me and Snoop had our little issue and then when that thing happened with Dre, the brain aneurysm thing, we were like, “Bro, this is stupid as hell to be feuding right now.” I don’t remember if I called him or he called me, I can’t remember, but we talked it out and I think that it was a miscommunication in regards to him being on my album, The [Marshall] Mathers LP — “Bitch Please II” — and I think he had wanted to do something with me and maybe gave [Paul] the idea or something and [Paul] said something to the effect of, “Well let’s hear what the song is first,” you know, “Let’s see what the type of song it is,” and [Snoop] said the way that he took it was kinda like that I don’t fuck with him. […] I explained to him like, “Bro, Doggystyle changed my life” […] “How could I not fuck with you?” […] So we just talked it out and realised how stupid it was to even be feuding at all in the first place. My olive branch was bringing Snoop [“From the D 2 the LBC”]. I knew he’d kill that beat.
“I don’t remember exactly the circumstances, but yeah, [Snoop] was looking for [Em] to do something for him, for his record, in return for [“Bitch Please II”], and whatever I said or somebody else said, I don’t even think I said it to him because I don’t remember talking to him, but I may have talked to somebody on his team, and whatever I said was relayed back to him in a way that he didn’t like and he thought that meant that [Em] didn’t fuck with him which obviously wasn’t the case.
So [Em] brings Snoop [“From The D 2 The LBC”], he does it, and I remember [Em was] like, “Holy shit, what the fuck? Snoop destroyed this record.” Initially [Snoop] was gonna put it on a project that got put on hold, [Mount Westmore], so [Em] said, “Well I want this to come out. It’s too good to just sit there,” and [Snoop] said, “Go ahead, take it.”
“We love each other. If you got siblings, you know that you have misunderstandings and disagreement — that shit happens. But the beauty of it all is that, if I’m wrong, I know how to call Marshall and say, “Man, I apologise. I was wrong, bro, do you forgive me? No problem. Let’s roll on.”
I feel like it was necessary for me to not let it drag on, but to put some resolution to it, because I was the reason why it became what it was, and I felt like I could be the reason to stop it, and for the sake of the family and the sake of my love for him and Dre and what we built, that was the only thing to do. You gotta understand we really love each other, so we don’t want the public to put a spin on something that’s not even as serious.
“[“From The D 2 The LBC”] was very challenging for me, to say the least. Eminem really fucking shot at me. He shot his shot, and as a rapper, that’s what you want when you get a feature, to have to work your fucking ass off.
You want somebody to come to the playing field, putting up points and never leaving practice, so you gotta re-think your shit and say, “Well, damn. This is what he thinks of me. That’s why he’s going so hard, because he knows I’m going to match him on the same level,” and that’s what it is when you’re making records with people that you love. It’s competitive, but for the right reasons. To bring the best out of each other.