Words from Eminem, Royce Da 5’9”, and Denaun Porter

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I had the beat first and wrote something to it, but mine was telling some funny story and our verses didn’t match. I called Royce like, ‘Yo, I think I might have a verse to this.’ And he said, ‘What’s it about?’ And I said, ‘Just rap.’ I kind of wasn’t sure what he was going to do with it, but then he came on some harder shit than I was talking about. Mine was kind of funny and it didn’t match, but his verse was retarded so I wanted to keep it. So then I just rewrote another verse, went in, and laid it. But his had to be a second verse, because he wrote it with that in mind, that it was going to be the second verse. So we couldn’t change it.

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I was trying my best to get him to lay that shit. I was like, “Just lay what you got man.” Because I really wanted to keep that tone.

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I spent so much time on the beat that I was kind of out of it when it came to the melodies. I had done one chorus myself because I sing, but I hated [my chorus]. So I dropped it off to her and I told her exactly what I was looking for. And her and two other writers came up with the hook. Claret Jai just laid it down and I took it right to Em.