Battle rap legend Murda Mook has recently done an interview on hiphopisreal.com where he talked about Eminem, meeting him first time in Detroit, how much he could relate his music and what Eminem mentioning his name on Cordae’s “Parables (remix)” song meant for him.
“Eminem is my favorite rapper. Nobody rap like him to me. I met that man one time. I never thought I would ever be star-struck in front of somebody. My brother AK brings me Detroit event. I think Shady was throwing it. Em was there. Em was up on the balcony and they were like ‘come upstairs, you gon’ meet Em.’ I’m like ‘WHAAT?!’ I go upstairs, Paul Rosenberg, he was like ‘what’s up Mook.’ I’m like ‘you know me? that’s what’s up!’ He like ‘yeah, he [Em] over there.’ I’m walking up and I feel my legs getting weak. I’m not understanding what’s happening to me. I was like, why the f–k my body is getting like this. The closer I walked to this n–ga, I was getting weaker. He’s like ‘yo, I’m big fan man.’ I said ‘WHAT?! That’s fire.’ I just looked at him and I didn’t know what to say, I looked dumb as hell.” said Murda Mook.
Then he continued: “Peter Garvey put me on Eminem, on the Kim song. I’m hearing this song and I’m like ‘Who is this n–ga?’ My man Peter said, this is white dude. I’m like, how the f–k is he that nice?! It wasn’t that he’s white so he nice, no, he was nicer than everybody before he was white! Rap don’t got no color. He was nice from HI, MY NAME IS. If anybody know rap and rhyming, n–gas know HI KIDS, DO YOU LIKE VIOLENCE?! You can tell immediately this motherf–ker could rap.”
“What happened was, motherf–kers were scared. Cause they seen him was white and they knew he could really rhyme so n–gas were like ‘Nah, we need to campaign against cause we know he nice and we know he on the way.’ Skill don’t got no color bro. N–gas that’s inferior, when they see a n–ga that’s nicer, they get nervous bro and they try to figure out how to make you not appear as nice as you are and that’s what n–gas tried to do to Em. They tried to use him being white but him was just ridiculously nice. Him and Loaded Lux are aliens, alienation, to me.”
“When he mentioned my name in the song with Cordae, do you know what that meant to me, man? I’ve been waiting to hear that n–ga say my name on the song or something since the beginning when I first heard of him. That s–t made me feel so proud. That’s the part of the reason I was like ‘yo, I gotta get clean’. I understand his story too, even though a lot of people say he can’t relate. I always kinda related to him. Me and my mom situation, growing up it was very rocky. When I listened to him to him rhyme, I heard me. I heard a man screaming out, feeling the way I felt. And he was just nice on top of that. So I emulated Eminem. Just to hear him say my name, I could die now. He went though it. I listened to his struggles. I know about what he had to overcome and fight. And he had hundreds of millions of dollars. So, imagine his struggle. People think more money you got, more happy you are but that’s probably opposite. Shout out to Eminem and Royce 5’9″ for being a mentor to me. Shout out to Trick Trick too.” Murda Mook added. You can watch the entire interview below:
