Eminem has revealed he isn’t particularly bothered by being forced to self-isolate, with the Detroit-born rapper admitting he’s felt as if he’s already been “quarantined by fame” over the years.
The notoriously private 47-year-old is known for maintaining a quiet life out of the spotlight, re-emerging periodically to drop new music just as he in January this year with his chart-topping album Music To Be Murdered By.
Despite revelling in solitude, Em (real name Marshall Mathers), admitted to Shade45’s Sway Calloway that he still struggles with the idea of being in mandatory lockdown.
“Fame has definitely over the years kinda already had me quarantined, but it’s the fact of knowing that you can’t really go out and we can’t move like how we normally move,” he said after calling into Sway in the Morning on Friday to discuss the COVID-19 crisis and how it’s affected him.
“We’re living in some unprecedented times right now,” added Em.
“It’s not just the same thing for me every day that it always is. There’s something to be said about knowing that you can’t go out and do certain things,” he continued, explaining that he’s not able to undertake his usual method of venting.
“It’s not the same when you can’t do a lot of your regular routines and shit, and going to the studio is like my outlet. We can’t really get in and do much, so I’ve just been writing,” he said, adding that he’s also reading books such as Rakim’s Sweat the Technique, as well as watching the new Michael Jordan docuseries, The Last Dance.
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“It’s incredible. It’s only two episodes in but that shit is like nostalgia city,” he said of the doco.
Eminem’s admission comes after the ‘Kamikaze’ rapper delivered 400 pre-packaged ‘Mom’s Spaghetti’ meals to frontline workers at Henry Ford and Detroit Receiving hospitals through his Marshall Mathers Foundation.
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