AllRespect.com // Eminem Talks Lil Wayne, Rihanna And Pink <i>Recovery</i> Collabos

Posted on 2010-06-03 03:00:09
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'Wayne, to me, is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now,' Em says during French radio interview.By Gil Kaufman

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The elusive Eminem spoke to Skyrock Radio in Paris over the weekend and offered a tiny peek at what he has in store for his upcoming Recovery album.

While most of the interview consisted of Em cracking jokes with the French DJs, he did briefly touch on hooking up with the incarcerated Lil Wayne on "No Love," as well as Pink on "Won't Back Down" and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie."

"I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me, is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now," he said of Weezy, who is in the midst of a yearlong prison stretch on gun charges. "As far as the songs with Pink and Rihanna ... when I did the song that I did with Pink, I laid my parts first and kind of heard her on the record and felt that she would smash this record. And the other one I did with Rihanna is one of those tracks that I felt like only she could pull it off, only she could do it."

He also dropped the first hints about what the video for lead single "Not Afraid" might look like. Promising that it was coming soon (he mentioned "Saturday" but didn't go into any other detail), Shady said, "The video is ... kind of just ... there's a lot of things in it that are metaphorically speaking. There are things that are symbolic in the video. ... The overall concept is basically being in a dark place and trying to get to the light."

Among the topics he touched on were 50 Cent slimming down for his upcoming role in "Things Fall Apart," in which he plays a cancer-stricken football player. "That's crazy," Shady said when talk turned to 50's shocking weight loss. While trying to find out more French cuss words in order to hit on a comely lady named Marie in the studio, Slim Shady deferred to longtime manager Paul Rosenberg when pressed about why the rapper did not make France one of his three tour stops on his upcoming European swing.

The interview ended with Em expressing mystification over why people are so excited about soccer's upcoming World Cup, a stance that might mean he'll have some 'splaining to do when he hits the stages in football-crazy Switzerland and the U.K. in July. "Is it politically incorrect if I said I didn't like soccer?" he asked. "I'm not a big soccer fan."

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