Tyler, the Creator justrecently appeared on an episode of Mavericks with Mav Carter where he opened up about his sensations towards one of his Hip-Hop motivations: Eminem.
The Detroit icon is one of the MC’s that influenced Tyler to rap in the veryfirst location, however as Em’s material altered over the years, so did the “Earfquake” rapartist’s appreciation for him.
“I love Eminem. That man taught me how to rap. I foundout how to put words together in rhythm duetothefactthat of some of the Eminem things I was hearing and storytelling and things like that,” Tyler shared before likewise including how Eminem’s Recovery album is what turned him off.
However, after binge-watching Netflix’s Painkiller — a program about “the origins of the opioid crises in the United States” — the 33-year-old had a various stateofmind about Eminem transporting his sobriety through his music.
“When [Recovery] came out, I fking disliked it. Publicly was like, ‘This sh*t is wack,’” he confessed. “Didn’t like it. And after viewing [Painkiller] I felt so bad about those tweets and things like that since thinking from his viewpoint — somebody like me openly stating that things, and him off drugs and being tidy and getting to a point in life where that’s behind him — and me indicating ‘Nah, this sh*t is wack,’ he mostlikely felt like I was a