Eminem Addresses Machine Gun Kelly & Joe Budden Beef In "Kamikaze" Interview

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Eminem gets into detail about his beef with Machine Gun Kelly and Joe Budden.

Last night, Eminem shared part one of his Kamikaze interview with Sway. The rapper discussed the criticism he faced from Revival and how it helped spawn Kamikaze. Towards the end of the episode, Eminem began to dish out on why he dissed MGK and today, it's arrived in its entirety.

Eminem is speaking candidly on his feud with Machine Gun Kelly and Joe Budden in part two of his interview with Sway. The rapper explained in part one of his interview how he saw MGK speak on his daughter, Hailie on Instagram which Em claims spiraled into a press run for the "Wild Boy" rapper.

"I see 'Machine Gun Kelly talks about Eminem's daughter,' whatever, right?" He said after explaining how he went into a "wormhole" on the Internet. "[I] click on it. Why is he -- then he starts doing a press run, basically, about Hailie. I'm like "what the fuck?" I'm like 'Yo, my man better chill.' That's not why I dissed him. The reason I dissed him is actually a lot more petty than that. Now I'm in this fuckin' weird thing because I'm like 'I gotta answer this motherfucker."

In addition, Eminem also spoke of Joe Budden. He explained that he and Joe Budden aren't the best of friends and he feels like Budden doesn't owe him anything. However, Eminem felt that it wasn't necessary that Joe should've called his album "trash" on his own platform, especially since Em used his to promote Slaughterhouse. Em also went deeper into the lost Slaughterhouse album, Glass House.

Peep the full interview below. 


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