Joe Budden: "(Eminem was extremely hands on with the project).. Countless hours.. just brainpower, manpower, just overtime. He was like truly invested. You hear the commentators in
sports say all the time - when the best player in the team is working that hard, it makes everybody else go that hard. It's the same thing - when you see somebody as accomplished as Eminem, arguably the greatest rapper to ever do it, with so many accolades, who's just been in it for so long, when he puts his foot in the way that he did - I mean how could you not want to go that much harder... I've probably never met anyone with more humility that Eminem."
Joell Ortiz: "Eminem is a celebrated, successful musician, producer, actor - everything you could possibly be. And he works harder than a lot of people I know. You know, you can get to those kinda places, you can chill, you can be wealthy, you can relax, kick back a little bit, but not Eminem. The dude is in there daily, working on his craft, working on music - gettin' it done. If I learned anything from Eminem - it's incredible work ethic. I definitely stepped away from them sessions in Detroit, like, yo, I gotta get in there harder... Somebody like that, just devoting all of his time to his craft and his passion is just crazy to him. I tip my hat to that."
Crooked I: "I wanna salute Em for putting his foot (in the album). He went in there and fucked that album over. He went in there and he mixed, he arranged, he featured. You know, he put in as much work, if not more, than we did. So I gotta salute him for that."
Joell Ortiz: "Eminem is a celebrated, successful musician, producer, actor - everything you could possibly be. And he works harder than a lot of people I know. You know, you can get to those kinda places, you can chill, you can be wealthy, you can relax, kick back a little bit, but not Eminem. The dude is in there daily, working on his craft, working on music - gettin' it done. If I learned anything from Eminem - it's incredible work ethic. I definitely stepped away from them sessions in Detroit, like, yo, I gotta get in there harder... Somebody like that, just devoting all of his time to his craft and his passion is just crazy to him. I tip my hat to that."
Crooked I: "I wanna salute Em for putting his foot (in the album). He went in there and fucked that album over. He went in there and he mixed, he arranged, he featured. You know, he put in as much work, if not more, than we did. So I gotta salute him for that."