2 Chainz recently opened up about a memorable experience recording with Eminem, revealing that he wasn’t allowed to smoke weed around the Detroit rapper while they were working in the studio.
During an appearance on Club Shay Shay, 2 Chainz talked about collaborating with Eminem on songs like “Chloraseptic” and “Kyrie & Luka.”
“When I did work with Eminem, I couldn’t smoke in there. It was kinda funny,” Chainz said. “It was his people, not Eminem. Eminem was somewhere writing but his people are just so concerned with him, they put the speakers outside so I could listen to the beat.”
The rapper described the scene in Malibu. He was enjoying the weather and smoking before heading back into the booth to record. “I come back in to do my verse and the door’s closed and I’m in the booth smoking and I see Em out there and I’m like ‘he in there while I’m recording, that’s hard’,” he recalled. “He’s about to come in and say something but his people are like ‘no, don’t go in there, he’s smoking’. Em looks like ‘sit the fuck down, what do you think I’m about to do?’ I remember them tripping on him and he was not tripping at all.”
The two artists most recently worked together on the track “Kyrie & Luka,” produced by DJ Premier. The song is named after NBA players Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. It features a beat that samples Eric B. & Rakim’s classic “Move the Crowd.” Staying true to the basketball theme, 2 Chainz dropped lines like “Things are going left like Julius Randle.” He closed with, “Just like Kyrie, I got this shit handled.”
In addition to that collaboration, 2 Chainz released Life is Beautiful with Larry June and The Alchemist. He also announced plans to drop a joint album with Statik Selektah later this year.
