Eminem broke his recent apology for the song to Rihanna on his track ‘Zeus’, explaining that he has “no memory” of recording the controversial lyrics about her that leaked online in 2019.
‘Zeus’, who appeared on ‘Side B’ of last month’s ‘Music To Be Murdered By’, saw the rapper apologizing to the singer for saying that he “Chris Brown’s side”About Rihanna after Brown pleaded guilty to criminal assault in 2009.
“But, I, since I promise to be honest / And with all my heart, sorry, Rihanna, ”Eminem sings on ‘Zeus’. “For that song that was leaked, I’m sorry, Ri / It wasn’t supposed to make you sad.
“Regardless, it was wrong of me. “
Talking to Sirius XM’s Shade 45 program on ‘Zeus’, Eminem said he did not know how the decade-old song that contained Rihanna’s offensive lyrics had leaked.
“I didn’t know how anyone did it,” said Eminem to Sirius XM host Gray Rizzy. “I have none, no memory of even remembering doing that verse. The rhyme schemes didn’t even sound familiar.
“So I was caught off guard, too. I was like, ‘What the fuck did I say that?’ “
Eminem went on to recall how the controversial lyrics in question were recorded during the early stages of recording his 2009 album ‘Relapse’, when he was “learning to rap again because of the drug situation that I went through”.
“I’m not making excuses for that: I said that and I was wrong to say that, it was fucking stupid,” he said of Rihanna’s lyrics. “It was one of those things that was like this: well, if it rhymes, say it.
“That’s not even an excuse, but I’m just saying that there was a phase that I was going through with that ‘Relapse’ album. It was one of those things. I think I just said it because it rhymed.
“Looking back now, I should have known better.”
Last weekend, Snoop Dogg responded to online comments about the reaction to his recently shared view that he could “live without” Eminem’s music.