The recent back and forth between Eminem and Snoop Dogg was interesting to say the least. It all started when Snoop went on The breakfast club and declares that he does not believe that Eminem belongs on the list of best rappers of all time. It spurred and took between Snoop and Eminem fans, who once believed they were in the same camp. Snoop’s words earned him a response from Eminem to the song “Zeus”. “The last thing I need is that Snoop me / Man, Dogg, you were like a damn god to me / Nah, not really / I had ‘dog’ back,” Em raps on the track. Snoop seems to be shooting back, and the issue remains to be resolved.

Eminem recently jumped on Shade 45 radio to outline the songs on his new album Songs to Kill by: Side B. During the conversation, he touched on his Snoop lyrics.

“Everything he said was good by the way, up to a point,” Em explains in shadow 45. “He said Dre made the best version of me, absolutely, why would I have a problem with that? Would I be here without Dre? Fuck no, I would not. The rappers he mentioned from the 90’s – KRS One, Big Daddy Kane, [Kool] G Rap – I’ve never said I could fuck with them. ‘

“I think it was more about the tone he used that caught me off guard because I’m like where did it come from? I just saw you, what the fuck? It threw me for a loop,” continued Em . “I probably could have gone through the whole tone and everything, but that was the last statement where he said, ‘Far from music I can live without, I can live without that shit.’ “Now you are disrespectful. It just caught me off guard.”

He also touches on his apology to Rihanna, who appears in the same song. The story behind the leaked Rihanna ‘diss’, in which Em is with Chris Brown on the case of assault, is that Em recorded the verse while he was working on Relapse in 2009. He claims he was just trying to throw something at a verse. “Honestly to God, I told Paul that when it first happened,” he begins. ‘First, I do not know how anyone got it. Second, I can never remember doing that verse. The rhyming schemes did not even sound familiar to me, which is why I was caught off guard. “Still, he maintained his mistake.” I make no excuses for that. I said it, and I said it wrong. This was fucking stupid, “Em declared.