Em went on to break down Kool G Rap's style, which has been highly influential for years, inspiring countless emcees, especially those with complex wordplay and visceral street tales.
"Kool G Rap would put fuckin' 10 words in two lines and it would rhyme, and they would fall right into each other," Em wrote, before referencing G Rap's verse on "Jive Talk". "I studied that. He said, "A letter to you suckers, each and every one of you duck muthafuckas/Your girl puckers her lips, so I stuck her." He just said a sentence, but five things rhymed in there. And to this day, I still get really fuckin' weird and freaked out inside when I talk to LL COOL J. I listened to it, studied it, but also loved it, loved the music. Rappers like D.O.C., Tupac Shakur, and Biggie. Those were all my influences. I would never be anywhere near where I am today if it wasn't for them."
Eminem has recently been riding high since the release of his second greatest hits album, Curtain Call 2. In addition to winning an Emmy for his Super Bowl performance with Dr. Dre, his 2009 song with 50 Cent and Dre, "Crack a Bottle," just surpassed 200 million streams on Spotify. Still making music, he was also spotted in the studio with Dre and Snoop Dogg, who are working on a new project.
As for Kool G Rap, he's set to drop a much-anticipated new album, Last of a Dying Breed, in October. He dropped the album's lead single with Big Daddy Kane "Fly Til I Die," last month.
