After three collaborations, Em and Ed became friends and sent each other their favorite tapes.
$ 600 for a cassette
In April 2021, Eminem spoke publicly for the first time about his preference for cassettes and said that he had been collecting them since he was a child. So he said to “Clubhouse”: “I started as a child. From comics to baseball cards to toys and every rap album, what was on cassette and what I could get my hands on. As an adult, this just hasn’t changed. I’ve tried to collect some of the collections myself that I celebrated as a child and I know I’m not the only one. “
But he was missing a copy, so he put $ 600 on the table for Nas’ debut album “Illmatic” from 1994.
“It’s already unpacked. However, I still have one that is shrink-wrapped – because I just opened the other one. The last [Kassette] is ‘Illmatic’ by Nas because that shitty thing – Man! I couldn’t find this shit anywhere. And then I discovered it and it cost me $ 500-600 … for a shrink-wrapped copy of ‘Illmatic’. Who has a cassette at home and doesn’t open it ?! Nobody, “laughed Eminem, adding his own thesis about the new find:” I think it was from some record shop in the warehouse and shit like that. The cassette that was never sold and then you can get it online. That’s the only reason I can think of because nobody has this album and wouldn’t open it. “
New pen pal
The fact that Eminem collects cassettes was something new for many of his colleagues. But exactly this aspect in his life brought him a new friend: As Ed Sheeran “Later … with Jools Holland”Confessed, he has made a pen-friendship with the British and sends him his favorite tapes.
“I collect tapes and I have Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder’s and they are very hard to find. Eminem is the only person who collects them as well – that’s his thing. He loves to find her. […] We started with this … it’s kind of like a very cool pen pal. So a few days ago I got a message about an LL COOL J cassette. He wrote: ‘This copy made me start rapping today.’ I then sent him one from Van Morrison and I’ll have David Gray’s ‘White Ladder’ next to him, ”explained Ed Sheeran.
More than just music
Ed Sheeran and Eminem have already released four songs together. But as the British singer admitted, their meetings are not always just about making music. For example, the first time they spent four hours together “just talking about Marvel and the Avengers”. Only the second time they stood together in the recording studio and recorded the track “River”.
Click here for the collaboration between Ed Sheeran and Eminem:
