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the Blockbuster of the summer is coming July 3rd Ken K's here that was my inspiration it's always a good way to start an interview yeah not since independent day has a film awaited so much anticipation and excitement as this music film that's
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coming on Apple music for phenomenal I hear you've been doing your own stunts no pressure no pressure right um I mean we're just trying to do something different you know and put me in a a different scenario different setup
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different scenery different you know what I'm saying and then then the norm the song is is is part of the original soundtrack you know for southp which you've executive produced and I mean is there other music that's coming through
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on the soundtrack from you or how did you put the soundtrack together for Southpaw for the movie that's coming on July 24th well the soundtrack me and Paul have actually been working on um just kicking ideas back and forth trying to figure out who would be we think
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would be the best for for I mean there's scenes in the movie there's you know the the overall theme in the movie and you know we got music from Action Bronson 50 myself Roy to 59 slaughterhouse and when did the the idea to work on this movie
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on this script first come up because the way that I read it you know it's been it's been something a passion project he was for some time well the actual movie the the the the concept when did that come about Paul there almost 5 years ago there was
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a script in the works and the idea of it and the idea originally was to have me in it and um I just at the time that they were ready to shoot and everything was starting to come together it just didn't my schedule didn't work with it
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had you been in preparation for that roll up to that point had you in in good faith been thinking yeah okay I'm going to give have a go with this it was somewhere in the back of my mind but at the same time um I believe I was just
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finishing the martial matters LP yeah too the time would not have really been I wouldn't have been able to do it so that part sucked but at the same time we believed in the project I believed in it you know and wanted to have something
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to do with it you know I knew I wanted to have something to do with it Paul knew he wanted to have something something to do with it so what was it about the script what was it about the story because you you know after 8 Mile
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you did something that very few people who have success like that out the gate do and you walked away from that idea of filming of of film and acting and working in cinema and you OB guess waited for the right project so what was
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it about Southpaw in particular that you Lov or love the script was incredible everything about it that was was dope when it was first presented but seeing how Jake gyllen Hall just smashed it like you know it just made sense that we
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just we still wanted to have something to do with the project so you know we Circle back around and and we're like What if we did music for it so phenomenal itself as a song um can you just paint the picture for us you put us in the in the mood you were in when you
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wrote it when you made it you're in your studio I guess in Detroit I guess you know but putting it together and and what it was like putting that song together I had slaughterhouse com into town and we were talking about just I
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was making beats for for them stuff for the movie too you know but but once I had started doing that beat and laid the hook to it felt like okay and they ran it with the trailer the first trailer that came out right right and it seemed
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to fit so well with the theme of everything that I was like all right let me let me go ahead and finish this one for it was it just the script you I mean you're a boxing fan is there actually like is is there a love for the sport
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I'm a super boxing fan I don't miss many fights when did you first like start take an interest in boxing like the actual sport of boxing I mean as a kid as a kid yeah for sure I mean I always wanted to learn how to fight so this would have been your
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shot man in this in this movie as well did they did did they get you that far would you at that point with the scheduling of the movie where you would have seen like what kind of training you would had to have done because
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Gyllenhaal's pinch he's built up for the role yeah I I had you know prior to South Paul and even probably about 7 8 years ago mhm I had trained I trained for about a year with Emanuel Stewart and then um probably close to another year with uh Hill
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mcken but it was just you know boxing in my garage that in itself is like serious to to get in in with people like that training you like that I mean I guess they're not pulling punches on you right there's no point in them going easy no I
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mean not not not some of the people that I sparred with no for sure but it was just you know boxing in my garage that in itself is like serious to to get in in with people like that training you like that I mean I guess they don't
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pulling punches on you right not some of the people that I sparred with no for sure it sounds like a ridiculous thing to to to think but you when you in the ring and and you sparing with somebody I mean do do you think that they're
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thinking at the same time man better not knock Eminem out no I don't think anybody was thinking that if anything it was I'm going to knock this that I did it you know that that's how you learn not saying I ever got my ass whipped how' you run ever how' you
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run I got my ass wh a couple times thank God for Jake Gyllenhaal huh right so it's phenomenal where does it feature in the actual film like what's the what's the inspiration you know from southp to that particular song the
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original idea was to have something for uh particular Montage where they actually had used originally um collapse and they wanted something like that with similar energy so um I came up with phenomenal and what really what I had done was that I did
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the beat first and laid a hook like kind of a scratch hook or whatever and and and sent it to him had you seen the Montage they talked you through what the idea of it would be and what the emotion of that montage is cuz I've always
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thought like personally speaking I've always thought like writing a song song or or being involved in anything that involves in a montage that's like that's Cinema gold that is true and and that just yeah I just realized song are you
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saying that cuz I think of Rocky I think of Flash Dance I think of the greatest montages of all time I don't know if I think of flash dance but it's not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind it's it's there somewhere but
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Rocky would probably Rocky be the one yeah Rocky would come to mind first there's no easy way out it's a long way home was that also was it was it come on man you know that song now because of Rocky know that song what about you're the
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best around nothing in the world bring it down that was a montage wasn't it the best that is in that too right the best around was Karate Kid was Karate Kid thank you Joe ESP bazito I think was Karate Kid yeah what are you talking
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don't you feel stupid now hey I know his name Jo Karate Kid that's why I was saying what do you I'm gonna play some right now I play some Jo bazito right now on the show you're the best around I don't think it's I don't think it's you're the best around we should
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just spend the hour just doing thism is with us right now beats one worldwide always on Apple music when you see I mean I know you say Jake gyllen Hall absolutely killed it and I can't wait to see him in the film but was there a
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moment when you were watching it back like man I wish my schedule had freed up I wish I got AE of crack at this yeah for sure there was there was there was part of me that was like this is crazy that's the I mean I wouldn't change a
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thing about it because the way that Jake did it he smashed it the movie is incredible who wrote it who wrote the the screenplay Kurt Sutter and being a huge fan of Sons of Anarchy as well like the chance to even the chance to work on
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something with him yeah something that he did is incredible so what's that role going to be you know cuz we you know it we're all kind of waiting a little part of our subconscious is waiting for that one that one role that's going to put
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you back on screen again you know you you were amazing in a mile I Revisited that film not long ago go it's it's Timeless work you did in that film really as difficult as it was for you it's held it's held it it's held its own
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and it's like what is that role going to be and you know it is hard to think like South Paul was it at one point wasn't it when you look at it when you look at the script who wrote it you look at the director you look at I know schedule
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schedule what is that role now you know would you have to wait another 10 years do you know or longer for me I have fun I have fun doing little cameos too you know in movies in the interview I saw that yeah that is fun to me because it's not you
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know when you're doing a movie like that you've got to commit and I don't have trouble necessarily committing to things but it has to be something that's that's got to I got to be super super passionate about this so this my my
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music that I'm so obviously passionate about i' got to put this on hold yeah it's weird as of yesterday me too um but I it has to be something that I have to realize okay I can't do my first Passion you know what I'm saying like this is
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this is this is everything to me this is where everything stems from this is what it's about to me it has to be something that I have to be able to it has to be strong enough to make me to to get my interest and not saying that Southpaw
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wasn't yeah cuz you were thinking about it one point for sure it just it just what what happened with that was the timing was so bad as far as me finishing like working on the Marshal mats LP for as long as I did uh part two mm as long
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as I had the time that I had already put into it and now we've got a deadline and we've got to finish it and I'm going to need I'm going to need to set aside at least a year you know and and I won't be able to finish this CU otherwise you would have
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been potentially right back where you were during that time making AAR which with all the success and all the great creativity that came out of that and the end results I know just from talking to you today and speaking to you after that
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when the dust settled you didn't you're not in a hurry to go back to that kind of that's the intensity of having to juggle those two or three rolls right I mean it's yeah it like I said it was fun but it wasn't fun because it was it it
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just it it permits you no time for a life when you think when you perform Lose Yourself on stage and it's such an important part of the the show it's one of the biggest songs in your can and one that people always look forward to
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hearing live you know do well you think that's probably the only time you probably think about that song is when you're on stage and you performing at that point do you do you get you must feel different about that knowing how it changed your life that song
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totally changed your life I mean your life was changed before that but that's when things went completely crazy yeah I think that you know in a way it's like if I guess if there was no Eight Mile there would be no Lose Yourself yeah you
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know yeah because I needed that movie that movie gave a little different a slight edge of inspiration that I don't think I had back at that particular time yeah you know it was good because doing that movie kind of put me right back in
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certain elements and you know if just it made me for some reason feel hungry again yeah you know like just the whole battle rap scene see it on the screen you could totally feel it in the movie and uh you know I just if you hadn't
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done it if you hadn't actually thrown yourself into that workload into those kind of sleepless nights of just just trying to think like about the image of you writing that song I mean wasn't it literally like writing and recording it
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in your trailer on the set overnight it was like being a hamster and you're just going from one cage one wheel to the next you know like it was the it was a music trailer and it was the the the trailer where I got to learn the lines
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you know learning the scenes and and writing the Rhymes and and then yeah writing and and trying to record and then trying to you know get a little workout in here and there like I was just going from one trailer to the next
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workout trailer going to the you know to the studio trailer then back to learning the lines and and then in between takes I remember like writing in between takes like writing on my hand cuz I didn't have a piece of paper at the time and
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like I said it was fun but it wasn't it wasn't yeah yeah it was intense it was intense would you like to kind of work in cinema and do more things like that exec produced listen it depends on what it is you know I'm I'm I make music and
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whatever comes along that seems like it might be interesting or fun cuz at this point I just want to have fun with it you know like I just want to make sure that whatever it is is something that I'm passionate about and that I believe in you know because
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otherwise just going through the motions music of course is why we're here it's what's it's how I got to know you 16 years ago was through your music and you know now we're we're here on Beats one on this new station broadcasting around
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the world you like music a little bit uh Marshall weird I didn't how you doing we just met yeah just met nice to see you yeah more of a movie guy actually cats out the bag there right um kept a straight face for a long time more
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interested in French Cinema um Marshall Mathers too the you know the lp the lp that came out and you know you toured more on that record than you had done in the past and you seem to kind of make peace with the road a little bit is that
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a fair assessment to make yeah it is for sure I I like doing shows it was it was it was never really about the shows that that was never had nothing to do with anything it was more about being on the road and being away from home and being away from my kids
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and the whole thing just became too much at one point you know so now that it's everything is a little more settled down like I feel like you know it was time to do that and it was it was good it's it's just being on the
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road for weeks at a time months at a time that's that part I never really dug so new music to come in in in in the future that's exciting and uh and J like I said July 24th uh southp the movie soundtrack out on the same day who's in
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the soundtrack again action Bronson's on it slaughter house is on it how many tracks you got on it two three or four three or four tracks on it cool I can't count yeah two one or the other I'm a little shaky past two between three or
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four yeah three or four songs maybe there's three and a half well listen man it's been good to see you and uh you can't wait to hear whatever comes out as always out of the studio so thanks for your time cool man thank you thanks appreciate it