In a recent episode of the Club Shay shay podcast with Shannon Sharpe, 2 Chainz recounted his experience working in the studio with Eminem. The 47-year-old artist explained that Eminem’s representatives had particular stipulations for the recording session.

2 Chainz recalled, “When I did work with Eminem, I couldn’t smoke in there. It was kinda funny. It was his people, not Eminem. Eminem was somewhere writing, but his people are just so concerned with him, they put the speakers outside so I could listen to the beat.”

He continued, “I’m outside, it’s a beautiful day in Malibu, I’m just smoking the speaker’s outside.I come back in to do my verse, and the door’s closed and I’m in the booth smoking and I see Em out there and I’m like ‘he in there while I’m recording, this hard’. He’s about to come in and say something and some of his people are like ‘no,don’t go in there,he’s smoking,’ and Em looks like ‘sit the f*k down.’ I guess he was thinking like ‘what do you think I’m about to do?'”

“My addiction didn’t start in my early days when I was coming up. We used to drink 40s on the porch and just battle rap each other. My drug usage started at the beginning of that first album,” Eminem once shared.”I didn’t take anything hard until I got famous. I was experimenting. I hadn’t found a drug of choice.Back then, you went on tour, and people were just giving you free drugs.I managed it for a little while. And then, it just became, I like this sht is too much and I don’t know how to stop.”

In 2022, Eminem and his manager, Paul Rosenberg, reflected on the artist’s journey to relearn rapping following a near-fatal overdose in 2007.