Ez Mil sat down with Genius to discuss his hit “Realest,” which has been streamed over 13 million times on Spotify to date. The hit song features veteran MC Eminem and is off Ez Mil’s mot recent project DU4LI7Y: REDUX. On today’s episode of Verified, find out how the young rapper collaborated with his GOAT Eminem, which eventually led to him being signed to Shady Records, and Dr. Dre’s Aftermath and Interscope Records.
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00:00 When I first heard Em's verse, bro, I straight snapped.
00:04 Like that's crazy.
00:06 He did "My Flow" and "More" and then also did a sped up.
00:09 Man, come on.
00:10 My girl got an email.
00:18 It said, "Paul Rosenberg, Shady, Goliath Records.
00:24 How to connect to EZMail?
00:25 This is Paul."
00:26 She thought it was fake 'cause it's so casual, you know?
00:29 It had to be our people, like Ben and from Virgin to kind of give us a shrug like, "Ayo,
00:34 this is actually pretty serious."
00:36 And then when I found out that I was meeting Em and Dre, bro, I don't know.
00:42 It's still crazy.
00:58 Some people really do try to cross that line to the point where I'll do the dirty work
01:04 myself, but you got some people behind you that like tap on your shoulder.
01:09 You ain't gotta do it alone.
01:11 We got you.
01:12 The real ones.
01:25 Y'all be lucky that nobody ain't envious of you enough to stab you in the back and
01:29 snake y'all out for real.
01:31 You're not gonna want to have that happen to you a second time around.
01:34 You better keep it on point this time.
01:36 All gas, no brakes.
01:37 In the hook, I just tapped into me being me and the realest in the business.
01:50 And that's why I got where I am by staying real.
01:52 People gonna be envious of it because I put in the hard work that they did.
01:56 People gonna stay on that envious type thing and see where that get you.
02:00 This song, I was just paying homage to the GOAT because it's just an honor to be on a
02:14 song with them.
02:15 And fuck opposition, I'm tuning them in.
02:19 Let all you rock out with it.
02:20 For real.
02:21 I'm never gonna be an opt-out.
02:22 Miss it, get the Glock out with it.
02:23 Get the poppin'.
02:24 Dip out of smoke with the homies we mobbin' while I'm cleanin' and stashing my caliber.
02:28 Some of them might got your name on them.
02:29 Well, I brag about shit that could happen.
02:31 I'm the reason that they got a chain on them.
02:33 I've thrown some shots here and there in my songs.
02:36 They're the bullets.
02:37 In my albums, they're the mags.
02:39 So whether you get hit or not, that's on you.
02:42 I know they hate this flow.
02:49 Me borrowing it up by the flow, like a gun scheme.
02:52 It also could be a triple entendre because getting that bag with the chain, getting the
02:56 body bag, and also getting that bag with the GOAT, B-Rabbit.
03:15 Man, I knew they were gonna hate that flow, but it's because they suck.
03:19 They don't know how to do it properly.
03:20 I learned how to do that flow by listening to a lot of Eminem and Tech N9ne.
03:25 What inspired me to try to do that was "Speed Em."
03:28 That song is just nuts.
03:30 Em is the GOAT to me because of the transparency he puts in his lyrics.