Eminem will be releasing The Marshall Mathers LP 2, the follow up to his 2000 cult classic, The Marshall Mathers LP, on November 5th, so you know what that means: promo time! In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the Detroit rapper spoke on living up to the legacy of the name, his work ethic and more. Check out a couple excerpts below.

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On living up to the hype of MMLP1:

A lot of fans – including Eminem himself, most days – consider 2000’s original The Marshall Mathers LP his best. So making an album worthy of the name meant recording, and then discarding, dozens of extra songs. “Calling it The Marshall Mathers LP 2, obviously I knew that there might be certain expectations,” he says. “I wouldn’t want to call it that just for the sake of calling it that. I had to make sure that I had the right songs – and just when you think you got it, you listen and you’re like, ‘Fuck, man! I feel like it needs this or that,’ to paint the whole picture.”

On his hard work:

“Right now, I’m probably working harder than I’ve ever worked in my life,” says a sleep-deprived Eminem, gulping diet Red Bull in his suburban Detroit studio. He’s well past deadline (“They keep telling me a different day,” he says) on his new album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – out November 5th – and the final mixes still aren’t quite done. “Aside from around the time of The Eminem Show, when I was also doing the 8 Mile movie and soundtrack and score and shit like that. This is probably the equivalent of that, but all focused on the record.”

The full issue is on newsstands now.

Source: Rolling Stone