Eminem recently unveiled the track listing for his hotly anticipated ninth studio album, Revival, earlier this week, and amongst the star-studded lineup of guest singers appearing on the LP is Ed Sheeran.
Ed Sheeran has explained just how that collaboration on the song “River” came to be.
“I sound like such a c— name-dropping, but I was traveling Australia and Russell Crowe has a house, this big farm,” Sheeran explained, adding that the actor told him he was welcome to stay in the home — complete with a recording studio — while he was traveling.
“I get an email from Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s manager, and he said, ‘We’re gonna start putting the album together, send any ideas,’” Sheeran says, revealing that in the back of his mind, he always knew exactly what he would want to do if he ever had the opportunity to work with Eminem.
“So I used the studio at Russell’s house… played the drums on it, and then played the guitar, and then recorded the thing and wrote the chorus and did the piano on it, and then sent it off and then didn’t hear anything back. This was like March 2016.”
Sheeran says that he got to meet Eminem in Detroit when he played there, describing the rapper as “such a sweet, talented guy,” adding that the experience was “a door that I thought was closed and just opened randomly.”
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