Rather than rush a follow-up, he has re-emerged this summer as the executive producer and lead artist on the soundtrack for “Southpaw,” out next Friday, the redemption story of a beaten-down boxer played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Yet when he pops up, people listen: “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” his dense 2013 album, has sold more than two million copies in the United States. In the era of Drake and Kanye West, he exists on a separate plane of rap celebrity - rarely photographed, without a personal online presence - removed in sound and style from hip-hop’s current sphere of influence. It’s just the exercise.”Īt 42, with tens of millions of albums sold, 15 Grammys (including two won in 2015) and an Academy Award for best original song (“Lose Yourself” in 2002), Eminem knows he can pick his spots. “I write a lot of things down, and sometimes I never use them. “I have a thinking job,” he said, settling onto a black leather couch and turning down the TV. At work in the unmarked, gray suburban building, the rapper born Marshall Mathers held a pen and a tattered Detroit Lions composition book, writing in solitude for no project in particular. highlights - not music - filled the silence.
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DETROIT - There were more arcade games than people inside Eminem’s studio on a recent summer afternoon, and the crunch of N.F.L.