Eminem has high praise for Kendrick Lamar.
Talking to DJ Whoo Kid on Sirius XM Shade 45 On Dec. 24, the “Without Me” rapper opened up about his thoughts on the competition at the upcoming 2025 Grammy Awards.
“I mean, there’s a lot of competition,” Eminem, 52, said.
“Kendrick’s gonna sweep it with…” he added of Lamar. “He will and he should.”
Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg at Super Bowl 2022 Gregory Shamus/Getty
At the upcoming Grammys, Eminem — who released The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) in July — was nominated for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance and Best Music Video.
Meanwhile, Lamar received a total of seven nominations, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Producer of the Year, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance and Best Music Video. He released his latest album, GNXin November, immediately after the announcement of the nominations.
Eminem and Lamar previously performed together at the 2022 Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show, with Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak.
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At the time, SiriusXM’s Sway Calloway asked him if he agreed that the “Not Like Us” rapper, 37, was “the most electrifying vocalist of this generation.”
“I would absolutely agree,” Eminem said, according to HipHopDX. “Kendrick is at the very top, the top level of songwriters – not just of this generation, but of all time.”
Even before that performance, the Detroit rapper had been a longtime supporter of Lamar’s talents.
“When I first heard Kendrick’s debut on Aftermath, I couldn’t believe it,” Eminem wrote for Genius in 2016. “The fact that it was his first real album and he managed to make it into a story that intertwines with sketches like that’s was genius.”
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“It hasn’t really been done that many times, let alone the first time someone got up. The level of wordplay, the delivery, the beats — it’s simply a masterpiece,” he continued.
The two rappers released one collaboration, “Love Game,” on Eminem’s 2013 album. Marshall Mathers LP 2.
Meanwhile, Lamar previously spoke about the influence Eminem had on his work.
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“Clarity, I got my clarity from studying Eminem when I was a kid. How I got into the studio was just curiosity. I loved music, but it was curiosity,” Lamar said GQ 2016. “The day I heard LP Marshall Mathers, I asked myself, ‘How does that work? What is he doing? How does he compose his words like that? What’s the song under that? Ad-lib? What is it?”‘
He continued, “And then, ‘Why don’t you go to the studio and see? Well, I’m doing it. Then it became, How do his words break through the beat like that? What is he doing that I’m not doing, now that I’m in it?’ His timing is impeccable when he wants to fall off the beat, these are things that, through experience and time, I had to learn.”
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