LL Cool J details recording process of “Murdergram Deux” with Eminem

Hip-Hop icon, LL COOL J talked about his new album, “THE FORCE,” collaborating with Eminem on the track “Murdergram Deux,” crediting Michael Jackson as a writer on the song “The FORCE,” learning to rap again, and much more during a track-by-track album special on his new SiriusXM channel, titled LL COOL J’s THE FORCE Channel.

Featuring LL COOL J’s Rock the Bells Radio host Roxanne Shanté and a live audience, “LL COOL J ‘THE FORCE’ Track-By-Track Album Special” premiered on LL COOL J’s THE FORCE Channel on Friday, September 6, at noon ET and is now available to stream on the SiriusXM app. During the show, LL went through his process working with Eminem.

“This next song is a joint I did with Eminem, it’s called ‘Murdergram Deux.’ I had a song on ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’ called ‘Murdergram’ so I said, you know what? We gon’ do a song together and when Q-Tip made the beat, I was sitting there and he was playing that beat and I was like ‘yo, Tip, this is crazy, me and Em would be crazy on this.’ He’s like ‘YEAH! Definitely big bro.’ So, I called Em and I’m like ‘yo, I think I got a joint.’ He’s like ‘sent it to me’. I sent him the song just to hear the beat, once he heard the beat and he agreed to do it then we went to the studio and what we actually did was, me and Em actually went to Dr. Dre’s studio and recorded it out in LA.” said LL Cool J.

Then he continued: “We went together in the studio. And the way the process was: I would write my rhyme. Then I would lay it. He would come in, he would hear it, I would leave. He would write his rhyme. He would record. And we went back and forth in the booth without seeing each other record until we did the very last thing together, where I kinda come together with him a little bit.” You can watch the interview below: