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Joyner Lucas has recently sat down with Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy and Jess Hilarious on The Breakfast Club to promote his new album “Not Now, I’m Busy” where he talked about how hard it is to get in touch with Eminem. He also reveals his never-before-heard conversation with Eminem and Royce 5’9″ and more.

“[When I have people doing dirty to me] It made me realize why n-ggas like Marshall move a certain way. That n-gga is like…getting on the phone with him is like…You could probably hop on the phone with Barack [Obama] quicker than you can hop on the phone with Marshall. That n-gga is calling you from the line where his manager’s assistant is calling you from 1-800 number and then it’s like elevated music and it’s like ‘please hold, Marshall’s coming to the phone.’ You can’t have his number. Nobody has his number. You are not accessible. You can’t talk to him. It’s like hopping on the phone with president. And I always wondered why this n-gga moves like that.” – said Joyner Lucas.

Then he continued: “I had a conversation with him on the shoot of the ‘Lucky You’ and I was in his trailer and I’m like ‘anytime you wanna talk, anytime you wanna build, you can hit me. We can talk. We can build on this music s–t.’ He was like ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ and I could tell he was really like standoffish. And I asked Royce ‘yo, why is he like that?’ And he was like ‘that n-gga been through a lot of s–t. He’s really closed off from people.’ And I’m like ‘damn!’ And I never understood it. And when I started experiencing this s–t myself, I got it, instantly. I’m like ‘this is why this mothef–ker don’t want new friends. And I get it. 100%.”

“[He was the biggest star in the world at one point.] And he still is. He gotta drop a f–king album and he’s still…He just can’t be outside. He can’t be the n-gga that can be just outside like that. He just can’t walk in the streets of f–king New York. He’s a big deal to this day. He moves like that for a reason. You can probably get Jay-Z be texting n-ggas and s–t. Some n-ggas don’t know how to handle trauma and all that s–t. But I’m starting to get in the space now where it’s like I understand why this industry n-ggas move. When I came to the game I was like ‘these n-ggas are weird’ but now I see why n-ggas are weird.” Joyner Lucas added.

Earlier in the interview, Joyner was also asked why he’s not in the conversation of Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and Drake league on which he responded: “I’m in those conversations when you are talking to people like Marshall, you are talking to Eminem. He always mentions me. He puts me right next to them. He always talks about it and even in the records he’ll be saying like his favorite artist is…sometimes he throws my name first. Joyner, Cole, Kendrick. He definitely acknowledges that and in my mind he’s considered as one of the greatest if not the greatest so I’m getting if that guy says those things then I guess that stands for something.”

Couple of days ago, Joyner Lucas released his much anticipated album titled Not Now I’m Busy with features from Jelly Roll, Twista, NBA YoungBoy, Logic, Conway The Machine, the late legend DMX and more. To promote the album, the Worcester, Massachusetts-born rapper sat down with DJ Pup Dawg for Dunkin’ Music Lounge interview on JAM’N 94.5 where he revealed that he once asked Eminem to recut his verse.

“I’ve gotten into that situation, with Eminem. That was difficult. That was a record that never came out, between me and Marshall. He had this last verse but he did not wanna hear the concept that I was thinking or the vision for the video. He didn’t wanna hear it. He kept telling me ‘don’t tell me, don’t tell me.’ I said ‘bro you have to know it because that’s the way you gonna have to write it.’ He was like ‘nah!’ and I was like ‘alright!'” said Joyner Lucas.

Then he continued: “So he wrote it and it was not, like, he went whole another direction than what I’ve seen in the video. And when he did that, he asked me what I thought about it. I told him that was fire but I just felt like he went in another direction and I was like ‘can we change the ending?’ and it was tough for me to say that. Cause this is like The Man, somebody that I grew up and idolized. He’s my hero bro. So, having to tell him that was difficult but I told him that and he was like ‘WOW! Nobody has ever told me to recut my verse.’ And I was like ‘Nah, I’m not telling you to recut it but just the ending of it, can we change little bit of ending?’ But I had to do that for sure. He respected that. He recut it for sure.”

Maybe this is the reason why we got two versions of “What If I Was Gay?”? A song with Eminem that was leaked in 2018.  Alternatively titled as “If I Told You” focuses on a suppressed homosexual coming out to his friend—Joyner takes the perspective of the gay man coming out while Eminem takes the perspective of his unsupportive Christian friend. The encounter leads the homosexual man to commit suicide, ultimately giving Em’s character feelings of regret. It also ends in a twist, as Eminem’s character reveals that he’s also gay. A snippet of the track was leaked on October 28, 2019, and the full version was leaked two days later on October 31, 2019, under the name “What If I Was Gay?” Few days later, the alternative version of the song was also leaked with different verse from Eminem. The track marks the second official collaboration between the two rappers following August 2018’s “Lucky You,” from Kamikaze album.