Eminem recorded a track over the beat to Rihanna‘s ‘Diamonds’ before the final song was recorded, producer Benny Blanco has revealed.Blanco helmed the 2012 hit, which was co-written by Sia, alongside Norwegian production/songwriting duo Stargate.
It appears on RiRi’s seventh album, ‘Unapologetic’.Speaking in a new video interview with Apple Music, Blanco looked back on the track’s inception. “We wanted it to be a Kanye song or a Lana Del Rey song, I remember, at first,” he explained.“We’re listening to it a few days later, and Stargate’s like, ‘Yo, we’re giving this song to Rihanna.
It’s going to go’. And I was like, ‘I don’t know, man. Should we keep the beat for Kanye? I don’t know about it’.”Blanco went on to recall handing a CD.
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