Eminem has opened up about his former struggles with drug addiction in a personal new essay.In the piece penned for XXL, Em discusses the way that “everything changed” after he signed with Interscope and released his second studio album, 1999’s ‘The Slim Shady LP’.
He describes how after he first relocated to Los Angeles, he and friends would go to Tijuana to purchase drugs such as Vicodin.“The last time we went, we’re second in line and this dude in front of us starts arguing with the guy in Customs, and they fuckin’ throw him down on the ground and start pulling pills out his pockets and shit,” Em recalls. “We were scared shitless, but we got through.
And when I say we had the motherlode. Our pants were frickin’ stuffed with pills. I don’t know how many we had.”Despite what he acknowledges was an early warning sign, the rapper says he didn’t think he had a problem at that stage. “I just really, really liked drugs.
As I started making a little money, I could buy more of them.”“I didn’t take anything hard until I got famous,” Em explains. “I was experimenting.
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