Questions continue to swirl around how Eminem's new album—rumored to drop sometime this year, possibly in the Fall—will sound and what artists will be featured.
In the meantime, the critically-acclaimed rapper has surfaced to talk about his inner most demons, drug addiction, in a new documentary film.
"My name is Marshall. I'm an addict," says the rap superstar in a scene from the Matthew Cooke directed and Bert Marcus produced documentary "How to Make Money Selling Drugs."
In the film, Eminem reveals new details about the severity of his past addiction to prescription meds like Vicodin and Xanax, and how it almost cost him his life.
"When I took my first Vicodin, it was like this feeling of, 'Ahh.' Like everything was not only mellow, but [I] didn't feel any pain," says Slim Shady in the film. "I don't know at what point exactly it started to be a problem. I just remember liking it more and more." He adds that he dismissed people who would try to intervene between him and his addiction. "People tried to tell me that I had a problem. I would say, 'Get that f------g person outta here. I can't believe they said that s--t to me. I'm not out there shooting heroin. I'm not f-----g out there putting coke up my nose. I'm not smoking crack."
The 40-year-old lyricist admits that he had a near-death experience after he began mixing pills, including Xanax and Valium, and was rushed to the hospital after overdosing. "Had I got to the hospital about two hours later, I would have died," he says. "My organs were shutting down. My liver, kidneys, everything. They were gonna have to put me on dialysis. They didn't think I was gonna make it. My bottom was gonna be death."
Instead of checking into a high-profile rehab clinic, the Detroit native quit drugs on his own through a rigorous detox program that left him literally incapacitated. He testifies that he could not sleep for three weeks straight while he was detoxing. "And I mean, not sleeping, not even nodding off for a f-----g minute. I had to regain motor skills; I had to regain talking skills. It's been a learning process; I'm growing. I couldn't believe that anybody could be naturally happy without being on something. So I would say to anybody, 'It does get better.'"
In addition to the candid interview with the rapper, the movie addresses the nation's war on drugs and the government's outrageous costly drug programs, the effectiveness of which are the subject of intense debate, reports Yahoo!.
Mstarz also notes that 50 Cent is an integral part of the documentary being that he used to sell crack in his South Jamaica Queens neighborhood before Eminem gave him his big break in the music industry.
"How to Make Money Selling Drugs" opens June 28 in Los Angeles.
Watch a clip from the film below.
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