Producer and longtime friend of Eminem, Denaun Porter, denounced the rumor and said Interscope would never interfere with Eminem’s work. But Denaun Porter is a puppet who isn’t going to risk losing his job talking down to the higher up executives at Interscope, so of course he’s going to defend them. Also, when you hear that Eminem is being pushed around by Interscope, Eminem ends up looking bad. So of course Denaun Porter will downplay it.
This is in response to this segment and every part of your post about your 'inside sources' that still say it was Interscope who forced Em to scrap the original R2 in favour of making the album more mainstream. I think this is bullshit.
Saying Mr. Porter is a puppet and providing no reasoning for that is just conspiracy and not proof of anything. I listened to Mr. Porter talking on the situation and I have very good people judgement and you can tell he's speaking honestly.
To say he's afraid of 'losing his job' is absurd as he hasn't got a 'job' at Interscope. He's signed, with D12, as an artist to Shady Records. Shady Records are a branch label under Interscope but Em and Paul still own it as an actual company and it has its rights. Interscope can't just liquidate it at will. So Mr. Porter would have nothing to fear from retributions unless he feared Eminem was going to drop him for this. Interscope themselves are a branch of Universal. Universal are the actual bosses.
Eminem has no reason, ESPECIALLY at this stage in his career to compromise anything in fear of getting dropped. He doesn't need Interscope now. He's the one with the power. They have a bonafide superstar icon on their hands and he is so utterly established now that he does not need them, even for distribution.
There would be immediate options on the table for him if they ever threatened to drop him. Which they never would as they have no reason too. Aside from that, Relapse was the biggest selling album of the year until Susan Boyle. It sold 608k 1st week after Em came back from a four year solo break and two year public absence. This is a major success. If anything they would encourage that he continue the formula, not totally mess with it.
He's never done stuff for money, this much is known. Anybody who understands the term or notion to 'sell out' will know this about him indefinitely. He's an artist of integrity and passion. And he certainly wouldn't worry about making more money now. His interview with Complex is very revealing and I believe him. I think he continued to make music and the new tracks started becoming much better than the current ones so he started from scratch. That's totally plausible. totally within his normal state of behaviour and reasoning.
He even did this in October 2008. Scrapping what will effectively be rumoured as King Mathers as it didn't feel "current" enough. I have ADHD and I sincerely believe he has it. This is a feeling I have constantly. I am writing a book now for example and I'm constantly scrapping everything every month or so and starting again. Because my thoughts don't feel "current enough".
It feels like I can update and improve them. This is no doubt what he did and is still doing. He's still working. He's on an obsessive streak to keep improving it now. I have no reason to doubt the authenticity in his proclamation that he simply started making better music and therefore re-did it.
And until you provide me with valid reasons to doubt this, I refute your unfounded claims. Simply saying you have a good source isn't good enough at all. And saying it's a very good source or emphasizing how genuine you are is equally useless to me.
I have no reason to doubt the likely account of things and every reason to doubt these half-baked, wishful... Movie-like imagined claims of a scared little Marshall Mathers obeying his big scary Interscope bosses to churn in the doh. Lmao, ridiculous. I don't doubt this happens at some labels and even Interscope and to some artists. I do very much doubt to Eminem and in this situation at this stage though.