Anderson Cooper Gets Rare Access To Eminem For 60 Minutes Profile
Anderson Cooper returned to his slot as occasional 60 Minutes contributor this week, gaining rare access to award-winning rapper Eminem.
The Detroit native brought the CNN host around his former neighborhood, and taught him the proper way a person can in fact find a rhyme for “orange.”
Eminem and Cooper walked around the “8 Mile” area of Detroit, including a stop at a club he used to do rap battle in. As can be expected from a show like 60 Minutes, and likely knowing its audience, this is how “rap battles” was explained: “One on one verbal fights where the goal was to come up with the cleverest rhymes and the best insults.”
Eminem brought Cooper into his private recording studio as well, where he explained how to bend words. “People say that the word orange doesn’t rhyme with anything,’ said Eminem. “And that kind of pisses me off because I can think of a lot of things that rhyme with orange.” He proceeded to put this into practice, saying, “I put my orange, four inch, door hinge, in storage, and ate porridge, with George.”
Eminem also showed his very un-Jay-Z-like practice of keeping “hundred of scrapes of papers in which he’s obsessively scrawled down words and phrases,” which he brought out for the cameras. The whole report used Eminem’s comeback concert earlier this year in Detroit as a backdrop, where the artist was performing for the first time sober (which he has been for two-and-a-half years).
Viewers can also see this behind-the-scenes, peel-back-the-curtain extra video on CBSNews.com, where Cooper jokes about how “ridiculous” the forced walking shots in these types of reports are.
Here’s the full interview:
