Eminem Writes Rap About 'Rolling Stone' Writer

Josh Eells' interview with Eminem in the November 25 issue of Rolling Stone is a penetrating look at the rapper's drug addiction and recovery, his family and his return to musical dominance with his latest album Recovery. It's a serious discussion, one that Eells said had "little evidence of the prankster you hear on his records."

Eminem: A history in photos

Well, not quite: One thing Eells didn't mention is the rap Eminem wrote about him — which you can read for yourself above.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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