Eminem has shared his admiration for Kendrick Lamar and said that he thinks the rapper will clean up at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
The rapper, real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III, opened up about Kendrick Lamar during a new interview with DJ Whoo Kid on SiriusXM station Shade45.
During the discussion, he shared his praise for the Compton-born rapper and said that he believes that the artist will likely take home all seven awards he is nominated for at the upcoming Grammy Award Ceremony for 2025.
“It’s very stiff competition,” Eminem, who already has 15 Grammy Awards to his name, said about the nominees for this year. “Kendrick is gonna sweep that shit. He’s going to, and he should.”
The 67th edition of the annual event is set to take place on February 2, and sees K.Dot receiving a nod in seven categories – leading the way for hip-hop artists this year. His huge 2024 Drake diss track ‘Not Like Us’ alone has bagged him five nominations, in Song Of The Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, Record Of The Year and Best Music Video categories.
The Future and Metro Boomin’ track ‘Like That’, which Lamar featured on, is also nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.
Both Lamar and Eminem will be in competition with one another in the Best Rap Performance category, and the latter is also shortlisted for the Best Rap Album category for his 2024 LP ‘The Death Of Slim Shady’.
As highlighted by Complex, the comments in the SiriusXM interview don’t mark the first time that Eminem has shared his admiration for Kendrick Lamar. Back in 2022, Mathers had nothing but words of praise for the artist ahead of them teaming up for the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show.
“Kendrick is at the very, very top tier of lyricists,” he said at the time, “Not just of this generation, but of all time.” the performance also saw them take to the stage alongside Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre and Mary J. Blige.
Lamar isn’t the only fellow rapper that Eminem has praised in recent days either. Just days ago, the ‘Without Me’ singer revealed that he thinks a joint album with 50 Cent “would be great”.
‘The Death Of Slim Shady’ was given a three-star review by NME which read: “Much more powerful is ‘Temporary’, a genuinely moving ode to his daughter, Hailie, which proves Marshall Mathers can say something that matters when he wants to.
“So, who killed Slim Shady? In bringing him back to the light and showing him up as irrelevant, perhaps Eminem’s done his old pal in for good. OK, we get it – Shady was a shocking character. Now that he’s dead, how about getting some new material?”
As for Kendrick Lamar, the rapper is widely regarded as having come out on top after the increasingly-personal feud with Drake, and more recently dropped the surprise new album, ‘GNX’, on November 22.
In a glowing five-star review of the album, NME wrote: “After a year full of scathing diss tracks and unfiltered loathing, Lamar converts that energy into the purest emotion of all – love – while carrying the West Coast on his back,” adding: “Lamar channels what could be interpreted as hate and negativity into a teachable moment, leading you to draw upon the purest emotion known to man: love. In a year that started with so much venom, Kendrick Lamar shares the antidote on ‘GNX’.”