Eminem Gets Emotional & Speaks On Dr. Dre While Honoring 50 Cent During His Speech At Walk Of Fame

now are you ready for our second guest speaker over the course of his career our next speaker is sold more than 130 million albums and 389 million singles worldwide he was neelon sounds scan's top selling artist of the 2000s 32.2 million albums sold in that decade in the us alone and in addition he was also named Billboards artist of the for the same period he has won 15 Grammy Awards he has won an aademy award his 2010 album recovery was the first album in the US to ever go platinum worldwide his most recent album music to be murdered by was released this month and debuted at number one on the billboard 200 albums chart please welcome to the stage Eminem okay so hold on I wrote something down I wrote this I wrote this but I didn't memorize it so I got to read it off the the paper I just wrote this last night so just bear with me um so check it out of all the things that I don't remember about 2002 I have a very clear memory memory of the first time I met 50 um and I think one of the things I noticed when he when he first walked into the room was his presence right because it just kind of felt like he's going to be a star like just his the way he carried himself Swagger everything like I don't know it just seemed like he was the whole package [Applause] yeah and what's crazy about it to me is the the the Charisma and the personality like matched everything matched the intensity of his music you know and that first album is so classic and the first time I met fifth I I was you know so excited to meet him so I was just like I started rapping all his songs to him and I didn't really let him talk you know and uh I kind of was trying to show him like how into him I was right but I think I might have probably overdid it um but at this time 50 was like at this point I considered myself driven right until I met him and I was like yo this guy he was putting out mixtapes it seemed like every single week there was another mixtape he was taking other people's beats and he was destroying them right yeah so is the future so check it out I just I knew that the the dude sitting in front of me sitting across from me was just different right it just seemed like I don't know man something just something about him just drew you in and I think Dre and me knew that if it was going to work if it worked on us that it was going to work on the rest of the world and I'm glad we trusted our instincts so yeah so um so as we're leaving that meeting me and Dre were talking and 50y was walking away and Dre leans over to me and he's like yo you think you think that limp is permanent you should ask him and I was like why I got to ask him and we're glad it was not permanent and um I just want to say man I'm I'm here today because this is not only like a business partner to me it it's one of the best friends I've ever known in the world and I would say that it's much more fun to be his friend than it is to be his enemy cuz this guy is relentless and he won't stop and the same way that he's Relentless in his battles he's also Relentless in his business he's an artist an entrepreneur an actor a director a producer he can juggle he's great at Scrabble he pretty much does it all and he's also helped me through a lot of hard times in my own life and he's always been there when I need him so 50 congrats on your star man Hollywood is making official what I knew from the beginning and Dre knew from the beginning thank you [Applause]