Eminem said that Dr. Dre’s brain aneurysm caused his reconciliation with Snoop Dogg during an interview with his longtime manager Paul Rosenberg on his SiriusXM show.
“You know, me and Snoop had our little issue, and then when that thing happened with Dre—the brain aneurysm thing—we were like, ‘Bro this is stupid,’” Em explained to Rosenberg. Soon after Snoop said Em wasn’t among his top 10 rappers of all time, the two began to argue, but they generally kept it to themselves. But that wasn’t the reason for the dispute, which they ultimately resolved after Dre suffered an aneurysm in the beginning of 2021.
“‘This is stupid as hell to be feuding right now,’ so I don’t remember if I called him or he called me,” Eminem continued. “But we talked it out, and I think that there was a miscommunication at the time in regards to him being on my album The [Marshall] Mathers LP, [on] ‘Bitch Please II.’ I think he had wanted to do something with me and maybe gave you the idea or something, and you said something to the effect of, ‘Well let’s hear what the song is first.’ … I think he said that the way he took it was kind of like, ‘I don’t fuck with him.’”
Rosenberg said he doesn’t “exactly” remember the circumstances, but reiterated it was a miscommunication that came when Snoop approached them for the opportunity to collaborate. “Whatever I said or somebody else said, I don’t even think I said to him,” added Rosenberg. “I don’t remember talking to him but I may have talked to somebody on his team, and whatever I said was relayed back to him in a way that he didn’t like.”