Eminem: I Didn’t Want To Piss Of Tony Romo
May 15th, 2009
Eminem has revealed in a new interview with Britain’s Metro Times that he stayed away from taunting Jessica Simpson in his song We Made You because he didn’t want to piss of Tony Romo.
“You know when we were making that video there was the thing with Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo,” the rapper explains. “And the Cowboys are actually my favorite team. So Tony Romo is one of my favorite quarterbacks. I don’t think he’s my favorite — but he’s certainly one of my favorites. So I felt kinda conflicted doing the Jessica thing. Because we were gonna have a Jessica in the video.
He adds, “When I say, “Jessica Simpson, sing the chorus,” we were gonna have a chick who looked like Jessica Simpson come out and sing the chorus. But then Jessica got fat. I mean, not really fat but she certainly got fat for … well, Jessica Simpson got fat for Jessica Simpson! You know what I mean?”
Eminem says that he considers the first music video off each album to be “little time capsules of what’s going on in pop culture right at that moment,” but decided against using a Simpson look-a-like in fear of Romo.
He continues, “But then I started thinking, like, “Man!” I was telling [manager] Paul [Rosenberg] and everyone around me, “Man, I don’t wanna piss Tony Romo off and he starts throwing games for the Cowboys!”
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