• Music is therapeutic according to Eminem
• Rap God Eminem talks about how his mental health got bad and made him gain weight

In his most recent interview, Eminem discussed how singing about mental health and addiction has been therapeutic for him.

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In an interview with Sirius XM Radio’s show, the Venom hitmaker was asked how singing about mental health and addiction transformed him.

The rapper,  Marshall Bruce Mathers III, lauded the genre saying, “I think that’s one of the great things about rap music… is that you could put so much of your life in it.”

“I was just trying to figure out how to expand on that and I kinda got lost,” the 15-time Grammy Award winner added.

Eminem continued: “It’s therapeutic and it’s, you know, that’s how it’s always been for me.”

Previously, the 49-year-old rapper rapped about his mental health difficulties in his songs, particularly on his album Recovery, when he sang lyrics about his prescription medication addiction.

“In 2007, I overdosed on pills, and I went into the hospital. I was close to 230 pounds. I’m not sure how I got so big, but I have ideas,” he told Men’s Journal in 2015 discussing his 2007 drug overdose.

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He added, “The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I’d been taking for years leaves a hole in your stomach, so to avoid a stomachache, I was constantly eating — and eating badly.”