Eminem - Stepping Stone (Lyrics)

In the September 14, 2018 interview with Sway, when asked if the other members of D12 were aware of the song before it came out, Eminem replied:

"They were. They got a heads-up and, you know, I explained… I honestly have not talked to Swift and Kuniva yet about the song, they just knew it was coming down the pipe, but the way I explained it is this: Proof was the glue that binded us all together, right? He did so much shit behind the scenes that I ain’t even realized and did things to keep us a group and then motivate us.

That’s what ended up happening, was that everybody was kind of doing their solo things, made solo projects, mixtapes and things like that and were doing shows. I think the conversation now going forward is to see if there’s anything we can do to help their solo careers, you know, and we’ll always be friends, man, we’ve always been friends since we were kids. We’ll always be good in that aspect and I wanna help them do whatever it is that their next thing is on the agenda: mixtape, album, shopping, whatever it is.

I know that they have things they wanna say to me and I have things I wanna say to them, so this is kind of how I wanted to tell them, like, you know, I love you guys, like forever, like I’m here, it just… doing a D12 album just doesn’t seem… in this climate right now, I don’t know how that would even work."