Ed Sheeran was a huge fan of Eminem when he was a child and would always listen to The Marshall Mathers LP.
This is the first collaboration between Eminem and Ed Sheeran.
This was Eminem's ninth UK #1 single, a record for a rapper.
Sheeran wrote and recorded his part at Russell Crowe's house. The Brit revealed to Billboard he was travelling in Australia when he was contacted about a possible collaboration. "I get an email from Paul Rosenberg, Eminem's manager, and he said, 'We're gonna start putting the album together, send any ideas,'" Sheeran recalled.
Russell Crowe had previously offered up his home, which is equipped with a recording studio, if Sheeran needed a place to stay, so the Shape Of You hitmaker took him up on the offer and got to work on the track. "I used the studio at Russell's house... played the drums on it, and then played the guitar, and then recorded the thing and wrote the chorus and did the piano on it, and then sent it off and then didn't hear anything back," he remembered. "This was, like, March, 2016."