Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 has continued its reign by reaching platinum status in just two weeks.

"I'm as happy as I can be, I guess," Eminem told Rolling Stone in a recent interview. "Hip hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else. I think they have a word for that - what do they call it? Idiot savant?"

Eminem's eighth studio album sold 792,000 copies in its first week. During its second week, the album completed the climb to platinum status by selling 210,000 copies, Billboard reports.

The album is now No. 2 on the Billboard 200 after losing the No. 1 spot to Lady Gaga's ARTPOP, which, according to Nielsen SoundScan, sold 258,000 copies its first week.

Eminem's MMLP2 is a trip down memory lane with a title and themes reminiscent of his third studio album, 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP. The rapper, however, is influenced by many hip hop greats.

"Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places," Eminem said. "You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap, but then you go to Tupac, and he made songs. His fucking songs felt like something - 'Holy shit! I want to fucking punch someone in the face when I put this CD in.' Biggie told stories. I wanted to do all that shit."

Still Marshall Mathers can't help being himself.

"I realize that I'm an adult, a grown-ass man, and I don't know what I'll be doing a year from now, 10 years from now, but I don't think that my tongue-in-cheekness will ever go away," he said.

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