Singer Ed Sheeran Poses Backstage After Winning The Award For Best Male Video For 'Sing'.
Singer Ed Sheeran poses backstage after winning the award for best male video for "Sing" during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards in Inglewood, California August 24, 2014. Reuters/Kevork Djansezian

Ed Sheeran recently took to Instagram to share a video of himself rapping Eminem’s “Kill You.” Days before this, the “Thinking Out Loud” singer revealed that rapping to the Detroit rapper’s songs help him overcome childhood stutter.

In the Instagram video posted on June 19, Sheeran raps Eminem’s “Kill You” in what seems to be a dressing room with another man. After wildly flailing about while rapping, he spills a cup of liquid but still continues to rap. He then quickly grabs a towel toward the end of the video to mop of the spilled liquid.

“Kill You” is the first track from Eminem’s third studio album “The Marshall Mathers LP,” the album Sheeran said his father gave him when he was nine years old. The lyrics of the song talk about the controversy that surrounded the Detroit rapper's first studio album “Infinite,” "ladies' screams" nightmares and being raised by a single mother.

On June 8, Sheeran gave a speech to the American Institute for Stuttering’s Free Voices Changing Lives Benefit Gala. He told the audience that a botched medical procedure caused him to stutter when he was a child but he overcame it by rapping to “The Marshall Mathers LP” songs.

Before being honoured at the event, which was hosted by Emily Blunt, Sheeran told The Hollywood Reporter, “Having things that make you different help you become an interesting person.”

Meanwhile, Sheeran won the Much Music Video Awards’ best international artist and most buzzworthy international artist prizes in Toronto on June 21, Sunday. In his acceptance speech, he pointed out that it is his fourth year in the awards ceremony, which he hosted for the first time, and he has never won one so he feels like it is just because he is presenting.

Aside from hosting MMVAs, Sheeran also performed “Thinking Out Loud” and “Photograph” on the Toronto stage. Among the award ceremony’s winners are One Direction, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Sam Pilling.

Also, The Weeknd’s “Earned It,” a soundtrack of the movie “Fifty Shades of Grey, won pop video of the year while P Reign’s “DnF” featuring Drake and Future won hip hop video of the year.

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