on november 28, 2012, in an interview with tim westwood, sean revealed that he had to invited eminem to come to the studio, along with him announcing that he had renamed the album from "hall of fame: memoirs of a detroit player" to just titled "hall of fame". on march 12, 2013, along with revealing a slew of songs on the album, big sean stated that there will be songs featuring lil wayne, juicy j and 2 chainz on the album. he also revealed that he worked with dj camper, dj mano, da internz and rio on the album, production wise.