In one of the latest episodes of MATHHOFFATV, a rapper, actor and media personality N.O.R.E. has talked about battle rappers and named what Eminem lacks for battle rap that might get him lost in the battle.
“Showmanship is a problem in battle rap. It is about the showmanship and that is something that unfortunately in battle rap you can not teach, that is an experience. What I am saying is, for a seasoned artist that has been twenty years in the game as an artist, it is hard for that man to go back and battle. And I think Eminem lyrically could beat a lot of people but I think the showmanship is going to kill him bro.” says N.O.R.E.
Listen to the interview below and tell us your thoughts in the comments of our social media accounts:
Juice WRLD was a huge fan of Eminem. He had named the Detroit legend as one of his biggest influences and inspirations while growing up. Slim Shady’s influence is seen throughout Juice’s lyrics, whether he is mocking pop culture’s current establishment, referencing extensive prescription drug use, or rapping about violence against women. Check out interviews, freestyles and songs where Juice expresses his admiration to Eminem:
July, 2018
Juice WRLD tells Sway: “I was really big on Eminem before Tupac. Eminem was the first legendary artist that got me like ‘oh my God, this is crazy.'”
August, 2018
Juice WRLD’s music video of “Lean Wit Me,” is inspired by Eminem’s “When I’m Gone.”
October, 2018
Juice WRLD freestyles for almost one hour over Eminem beats with Tim Westwood: “Shout out 2Pac, without him I would not be here, believe it or not. Shout out Eminem, same situation.” & “I would not be who I am without Eminem’s music.”
March, 2019
Juice WRLD references Eminem’s “Stan” in a song “Make Believe”: “You walked in, I’m listening to “Stan” on E, yeah, ecstasy. Matter of fact there’s a bridge that my car wants to meet. Road trip on me, it’ll be fun, you’ll see, but you don’t gotta sit in the trunk, you can sit next to me, Me and Stan, we alike, but he ain’t nicer than me He was drunk drivin’, me, I’m just straight Perc-ules.”
April, 2019
Juice WRLD to NME Magazine: “People wanna see us fall out. You an Eminem fan? A perfect example. When he first came out, what was he doing? Talking s**t. About who? E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y. Everybody! Some people took it as offensive; others took is as funny. The rap game now – I’m sorry to say it – but it’s so motherf**king soft. You can’t do anything without someone being offended nowadays. When did we become so soft?”
Juice to Montreality: “I f**k with Eminem so heavy. ‘I never meant to give you mushrooms girl, I never meant to bring you to my world.’ That s**t was fire. Watch it below:
Today, legendary rapper Treach, the lead rapper of the hip hop group Naughty by Nature, turns 49 years old. Treach was one of the biggest influences for Eminem while growing up.
Few hours ago, Eminem went on Twitter to wish Treach a happy birthday: “Happy birth day to one of the greatest rappers of all time! I am still trying to catch up to the greatness of the last verse on “Craziest” !” This is one of the rarest cases when Eminem posts on social media. Check the post below:
Happy b day 2 @triggertreach 1 of the greatest rappers of all time!!..I’m still tryin 2 catch up 2 the greatness of the last vs on "Craziest"!!!
“Craziest” is a song by Naughty by Nature released way back in 1994, from Poverty’s Paradise album. The last verse belongs to Treach. Listen to the song below:
Couple of weeks ago, Treach did an interview with Fat Joe where he talked about Eminem:
“That is my light skinned brother. I mean, the fact that I am his one of the biggest influences makes me feel like I did my job. Anybody that I admire, all the fans and the millions of records and the tours worldwide and everything. It shows like we did something so when you hear from that caliber, it just humbles you. We kick it back and forth. Eminem for his birthday, my birthdays, we’d be kicking in it. So It is like mutual respect, you feel me? He is one of the dopest of all times, hands down. And It shows how the culture is so great. It brings everybody together. All races. Hip-Hop brings everybody together. So that is my bro-bro. I love Em.”
As the year closes, Spotify ‘s top lists are coming. The data for the few countries are already available. The list is being updated. Check back soon for the data from other countries. Meanwhile, check Spotify lists for few countries below.
Most streamed artists in the United Kingdom in 2020:
8 Mile is a 2002 American hip-hop drama film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Scott Silver. It stars Eminem in his film debut, alongside Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Kim Basinger, Anthony Mackie and Michael Shannon. The film, which contains autobiographical elements from Eminem’s life, tells a story of a white rapper B-Rabbit (Eminem) and his attempt to launch a career in rap/hip-hop, a music genre dominated by African-Americans.
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ is a 2005 American hip-hop crime drama film, starring Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in his feature film acting debut. Similar to Eminem’s movie 8 Mile, which it used as a template, the film is based on 50 Cent‘s own life and was directed by Jim Sheridan. The name of the film is shared with 50 Cent’s debut album of the same name.
Now lets compare those two movies in numbers. Let’s start with 8 Mile.
Royce 5’9″ has recently set down with @threeletterman3 to talk about many things. You can check out the full interview below.
On the Grammy nomination
“I think its a great category and I am not just saying that. Anybody who wins from the best rap album category that’s a win for the culture. I promise you on everything I love, I f**k with everybody in the category. Every album. I would love to see Nas get one though. ”
On Fredro Starr
“You care coming to business to develop beautiful relationships with this people that want to se you do well and want nothing but the best for you. I want nothing but the best for Fredro Starr. That will always be the case for me because I grew up as a fan and he’s my brother. I want what’s best for him. Whether we are cool or not. But you can’t really say the same thing about Mr. Executive sitting next seat who can no longer make money with you no longer. All that kind of energy that ni**as put towards, trying to build relationships with these people, we need to use that energy to built relationships with one another and not tear each other down.”
On the new song “Father Figure”
Tobe Nwigwe called me and asked me to do it. Of course I told him yes. And Black Thought turned his verse right around like it was nothing. I’ve been doing so many things outside. I launched mental health initiative and when the pandemic first started I was doing some work with the front line people with the hospitals. It was taking me a very long time to actually get in here and done. They were waiting for me and we just shot the video.”
On Black Thought
“It’s hard to be a friend with Black Thought [laughs]. He does everything perfect. He’s always on time. He always does everything right. I sent my verse to Tobe and Tobe hit me back like ‘yo I told you I wanted you to keep it clean,’ so I did go back and change it. I had to change it because the verse was filthy. I had Rihanna line on there. So I had to change verse. Black Thought’s verse was squeaky clean. No cursing. I was like ‘oh this guy man!'”
On next Bar Exam project
“That’s always possible. I love Bar Exams series. I’m not thinking doing it now but I definitely love doing them.”
On why Cordae didn’t make The Allegory album
“Vince Staples set his verse last day because originally YBN Cordae was there in that spot. Atlantic would not clear YBN Cordae and I had to take him off cause they said they wanted to keep him young. These labels, they are so caught up young, young, young…Obviously the kid wanted to do it so why put him in that position and now the album is nominated for Grammy. You don’t think that was a bad move from them?”
On Eminem not receiving Grammy nod
“I’m not shocked. Everybody been giving hard time to Marshall. I don’t know where that s**t is coming from. Nothing in regards to Marshall surprises me anymore. But I don’t care and I don’t want him to care. He set the world on fire for six times over. He don’t owe nothing else. So I want him to sit back and just enjoy. That s**t ain’t even serious.”
On Eminem
“He doesn’t get credit for nothing man. People swear like he’s some white privilege like f**king MC Gasto. Em is like straight connoisseur. Like straight up historian. The very first day I walked into that hip-hop shop you don’t think Marshall was in there? Fat with dark hair and weird glasses? You don’t think he was standing right there? He’s FROM THAT S**TS.”
On Mac Miller
“I love Mac Miller bro. I’ve always thought he was super nice. Super slick with it. And I think he was nice because I didn’t take him that serious because my first time hearing about him was being endorsed by Donald Trump way back in the day. This was before Trump’s presidential campaign. But then I was like ‘that motherf**ker can go hard!’ Me and Mac ended up being cool on some sobriety s**t too. Cool kid. I like him and he’s so dope.”
On his favorite video
“I like Caterpillar video a lot. I like Fast Lane. I like Fast Lane because all of the words on the screen. I thought that was real cool video.”
On Lord Jamar
“I gotta walk like I talk. I respect a legend. After that VLAD situation. He reached out. I remember calling Marshall about it. And I told him I really wanted to do that interview. I want to speak to him. And Em was like ‘yeah man, I’m not even on that.'”
You can watch the full interview of Royce 5’9″ below:
50 Cent teams up with NLE Choppa and Riley Lanezz for the “Raising Kanan” theme song, titled “Part Of The Game.”
Fiddy previously previewed the song on his social media accounts which is the official theme music for Power spin-off series Raising KANAN. 50 Cent is back on his hustler s**t while he trades verses with NEL Choppa over some soulful East Coast production, while 19 years old RnB singer Rileyy Lanez singing over the beat.
Even though there has not been an exact date announced for Raising KANAN, 50 Cent is gearing up for the mid-season debut of Power Book II: Ghost this Friday, December 6th, 2020.
You can listen to the new song via 50 Cent’s Instagram below:
Earlier this year, Eminem and late rapper Juice WRLD teamed up for the first time on “Godzilla,” from the Music To Be Murdered album.
The official music video dropped March 9, 2020. Directed by Cole Bennett, one of the biggest names in music video production in recent year. The clip is starring Dr. Dre, legendary boxer Mike Tyson, actor George Todd McLachlan who portrays young Eminem and actress Anna Dahl.
Few minutes ago, Cole Bennett posted a picture him heading to 8 Mile, Detroit. Are Cole and Eminem teaming up again? Check out the post below:
On Tuesday, the Recording Academy announced its nominees for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards. Jack Harlow, an Atherton High School graduate, received a nod from in the Best Rap Performance category for his single “What’s Poppin” off his Sweet Action EP.
Jack Harlow is up against Big Sean featuring Nipsey Hussle’s “Deep Reverence,” DaBaby’s “Bop,” Lil Baby’s “The Bigger Picture,” Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé’s “Savage” and late Pop Smoke’s “Dior.” Winners will be announced on January 31, 2021 at the Grammys official ceremony.
The song was a massive hit in the United States that reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The remix version of the song features rap superstars like DaBaby, Lil Wayne and Tory Lanez.
On the latest episode of GQ Magazine’s “Actually Me,” Harlow goes undercover on the Internet and responds to real comments from Twitter, Instagram, Quora and Wikipedia. One of the questions was about Eminem.
Question: What’s the story behind Jack Harlow? He Eminem-true to the culture or is he a vulture?
Jack Harlow: Hell of the question. True to the culture. I grew up listening to Eminem. I idolized Eminem, big influence of mine while growing up. I mean he’s so dope. But also obviously… I remember when I was ten or eleven, I would wear like a toboggan, and hoodie and headphones around my neck. Cause I wanted to feel like him.
Jack Harlow: I definitely had an Eminem phase feeling like wow, just that Caucasian connection, you know. It’s strong.
The list for Biggest first week album debuts on Spotify globally has been unveiled and Eminem‘s “Music To Be Murdered By” makes it into the Top 5. You can check the full list below:
Biggest first week album debuts on Spotify in 2020 globally
1. Taylor Swift – folklore – 337.4 million
2. Bad Bunny – Yo hago lo que me da la gana – 337 million
3. Juice WRLD – Legends Never Die – 315 million
4. The Weeknd – After Hours – 265 million
5. Eminem – Music to Be Murdered – 228 million
6. Ariana Grande – positions 226 million
7. Lil Uzi Vert – Eternal Atake – 210 million
8. Justin Bieber – Changes – 187 million
9. BTS – BE – 183 million
10. Lady Gaga – Chromatica – 174 million
Eminem also makes it into the Top 10 in the list of biggest first day album debuts on Spotify in 2020 globally. Check out the full list below:
Biggest first day album debuts on Spotify in 2020 globally
1. Taylor Swift – folklore – 81 million
2. Bad Bunny – El último tour del mundo – 77 million
3. Juice WRLD – Legends Never Die – 75 million
4. Bad Bunny – Yo hago lo que me da la gana – 61 million
5. The Weeknd – After Hours – 60 million
6. Ariana Grande – positions – 59 million
7. Eminem – Music To Be Murdered By – 52 million
8. Lady Gaga – Chromatica – 49 million
9. Lil Uzi Vert – Eternal Atake – 48 million
10. Drake – Dark Lane Demo Tapes – 46 million
Biggest first week album debuts on Spotify in 2020: #1 folklore 337.4m #2 YHLQMDLG 337m #3 Legends Never Die 315m #4 After Hours 265m #5 Music to Be Murdered By 228m #6 positions 226m #7 Eternal Atake 210m #8 Changes 187m #9 BE 183m #10 Chromatica 174m
Xzibit has recently set down with HotNewHipHop to talk about many things including his upcoming album, Dr. Dre and Eminem. You can check out the conversation below:
Interviewer: It’s cool to see you guys are both putting out music still. I noticed too, you’ve been hanging out with Dr. Dre quite a bit, working in his studio. As someone who works with him a lot, what would you say Dr. Dre is bringing to the table when he comes in to oversee a session.
Xzibit: Well, Dr. Dre is the chairman of the board. Lets get that straight, off-top. And Dr. Dre brings the table to the table. [laughs] That is what he brings to the table. He lives in the studio, first of all. So, you know, with his level of expectation of himself and his music, I do not think people really understand and grasp how strong that process is. I can not speak on his timetable. I think that every time he is come out with something, it has made an impact and changed the direction of music, so I have no questions about his timing. Yeah, when you see me in the studio with Dre, we working on stuff for myself, we working on stuff for him, we working on stuff for everything. But as far as when he releases, that is up to him. But he never disappoints, so I just let people talk until they actually get it, and then when they get it, it is a piping hot cup of ‘Shut the f**k up.’ [laughs]
Interviewer: I am looking forward to your new album. So I have to ask this, what are the chances, and this is just coming from a fan here, but what are the chances that we can ever see a “B**ch Please III”?
Xzibit: Wooh! That is a Dr. Dre question. [laughs]
Interviewer: Well, if I ever get him on the phone again, I will definitely tell him: ”B**ch Please III.”
Xzibit: Absolutely!
Interviewer: But you are a key part of all of them, though, just as much as him! So maybe if you slide up that request, hit up Dre, maybe put the request in…I think a lot of people right now, if people saw a collaboration between you, Dre, Eminem, and Snoop right now, I really do think it would break the internet, to be honest. I really do think that.
Xzibit: Wow, that is dope, man, thank you. I will see if I can talk to Dre about it, but we will see. [Laughs]
Interviewer: On that note, I know you and Dr. Dre are super tight, but do you still at all keep in touch with Eminem? I know you guys have worked together so many times, and lets be honest, you have a great track record of collaborations, like “Don’t Approach Me…” and “My Name.”
Xzibit: I have not talked to Marshall in a minute, man, but you know, it is always the same, I got a lot of respect for him and his team. When we see each other, it is all love.
Denaun Porter and Marv Won has started a new podcast titled “You Said What.” In the first episode, the two discuss Mr. Porter’s new album, Mike Tyson, Busta Rhymes, Eminem and much more.
On his upcoming album:
Denaun Porter: I am at 85 percent of being finished with my album but we are here to have fun because I got tired of doing songs. I actually got more songs than I got ideas. There’s so many songs.
About Eminem on DJ Premier track
Marv Won: To this day, I’ve never heard Eminem on DJ Premier beat. That’s f**king wild to me. I’m not saying as a business wise but as a fan.
Denaun Porter: You know what I think happened was…And I think Em will tell you this. We will ask him when we get him here but I think he just started having so much fun making beats. He’ll keep going. And he’ll keep messing with it until he becomes perfectionist and you lose the fun. I think that’s what happened but I’m gonna ask him. But from what I see Em got to the point where he just loved making beats.
In a new interview with Dave Franco for Interview Magazine, MGK has revealed that his Hotel Diablo album flopped because of Eminem feud and he almost gave up.
Interviewer: Were there moments when you almost gave up because you were killing yourself for your music and it still felt like you were misunderstood?
Machine Gun Kelly: Yes. The 2019 album, Hotel Diablo is that for me, because that was the first time I really expressed my true self with no outside influence, meaning the label. As a hip-hop album, it is flawless front to back, and also a hint at the evolution of how I went into a pop-punk album.
Machine Gun Kelly: But it was coming off the tail-end of that infamous beef with Eminem. So no one wanted to give it the time of day. It is like if you make a shitty movie and then you come out with a great movie right after, but people want to focus on the fact that they hated whatever you just did. What I did in the beef was exactly what it should be, but that project was not welcomed. The next album came from already feeling like I’d counted out, so I didn’t even care what the public was going to think. That’s why the project was ironically my best received one, because it was the most effortless, with the least outside influence.
“What I did in the beef was exactly what it should be, but that project was not welcomed.”
– MGK (November 28, 2020)
Hotel Diablo album was released in 2019 as the follow up for his Binge EP and it debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, with approximately 39,000 album equivalent units sold. It jumped down to number 20 in its second week, selling 20,585 album equivalent units. The album received generally mixed reviews from critics.
For the full interview, check out Interview Magazine here.
Few days ago, The Recording Academy announced the nominations for 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. Royce Da 5’9″ received Best Rap Album nomination for The Allegory album while Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By was nowhere to be found.
It seems Slaughterhouse’s Kxng Crooked was expecting Eminem to receive Grammy nod for “No Regrets,” featuring Don Toliver and produced by D.A Got That Dope and Eminem himself.
Few days ago, Top Dawg Entertainment’s affiliated artist Kembe X dropped his new single “Back At It,” featuring TDE’s Ab-Soul and upcoming Los Angeles artist ICECOLDBISHOP. This marks Ab-Soul’s second guest feature of the month.
Ab-Soul kicks his verse with Eminem’s iconic 8 Mile movie and B-rabbit character reference: “Ya destiny I control it, Don’t make this static a habit, I’m hip-hop, you a rabbit But 8 Mile was a classic.” Bump the song below:
Earlier this year, Ab-Soul surprisingly dropped “Dangerookipawaa Freestyle.” On the freestyle, TDE artist raps about his lyrical skills and his rightful place in the game, declaring himself as a revolutionary hip-hop artist through the hip-hop genre and gives shout out to Eminem and his Kamikaze (2018) album with the following lines: “Interrupt your whole style, this a inhibition, Kamikaze everybody, Eminem edition.” You can listen to the freestyle below:
Back in 2017, in an interview with Genius, Ab-Soul also named Eminem in his list of top five rappers of all time list. Watch the interview below:
Nikki Paterson from Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, is beginning to feel like a ‘Tat God, Tat God.’ She has now achieved the Guinness World Record title for the most tattoos of the same musician tattooed on the body by getting fifteen portraits of Eminem, inked on her body.
“My tattoos have completely changed my life. I am so proud of them. I put my first tattoo of Eminem at the age of 19 by picking an image of him from Google.” says Nikki.
Tattoos include the ‘blonde’ Eminem as well as the album covers from The Marshall Mathers LP to Recovery. She also has the full list of Eminem’s 11 albums, from Infinite to the most recent Music To Be Murdered By. Her back of thigh also include lyrics of the verse from the song “Till I Collapse.”
Her body tattoos also include pictures of Skylar Grey, who has featured on various tracks with Eminem. Nikki also has Big Proof and Eminem tattoo on her: “This one here is very important one because it’s Eminem and Proof and Proof is Eminem’s best friend. He got killed so that was really significant time in Eminem’s life so I wanted to have a tribute to him.”
“The way Eminem told a story with the lyrics on ‘Stan,’ it was such an unusual story compared to anything I had heard before. The idea of potentially having a record came to me and I thought it would be a lovely celebration of them.” says Nicki and now she has joined her idol in the Guinness World Records archives, with Eminem himself holding multiple record titles. You can check the list of al Guinness World Records set by Eminem here.
“I really want to meet Eminem and I think this might help!” says the Guinness World record holder. Watch the video below:
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