Nicki Minaj says she added another verse to “Roman’s Revenge” after hearing Eminem’s verse

On this day, 100 years ago, Nicki Minaj released “Pink Friday” album which includes a song “Roman’s Revenge,” featuring Eminem and produced by Swizz Beatz with additional production coming from Eminem’s long time collaborator Luis Resto.

To celebrate 10 years anniversary of the album, Nick Minaj did the question and answer session on Twitter where one of the fans asked what was her reaction when she received a verses from Eminem and Kanye West, on which responded: “I think I fainted for both. I added another verse after Eminem sent his verse back. That is how inspired I was. With Kanye West, I just cloud not believe he did it. He really just wanted to be on “Right Thru Me”.

“I fainted and added another verse after Eminem sent his back.” – Nicki Minaj (Nov. 20, 2020)

Later, one of the fans also asked what is her favorite song from the album. On that, she replied with “Roman’s Revenge.” Check the tweets below:

https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1329665176765820928

https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1329662526385131520

 

AI creates Mark Zuckerberg diss song using Eminem’s voice & it’s incredible !

Eminem has destroyed personalities like Donald Trump, Mariah Carey, Ja Rule and Machine Gun Kelly to name a few with his sharp words in his lifetime. Now, as there is no beef between Slim Shady and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Artificial Intelligence created a Zuckerberg diss track, impersonating Eminem’s diss-flow rapping.

YouTube creators from the channel, Calamity AI recently made an artificial intelligence (AI) model write and compose a diss track about Mark Zuckerberg in Eminem’s voice and his signature flow.

The creators used a GPT-3-powered tool to compose the entire lyrics, which is just an amalgamation of gibberish diss-words that do not really make sense. However, some of the sentences are straight-up shallow roasts and are very funny.

Firstly, the creators set “Mark Zuckerberg diss in the style of Eminem” as an input for the Shortly Read tool. They then used the Google Tactron 2 engine, which can generate human-like speech from texts, to imitate Eminem’s voice for the rap.

Then the creators of Calamity AI sent the audio to another YouTube creator, 30Hz to create a relevant video for the song. And 30Hz did a decent job by creating a legit-looking music video for the Zuckerberg-diss-track. You can check the final output in the video below:

[VIA]

New Song: Statik Selektah – “Play Around” ft. Conway, 2 Chainz, Killer Mike & Allan Kingdom

Producer and DJ Statik Selektah, who has previously worked with Eminem on tracks “Richard” by Obie Trice and “Detroit VS Everybody,” featuring Royce Da 5’9″, Big Sean, Dej Load, Danny Brown and Trick Trick, has released a new song “Play Around,” featuring our man Conway The Machine, 2 Chainz, Killer Mike and Allan Kingdom. The song will be included on Statik Selektah’s new album, “The Balancing Act,” dropping on November 27th under Mass Appeal.

“‘Play Around’ was one of the first songs that I started on for the album, but the last one that I completely finished. Conway went in, 2 Chainz talked that money talk, and then Killer Mike came through at the last minute and put that raw energy that I needed on that third verse.” told Statik Selektah to Rolling Stone magazine.

The Balancing Act album will also feature some of the rap heavyweights, including: Nas, Jadakiss, Dave East, Method Man, Joey Bada$$, Black Thought and Bun B. The project will be out in five days, meanwhile bump the new single below:

 

Rapper 2KBABY says Jack Harlow is better than Eminem

Louisville rapper 2kBaby, 20, who also goes by the name 2kBabysage and who is best known for his singles “Old Streets” (which has recently received Gold certification in the United States) and “Dreaming” has made several statements (not sure if he was serious) about Eminem on his Twitter, including Jack Harlow being better than Slim Shady.

Check out the tweets below and you decided yourself: is he joking, is he serious or is he clout chasing.

https://twitter.com/2kBaby/status/1321195564185374722

https://twitter.com/2kBaby/status/1330281985529573376

Also check Jack Harlow’s most popular song in his catalog:

Here are our picks of Eminem’s hit songs for ‘Verzuz’ battle !

Verzuz, also known as Verzuz TV, is an American webcast series created by producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual battle for DJs, with Timbaland and Swizz Beatz facing off in the very first battle through Instagram live.

The series invites two music icons, mostly from R&B and hip-hop genre, to highlight their discographies in two 10-song rounds during a 3-hour session. Verzuz has already had some of the notable battles, including: Snoop Dogg VS DMX, Rick Ross VS 2 Chaiz, RZA VS DJ Premier, Erykah Badu VS Jill Scott, Nelly VS Ludacris and most recently Jeezy VS Gucci Mane.

Eminem has not even considered taking a part in the Verzuz battle but fans around the world would like to see the Rap God taking on some rap icons in the music industry. So we created a list of bangers that we think Em should use if he battles anyone! Check the list below and tell us your opinions in the comments.

ROUND 1

1. Drug Ballad
2. My Name Is
3. Smack That by Akon (ft. Eminem)
4. ‘Till I Collapse (ft. Nate Dogg)
5. Renegade by Jay Z (ft. Eminem)
6. You Don’t Know by 50 Cent, Eminem, LLoyd Banks & Ca$his
7. Godzilla (ft. Juice WRLD)
8. W.T.P.
9. Forgot About Dre by Dr. Dre (ft. Eminem)
10. The Real Slim Shady

ROUND 2

11 Patiently Waiting by 50 Cent (ft. Eminem)
12 Fight Music by D12
13. No Love (ft. Lil Wayne)
14. Lucky You (ft. Joyner Lucas)
15. Berzerk
16. Fast Lane by Bad Meets Evil
17. You Gon’ Learn (ft. Royce 5’9″ and White Gold)
18. Shake That (ft. Nate Dogg)
19. Dead Wrong by Notorious B.I.G. (ft. Eminem)
20. Lose Yourself

BONUS ROUND (If it’s a tie)

21. Welcome To Detroit by Trick Trick (ft. Eminem)
22. Rap God
23. Bitch Please 2 (ft. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit & Nate Dogg)
24. The Warning
25. Without Me

IT’S EMINEM VS ANYBODY! IT’S DETROIT VS EVERYBODY! IT’S SOUTHPAWERS VS EVERYBODY!

 

BREAKING: Symbolyc One says Eminem is asking beats for music sessions

Symbolyc One, who has previously produced Eminem’s “Bad Guy,” “Normal,” “Nice Guy,” Royce Da 5’9″ and Eminem’s “Caterpillar” and 50 Cent and Eminem’s “My Life,” has recently done an interview with Hip-Hop N More to celebrate 10 years anniversary of Kanye West’s classic album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. During the interview, Eminem’s name has surfaced:

Interviewer: What other collaborations are you working on now? I remember last time you spoke you had done some work with Eminem and J. Cole. What are you cooking up now?

S1: Actually, quite a bit. I had a Meek Mill song drop yesterday so definitely check that, it is called ‘Pain Away’. I produced it with my guy Epikh Pro, it is featuring Lil Durk. I have definitely been working with J. Cole a lot. I do not know what he is doing as far as releasing, kinda just in the dark with a lot of stuff. I am still sending Eminem stuff. He has been asking for sessions, stems. He is very secretive. Oh, I have been working with Rapsody a lot and we’ve been making some incredible music.

You can read the full interview here.

About a month ago, S1 hinted on something related to Eminem: “One of the dopest rappers was born today. Didn’t realize I had so many songs with Eminem on it. More to come! Should I release some unreleased S1 x Marshall songs today?!?” You can check the post below:

The same day, Illa Da Producer, the man who produced “Killshot,” “The Ringer,” “Lucky You,” “Offended,” “Normal” and “Good Guy,” hinted on something similar related to Eminem: “Happy Gday to the GOAT Eminem. Can’t thank you enough for changing my life! Truly blessed to work with you! We got more hits on the way!” Check out the post below:

Today, 20 years ago, Eminem released “Stan”

On this day, exactly 20 years ago (November 21, 2000), Eminem released “Stan,” featuring Dido, as the 3rd single from his third solo studio album “The Marshall Mathers LP.”

The multi-platinum “Stan” single was one of his most well-received singles. VH1’s ranked the song at  number 15 on the list of Top 100 Hip Hop Songs of All Time. Rolling Stone magazine also put “Stan” at number 296 in their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was named in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

Based on the content of the song, this song has cemented itself in history, with “Stan” being entered into the Oxford Dictionary as an informal noun. It is generally considered to be a portmanteau of “stalker” and “fan,” but Oxford defines the term as: An overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity.

In a 2011, Eminem appeared on Shade 45 radio channel where he revealed: “There was a verse where Stan got out of the water. He escaped and came to my house to kill me. Then I had to kill him first but I missed him, and he was in the hospital for like three weeks. Then he was pissed off that I did not write him get-well cards, so he came to kill me again, and in the last verse finally I just blew his head off.

In 2013, Eminem released the second part of the song, titled “Bad Guy,” wherein Stan’s younger brother Matthew avenges his brother’s death. Listen to the song below:

In his new book, Barack Obama explains how he relates to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”

Couple of days ago, Barack Obama released a new book, titled “A Promised Land,” where the former president of the United States explains how he relates to Eminem’s Oscar-winning song “Lose Yourself” and Jay Z’s “My First Song.” You can read the chapter below:

“Ultimately it was rap that got my head in the right place, two songs especially: Jay Z’s “My 1st Song” and Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself.” Both were about defying odds and putting it all on the line (“Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would capture it? Or just let it slip…”); how it felt to spin something out of nothing; getting by on wit, hustle, and fear disguised as bravado. The lyrics felt tailored to my early underdog status. And as I set alone in the back of the Secret Service van on the way to a debate site, in my crisp uniform and dimpled tie, I’d nod my head to the beat of those songs, feeling a whiff of private rebellion, a connection to something gritter and more real than all the fuss and deference that now surrounded me. It was a way to cut through the artifice and remember who I was.”

Thanks to @flowstoowet twitter for the info.

https://twitter.com/flowstoowet/status/1329804396167835650

One day before the release of the book, Barack Obama shared the playlist of the songs that he was listening during his presidency. You can check out the playlist here.

 

 

Courtney Bell: “Royce told me that I’m next. I’m a call away from Eminem”

Detroit rapper Courtney Bell visited Los Angeles’ Power 106 for his Fred style with The LA Leakers. Over Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. instrumentals, the Detroit emcee spits fire while shouting out Royce Da 5’9,″ Eminem, Big Sean and paying respects to the late King Von and Nipsey Hussle.

“Royce told me that I’m next
I’m Damn near label to go
The gatekeepers got the keys and code
And I want them both…
I’m call away from Em
A text away from Sean
I’m page away from Royce
I get respected by Gods” 

After the freestyle, Courtney Bell gives shout out to Royce, Eminem and Big Sean: “Shout out to Royce, Em and Sean. Detroit GOATs.” Watch it below:

Courtney Bell has recently released a single “Lion’s Den,” featuring Shady Records’ Westside Boogie. You can watch the music video below:

 

Take a look at photos of Eminem’s old Michigan Mansion which is up for sale again!

According to a report from WCRZ, the Oakland Township, Michigan mansion, which was once owned by Eminem is back for sale for $3.76 million. The six acre, 23,600 square foot home has a manicured lawn, a pool with a waterfall, tennis courts, a private pond and a cabana and a hot tub. The inside of the house has over 17,500 square feet of living space. There’s a guest house as well.

As far as the inside of the decked out pad, it has 6 bedrooms, 7 full bathrooms and 3 half baths. There is even more: The gated mansion comes with high quality electronics, audio, visual and lighting systems, security and a gate house. The home is so big that there’s a 3-story elevator, as well.

Eminem bought the house for $4.7 million back in 2003 and sold it 2014 for $2 million. And now it’s up for sale again for $3.76 million. You can check out the pictures of the house below. Phot credits goes to Keller Williams Advantage.

Royce 5’9″ talks with Nick Cannon about Eminem, DJ Vlad & more

Royce Da 5’9″ and Nick Cannon has recently sit down for an hour-long interview on Cannon’s Class podcast where the two talked about many things, including Eminem.

Nick Cannon: I have to ask you man, how tired do you get talking about Eminem all the time cause I know I get tired.

Royce Da 5’9″: I don’t really get tired. I look at it little bit differently. He’s put up. He’s not one of these guys using his platform to speak cause he doesn’t say too much. Usually when he speaks, it comes out with his music. It’s something about people and fame. They look at famous people like they are something other than human-beings.

Royce Da 5’9″: Eminem has been famous for so long. There are people who never seen him. They only know him from their TV screens so they look at him like chanted so when they hear me speak about him and when I speak about him I call him Marshall. I talk about him like he’s a regular person so I think they like me hearing speak about him in such a regular way. I think that’s interesting to them. So when his name comes up and I’m talking about all the normal things we do I think that’s intriguing for some people.”

Then the two continue talking about what intensified beef with D12 in early days, DJ VLAD, addiction and many more interesting topics. You can watch the interview below:

https://youtu.be/6D-VbhXQLuc

Jeff Bass remembers discovering Eminem, Eminem losing final battle & much more

Legendary producer Jeff Bass has recently done an interview with Samson Shulman where describes meeting Eminem in detail. You can read through and watch the interview below:

“It was a daytime for 93.6 and my brother called up the radio station and asked who was that?! And the host said ‘it’s just some kid named Eminem.’ It was 30-60 seconds freestyle, nothing crazy. But my brother said I gotta talk to this kid! He got in touch with Eminem and Proof, Swifty and all his crew came into the studio. He called me up and says ‘you gotta see this kid, you gotta hear him.'”

“The next day I went to hear what my brother was talking about and he was convinced Eminem and his crew was the next big thing but I was like ‘you need to slow down brother cause I don’t really understand what you saying.’ You know how ‘Rap God’ right? We’ve seen even ‘worse’ than that.”

“Then my brother I went to our manager and said ‘look look, listen to this.’ Our manager didn’t like it but my brother was like ‘naah we gotta do something. And at this point we started working with him.”

“The vision was…First thing I thought, white rapper? Who we all think of? Vanilla Ice? But he was not credible enough. Thank God my brother knew something in his head, I didn’t feel that but my brother did. I didn’t feel until halfway through the ‘Infinite’ album and I started to understand how talented Eminem was. He was creating a cool stories on top of cool track. I liked that! He was saying something! So I would watch him almost like a psychologist would watch facial expression, body language. So I would watch what was he brining to studio today. He was miserable. Well, I’m gonna create the piece of music that keeps him miserable today. I knew he was miserable or angry so if I heard an angry track of music he could actually express himself through that music. They fit it like a glove. It was like they were meant for each other. It seemed like we could do this whenever we wanted to do it. I just had to watch what Eminem was doing. Watch how he was feeling. Watch how his days were going.”

❝ He was miserable. Well, I’m gonna create the piece of music that keeps him miserable today ❝

“Hailie was very very young at that time. She could not even talk. We had her in the studio on 8 Mile in Detroit. We were recording her too. All the sounds effects, crickets, street noise. We threw microphone out on 8 mile road and started recording, we were doing trunk sound and everything naturally. You can get sounds effects easily but we went out there on 8 mile around 3-4 o’clock in the morning and just put the microphone out there. So when he get into studio to rap, he felt that sound effects. It was AMAZING how we did that.”

“Once I played to him something like sounded s**t and he was like ‘that’s perfect! I wanted it to sound like s**t.’ We were open to experiment crazy stuff like that and I never wanted to tune his vocals, ever, when he was singing. No auto-tune when I was involved. Later on yes but not when I was there. When I wrote the song ‘Kim’ it was meant to have someone Merilyn Manson or Ozzy Osbourne to sing the hook so Em was going to sing the hook and then we were going to show it to Merlyn or whoever we wanted to get on there and then I’m like ‘forget it! you sound great!’ It’s out of tune. It’s perfect. It sounds raw and that was part of what his sound early Eminem was raw. You singing, sounds raw. You are not a singer, you are rapper but he was able to pull that up and no one judged it like ‘oh my god, listen to his voice, it sounds like s**t’, no, they were like ‘wow that’s how I sound when I’m in the shower’ and people started to relate to that.”

“1998 we fly out to California but to get there first Em was travelling around in these rap battles and he was killing everybody. We get out to California and he’s up against this kid named Juice. And Juice’s uncle was the one who was promoting the gig and at that time we had Slim Shady EP, and he lost that battle. I think it was a little rigged. I never followed the kid’s career, I don’t even know what happened but there a kid in the audience in California that fell in love with Eminem. Evan Bogart is the kid’s name. He was watching the show and could not believe Eminem lost. And then he came to us and said ‘do you guys have CD or Cassette?’ And my brother said we have bunch of CDs you can have it. And that’s it… Next thing we know is, that kid happened to work in the Interscope department. But we knew nothing about him. We thought that it was just a white kid who liked a white kid rapping. He didn’t even mention who he was.”

❝He lost a battle to Juice but I think it was rigged❝

“So this guy slid the CD into Jimmy Iovine’s Friday Listening bag, somehow and Jimmy heard it and Jimmy is like ‘WHAT THE F**K IS THIS?!’ Story is that he called Dre at that point and said you need to work with this kid but Dre was not sure if he wanted to work with him and Jimmy is like ‘you gotta do it, you gotta try’ and very quickly Aftermath’s project was EMINEM.”

“Then they wanted Eminem to change some of his lyrics for the Slim Shady LP because of the content of his lyrics, as we all know, was very risque, you know, he talked about raping, killing people, doing tons of drugs, drinking and everything. So they wanted him to change the lyrics. We already delivered the album, we already did what we were supposed to do and they wanted to change the lyrics. And Eminem says to them, which goes to show you how brilliant he was. His response was: ‘listen, I will change the lyrics when you stop serving alcohol to kids. They are not gonna do that so they dropped that and it blew up. It sold 3 million copies in short period of time.”

❝Interscope wanted Eminem to change lyrics of Slim Shady LP. ‘I will change the lyrics when you stop serving alcohol to kids.’ Eminem replied❝

“Eminem actually came up with the Slim Shady character when he was sitting on the toilet. He was like ‘okay I was taking a s**t and I was thinking how can I be a little bit different cause no one’s excepting what I’m doing and I came up with an alter ego. Slim Shady is my name! We had that now his image and look was the whole another thing. For some reason, he still didn’t look like a star. So we were trying to figure out what to do with his look. So we were at our studio in California and one of the girl who worked for us said ‘I think he needs to dye his hair blonde. So he goes and dyes his hair blonde.”

After that Jeff Bass talks about meeting Dr. Dre, how fame changed Eminem and final chapter is about their mega hit “Lose Yourself.” You can listen to the full interview below:

B-Real addresses Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. protecting Eminem from L.A. Crips

Legendary Samoan Hip-Hop group Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., Eminem and anothr legendary Hip-Hop group Cypress Hill’s B-Real teamed up for 2003 single “911,” for Boo-Yaa’s “West Koastra Nostra” album. As it turns out, the single was not a typical collaboration among rappers. There is something much deeper than that.

Last month, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.’s nephew Monsta Gunjah appeared on The Lesson w/ DJ Sanchez where he spoke about his uncle working as Eminem’s security back in the day. In an interview, he revealed that Slim Shady was once being extorted by the Los Angeles Crips, which is also reflected in the lyrics of the song “911”.

“That is how ‘911’ with Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. and B-Real happened, that’s how that song came about because Paul Rosenberg reached out. Eminem was getting extorted by some Crips. Maybe he was paying them money and getting bullied, I don’t know the exact details but what I do know is a few phone calls were made and then that is how the feature came about because they were like, ‘Anything in return, what do you want?’ They are like, ‘I want a feature from Eminem!'” – says Monsta Gunjah

HipHopDX reached out to legendary B-Real and asked about the song’s backstory : “I did not hear too much about that because I never got involved with any of that stuff with Eminem. They just called me to be on this record and Boo-Yaa, they have always been family to us. Ganxsta Ridd was one of my big time homies. They were always with us in the early days. And so when that project came up and I heard Em was on it, I would always wanted to flip on a record with him, so it was easy work — it was family and Em was on it. I was like, ‘Oh, s**t. All right, let’s do it.’”

“And I did not think of the politics, he was just somebody I wanted to get down with because I love Em. He is one of my favorite top three, and so I had a chance to work with him there, along with my family. It was a no brainer to me, and yeah, you know the politics I heard about it later, but Boo-Ya washed that s**t out for them.”

“No one was f**king with those guys, you know. If they got behind you and they said, ‘Hey, he’s with us,’ you do not f**k with him. Nobody f**ks with those guys. But yeah, I was just glad to get on it, and me and Em talked about it some time later, and it was just a cool experience. I was glad to be on it, for sure.”

https://youtu.be/TG16npl8Djc

VIA HIPHOPDX.

Page Kennedy says he heard Dr. Dre’s album & Eminem’s on it !

Actor, comedian, singer-songwriter and a rapper Page Kennedy, who has previously worked with Royce Da 5’9″, Kuniva, Kxng Crooked and Trick Trick, has made a mysterious tweet on Twitter.

The Detroit rapper said he has listened to Dr. Dre’s album (He did not specify whether it is a new album or vaulted DETOX) and hopes people will able to hear it as well. Check out the tweet below:

https://twitter.com/PageKennedy/status/1328533629568311296

One of the fans asked when is Eminem dropping a new album. On that, Page replied that he is not sure but Eminem is definitely on ‘that’ Dr. Dre’s album. Check out the tweet below:

Shady Records says farewell to WS Gunn, pushes Conway’s album to 2021

Few days ago, on the Joe Budden podcast, Westside Gunn told Joe Budden, Rory and Mal that was about to leave Eminem’s Shady Records and today everything got official. “We’ve had an awesome time working with Westside Gunn and Griselda Records. on their mission towards world domination! We’re proud & honored to have been a part of it.” we read in a statement tweeted by Shady Records’ official account, as the label reveals few details about Conway The Machine’s debut album.

Fans were expecting Conway to drop “God Don’t Make Mistakes” this year but it looks like the album was pushed back. The Buffalo rapper’s Shady Records debut album features Westside Gunn, Jeremih, A Boogie wit da Hoodie,  T.I. and Benny The Butcher. Conway had also previously stated during the interview on Apple Music that Eminem would also feature, although that may have changed.

https://twitter.com/hiphopdroptop/status/1269464779783053312

 

Here is what critics were saying about Eminem before the fame (22 years ago)

It was February 23, 1999, and it was the day Eminem released The Slim Shady LP. From the beginning, it was obvious that the world would have a complicated relationship with this white rapper from Detroit. Now we’ve had 17 years of getting to know and understand the man behind some of the most controversial music that the mainstream has ever dealt with. And the relationship is still pretty complicated. You can read what people were saying about Eminem before and after the release of The Slim Shady LP:

He’s a charlatan and a fraud, who is as bad musically as he is content-wise.
There is talent there, but he could be doing so much more with it.

– Jim DeRogatis, Chicago writer (1999).

You can’t take all the blame off him, but you also got to put the blame on a society that,
in America at least, raises boys to be sexist, to be homophobic, to be knuckleheads
that’s the American way. Eminem, the s**t that he says, is ‘Fight For Your Right To Party 2000.’
It’s ignorant but it gives me hope people can change.

– Ad-Rock, The Beastie Boys (1999).

Don’t be surprised when Eminem comes out and he just blows up
because the majority of this country has more in common with him than they do with Rass Kass.
Then the black folks who couldn’t relate to Em
in the first place are gonna diss him and his fans citing a racist society and media.
Eminem will then loose sic his props and become the next House of Pain.

– NDN’z, Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner (1998).

Only a year into my career as a music journalist,
I couldn’t articulate what made Em so compelling.
Obviously, his music was strong but there was something else.
From the moment we exchanged pounds I knew he had something.
For lack of a better term, it was a star-charisma, unlike any other artist I’d interviewed.
It’s why I bought a disposable camera and documented the trip.
I have never taken a picture of an artist before and I haven’t done it since…
So when I came back to NYC, naturally, I regaled everyone
that would listen about how I’d heard the future of rap.

– Noah Callahan-Bever, Complex (1998).

Point blank, this ain’t your average cat.
This Motor City kid is a one-of-a-kind talent
and he’s about to blow past the competition,
leaving many melted microphones in the dust.

– Riggs Morales, The Source (1998).

When Eminem’s in obnoxious Itchy ‘n Scratchy meets Benny Hill mode
(like on the opening ‘Public Service Announcement’) he’s hilarious
(misogynist and homophobic but undeniably hilarious).
But when he gets all pious and whining and develops a social conscience
(like on ‘If I Had’), then – ugh! He f**ken’ SUCKS!

– Unknown author, NME (1999).

I honestly didn’t think he was gonna become a superstar.
Even though I heard ‘My Name Is,’ I didn’t think it was gonna blow up as big as it did.
And I didn’t think he was gonna have that huge pop appeal.
I thought ‘My Name Is’ was novelty.
But lyrically and his flow both were very good.
I didn’t think he was like one of those Young Black Teenagers,
‘Tap the bottle and twist the cap’ type of rappers.
I didn’t think he was a flash in the pan.

– Darin Byrne, MTV News (1999).

Give this kid a magazine rack, because he’s got a lot of issues.

– Charles Aaron, SPIN (1999).

It started because he is a b**ch a** ni**a!
Right now it stands with me kicking in his f**king face,
real horrorshow, I ain’t lettin’ all the s**t he said slide.

– Cage, Underground rap veteran (1998).

 

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