Legendary producer Mark Batson, who has been involved in countless Eminem tracks, has recently hit Instagram to celebrate his latest effort with Slim Shady, Music To Be Murdered By going platinum and hitting 1 billion total streams.
“Today celebrating more than 1 million albums and 1 billion streams since release of Music To Be Murdered By album. Another jewel for us in the crown of Team Shady. Realizing today that I have been a part of this for almost 20 years. Sending thanks to Eminem, Dr. Dre, Shady Records.” wrote Mark while sharing the streaming plaque.
To remind you all, Mark Batson was involved in the production of “Premonition” intro track on Music To Be Murdered By album. Check out the post below:
The legendary lyricist, Nas, shares new Spotify playlist, titled “Mind Right” and it features latest songs from Eminem, Griselda and 50 Cent. About an hour ago, Nasir hit the twitter to let the fans know about his new playlist, saying: “Curated the latest ‘Mind Right’ playlist on Spotify featuring some classics and some new sounds. Check it out.”
The playlist features 50 songs and it includes: Eminem’s “Alfred’s Theme” from Music To Be Murdered By, Griselda’s “Freddie HotSpot” from WWCD album and 50 Cent’s latest Power single “Part Of The Game,” featuring NLE Choppa and Rileyy Lanez.
You can stream the whole “Mind Right” playlist below:
Young Buck has recently released a Drumma Boy produced single “Ash Tray” from Back on My Buck S**t, Vol. 3 album. On a track, the G-Unit rapper emotionally speaks about 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, and Lloyd Banks on a smooth instrumental beat.
Addressing his former G-Unit partner by name, Buck keeps things relatively businesslike as he reflects on where things went wrong. Buck raps: “The question is, why try to sign me and sabotage me? Break me and Travelodge me, see me and try to dodge me. Thought you were my brotha, n***a, told you to guide me. Put this knife inside a stomach n***a told you to hide me, Ay Dre, you don’t owe me nothing n***a I do this proudly!”
Yesterday, exactly 1 year ago, Eminem dropped the music video of “Godzilla,” featuring Juice WRLD, from Music To Be Murdered By album, directed by Lyrical Lemonade’s Cole Bennett. The video features cameos from hip-hop icon Dr. Dre, legendary boxer Mike Tyson, actress Anna Dahl and actor George Todd McLachlan. Juice WRLD appears in the video as well, using older stock footage.
“Godzilla” video was nominated at 2020 MTV Video Music Awards in two categories: “Video Of The Year” and “Best Hip-Hop Video” but lost to The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage” respectively.
To celebrate 1 year anniversary, Cole Bennnett dedicated an Instagram story to the video, saying: “One year ago this [Godzilla] video came out and changed my life in a lot of ways.”
The Weeknd was controversially snubbed in the nominations for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, but the Canadian superstar received lots of support and love in his homeland, Canada. The RnB megastar is the leading nominee for the 50th Juno Awards, with 6 nods, including album, artist, single and songwriter of the year.
Eminem has also received one nomination for International Album Of The Year. Check below to see who’s up against Slim Shady in this category:
“Music To Be Murdered By” by Eminem (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope/Universal)
“Fine Line,” by Harry Styles (Columbia, Sony)
“What You See Ain’t Always What You Get,” by Luke Combs (Sony)
“Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon,” by Pop Smoke” (Victor / Republic / Universal)
“folklore,” by Taylor Swift (Republic / Universal)
For the full list of nominations, hit the link here.
Lil Nas X, who has recently trolled rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine for making a public homophobic comment, has recently shared a video of him ‘freestyling’ over Dr. Dre and Eminem’s “Forgot About Dre” in support of Eminem after Gen Z tried to cancel the Detroit legend on her viral TikTok video. Check out Lil Nas’s video below:
Last Friday, Eminem released an animated lyric video for his 2020 single “Tone Deaf,” from Music To Be Murdered By album, which appears to be a response to a TikTok campaign to the real Slim Shady. The video, in typical antagonistic Eminem fashion, features images of disgraced figures like Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. This is the latest in a growing #canceleminem movement that has highlighted a divide between Millennial Eminem fans and younger Gen Z critics.
While sharing on social media, Eminem quoted: “I won’t stop even when my hair turns grey (I’m tone-deaf) / ‘Cause they won’t stop until they cancel me.” Watch the video below:
On this day, exactly 10 years ago (March 9, 2011), Eminem made The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) history as the Detroit legend became the first and the only hip hop artist to have two diamond selling album in the United States: “The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)” and “The Eminem Show (2002)” both albums sold more than 10 million units, each.
Additionally, Eminem has THREE diamond selling singles: “Lose Yourself (2002),” “Not Afraid (2010)” and “Love The Way You Lie (2010),” featuring Rihanna. Reportedly, “Recovery (2010)” album and “Curtain Call: The Hits (2005)” compilation are also close to diamond certifications.
Trae Tha Truth and Mysonne have recently released a new joint album “If You’re Scared, Stay Inside” and it includes a song “Lyrical Cypher,” featuring lyrical mastermind, Black Thought.
In the song, Trae Tha Truth references Eminem with the following lines:
“I’m shady like I’m Eminem These wack b**ches, I’ve been in them My staple thing no synonym My waves lately, they swimming in.”
Speaking to Matt Pinfield, Corey Taylor talked about the controversy surrounding an offensive Eminem lyric on “Love The Way You Lie” song with Rihanna which was started by young TikTokers.
“I was just reading about how Gen Z is trying to cancel Eminem because of one line that was in a Rihanna song that he did with her. And I am just like, is that where we are right now? I mean, at this point, you are talking about the Salem witch trials. You are talking about, you know, America in the ’20s where the KKK was like a political force. You are talking about complete condemnation without context or any rationalization for an action like that.”
“To me, that is the most dangerous, when the mob decides that you are gone. I mean, that is Caesar at the Colosseum, for God’s sakes. That is when it is dangerous. The level of censorship that we are starting to see and I am not saying that certain things have not been said that easily offend people. However, the flip side of that is that you ca not even make a joke anymore, even in the cleanest of situations.”
“It is starting to really kind of form in my head. I may actually write it soon. Because it is really kind of out of control out there right now. And there is not one hint of satire, There is no hint of Irony. It is just all-out rage and it is all through smartphones. And that is when it is really greedy, That is when it is really dirty. It can not be that way. If we can not have a conversation how the hell are we gonna communicate and if we can not understand the difference between metaphor and complete reality then we are in real trouble. And that is where I am leaning with the book.”
American media personality, YouTuber, model, and singer, Trisha Paytas, who made cameo in Eminem’s 2009 “We Made You” music video, has recently shared a clip of her speaking about Eminem, aimed to the recent ‘Cancel Eminem’ activity on TikTok.
Trisha remembered the encounter she experienced with Eminem behind the scenes of “We Made You” video shoot: “Behind the scenes with Eminem was so fun. He was so nice. He was like ‘hi, thank you for doing this.’ He was insanely nice person.” Watch the video below:
Detroit rapper Sada Baby has recently done a live stream on Instagram where he showed love for Royce Da 5’9″, Big Proof and Trick Trick but was salty towards Eminem.
Sada Baby said: “You know I’m heminem. Not Eminem but I got love for Royce Da 5’9″, I love Royce. His homeboy [Eminem] is just weird. I love Trick Trick, his homeboy is just weird. Rest in peace Big Proof, he died two blocks from my grandma’s house, his homeboy is weird.”
For the record, Sada Baby and Eminem both jumped on Big Sean’s “Friday Night Cypher.” You can watch the video below:
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which is an organization that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide, has revealed the list of the best selling artists worldwide and Eminem makes into the Top 10. You can check the lit below:
