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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.

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.

We’ve had an awesome time working with @WESTSIDEGUNN & @GriseldaRecords on their mission towards world domination! We’re proud & honored to have been a part of it. But there’s still more work to do.. #WhoMadeTheSunshine is out now plus @WHOISCONWAY's Shady debut is coming in ‘21! pic.twitter.com/lWtXfuWwdc

— Shady Records, Inc. (@ShadyRecords) November 17, 2020

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.

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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).

Via Pigeons and Planes

3 Big Rappers Who Rewrote Their Verses After Hearing Eminem’s Verse

There is a popular saying: “If Eminem is featured in your song, it’s not your song anymore.” Eminem doesn’t care who you are, he will always try to outshine you on your own songs, like he did to Jay Z’ on ‘Renegade’ , 50 Cent on ‘Patiently Waiting’, Drake on ‘Forever’, Yelawolf on ‘Best Friend’ to name a few.

But in this article there are listed three big names in hip-hop who changed their verses after hearing Eminem’s verse but still couldn’t outrap Slim Shady:

1. Busta Rhymes (“Calm Down”)

Busta Rhymes: “No Em, you can’t do it on my own record. So I went back and added more bars.” Listen the interview with Sway In The Morning below:

2. Kanye West (“Forever”)

Kanye West: “When I heard Eminem’s verse on Drake’s sh*t, I went back and rewrote my sh*it for two days. I canceled appointments to rewrite! I f**kin’ care.” Listen to the tape bellow:

3. 50 Cent (“My Life” & upcoming track “Champions”)

50 Cent: “It’s important because it will turn into a complete Eminem record if you leave him. He is gonna make it his regardless. This is how that verse got longer than usual on ‘My Life’ “. Watch the interview below:

YBN Cordae talks possible Eminem collaboration

Dr. Dre’s protegee YBN Cordae has recently set down with HR, Becky and Sam The Man on 93.9’s The Beat radio show where he was asked if there is a possibility of teaming up with Eminem.

“You got a lot of eyeballs on you because doing your version of Eminem’s ‘My Name Is’, is there any Eminem-Cordae projects in future? Especially since he shouted you out.” asked HR and Becky to Cordae.

“Will see, definitely will see. For sure. Will see.” answered Cordae

Watch the segment below:

Earlier this year, in an interview with Crook’s Corner, Eminem gave huge shout to YBN Cordae: “I loved to watch YBN’s come up. I’m like ‘oh s**t’ he’s gonna be the next.” YBN responded Eminem on Instagram. “It’s always dope when a GOAT shows you love…. more motivation, new music on the way.”

Eminem’s song features in NASA’s playlist on the ride to Falcon Crew 1 mission

SpaceX carried 4 astronauts to orbit on Sunday night (November 15, 2020) overcoming iffy weather and brief delays with the inner seal of a spacecraft hatch. After a trip of some 27.6 hours in orbit, the astronauts will dock with the International Space Station and begin a 6-month-stay.

At 7:19 p.m. ET, the 9 engines of the private company’s Falcon 9 rocket roared to life and brightened the night cold sky as the rocket arced over the Atlantic Ocean.

Before the launch, NASA shared the playlist of the songs the staff listened during the ride to the rocket launch pad and it includes Eminem’s 2002 single “Till I Collapse,” the song that is recognized as the biggest motivational song by Spotify users.

The playlist was announced during the live video via NASA news. You can watch it below:

You can listen to the playlist below:

Joyner Lucas reveals Eminem was originally supposed to be on “ISIS” instead of Logic

About a year ago, Joyner Lucas dropped “Isis,” the third single from his 2019 album ADHD. The song is named after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; one of the most notorious terrorist factions of the 21st century.

On the track, Logic and Joyner Lucas discuss everything from ADHD to haters, women and success. Interestingly, this song marks the end of the feud between the two emcees, which started back in 2017.

“Eminem was originally supposed to be on ISIS song” – Joyner Lucas (November 16, 2020)

Few hours ago, Joyner Lucas revealed that Eminem was originally supposed to be on the song, but could not find the time because by that time, the Rap God was working on the Music To Be Murdered By album.

YouTuber Nitin Randhawa got you covered though. There is a very popular remix of the song on YouTube where you can have a taste of how Eminem could have sounded on a track. You can check it out below: