On his latest episode of Big Podcast, Shaquille O’Neal addresses the burning issues in the world of sports and entertainment, along with his co-hosts Nischelle Turner and Spice Adams. During a new segment of the show, the NBA icon brought up a rather contentious topic, “Did you hear what Chaka Khan said about all those singers?”
The Big Aristotle was referring to singer Chaka Khan’s insulting comments at the expense of artists like legendary Mary J. Blige and Adele, among others. The lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus was ranked 29th on the list while Mary J. Blige was in the 25th position. The hosts of the podcast revealed that they were shocked by Khan’s comments. Turner said, “She [Khan] said Mary J Blige was flat singing her version of sweet love. She went in. She is apologizing now!”
“She went there, she went there,” Shaq exclaimed. Without directly making any comment, Shaq brought up legendary rapper Melle Mel’s comments on Eminem: “Did you hear what Melle Mel said about Eminem? [He] said Eminem’s only a top 5 rapper because he’s white.” Shaq ironically smiled and with that statement he implied that Khan’s comments were clearly prompted from a place of envy, rather than being any kind of constructive criticism. Nischelle Turner was quick to reply: “Oh stop! He’s got flow! Eminem’s got the flow, don’t do that to him.”
The crew later talked about GloRilla’s concert in New York where two people die after crowd crush. Shaq drew parallel to Dr. Dre’s Up In Smoke tour: “I’ve seen crowds with half million people. How you gonna prevent that? I remember going to the Up In Smoke tour, I came from the backstage and when I looked up had to be 500 thousand people. And when Eminem came out and Snoop came out, the crowd goes crazy, everybody’s jamming I don’t know how you prevent that.”
Legendary hip-hop group Cypress Hill’s B-Real and The Beatnuts’ Psycho Les have recently talked about Melle Mel’s comments about Eminem on B-Real’s The Dr. Greenthumb Show podcast. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five recently talked about Slim Shady’s place in top 5 greatest rappers of all time list and said that Marshall Mathers is in top 5 just because he’s a white rapper.
“Eminem was handpicked by Dre, yes, but Dre did not necessarily make him. He had to make himself. Much like Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar got recognized by Dre but if you look at what Kendrick has done, he has built himself. That’s what Eminem did. And here is a thing I wanna say as an emcee. There is no way you can not give him his props. Because it does not matter what color this dude is, he’s spit out some of the hardest bars and verses and style-flips and conceptual songs that anybody has ever heard.” said B-Real
Then he continues: “So for me, in my opinion, he’s one of the GOATs and he has earned all that respect. To me color is not an issue. He was the best to ever do it. One of the best to ever do it. Is he the best? Again, it’s subjective. Other folks think Jay-Z, other folks think Lil Wayne, other folks think it’s Biggie, other folks think its Pac, other folks think KRS-1. It’s all subjective but to say Eminem does not deserve this props, well, that’s your opinion. It may not be good one but it’s yours and that’s fine. In my list, Eminem is one of the best and he deserves all those props. When they ask me who’s your top 5 emcees, the top meaningful to me as emcees, are Em, KRS and Jay-Z. This is my top 3. It’s just my opinion and you might not agree. Em earned all his respect.”
“Eminem came from battle rap world. So he gotta be on fire. And he was. He was known for eating people up in a battle world. He also knew how to write a song, a catchy song, an anthem song. So, he not necessarily mastered the best of both worlds, but he is tapped in to both worlds in a way no one else is. And that is something very hard to do. It’s very rare when emcees do this. How do you not give this dude his due. And on top of that, he sold millions. I think he’s a number one selling artist in hip-hop. How can you not give him his dues. He still sells. he got fans. He got hard core fans. I know that Eminem would take Melle Mel out in this time because he has been doing that. When he does features, he’s going after the head of whoever he’s doing features with. And if you don’t hear that my dude, there’s more than that. Eminem is just different beast.”
“If I was to get a call and Eminem says I want to do a song with you, I already know he’s going to try to take my head off. Friendly-style cause we are competitive and we are friends and we got love for each other but I know he’s gonna flex a verse to make me work. That song with him and Busta, s–t’s crazy. You know the first guy to put me on to Eminem was Busta Rhymes. We were on tour and we was like ‘hey man you heard this kid Slim Shady? he has got crazy bars!’ And he starts repeating like first four bars of My Name Is.”
“Em was always cool with us. He was always giving up props. He shouted us out on many different songs. Sometimes I could not understand. My dude just gives us so much love that he does not have to. That’s something that I respect and appreciate. When he got nominated into the Hall Of Fame he shouted out all those groups and he threw us in there as well. He constantly chills us up. He’s a person that does not have to. That’s what’s so dope about him. He recognizes what fed him. What inspired him. And he told Hall Of Fame board that ‘hey you all have to recognize these folks cause they made me.’ And that’s big because the guys in his position don’t have to do it. They just walk in there and thank fans, family, agents and f–k off. But he did not. He’s a student of the game. He respects the artists that came before him.” – B-real added.
After that, B-Real and Psycho Les talk working and touring with Eminem. You can watch the entire interview below:
Eminem’s hit single “Mockingbird” from Encore (2004) album has now surpassed ONE BILLION streams on Spotify, becoming Slim Shady’s seventh song to achieve this accolade on the streaming platform.
After going viral on TikTok, the song has gained over 400 million plays in the last year alone on Spotify. The music video of the song, which features footages of him, his daughter and ex-wife, has almost 750 million views on YouTube.
Below is the list of most streamed Eminem songs on Spotify.
Lose Yourself – 1.69 billion streams;
Till I Collapse (ft. Nate Dogg) – 1.59 billion streams;
Without Me – 1.51 billion streams;
The Real Slim Shady – 1.28 billion streams;
Love The Way You Lie (ft. Rihanna) – 1.15 billion streams;
Godzilla (ft. Juice WRLD) – 1.11 billion streams;
Mockingbird – 1.01 billion streams;
Rap God – 931 million streams;
Stan (ft. Dido) – 832 million streams;
The Monster (ft. Rihanna) – 825 million;
Not Afraid – 809 million streams;
River (ft. Ed Sheeran) – 754 million streams;
Venom – 640 million streams;
Lucky You (ft. Joyner Lucas) – 628 million streams;
Shazam! Fury of the Gods is a superhero movie based on the DC Comics character Shazam. The film is the sequel to Shazam! (2019) and the 12th installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The movie is directed by David F. Sandberg and written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan, and stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, Meagan Good, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou, and Helen Mirren.
A sequel to Shazam! began development shortly after that film’s release in April 2019, with Gayden returning as writer. Sandberg and Levi (Shazam) were also set to return by that December. The title and rest of the returning cast were confirmed in August 2020, including Asher as Billy Batson. Zegler, Mirren, and Liu were cast as the daughters of Atlas in early 2021. Filming began that May in Atlanta, Georgia, and concluded in August.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods premiered at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood on March 9, 2023, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on March 17, 2023.
The newest and the last trailer of the movie features Eminem‘s gold-certified single, “Business,” from The Eminem Show album. In the song, Eminem and Dre use the same superhero theme to get rid of the real villain — bad lyricism.
In his book The Way I Am (p. 175) Eminem shared that as a little boy, he watched Batman on his mom’s black and white TV. He wanted “Business” to be “the rap version” of Batman, with Dre as Batman and himself as Robin. He adds that from the beginning he and Dre planned to “grow beards and get weird.”
You can watch the trailer for Shazam! Fury of the Gods below:
In the latest episode of “People’s Party With Talib Kweli,” Kweli sits down with iconic rapper, writer, producer, and original member of the legendary Juice Crew: MASTA ACE, where the two talked about many things, including Eminem.
Talib Kweli: Now, Eminem…One of the best emcees, most famous, most well-known, he has talked about spending the whole summer listening to the “SlaughtaHouse” album, it’s interesting cause if you a rap fan you can clearly hear your influence on Eminem’s cadence, metaphor-wise, flow-wise. How is that make you feel?
Masta Ace: It’s absolutely an honor. To me, I don’t hear myself in him cause the stuff he was doing he was on another stratosphere with the wordplay. So, when people say they hear similarities, I’m like ‘I was not rhyming like that! That’s another level!’ The respect goes both ways. The first time I met him, he told me that, when “SlaughtaHouse” came out, he was broke, he was hanging out with his boys, D12. And they were just driving around in Detroit, playing “SlaughtaHouse” joint. And I was like ‘WOW.’ I would have never thought that. Never in the million years thought that, so it was an honor. Definitely a big honor.
Eminem has cited Masta Ace as one of his biggest influences when growing up. The two even jumped on a 2000 track together, titled “Hellbound” which also features J-Black, from Game Over compilation album.
Eminem’s Spotify monthly listeners are increasing dramatically day by day. When it was a physical copies era in the music industry, Eminem set the Guinness World Record with The Marshall Mathers LP becoming the fastest selling hip-hop album of all time. When it was digital era, Eminem became the first ever artist to sell 1 million downloads with “Not Afraid” from Recovery album and now Slim Shady is conquering the streaming era.
Marshall Mathers has just hit 68.65 million monthly listeners, surpassing Drake with 68.55 million. He is currently 7th most streamed artists in Spotify history with more than 33.5 billion streams in total. The only rap artist that is ahead of him is Drake with a massive 55 billion streams.
Slim Shady currently has six singles with over 1 billion streams, 67 songs with over 100 million streams, 229 songs over 10 million streams and 268 song with over 1 millions streams.
Most monthly listeners by rapper
1. Eminem – 68.65 million
2. Drake – 68.55 million
3. Bad Bunny – 64.1 million
4. 21 Savage – 61.0 million
5. Kanye West – 52.2 million
Most streamed rappers
1. Drake – 55.9 Billion
2. Eminem – 33.5 Billion
3. Post Malone – 31.8 Billion
4. Kanye West – 28.1 Billion
5. Juice WRLD – 24.4 Billion
This is the first time Eminem has been number one rapper on Spotify and the first time a rapper who debuted in the 90s is No. 1 on the platform. Most streamed Eminem song on Spotify is his iconic single, Grammy and Oscar winning “Lose Yourself” with almost 1.7 billion streams.
Second greatest hits album by Eminem, Curtain Call 2, is now eligible for platinum certification in the United States for selling 1 million album-equivalent units in the country.
The compilation double album was released on August 5, 2022, by Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records, and Interscope Records. The album covers the most recent years of Eminem’s career, since his return to music from his hiatus, starting from the release of Relapse in 2009 to Music To Be Murdered By from 2020.
CC2 also includes four new songs, “The King and I” featuring CeeLo Green (featured in the soundtracks album of the Elvis movie), “From the D 2 the LBC” featuring Snoop Dogg, “Is This Love (’09)” featuring 50 Cent and “Rap God” (Mr. Cii Remix).
The album debuted at No. 6 on the US Billboard 200 charts, earning 43,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. Curtain Call 2 was the best-selling album of the week in pure sales, with 18,000 copies sold. It also debuted at No.3 on the UK Albums Chart.
The co-founder of Interscope Records, Jimmy Iovine, has celebrated his 70th birthday last night in Los Angeles. It looks like it was a special day for the music industry mogul as Eminem, Paul Rosenberg and Elton John were special guest at a party.
The video of Eminem and his long-time friend and manager Paul Rosenberg leaving Jimmy’s house was released by Daily Mail on social media.
The affair was attended by other entertainment industry giants like Elton John, Naomi Campbell, and Rich Paul.
Check out the video below and make sure to stay tuned on this page for more pictures and videos.
🚨 Eminem, ontem à noite, saindo de uma residência particular em Los Angeles, onde comemorou aniversário de 70 anos de Jimmy Iovine.
“Last One Standing,” a song by Skylar Grey, featuring Polo G, Mozzy, and Eminem is now certified Gold by RIAA in the United States, meaning the single has now sold more than 500,000 units in the country.
The DJ Frank E and Danny Majic produced song was made for the 2021 movie Venom: Let There Be Carnage. The song was released on September 30, 2021, the day before the release of the film. The track debuted at No. 78 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts, making it Skylar Grey’s first entry on the chart as a lead artist and Mozzy’s first overall entry on the chart.
Skylar Grey celebrated her achievement on Twitter. “This is a first for me! Through all my years in this game and all the gold and platinum records I’ve been a part of, this is the first time MY NAME’S AT THE TOP,” she writes. “And did this s–t as an INDIE artist! Thank you to Mozzy, Polo G and Eminem.”
Then she continues: “Thanks to the FANS for streaming sharing downloading listening!!!!! Could not have achieved this without each and every one of you…. So grateful so blessed.”
(1/3) This is a first for me! Through all my years in this game and all the gold and platinum records I’ve been a part of, this is the first time MY NAME’S AT THE TOP. And did this s–t as an INDIE artist! Thank you to @Polo_Capalot @MozzyThaMotove @Eminem#DanielMajic… pic.twitter.com/cUsbiGShbz
Couple of years ago, Skylar Grey talked about how the song came together: “The hook of ‘Last One Standing’ I had like five years. When I write a lot of songs sometimes they don’t find a home and they just sit in a Dropbox folder for years. This is one of those situations but it was just a hook and a track and when we find out Sony Pictures wanted to use it for Venom we decided to put some rappers on it. Polo G and Mozzy where first rappers we got on it. And I have a history of working with Eminem. He did the first Venom movie titled song. So I was like it would make sense to have him on this too because it would pay homage to the original so I hit him up and he agreed to get on it so here we are.”
“I used to say ‘oh I do not get star-struck’ but I was just traying to be too cool. I still get star-struck working with Eminem. I listened to him since I was a kid and I can not believe he has been so supportive. We have done over a dozen songs together and whether he knows it or not he is like my mentor but it is just weird and yeah I am still star-struck by that.” – says Skylar.
During the recent interview with Numéro Netherlands, Skylar revealed that she is re-recorded greatest hits album will probably include Last One Standing, among other big hits like “Love The Way You Lie” and “I Need A Doctor.”
This might be the first RIAA certification for Grey as a lead singer but she has numerous platinum certifications, including double platinum “I Need A Doctor” with Eminem and Dr. Dre and platinum “Glorious” with Macklemore.
Swifty McVay of D12 is a recent rapper to weigh in on Melle Mel’s statement about the reason of Eminem being in the top 5 rappers of all time is because he is white.
In a recent interview with The Art Of Dialogue, Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five shared his opinion about Eminem being in the Top 5 rappers of all time list by Billboard and Vibe magazines: “Obviously, he’s a capable rapper. If we talk about sales and he sold more than everybody, okay, if we talk about rhyme style, okay, he got a rhyme style. But he is white! He is white! If Eminem was just another ni–a like the rest of us, would he be top 5 on that list when a ni–a can rhyme just as good as him is 35?! They had records and all that.”
50 Cent, Fat Joe, Papoose, Kxng Crooked, Kevin Gates, O’shea Jackson and Page Kennedy have all come together to defend Eminem against Melle Mel’s comments. To respond the backlash, Melle Mel recorded 8 minutes video from the guy where he defends his statement:
Melle Mel recorded a video from the gym where he says: “I said, Eminem is only number five on the list because he was white. I guess that started the uproar. Everybody is just so angry that I would say that. I’ve been branded a racist but that’s impossible, I’ve been playing with all the different kind of people in my life. Eminem made record, I guess it is called “White America,” where he said that he would be less popular if he was not white. So now we basically said the same thing. This is what Eminem says (plays White America where Eminem raps “Let’s do the math, if I was black, I woulda sold half I ain’t have to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that”) He also has another record “Till I Collapse” where he named five or six individuals that he put himself behind these five or six individuals. And I have said that he would not be in the top 5 other than the fact that he was white. He said that.”
Back in 2021, in an interview with VLAD TV, Melle Mel said he would easily beat Eminem in a rap battle: “I would easily beat Eminem in a battle. It would be the easiest thing I ever did. Easy. Technically he is a great rapper but I’m the greatest. I know how to write it. When I put it down it’s gonna stay down. It would be the easiest thing that I ever did. And when people bring that up, just say ‘you can’t beat Eminem’. I’ve been doing this all my life. I don’t even write how I used to write but still, easy. Rap is my destiny. Everybody that’s out there rapping, they all trying to do something that I did 40 years ago.”
Now Swifty McVay is ironically asking the hip-hop pioneer to actually go in a rap battle with Eminem and prove his point. “You got an opinion OG and you are an architect of this, but if you so competitive do a diss track for the culture and lets see how that works out for you [laughing emjis]. Just saying.” – McVay commented under one of the Instagram posts.
One of the most iconic figures in hip-hop, Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five has recently done an interview with The Art Of Dialogue where the hip-hop pioneer shared his thoughts about Eminem being in the Top 5 rappers of all time list by Billboard/Vibe magazine.
“Obviously, he’s a capable rapper. If we talk about sales and he sold more than everybody, okay, if we talk about rhyme style, okay, he got a rhyme style. But he is white! He is white! If Eminem was just another ni–a like the rest of us, would he be top 5 on that list when a ni–a can rhyme just as good as him is 35?! They had records and all that.” said Melle Mel.
Following his comments, Fat Joe, 50 Cent, Kxng Crooked, Kevin Gates have all come to defense of Eminem by disagreeing Melle Mel. The latest celebrity to weigh in on the topic is Ice Cube’s son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., who portraited his father in Straight Outta Compton movie.
The Los Angeles, California-born actor and rapper responded one of the users on Twitter who shared Melle Mel’s quote. “Bro we gotta cut this s–t out like Eminem ain’t one of the baddest on the planet. How many white rappers haven’t even been able to sniff his impact or success. #Himinem.” – wrote O’Shea in reply. You can check the tweet below:
Bro we gotta cut this s–t out like Eminem ain’t one of the baddest on the planet. How many white rappers haven’t even been able to sniff his impact or success. #Himinemhttps://t.co/PyBjekRnMu
— O’Shea Jack(Nichol)son (@OsheaJacksonJr) March 8, 2023
After going viral with “HOPE,” the lead single and title track off his upcoming 5th solo studio album, rapper and producer NF has just returned with another track from the new project, titled “MOTTO.” Like its predecessor, “MOTTO” quickly climbed into the Top 10 on the Genius Top Songs chart and collected 2 million views on YouTube within 24 hours.
Produced by NF himself, “MOTTO” finds the Michigan born emcee, whose real name is Nathan Feuerstein, reflecting on his chosen path to success—and he has absolutely no regrets. He has some choice words for any critics of his career choices on the second verse.
“(Oh, snap) This is the industry… (Oh, yeah) Would’ve gave anything / To be respected by the artist I was listening to / but not no more, them days are history.” – NF raps.
As fans believe, the line could be shot at Eminem. Feuerstein has credited Em as his prime influence in hip hop, claiming that at one point Slim Shady was all he listened to.
People also believe that Eminem has previously sneak dissed NF on “The Ringer,” song from Kamikaze album. In the song, the Detroit hip-hop icon raps:
“I’d just be like everyone else in the f–king industry / Especially an effing Recovery clone of me (NFing)”
Fans in the social media are speculating that the young rapper is definitely responding Eminem on his new song. “NF FINALLY RESPONDS TO EMINEM’S DISS. The Ringer is from 2018, and Motto is from 2023.” One user said. Another said: “NF is most likely talking about Eminem in this clip. Eminem allegedly called out NF in his 2018 track “The Ringer”
