Brendan Allen made a big statement during main event at UFC Vegas 70 after third round win over Andre Muniz. Originally scheduled as the co-main event, the middleweights got the bump to the top of the card after Nikita Krylov suffered food poisoning that scrapped his matchup against Ryan Spann.
With a chance to shine under an even brighter spotlight, Allen made the most of his opportunity after displaying strong striking before eventually taking Muniz to the ground and wrapping up a rear-naked choke to finish the noted Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist.
The Eminem Curse is back as Andre Muniz walked out to Eminem’s Oscar and Grammy-winning song “Lose Yourself” and lost the fight. As you might know, there is a theory in UFC that MMA fighters who walk out to Eminem’s music lose more frequently. The theory bears similarities to other culture and sport curse crossovers including Drake with basketball and American football games across the pond.
Eminem’s Spotify monthly listeners are increasing dramatically. When there was a physical copies era, Eminem set the Guinness World Record, when it was digital era, Eminem became the first ever artist to sell 1 million downloads and now he’s aiming to dominate the streaming era.
Slim Shady has just hit 68 million monthly listeners, surpassing Justin Bieber (67.9 million) and is less than a million shy to surpass Drake (68.7 million).
Eminem is currently 8th most streamed artists in Spotify history with more than 33.5 billion streams in total. The only rap artist that is ahead is Drake with a massive 55 billion streams.
Em 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. Drake – 68.6 million
2. Eminem – 68.1 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
Most streamed Eminem song on Spotify is his iconic single, Grammy and Oscar winning “Lose Yourself.”
In the latest episode of Tony The Closer, Benzino spoke about his upbringing in Boston, visiting his father in jail, being involved in hip-hop and beefing with Eminem.
“Do I regret beefing with Eminem? Hell no. We gonna be dead a lot longer than us when we was on this earth and it’s about the name you leave, the legacy you leave. When we went at Eminem it was not a go at him personally. It was not to go at white people. It was who I was and what I stood for. What I believed. And the position I was in.” said Benzino.
Then he continues: “Eminem thing started as me saying a couple of words on a mixtape that was buried like a number 19 out of 20. Somehow he heard it and really got crazy. Once that happened, he went on Hot 97 and said a whole bunch of s–t. That was a major platform. I did not appreciate that because I’m still street ni–a and I know he is not. Now, he’s on the platform and he got other people talk s–t about me and I’m like ‘yo this never happened before.’ I was not used to that. That’s why I flexed The Source power in there. What man is not gonna flex the power he got in any situation. I just did what everybody else would do.”
“I don’t live with regrets because. I believed that hip-hop was given to us to help out the melanated people and now all because a white man comes in and he’s supposed to get caught blank with special treatment. 500 years from now, people are going to looking at us, they’ll look at history and say ‘damn, this hip-hop artists doing great back then’ and then they are gonna see ‘who is most streamed and most sold’ and Eminem’s face is gonna pop. That bothers me because its out culture. Its ours. It’s black people’s culture. What should somebody else get the credit to be the face of it.”
“They want to give us Eminem and he’s the greatest, and he is the most… No! It’s not fair, man. My thing is.. The only regret I have is not going harder. We are different kind of rappers, lyrically. I don’t rap about what he raps about. I’m not into the rap like that. I didn’t grow up listening to rap like that. I could relate to what was going on in my hood. You don’t have to be super lyrical. I like lyrical people too. Nas, Jay, they could put words together good. But “kakakaka” I’m not into that rap type. No disrespect. When he was disrespecting me, he was disrespecting my street credit. And my street credit was A1 and still is.”
“When you look at Eminem and his fan, they are the most craziest disrespectful fans that we have in the culture” – Benzino added.
You can watch the interview below. An Eminem talk starts at 25:12 timestamp.
Comedian Bobby Lee has recently chatted with Joe Rogan Red Ban on Joe Rogan Experience where he talked about first time meeting Eminem and Dr. Dre.
“I did one of his music videos [We Made You]. I got a call saying ‘come down now cause they need you.’ I came down and I did three sketches. I played Sulu, then I played an Eskimo. He is nice. I had not met him before and I got to meet Dr. Dre which is great. He has huge black hand that takes my little hand it surrounds my hand and it’s so dry and perfect. [Everyone laughs]. And he is so gentle, like a giant gentle. He’s huge. He is a kind guy. I grew up on NWA. So it was great.” says Bobby Lee.
Back in 2009, Eminem released music video of “We Made You” from Relapse album which featured cameos from 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Oxen, Lisa Ann and Bobby Lee among others.
Couple of years ago, in an interview with Steve-O’s Wild Ride Bobby spoke on how he ended up on Eminem’s music video: “One time I was in a Korean restaurant with my girlfriend and this Korean guy comes up to me and he was like ‘hey dude, I like your comedy, I’m director, you wanna do music videos?!’ and I don’t know what it was but I gave my number. So a week later, that dude texted me: ‘tomorrow, music video, Eminem and Dr. Dre!’, I was like, WHAT?!”
“He gave me an address, I show up and next thing I know I’m in a f–kin van with Dr. Dre and Marshall, Eminem! And I’m doing one of their music videos. It’s called ‘We Made You.’ This guy was a f**king director of Eminem’s music video.” Bobby added.
Battle rapper Math Hoffa is the latest hip-hop head who was asked who has had bigger impact on hip-hop, Eminem or Jay-Z.
During the conversation with Shaquille O’Neal on his new podcast called The Big Podcast, Jamal Crawford drew the parallel to hip-hop to rank his top five NBA players of all time and used Eminem and JAY-Z’s impact as an example and said: “In my top five, the dominance outweighs the number. You can not change the game and say this person has more points than me, he is better. It is beyond that. Jay-Z’s affect on hip-hop is bigger than any album sales Eminem will have. That is just how it goes.” It seems Don Canon does not agree.
Jamal Crawford’s statement sparked lots of discussions in social media and 50 Cent also weighed in. The Hip-Hop Wolf Instagram page posted Crawford’s interview and asked fans if they agree to the statement or not. Under the comment section, Fifty replied: “Ha, bulls–t.” with Sneezing Face emoji.
No Jumper podcast host Almighty Suspect also denied Crawford’s statement: “Bro, I can name like six Eminem clones right now. Hopsin, DAX, Logic, MGK, that white McDonald dude that white dude who’s is making If-I-Was-Black songs. Joyner Lucas is one of them too. That’s the six. I’m not naming rappers that look like Eminem. I’m naming rappers who are actual clones of Eminem. I just named six. Tell me, name me, six Jay-Z clones.”
The topic has also recently been discussed on New Rory & Mall podcast with Don Canon who is a DJ, record producer, songwriter, record executive, co-founder of the Atlantic Records imprint, Generation Now. Cannon has produced tracks and albums for artists like Jeezy, Logic, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, 50 Cent, and numerous others.
“I hate to answer this questions because for a simple fact that there are so many A, B, C, D, F, Gs. My first time travelling to Japan, Africa and all those places, I will say that Eminem is in more places across the world than I’ve seen Jay-Z. I went to record stores across the countries and I see Eminem and Ludacris everywhere. Eminem’s impact across the world, they have this analogy about what’s the most common thing all around the world and they say stop signs, and most recognizable faces are Michael Jackson, Snoop, Em, maybe Elvis and few others. And those are things that make me feel like, worldwide Em may have the most influence.” – said Canon.
Then he continues: “I would love the hear what Jay has to say. He probably will never talk about that. It’s hard to say. Cause Em done so much. 50 Cent is here. Part of Dre’s second win was them collaborating. D12, the movie 8 Mile, so much came out and one of the Staples in hip-hop is Shade 45. He has had everybody: Us, Sway, Rude Jude, Whoo Kid, Kay Slay. He breeded that. It’s not easy to answer this question. It’s so debatable.”
During the interview with DJ VLAD, one of the hosts of the podcast asked Math Hoffa the viral question, on which he replied: “[Bigger impact had] Whoever mutually inspired both of them. Like LL Cool J, Rakim, Bigg Daddy Kane. Em said he was inspired by AZ.”
Earlier this month, Yelawolf showed off his Elvis ring on Instagram, gifted by former professional skateboarder, stunt performer, television personality, and filmmaker Bam Margera. In the caption, the former Shady Records artist wrote:
“Priscilla gave Bam one of Elvis’s robes and a ring of his as well the other night in L.A .. Bam gifted that ring to me .. it popped on my finger like it was made for me and I can’t lie it was a bit emotional .. Elvis was my first piece of vinyl .. it was also a gift when I was only 7 years old .. some things are just too amazing not to share with you all .. thank you Priscilla and thank you BAM I love you bro .. I’ll cherish this forever !! … TMZ hit BAM about it all .. I added that and a rad selfie of BAM and Priscilla he sent me in the scroll .. I love y’all !!”
Some of the fans questioned the authenticity of the ring. One user commented: “That’s a david Yurman ring (don’t think he was making rings when Elvis was alive).” Another replied: “Not even Elvis’s ring. Lmao! That shiz belongs to bam and so did the robe. Priscilla said she would never disrespect Elvis by giving his stuff away especially to somebody like bam. You got bamboozled bro. Lol!” One user said: “Take this down it’s embarrassing Priscilla issued a statement denying it that’s Bam’s ring he gave u.”
Yelawolf responded to them in an another Instagram post, where Gadsden, Alabama-born rapper and singer revealed a story of Bam confronting Eminem in Germany because he thought Slim Shady signed Yela to keep him down.
In the caption, Yelawolf writes: “All this talk about the Elvis ring gifted to me from Bam .. is it real , fake , stolen ? .. all that’s just making the ring more epic for me .. the one simple fact is my really good friend Bam gave me the ring as a sentiment and as a fan and that’s that .. and trust me it’s not the first time Bam’s done something insane for me .. like rushing Eminem’s Hotel room in Germany cause he thought Shady signing me was a conspiracy to keep me down hahaha .. ( he’s banned permanently from that town for that btw ) point is we got a long history of stunts and for the record, I think he’s a genius .. so look I understand why y’all are mad … But Me and ELVIS AINT !! The rings mine now it’s a wrap”
During the latest episode of Hailie Jade’s “Just A Little Shady” podcast, Evan McClintock revealed that he asked Eminem for permission to ask Hailie to be his future wife. “You went through the whole thing, you went through the whole process. You asked for permission … at a family gathering.” Hailie recalled during the podcast.
On which Evan replied: “Yeah, it was over the holidays. I was just looking for an opportunity not to make it too obvious. I saw your dad go downstairs and I thought, ‘Alright. I got to do it right now or I am not doing it today. I am going to have to schedule some other time. So I just followed him downstairs and thankfully, he was just down there, grabbing your cake.”
Evan also revealed that Hailie’s sister Alaina Marie Mathers helped him out by suggesting him what kind of a ring he had to choose. “She pointed me in the right direction, ultimately.” He then went on to say he became a bit unsure of his ring choice once Hailie told him she had “no idea” what she was looking for in a ring — after he already ordered it. Clearly, everything worked out.
The latest Episode of “Just A Little Shady” podcast, which is titled “Introducing my FIANCÉ”, comes about couple of weeks after she announced their engagement with an Instagram post. It included gorgeous pictures of the sweet couple with a caption: “casual weekend recap…” she began with a crying and heart emoji.” 2.4.23 … i love you @evanmcclintock11.”
Eminem has previously talked a bit about Hailie’s relationship back in 2020 during Hot Boxin’ podcast with Mike Tyson. “No babies. She has a boyfriend, but she’s doing good. She made me proud for sure. … I have a niece that I have helped raise, too, that’s pretty much like a daughter to me, and she is 26, and I have a younger one that’s 17 now. So, when I think about my accomplishments, that’s probably the thing I am the most proud of is that — is being able to raise kids.”
You can watch the latest episode of “Just A Little Shady” podcast below:
Canibus has recently sat down with Math Hoffa on his My Expert Opinion podcast where the former king of the underground hip-hop recalled first time meeting Eminem at his video shoot and how the beef affected his personality.
“When I met Eminem for the first time, it was at my video shoot for “I Honor U.” Clef told me he was coming. I had heard of him. I heard a lot about him. I knew he rocked with The Outsidaz and stuff. I knew he got busy. I had no problems with meeting him. At that time, it was a newborn on the set. The label was spanking us. Two weeks before that to say this newborn in the video. When that newborn gets here, they are charging us with $400 over sag every minute for the baby being there so they spanked everybody prior to all that. When Eminem came out of the bench glitter wagon, he was with Jimmy Iovine and when he came out: “NEWBORN ON THE SET, YOU ALL KNOW WHAT TO DO” so I was already under that pressure. I remember that part.” said Canibues.
Then he continues: “Em pushed up like ‘Yo, Canibus I just wanna work with you. I wanna do something with you.’ I was told right before he got there, like five minutes before he got there, he ghostwrote The Ripper Strikes Back [LL Cool J’s diss song towards Canibus]. Back then, I didn’t know what was gong on. I had to rely on what I was being told. Especially if it came from the source that I trusted or I thought it was reliable. At the end of the day, it was not reliable source cause he didn’t write it. So my conversation with Em was like ‘Yo, why did you write that’ he said he was embarrassed and that he didn’t write it. But I had destroyed the opportunity to ever really work with him again because he really was genuine about how he felt was going on. In my mind I was like, ‘why would you do that, why would you want to work so bad with me and you ghostwrote that?!’ I didn’t know, so that destroyed everything.”
“And I wisened up. He get busy. At that time, I was in that lane getting busy on the mic. He also had this thing where the stuff that he was talking about everybody wanted to hear that. Everybody wanted to hear what he said, how he said. There is rhyme where he says, in ‘Square Dance,’ He said, ‘Two trailer park girls go round the outside, Round the outside, round the outside.’ That was the rhyme I had said from ‘Box Cutta’ Blade Runna’. So he was doing things like that. Saying things in the rhyme that was driving me crazy. He was driving me nuts!”
“I was in Amsterdam, in the Red-light district and I was in the room with Shorty and she ran over the radio and as I’m listening to music and then I hear Em’s voice come on and I feel like he’s talking about me! [Everybody Laughs]. That song was award-winning song, for you and the rest of the world that song was incredible. Songwriting all that. Anyway, I don’t care what non of you say, that record was talking to me because that’s what happened when I was rude to him and then he took his style and his ability how he writes in his mind and he turned it into that. That’s what was driving me crazy. I created the monster. It was my fault. But at that time I was not looking at it like that. I was looking at it like ‘yo, my label needs to do more with me to push my s–t.’ I didn’t understand that there was an institution involved in that whole craze. It was a tsunami.”
“And that Stan record. I don’t care what you talking about. I brought him back to life. That was my way of writing back to say ‘hey look I shouldn’t said what I said but you know what? I brought Stan back to life, come on tour with me. That was my way of saying ‘yo, don’t kill Stan off.’ and whoever was listening they were mad that I was trying to bring him back to life.”
“I never talked to Em since then. A lot of people throw gas on it but the truth about it is that I tried to clean it up in different ways. It almost seemed like the public liked me better as an angry artist. Me saying angry things. They did not want to hear me when I did the song Channel Zero or these kind of stuff. So the truth about it is, I just really needed a hug, man.” – Canibus added.
On this day, (February 23, 1999), Eminem released his major-label debut, critically-acclaimed, chart-topping, multi-platinum and Grammy-winning album “The Slim Shady LP,” mostly produced by legendary producers from Detroit, Mark and Jeff Bass, also know as Bass Brothers.
Jeff Bass is considered as one of the most influential people in Eminem’s incredible career. Although Interscope Records marketed Dr. Dre as Eminem’s major producer, the Bass Brothers have in fact produced more individual tracks for Eminem than Dre. Jeff Bass performed the “Public Service Announcements” that introduce both The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP.
Most of Eminem’s chart-topping hit singles have been either produced by Dre (“My Name Is”, “The Real Slim Shady”, and “Just Lose It”) or Jeff Bass (“Without Me”, “Beautiful”, and “Lose Yourself”). Both have won Grammy Awards for their work with Eminem. Jeff Bass won a Best Original Song Oscar in 2003 for co-writing “Lose Yourself” from the No. 1 box office movie, 8 Mile.
Although the brothers no longer do significant production for Eminem, Slim Shady has stated that they maintain a positive and close relationship as they have attended Eminem’s recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony. As it appears, Bass Brothers are down to the idea of making the sequel of “The Slim Shady LP.” Few hours ago, Jake Bass, who is a son of Jeff Bass, shared the initiative statement on Twitter: “The Basses are still making music and they say they’d love to work with Eminem again. Jeff relishes the idea of Slim Shady LP sequel.” In the caption, he wrote: “It’s time for a sequel @Eminem.” You can check the post below:
It has been almost a decade since the legendary rapper LL Cool J dropped his last full-length body of work, titled “Authentic” in 2013, and for the past few years, the Bay Shore, New York-born rapper has been teasing the release of a new material.
Yesterday, LL vented his frustrations on Twitter, writing that his next project is not “worthy of being released.” As it turns out, it was a marketing trick. In the deleted tweets, Cool J said he was “really trying” to figure it out but he’s “not feeling like this album is worthy of being released.” He did leave one tweet up where he simply states he’s “not dropping it.” But later he posted a video on Instagram, explaining how he trick the hip-hop world: “Everybody’s been asking me about the new record and my decision. And, I was considering putting this record out because IT’S TOO F–KING GOOD! Q-Tip, you are genius baby. Yo, that’s my favorite album I ever made. I can’t wat for you all to hear this. Date and tracklist coming soon!”
Earlier this month, during an interview with E! News, the iconic rapper spoke highly about his new album: “I know all the tricks. I got this covered. I think honestly and sincerely that Q-Tip as a producer is unbelievable and what he did on this record for me, I think is amazing. So the world will decide. The album, I think, is really, really special. I think it’s something it’s modern without chasing. It’s a whole new thing. I can’t wait for the people to see it.”
Eminem has named LL as his biggest influence numerous times. The two have recently performed at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony and the chances of Em being on his new album is high. LL and Slim Shady also have a song in vault that has never seen the light of the day. In 2014, LL spoke highly about the track: “Me and Em, we have a song, he just recently let me listen to his verse and it is just crazy, he is chainsaw and s**t. It is good! I think people will be pleasantly surprised when they hear me and him rapping together. It is the first time we did something together and shout out to Em and Rosenberg and to his whole crew, staff, everybody… This is a record that I think people gonna be excited… What I did with Em is super HOT!”
We are eagerly waiting for tracklist and release date! Check official post by LL Cool J below.
Couple of weeks ago, Horseshoe G.A.N.G. released new project called DEME LOVEWIN KENNY, the follow-up of their 2020 album Music To Riot To, featuring Kxng Crooked, Dice and Mad Man.
The 7-track EP includes a song “Nice Me,” which features guest appearance from Crooked I and Dice and is produced by one and only Eminem.
“New Horseshoe G.A.N.G. out now!! I am featured on “Nice Me” produced by the homie Marshall Bruce Mathers the 3rd.. Run it up!!” tweeted Crooked on Friday (Feb. 11, 2023).
Now, the California rapper and his brothers have released the music video for “Nice Me,” which features Crooked I’s Crook’s Corner interview with Eminem as an intro. “Do you feel your name is mentioned enough in the producers conversation? Cause I don’t.” asks Kxng, on which Eminem replies: “I don’t know. No, I don’t.”
Freeway has recently sat down with VLAD TV where North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-born rapper talked about jumping on a track “8 Miles and Runin'” with Jay-Z for Eminem’s 8 Mile: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture album.
“I remember when Jay put me on that joint. I came to studio and he was like ‘I got something for you, come here.’ He put the beat on and he’s like ‘yeah this is for 8 Mile soundtracks for Eminem’ and told me to put the verse on it. I’m in there, taking my time. I didn’t know if Eminem’s gonna be on the record, I just knew what he told me. So, I’m like, I gotta take time for this joint. So I’m in there, probably working like an hour and then Jay comes in the room like ‘do you need weed man, what’s wrong with you, what it taking you so long?'” said Freeway.
Then he continues: “And then I finished that joint up. Got it done and he actually brought me some weed too because he must have thought I was sleeping a little bit. I actually wanted to take a time with it because I knew it was going to be a special joint. It’s a blessing to be on there.”
“One thing about big hommie [Jay-Z], he always gave us fair shot and that was a fair shot for me to take off.” he added.
You can watch the interview below and listen to the song after the jump below:
“8 Miles And Runin'” is an Eminem-produced song by Jay-Z, featuring Roc-A-Fella Records-signed rapper Freeway, from 8 Mile soundtracks album. In the song, Hov reminisces the times when he was broke and how people act have changed since then. The name of the song “8 Miles And Runnin’” is a reference to the N.W.A song “100 Miles And Runnin’”.
