Eminem’s Spotify listeners are increasing day by day on Spotify. Today Eminem added almost 200,000 listeners, reaching its new peak of 66,943,153 people that listen to Slim Shady monthly. Check out some interesting Spotify statistics for Em below:
Album Streams:
The Eminem Show – 5.1 Billion Streams.
Recovery – 3.7 Billion Streams.
The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – 3.4 Billion streams.
The Marshall Mathers LP – 3.3 Billion streams.
Music To Be Murdered By – 3.2 Billion streams.
Kamikaze – 3 Billion streams.
Encore – 2.2 Billion streams.
Relapse – 1.9 Billion streams.
Revival – 1.8 Billion streams.
The Slim Shady LP – 1.3 Billion streams.
Most streamed songs:
Lose Yourself – 1.7 Billion streams.
Till I Collapse (ft. Nate Dogg) – 1.6 Billion streams.
Without Me – 1.5 Billion streams.
The Real Slim Shady – 1.3 Billion streams.
Love The Way You Lie (ft. Rihanna) – 1.2 Billion streams.
We have heard this story before but in a recent interview, DJ Whoo Kid revisited the story of Eminem shooting up his hotel room while touring with D12 and G-Unit in Japan in 2003.
“We fall asleep and we were like two groupies. Japanese chicks does not speak English but I just DJed in front of Eminem so these girls were back there to f–k us. One fell asleep and and her friend was acting weird. Then she fall asleep on the couch. We don’t lock our doors cause Yakuza’s outside. But Eminem was like at 3 A.M. walking around hallways and he sees my door open and he kicks my door in and the girl that was on the couch wakes up. Eminem has a mask and he just starts shooting. The girl sees him and she faints. She thought she was gonna get killed or something. She wakes us up and she’s screaming. I was like, ‘yo he is not trying to kill us.” – says Whoo Kid.
Then he continues: “Then we called police and then police came and they just looking around and nothing happened after that. So day four, we are all in a mess hall, cause Eminem’s s–t is crazy, he has the video game room, when you tour with him it’s like a playland. So no we are in the room to do a sound check and I’m telling everybody what happened but he’s just sitting there like whatever. He didn’t even respond to say that it was him that kicked the door in.”
“He also kicked Proof’s door in and he started shooting with the mask on.” – Whoo Kid
“And four days later, he didn’t even tell nobody that it was him while we were all scared a s–t. He’s Eminem. He’s joker, a wildest kid. He never told us it was him. We were like why you never told us so we could have no anxiety.” he added.
To promote her new single, Lana Del Rey has recently done a conversation with another pop superstar, Billie Eilish. During the interview Lana revealed that Eminem and Country music was the only thing she heard before moving in New York.
DEL REY: I will also say, in terms of everyone who’s paved the way for me, the way Cat Power delivered her songs in the ’90s and in the early 2000s, and even now—we’ve toured together and I’ve told her so many times, “I should be opening for you.” I was a high soprano, which you can kind of tell in the way that I talk, but her low tones, I would practice them the way she sang that song where she’s like, [sings] “Bay-be-doll.” I was like, “Oh my gosh, I could sing like that.” I realized I had a low register too. And when I learned that she played a big concert in New York with her back turned to the audience, that was when I realized I might have a chance. Then, I watched this documentary when I was 20 called The Devil and Daniel Johnston with my boyfriend at the time, Artie Levine, and seeing that Daniel was super different and he had a bit of a cult following, I realized there might be a chance here. I definitely had my muses, but it was so much later on in life because I didn’t move to New York until I was 18, and that was when I first heard anything other than Eminem, country, and NPR. All of a sudden, I got a f—ng crash course in music.
EILISH: Everything you’re saying is blowing my mind out of my skull. You will never understand how much of an impact that you have had on me in my life.
This is not the first time Lana Del Rey mentioned Eminem in a positive way. Back in 2012, the singer told RNB Junk in Milan that Slim Shady’s music changed her life: “He really changed my life because I didn’t know music could be intelligent. He was talking about his own life, and he wasn’t just rhyming over music for rhyme’s sake… That made me think I could talk about the way things were instead of just making stupid music.”
“Eminem really changed my life because I didn’t know music could be intelligent.”
– Lana Del Rey
That did not stop Eminem to play on Lana’s name in his 2014 Shady Records cypher: “Play nice? B–ch I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance/ ’Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens.”
As for Billie Eilish, in her 2019 interview with Noisey magazine, revealed that she was scared of Eminem when growing up. When asked to choose her favorite rapper between Eminem and Childish Gambino, she admitted: ”I have to say Childish Gambino, one billion percent. I was scared of Eminem my whole life. Terrified. That dude freaked the f–k out of me. Oh my god.”
Em kind of responded Billie in his 2020 song “Alfred’s Theme,” from Music To Be Murdered By album with the following lines: “I’m just fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes / Which is really childish and silly, but I’m really like this / I’m giving nightmares to Billie Eilish, I’m Diddy’s side b–ch.”
For the full conversation between Lana Del Rey and Billie Eilish, visit Interview Magazine. And listen to Lana’s new song below:
Back in 2015, Tech N9ne landed a big dream collaboration when Kansas City, Missouri-born rapper featured Slim Shady in his song titled “Speedom (WWC3)”.
The same year, in a interview with BET, Tech said Eminem verse did not cost him a penny. According to him, Em only wanted his verse in return.
“Eminem did the verse for nothing but a swap. I was flabbergasted cause I know it cost so much to get Eminem and it’s worth every penny. For him to say, ‘I just want a song from you for this’, that made me feel really beautiful that he felt that way about my music.” said Tech N9ne.
Then he continued: “I haven’t spoken to this guy since the early 2000s or something, and it’s wonderful how that worked out. The fact that he feels like my music is that good that he would wanna do that for me is incredible. For one, do the song for me and then say, ‘No no no, I just want you to give me a song for this’ I’m like ‘Yes!’ That feels so good man”.
Eminem used Tech N9ne’s verse for Southpaw movie soundtracks album on a track called “Beast” (Remix) by Rob Bailey and The Hustle Standard, which also featured Kxng Crooked and Busta Rhymes.
In a recent interaction with fans on Twitter, Crooked I revealed that Eminem almost joined the hard-hitting lyrical beast line-up on the track. The Detroit legend has previously collaborated with Kxng Crooked, Tech N9ne and Busta Rhymes in several occasions but the four has never jumped on a track together.
“Em came VERY close to hopping on it.” – Kxng Crooked (Feb. 14, 2023 on Twitter)
He also expressed his desire to work with Eminem again by asking fans who would they prefer to produce a song that features Kxng Crooked, Eminem and Tech N9e. Some of the popular replies include Dr. Dre, DJ Premier and Apollo Brown among others.
South African National Freediving Champion Beth Neale and her Canadian partner, Miles Cloutier has broken the The Guinness World Record for Longest Underwater Kiss in time for Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2023.
The successful world record attempt was carried out at LUX* Resort on Maldives South Ari Atoll, beating the 13-year record of 3 minutes 24 seconds, set by Italian couple Michele Fucarino and Elisa Lazzarini, by 42 seconds.
Breaking the world record for longest underwater kiss had been on the couple’s bucket list for three years, but planning had been previously interrupted when Neale discovered she was pregnant during filming of the duo’s TV series, Freediving Diaries, with their now 18-month-old baby daughter.
Neale and Cloutier spent two weeks training at home in preparation for the record. While the theme may be novel and romantic, breath-holding for more than 4 minutes is no mean feat, especially when officially attempting a Guinness World Record in front of a crowd with an adjudicator present.
“It was challenging getting in a relaxed position while staying together for the kiss and staying upright. You can feel each other’s diaphragmatic contractions, which is the body’s response to rising CO2 levels in the blood.
At the 3-minute mark, I also pressed play on my underwater audio to listen to Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ to keep my mind distracted.
– said Beth Neale in an interview.
Beth Neale also posted a video of herself under water, lip-syncing over “Lose Yourself.” In the caption, she wrote: “All the haters gonna say it’s fake. How many breaths did Eminem have to take?”
We have heard Eminem‘s music played everywhere, even in space when NASA astronauts revealed their playlist in 2020, which included “Till I Collapse,” featuring Nate Dogg. It was also reported that CIA often used Eminem’s “Kim” song to torture people they wanted to get information from.
For the full article about breaking the underwater kiss world record, visit Dive Magazine and revisit Eminem’s iconic Oscar and Grammy-winning, Billboard No.1 and critically acclaimed single “Lose Yourself” from 8 Mile movie below!
For the second time in just four years, the Kansas City Chiefs are NFL Super Bowl champions! The Chiefs, led by star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday.
Harrison Butker kicked a 27-yard field goal with eight seconds left to all but cinch the victory. Mahomes, who threw for three touchdowns and 182 yards, was named the game’s Most Valuable Player. The player was also named the league’s MVP on Thursday.
Rihanna delivered an electrifying and hit-heavy Super Bowl half-time show at Sunday’s Super Bowl, but social media went into meltdown when the singer revealed an unexpected special guest.
Naturally, fans assumed Rihanna would bring out one of the many artists she’s collaborated with during her illustrious career. A guest spot from Jay-Z, Drake or Eminem seemed both likely and in keeping with the half-time show tradition of surprise duets.
The singer may have failed to debut any new music during her performance at Sunday’s Super Bowl, but the baby bump she debuted instead almost broke the internet.
Eminem was not the surprise guest but the National Football League (NFL) used his song “Legacy” from The Marshall Mathers LP 2 album for the promo of the game. You can watch the video below:
Eminem’s “Legacy” plays on the promo video for the #SuperBowl tonight 🐐
In the latest released bonus clip from Netflix’s Kenya Barris-directed romantic comedy movie “You People,” Ezra (played by Jonah Hill) and Mo (played by comic Sam Jay) discuss their Top 5 rappers dead or alive on their podcast called The Mo & E-Z Show.
Ezra: “Yes, in order, that’s why I put numbers in front of every person… Why do I have to keep defending Shady? I mean, his sole purpose is to be on other people’s tracks and murder them. I mean, ‘Renegade’? ‘Dead Wrong’?”
Mo: “Dawg, he’s like, I don’t know the Larry Bird of rap. Hick from French Lick. You know what I mean? He’s not great. He’s great because he’s a white man in a Black man’s game.”
Ezra: That is so stupid. That might be the dumbest s–t you’ve ever said to me.
Billboard and Vibe magazine have recently rolled out the list of 50 Greatest Rappers Of All Time to celebrate Hip-Hop’s 50th anniversary and their top picks were Jay-Z as number one, Kendrick Lamar as number two, Nas as number three, followed by Tupac and Eminem at no. 4 and no. 5 respectively.
Watch the bonus episode with Jonah Hill and Sam Jay below:
Hopsin is back and he’s brining something new to the hip-hop world: Hop-Sinematic Universe which is inspired by one of the biggest composers and music-producers Hans Zimmer, legendary comic book writer and producer Stan Lee, actor and filmmaker Jordan Peele, Detroit’s own hip-hop icon Eminem and Dragon Ball Z creator Akira Toriyama.
In his latest post on Instagram, Panorama City, Los Angeles-born rapper who was heavily inspired by Slim Shady, writes:
“This is not the intro to an album. It is not a tour promo. The question is….What would creativity look like if you fused Hans Zimmer, Stan Lee, Jordan Peele, Eminem and Akira Toriyama (DBZ creator) together?
Then he continues: “I do not have the exact answer, but I want to represent the idea of what that answer could potentially be. I will not lie, Hip hop has become really boring to me. Everyone’s doing the same stuff, pretending to be overly cool in ways that are not true to their nature. We are all just copying everyone to remain “safe”. I have been guilty of it too. I do not want to be safe anymore. So I am going to create truly from the inner child within me, without feeling like I have to fit the mold of whatever a rapper “should be”.”
“I am finally becoming the creator that my mother knew I was destined to be as a child. In a couple weeks, I am dropping again. Welcome to the Hop-Sinematic Universe.” – Hopsin added.
After the announcement, Hop dropped the cinematic music video of his new song “Arrival.” You can watch it below:
Are Megan Fox Machine Gun Kelly breaking up just two days before the Valentine’s Day? The Hollywood actress’ social media act today sparked rumors that she and her fiancé have broken up.
Not only Megan deleted majority of photos with MGK — including last week’s post celebrating his Grammy nomination — but she no longer follows the rapper who turned to punk-rocker.
Instead, Fox’s Instagram account only follows Eminem, Harry Styles and Timothée Chalamet.
Notably, MGK, whose real name is Colson Baker, has beefed with Eminem over the years since calling the rapper’s then-teenage daughter “hot” in 2012.
But actually, it was not the main reason Eminem started dissing MGK. After his Hailie comments, Eminem removed Colson’s songs from his radio station Shade 45. In response, MGK threw shots at Slim Shady on Tech N9ne’s “No Reason” track with the following lines:
“Remind y’all you just rap, you’re not God/And I don’t care who got bars.”
Em eventually got fed up and in response to his critics dropped surprise album ‘Kamikaze‘ – which saw him offering an impassioned diss of Kelly on “Not Alike,” track, featuring Royce Da 5’9″.
“Next time don’t use Tech N9ne to come at me with a sub, machine gun…” he raps.
In response, Kelly released “Rap Devil,” which is recognized as one of the finest disses in modern hip-hop but Eminem put the final nail in the coffin with “Killshot,” a song that made MGK change the genre.
As far as Megan Fox, she famously appeared in Joseph Kahn-directed “Love the Way You Lie” music video. For the video, Kahn considered the British actor Dominic Monaghan as a co-star for his versatility, which he thought would help him play an antagonist. He cast Megan Fox, which he had presumed would be almost impossible because of her popularity with directors. Fox, a fan of Eminem, accepted the role without hesitation.
Ryan Shepard, who made cameos as Eminem’s stunt double in the early 2000s, has tragically died after getting hit by a car while crossing the street in Washington.
“Ryan died in Washington at the end of January after getting hit by an oncoming pickup truck. Emergency responders rushed him to a hospital, but it was too late.” Ryan’s brother Kyle Shepard tells TMZ.
Ryan worked not only as Eminem’s stunt double but also as his photo double and stand-in. He appeared at the MTV Movie Awards 2002 as Eminem’s superhero character, Rap Boy, when Slim Shady performed “Without Me” with Big Proof.
Ryan hit the stage again with Eminem for his 2002 Anger Management Tour, and on his Japan and European tour in 2003. He also appeared in D12’s “Purple Hills” music video from “Devil’s Night” album as Eminem’s double.
His brother told TMZ that Ryan was incredibly intelligent. Going on to work at Disney as a ride mechanical engineer, and eventually moving to Elon Musk’s SpaceX as a test automation engineer.
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.”
Fredo Starr has recently visited VLAD where the two discussed about the same topic. You can check the conversation below.
“That right there is great debate because they both have very powerful impact on hip-hop and not just music. Other ventures, other ways they affected the culture, fashion, movies. They did different things. They are both impactful so Jamal Crawford is one of the illest ball-handlers in the game but his perspective is his perspective. Ask that to white kids in Detroit about Eminem and Jay-Z and you gonna see the answer you get. Everybody got their opinion. You like Mercedes-Benz or BMW better? Jay-Z and Eminem is same s–t. There is no debate on that. They both have powerful impact on hip-hop.” says Fredro Starr.
Then he continues: “For me, my perspective, I would say where I’m from, Jay-Z had bigger impact to me. Musically first, I gravitate to Jay-Z’s music more than I do Eminem. Eminem is great artist, always represent Onyx. He’s dope! No question but I’m Brooklyn ni–a so you see what I’mma like. But I can’t take Eminem’s impact away and say Jay-Z has bigger impact. I can’t say that. Eminem put “Last Days” in 8 Mile. I did that beat. So his impact to me, I’m feeling that s–t too. To me it’s even.”
“Sticky Fingaz has two joints with Eminem. “What If I Was White,” and “Remember Me.” People don’t know Sticky was about to get signed to Aftermath. He was living in LA for two months. He was in a bidding war with Universal. Dre had him working on some joints. That’s where the Eminem collaboration happened. Shout out to Dre and Eminem.” The Brooklyn rapper added.
From there, Fredro started talking about Billboard/Vibe magazines Top 50 rappers of all time list: “I don’t know who made that 50 best rappers list. I ain’t gotta be on the list but Sticky Fingaz not on the best rappers list is kinda like bugged out to me. Jadakiss was like 46?! WHO WROTE THAT S–T?! I’mma speak up! Sticky would burn half of the ni–as on the list. That’s why he’s on the records with Eminem. And I think he bodied Eminem on that particular record. That’s just my opinion and I’m not being biased. I think Eminem put that competitive thing inside Sticky and he came off with one of the illest verses ever. Eminem brought that out of him.”
John Cena spent his wrestling career wearing baggy shorts and custom jerseys but the legendary WWE athlete is sporting a different look for his new movie: high heels, a short skirt and tights.
The future WWE Hall of Famer is currently in Melbourne, Australia shooting his upcoming comedy movie, titled “Ricky Stanicky,” directed by Peter Farrelly, which also stars big names like Zac Efron, Jermaine Fowler and William H. Macy.
According to IMDB: “When three teens pull a prank and burn down a house in their neighborhood, they create a fake person to take the blame: Ricky Stanicky did it! Twenty years later we see that they have been using this alibi to get out of every uncomfortable situation in life. When their wives force them to set up a meeting with Stanicky, they hire an actor.”
Internet is going mad right now and the tweet of the day goes to someone who compared John Cena to Eminem dressed up as Britney Spears.
Back in 2000, Slim Shady made fun of everyone in “The Real Slim Shady” video, and that included Britney Spears, who was the reigning pop queen at the time. He really got into character, rocking her outfit from the “Baby One More Time” music video.
Interestingly “Ricky Stan-icky” might be a reference to Eminem’s iconic “Stan” single from The Marshall Mathers LP and maybe an Eminem fan in the movie, who knows.
