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Best selling albums of 2022 so far

HitsDailyDouble revealed the 50 best selling albums of the year 2022 so far and Eminem‘s two albums have made into the list.

Slim Shady’s second greatest hits album “Curtain Call 2” has sold almost 700,000 album-equivalent units and sits at No. 28 on the list. The first greatest hits album “Curtain Call: The Hits,” which was released in 2005, has sold around 550,000 units in 2022 alone, making it No. 48 best selling album this year.

Eminem, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Juice WRLD, Post Malone, Drake, Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift are the only artists who appear at least twice on the list of best seller albums of 2022.

The Detroit legend released Curtain Call 2 on August 5, 2022 under Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records, and Interscope Records. The compilation of double disk 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. The album also includes four new songs, “The King and I,” featuring CeeLo Green from the soundtracks album of Elvis movie, “From the D 2 the LBC” featuring Snoop Dogg, “Is This Love (’09),” featuring 50 Cent and the remix of “Rap God” by Mr. Cii.

The album debuted at No. 6 on the United States’ Billboard 200, earning 43,000 album-equivalent units in its first week of release. It is Eminem’s 12th US top-10 album, and first since The Slim Shady LP not to reach No. 1 spot, thus ending Eminem’s streak of consecutive number-one albums at ten. CC2 was also the best-selling album of the week in pure sales, with 18,000 copies sold. It also debuted at No. 3 on the United Kingdom’s Official Albums Chart.

You can check the list of 50 best selling albums of 2022 so far below:

Danny Brown talks getting inspired by Eminem, says it hurts him when some people discredit Em

Detroit’s Danny Brown has recently sat down FLAGRANT where he told some of his wildest stories, including an incident that happened while opening for Eminem at his one of the biggest shows. He also talked about getting inspired by Eminem and being hurt from people who try to discredit Slim Shady.

“When Eminem came out, it gave me hope. Because, I was like, ‘damn, my ni**a from Detroit made it!’ I changed my whole rap style after that. That style comes from Eminem. Everybody was like ‘that’s going to be a style of Detroit.’ I just literally studied and tried to rap like Eminem.” said Danny Brown.

Then he continues: “I feel bad how people try to treat Em now. I feel like this is the most purest of him being in hip-hop to be honest. He’s having fun. He is not having no pressure to make hit songs or to be big rapper like before he had all that s**t. He’s obviously making music to have fun and everybody trying to make him like meme and joke on him and s**t. That type of s**t would make me not want to make music. And the fact that he’s still making music like ‘f**k everybody’ is amazing but he probably is not an internet guy like we are so he probably don’t see none of this s**t but it kinda hurts my hart man because I’m like ‘Man, Eminem does not deserve that s**t.”

“I met Eminem few times. I played real bad show one time. I opened for him and at Wembley, my biggest show ever. It was an amazing show. 100,000 people! But one time I did too much f**king Adderall and I was just sad and s**t. It was me, Run The Jewels, Russ and Em. And I was just playing the show and the crowd was not really f**king with me. And I was like ‘f**k this show’ and I just threw the microphone into the crowd and walked off stage.” -Danny Brown added.

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Ed Sheeran reveals how Eminem inspired his 6-foot P*nis statue gift to Sam Smith

This week Sam Smith revealed on The Kelly Clarkson Show that Ed Sheeran had gifted him a 6-foot marble p*nis statue.

In his latest appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Ed Sheeran took the chance to explain himself, and revealed that none other than Eminem and Elton John had played important parts in inspiring the bizarre present.

“Elton John has been involved in my career from the get-go, and he buys me weird gifts. I can’t talk about them on TV — but, like, odd gifts. Sexual sort of objects …I love you, Elton.” said Ed.

Then he continues: “He is very proud of the fact that Eminem bought him and his husband, David, diamond-encrusted c**k rings for their wedding. I’m like, I need to one-up this, I need to get Elton a present that’s gonna make him go:” ‘Oh my god.’”

That’s when inspiration struck the four-time Grammy winner, who proceeded to order “a few different iterations” of p*nis sculptures. “I gave it to him for his birthday, and Elton was over the moon about it,” Sheeran chuckled. “It got out in the press that I’d done it. And people would just be like, ‘Can I have one?’ Sam saw one of them and said, ‘Can I have one?’ And I said, ‘What would you like?’ and Sam said, ‘One the size of me — six foot two.’ So … there we go. That’s it.”

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Akon says he has 4 other songs with Eminem in vault, talks working with Dr. Dre on “DETOX” album

Akon has recently sat down with Bootleg Kev on his podcast.

The two talked about many topics, including working with Eminem on one of the biggest hits of ’00s, “Smack That,” and Dr. Dre‘s mysterious DETOX album.

“It’s interesting because every record that I put out, I actually produced, expect ‘Smack That.’ Eminem produced that record. Isn’t that crazy? He always have this small little sounds in the beat.” said Akon.

Then he continues: “When I went to visit Em in Detroit, he was like ‘which you wanna do?,’ I said ‘Em, I wanna do whatever you wanna do. I want to come into your world.’ He said ‘alright, I got some beats.’ I said ‘play me some tracks.’ He gave me phot of 30 tracks on it. And out of 30, I picked 5. And I recorded all 5 and the one that stood out was ‘Smack That.’ When he heard my concept t it, he said ‘yo, I’m jumping on this one.’ And I was like ‘if he jumps on this one this will be a single.’ I literally have all those other records. All those records are gonna drop in future.”

“I’ve done two records for Detox and they both came out. One was ‘Kush.’ And the other one was Dre and Snoop and I was in the chorus as well. Dre is such a perfectionist. I think he’s too perfect for himself. There was lots of fear to not being number one. I’m not speaking for him and I could be completely wrong but from outside looking in it felt like he put too much on himself to succeed and be successful. I personally believe he don’t need it. He has nothing to prove anybody. To me he’s the greatest producer out of the west coast and influencer when it comes to hip-hop and gangster music. No matter what he would have dropped. Everybody would have thirsted it up.” said Akon.

Rick Rubin compares creative process of Eminem & Jay-Z

Rick Rubin, who has worked with Eminem, Geto Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Public Enemy, The Cult, Danzig, Kanye West, The Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, and Johnny Cash to name a few, has recently sat down with Joe Rogan for his latest episode of Joe Rogan Experience podcast where the legendary record producer talked about the difference between writing processes of Eminem and Jay-Z.

Joe Rogan: The different ways of approaching comedy, it has got parallel with music right? There are some artists that just want riff, they want to figure it out on the fly. They wanna do it all almost off the top of their head and then there are artists that every single word is gone over and meticulously analyzed pieced together.

Rick Rubin: Yeah, there is no right and wrong way. You have to just find your way. Whatever works for you. I’ve worked with artists who do it completely different ways. You’ll se like, Eminem, he’s always writing in the book. Always writing all the time. And he has got notebooks writing. And I asked him if these were rhymes to use but he was like ‘No, no, no. It’s like 99% of what I write I never use.’ It’s just to stay engaged in the process of writing and finding new ways to write. So that, when I need it, it just comes. And then, Jay-Z doesn’t write anything down. He just listens to the beat, hums and then goes on the mic 20 minutes later and just says whole complicated verse. I don’t know how he can remember it. Much less have just written it and just be able to do it free. It’s crazy.

Rick Rubin: When me and Jay-Z were recording “99 Problems,” I played the beat for him. He likes the beat. Then he says ‘okay just keep playing it.’ Then he sits in the back of the control room on the couch and he starts humming. As I said, in 15-20 minutes, he jumps like ‘Okay I got it.’ And then he goes in with no paper, no writing, nothing and delivers the whole thing. He does it again and again. Words would be the same but the phrasing is different. Words are same but the feeling of it, or the rhythm of it changes when he does it again. And when he does it a few times, he’s like ‘okay, that one is good.’ It’s insane. I’ve never seen like this.

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Jim Florentine talks meeting & becoming friends with Eminem

Legendary stand-up comedian, actor, author and television personality, Jim Florentine, who best known for co-hosting That Metal Show on VH1 Classic and voicing several characters on Crank Yankers, including Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher, has recently sat down with Godfrey where he talked about hooking up with Eminem and developing great relationship with him.

“This was when he won the MTV Movie Awards for 8 Mile. That was like 2004. I remember I was sitting in my living room, watching the Movie Awards. We heard that Eminem was a fan though the great find. The season went through one season and we had s**ty ratings and we were talking if we waned to do second season or not and then we heard Eminem was a fan. And then I was like ‘wow cool.’ Then I was sitting in my apartment watching the award and I saw him doing the imitation of my show and I’m like ‘HOLY S**T.’ Next morning his manger called Comedy Central and got in touch. They were like’ Eminem wants to do that show. It’s the only show he watches. He watches it with his daughter and he wants to be a character.” said Jim Florentine.

He continues: “He wanted the calls with the guy that does Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher. Those are two characters that I did. So, like four days I was in Detroit in the studio doing prank calls. He was the f**king best. When he walked in and I saw him in the studio I was like ‘Holy s**t. There he is. Eminem.’ And I’m like ‘let’s just be calm, I’ve been around celebrities before. Cause I’m thinking if I piss this guy off, he’s gonna write whole album about it.”

“He comes in and goes like ‘I can’t believe I’m in the room with the guy who does the voice of Special Ed.’ He was like ‘How did you do that call. How did you know to go on this direction.’ He knew everything about Crank Yankers and we started doing calls. We did about 3-4 of them. It was unbelievable.”

“Then we did something at the MTV Music Awards. We did a thing where he brings Special Ed. He said on the stage I brought my friend with me and I popped up with the puppet. I’m under podium, doing the voice. I’m just keep bothering Eminem and Eminem beats up the Special Ed. Cause he won’t s**t the f**k up. He says he’s cured and he’s all happy and loves all the puppets but eventually he beat the s**t out of him.”

“So we did that and then I went dinner with him. Went to the club. And then he would prank call my phone. He did that Special Ed imitation. I know it was him but he would never say anything. It would come up private. I’m like ‘who is he’ but I knew it was him. I could not believe it was Eminem on my phone pranking me. I did more calls for his band, D12. We also did ‘Ass Like That’ video. I was in it.”

“The best thing was his manager Paul Rosenberg hires me to do stand-up at Eminem’s birthday party in Detroit. I was like ‘I don’t want you to pay for me just pay for my hotel room and flight. It was some dirty rock club. They had everybody up there freestyling. Biz Markie is there. Proof is there. Eminem’s up there. It was crazy there.”

Watch the full interview of Jim Florentine below:

Cassidy shares his opinion on The Game’s Eminem-diss record

One of the hardest battle rappers and one of the most lyrical hip-op artists, Cassidy has recently sat down with Ugly Money TV where the two talked about many things, including The Game’s “The Black Slim Shady,” track from his latest album “Drillmatic: Heart Vs. Mind,” where the West Coast rapper disses Eminem from 10 straight minutes.

“It’s dope man, I like people being competitive. Every reaction has a reaction. So, let’s just see what’s the reaction from Eminem and his team. As long as it just stay on wax who’s the best on the mic, I with that. I’m all about proving who the best is. I’ve been on that type time – battling, being competitive. That’s how hip-hop started on. I’m all with it.” said Cassidy.

“Him saying he’s better than Eminem, it’s his opinion. They both nice. They both dope. They go thorough different type of directions. Two different rappers but Eminem is one of the greatest. So if you diss him, you gotta diss him right way with the right information. You gotta do it right type of way because if he come back at you it could go crazy. You already seen him crazy plenty of times.” Cassidy added.

Then interviewer asked how Cassidy’s diss-track towards Eminem would sound like, on which, East Coast rapper replied: “Nah, I love Eminem man. I got no reason to diss him. I love Detroit. I love all them motherf**kers. That’s like really hip-hop place. I f**k with Eminem. He made history so many times and that ni**a can really rap. That ni**a can put bars together and that’s dope. He can do any type of hip-hop. He really into the culture. He’s not the ni**a that’s unfamiliar to what’s going on. That ni**a is super informed. So, I don’t wanna diss Eminem. I wanna work with him. I wanna meet him. I wanna talk to him. I don’t wanna battle Eminem. I have no problems with him.”

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Mike WiLL Made-It suggest Eminem to make sequel of “8 Mile” movie

Back in 2002, Eminem released 8 Mile movie written by Scott Silver and directed by Curtis Hanson which stars Eminem alongside Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Michael Shannon, Anthony Mackie, and Kim Basinger. And 20 years later, Mike WiLL Made-It suggests the Detroit legend to make the sequel of the movie.

“Eminem needs to do 8 Mile 2. His story when he got the deal and s**t went up…” – tweeted the Grammy-award winning producer on Twitter yesterday.

Eminem need to do 8 Mile 2… his story when he got the deal & shxt went up..

— MADE-IT (@MikeWiLLMadeIt) October 6, 2022

8 Mile movie was a massive critical and box office success. It opened at No. 1 in the United States with $51.3 million grossed in its opening weekend and an eventual total of $242.9 million worldwide.

The album’s accompanying soundtrack was also a huge commercial success. Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile was released under the Shady Records/Interscope label and spawned Eminem’s first No. 1 US single “Lose Yourself”. The album debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Albums Chart over 702,000 copies sold in its first week.

The following year, the 8 Mile DVD was released which generated $75 million in sales and rentals in its first week, making it the biggest DVD debut ever for an R-rated movie.

The movie received positive reviews, with critics praising the music and Slim Shady’s performance. It ended up at No. 2 on the list of Billboard’s Top 10 Best Hip-Hop Movies Ever. Em also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 75th Academy Awards, for his magnum opus single “Lose Yourself,” becoming the first hip hop artist ever to win an Oscar. He was not present at the ceremony, but co-writer of the song Luis Resto accepted the award.

If Mike WiLL Made-It tagged Paul Rosenberg in his tweet, maybe the idea would have a chance to come to life.

“Godzilla” by Eminem & Juice WRLD hits 1 Billion streams on Spotify

Eminem‘s 2020 mega hit song “Godzilla,” featuring Juice WRLD, has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. It’s Detroit legend’s 5th song to do so. After “Till I Collapse,” “Lose Yourself,” “Without Me” and “The Real Slim Shady.” Becoming the first artist to have at least one song with +1B streams in each of the last three decades.

Slim Shady’s third verse on “Godzilla” track holds the record for his fastest rap verse, rapping 10.65 syllables per second, or 300 words in 30 seconds, breaking his own records held by his feature on Nicki Minaj and Labrinth’s 2018 song “Majesty” from Queen album, where he rapped 10.3 syllables per second, and his 2013 song “Rap God” from The Marshall Mathers LP 2, where Em rapped 9.6 syllables per second.

On March 6, 2020, Eminem released a snippet of the music video, announcing that he partnered with Lyrical Lemonade company. Three days later, the music video was released, directed by Cole Bennett, which featured guest appearances from Dr. Dre and Mike Tyson. The song currently has over 520 million views on YouTube.

“Godzilla” was a worldwide success. It debuted at No. 1 in Finland and on both the United Kingdom Singles Chart and the Irish Singles Chart, becoming Eminem’s 10th and 9th No.1 single respectively. It also went to No. 2 in Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, New Zealand, and Slovakia. The song went to No.3 in both artists’ homeland, the United States, and went top ten in 20 regions. It also saw moderate success Singapore and Lebanon and Singapore, peaking inside the top 20 in those regions.

The Song is eligible for 5x platinum in the United States for selling more than 5 million units in the country. It’s also double platinum in Australia, Canada and Poland. And platinum in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy and Portugal. “Godzilla” also received Gold certifications in New Zealand and Austria.

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