Bobby Shmurda has recently sat down with HipHopDX where he walked through his career, lessons learned, dances to Burna Boy song, shows love and hilariously raps Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady”, talked about the advices from Diddy and 50 Cent and much more.
“I talked to 50 Cent last month. I love Fifty. I was on the phone for like an hour. Fif got lot of game. I also met first time Eminem in my life [at the 2022 Apefest event in New York City]. Growing up, listening to Fifty, you grow up listening to Eminem too. [Then starts mumbling “The Real Slim Shady”]. I’m just vibing.” said Bobby
On June 24, a clip surfaced online of Eminem performing with Snoop Dogg at the 2022 Apefest event in New York City. The two rap icons performed their collaborative single, “From the D 2 the LBC” from Curtain Call 2 album. After their performance, Em walked backstage and bumped into Cordae, who he instantly recognized and dapped up and hugged. Laying in the cut with Cordae was Bobby Shmurda, and his interaction with Em was slightly different but comical.
You can watch the new interview and the Slim Shady and Shmurda interaction video after the jump below:
East Atlanta’s JID, born Destin Route, who was signed by J. Cole to Dreamville back in 2017 and dropped The Never Story same year, showed the world that he was among one of the most talented rappers in the world that were coming up. His acclaim further grew with the following year’s DiCaprio 2 which contained songs such as “Off Deez” with Cole and the rabid “151 Rum.”
The 31-year-old MC’s latest effort The Forever Story has finally arrived after a four-year hiatus and finds JID aiming for the throne. Where The Never Story and DiCaprio 2 were more based around the energy of their bar-heavy tracks, The Forever Story leans more into the soulful side of JID’s sound.
To promote his new album, the young rapper has recently sat down with Bootleg Kev where the two briefly talked about Eminem’s fast and chopping style of rap. JID revealed that he is not a fan of that rapping style despite doing it himself.
Kev: When rappers chop and fast rap, I feel like sometimes it’s amazing. Guys like Rittz, Tech N9ne are really good at that. But sometimes it’s like really unbearable.
JID: Sometimes it’s unbearable. You know what? I’m just like this. I hate it though. I would not listen to that s**t though. I respect it and all but it’s kinda crazy. I don’t think it’s my niche. I just do it. Effortlessly. I’m not trying to rap like this. I don’t really aim for this style of music. I would not even say rap is the first thing I would press play in my car.
Kev: I feel like, for Eminem being one of the greatest rappers of all time, I don’t like when he raps like that. It’s not for me. Shout out to Em. Curtain Call 2 out now. Did you listen Eminem growing up?
JID: I used to love Stan. He’s great. I love all the craziness. I was super fan when Eminem was prominent. Before 2002. 1998-1999.
Back in 2019, in an interview with Nardwuar at SXSW JID talked about Eminem and the legendary Smack DVDs: “This is how I started rapping. This is crazy. I love Eminem. This is how I started doing music bro. I started watching these DVDs. Battle rap is the most talented level of rap there is. They are most creative. This is why I say certain things that I say. That’s why I was been waiting somebody to try me. Cause this is what I do. This is my life. This is my fetish.”
You can watch the new and an old interview after the jump below:
A couple of years ago, Eminem “Godzilla” music video, featuring Juice WRLD, from Music To Be Murdered By album. The song arrived alongside a creative music video, directed by one and only Cole Bennett.
The young director has recently appeared in Full Send Podcast, where he recalled the surreal moment of working with Eminem, Dr. Dre and Mike Tyson: “That was actually really crazy. I got a call that Eminem wants me to do this music video. I’ll never forget, I got the call at night time, and I was, “I’m gonna write it as soon as I’m awake”. I went to bed, I woke up at 7 a.m., and I had turned in the treatment by 10 a.m. I just wrote it in three hours. It just happened. It was like an essay. It was six to eight pages, no photos. I just wrote it all out and sent it over, hopped on the phone with him, and he loved everything about it. I remember one thing. I wrote in the treatment that Mike Tyson knocks him out, but I was like, if we can’t get Mike Tyson, then maybe, I don’t know, Hulk Hogan. I was just throwing other names there, but he’s like, “No, we’ve got to get Mike Tyson”. I was like, okay, now I have how to figure out how to get Mike Tyson. But we figured it out.” said Cole.
Then he continues, “I’ll never forget when I got to set that day, it was the most unreal feeling. Eminem got there, he was first on set. He was there for 14 hours, two days in a row. At the beginning of the second day, I got word that Dr. Dre was going to be there if I wanted to put him in the video. So I had to find a way to get Dr. Dre in there. We already had a scene of Eminem getting knocked out by Mike Tyson and them going to the hospital. So Dr. Dre as the doctor worked out perfectly. But being in that room, giving direction to Eminem, Dr. Dre and Mike Tyson, was such a surreal feeling.”
You can watch the interview below:
Cole Bennett on Directing Around Eminem, Mike Tyson and Dr. Dre Filming the Godzilla Music Video🎬 pic.twitter.com/5B0ZLd3p7B
Actor, rapper and singer Orlando Brown, best known for his roles as Cadet Kevin ‘Tiger’ Dunne in Major Payne, 3J Winslow in Family Matters, Max in Two of a Kind, Damey Wayne “Waynehead” in Waynehead, Sticky Webb in The Proud Family, Cornelius Fillmore in Fillmore!, Eddie Thomas in That’s So Raven, and Frankie in Eddie’s Million Dollar Cook-Off, has recently sat down for the interview on Cam Capone News where he talked about The Game’s Eminem-diss record “The Black Slim Shady.”
“I’ve heard like three seconds of it and I don’t like it. It’s none of my business.” said Orlando. “Ten minutes? Why ten minutes? It’s personal. Really, really personal. What was the point of that? You guys are from the same camp, it had to be personal. I don’t like it and I think Kendrick did it. Kendrick Lamar wrote that s**t. Everybody knows Game does not write his own lyrics.”
Then he continues: “Eminem is never gonna respond to f**king Game. It’s just not gonna happen. It’s just so distasteful. I that think he’s that SHOOK about it. I think it’s hilarious for Eminem. It would be f**king funny to me if I was Eminem. I would be like ‘AHAHAH GAME DID A DISS-TRACK ON ME?!’ That’s f**king hilarious. ‘Let me go chill with Bon Jovi and talk about it over some f**king sushi.'”
Then the two continue talking about Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre’s upcoming project. You can watch the interview below:
SHADY RECORDS TAKEOVER. Westside Boogie kicked off his “More Black Superheroes” in Detroit on September 17, 2022 and he brought GRIP with him!
During the performance of ‘Rainy Days,” which features Eminem from Boogie’s debut album Everythings For Sale, the Compton rapper showed love to Slim Shady: “Yo, make the noise for Eminem just to sign me and change a ni**a life. Actually, my favorite Eminem song is ‘The Way I Am.” And then he starts rapping the hook of the song with crowd chanting along, before kicking the Joey Bada$$ assisted “Outside” verse where he interpolates the lyrics and flow of the legendary song from The Marshall Mathers LP with the following lines:
“Funny that I’m standin’ with the dude who made Stan / But never treat me like a fan, ’cause what I am, what I am / Whatever you say I am, s**t, if I was interesting / Why would I say I am? S**t, and the the radio don’t even play my jam / I give no damn, I’m in Bompton with the fam’.”
You can watch some videos of Westside Boogie and GRIP performing in Detroit below:
This why I forever love my big bro @WS_Boogie ima see hime every single time he comes to Detroit. And hopefully get to see him in LA at some point. pic.twitter.com/QQvCXNlTA5
Legendary Treach, the lead rapper of the iconic hip hop group Naughty by Nature, has recently sat down with Andrew Moffatt on Hip Hop XXIV where the two talked about Naughty by Nature Verzuz, Tupac Shakur, Biggie and much more.
During the interview, Andrew asked the legendary rapper about Eminem, on which he replied: “I tell everybody that Eminem is my light-skinned twin Slim Shady! Hats off to him. He’s one of the greatest of all times if we talk about GOATs, his lyrical prowess, his consistency throughout the years, no matter what he has been going though personally, he always comes out on top. Comes out and give that music. Supplies the fans with that real live musical dope. It’s no-one like him and it’s not going to be no-one like him ever. Might never been another one who could do them lyrics and put them songs out. Hats off always and I hope he never stops. The way I was inspirational for him he’s inspirational to me. When I hear him I go and star t writing all over again.” says Treach.
Then he continues: “Hip-hop was black men’s sport in the white men’s world. That’s why Eminem was getting so much flat. He was white until he opened his mouth. And the skills took over all the doubts. He elevated hip-hop culture to a stratosphere that it would have never reached if it was black person’s music. He is one of the reasons why we have 50 years of hip-hop coming up. When we were coming up, we always heard that hip-hop would be around for five more years.”
When asked about wanting to release his album under Shady Records, he replied: “Me and Eminem spoke many times but one thing is, we never smoke business. It was always an admiration. I always believed that everything is god’s plan to happen at a right time. If that day ever comes, it’s gonna be dope. If it don’t, I never gonna be mad with him. Just him saying how much he admired me, you don’t know how much doors he opened up for me. He shouted me out and gave me so much love, I’m actually in debt to him. He does not even understand how much he did for me. And I love him for that. I love him forever.”
Bizarre of D12 has recently appeared on the latest episode of The Bootleg Kev Podcas where he spoke about The Game’s Eminem-diss track, “The Black Slim Shady,” from his new album called Drillmatic – Heart vs. Mind.
“I just feel like I couldn’t get past the Eminem voice,” Bizarre said of the 10-minute song from Compton rapper. “I know Game can rap better than that. I know he is a problem as a battle rapper, a guy that’s into lyrics. I feel like that was a nice little cute intro. He never got out of that, though. He stayed in Marshall’s body for the whole 10 minutes. When we gonna get Game? We know he can do it, so what happened?”
“I was not a fan of that song, nah, nah. I think he could have did better — or Stat Quo could have did better.” he added.
When Kev asked whether he was suggesting that The Game gets ghostwriting help from former Shady Records member, Bizarre remarked, “I ain’t say nothing, man. Shout out to Game.” adding a sneaky laugh.
Eminem has recently hit the social media with the new picture with Denaun Porter and couple of Mercedes-Benz cars around him.
In the caption, Eminem wrote: “With me and Denaun Porter it’s always personal never business! EmDp, Mercedes Benz, (just having fun this ain’t a new project, ain’t an advertisement),” while tagging Mercedes Benz’s official twitter account and hashtagging #EmDp (Eminem and Denaun Porter).
The picture is actually a homage to legendary hip-hop duo EPMD. It references the album cover that Erick and Parrish made back in 1989, called “Unfinished Business.”
Last year, on a song called “EPMD 2,” Nas recruited Eminem and EPMD on a track that served as the sequel to Nas’ February 2021 track, which also features producer Hit-Boy, who co-produced the song and King’s Disease II album. The artists dive into the religious side of ongoing events and pay tribute to those who have passed away recently.
Even though Slim Shady said it himself that it’s not about the new project, fans believe it otherwise. Last time Eminem showed homage to legendary hip-hop act, KAMIKAZE album dropped. So, maybe fans are right after all. Check out some reactions below:
In an interview on the Rap Radar podcast, The Game addressed his recent 10-minute Eminem diss track “The Black Slim Shady” on “Drillmatic: Heart Vs. Mind” album. Speaking with Elliott Wilson and Brian “B.Dot” Miller, the West Coast rapper named few reasons he went against Eminem.
“What’s the reason going at Eminem? Number one, just because nobody does. Number two, I pissed off a lot of people with that song, you know Em got a lot of Stans. But as far as it being personal, it’s not personal. I came up on Em too. I remember the first time that ‘My Name Is’ came out. I was, like, ‘whoa’-ed by it. I felt the same feeling when I heard that, that I felt when I heard “Juicy” from Notorious B.I.G. the first time. … I always f**ked with Em,” he said.
The Game continues with revealed third reason of dissing Eminem: “I think me and 50’s fallout kinda made Eminem choose a side and he was not doing the s**t that I did. He was like, ‘I’m going with 50. F**k you n***as.’ But I just felt like I had some emotions, a little bit, about Super Bowl s**t and all of that. And that’s Dre’s boy, and Dre don’t rap. So it’s like, if I wanna have a conversation with Dre or I’m mad at Dre, let me poke shots at Eminem. And 50 can’t out-rap me, he’s doing his TV thing and more power to him, the shows are great. But as far as rap s**t, I got that locked. So the only person I could rap with, or try to poke the bear and see if he really want to go there, is Em.”
Then interviewer asked about The Game’s Top 10 rapper tweet from last year, where the Compton rapper puts Eminem at No. 4. On that Game replied: “There are emcees out there that you might have thought was number one at one time and not your favorite anymore. Another thing is, it’s like Floyd Mayweather and Muhammad Ali thing. If he’s number four and I feel like I’m number one for me, why would not I take shot or challenge everybody in my top 10? why not? If you met Floyd Mayweather when you were coming up in Olympics and he ended up being undefeated and now you have the chance to fight him you turn it down because you are a fan? Are you not training to be better than Floyd? With Em, it was not a personal thing. I did it with Hov when I was younger. Hip-Hop gotta be interesting. These ni**as these days are goddamn boring or everytime somebody wants to beef somebody got to die, I don’t get that. Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s just hip-hop and leave it that way. If I see Em, I’m NOT FIGHTING EMINEM. Lyrically, outside maybe Em or Kendrick or Cole or some of these super lyrical ni**as, I don’t think nobody can lyrically go at me.”
On XXL Magazine’s 25 years anniversary, Eminem shared incite on what he’s learned, how he stays motivated and why being a true lyricist has always been essential to who he is as a person. During the interview, he briefly shouted out Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Big Sean and Joyner Lucas.
“At this point, a lot of the big achievements that could come in your career have happened for me already, so I don’t hyper-focus on numbers and being on charts. What I hyper-focus on is people like Kendrick Lamar, Joyner Lucas, J. Cole and Big Sean, and watching them and how the f**k they’re doing their shit. Because they’re also focused on being the best rappers.” says Eminem.
Yesterday, Joyner shared the quote of the interview on his social media accounts with “goat” emoji in the caption. Royce Da 5’9″ commented fire emoji on Joyner’s post.
Eminem has also recently talked about Joyner Lucas collaboration on his “Kamikaze” album during the latest episode of Paul Pod. “Joyner sent two songs to Royce to get them to me and I was in the middle of writing Kamikaze. Me and Royce already had few conversations about Joyner. We were like ‘this guy is a f**king truth man. First think I saw was his BET cypher. He had two records, “Lucky You” and “What If.” Music video of “Lucky You” is inspired by Will Smith’s movie “I Am Legend.” “What If” record went couple different processes of hooks and I remember I got Skylar to write a hook for it and to me that s**t was crazy. I don’t know what happened in between that time once the record was leaked but it leaked without Skylar’s hook. In an original version, I think I re-wrote something. “What If” song is an example how internet can ruin the s**t. Leaks are terrible. You are not supposed to know what the concept is before it comes out.”
In the piece, Em explained that drugs really only became a part of his life after the release of his 1999 album, The Slim Shady LP. He and his friends would make regular trips from Los Angeles to Tijuana, Mexico to buy pills like Vicodin, and the rapper recalled one instance where customs officers threw one guy “on the ground and start[ed] pulling pills out his pockets and shit.”
As his fame increased, and drugs became more plentiful — especially when he went on tour — Eminem said he started to realize he was battling addiction, but still managed to “keep it on the low and keep it together” as much as possible. Things really got bad in between 2000’s The Marshall Mathers LP and 2002’s The Eminem Show, when he was taking a mix of Vicodin, Valium, and alcohol. At one point, he even added the sleep aid Ambien, noting, “I would take a little to perform, which you would think doesn’t make sense, but Ambien is a mind eraser. So, if you don’t go to sleep on it, you get in this weird comatose state.”
50 Cent has responded to Eminem’s latest photoshoot with love and appreciation message on social media: “This my favorite white boy, I swear to God I love him to death.” You can check the post below:
Fredwreck also responded to the event, giving Eminem a nod on Twitter:
Eminem’s manager Paul Rosenberg sat down with Slim Shady for the part two of “Curtain Call 2” interview on Paul Pod podcast where the two talked about how Dr. Dre’s brain Aneurysm played a big role in reconciliation with Snoop Dogg, collaborating with late rapper Juice WRLD, how it frustrates him what people think about his rhymes and much more.
About Snoop Dogg beef
Me and Snoop had our little issue, when that thing happened with Dre, the brain aneurysm, we were like ‘bro this is stupid as hell to be feuding right now.’ I don’t remember if I called him or he called me but we talked it out and I think there was a miscommunication in regards to him being on my album Marshall Mathers LP2 on a track “B**ch Please II” and he wanted to do something with me again and he gave you [Paul Rosenberg] the idea and he said something like ‘let’s hear what the song sounds first and he took it the way that ‘I don’t f**k with him.’ And I explained to him like ‘bro Doggystyle changed my life.’
About Juice WRLD
We had been talking about Juice WRLD for a while. And we just wanted to do something with him. We liked his freestyles over my instrumentals. It was crazy. I had a different hook on “Godzilla” and never was really crazy about it. I had verses and that was the reason we asked him for the hook. He sent us two things that were great and the first one was that Monster hook. I was like ‘holy s**t.’
About Rap Critics
It’s frustrating when you do something technically and people who think they know what hip-hop is about start giving opinions on it. They don’t hear what the f**k you doing. If I rhyme entire f**king sentence, every syllable hit, they would literally think that at the end of it I was rhyming ‘back’ and ‘cat’ because they skipped over 30 other syllables. They don’t understand that there is art to that. Kool G Rap has done it so well, Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J, there is an art to that. We [me and critics] are not listening with same ears.
