Baton Rouge, Louisiana-born rapper Boosie Badazz has recently sat down with Cam Capone where he was asked about his opinion on Dr. Umar Johnson saying Eminem can’t be one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white.
“Where I’m from we don’t listen to Eminem. I’m from the trenches. I never heard nobody come in my project, playing Eminem. I’mma keep it real. When I hear him, I say he can rap. I always say that. Every time I hear Slim Shady, I used to like that song Slim Shady but where I’m from, I’ve never heard one song in my project, I never heard Eminem one time in the speakers in my project. I gotta be honest. None of my friends never said put Eminem on. Play the new Eminem. I only saw it only on MTV and you know, TV.” said Boosie Badazz.
Then he continued: “Everybody have their greats. If you put ten people lined up on this coach, everybody going to tell you five different greats. Some people say Eminem is top five, some people say he’s not cause music touch you in different ways. Eminem music did touch a lot of people. DMX music did touch a lot of people. DMX is in my top five because I always felt listening to his music that he really lived. Even though, I was not from New York, my street n-ggas still saluted him and played his music. I heard him in the hood.”
“I can’t put people in my top if I never knew their music. If I only listened to couple songs and saw couple videos…You have to really touch me to feel your greatness. I head Eminem, I’ll be like ‘okay! I like that song’ but never went and bought the CD. Stood out of the store to buy Eminem’s CD. Tupac’s I did. Scarface I did that. Pimp C/Bun B I did that.” Boosie Badazz added.
During one of the new episodes of New Rory & Mal, Rory talked about Eminem‘s upcoming documentary “Stans,” which according to the synopsis, is a “revealing, edgy, and disarmingly personal journey into the world of superfandom, told through the lens of one of the world’s most iconic and enduring artists, Eminem, and the fans that worship him.”
During the podcast, Rory said: “I did see very interesting headline on my way here. Eminem is producing a Stan documentary about the obsessed fans. Now, when I first read the headline, I was hoping it was going to be direct shots at our biggest Stan groups like the Barbz, BeyHive, The Navy. Read more into it and it’s about his obsessed fans which I still think is gonna be an interesting doc, where even though it’s only gonna be Eminem’s Stans, I think some of the groups are going to have come to the podium, if it’s an effective doc to see how this is mental illness. I don’t think it’s a doc about Eminem fans that show them on TRL. I think it’s gonna make them look insane.”
Then he continued: “I think Eminem might be the only person who can do this right now. I think this is an extremally important topic to discuss, obsession just in general about people you don’t know. I don’t think any superstar would have balls even think it’s a smart idea to discuss the possibility of mental illness within your fanbase. Nicki could never expose that cause that’s her army. A leader is not going to expose his troops in any type of weakness. He’s going to utilize them and continue to manipulate them to get to the end goal. Em, and where are not going to have the same argument we had about that horrible BET Donald Trump freestyle, but my point in making that was that I respected that he made that decision even though the freestyle sucked, I respect this decision as well. I think this is an extremely important topic that needs to be talking about and I think Em is the only one who can do it. Because he’s cool, if he loses his fans, he is fine. And what other artists would to that? Beyoncé is not going to talk about BeyHive, unless it’s the most positive light ever. And she knows a lot of them probably have a weird obsess.”
“Now, here is what it sucks that it’s Eminem. We are gonna watch it. All Eminem fans are gonna watch it. It’s gonna do great. It’s gonna do crazy numbers. The people that I think need to watch it are not gonna see it because it’s Eminem documentary. Even if Nicki did something like this, all the fans that hate Nicki, would still watch it to then debate and hate each other. Eminem fans, it’s Eminem fans, and no one else. Nicki fans, every time Cardi B drops, they are going to watch it and vice versa, even Beyonce versus Taylor Swift. There is rivalries between these hives that needs to be addressed and if one of them did something, all the other hives would watch it. Eminem’s hives just mind their own business over here and no one even give a f-ck.”
“Em has spoken about that type of stuff in White America so I know he’s not scared to address like ‘hey a lot of my success and weird fans are based off the marketing of being a white blonde kid from the Midwest. I guess my point more is, if hypothetically Nicki did something like this and expose some of the Barbz for probably having a weird obsession that needs to be studied a bit just for the humanity. All of the Bardigang would watch it to clown how mentally ill the Barbz are and I think we need that moment for Bardigang to look in the mirror at the same time. Cause they are gonna watch it and they will clown all the Barbz, but then Barbz turn around and say you just mentally ill. They just broke down how Stans are legitimately need to be studied. This is an obsession and weird mental illness that we need to fix but no one’s gonna look in the mirror [after watching Eminem documentary]. Barbz are not gonna watch it and be like ‘oh, man.’
“Back to my point about Em and his fanbase, I think its gonna be like his recent albums where it’ll do a lot of numbers but it won’t spark any conversation outside the Eminem fanbase. There gonna be some write ups on press cause of course it’s Eminem but I just don’t know if it will reach where it needs to reach. And that’s the internet Stan community for real that needs to look at themselves in the mirror after watching that doc and saying ‘AM I STAN?!’ from that video.” Rory added.
Benzino has recently sat down with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on Drink Champs where he talked about many things, including his revived beef with Eminem. At one point of the interview, drunk Zino broke down in tears.
Benzino of course started the interview with lashing out on Eminem: “Let’s talk about Eminem, isn’t that why we here tonight? Fu-k Eminem. And fu-k everybody down with Eminem. Hip-hop is who we are. He can’t come in and invade hip-hop, and Rosenberg and make trillions of dollars. This n-gga didn’t even go to Nipsey’s funeral. F-ck Eminem bro!”
He then continued: “They trying to kill me right now cause the sh-t I’m saying cause it’s deep bro. His fans like him because he’s white. They don’t fu-k with us. F-ck Eminem, I dusted Eminem. Rap Elvis b-tch! How about that?! How come he ain’t answering me?”
Then DJ EFN asked, Eminem or Machine Gun Kelly. Here is what Benzino replied: “F-ck Eminem bro! Fu-k both of them bro. Fu-king Cassidy would kill Eminem in a battle rap bro. Why do you all give so much props to Em? Because he’s white? F-ck his music. We don’t listen to that in the hood bro.”
Later in the interview, when Benzino got drunk, he got emotional and started crying: “I don’t have nothing against Eminem. He can rap but I care about us more. I don’t want to talk about it no more. For 22 years, every time I do interviews they ask me about Eminem. The fu-k you want me to do? C’mon man. My daughter came to industry figuring ‘I gotta be cool with Eminem because everybody is against my dad.’ You think this sh-t is fu-king cool? Nah man, we are failing as a people. I don’t hate Eminem. I don’t know him to hate. I don’t hate white people. I’m tired of this sh-t man. It’s too much.”
Legendary hip-hop producer DJ Premier talks with Noah Callahan-Bever of Idea Generation about a journey from his early days as part of the duo Gang Starr, to producing for then up-and-coming rapper Jay-Z and helping to shape his sound, to carving his own lane, forming PRhyme with Royce 5’9″ and becoming one of the greatest producers in hip-hop history.
“Mike has pitched this idea, it was during them working on Slaughterhouse, but it was taking so long and Mike was like ‘how about y’all do a project like a quick EP where you use Adrien Young’s sound only and make a quick EP of Slaughterhouse.’ I was very against it. I was like ‘nah, I like to dig and make beats through digging.’ Everybody was leaning on me about it and it just went silent.” said DJ Premier.
Then he continued: “Time passed, Royce hits me again like ‘what me and you gon’ do?’ Royce was just getting sober and had not rapped a long time. And for me knowing the not sober Royce, his bars, his delivery is always on point, sometimes you sober up…I’m glad he’s sober because the most cleanest and healthy lifestyle is the best, that does not mean that you gonna still pull off the Royce that we all know and love. So, I remember I was in LA for some business. I met Amanda Demme there. She told me I’m photographer and she was like ‘I gotta show my stuff, it’s real wicked.’ She starts showing me all her stuff and I’m like ‘yo, this s–t is bugged out, damn.’ She asked ‘what do you working on?’ I said me and Royce are doing this project, it’s gonna be called DJ Premier, Royce Da 5’9″, we are not PRhyme yet. She’s like ‘you should let me do pictures for y’all.’ I’m like ‘with all these weird a-s pictures?? We gotta look like hip-hop s–t’ and she goes like ‘nah, it should be art! Let me do something creative.’ I was like ‘I’ll introduce you to Royce whenever we get to that point.”
“The next day, we are about to fly back and I’m packing my stuff. We have not heard anything from PRhyme yet. I had already made 3 beats that I gave to Royce and he said ‘I’m gonna work on them and let you hear what I did and see if you like where I’m going cause I have not rapped in so long. So you tell me if I still sound like Royce.’ When I was packing I decided to go Puff’s party. Right when I go downstairs and get a ride to the party, Royce texted me and goes ‘just sent the first song, tell me what you think.’ I was like ‘damn man, I’m leaving in the morning, I’ll listen to it tomorrow.’ But when I’m getting to the door to go to the lobby, I was like ‘let me listen to it now, it’s either him sounding Royce or I’m gonna tell him falling off,’ man, the song PRhyme is what he sent, as soon as I turned it on, I’m like ‘HE’S BACK’! And I listened to the rest of it, I’m like ‘he sounds like when he drinks, but he’s sober!’ I called him ‘dude, you are back! That’s the Royce I was hoping to hear! Let’s get this album cracking!'”
“Royce stays up in so many different hours. He’ll call you at all different types of hours of the day. He’ll stay up for five days straight, not sleep, just be recording. He’s like a Kanye in that regard. Right before I get to the airport, he goes ‘yo, how about we call ourselves a name like a group? Instead of being DJ Premier and Royce Da 5’9″‘ I was like ‘you got a name?’ he’s like ‘how about we call ourselves PRhyme?’ P and R is capital, P is for Premier and R is for Royce and ‘hyme’ just encompasses everything of hip-hop together. I was like ‘I like that.’ Started coming up with logos. He was like ‘yo, Eminem’s art guy is really good. Can we use Eminem’s art guy to do something? He showed me PRhyme logo and I liked it. And he said, from now on, we are PRhyme!”
“We have PRhyme, PRhyme 2, I love PRhyme 2 and PRhyme 3 is a doozy! That’s all I can say. That one we are not going to announce until it’s done but you are definitely going to be like ‘oh, sh-t!'” DJ Premier added. You can watch the interview below:
EPMD’s Erick Sermon has shared some information about a new song of his that he says will appear on Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg new album ‘The Missionary,’ and he’s promised fans that it will be nothing short of epic.
The EPMD legend stopped by the Bootleg Kev podcast on Thursday (February 8) to give some insight into what fans can expect from his guest appearance.
“When I was here with Dre, as you see on my Instagram, it’s me and Dre in the studio and everybody and it went viral, me and Dre made five records. And he made three in one night. Off of my production though. ” said Erick Sermon. This revelation prompted Kev to remark that it was “crazy” for the N.W.A legend to have done that.
Then he continued: continued: “And then, we did another one with Snoop, that’s supposed to be on the new Snoop record, and I also did one with him, that me and him rhymed on, which was CRAZY.”
Couple of years ago, Eric Sermon posted pictures and videos with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg in the studio: “I got to L.A a day before the #superbowl ..then 2 days after that was his bday…after that .. the #sagacontinues. We worked on my new project #DYNAMICDUOS … the next day he called @snoopdogg we made something epic for him .. then we made something for him after.. I think lol. Then he says erick .. that’s 3. What’s next ? GOD doesn’t make mistakes. Thanks for the opportunity. We were friends for over 30 and never worked together.. a lot of ppl has been waiting on this to happen. Well .. here it is Thank @focus3dots @coachbernard @mikecity ….. @rance1500 @saweetie @thebrandengine @joellejames My mental health has been a factor for awhile .. thank u @drdre for changing that. # beautiful blessings. @ooogbrand @affioncrockett.”
NBA legend, John Salley, who was the first player in NBA history to win championships with three franchises as well as the first player in the NBA to win a championship in three different decades, has recently sat down with DJ VLAD, where the two talked about Dr. Umar Johnson saying Eminem can’t be one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white.
“I love Eminem. I disagree with Umar about the color, period. It’s certain things that I understand why he says what he says, I’m a fan of Dr. Umar on a lot of things. But Eminem should be in the conversation as one of the greatest rappers of all time. It’s the way he puts things together…But, ‘in conversation’ because I’m still Kool G Rap. [Laughs]. Kool G Rap and DJ Polo…” said John Salley.
Then he continued: “I love Kool G Rap. I love Chino XL but when it comes to rhyming, just like Kobe and his focus on just being on basketball, you can tell that’s how Eminem is. Cause he still can tell you other people’s rhymes. To this day, he can reference other people’s thymes. Great rapper that did well, they had pulled from everywhere.”
CyHi The Prynce has been in the studio with Kanye West and Travis Scott for a while, and he’s used that experience to speculate about Eminem‘s writing process.
CyHi has recently sat down with Math Hoffa and the rest of the crew on My Expert Opinion where he shared some thoughts about Slim Shady. The Stone Mountain, Georgia-born rapper began by saying that in his opinion, Eminem is a “top five” emcee. “I don’t know what n–gas be talkin’ about like Em ain’t top 5. Em is top 5! I’m sorry.” And then “with no ghostwriters,” commented co-host Mecca, a comment that inspired CyHi to talk about the nature of inspiration.
“You think he ain’t have no ghostwriters? Man, you ain’t sitting around 12 n-ggas just f–king smoking blunts. It’s called D12. It’s called Proof. It’s called all them n–gas he grew up with.” – CyHi The Prynce said.
He then made clear, however, that he was not necessarily saying those people wrote bars for Eminem. Instead, he said that it was important for rappers to surround themselves with people who bring them “thoughts,” “ideas,” and “experiences.”
Without that, he said, “I wouldn’t have nothing to rap about. That’s more important than actually making it rhyme, is having something to talk about. Because there’s a lot of n–gas who can just rhyme and don’t be talking about s–t.”
Ca$his has recently sat down on Wraps Interviews, where the former Shady Records artist talked about Benzino namedropping him on “Rap Elvis.” Cash revealed that he has a bomb diss track ready for Benzino if he responds.
“He mentioned me in a song. I felt like he was using my name as part of a diss to Em. He was s–ting on me along in order to s–t on Em. I can’t respect that. If he had left my name out of it, I probably wouldn’t say nothing cause Em ain’t gonna respond to him. Em at a way high level than him.” said Ca$his.
Then he continued: “We are up 2-0 right now. I’m waiting for him to go and say something else and I’m really go and get that ni–a. I just popped him right now but I’mma stand over him on this next one and make sure he don’t never come back. But chances are he run around like a little b–ch and be scared. Throw rock and hide his hands. I’m surprised his ghostwriters even go step up. You sure you wanna hop in these flames? You don’t wanna test me bar for bar and see what I really get. I don’t know if it’s Cassidy. I’m just saying, whoever the ghostwriter is, I served Benzino, that means I served you too. Just go let that slide? You ain’t got no type of pride as a man or as an MC. Damn shame. Whoever it is, hop your a– on the ring. You were the one who said my name. Don’t let this ni–a Femzino take all the heat for it. You using this ni–a as a human shield right now. Whole world is dissing this fool. It’s damn shame.”
“I’m Shady forever. I coined the Shady Gang phrase. I came to Shady Records and took this to the hot. This meant everything to me. I ain’t turning my back on Shady Gang. Ni–as are waking up sleeping giants right now. We might get that 1.0 back jumping. They really really really woke up the lion right now. Em is one of the GOATs. I don’t believe there is one singular GOAT. Em is definitely one of them.” – Ca$his added.
Cole Bennett has recently sat down with Anthony Fantano where they talked about how Eminem’s “Doomsday Pt. 2” happened to be on Lyrical Lemonade’s All Is Yellow album.
“A lot of songs in the album were really collaborative. We got to build out the concepts and a lot of really great in-studio sessions and moments and re-working things… ‘Doomsday Pt. 2’ came about…we flipped the original beat and and sent it to him long, long time ago and I didn’t know if he was ever going to do anything on it or not. And as the album was approaching and we are getting ready to turn the things in, it came in. We were actually working on a few other songs on the album. Some that didn’t end up landing on the album that I’m really excited about. Like I said, I didn’t know what to expect, it was not a collaborative thing as much as the others songs. It’s the continuation of the original ‘Doomsday’ which is a flip of his old song to begin with, ‘Role Model.'” said Cole Bennett.
Then he continued: “I really enjoyed some of the delivery and how it came, the Benzino thing to me, it’s just something like I heard the same way that everyone else did. It was just what he had sent in and what he has going on in that department. It has obviously nothing to do with me but I think it created a dialogue and they have their own history and that’s where he was at when he made the song and I think that’s what makes it special on its own way. That’s just what he was feeling that day when he approached that song. Benzino was on his mind I guess.”
“Getting to work with Eminem is one of the highest honors and to have him a part of this project and just look at that tracklist and seeing him on there is nothing short of a childhood dream, so I’m just thankful he could be a part of it.” Cole Bennett added.
On the latest episode of “Drink Champs,” Ludacris joined DJ EFN and N.O.R.E. for a full breakdown of his ostentatious career.
Of course Champaign, Illinois-born rapper and actor played a quiz game, where you are taking a shot of vodka if you can’t answer the question. At one point of game, DJ EFN asked: “Eminem or Busta Rhymes?!” On which, Ludacris replied: “Ahh. Why y’all put those two together man. If it was not for Busta, I would not be here…God damn! I’m taking the shot!”
Elsewhere in the interview, Ludacris explained it had always been hard for him to win Best Rap Album at the Grammys, until he did it in 2007: “One of the best day of my life was me winning Best Rap Album at the Grammys. Every time I went to the Grammys, I’m in category with Eminem, Jay-Z, Ja Rule, DMX and these motherf–kers were killing that s–t. Luda’s huge artist but when it comes to these motherf–kers I’m losing every motherf–king award. And finally man, I make this album, Release Therapy and I went on there like ‘I’m making this f–king album and I’m going to win Best Rap album for this s–t. I don’t care what happens. I’m specifically going in, writing this s–t, making the way it needs to be. And when they called my f–king name bro, that did it for me. Because all these years, it was a decade of loss, and finally getting that recognition.”
Ludacris also revealed that he got the call for Fast & Furious role when he was on tour with Eminem: “I got that call from John Singleton. I’m glad you asked that cause I was on tour with Eminem at that time. This was after the Outkast tour. So, I was on tour with Eminem. I’m about to go on stage in 20 minutes. I get a call from my agent, saying John Singleton wants you to put yourself on camera to try out and read these lines for 2 Fast 2 Furious. I’m about to go on stage. I’m concentrated on killing this crowd right now. We get the camera. I’m looking at the lines and I’m like ‘let me get in this character, let me read these lines’ and now were are like 12 minutes before showtime ‘f–k it just put me on camera, this is the best they gonna get right now’ so I put myself on camera, go out and kill the stage and the next day ni–a called me and told me you got the part. And the rest is history ladies and gentlemen.”
Detroit hip-hop artist and battle rapper Quest Mcody has recently sat down with P to Da 3rd Letter on Rap Grid where the two talked about Eminem and Benzino’s reignited beef, why Eminem slander is still cool thing to do and how Big Proof influenced the entire Detroit rap scene.
“Everybody know where it stem from. Benzino has been poking. He say stuff about Eminem in the interviews all the time, in a lot of interviews. Em don’t do a lot of interviews. He rap. So sometimes when he rap he say something and he felt like saying something this time and the rest is the rest. It pushed Benzino.” said Quest Mcody.
Then he continued: “I like Eminem as a rapper. I think Eminem is a good rapper so if we just talk about raps, Benzino is just not that good of a rapper. It’s not a rap beef. I think the raps were dope but Benzino is not a good rapper, we know that and he knows that. He said it himself, he got help to put it together. So, I just think it’s silly to compare he two. I’m not about to break down and compare a ghostwritten diss-track to somebody that was making fun of you with their own raps. It’s okay to have ghostwritten work. It’s something that has been around the raps but I don’t consider people that rap on Rapper’s Delight when I talk about people like Jay-Z or Eminem or Nas and that’s just how I go.”
“I don’t think Eminem is held in such a high regard in only Detroit cause if it was just Detroit, he wouldn’t be Eminem. Every year he’s top 10 streamed artist without putting out what would some consider a classic album in many many years. He got core fanbase, he got a fanbase. He said it on records why some of that is but also is to be recognized by everybody. Like Drake can’t be Drake without crossover fans. Hip-hop can’t survive if it’s just us because we are minority. So, if you are selling million of records in America, based on the numbers alone, you gotta be able to sell records to people that are outside of your demographic and if somebody comes along and they heighten the awareness of that demographic to the whole of hip-hop, that’s a benefit for hip-hop. Because now we got more fans.”
“The reason some people are still slandering Eminem is because it’s cool thing to do to discredit. It’s cool to have these outlandish takes. It’s very very common right now to ignore certain things because you don’t like something. I can’t say somebody’s whack because I don’t like it or because it ain’t my cup of tea. Like, there is no way you can tell me that Drake is not good based on the response ‘nah I might not like it’ but it’s hard for me to say like ‘yo, this is not good’ or he is not talented. Maybe I don’t think it’s good but I can’t think he’s not talented because you’ve shown this in different ways. I gotta be able to recognize the appeal outside my own. So, I just think it’s cool to just talk s–t.” Quest Mcody added.
Then he continued talking about the importance of Big Proof for Detroit and told few unheard stories about him: “Proof means a lot. Proof was somebody that invested in the community and got love from us. He was pivotal in everybody’s lives. It didn’t matter how frequent he was in your life, if you met P, he made an impact. There’s a lot of stuff people don’t know about Proof. He was the first person to have Unsigned Hype article, not Em. Proof won The Source’s Unsigned Hype rap battle. he beat Supernatural. Proof was known across the country for being phenomenal battle rapper even more so in some spaces than Eminem. A lot of our first experiences with industry came through Proof. Proof put my only solo song on the label project that he put out and I wasn’t on the label. We never did music but we had a lot of conversations. The first battle I won money being there Proof just left doing the show with 50 Cent that night and came and hosted the battle that I won $100 and he gave it to me out of his pocket. Backpack hip-hop, battle rap world, the street music that you hear, he was the bridge to that. It was always love. He gave a piece of family and belonging to a lot of people. He had a record label with a lot of dope artists from the battle rap scene in Detroit. He gave us the opportunity to get our fanbase.”
You can watch the entire thing and make sure to check out some Quest Mcody music below.
King Los has recently done an Instagram live interview with Threeletterman3 where the two talked about Eminem and Benzino beef. During the conversation, King Los, who is one of the most respected lyricist in the game, said that Benzino beat Eminem with a ‘mid diss record’ and defended him for using ghostwriter. Later in the interview, King Los also showed some love to Em.
“Nah, I didn’t write it cause if I would have wrote for Benzino that s–t would have been even more evil. That s–t would have been even crazier. I think, to be honest with you, just from knowing Zino, I think Zino wrote that s–t bro. I’ve been known Benzino for a minute. I think he wrote that s–t by himself cause Zino has always been a hip-hop ni–a. Zino has something to say for a long time.” said King Los.
Then he continued: “I think maybe at one point, Zino had to sit down with some people because when it gets technical, it turns into a war. It makes sense because you going against the giant like Eminem. Benzino fell upon some hard times. He went through some s–t. He’s not at the height of his height. He’s in the mud. So, he’s like ‘yo, I’m ready to slay the giant.’ It’s David and Goliath right now. He’s like ‘I gotta fight the hardest that I’ve ever fought right now.'”
“In battle rap and in hip-hop, 100% of everything that was determined or considered to be a victory was not always written solely by the proprietor or the person that delivered it. In the battle rap culture, you might have chicks, you might got ni–as and they might have sat down and had some bars and then they went over the homies and helped him framework and put it together. That happens in battle rap all the time. In hip-hop, on diss tracks, there’s been motherf–kers helping ni–as. Sometimes, ni–as make contributions bro to those big moments. Maybe 20% of the music industry writes their own s–t. I don’t think it demerits Benzino if he had help against Eminem. If you come out on top and you win, that’s all that matters in the end.”
“I know Benzino in person right? He ain’t cheat cause he ain’t called me. I’m probably the most lyrical ni–a that most people know so imagine Zino got some help and he ain’t called me! He could say ‘yo, Los! This ni–a Eminem just hit me with a motherf…’ Benzino can take a victory lap cause you know why? because the culture has already determined that what he presented was better than what Em presented. It does not matter if he had a help because the weight class is not even. The only reason we marveling in it because it’s David and Goliath. Keep it real. Ni–a, Eminem is…Bro! Who ever survives Eminem?! The reason why Zino could take a victory lap is because he really beat Em with some mid s–t. Let’s keep it real. If he’d came out with some technical rap we’d be like ‘nah, ni–a, nah, stop.’ He beat him with something that was in his pocket. It was such a basic hip-hop. Punchline setup. It was very basic but Benzino beat Eminem with the cultural aspects of what he was saying. He didn’t beat him with technical ability. Benzino said things that mattered more. I think Benzino went personal and Eminem kind of went technical. That giraffe line was horrible.”
“[Is Eminem battle tested?] Hell yeah. First and foremost, because him getting his pen to a level where ni–as were feared of him. Eminem was feared! Like ni–as know, yo, you don’t wanna play with that white boy. He’s different. He was not born like that so how did he get to that? All them freestyles, joints he used to do and all that s–t. That built him. Eminem is battle tested because he’s a white boy who is simulated to a black dominated culture and genre and he got to the top of it. That’s the real battle! To become someone who is revered in hip-hop space for lyricism, you have to be battle tested because how the f–k did you get there. Eminem 1000% is battle tested bro. He’s one of them boys. He proved that bro. What I say about Em is, he survived Canibuses, his era was rap ni–as! He survived a lot of prominent hip-hop rap ni–as and his lyrics and everything was held on the pedestal and that makes him battle tested. AND, as a white boy, that makes him super battle tested and he rapped around Royce, Buddens and all them ni–as. When I talk to Royce, Royce be like ‘yo, you know how hard it was every day to come in the studio and tryna outrap Joell, f–king Crook?’ Now think about this white boy Eminem. Always staying in the prominent space at the top around all these giants. That alone gives you an accolade to be a battle tested.”
“Eminem was like bible at a certain point. When he dropped some s–t, I don’t care if it was a technical aspect or his subject matter or the shock value of what he would say out of his mouth but you gotta listen. When he sang that s–t ‘I’m sorry mama, I never meant to hurt you, never meant to make you cry but tonight I’m cleanin’ out my closet’ bro, that’s forever! When he talked about certain things like killing his mama and girlfriend, that more assimilates with Europeans. Us, we came in a struggle we would never even think about killing our moms or putting it in a songs. I don’t believe there is any limits in art so I respect his art because my favorite song is ‘Just The Two Of Us.’ In that song, he does…his baby mama but he did it in such a creative way that all I could understand was ‘oh man, he just going through with that girl’ and I felt him. So, what I’m saying is, when you have the ears of people you gotta say something that they feel. That’s all I’m saying.” King Los added.
