Flavor Flav, a founding member of iconic hip-hop group Public Enemy alongside Chuck D, has recently talked about Eminem with DJ Whoo Kid on Shade 45 radio.
“Eminem is my favorite rapper. Word up. And not only that, he still shouts Flavor Flav out in his records. Yeah boy! You know what? Check this out. I don’t care how they trying to color my man it don’t stop him from being number one. That’s all I got to say. And being number one don’t have no color. Word up man. Yeah, Eminem man! he’s the best rapper alive right now man! Can’t nobody beat him out. When you can’t be beat, that means you are the best.” said Flavor Flav.
Then he continued: “Let me tell you something. Back in the day, when Eminem, Snoop, Dre, they had this group together and this is when the first time Eminem seen me and when he seen me, he went ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. I didn’t know who he was at that time. I gave him mad love man. He went crazy over me and I gave mad love. Lets say like this, because a lot of those guys [Redman, LL Cool , Nas] are like mentors to Em. But then Em is like a mentor to them too. It’s all a mutual respect thing. That’s one thing I could say about Eminem. He has mad, mad respect from all of the legends in the rap game but he’s a legend himself. For real.”
Whoo Kid also promised the hip-hop icon to send Eminem’s recent merch as a gift: “Hook me up with a Detroit Lions and Mom’s Spaghetti sweater and I’ll be wearing that s–t through every airport in the world man.” Flavor Flav added. You can watch the entire thing below:
Detroit’s own, Marv Won who is a member of underground hip hop group the Fat Killahz and rap duo Twin Towers, has recently sat down on Rap Grid where he talked about Eminem. Marv was one of many Detroit rappers who appeared as an extra in “8 Mile” movie. He rapped against Eminem in a battling scene. That scene was left out of the movie but was one of the main scenes when they sold the DVDs. It was a footage Eminem’s management sent to ‘Entertainment Tonight,’ ‘Extra’ and ‘Access Hollywood’ and other publications.
In his recent Eminem diss song, Benzino raps: “Last time you battled, s–t was like 22 years ago, vs Marv Won, What was the outcome of that match up? Marv won (I swear).” On that, Marv responded: “[What’s the first thing I thought?] Who the f–k wrote this. This man has no idea who I am. Who the f–k wrote that? Even if that man [Eminem] clearly lost a battle to me, he won it. He won the war. So it does not matter. It don’t f–king matter. And two, you’ll never get me in any kind of form going against my f–king friend. Whether it’s for your recognition or not. If that’s the case, I’ll scream from mountain-top I lost a battle, you’ll never be a person to say I won. That’s my legitimate friend. Don’t try to weaponize me against my friend.”
In a new interview, Marv Won first talked about Eminem’s contribution to Detroit street rappers: “When people my age or older form the city say ‘yo, Em didn’t do enough’ it definitely does not sit well with me because if you were a rapper at that time, you were in extra in that movie (8 Mile). You legitimately got a check from Eminem. No matter how big or how small, you got a check from him. And you got three square meals a day from that ni–a. That’s a lot. I was an extra. They knew everybody were rappers. They were trying to keep the morale up in the city. On the set, they wanted to do a contest. They just had rappers rap. That was really easy for me. I was amongst our peers. And just so happens by the grace of God, I was one of the people they pick. And I’m always grateful to Eminem, to Paul Rosenberg, to Curtis Hanson. Everybody who was involved in picking what they chose to sell the DVDs. It literally changed my life. It legitimately changed my life. You never catch me saying a bad word about Eminem.”
Marv Won also thinks Em will respond to Benzino: “I think Em is counting money. Respectfully, why would you pour gas on fire that’s dying out? That’s what a response would be. He will be like ‘you know what? I wanna keep this fire going’ otherwise it would not make sense to me. Competitive-wise, I get it.” You can watch the entire thing below:
Benzino has recently done an interview on Diverse Mentality Podcast where he talked about “Rap Elvis,” Eminem’s place in hip-hop, The Game VS Eminem and more.
“Look at the fans he got. They don’t have diverse mentality. If they do, everybody would sell like a highest rate. Royce and Eminem put out Bad Meets Evil. About 2 months later, Royce put out his album and did sold nothing. How would you sell 500,000 and 2 months letter you sell 10,000? That means 490,000 white people did not buy Royce’s album. D12, it’s Eminem’s group. D12 tried to do their own thing but what is D12 doing right now? As big as Eminem still is, why he does not support Bizarre if he puts out a solo album? They don’t they support Crooked I when he puts out an album? They are not even supporting a small percentage of what Em does. He has 41 million followers on Instagram. Why are not those followers supporting his artists. Wayne brought them and look at how great Nicki and Drake are doing.” said Benzino.
Then he continued: “The Game is lyrically gifted. Since Game was part of G-Unit, a lot of people didn’t want to believe that Game is going against Eminem. A lot of fans didn’t believe it because they figured Game was an ally. When Game did it, it kind of shocked everybody. I think the diss-track that he did was dope as f–k but Eminem didn’t even respond.”
“I’m going to shot the video for my diss. I’m going to Miami to shoot it. The artwork for the diss was done by AI.” – Benzino added.
He also said that he’s not going to respond to nobody’s diss aside from Eminem and Royce 5’9″: “I’m waiting for his response. I actually got one ready. I heard Ca$his is getting ready to drop one. Shout out to Ca$his and all the rest of them but I’m not answering none of them. Royce, I would answer. If Royce comes, I’m gonna answer Royce. I’m not gonna answer nobody else. Not even 50 Cent. He’s not a battle rapper. I think I could chew Royce. I don’t think Royce is that nice. I think Mickey Factz chew him last time.”
Benzino also responded Joe Budden for supporting Eminem: “When Joe sees and opportunity to hop on Em’s meat, he’s gonna take it. He sees that opportunity to get back in it because Joe came back with his diss song and that sh–t just didn’t stick. I’m sure he’s like ‘damn, I did that. It didn’t stick and now Em hates me. So now he sees a way to get back in. Joe, Em will never come on your show. No matter how much you scrub his meat. It’s gonna never happen Joey. Save yourself. Have some dignity.”
Then he get back at Em: “Go diss some real MCs! The battle rap ni–as! Just call them out! What the f–k! Outsidaz, the whole group dissed you! Shout out to Aziz, I didn’t mention him. Go mention him! I know what it is! He’s scared! What else could it be? he’s nervous cause if they do take on him, his career is over. He’s probably sh–ting right now like ‘I can’t believe this s–t, [Benzino went hard].’ Never happened this. This is a glitch right now.”
After dissing Eminem on “Vulturius” and “Rap Elvis,” Benzino went on Rap Grid for an interview where he intentionally on unintentionally admitted that some people helped him write the diss record, specifically “Rao Elvis.”
“What reignited the beef with Em? I don’t know, I wish I could tell you. The only thing I could think of two days prior of him releasing Doomsday Pt. 2 I had did an Adam22 interview. I don’t go in there and tell them ‘make sure you talk about the Eminem thing.’ Every interview I do Eminem comes up 22 years later. It does not stop. I’m never don’t want to talk about that. Yeah, let’s talk. So they ask me the questions. I answer the questions. I think on that particular interview Adam was going harder on Eminem more than I was. Cause I was in my mindset like ain’t no more beef, that s–t was years ago. I’m 58. And there was other things that was said in that Adam interview and Em might took it as an offense.” said Benzino.
Then he continued: “People always ask me if I do a song with Eminem. Of course I would. Why would not I? It’s not even about the money. People don’t even realize I’ve done collabos with some of the best of them. Like Raekwon. I spit a hot verse with Rae. Nas. I’ve worked with a lot of great ones. So, why not work with Eminem?”
Then ‘Zino was asked about “Rap Elvis”: “I’m just hungry. Last time we were beefing I was multi-millionaire. When I say beef, it’s a rap beef. It really isn’t real street beef. Back then, I was more emotional and took things personal. Now it’s not like that… I don’t go in the studio by myself. I’ve done that but for this I got to bring my ni–as with me and motivation and bounce s–t of each other, why not? Because, number one, I’ve always been in groups and I’ve always been in studio sessions where it was gang of ni–as. So, when it’s time to write a verse there’s always somebody there to get in line. That’s what’s dope about hip-hop. That does not mean…Yah, sometimes I can go in there and write but where I’m at in my life right now, I still love hip-hop and I’m hungry. And the Eminem thing was just an opportunity to show the world that ‘look man, I’ve been doing this for a long time.’ I think my skills and my music is overlooked because of Eminem and his crazy a– fiends.”
Aside from Benzino admitting others’ writing his diss record, he told lots of lies in that particular interview. First, he DOES KNOW why Eminem threw shots at him. Adam interview was not even released when Eminem dropped “Doomsday Pt. 2.” The actual reason Em dissed him is because ‘Zino could not stop running his mouth for the last few years. If he does not remember, I’m here to remind him:
Second, you are not hungry Benzino. When I talked to you on Instagram, you said you are too old for this rap. And then, all of a sudden, you realized that’s it’s your chance to shine and recruited Cassidy and other folks to drop a diss record on Em.
Surprisingly, Joe Budden has taken Eminem’s side in his renewed beef with the former co-owner of The Source magazine, Benzino.
Discussing the recently resurrected feud between the longtime rivals on his self-titled podcast, Joe Budden — who used to be signed to Eminem’s Shady Records as one quarter of Slaughterhouse before they fell out — made it clear he is no fan of Benzino.
“Eminem rhymed animal control with Sandra Bullock’s nose. Em loves rapping so much yo. Nobody else is gonna rhyme Sandra Bullock’s nose with animal control. I like it.” said Joe Budden.
Then he continued: “Maybe punching down is back. I’m with anybody dissing Benzino. Y’all see that ni–a coming out the pool on some bodybuilder s–t with the water glistening off his body trying to be like a seal or some s–t?
“Old ni–as shouldn’t do that. He do too much s–t that old n-ggas shouldn’t do. And I know he tried to bang that transgender. I don’t care what that n-gga say. I know he did! It’s been there! Now me and Em on the same side — look what you did, Benzino. I ain’t never had a problem with Benzino, but Benzino do make being 50 look corny. For real.” Joe Budden added.
New Original Docuseries “Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story” has just premiered on Peacock (February 1, 2024) and it features our boss, Eminem!
Kings From Queens: The RUN DMC Story is a three-part documentary series, produced by Believe Entertainment Group, chronicling the iconic forefathers of hip-hop, RUN DMC. This unique series takes you back to the 1980s, when Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, and Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell cultivated a one-of-a-kind sound that took not only Queens, but the world, by storm.
The docuseries features exclusive interviews from RUN DMC, as well as some of hip-hop’s biggest names, including Eminem, Ice Cube, LL COOL J, Questlove, Beastie Boys, Ice-T, Chuck D, Tom Morello, Salt, Doug E. Fresh, Big Daddy Kane, MC Lyte, Ed Lover, Jermaine Dupri, and many more!
The documentary includes footages from 2009 when Eminem inducted Run-DMC into The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. As well as new interview from Slim Shady: “If there was no Run-DMC, there might not be no me. There might not be a lot of other rappers. DMC’s voice was so commanding. So big and godly to me. When they did Walk This Way, that s–t just blew that whole s–t out the f–king water. That was a start of this art form being taking seriously.” Check the video cuts from the documentary below. For the full docuseries, visit PEACOCK.
Hip-hop icon Treach from legendary hip-hop trio Naughty By Nature has recently sat down with another hip-hop icon, Willie D, from Geto Boys rap group has recently sat down on Willie D Live podcast where the two talked about many topics, including Eminem.
Willie D: I think that everybody know that you don’t play man, including Eminem. Eminem gave you big shout out man. He studied you man. That’s a huge accomplishment considering how so many million of millions people believe that Eminem is a top dog. They believe that he’s that dude. And for his to say ‘nah, Treach that dude!’ That’s crazy!
Treach: I always call him my lightskinned twin. A lot of artists will go and say ‘yeah I created the style, mad that bla bla bla bla, it’s me, me, me, me’ when somebody like that…And it’s not just me, he has a list of his favorite artists, I might be at the top of the list, for somebody give accolades like…That’s our era. We be like I feel like Run-DMC, LL, Slick Rick, the whole list, KRS-1, we’ll name a million artists because our ego won’t let us not name them because we actually came up. Where my style came from? Everybody I listened to. But I had to make my own style out of it. Now when Em comes saying I was his major influence in him getting better and seeing and studying me and everything else, everybody don’t do that.
Willie D: I first met Em at Beats Music Launch in Los Angeles. We were backstage and his manager brought me to the bus. Em had bus back there. And Em was like ‘I just got through listening though your album ‘Controversy.’ He’s really a student of the game and he’s a teacher. A good student eventually becomes the teacher, the professor. And Em knows his history. Like, he really knows his history and you are right, it’s not just you, he has a list of artists that he listened to that inspired him. And he put all that s–t together and he evolved into his own thing. Evolved into Eminem. But he’s one of the few dudes out there, especially as far as one of the top dogs, who would give credit. A lot of these dudes, they just hold their nuts. They will tell you in private they like you but they’ll never say it publicly.
Treach: Yeah! And then they play race card, like, he’s a white guy and he should never be accepted as one of the greatest or greatest or anything else, like, white people were never part of hip-hop. Actually, the first female that I heard rapping was blondie, saying the rhyme, talking about Grandmaster Flash. The Beastie Boys already knew that they were white and race card could get pulled. So, you’ve seen the first album cover, like the plane is crushing? We all listened to Beastie Boys and loved them and by the time they put out the video out we ain’t give a f–k if they were white. White people were in breakdancing. They were doing graffiti. Yes, us, we created it but the part of the culture of hip-hop, it was Hispanic white, black first but of course it was all part of it. So when you look at Em and say you don’t deserve a part of hip-hop or rap or a culture, it’s disrespectful to the art. You know what I mean? MC Serch! Can’t nobody that really know the lyrics say Eminem is whack or he just got where he at cause he’s white. Go and try that s–t and let him hear it and watch he tear your a– up on the record.
Willie D: Well, here is a thing about Em and most of other rappers that came up 20 years ago. They had to be stamped by black people. When it comes to black culture, most white people will sit back and see if black people like it first. And if black people like it then they start saying ‘okay what’s this about’ and then they become a fan. Em first fans were black. His firs fans were black. There is no doubt about it. Before he started getting played on those Top 40 stations, he was only being played on the hip-hop stations.
Treach: And before he even came out with records on 8 Mile, he was doing battles and everything else. He was in the black hood. Facts!
Mike Shinoda, the co-founder the rock band Linkin Park and is co-lead vocalist, as well as rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer for the bad, has recently done a question and answer session on Twitch with the fans. During 1-hour long conversation, Shinoda briefly talked about Eminem too.
During the livestream, one user commented: “Imagine Mike Shinoda having a rap battle with Eminem. Maybe they should go on epic rap battles of history as themselves!” On which, Mike Shinoda replied: “You mean imagine me like a toddler getting blown up by a nuclear weapon? Eminem is the greatest freestyle rapper, greatest battle rapper of all time. I don’t give a s–t what anybody says.”
Someone asked: “If not a rap battle, please do a collab with Eminem, we all grew up listening to both Linkin Park and Eminem.” On that, Mike replied: “Am I gonna collab with Eminem? Probably not. I think Eminem is incredible but it’s not on to-do list.”
You can watch the video clip cut out from the livestream below:
Boskoe100, also known as Boskoe1 is a hip-hop artist who hails from Inglewood, California. He became well-known in the music industry after a street feud went viral on the internet. He has recently sat down on VLAD TV where he talked about Eminem dissing Benzino and kind of responded Dr. Umar for saying Eminem can’t be one of the greatest because of his skin color.
“[Dissing Benzino?] It’s kind of whack, though. I ain’t gonna lie. Y’all had beef 20 years ago. Ain’t nobody thinking about that. Then why he didn’t diss The Game? We would have cared more, I would not really cared about him dissing Game either but I would have cared little bit more at least, if it was Game. Benzino? What is Benzino doing? It’s like being a bully at this point. You dissing Benzino, you bulling that man. He don’t even rap. He probably rapped before but he’s not a rapper. Benzino not putting our record. Benzino going viral for asking his kids for money. It’s like kicking a dead dog. But I love Benzino. I f–k with Benzino. I remember the whole The Source period of time. But even of more recent, I f–k with him because he gave us his daughter. I ain’t gonna lie, I love that ni–a daughter. Coi Leray is f–king amazing. I love her. Much respect for just breeding that bro. For breeding and blessing the culture with this beautiful spirit. So I don’t got nothing against Benzino. Never really did. But honestly I feel like Eminem trying to go at him is kind of like big corny.” said Boskoe100.
Then he continued: “[He’s one of the most dangerous emcees] I would never take that away from him. I would argue anybody down that Eminem isn’t one of the top lyricists in the game. I was born in ’82. So, as far as my lifetime, my love for hip-hop and my relationship with hip-hop, Eminem is undeniably in the top 10 for sure. You can’t deny it. Hip-hop was not about race. People always try to take away from his attributes just because he’s white. Hip-hop might have been a black start. It might started in Bronx and black dudes might started it but hip-hop was not based off the race. Hip-hop was always based off of the culture. Hip-hop is a culture. It’s not a racial aspect, it’s a cultural aspect. We do not matter if he’s white or not. If he’s spitting and doing this s–t that you ni–as started, he doing better than you, what’s the problem with that? That’s like saying a black actor can’t be the GOAT. That’s like saying Denzel [Washington] ain’t in the top 10 actors because he’s black. I’m sure that first play probably was not done by a black man but he’s in that white dominated genre or field and he’s one of the top 10 in the game. It goes both ways. Hip-hop was not based off of the race like Hollywood was not based off of race.”
“I’ve been an Eminem fan from day one. I always f–ked with Em. So, I never felt no kind of way about him being white but killing everybody off. It don’t matter who kill you as long as you get killed, right? It does not matter who the shooter is as long as you get shot.” – Boskoe100 added.
Benzino has fired back at Eminem with a new diss song called “Vulturius” on which he mocks Em’s drug overdose and the death of his late friend Big Proof and Charlamagne looks impressed by it.
Eminem had taken shots at the former co-owner of The Source magazine on his recent track “Doomsday Pt. 2”, and now his old rival has responded on “Vulturius,” which borrows JAY-Z‘s “Where I’m From” beat. Zino raps: Candy-a– Eminem, b–ch-a– feminine/ Mad he lack melanin, all Valium’d up again/ Aw, s–t, here we go, Benzino vs. Jim Crow/ Know a custy when I see one, how many times you overdose?”
Benzino also mocks the death of Eminem’s late friend and fellow D12 rapper Proof: “You a punk, plan my funeral? Please, you shoot who?/ Square ain’t even go circle the block for Proof.”
It looks like Charlamagne was impressed by Benzino’s bar as the media personality talked about it on Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM: “That ain’t it Eminem. What’s the point? Why? It just sonically not appealing to my ears but why? What are they even beefing for?” said Charlamagne Tha God.
Then he continued: “From what I heard, Benzino snapping on this. It sounded like Benzino was kind of hard. Play that little snippet for me again…I got to give Benzino that one. I ain’t heard either whole record but if I’m going off snippets, Benzino has better beat selection, heard some better bars from Benzino than I heard from Eminem. I know that sounds crazy to say but am I lying? Benzino had some balls. Sounds like Benzino got him for me from what I heard out from those snippets.”
Eminem has recently sat down with DJ Whoo Kid Shade 45 radio where Whoo Kid asked him about the new music, on which, Slim Shady replied: “Absolutely nothing. Nah man, I’m working on little something.”
Then Whoo Kid asked about the potential joint album with 50 Cent and here is what Eminem replied: “50 Cent and Eminem collaboration album? Where that come from? I don’t know whose idea that was but that’s crazy. Yo, I’m trying to get him to make another album so bad. We need another 50 album, like, really bad bro. 50’s on the roll right now. He’s been on the roll since the tour and I told him he needs a f–king…whatever he needs from me, I’m here. That’s sh–t be crazy though, an album with me and him.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Eminem talked about Detroit Lions: “I never thought in my lifetime that I would ever even see this. I didn’t realize how good the team actually was and when we beat Kansas City in the first game I was like BRO! F–king Goff…It’s the whole f–king team. Everything is clicking right now. I love Stafford man. I love what Stafford did for us when he was here but bro, Goff is, he’s f–king surgical.” he said.
Then he continued: “If Deebo don’t play, it’d be so great [Laughs]. Does he not feel good or something? I don’t know if he really wants to test that shoulder and injure it more. 49ers are great team and they really gonna be hard to beat. I’m so into what’s going on right now, I can’t even think about anything else. This is taking precedence over my entire life right now. We went to championship game 32 years ago. But we only won one playoff game back then. There were less games. We have never gotten this far. I know it’s a championship game but we never won two playoff games and we are so close bro. I have to be there. There is no f–king way I’m not gonna be there and I just saw today that Ben Johnson might be going to [Washington] Commanders and if he leaves us bro…Ben Johnson, if you leave us, diss record is coming! Diss song is coming!”
A head of San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions game, Eminem visited DJ Whoo Kid on Shade 45 radio where he talked about the game and revealed that he’s currently working on some new music.
“I never thought in my lifetime that I would ever even see this. I didn’t realize how good the team actually was and when we beat Kansas City in the first game I was like BRO! F–king Goff…It’s the whole f–king team. Everything is clicking right now. I love Stafford man. I love what Stafford did for us when he was here but bro, Goff is, he’s f–king surgical.” said Eminem.
Then he continued: “If Deebo don’t play, it’d be so great [Laughs]. Does he not feel good or something? I don’t know if he really wants to test that shoulder and injure it more. 49ers are great team and they really gonna be hard to beat. I’m so into what’s going on right now, I can’t even think about anything else. This is taking precedence over my entire life right now. We went to championship game 32 years ago. But we only won one playoff game back then. There were less games. We have never gotten this far. I know it’s a championship game but we never won two playoff games and we are so close bro. I have to be there. There is no f–king way I’m not gonna be there and I just saw today that Ben Johnson might be going to [Washington] Commanders and if he leaves us bro…Ben Johnson, if you leave us, diss record is coming! Diss song is coming!”
Then DJ Whoo Kid asked about the new music, on which, Slim Shady replied: “Absolutely nothing. Nah man, I’m working on little something.” You can listen to the interview below:
