Category: Latest Interviews

Reggie Wright Jr. responds Suge Knight saying Eminem’s 2Pac album flopped

Former general manager of Death Row Records, Reggie Wright Jr. has recently sat down on bomb1st where he talked about Suge Knight claiming the only 2Pac album that flopped was “Loyal To The Game,” which was released by Eminem.

During a recent interview with Katt Williams, Suge Knight said: “All the people Pac helped, buying cars, houses, putting them in apartments, jewelry, putting them on the songs, being label mates with him, everything right? Nobody never stood up for him. So, once Pac left, even people from his own groups, they started doing songs with his enemies. They started taking pictures with his enemies. But at the same time man, a lot of people been wanting to do songs with Pac and some people even did some s–t with Pac and they never…There was only one Tupac project that ever flopped before that’s the one Eminem did, on all the releases. All the rest of them were successful.”

In a new interview with bomb1st, Reggie Wright Jr. said: “It was not bad idea to let Eminem control 2Pac’s album cause Em was hot at that time. He was the hottest thing on the planet. Early 2000s to mid 2000s. He was Interscope’s baby. He was their boy. Now, to your point and most people’s point, Em is not known as a producer and he had different style and different flow than Pac did. Different style of music, so why would you have somebody that playing basketball coaching a football team? Just because you are an athlete or musician, don’t mean how to do and be that type of athlete, that’s my point.”

He then continued: “I would have taken the chance because if you would have got a percentage of Em’s fans over with Pac current fans, man, you all just don’t know how Em was considered in the industry at that time. Still to this day, he still holds the records as far as music sales, if Drake has not broken it yet. So, I guess why Interscope went that rout. Do I agree? No.”

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Avril Lavigne recalls meeting Eminem backstage at 2002 MTV VMA

After more than two decades in the music industry, Avril Lavigne has shaped a career and image uniquely her own. As the 39-year-old Canadian singer recalled in her rETrospective, it was that way from the start, down to the bag of personal accessories she brought along to her first photo shoots. She also recalled meeting Eminem for the first time backstage at 2002 MTV Video Music Awards.

“This was my first award show… We are backstage and it is like a million people around and Eminem walking up to me and like shaking my hand. Meeting him and him knowing who I was and walking towards me, saying ‘what’s up’ and shaking my hand and he’s like ‘yo, I respect you, your music’s cool.’ I almost s–t in my pants. I was like ‘WHAT IS HAPPENING?!'” – said Avril Lavigne.

The 2002 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on August 29, 2002. The show was hosted by Jimmy Fallon at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Eminem was most awarded artist at the show as Slim Shady took 4 awards to home, including Video Of The Year, Best Male Video, Best Rap Video and Best Direction In The Video for “Without Me,” which was directed by Joseph Kahn.

Em was also nominated for Best Editing in a Video and Viewer’s Choice but lost to The White Stripes and Michelle Branch. That night, Eminem also performed two singles, “White America” and “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” from his blockbuster album, The Eminem Show.

Benzino wants to sit down for conversation with Eminem

Following the release of Eminem’s “Doomsday Pt. 2” where Slim Shady makes fun of Benzino, the former co-owned The Source magazine has sat down with Adam on No Jumper podcast where the two talked about Eminem.

“As hip-hop evolves, yes, the greatest rapper of all time can be white, because hip-hop is evolving and all races are putting effort in it. As far as Dr. Umar, I see where he’s coming from but then the argument is basketball and how can Michael Jordan be the best basketball player but the thing is, hip-hop has been so personal to black people’s lives, other than just being a music…Everybody can have their favorites but he don’t cheer like that for nobody else. I think Dr. Umar like me just gets tired of this s–t, like bro, relax, okay, he’s good. Em can rap. I always say this. Eminem raps in certain way. He puts out a certain type of music. It’s really his own lane of music. But because that’s not my lane don’t get mad at me. I think Eminem fans take it so personal that they are like ‘he’s the greatest!’ Okay! He’s the greatest to you. That’s cool. To me he’s not.” said Benzino.

Then he continued: “Listen, I swear to you, my thing was not about the music. I had my own personal issues on what I thought on hip-hop and that’s probably where I made the mistakes by involving The Source. I’ve let my personal…That was my mistake. That was wrong. Business-wise it was wrong. You are not supposed to do that. That’s not good business but I don’t listen to his music anyways. Our situation was polarized because of the beef. Because of us going back and forth. But that’s what hip-hop was anyways. Big deal. I made few songs. He made few songs. So what? I’ve never even met Eminem. I would love one day. Before I go and before he goes, for us to sit down and just have conversation about hip-hop. That would be so epic to me because with us, it’s bigger than hip-hop. A lot of times it’d be Eminem fans, it don’t even be him, it’s his fans that make you…Most of the s–t I’ve said on the internet is probably because of his fans, not even him. Cause he does not even speak on s–t. He barely does.”

“Eminem fans think that I’m racist because of our situation and that’s silly, never been and never has been. I never said that Eminem wasn’t a great rapper. I think Eminem is a great rapper but I don’t listen to that type of music.” Benzino added.

Snoop Dogg gives an update on “Missionary” album with Dr. Dre

Snoop Dogg joins Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson for a second time on ALL THE SMOKE to chop it up. The hip-hop legend opens up about his family life, talks about his new movie “The Underdoggs,” gives advice to Usher on his Super Bowl performance, and talks about finally getting Death Row Records. Plus, he sends a message to Jeanie Buss on the state of the Lakers, breaks down his Steelers future, and speaks on his partnership with Master P & Sketchers. He also gave an update on his upcoming album, titled “Missionary” which is entirely produced by Dr. Dre.

“I’m in the lab with Dr. Dre right now, working on, that’s Death Row/Aftermath. We are finishing up that right now. Tightening up the pieces. He’s a perfectionist.” said Snoop Dogg.

Then he continued: “That ni–a called me one day, about two years ago, and he was like ‘Ni–a, come over, let me do a couple songs with you. I’m like ‘alright, I get over there’, he’s like ‘ni–a, let me do your album.’ I’m like ‘alright, lets go.’ ‘It’s gonna take me two weeks, f–k it, lets go.’ We go in, knock out couple songs, he hit me back, ‘I need two more days’, I-need-two-more-days, I got that call probably 85 times. This ni–a needs two more days all the time. But when you here what we have and how he got me rapping, it’s like grown Snoop Dogg. It’s not like ‘yee ni–aaa’ but it’s a growth to him. It’s the way he selects his bars, it’s the way he uses his voices, I’m talking about me like it’s a third party motherf–ker. This ni–a used me like a f–king robot and I love it. Because I love to be produced. I love to be challenged. I hate when a motherf–ker just take it for granted that ‘I’m working with Snoop. Here’s the beat, make a song.’ And I may some bulls–t. Because I go through bulls–t. I maybe rapping some s–t I said long time ago. And the s–t that you don’t want to hear. But if I’m being produced, we are creating this piece together. And this s–t is masterful, because my voice is a part of your music. It is actually an instrument. Let me be a part of the music, so when you hear Dre and Snoop, you always this is what you gon’ learn, every song that you ever heard from Dre and Snoop, my voice is never on top. It’s always in there because it’s an instrument. And that’s what he’s doing. He’s using me as an instrument to create this masterful album.”

You can watch the interview below:

Royce 5’9″ responds Icewear Vezzo ‘s interview about him & Eminem

Icewear Vezzo has recently sat down with Math Hoffa and the crew on the latest episode of My Expert Opinion where the Detroit rapper talked about the misunderstanding he had with Eminem, which led to a phone call from Royce 5’9″.

During the interview, Icewear Vezzo said: “Eminem owes us nothing bro. And I think he was thinking we want something from him. We don’t want nothing from you bro. I practice when I preach. Every time a young ni–a come up in my city, I reach out and I’m like ‘ey bro what you need? Is it a verse? It’s a connection? It’s some advice?’ They appreciate that s–t. That s–t go a long way. So, sometimes that’s all it takes. At the end of the day, that’s EMINEM my ni–a! But that’s all it ever take bro. ‘Hey bro, look, I see you my ni–a. You doing good but this one where you going wrong, you can do this, you can’t do that, this s–t look good, that s–t don’t look good, all right my ni–a, I see you in 50 years.’ I’mma appreciate that s–t bro. That s–t would take me a long way. Cause I do that. That’s all it take. I feel like that s–t don’t cost nothing for nobody. Not saying he owns that to ni–as. It’s just being a boss. We don’t know nothing but few words my ni–a and if you don’t go that for us, it’s all love. But don’t feel awkward when we do get where we get and we push you out. Now we pushing you out. Now you ain’t part of this. Now you ain’t getting no credit for turning the city up. Where Detroit at right now, you ain’t getting none of this credit. We did that.”

Then he continued: “Royce 5’9″ that’s Em’s homie. Homies do a lot of s–t for ni–as. He put calls in. He ain’t talk about it. He don’t post about it. None of that s–t but Royce makes real phone calls. He show ni–as love. He get ni–as real game. He ain’t never had to give a ni–a a dollar or feature or some studio time. None of that s–t. We got our own money bro. And it don’t hurt to tap in and see where my mind at bro. It just takes a few minutes to check a ni–a temperature. I ain’t the only one who said something. We all say s–t about that. And I think we put Em in the position to make him feel like we expecting something or we think dude owe us and it ain’t that bro. So I synced him and it was all love and the first thing I though about was ‘oh you do know who I am?! Damn! Okay!'”

Royce cut the part of the video where Icewear Vezzo was talking about him and posted on Instagram with the caption: “Love and Respect @icewear_vezzo … We gon figure all of this out so we can put this narrative to bed. Once and for all… #DetroitVsEverybody.” And Vezzo replied in the comments: “Real respect.” You can check the post below:

Orlando Brown responds Dr. Umar’s Eminem comments

Actor, rapper, and singer, Orlando Brown, best known for his roles as Eddie Thomas in That’s So Raven, Cadet Kevin ‘Tiger’ Dunne in Major Payne, 3J Winslow in Family Matters, and Max in Two of a Kind, has recently sat down with Cam Capone News where he responded Dr. Umar saying Eminem can’t be one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white.

“Eminem is not wrong and Eminem is always right. He’s a f–king king bro! I love Eminem. Everybody know I love Eminem. He literally taught me how to rap. My thing about Eminem is, they just need to respect him, I always say that they need to have more respect. I feel like Eminem get respect he deserves but they play with it. I feel like he got the respect already, from the world. But the real people that’s inside, some musical people, Method Man and couple of others, wouldn’t just f–k with him, just to be disrespectful, just to make him feel like he has to fight for that he ain’t got to fight for.” said Orlando Brown.

Then he continued: “Because when you are sensitive on the inside who you are, because of what you have been through, some people know how to press the buttons, it’s some people out there, if you call them weak, they gonna f–king cry. Some people, you call them ugly, they are going to tear up. Some people actually know deeper than what Eminem told us and they use that against against him. I’m not saying he’s broken from it, I’m just saying he’s a king bro and these kind of questions only bring dirt to the kingdom. Why are we trying to dethrone Eminem all the time? We gotta be asking questions about the person that intellectually killed everybody, verbally on wax? No, we are not gonna keep doing that? We are not gonna keep on trying to take a man’s title that’s already there. Can’t do that. That’s disrespectful. He’s one of my favorite rappers.”

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Icewear Vezzo describes meeting Eminem backstage at 50 Cent’s Detroit show

Detroit’s own Icewear Vezzo has recently sat down with Kid L where the two talked about many topics, including Vezzo meeting Eminem backstage at 50 Cent’s Final Lap Tour in Detroit, after the little misunderstanding that happened between the two.

“It was like normal, organic. 50 had tapped in and asked me to come out at the show. He ain’t telling nobody Em was going to be there or nothing. Right before I got on stage I had seen him walking out. We literally bumped to each other and we just had quick conversation. Chopped it up. I told him it’s all love and it’s all respect. Obviously I know he done seen some s–t that I said and the s–t all of us said.” said Icewear Vezzo.

Then he continued: “So, I just wanted to kind of get him understand what I meant. I was waiting for that moment to be able to express how I really felt cause it was never no situation where we felt like dude owed us anything. He don’t owe nobody s–t. He done did what he had to do for Detroit. That’s why we got people like D12 and Royce 5’9″ and all that. It was just more of a situation like with me and Em, we grew up on the same exact block, when same exact high school. Not at the same time but still our backgrounds kind of similar to a certain extent.”

“I’ve been rapping for so long like I’ve been fighting for staying in the game for years and I’ve been through hell and back and I know he heard of me, he heard all of us, so for me, every time I see one of the young ni–as coming up, I always try to reach out to them and I tap in, what’s up, what you need, a verse? a video? Whatever I can do, let me know, however I can enhance whatever it is you got going on, let me know, I see you, keep going, you doing what you need to do, and a lot of times that s–t go far with a person. For people that I looked up to and respected on the rap side of things just to say that they see me, that s–t would mean a lot. So, I just felt like, not that we was entitled to that, I just thought it was right to do, it would have been a good gesture.” Icewear Vezoo added.

You can watch the interview below:

Travis Kelce calls The Eminem Show one of the greatest albums of all time & his brother reveals fate of the CD

Travis and Jason Kelce’s father, Ed, may be a Taylor Swift fan, but he’s definitely not a fan of Eminem! During the most recent episode of their podcast called New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce, the American football brothers revealed a childhood incident that saw their dad dispose of their newly acquired Eminem CD.

Travis Kelce: Absolutely electric game up there in Detroit. Kind of mentioned it before, Eminem on Jumbotron, singing “Lose Yourself.” Oh god, fired me up.
Jason Kelce: Brings you back to the first CD you ever owned.
Travis Kelce: The Eminem Show baby. The intro to that albums, the curtains…
Jason Kelce: Well, you know what happened to that CD though. Do you remember?
Travis Kelce: I don’t.
Jason Kelce: You bought the CD and dad got into the car, after you bought that CD and he took it out and threw it out of the window. I can’t believe you don’t remember this. One of the funniest things I ever saw happened. You started hearing some of the words everyday. He was like ‘What the f–k is this’ and he threw it out of the window. I remember that like it was yesterday. He was not fan of something like this.
Travis Kelce: F–k you, dad! Hi kids, do you wanna watch me stick nine-inch nails through each one of my eyelids?… Good Lordy, whoadie, you must be gone off that water bottle. That’s pretty good s–t right there. Shout out to Eminem and The Eminem Show, one of the greatest albums of all time. Slim Shady, please stand up!

You can watch the interview below:

Young Zee claims he is responsible for Eminem’s skillset

Young Zee, a key member of the hip-hop group Outsidaz, has recently declared his pivotal role in shaping Eminem’s high level rapping skills. During a recent interview with Off the Cuff Radio, the New Jersey hip-hop artist described his mentorship of Slim Shady in the late 90s, claiming to have played a significant part in the birth of Marshall Mather’s extraordinary rapping abilities.

In the interview, Young Zee shared a conversation with hip-hop legend KRS-One, who, acknowledging Eminem as a rap god, posed the question. “You can’t just call KRS-One and tell him ‘yo let me get on your album,’ you can’t call Eminem and be like ‘let me get on your album’. He gonna be like ‘who the f–k is you.’ But these rappers called me. KRS-One called me, Eminem called me. Redman called me. Masta Ace called me. All these rappers called me to be on their s–t. That must mean something. KRS-One told me if Eminem is a god of rap what does that make you?’ Basically it’s true.” said Young Zee.

Then he continued: “When I was f**king with Eminem… First of all, he was just a little fat white kid. I started working with him. He was rhyming, of course. But when he came to Jersey and stayed at my house, we started perfecting his skills. So basically, I birthed his new skills. And so, that’s why KRS-One said that to me. Nobody can’t take that away. They try and hide the files, but they can’t take it away. I was there.”

Eminem shouts out the Outsidaz at the end of the song “Just Don’t Give a F–k”, in the beginning of “Cum On Everybody”, and in the songs “As the World Turns” and “I’m Shady”, all of which were released on his major-label solo debut The Slim Shady LP. He also acknowledges them in a track titled “Till Hell Freezes Over” which was intended to be on the album.

A rift developed between Eminem and Tha Outsidaz when Young Zee and Pace Won each recorded verses alongside Bizarre for the ‘Amityville’ track on Eminem’s major label sophomore, The Marshall Mathers LP. Dr. Dre complained that Eminem had too many guests on the album, so Pace Won and Young Zee’s verses were removed from the track. In a 2015 interview, Pace Won indicated that the original version of the track was probably permanently erased. In 2014, Eminem’s Shady Records label released Shady XV, a compilation album which featured a track titled, “Fine Line” by Eminem. On the song, he performs a verse showing his appreciation for the group (specifically Pacewon and Young Zee).

You can listen to the new interview below:

Battle rappers react after Mickey Factz says Eminem can beat anyone

Mickey Factz has recently shaken the battle rap world. Couple of days ago, the New York City MC tweeted that Slim Shady will not lose to any battle rapper if he comes back to the battle rap scene: “Eminem in a battle on any league wouldn’t lose. To anybody on his return. 100% winning in the building. The polls would also be broken. Just a fact of life.”

Few hours later, Mickey Factz received backlash from battle rappers and their fans, but some of them agreed. John John DaDon replied: “Saying Eminem can’t be beat in a battle by an active battle rapper is like saying Dirk Nowitzki could come back & win MVP right now! Probably the best rhymer of all time but bar for bar ni–as would pack him! The gas won’t help him.”

Real Deal also responded: “Do people think Eminem is going to show up to a battle rap stage and say “My bum is on your lips my bum is on your lips”. Again, he is going to rap. You won’t surely stand a chance to beat him on the polls or in a venue that you can pack out. Your only chance is a small room and even then how do you prove you “beat” him.”

Yunus also weighed in: “Imma keep it a stack, and this is probably the unpopular opinion, Eminem cookin at least 90% of battle rappers. Go listen to that KILLSHOT track he had for MGK and tell me that ain’t enough proof.”

Then Real Sikh entered the conversation: “Eminem prolly my FAVORITE, He’s an alien wit rhymin, and if he battled he would have some s–t! BUT, not for 3 rounds. It’s different when 20 mins passed and its only round 2, you tired and gotta keep up personality, projection, energy, lyricism AND be digestible.”

On that, LOSO replied: “Bro … i get what you’re trying to say … but 90% of the fans in that room won’t know what a PG or a crucible is lol. They literally will be Eminem fans. So on a technical, Battle rap era, 2024 lens sense … yea he would lose. But in all reality, He won’t lol.”

A.Ward also shared his opinion: “I definitely think Eminem could beat 95% of Yall. Not me though lol.” On that, Mike P replied: “My exact thoughts. “maybe y’all””

The Saurus said: “I dunno why the “if Eminem did a battle” convo has resurfaced but I’m definitely going back to sleep to avoid hearing it.”

During a recent in Clubhouse, Aye Verb said: “Can Eminem rap words with anybody on the planet? Yes. Can he fight against our top fighters? No. Impossible. I know some people who wanna challenge that theory but you shouldn’t cause I’m god here. That won’t happen. Not our dangerous frontline guys but anybody else? Absolutely. He’s phenomenal rapper but battle MC is not the same thing.” On which Yoshi responded: “I disagree. That’s Eminem. I got him smoking pretty much everybody. He’s amazing.”

Later, Mickey Factz and battle rapper Jay Blac did an interview with Threeletterman3 and Jay basically agreed what Mickey Said. You can check entire thing in the video below:

Ez Mil wants to battle Eminem, performs “Up Down”

Shady Records’ latest signee Ez Mil has recently done an interview with MajorStage where he answered quick questions asked by the staff of the magazine. He also performed Up Down.

Interviewer: Biggest influences and inspirations?
Ez Mil: Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky. I say those three. I look up to them with not just the music but the outlook on life cause you know Em from Detroit, A$AP from Harlem and Kendrick from Compton. It’s like, all been kinda like a mix where I feel like I saw my hometown growing up, kinda seeing the world through their eyes. Or, more so, listening through their words, you know, what they picture the life that we live in.

Interviewer: What rapper would you challenge in a rap battle?
Ez Mil: Em [laughs].

You can check out the entire interview and the perofrmance below:

Suge Knight says only 2Pac album that flopped was the one Eminem put out

Katt Williams has recently done an interview with Suge Knight. They catch up to discuss the impact of Katt’s monumental interview with Shannon Sharpe. They talk about next steps to creating change. Katt is in the studio working on his album and plays Suge an exclusive preview of Katt’s diss track to Ludacris. At one point of the interview, Suge mentioned Eminem too.

“All the people Pac helped, buying cars, houses, putting them in apartments, jewelry, putting them on the songs, being label mates with him, everything right? Nobody never stood up for him. So, once Pac left, even people from his own groups, they started doing songs with his enemies. They started taking pictures with his enemies.” said Suge Knight.

Then he continued: “But at the same time man, a lot of people been wanting to do songs with Pac and some people even did some s–t with Pac and they never…There was only one Tupac project that ever flopped before that’s the one Eminem did, on all the releases. All the rest of them were successful.”

Loyal to the Game is the ninth studio album and fifth posthumous studio album by 2Pac. The album was produced by Eminem and consists of remixes of previously unreleased music recorded by Tupac before his death in 1996. Released in the United States on December 14, 2004, Loyal to the Game debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart with 335,000 copies sold in its first week. It was later certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The last update on sales was 2011. It’s probably 2x Platinum by now.

The album’s second single “Ghetto Gospel,” featuring Elton John went No. 1 in Australia, Czech Republic, Ireland, Scotland and England. It was one of the biggest singles of 2005 in United Kingdom, stayed at No. 1 for 3 weeks and finished 2005 as No. 13 biggest single in the country.

Eminem and Suge Knight has never been in a good terms because of Dr. Dre and Suge’s endless feud. In “Like Toy Soldiers,” Em raps:  “I went through my whole career without ever mentionin’ **** [Suge] / And that was just outta respect, for not runnin’ my mouth / And talkin’ about somethin’ that I knew nothin’ about / Plus Dre told me stay out, this just wasn’t my beef / So I did…” This was not the first time Eminem edited Suge’s name in the song. He did the same in the song “Love Me” with 50 Cent and Obie Trice. However, Em had mentioned Suge in the song “Bully.” More recently, Eminem has been saying “Suge” when performing “Like Toy Soldiers” live, rather than leaving his name out.

Last year, during an interview bomb1st, the former head of security for Death Row Records, Reggie Wright Jr, said Suge Knight never actually hated Em, never had a problem with him and, he even liked him.

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