Category: Latest Interviews

Joe Budden reflects on his past disputes with Eminem & JAY-Z

Joe Budden has recently appeared on “The Pivot” podcast’s latest episode. During the hourlong conversation, the veteran emcee who turned into podcaster, talked on a variety of topics, including his mental health struggles, becoming a successful media personality, and much more.

At the beginning of the interview, Budden was asked about being the aggressor in many of his past conflicts within the entertainment industry and admitted that he approached some of them in a wrong way.

“Build and destroy. In some instances, I maybe went about it the wrong way or expressed myself the wrong way, but the intent is always pure. The intent is always for the better of everyone. It’s never like a selfish act. When I had my back and forth with Shady Records and Eminem, I was fighting for me and my brothers [Slaughterhouse] to get a better situation.” said Joe Budden.

Then he continued: “I can’t regret any of it. There is a lot of things that I should have dealt with different way but I don’t regret any of it cause I pulled a lesson from it. All of the yesterdays lead to today. If I change one thing, then an outcome, then the result is different. When JAY-Z got his role as president of Def Jam, I was a young artist on Def Jam trying to work on my second album. And at that time, a lot of the artists on Def Jam had a issue with JAY-Z being the president. This was the first time that a rapper, our peer, was calling the shots, in charge of DMX’s release date, and LL release date, and none of us took that well. And I really didn’t take it well.”

“I didn’t handle myself well at all. Every interview that they booked for me, I kicked their back in. Every chance I got in front of a microphone, I had disparaging things to say about people who, ultimately, were maybe trying to help me. Even if they weren’t trying to help me, if I would’ve helped myself, I would have been in a different predicament. But I didn’t. Gas on the fire.” Joe Budden added.

You can watch the interview below:

Dr. Umar to Joe Budden: “Eminem can’t be one of the greatest because he’s not black”

The new episode of  Joe Budden’s The Joe Budden Podcast is going to be as controversial as it gets. Dr. Umar “Ifatunde” Johnson, a staunch Pan-Africanist, motivational speaker, psychologist, activist and social media personality, visited Joe and the crew to discuss a wide range of issues affecting the Black culture and community. In the video snippet that has gone viral on social media, Dr. Umar shut the statement that Eminem is one of the greatest rappers in the history of hip-hop.

In the clip, which can be viewed after the jump below, Dr. Umar said that Slim Shady can not be one of the greatest rappers in hip-hop because of his skin color. According to Umar, since hip-hop was created by Black people, no White human being can ever be better than the group of people who created the music and culture.

“Let me say something to you. And this is going to my African fundamentalism. No non-African can ever be the best of anything African. It is an insult to the ancestors. It’s an insult to the race and it is an insult to every Black person.” said Dr. Umar.

Then he continued: “Do you think I can go to Palestine and be the best of anything of Palestinian culture? You never see that. You think I can go to Israel and be the best of anything in Israel whether it be a cook, an instrumentalist, a dancer? Hell no.”

“We have to stop naming non-African people as being the best of any aspect in our cultural product because it’s an insult. I can acknowledge Eminem’s talent but for you to put him at the top, that’s white supremacy bro. I don’t see Eminem building schools and hospitals. I don’t see DJ Khaled building schools and hospitals.” Dr. Umar added.

You can watch the segment below:

Glasses Malone says Eminem sells more because he’s white but he’s also top 10 most talented MCs

Los Angeles hip-hop artist, Glasses Malone has recently sat down on NO VULTURES for an interview where he talked about white privilege in hip-hop.

“First off, Eminem is unbelievably talented, let’s start there. He’s not dope because he’s white. He’s just dope! Now, is he selling better because he’s white? Sure, white people relate to him and see themselves. That’s easy sale. Marketing 101. Show me, me, that look like this, I’ll buy.” – said Glasses Malone.

Then he continued: “I think Eminem is, don’t get me wrong, is top 10 talented, at worst. He’s as talented as any MC can be. This ni–a is unbelievable. But of course he’s gonna sell more units because people can market easier when you can see yourself in them. I mean, he’s the American guy.”

“Hip-Hop is all about street Urban culture. Kanye West’s first album was College Dropout. The average ni–a at his age was not going to college. There are some ni–as that’s from the ghetto that went to college but I don’t know about the Cuz’s experience but it ain’t really important. I love Ye s–t so… And I love a Drake s–t. But Drake s–t was just obvious. The point I’m saying is, Eminem grew up in the ghetto somewhere and some trailer park.” Glasses Malone added.

Eminem has previously addressed white privilege in many occasions, including in one of his hit songs, “White America,” in which he raps: “Look at my sales / Let’s do the math: If I was Black, I would’ve sold half / I ain’t have to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that / But I could rap, so f–k school, I’m too cool to go back / Give me the mic, Show me where the f–kin’ studio’s at / When I was underground, no one gave a f–k I was White…”

You can watch the interview below:

Lil Wayne reacts to Eminem & Juice WRLD new song

DJ Whoo Kid has recently shared a clip from his interview with Lil Wayne that happened about a month ago where the two briefly talked about new Eminem and Juice WRLD song, “Lace It,” which was not yet released at that time.

Whoo Kid: Shout out to Eminem, I think he sent me a joint with Juice WRLD. RIP Juice WRLD. So we are going to get into that.

Lil Wayne: Ugh, RIP… Wait, wait! Em got a joint with Juice WRLD? That’s hard! It’s so cool. That made me feel awesome! That made me feel good. Em cool for that.

Keep in mind that the interview was recorded about a month ago, weeks before “Lace It” song dropped. You can watch it below:

The Game reveals real reason why he started beef with Eminem

The Game has never been shy about throwing shots at other rappers, but the Compton-born rapper has admitted that his recent disses of Eminem had a hidden motive.

In a new interview with DJ Vlad, The Game said that he went at Eminem on the song “The Black Slim Shady” from his Drillmatic – Heart vs. Mind album because he was mad at Dr. Dre for not inviting him at the 2022 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show which featured Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige and Anderson .Paak.

“Throwing shots at Eminem and beefing with Eminem, it was just me being upset with Dr. Dre. Dr. Dre can’t out-rap me, so I just went at Em, just because that’s just how I get sometimes.’ The Game said.

Then he continued: “But it’s always competitive. It ain’t like I’m gonna see Em and be like, ‘What’s up now?!’ It’s Em, you know what I’m saying? And Em took his shots on a record that dropped, and yo, Em is a funny guy.”

In the same interview, The Game spoke about working with Eminem on a song “We Ain’t” from his 2005 album, The Documentary: “Watching Eminem record, and his whole recoding process, that might have been one of the highlights of my career because I don’t know if you want to call it weird, legendary or some Einstein type of s–t, evil genius type of s–t, but Em is very very complex and different individual in good ways. When he writes raps, he turns the paper around and he just writes in circles and then he turns it, when he reads it, he turns it back opposite way and starts to read it. That was when we were using papers for recording process, I don’t know his recording process these days. Back in those days, Eminem would just eat Taco Bell and drink Mountain Dew like it was like, I don’t know man, like Snoop with smoking weed. That process was dope. I’m forever grateful for being able to experience prime Eminem in his essence in Detroit, that’s one of the highlights of my career.”

You can watch the new interview below:

Who would Nicki Minaj “Shag, Marry, Kill” between Eminem, Lil Wayne & Drake?

To promote her new album Pink Friday 2, Nicki Minaj has recently visit Andy Cohen on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” show, where she revealed that her documentary will most definitely be released despite the delay.

“It’s going to be a great experience for my fans…What happened was, because my album was not done when I was going to originally put it out, I didn’t want the documentary to come out without the music. That would’ve made no sense to people.” she said.

Then she continued: “Because of that, that network, they had to go with something else and I couldn’t force a documentary out either. I wouldn’t have wanted it to come out right now because then it would take time from them really being able to really listen to music. And so now that they’ve digested the music, when the documentary comes, it’ll be a different level of emotional roller coaster I think.”

Nicki Minaj also played “Shag, Marry, Kill” during her visit. After the Shag Roulette machine spun, Lil Wayne, Drake and Eminem popped up. Now Nicki has to make the choice: Which one to shag, which one to marry and which one to kill. Here is what she replied: “HOW DARE YOU?! You know I would never say that but let me put my thought outside of my brain. Can I shag two and marry one? I’ll shag ‘pf mta’ and I’ll marry ‘braa’.

You can watch the episode below:

Jake Bass recalls recording process of Eminem’s “Kim”

In a new interview with Mcdontstop, composer, producer and music engineer Jake Bass, who is a son of legendary Jeff Bass from Bass Brothers, talked about the making process of Eminem’s “Kim” song from his 2000 classic album The Marshall Mathers LP.

“That’s the record my dad and uncle did and fun fact, that was the first song I ever learned how to play on piano. That song, that was done out in California. Same around the time they were doing all the Slim Shady stuff and starting to put together the next record before they all moved back home to Detroit. That was a record that Em had come in one day with really bad attitude and pissed off and everything.” – said Jake Bass.

Then he continued: “When he was working with my dad he would always come into the studio with a mood and obviously that mood was dark, angry, sad. My dad didn’t know it was going to be twisted at the same time at that moment but he knew I want something that’s f–king dark and scary so my dad would sit down at keyboard like this ‘no, try going darker, okay, like this, maybe deeper, okay, like this, no, maybe a piano,’ and then, my dad would just whip ideas out and he started playing that piano lick and that was it. Loop that, my uncle played drums on it which was f–king awesome. Everyone thinks it’s a sample and it’s not! Everyone thinks it’s f–king Led Zeppelin sample but it’s not. It’s all real. And Em did vocals in one take. That entire session was 30 minutes. They put that together quick. And it was like, OH MY GOD, he painted an entire picture and he put together a whole f–king movie in 6 minutes. They knew it was something special.

“Working with my dad and uncle at that time especially it had to be that way at that time because that’s a very personal, very vulnerable record. And he worked with my family for many many years before that so it was a comfortable setting to scream like that and play both characters. It was very much Slim Shady. That was something that he was able to be vulnerable with in the studio with my dad and uncle. And you have to be putting record like that and to produced a record like that, you have to tap in, you know.” Jake Bass added.

Watch the interview below:

Big Daddy Kane answers question from Eminem

The legendary emcee, Big Daddy Kane and Noah Callahan-Bever sat down together in Brooklyn, NY in celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The two discussed Kane’s iconic career, getting the only sample ever cleared by Prince, hitting the studio with Rick James in the ’80s, being left of the Batman soundtrack, and the many challenges he’s faced in his career and how he’s continued to persevere. He also asked questions from Eminem, Nas and Pusha T.

Interviewer: First question comes from Mr. Marshall Mathers, Eminem, who is curious — because you were doing it so early in your career when most rappers weren’t, how did you know or how did you learn how to do multi-syllable flow, like when you said: making sure every lyrics is done fine and make one line bright as sunshine?

Big Daddy Kane: Em asked me that question before. Yeah, he has asked me that before. I don’t know, I guess it’s the type of thing when you’re running out of rhymes, you figure out the ways to match words together to keep the rhyme going on. What I think Eminem originally asked me about was ‘Rap Prime Minister, some say sinisterNon-stopping the groove, until when it’s the…” He points out, Sinister, Minister, okay, but now what else rhymes with that? So, I just put ‘Non-stopping the groove’ until ‘when it’s the’, say fast enough ‘when it’s the’ and it rhymes with Sinister. I just run out words and you create your own, you know. In all honesty, when I did that, I never paid attention to that I was pushing the entire genre until Eminem mentioned it to me a couple of years ago, I never paid attention to it.

Back in 2021, Big Daddy Kane confirmed that he interviewed Eminem for his upcoming Netflix documentary, titled “Paragraphs I Manifest.” The release date of the docu-series is still unknown… You can watch the new interview below:

Bang Em Smurf recalls Eminem signing 50 Cent to Shady Records & altercation with Suge Knight

Bang Em Smurf, one of the early members of 50 Cent’s hood gang who helped forming G-Unit, has recently sat down Cam Capone News where he recalled the early days of Eminem signing 50 Cent to Shady Records.

“When we got signed, before we actually secured the deal with Eminem, DJ Clue tried to come with better deal than Eminem but we declined that too. We declined all of them top executives. 50 wanted with Em and Dre. Eminem had to convince Dr. Dre to sign that deal. It was Em who really wanted Fif.” Said Bang Em Smurf.

Then he continued: “We recorded in the west coast but all the recording was not in the west coast. Eminem signed so we used to go to Detroit a lot too. We used to go to Eminem’s personal studio in Detroit. We go to LA cause that’s where the Interscope office was. I was in Dre studio. We were back and forth, we were everywhere with Fif, I was his righthand man, me, YaYo, before he went to jail. We were the ones who were making the moves. I’m the ni–a holding them down.”

“We were signed to Eminem, the biggest artist, that’s the great accomplishment. Eminem is still the biggest thing to this day. Ain’t nobody bigger than Em. Shout out to Eminem. That was a great feeling, great experience, thankful of being part of it. It was dope man, to see your dreams actually come true and unfold in front of you. Some dope s–t.” – Bang Em Smurf added.

Then he was asked about shooting the video of ‘In Da Club,” the lead single of Get Rich Or Die Tryin‘ album: “You know Suge pulled up. We was not going for it, we backed him down and he came with some Mexicans. Suge tried to press the video shoot but ain’t nothing happened. We held it down. Suge seen all them New York guys out there and they wanted no problem. He just dropped his cigar on the floor, stepped on it and left. That’s how Suge was. He’ll come to check the temperature, dig, so if he feels he could bully, he going to bully. He couldn’t bully that day but his presence was definitely felt cause all the executives and staff were going crazy all over the place. They scared to death. That was another dope experience. Eminem was inside at the beginning but then he came out outside, he ran and grabbed the vest and came outside with it.”

You can watch the interview below:

Action Bronson recalls meeting Eminem for the first time in Leeds

Action Bronson has recently sat down on FLAGRANT podcast where New York-born rapper talked about making fire music, being a foodie, women, cars, Albania, meeting touring with Eminem and much more.

“What was touring with Eminem looked like? I was f–king bugged out. It was insane. It was me, Kendrick, J. Cole and Eminem. And this was like, before anyone really popped off like that. I didn’t have an album out but Paul Rosenberg and Em, they brought me along. I performed in front of 35,000 people in South Africa with him. 55,000 thousand in Johannesburg. 35,000 in Cape Town.” – said Action Bronson.

Then he continued: “I hanged with the guys. But it was not a tour-bus s–t. It was more like, everyone had their own space, but at the venues you see everybody. These guys are very normal guys. I can’t really pin point conversations, everyone just talk s–t. I remember when I first met Em. It was in Leeds, during Reading and Leeds Festival. You know, you have to be summoned to meet him. He asked for me, they brought me. He was standing as I’m walking, there were three guys standing, his back’s to me, he turns his head slightly, the f–king shine of the light just tickles his chick, all you see is his side profile, I thought he was going to make a full turn but he just went back that way. And then I say what’s up and it was just normal. And he made me a plate with some English food.”

You can watch the interview below:

The Game says working with Eminem was one of the biggest highlights of his career

The Game’s beef with Eminem allegedly started after he was left out of Dr. Dre’s Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show on February 13, 2021 at the SoFi stadium. The performance featured some names affiliated with Dr. Dre including Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and Anderson .Paak. Game expressed his disappointment with the omission by reposting a few Instagram Stories.

During an episode of the I Am Athlete podcast with Brandon Marshall, Pacman Jones, and Nick “ Swaggy P” Young, The Game admits he was “hurt” about being excluded from the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show: “Snoop Dogg is icon. Dre is icon. Em is an icon, but Em is not from L.A. It’s L.A. I am L.A. I’m in the streets … So, yeah, I was hurt.”

In March 2022, The Game appeared on Drink Champs with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN. On it, he claimed that Kanye West has done more for his career recently than Dr. Dre ever did. He also proclaimed himself better than Eminem and added he would happily go up against him in a VERZUZ battle to prove it.

After that, Game continued to bite Eminem in several interviews. His constant attack on Eminem culminated with the release of “The Black Slim Shady.” A supposed diss song that pieces together everything he likes and hates about the Detroit legend. But Eminem didn’t respond.

The Game has recently sat down with DJ VLAD for an exclusive interview where he talked about Kendrick Lamar being west coast king, 50 Cent, G-Unit, 2Pac, Jimmy Henchman being his manager, working with Eminem and much more.

“For the song with Eminem on ‘The Documentary’ album, I went to 8 Mile, went to Detroit and I stayed out there afro about a week. And we did the song out there.” said The Game.

Then he continued: “Watching Eminem record, and his whole recoding process, that might have been one of the highlights of my career because I don’t know if you want to call it weird, legendary or some Einstein type of s–t, evil genius type of s–t, but Em is very very complex and different individual in good ways. When he writes raps, he turns the paper around and he just writes in circles and then he turns it, when he reads it, he turns it back opposite way and starts to read it. That was when we were using papers for recording process, I don’t know his recording process these days. Back in those days, Eminem would just eat Taco Bell and drink Mountain Dew like it was like, I don’t know man, like Snoop with smoking weed.

“That process was dope. I’m forever grateful for being able to experience prime Eminem in his essence in Detroit, that’s one of the highlights of my career.” The Game added. You can watch the interview below:

DMC teaches Melle Mel how to respond to Eminem

Back in August, 2023, Melle Mel set the internet ablaze when he released a diss track aimed at Eminem. Later, the 62-year-old legend took to social media to admit that he regrets how we went about the record and now it appears DMC is ready to teach him a lesson.

“In light of the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop, my original intention was to contribute an engaging and enjoyable endeavor to enrich the cultural landscape. Regrettably, my response fell short in its execution, and I accept full responsibility for the misjudgment. I acknowledge that my perspective was ill-conceived and I am prepared to take ownership of this oversight.” said the Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five member.

Mel’s statement acknowledged how dedicated Marshall Mathers’ fanbase was and his talent as a rapper before addressing how his comments on The Art Of Dialogue, where he credited the Detroit artist’s success to being white, stemmed from him trying to spark a rap battle. “My unfortunate choice of words, suggesting that his success is solely attributed to the color of his skin was in no way reflective of my genuine beliefs. It was an attempt, albeit misguided, to engage competitively within the emcee sphere.”

He then continued: “It is important to acknowledge that the dynamics of Hip-Hop have evolved over distinct eras, and it is inevitable that not everyone will resonate with my perspective, just as I may not fully comprehend others. Throughout my involvement in shaping the Hip-Hop landscape, the cornerstone has been built upon a foundation of mutual respect, even when personal preferences may differ.”

He closed his thoughts by saying he will move more respectfully in the imminent future, thanked Eminem for acknowledging him in his Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech in November 2022, and reiterated his awareness of Hip-Hop’s diversity and influence.

Eminem and Mel’s beef began back in March 2023 when Mel said, “If you was talking about sales, Eminem sold more than everybody. If you were talking about rhyme style, okay he got a rhyme style. But he’s white. He’s white!” on an episode of The Art Of Dialogue. He surmised that if Detroit legend was Black, he would not have the same success, and used the 15-time GRAMMY winner’s longtime collaborator Royce Da 5’9″ as an example.

Eminem fired back on Ez Mil’s track “Realest,” rapping “Hip Hop has been good to me, huh/ But when they say that I’m only Top 5 ’cause I’m white, why would I be stunned?/ My skin color’s still working against me/ ‘Cause second, I should be, to none/ Bein’ white being why they put me at five/ That’s why they can’t put me at one… Shout to the Furious Five and Grandmaster Flash but boy (what up though?) / There’s someone who really is furious stay out his path his wrath avoid / And I’ll be the last to toy with a juice head whose brain is like half destroyed / Like a meteor hit it well there went Melle Mel we lost his a– to ‘roids (damn).’ It was followed by Melle Mel’s disstrack which failed the expectations.

During a recent appearance on Drink Champs, hip-hop pioneer Darryl McDaniels (DMC) a founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Run-DMC, expressed his thoughts on how Melle Mel should have handled the Eminem beef. Watch it below:

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