Category: Latest Interviews

Ez Mil talks how Eminem found out about him, meeting Eminem for the first time & how “Realest” came about

Ez Mil has recently sat down on RX931’s All Out show where he talked about meeting Eminem and Dr. Dre for the first time, how Eminem found out about him and how “Realest” joint came about.

“We were all minding our businesses and then suddenly we get hit with this message from our people that there’s gonna be a secret meeting. I had already made the beat for “Realest” by myself and it kinda had first verse and a hook little bit and that was even before we knew it was them! It was Em and Dre. I was trying to contain myself. Even keeping it in secret you know?!” said Ez Mil

Then he continued: “And then you get hit with the info that you gonna be meeting Em and Dre. Then we went to LA and meeting them, it was the whole trip man. Even going through the lobby, Dre was sitting right there, Em was inside the studio. I was peeking through the door, my girl and my mama we all went in. Then Dre stood up with his huge self and he was like ‘hey superstar’ and I was like ‘what the heck! what the hell you talking about?!’ I shook his hand and when I saw Em I almost fainted. Thank god I stood up and kept it firm. He stood up and said ‘Ezekiel, where have you been for the last twenty years? Alright, you were 4.'”

“And then they were talking about how they really messed with ‘Up Down’,  they heard that, and the story of that goes like, they said that Em was just going through Wormhole and Paul said that he found ‘Up Down’ and they really f–ked with it.”

“Right at that point when Eminem stood up there and I asked him straight up ‘why you never went to Philippines bro?!’ And he was like ‘Never went? Oh, Okay.’ I was talking about ‘Not Afraid’ cause when I went to high school we thought he was rapping ‘Philippines, It’s gassed up’ instead of ‘feed it beans, It’s gassed up’ and he was laughing bro! I made Eminem laugh!”

“About the collaboration, like I said, I had already made the beat and some vocals. And right there at the studio, I played it for them. And Dre was like [nodding head] and right after the beat was playing, he was like ‘yup, Marshall gonna eat that up.’ And Em was at the back like ‘yup! give it to me!’ Straight like that.” – Ez Mil added.

Watch the entire interview below:

50 Cent gives update on 8 Mile TV series with Eminem

50 Cent promises that his 8 Mile TV series will be as big as Eminem’s 2002 feature film.

Fif first announced the project back in January, 2023 telling Big Boy’s Neighborhood that he hopes the series will help further Slim Shady’s already untouchable “legacy.”

“We in motion. It’s gonna be big. I’m working. I ain’t got no duds. I’m batting 100 … I think it should be there for [Eminem’s] legacy because it’s important to me that they understand it.” Fif said at that time.

50 Cent shed more light on the TV show in a recent interview with Men’s Health this week, noting that his 8 Mile reboot is on track to be just as big as the 2002 movie, starring Eminem.

“I’m developing the 8 Mile film into a series. So this s–t is expected to be just as big as the feature film, just huge. It’ll be huge. The interest in it is because the time period of 8 Mile was capturing per the bat, so as we move it into modern times you’ll see things about how we function now, how technology changed the way people enter the music business.”

Then he continued: “This is why you don’t see groups in the music business. You see so many individual artists because there’s no artist development. They used to take time, find Justin Timberlake over here, this guy from over here, bring this guy then we got NSYNC. Then we got Backstreet [Boys], then we got all of these cool boy bands because you put all of that talent into one show.”

You can watch the interview below:

Joe Budden reacts to Eminem walking out Terence Crawford

For the second time last month, Eminem made a surprise appearance at a packed arena that was not one of his own shows.

Two weeks after popping up onstage at Ed Sheeran’s concert at Detroit’s Ford Field stadium, Eminem was in Las Vegas to walk boxer Terence Crawford to the ring for his title fight Saturday night against Errol Spence Jr.

“Las Vegas, make some noise for the next undisputed welterweight champion of the world, Terence “Bud” f–king Crawford,” Eminem yelled to the star-filled crowd in the microphone as the signature beats of his 8 Mile movie hit single “Lose Yourself” filled the T-Mobile Arena.

Many celebrities where stunned by the event, including Joe Budden who could not hide his excitement during 647th episode of Joe Budden Podcast.

“When this song comes on you can do anything in the world. You can accomplish anything you want to accomplish out there. It’s a cheat code. Yo, I was in my room by the time this beat drop, I said ‘HOLY S–T’! WHAT THE F–K! OHHH MYYYY GOD!’ I switched sides so fast. Before Em could sing his Mom’s Spaghetti on his shirt, DAWG! I know me and Em may have had our differences but this right here, this is what this song was made for! OH MY GOOOD!” says Joe Budden in the video.

You can watch the clip below:

GRIP talks about Eminem slander, raps his “Patiently Waiting” verse

GRIP has recently done an interview on Mr Jay Hill Network where he talked about the Eminem slander that’s been going on for the last ten years.

“Eminem slander…It’s been a sneaky ten years bro. And it’s because, think about this, you got, let’s say, 19, five years ago you were 14. And you might not even have been on social media and now you got this opinion, you young and you say whatever the f–k you wanna say cause you listening to whoever the f–k you listen to. So you just kind of follow popular opinion and you ain’t took time to go back and study cause you are not a rapper. You go to high school and you are listening whoever.” said GRIP

Then he continued: “Ni–as been tripping but it does not even matter. A legend paid Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, what, what’s the debating for? Like I told you, they gonna debate Kobes, LeBrons, Jordans. Hey man, they already paved the way. They made their legacy.”

“I had Eminem and Royce 5’9″ on my first record. That was a full circle moment. These are the biggest songs that I ever done. I didn’t write the verse multiple times, I only wrote one verse for it but I was so meticulous with that cause bro it’s Eminem, he gonna rip you apart regardless.”

“Back in the days, as a kid, I was like, DAMN, Em’s structure on ‘Renegade’! You had to literally slit write that down and be like ‘hold on bro, what the f–k.’ But he had to! Who he was on the track with?! JAY-Z! He might have been like ‘this might be the biggest song I’ve done. I’m on Jay’s album!’ It was 2001 and Em was big but think about it bro. He grew up on it. Eminem was trying to do s–t when Jay-Z was popping.”

You can watch the interview below:

Aries Spears says its easy to imitate Future but Eminem is unique

Stand-up comedian, impressionist and actor Aries Spears has recently sat down with DJ VLAD where he briefly talked about current state of hip-hop.

“Who else sounded like Q-Tip? Everybody sounds like Future. Everybody from this era! Future sounds little like…there’s some similarities with Migos. Eminem didn’t create the style that all of a sudden everybody went like ‘we doing that,’ Jay-Z didn’t create the style that everybody went ‘we doing that.’ Snoop didn’t do that. Biggie didn’t do that. Mobb Deep didn’t do that. Everybody had their own s–t.” Aries Spears said.

“Now, yes, certain things might have sounded the same in terms of regional. East Coast ni–as have a certain sound but there still was individuality in the delivery and cadence.” he added.

You can watch the interview below:

Hopsin has few questions about Eminem namedropping him on “Fall”

Back in 2018, Eminem — who Hopsin credits with making him want to rap — rattled off his name on the song called “Fall” from Kamikaze album. It was a career-defining moment for Hopsin, who didn’t hide his excitement at the time.

In the song, Eminem raps: “I belong here, clown! Don’t tell me ’bout the culture I inspire the Hopsins, the Logics, the Coles, the Seans, the K-Dots, the 5’9″s, and oh Brought the world 50 Cent…”

Hopsin posed a video on Instagram, saying: “Yo, craziest s–t just f–ing happened. Eminem just said my name on his goddamn song on his new album. This s–t is crazy. Listen. What the f–k! I didn’t even know he knew who the f–k I was! Goddamn. He said don’t tell him about the culture, implying I’m part of the culture. Oh s–t, man. I gotta call my mom.”

In the caption, he wrote: “YO!!! Eminem thank you for acknowledging me on Kamikaze!! HOLY F–K!! This is seriously the BEST F–KING DAY OF MY F–KING LIFE!! Not even exaggerating! For years I always wondered if you even knew who I was! God damn! Literally. The. Best. F–kin. Day. Of. My. F–king. Life!!!! Period! YOU JUST INSPIRED ME TO MAKE A NEW F–KING PROJECT! I’m about to hit the studio RIGHT F–KIN NOW! This was the motivation I needed to stay on track! Thank you EM!”

To promote his latest release, Hopsin had a phone-call interview with Allhiphop, where Panorama City, Los Angeles, California-born rapper recalled the moment Eminem namedropped him on “Fall” single: “That was a highlight of my life. The line where he named a few people, everybody’s huge. I definitely have a buzz, but everybody’s bigger than me. And not only that, I have no ties to the industry, so it made me feel even more grateful for it because I’m just the random guy on that list. I have no ties to that man other than just me being a fan and him inspiring me. There’s so many rappers in the world and he put me in there. That means he listened to my music.” he said.

Then he continued: “But that leads to more questions, where was Eminem when he heard my music? What song was it? What was I doing when he was listening to it? Was he eating a sandwich? Where was he?”

Hopsin then continued talked about his new single: ““Sometimes it’s weird writing songs. I can always go deeper, but I guess sometimes when writing songs about people, it’s a bittersweet feeling. You get to write your life experience with that person, but then you’re also kind of putting that person on blast. There was so much more that happened, but I’m like, ‘Do I go all the way?’ I don’t want to go into Eminem mode and get crazy because it could have gone there. But I was like, there’s no need to reveal all the other stuff.”

Eminem signs Ez Mil to Shady Records, announces new joint single

Eminem’s Shady Records roster has just got bigger with the addition of new Olongapo, Philippines-born rapper who goes by the name of Ez Mil.

On the Shady Records website, we read: Welcome EZ Mil to the Shady Records family! Shady, Aftermath and Interscope partner once again signing EZ Mil to all 3 labels. His next project DU4LI7Y: REDUX drops August 11th!. Read all the details below.

July 26th, 2023 – Santa Monica, CA –Today, Las Vegas’ Ez Mil announces his signing to Shady Records/Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records. He joins the likes of 50 Cent as only a few of the artists signed to directly to all three labels. The singer-songwriter-producer-rapper also reveals the release date DU4LI7Y: REDUX (Virgin Music), the forthcoming deluxe edition of his 2022 LP. The project, which is set to drop on August 11, includes “Realest”, an intense new single featuring Eminem, who first heard Ez Mil’s music online and brought him to Dr. Dre, resulting in the co-sign.

Powered by lithe, expressive vocals, dexterous raps and songwriting know-how, Ez Mil’s latest level up is the product of talent, hard work and a keen knowledge of his own audience — in this case, that crowd happened to include Slim Shady himself. In February, Ez Mil released the video for his DU4LI7Y single “Up Down” on Virgin Music. Noting the similarities in their percussive flows, Em fans quickly picked up on the new release. About a month later, Eminem heard the song, and Ez Mil drove from Vegas to Los Angeles where he met Dre and Em for the first time. From there, Ez and Eminem stayed in contact and recorded “Realest,” a certified showcase of rap acrobatics.

For the track, the two bludgeon a pulsing beat with a barrage of multisyllabic rhyme schemes and the sorts of quippy wordplay that made Shady a legend. Now, having signed Ez Mil to his label, along with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope, Em’s in position to help push Ez to the same heights. Some of that work involved curating DU4LI7Y: REDUX, which will be Ez Mil’s final release on Virgin Music.

As a Shady/Aftermath/Interscope artist, Ez Mil is one with one of the music world’s great triumvirates. For his part, Eminem used endlessly personal songwriting and caustic wit to become one of the most defining artists in American pop culture. Before him, Dr. Dre pioneered the sound of West Coast hip-hop twice, first as a member of the seminal group N.W.A., and a few years later by infusing street music with soulful melodies to soundtrack a new generation of low-riding cool. Together, Eminem and Dr. Dre have made timeless music. They co-signed 50 Cent in 2002, whose music broke Billboard records while crystallizing him as a rap immortal. Building off the work of Virgin, Ez is poised to let his singing-rapping talent help him follow in those footsteps. Today is the first step.

“We’ve never been out there signing a lot of artists, and one of the great things about how we built Shady is how selective we’ve been,” commented Eminem. “And it’s even rarer that Dre and I sign something together – but I heard Ez’s music and was like, ‘this is really special” so I took it to Dre. We both agreed it would be a great fit and we wanted to work with him right on the spot.”

Dr. Dre added, “I’m really only interested in working on shit that sounds different from anything else going on out there, and only then if I feel I can really bring something to it. Em played me Ez and I had that feeling…that thing that happens when we both know we’ve found something special. And that was it….let’s get to work.”

Big Gipp explains how Eminem made Jay-Z bigger

Hip-Hop veteran Cameron F. Gipp, better known by his stage name Big Gipp, who is a funding member of Goodie Mob rap group based in Atlanta, Georgia, consisting of himself, CeeLo Green, Khujo and T-Mo, has recently done an interview with The Art Of Dialogue where shared his thoughts on Jay-Z and Eminem song “Renegade.”

“Eminem had the better verse on ‘Renegade.’ I f–k with Jay-Z. He’s one of the best. Top five solo rappers. But Eminem at that time was a f–king monster. He was eating everybody that stood next to him. Now, what you’re gonna say is what most people are gonna say that ‘I identify more with what Jay-Z said cause that’s my life and that’s where I come from. That’s my background.’ Okay. That’s right. But at the same time you gotta look at Eminem and say ‘look at the kids that are looking up to him, look like him and got his background.’ That takes him off into the middle America and a lot of places that we probably wouldn’t reach.” said Big Gipp

Then h continued: “So, if you look at the demographics I’m sure that Eminem took Jay-Z into a lot of places and lot of households that he had never been in just because he was on a song with Eminem. So, you gotta look at both sides of it. Cause Em had already proved his thing by doing his thing as a battle rapper and then going to New York and getting with 50 Cent and being on all these remixes that was going on during them times . He had already earned respect from everybody. But I’m talking about the people who was not into hip-hop and wasn’t into streets like that or might not know about Jay-Z but they knew Eminem because at that time Eminem was like a planet on his own. Nobody had seen this before.”

“Yeah, we have seen the Beastie Boys, they are the gods. One of the best rap groups of all time but nobody has ever been looked at as a lyrical giant coming from Em’s community into Em. Em was the first to say ‘I’ma get into that battle rap, I’ma get into real strategic rap and earn my respect.’ And the biggest thing about battle rappers during that time was like ‘yeah you can battle rap but you can’t come up with a song.’ And Em proved them all wrong. He changed a battle rapper into a rapper that now understands song format and then he became the monster. And that was just under the getting with the right producer. King Dr. Dre. Once Eminem got an actual producer with him that could think about what the track was, how and where we’re going with the hook, he became a force do deal with.”

“If you were to put the same light on Em, he really represented his community the same as Jay represented his community at the time of them doing that record. But as far as influence, s–t, to me Em came out as being as great or even as better rapper than Jay, technically, on that record. As far as it being his record, he took Jay-Z into households that Jay-Z wasn’t in at that time. He made Jay-Z cooler. There is no way Jay-Z made him cool.” Big Gipp added.

In another part of the interview, Big Gipp also said that Eminem is the closest rapper to 2Pac. You can watch the interview below:

Reggie Wright Jr. says Suge Knight never hated Eminem

In a new interview with bomb1st, the former head of security for Death Row Records, Reggie Wright Jr, talked about Tony Yayo saying Eminem confronted Suge Knight during 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” video shoot.

Interviewer: Tony Yayo did Drink Champs interview, and he talked about, the first time he got respect for Eminem, or, you know, something that he really admired about Eminem was that, when Suge pulled up at 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” music video shoot in 2003, everybody was running and scared and getting out of the backdoor and according to his story Eminem confronted Suge and he would not back down to him. Did you see where he said that?

Reggie Wright Jr.: I didn’t see that particular so I won’t be able to quote or respond to him directly on this particular one but I’ve heard the story before. That’s when Suge had Mexican dudes. I think I’ve heard this story from Kim’s bodyguard. We talking different time period. We talking 2003, 2004 or maybe a little bit later, I can’t say it didn’t happen or anything like that, I just know, when Suge comes like that it’s a plan to do something to you. Suge has never had a problem with Em. He actually never had. He really didn’t have hatred for Em like that. When Suge comes with numbers like that, no fearing, trust me.

This is not the first time Reggie Wright Jr. talked about Suge Knight’s attitude towards Eminem. Earlier this year, during an interview with PANDA CHOP! News, Reggie said that Suge Knight not only had a hatred to Em, he even liked Slim Shady: “Suge ain’t never really had no problems with Em to be honest. Suge always liked him, he always said he was a funny guy. He always kinda liked Em.”

You can watch the new interview below:

Big Gipp says only rapper closest to 2Pac is Eminem

Hip-Hop veteran Cameron F. Gipp, better known by his stage name Big Gipp, who is a funding member of Goodie Mob rap group based in Atlanta, Georgia, consisting of himself, CeeLo Green, Khujo and T-Mo, has recently done an interview with The Art Of Dialogue where shared his thoughts on who has the biggest influence in the rap game.

“Yes, best technical rappers coming from New York but hey man, just because you can technically rap better than me does not mean you are better than me. You might get me for a song or two, okay, but if I can get more people to see my records than you, s–t.” said Big Gipp

Then he continued: “It’s about whose music reached the most people. That’s what this game is all about. Whose music reached the most people. Break color lines, religious, influence, everything. Aye man, I ain’t seen nothing bigger than 2Pac. And the closest to 2Pac is Eminem. That’s the truth. That’s the truth. It’s by numbers. Numbers don’t lie. Yeah they do sometimes but when you talk about numbers for real for real.”

You can watch the interview below:

50 Cent talks about his current relationship with Eminem

50 Cent has recently sat down with XXL magazine where he explains what his classic album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, means to him and offers details on his new collaboration with Nas on the song “Office Hours” from Magic 2 album. Other moments throughout the exclusive interview include some advice 50 had for Chief Keef at the onset of his career, hilarious jokes aimed at Busta Rhymes, who is Fif’s supporting act on The Final Lap Tour, current relationship with Eminem and more.

“I love him [Eminem] to death. That’s my boy. I don’t care what happens. Em, Dre, Jimmy and Paul Rosenberg were able to come to London. I did Wireless Fest. So I was out there and the came for my birthday to hang out and we got a chance to kick it. I talk to him. I just called him randomly. I texted him to say what’s up.” says 50 Cent.

Then he continues: “Em is like…I don’t know I put him next to my grandmother. Let me tell you why. It was never a point that I had confusion going on that, for artists the most vulnerable point for us is confusion, cause you have money, you have things around to comfort you but when you are in space where there is that confusion and can’t figure out what direction to write in. You can’t figure out what to do and then you don’t feel good. It’s just low point for creative people. Whatever that was going on, he was not participating ever. There was always a place where I could go to communicate or just talk to him and know that he has my best interests at heart like friends.

“When we say, ‘nah, that’s my man!’ I think we give the title ‘friend’ away too easy… And about Super Bowl, they don’t understand the relationship. They were tying to get Em do the Super Bowl without me. It would not happen!” Fif added.

You can watch the interview below:

Dr. Dre reveals two biggest collaborations he turned down

During a recent appearance on Kevin Hart’s Peacock show “Hart To Heart,” Dr. Dre revealed that some of the biggest and most gifted artists of all time Prince and Michael Jackson approached him for collaboration but refused to work with them both. Check out the conversation below.

Kevin Hart: Who did you have the opportunity to work with that you was like ‘Naw, I didn’t’ that you regret and that you should have worked with? But I don’t wanna throw you story off.

Dr. Dre: Nah, but yeah. That’s a good segway. Prince, Michael Jackson. [I bowed out from working with them] They just asked me to work with them and I was just like ‘What the f–k am I going to do with them?!’ That happened. What the f–k am I going to do in the studio with them? Those are my f–king heroes. Man, you know.

Kevin Hart: YOU ARE DR. DRE!

Elsewhere in the interview, Dr. Dre revealed why he calls Kendrick Lamar “Forever Artist” and Eminem being the only artist that he ever liked when he heard a demo tape.

You can watch the Michael Jackson and Prince segment below:

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