Category: Latest Interviews

Jelly Roll says Eminem’s cam recording in “Somebody Save Me” video is real

Nick Major of Spout Podcast chipped it up with  Jelly Roll as he embarked on his “Beautifully Broken” tour. Jelly Roll shared candid insights about the tour’s early success, including five consecutive sold-out shows, and the emotional highs and lows of performing live. He opened up about his past struggles, the importance of staying connected with his roots, and the profound impact his music has on fans. Jelly Roll also discussed his exciting collaborations with artist like Eminem, his deep connection to his music’s purpose, and his latest album, set to drop on October 11th.

“Collaborating with Eminem is by far the most unreal thing that’s happened in my career yet. There are probably five people on earth I’d meet that I would clearly be jittery around. It’d be like Gareth Brooks, James Taylor, Bog Seager, Eminem. People I grew up knowing every word of every son they ever released.” said Jelly Roll.

Then he continued: “When he sent the record and I got to hear it first time, for me it was such a fan cause it reminded me a ‘Mockingbird.’ It reminded me The Eminem Show Em, that era of him cause the rest of the album kinda felt like earlier Slim Shady but these couple of songs, ‘Temporary,’ with my friend, Skylar Grey, they felt really nostalgic, like deep Eminem, like Stan Eminem, that real story-teller Eminem. That Eminem that made you feel like you were in his living room with him and you knew his daughter and you knew the family struggles and you knew what he was going through, you felt it. For that to be combined with the song that I think I was my version of that, I feel like ‘Save Me’ is kind of a peep into my soul. For that to be the song that brought us together, I think it was so serendipitous.

“It was deep man. People don’t know this but he showed me, when we were sitting backstage for the video, that Camcord footage is real. That’s not a fix. That was not a made-up thing. He had years of this old footage from his drug addiction years that he had never even really properly went through because he knew that was from those years. And somewhere in the process of the album, I don’t remember the exact story but it was like he had either seen that video the day he wrote Somebody Save Me or couple days after he wrote Somebody Save Me. It’s really deep man. We’ve spent a lot of time on that video set really hanging. That dude got really deep with me. He’s a great guy, man.”

“I’m glad I got a second time to hang out with him cause the first time I met him I just completely made a fool of myself. I just did the nervous talk your face-off kind of thing. He’s not talkative as me. So, in general, he was kind of quiet. And we were just meeting and every time it got quiet I just started spitting fun facts about me. I had to apologize doing it but he was like ‘it’s all good dude.'” Jelly Roll added. You can watch the interview below:

Murda Mook describes first time meeting Eminem, says how much Eminem influenced him

Battle rap legend Murda Mook has recently done an interview on hiphopisreal.com where he talked about Eminem, meeting him first time in Detroit, how much he could relate his music and what Eminem mentioning his name on Cordae’s “Parables (remix)” song meant for him.

“Eminem is my favorite rapper. Nobody rap like him to me. I met that man one time. I never thought I would ever be star-struck in front of somebody. My brother AK brings me Detroit event. I think Shady was throwing it. Em was there. Em was up on the balcony and they were like ‘come upstairs, you gon’ meet Em.’ I’m like ‘WHAAT?!’ I go upstairs, Paul Rosenberg, he was like ‘what’s up Mook.’ I’m like ‘you know me? that’s what’s up!’ He like ‘yeah, he [Em] over there.’ I’m walking up and I feel my legs getting weak. I’m not understanding what’s happening to me. I was like, why the f–k my body is getting like this. The closer I walked to this n–ga, I was getting weaker. He’s like ‘yo, I’m big fan man.’ I said ‘WHAT?! That’s fire.’ I just looked at him and I didn’t know what to say, I looked dumb as hell.” said Murda Mook.

Then he continued: “Peter Garvey put me on Eminem, on the Kim song. I’m hearing this song and I’m like ‘Who is this n–ga?’ My man Peter said, this is white dude. I’m like, how the f–k is he that nice?! It wasn’t that he’s white so he nice, no, he was nicer than everybody before he was white! Rap don’t got no color. He was nice from HI, MY NAME IS. If anybody know rap and rhyming, n–gas know HI KIDS, DO YOU LIKE VIOLENCE?! You can tell immediately this motherf–ker could rap.”

“What happened was, motherf–kers were scared. Cause they seen him was white and they knew he could really rhyme so n–gas were like ‘Nah, we need to campaign against cause we know he nice and we know he on the way.’ Skill don’t got no color bro. N–gas that’s inferior, when they see a n–ga that’s nicer, they get nervous bro and they try to figure out how to make you not appear as nice as you are and that’s what n–gas tried to do to Em. They tried to use him being white but him was just ridiculously nice. Him and Loaded Lux are aliens, alienation, to me.”

“When he mentioned my name in the song with Cordae, do you know what that meant to me, man? I’ve been waiting to hear that n–ga say my name on the song or something since the beginning when I first heard of him. That s–t made me feel so proud. That’s the part of the reason I was like ‘yo, I gotta get clean’. I understand his story too, even though a lot of people say he can’t relate. I always kinda related to him. Me and my mom situation, growing up it was very rocky. When I listened to him to him rhyme, I heard me. I heard a man screaming out, feeling the way I felt. And he was just nice on top of that. So I emulated Eminem. Just to hear him say my name, I could die now. He went though it. I listened to his struggles. I know about what he had to overcome and fight. And he had hundreds of millions of dollars. So, imagine his struggle. People think more money you got, more happy you are but that’s probably opposite. Shout out to Eminem and Royce 5’9″ for being a mentor to me. Shout out to Trick Trick too.” Murda Mook added. You can watch the entire interview below:

NLE Choppa shows love to Eminem, says he wants to do a song with him

NLE Choppa has recently caught up with Billboard’s Kyle Denis at R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players 2024 ceremony where the 21-year old Memphis rapper gave Eminem a shout out.

Interviewer: You recently payed homage to Eminem in your Paper magazine cover shoot. You also have previously named him on your Mount Rushmore for Hip-Hop. Would you ever hop on a track with Slim Shady?

NLE Choppa: With Slim Shady? Yeah, man. Why not. Of course. Hell yeah. He a legend.

Last year, NLE Choppa chopped it up with Nick Cannon and the Daily Cannon crew featuring Courtney Bee, Masononthemic, DJ Abby De La Rosa, and Freeze where he shared his his hip-hop Mount Rushmore: “Tupac, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne and Eminem. With Eminem, I feel like, a lot of people from my community is probably not preached upon to be an Eminem fan but I don’t think people realize the statistics of how many white people wanted to rap after him. Eminem did that.” – he said.

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LL Cool J details recording process of “Murdergram Deux” with Eminem

Hip-Hop icon, LL COOL J talked about his new album, “THE FORCE,” collaborating with Eminem on the track “Murdergram Deux,” crediting Michael Jackson as a writer on the song “The FORCE,” learning to rap again, and much more during a track-by-track album special on his new SiriusXM channel, titled LL COOL J’s THE FORCE Channel.

Featuring LL COOL J’s Rock the Bells Radio host Roxanne Shanté and a live audience, “LL COOL J ‘THE FORCE’ Track-By-Track Album Special” premiered on LL COOL J’s THE FORCE Channel on Friday, September 6, at noon ET and is now available to stream on the SiriusXM app. During the show, LL went through his process working with Eminem.

“This next song is a joint I did with Eminem, it’s called ‘Murdergram Deux.’ I had a song on ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’ called ‘Murdergram’ so I said, you know what? We gon’ do a song together and when Q-Tip made the beat, I was sitting there and he was playing that beat and I was like ‘yo, Tip, this is crazy, me and Em would be crazy on this.’ He’s like ‘YEAH! Definitely big bro.’ So, I called Em and I’m like ‘yo, I think I got a joint.’ He’s like ‘sent it to me’. I sent him the song just to hear the beat, once he heard the beat and he agreed to do it then we went to the studio and what we actually did was, me and Em actually went to Dr. Dre’s studio and recorded it out in LA.” said LL Cool J.

Then he continued: “We went together in the studio. And the way the process was: I would write my rhyme. Then I would lay it. He would come in, he would hear it, I would leave. He would write his rhyme. He would record. And we went back and forth in the booth without seeing each other record until we did the very last thing together, where I kinda come together with him a little bit.” You can watch the interview below:

LL Cool J confirms “Murdergram Deux” music video with Eminem

This week, hip-hop icon LL Cool J will release The FORCE album, his first project in 11 years. Fellow Queens rap legend Q-Tip serves as the album’s executive producer, and it’s got guest features from heavy-spitters like Nas, Busta Rhymes, and Snoop Dogg. LL already dropped the lead single titled “Saturday Night Special,” with Rick Ross and Fat Joe. Few days ago, the Eminem collaboration arrived.

Eminem has always been a huge, vocal LL Cool J fan, and their new song “Murdergram Deux” is their first-ever collaboration. Slim Shady co-produced “Murdergram Deux” with Q-Tip, and the song is explicitly positioned as a sequel to “Murdergram,” the fast-rap workout that appeared as a deep cut on LL’s classic 1990 album Mama Said Knock You Out. On the new song, LL and Eminem take turns displaying athletic rap feats over the nervously jittery beat. At the very end of the song, Eminem quotes LL’s old song “Going Back To Cali.”

During a recent interview, LL confirmed that they already shot a music video too: “I just filmed a video of me and Eminem for Murdegram Deux, which is Murdergram part two. And one of the things, there’s a mural in it, and on the mural it says ‘death to the ego.’ Murdergram Deux, death to the ego. Cause it’s really about MCing of it all. It’s not about the ego, it’s not about who’s got money, nothing wrong with money, I like it a lot, who’s got business success, it’s not about any of that, death to the ego! It’s about rhyming, skills, bars, beats.” said LL Cool J.

Then he continued: “It’s pure hip-hop. Pure hip-hop and Em is a fan of pure hip-hop, as am I. So, us working together on that record, it was dope. And the fact that me and him have that song on vinyl, it’s just so dope. But it comes from, like you said, death to the ego, the mural is amazing, it’s dope and I think the video was a lot of fun. You know, hip-hop, baby!”

Later in the interview, LL confirmed that they didn’t record the song in Detroit in Eminem’s studio: “Me and Em actually did a song in Dr. Dre’s studio in LA. We went to Dre’s studio. Shout out to my man Dre, that’s my man.” You can watch the interview below:

Tony Yayo comments on Dr. Dre saying Eminem is best MC ever

Tony Yayo has recently sat down with DJ VLAD for an interview where the two talked about many things, including Dr. Dre saying Eminem is the greatest rapper of all time.

“Eminem is in my top 5. I don’t give a f–k what anybody says. I love lyrics and he has lyrics. And I like numbers too. Numbers don’t lie. They say “I don’t listen Eminem in the car,” well, somebody do! He’s one of the GOATs.” said Tony Yayo.

Then he continued: “I agree to Dr. Dre saying Eminem is the best MC ever. Let’s go back to what Eminem and G-Unit did as a rap label. We had a dream team. In the hip-hop world, he’s the biggest artist in the worldwide.”

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50 Cent talks first time meeting Eminem & signing a deal with Shady Records

50 CENT has recently invited Million Dollaz Worth of Game down to Shreveport for Humor and Harmony Festival. Gillie shut down the celebrity basketball game, while Wallo watched from the bench. After the game, the guys linked up with 50 to sit down and talk. The trio chopped it up in the kitchen of a pop up Sei Less. They talked about 50’s come up, what did to further his career despite being black balled, and how he broke into Hollywood.

At one point of the interview, 50 Cent talked about first time meeting Eminem and signing a deal with Shady Records:  “It was wild. It felt like…Remember that show Punk’d on MTV? I thought they had cameras and it was going to come out and said ‘you’ve been punk’d’. I was in California, he flew me to LA. I was so bugged out from the experience that I had my vest on. The lawyer that I had with me that took me to him, I get there and he’s like ‘let me hug you. Yo, this is going to be the biggest s–t.’ He’s so excited that it made me question whether what was happening was right cause it felt so good that it couldn’t be right.”

Then he continued: “When I left that meeting, I didn’t want him to feel like he bought a problem so I wouldn’t say anything about Ja Rule. When I met him, the first night I met, it was, he had event, it was The Marshall Mathers LP just came out and first week he sold 1.7 million records and he was so excited about me, I’m looking like ‘you serious?!’ And by the time I got back and I would never say anything about Ja until the first time I said something about him, Ja made a mistake and said something about Hailie. When he said something about Hailie, they thought they made some sort of connection when they were getting high. And Em was like, ‘what the f–k made him think like this.’ It was a Friday. Him didn’t record that Friday. I recorded that Friday, that Saturday, that Sunday. He came back, I had a full CD “Automatic Gunfire.” The whole mixtape was done Monday morning. He was listening like ‘yo, when did y’all get the chance to..’ All this s–t was this weekend. I was dying to do that. I just didn’t want him to feel like he bought a problem because I know he didn’t understand the severity of who I am in this. Consequences is you dead, nig-a. There’s nothing else to talk about. He was listening to the material and that s–t was hot.”

“I got 1 million dollar in cash for my first deal. The only person that pointed out that million dollars was no money was Dame Dash. He said ‘after you get watch, chain, look out for the homies and do this and that, it’s nothing.’ And I was like ‘ni-ga, I’m from 134th street, million dollars is a lot of money. I think I hit the lottery.'” 50 Cent added. You can watch the interview below:

Eminem meets fan through Make A Wish foundation

Eminem once again meets fans through Make A Wish Foundation. He met a young boy named Stanly and his family yesterday.

“thank you to Make-A-Wish and Eminem for granting Stanley’s wish yesterday. It was the most unforgettable and special experience ever. Words cannot express the gratitude I have, along with Stanley’s dad for the opportunity to make this happen!” her mother tweeted.

Stanly was named after Eminem’s iconic 2000 single “Stan,” featuring Dido, from his classic, The Marshall Mathers LP album.

In this song, Eminem corresponds with a crazed fan who becomes increasingly unhinged as the story progresses. This is one of his most well-received singles and was listed at #15 on VH1’s Top 100 Hip Hop Songs of All Time.

Em intended for this song to be a message to fans who had written him disturbing letters indicating that they had taken The Slim Shady LP’s violent lyrics seriously. Another reason Em wrote this was to “make the critics who were saying things about [him] feel stupid.” His aim was to disprove those who felt he lacked talent and relied on shock value.

This song has cemented itself in history, with “Stan” being entered into the Oxford Dictionary as an informal noun. It is generally considered to be a portmanteau of “stalker” and “fan,” but Oxford defines the term as: An overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity.

Krizz Kaliko reacts to Eminem & JID’s “Fuel”

Multi-platinum rapper, singer, songwriter, and voice actor Krizz Kaliko, who is a long-time collaborator with fellow hometown native Tech N9ne and was signed to Strange Music, has recently reacted to Eminem‘s “Fuel” song, featuring JID, produced by Denaun, from his 12th solo studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace).

“As soon as I hear Em come on it’s like, I ain’t saying… JID is hard! I want to do a song with him, but for some reason when Em come on, his voice sound like the song just goes up a notch. That’s what happened in ‘Speedom.’ I know I did my thing in ‘Speedom’ but when he comes on the song man…I don’t know…” said Krizz Kaliko as soon as Eminem started his verse.

“Everything he says, dude, it ain’t just wordplay. I hope y’all know that. Something about him, he’s not just doing wordplay, it’s all like riddles and rhymes and rhyme schemes and he’s actually telling you a story in the middle of that just two bar segment. Eminem is absolutely forever. His mind is still supper sharp. I don’t care what y’all say. Eminem is forever, man. Putting rhymes in my head like alphabet soup!” said Kaliko as he continued listening to the verse.

“You didn’t let no words with K’s or C’s go. What the rest of us gonna rhyme with, dawg?! I still do rap music, what the rest of us going to rhyme with when you done took all the K’s and C’s music, dude? C’mon dawg! And I’m a chopper. I need those two, three, four syllable words, man, to do doubles and triples. Eminem ain’t leaving nothing else to eat. He eating it all. Just as far as creativity goes, some of his stuff is godly. This whole thing is classic. I can’t wait to do anything song with  you but if you rapping like that now I got to come even harder. I gotta go even harder if we do anything together again. DAMN!” Krizz Kaliko added. You can watch the entire reaction video below:

DJ Quik recalls funny incident with Eminem during ‘Encore’ studio session

Last month, DJ Quik and Jason Martin, also known as Problem, joined N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on Drink Champs for an legendary conversation about West Coast Hip-Hop. The legendary duo share stories about working with Jay-Z and Tupac, and give insight into Compton’s music scene. They also dive into topics like the recent Kendrick Lamar versus Drake beef, the importance of owning masters, and the historic Super Bowl Halftime Show featuring Dr. Dre. Quik and Problem reflect on gang culture’s influence on hip-hop while emphasizing the current unity in LA’s music scene.

At one point of the interview, DJ Quik recalled a funny incident that happened during the “Encore” studio session with Eminem and Dr. Dre. “I helped with a lot of records to Dr. Dre. I’m on ‘My Dad’s Gone Crazy.’ I was in the studio when he was doing Smoke Choke Me, Spank Me. That’s my drums on Eminem’s ‘My Dad’s Gone Crazy.'” – said DJ Quik

Then he continued: “When I gave Dre them sounds and left, Dre just put them all at work so he would be like ‘Quik, you busy?’ I’m like ‘Nah, what’s up?!’ I’ll go to the studio and he’d be like, even the booth and s–t, that nig-a be like, ‘bum-nunu-bum-nunu, now I’mma do this thing.’ I’m getting chills just outside the studio, I was like ‘what the f–k is that?!’ And he was like ‘them your drums, you get?’ I’m like, ‘bro, I’m still getting chill.’ The way them sounded they were unreal. I should have stopped drinking just to be more present.”

“F–king watching Eminem mixing Encore and s–t. And this stripper b–ch knocked me over his equipment and s–t. We both go falling and Eminem was like ‘DRE! get your man Dre!’ I’m like ‘EM! It’s not me! It’s that her, fat a-s Puerto Rican.” DJ Quik added.

Then he talked about the drums he made for 50 Cent’s Get Rich Or Die Tryin’: “In Da Club and If I Can’t. Then I gave Dre the drum sound of ‘If I Can’t’ he was [impressed]. I do sound design, that’s really my s–t. Dre is like Quincy Jones. These motherf–kers only want to hear something they have never heard before. You got to impress them. You gotta go do some s–t they never heard before and then they let you in and party and bi–ches jump on you, weed comes out, the liquor, the money, the check…” You can watch the interview below:

Steve Miller background story of Eminem sampling “Abracadabra” on “Houdini”

Legendary Steve Miller has recently done an interview on The San Diego Union Tribune where he talked about how his collaboration with Eminem come about.

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer didn’t have to think twice about collaborating with Detroit icon and fellow Rock Hall inductee Eminem, whose recent chart-topping song, “Houdini,” heavily interpolates Miller’s 1982 hit, “Abracadabra,” and was streamed more than 355 million times on Spotify to date. Check out the conversation below.

Interviewer: When you play “Abracadabra,” do you tell the audience about Eminem sampling it for his song, “Houdini?”
Steve Miller: Yeah. I tell a little story about putting the song together, we vamp a bit and then go into it. I feel really great that Eminem used “Abracadabra.” It’s a good use of it!

Interviewer: How did that come about?
Steve Miller: He called that he’d like to use “Abracadabra.” He said: “I’ve written a bunch of verses and we’ve done a track. I’ll send it to you.” I listened to it, called him back, and said: Yeah, that’s fine, man. It’s great! And if you want, I’ll send you the stems (individual audio files).” So, I sent him my actual recorded stems for “Abracadabra” so he could work with them.

Then, I got a lesson about what social media has done to the record business. When I put out “Abracadabra” in 1982, it became the No. 1 record in the world and that took about 12 months. With Eminem, two days after we signed our agreement, he released “Houdini” at 12:01 a.m. on a Friday. Within 30 minutes, 60,000 people had watched the video on YouTube. By 10 a.m. it was 3 million. Nearly 50 million people streamed it, worldwide, in just the first week.

I’d never seen anything like that. It was crazy, just instantly. So, that was a real lesson. And Eminem was very cool. I put out a little release (saying) I appreciated that it was legit. It feels good that a whole other group of people are listening to my music (through Eminem) and digging it.

For the full interview, visit SDUT here.

Icewear Vezzo comments on Skilla Baby saying Eminem is not considered GOAT in Detroit

Icewear Vezzo has recently sat down with Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy and Jess Hilarious on The Breakfast Club where he talked about Eminem and commented on Skilla Baby saying streets in Detroit don’t consider Eminem as one of the greatest rapper of all time.

“I never wanted to speak against Eminem publicly, ever. But I just couldn’t contain my thoughts and how I felt. And I feel like I do so much for the city, I do so much for the community that I grew up in and he grew up in and a lot of people grew up in and that support don’t be there from certain artist, especially people like Em. Hommie’s a megastar. And I know what them kids get out of seeing me and Peezy, seeing me Sada and Skilla, I knwo they get out of seeing us, being able to talk to them, I know the type of motivation that come from that. And I just felt like, I wished hommies would have did that with us. I never been a guy that’s be like ‘Em ain’t did nothing to put nobody on from the city.’ He don’t owe nobody nothing, absolutely nothing, at all. And respectfully, he did what he needed to do. He did that for his era. When Em was our age…If it was not for Em, there would be no Proof. There wouldn’t be a D12. It wouldn’t be Royce Da 5’9″. He did what he had to do. We just admire everything about Em so much and he inspired us so much, I just think we’d appreciate more if we could have met him early on and got some knowledge, got some game, got some type of insight. I don’t understand how I met and locked in with 50 Cent who was from Queens before I met Eminem.” said Icewear Vezzo.

Then he continued: “Me and Em, we literally bumped to each other [at 50 Cent’s show]. It’s all good. I rock with 50 the long way. He a real one. Meeting Em was mad awkward but I was like ‘hey bro, it’s all love, I respect you bro, ain’t nothing like that. I feel how I feel.’ He like ‘I see what you doing’ bla bla bla. We kept it moving. Em don’t owe anybody nothing, man. We gotta leave him alone, man.”

Then Charlamagne asked about Skilla Baby saying most people from his generation wouldn’t consider Eminem the GOAT. “That’s true. That’s how it is. Why should that be a problem, man? Them youngers ain’t listening to that. They listen to most street artists in Detroit. Em got a fanbase. He got his fanbase. He got people that like that kind of music and the music that he makes it’s a way bigger audience to it so if I was him, I wouldn’t even care if certain audience don’t listen to me anyway because I got way bigger audience. But it was true what Skilla said. He got some flack for that too, didn’t he? I don’t understand, it’s true, it’s what it is.”

“Put it like this, is the youngest in New York listening to JAY-Z? Probably not. It’s a same scenario. It’s a generational gap. It’s all good. The youngest in Detroit don’t really understand JAY-Z. They don’t get it. They don’t care about that music either.” Icewear Vezzo added. You can watch the interview below:

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