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Yelawolf shows love to Royce Da 5’9″ first time after falling out

Few years ago, Royce da 5’9” and Yelawolf had fallen out. The two were taking shots back and forth on Instagram. In January, 2020 Royce put his former label mate on notice with the song “Overcomer,” featuring Westside Gunn.

Royce discussed the feud in a interview with Real 92.3. While he did not reveal the actual reason that led to the beef, he spoke on the underlying issue. “It falls into the category of respect. He did something I felt was disrespectful. There was a window of time where he could have called me to clarify or just say something to me. He didn’t even think he needed to call me—he didn’t even extend me that respect. It was something that happened behind closed doors and he knew I knew about it. I took offense to it, and how I handled it was addressing it on a song. I felt it was the only way I could handle it—for me to air it out publicly would imply I’m using it as a vehicle to push an album or be vindictive. I’m not a vindictive person…I felt the only way to do it was let him know it’s on my radar. I’m aware.”

In December, 2020 Royce was a bit more explicit about why he and Yela weren’t seeing eye-to-eye. “It’s a situation going on, especially in hip-hop. We have all kinds of different people, but we have a type of person in particular. We have white people, white people who come into the business and they use the culture. We got some white people that come in and use that, and then go and do very evil things behind closed doors—very evil, racist things behind closed doors.” said Royce in Joe Budden Podcast.

After “Overcomer” track dropped, Royce took to Instagram to call out Yelawolf for a since-deleted post where Yela blasted the Detroit rapper: “I can remove you quicker than you Deleted this post, David Duke and nobody can stop me,” Royce wrote, responding to Yela, who said, “Yo @eminem get your hype man before the wolves do …I ain’t worried.” Allegedly, Yelawolf used to use the N word inside his close circle which lead Royce to feel the way he felt.

In the new interview with Bootleg Kev, Yelawolf talked about it and said that the beef is in the past now and he still loves and respects Royce.

“I love Royce. I have not spoken to him since that incident happened. But that’s my dude. I don’t harbor any bad feeling about Royce. I have not spoken to him, like I said, since that time but at the end of the day, we did a lot of great things together. A lot of amazing moments happened with my boy and it’s all good. For me, it’s all good. It is what it is.” said Yelawolf.

Then he continued: “DJ Premier, Royce, me…C’mon, there’s a lot of moments. Royce and Rittz. Royce, Marshall, myself. F–king gang. There’s history there that I can’t just make disappear and to put some discrepancy or disagreement or whatever it is. Whatever. To me it’s water under the bridge. Period.”

You can watch the interview below. If it does not start from the specific timestamp because of the age restriction, click “Watch on YouTube” and listen from 2:04:43.

Yelawolf reveals what Eminem told him when he asked if he could keep MGK on “Trunk Muzik 3”

Yelawolf has recently sat down with Bootleg Kev on his podcast to promote his upcoming album, titled “War Story.” The former Shady Records artist talked about many things, including Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly and revealed he wanted both Slim Shady and MGK on “Rowdy” song but then the famous beef escalated and asked Eminem if he could keep Kelly’s verse on “Trunk Muzik 3” album, which is Yela’s final album under Shady Records.

“When we were making ‘Rowdy’ song, DJ Paul goes like ‘go get MGK and Eminem and we got the craziest record of all time. Y’all three white boys, get out of here, it’s gonna be crazy!’ and I was like ‘that’s not a bad idea, actually.’ So I recorded it, f–king sent it to Marshall and you know s–t, next thing you know Marshall f–king went crazy on MGK. And I had to pivot and do my thing.” said Yelawolf.

Then he continued: “Respectfully, I actually did tap in. I ain’t f–king fool. To be honest, it was like, if you say no and you say go to war then its curtains. Respectfully, on some hip-hop s–t, tap in with the Sensei. So I did and Marshall was like ‘nah man, people want to hear that.’ I’ve always had a lot of respect for Marshall obviously. I’ve looked up to him for years but that moment was kinda like ‘damn man, you really give a f–k about me. You really care that much to put that s–t aside and let me live.’ Knowing that I had invested this before I knew this happened. I was like, you are a G man! I got nothing bad to say about Shady the whole time I was there. We bumped our heads on the first album, creatively, but…”

Machine Gun Kelly and Yelawolf have been friends for a while now. MGK even namedropped Yela on Eminem-diss record “Rap Devil” with the following lines: “And don’t be a sucker and take my verse / Off of Yelawolf’s album, thank you (thank you).” Here, Kells is implying that Eminem would block his feature on Yela’s album, the same way he banned him from Shade 45 radio. Nonetheless, the collaborative track “Rowdy” was released by Yelawolf on March 29th, 2019 and still includes Machine Gun Kelly’s previously mentioned verse.

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Trick Trick & Maestro Williams discuss Eminem & Benzino beef & some Detroit natives disrespecting Eminem

Award-winning producer Maestro Williams has recently sat down with Trick Trick on The Fly Zone radio show “The Sit Down” on Shade 45 to discuss Maestro’s multiple talents as an award-winning producer. Producing many different genres of music including, classically orchestrated arrangements in hip hop and is work ethics. At one point of the interview, the two talked about working with Eminem, some Detroit native people disrespecting Em and recent Slim Shady and Benzino beef.

Maestro Williams: I worked with Eminem in studio once. I got a call from Biz and I don’t know what was going on but I was keyboard player for that day. I was like ‘WAIT, WHAT?!’ So yeah, pulled up and we worked. He works in the studio like 9 to 5 job. Literally. He actually stayed little past five that day. He was working on some s–t I though it was dope. I never heard it on anything so I guess it was not dope enough. But we worked in studio together for sure. And then we were working on D12 mixtapes. The joints he did on there. I would mix that in with everything else.

Trick Trick: I’m just finding out about a lot of things that’s happening in hip-hop as far as Detroit concerned and one of the things that I keep seeing that’s weird to me is people going after Eminem that live here. I’m like, ‘you can pick another f–king target.’ They act as if they placing on some type of throne and then they trying to dethrone him. He’s not on the throne. He’s not trying to be on the throne of other than to be the greatest rapper to ever live which is a quest that is worldwide. And he put the f–k on the city, n-gga. Not even counting charitable donations he makes that he chooses to never say nothing about.

Maestro Williams: I don’t get it, I don’t f–king get it. I never got it and I never will. Well, first, let’s not act like he DID NOT. He still put on for the city. It’s so disrespectful. It hurts my feelings.

Trick Trick: Did you see Benzino?

Maestro Williams: Yeah, I did. You know what I did? I f–ked up. I commented on the excerpts that got posted on Instagram before I watched the whole video. I became one of them n-ggas I fear the most. I failed [Laughs]. let’s be honest. The parts that everybody saw on Instagram then s–t is funny. It’s a dichotomy of how he starts . Now, if they just did the crying part, it’s like ‘oh man, what’s going on?’ But when you see all ‘F–k Eminem’ parts before crying….[Laughs]. You can’t write that s–t in the movie. Reality is so much better than fiction. I was just telling cuz you can’t write that s–t bro. It’s the same interview, You wearing the same clothes ma n-gga. You go the same hairstyle. You can’t break this s–t up. You just said ‘f–k him, f–k anybody who rides with him’ and I’m like ‘wait n-gga, that’s me cause I ride with him! [Laughs] F–k you mean?! I don’t even know you. Why is this happening dawg.

Trick Trick: That’s me too n-gga! [Laughs]… Speaking from a deceit of a fellow counselor, that’s a sick obsession.

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Chris D’Elia describes meeting Eminem in his Detroit studio

Chris D’Elia has recently sat down with Adam22 on No Jumper Podcast where the comedian recalled meeting and chopping it up with Eminem at his Detroit studio.

Back in 2019, Logic and Eminem dropped “Homicide” song which features Chris D’Elia on the outro, which is taken from an August 2018 Instagram video of comedian Chris D’Elia doing his impression of Eminem. It inspired a meme about Eminem “using too many napkins.” In January 2019, Eminem took to Twitter to praise D’Elia for his imitation after he released another video titled “EMINEM IN THE CYPHER.” Em went on to sample this at the end of his January 2020 track, “Godzilla,” featuring Juice WRLD: “I’m not afraid to pull the — Man, stop, Look what I’m plannin’.”

During the new interview, Chris D’Elia said: “I don’t care about bathrooms at all. I go and piss and s–t any bathroom in the woods. I don’t care. You know the whole thing with Eminem, like, he wanted to do a song with me and stuff? I was in Detroit to do a show and they reached out. I don’t remember how but they were like ‘Eminem want you to come by the studio and say hi. I was like, cool.”

Then he continued: “We are in Mercedes Sprinter and I remember I had to pull over and s–t in someone’s yard on the way to Eminem’s. It was so f–ked up. I was s–ting myself. He pulls over, I open that thing and run into somebody’s yard. It was a nice place and I squat down. When I left, I was like, they’re gonna think a mountain lion came by. I got back into Sprinter and I f–king went straight to Eminem and he has no idea that I took a s–t into someone’s yard before I met him.”

“We were talking probably an hour and a half. It was so cool. He really like comedians. When I did that impression and he retweeted and they wanted to put me in the song and he played me and I played him. It’s still crazy by the way. I showed up in the studio and he saw me and he started rapping my impression of him. And I was like, what a f–king trip. Life is crazy. We sat down for an hour and a half. It was unbelievable. I even got to the point where I was like ‘I don’t wanna keep your time’ but they were like ‘Nah, stay!’ He was talking about rapping and how he came up and critics and his tour life. I mean, we covered it all, it was crazy.” Chris D’Elia added.

From there, Adam22 interrupted: “You shook his hand without washing your hands? You’ve just been clutching your a-s cheeks, pulling them apart in a squat stance in somebody’s yard taking a s–t?” On that, Chris replied: “I don’t know and hope I washed my hands. It was clean how I did it.”

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Suge Knight slams Dr. Dre for having Grammy Global Impact Award named after him

Dr. Dre Global Impact Award was established at the 2023 GRAMMYs and Dre himself was named as the winner for his multitude of achievements through his innovative, multi-decade career. The second ever Dr. Dre Global Impact Award was awarded to Jay-Z at the 2024 GRAMMYs. It looks like, Suge Knight does not appreciate the event.

In this new audio recording, Suge slammed Dr. Dre for having Grammy Global Impact Award named after him. Knight, known for his no-holds-barred approach, comes to the defense of Chris Brown, who has been ruthlessly blackballed by the industry for beating Rihanna up but the same industry still giving props to Dr. Dre who allegedly abused women in the past.

“It’s not a Whitney Huston award. Not a Teena Marie award. It’s not an Aretha Franklin award. But at the same time, you can have a man that is a part of secret society, they gonna give him an award. The Impact Award. That motherf–ker beat up more b-tches than anybody. This man gets award for beating up women.” said Suge Knight.

Then he continued: “Chris Brown is stripped from his crown. And not saying he was right to beat Rihanna up, I’m not saying it. But What I’m saying is this: He had a fight with one woman and they still throwing stones at him. They don’t give him his cigar. They don’t let him come perform. They don’t let him win awards. But you can have an Impact Award with Andre.”

“The only person that can replace Michael Jackson, and be better and bigger than him, is Chris Brown. That comes from the king himself. And I ain’t talking about Elvis. I’m talking about Michael Jackson. I know they both allegedly messing with younger women but only one get ridiculed for. You know why. But they can have an Impact Award. Give Chris Brown his cigar.”

“Puffy, allegedly admitted beating up b-tches and f–king all the young boys and having his girl have sex with prostitutes and then with him and so on. They didn’t cancel him from the Grammys, he chose not to come to the Grammys. Chris Brown didn’t come to the Grammys or he can come but they just don’t give him his cigar.” Suge Knight added.

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Nicki Minaj wants to bring out Eminem at Pink Friday 2 tour, talks about “Majesty”

Nicki Minaj has recently joined fans on Stationhead where she talked about “Majesty” song with Labrinth and Eminem and expressed her desire to bring out Em at her Pink Friday 2 World Tour which will commence on March 1, 2024, in Oakland, United States, and is set to conclude on July 12, 2024, in London, England, at the Wireless Festival. It marks her first concert tour in over five years, since The Nicki Wrld Tour.

“You know what I was thinking guys? One of the things I wanted to say before I play a couple of my favorite songs, you know who I thought about too? Eminem. I listen to him on ‘Majesty’ with Labrinth, last night and I was like ‘oh, what the f–k!’ Eminem gonna have to come out the house for Pink Friday 2 Tour, I ain’t even going home. I’m going to that.” – said Nicki Minaj.

Then she continued: “Every bar I spit on ‘Majesty’ was so confident but for Eminem to bring it back to the concept of the song being called Majesty and said, instead of calling himself the king, the n-gga said the ‘queen and her husband, one thing you never wanna be is our subject’ and then I come back on the song […] That s–t is so f–king hard.”

Nicki Minaj will perform in Midtown Detroit, Michigan at Little Caesars Arena on April 20, 2024, which seems the perfect place to bring out the hometown hero, Slim Shady.

“Majesty” is the second collaboration between Eminem and Nicki. The two artists originally teamed up on “Roman’s Revenge” from Nicki’s 2010 album Pink Friday. In promotion for this song, Nicki and Eminem jokingly stated that they were dating on Instagram. Eminem even went as far as to “confirm the rumors” at his concert at Governors Ball. It was later confirmed those rumors were in fact just jokes.

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Calicoe recalls the night Proof died, says Bizarre carried on what Proof was doing

Detroit battle rap legend Calicoe has recently sat down with Kid L where they talked about his come up in the battle scene, and even being named by Proof. He tells a story of D12‘s Bizarre, making safety a priority during a rap battle that almost went left. They also talked about the Ultimate Rap League and his relationship with Smack.

“Bizarre is my dawg. If I would never told nobody that Bizarre helped me a lot in my situation and put me in position to win, nobody would know cause he never tells nobody. He would never tell nobody. Proof never tell nobody.” – said Calicoe.

Then he continued: “Proof was getting behind me before he passed. The night Proof died, I was downtown at his studio, whole night, waiting for him to come back from a bar cause I was too young I could not even get in to the bar. So, I could not go with him to the bar. I was doing a mixtape at his studio. He was going to push whole mixtape for me. He died that night, I went to school next morning seeing it on the news and they were like ‘D12 member has been shot.’ They didn’t even release the name. My blood cousin is Kuniva and everybody around me calling, making sure he okay and then we found out it was Proof.”

“That was some crazy s–t for me. I’m young as hell and somebody saying to me they gonna do this for me, they gonna put the album together, I don’t gotta pay for nothing, it’s all good, they believe me and then they die. I don’t even tell that story a lot. Bizarre carried on what Proof was doing. A lot of people don’t know Future in 8 Mile is Proof. A lot of people don’t know Proof had long dreads back in the day. A lot of people don’t understand that Proof was behind battle rap.” – Calicoe added.

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Awesome Dre comments on Eminem shouting him out at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

Awesome Dre, who is considered the first major artist to emerge from the Motor City and has influenced nearly every rap act from Detroit, all over the Midwest and beyond, has recently sat down with Kid L for an interview where he talked about Eminem shouting him out during his acceptance speech at the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Kid L: One of the last times that I’ve heard your name on mainstream media Eminem was at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, giving a speech and he shouted you out when he was listing all of his influences and inspirations, he mentioned Awesome Dre, which was insane right? Did you get to watch that live?

Awesome Dre: Nah, I didn’t see it on live but I was informed about it. He also mentioned our brother Merciless Ameer too you know. He came out at the time we came out too. So yeah, that was the s–t! Hell yeah!

Kid L: When you look at Eminem as an MC to MC type thing, it’s a cool to you but not as like stars-truck as most people would be?

Awesome Dre: Yeah, that’s the s–t. I mean, that motherf–ker who sold more records than anybody else in the world say that you was one of their influences that means I helped that moterf–ker sell all that [Laughs], more records than anybody else in the world. He listed a lot of motherf–kers man.”

Eminem at 2022 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame: “I’m gonna start with the 2 Live Crew, 2Pac, 3rd Bass, Alliance, Apache, Audio Two — Milk Dee, what up! — Awesome Dre, the Beastie Boys, Big Daddy Kane, Big Pun, Big L, Biz Markie, the Notorious B.I.G. of course, Black Moon, the Boogie Monsters, Brand Nubian, Brother J from X Clan, Buckshot, Casual from Heiroglyphics, Chill Rob G, Chubb Rock, Chuck D and Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, D-Nice, Dana Dane, De La Soul — now I’m about a third of the way done.”

“De La Soul, did I say De La Soul? Def Jef, Del the Funky Homosapien, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre of course, Dres from Black Sheep, Ed O.G., EPMD, Fat Boys, Fat Joe, Fu-Schnickens, Gang Starr, Geto Boys, Heavy D, House of Pain, Ice Cube, Ice-T, the Intelligent Hoodlum, JJ Fad, Jaz-O, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Just Ice, K-Solo, Kid & Play: I’m a tenth of the way done.”

“King Sun, King Tee, Kool G Rap, Kool Moe Dee, KRS-One, Kwame, Lakim Shabazz, Large Professor, Leaders of the New School, the one and only LL Cool J — love you bro. Lord Finesse, Lords of the Underground, Mantronix, Masta Ace, MC Breed, MC Lyte, MC Shan, Melle Mel, Merciless Ameer, Mobb Deep, Monie Love, Nas, Newcleus, Onyx, Organized Konfusion, Outkast, Andre 3000, Paris, Pharcyde, Queen Latifah, Rakim, Redhead Kingpin, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, I’m almost done.”

“Redman, Roxanne Shante, Run-D.M.C., Salt-N-Pepa, Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, Snoop Dogg, Souls of Mischief, Special Ed, Stetsasonic, now I’m all down to the S’s. Super Lover Cee and Casanova Rud, the D.O.C., the Roots, Black Thought, the Skinny Boys, Tony D, Too $hort, Treach from Naughty By Nature, A Tribe Called Quest, U.T.F.O., Whodini, Wise Intelligent and the Poor Righteous Teachers, Wu-Tang Clan and YZ.”

“Those were my rock stars man, and I just want to say, like, those are just a few of the names that I hope will be considered in the future for induction. Because without them, a lot of us wouldn’t be here. I know I wouldn’t.”

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Crunchy Black weighs in on Eminem & Benzino beef

Crunchy Black from legendary Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia has recently sat down on VLAD TV where he talked about Eminem and Benzino’s recent beef.

Interviewer: I know you don’t speak on women’s beef. So we gon’ bring it over to the men. Eminem. This dude is like hermit of rap. You don’t see him and then he pops his head out and then he goes back into his cave. He came out with a diss record out of the clear blue sky against Benzino.
Crunchy Black: I’m an Eminem fan. God, why he do that? Benzino? That n-gga can’t rhyme. Benzino needs to just stop. Ain’t no way in hell you finna kill no Eminem dawg. Cut that s–t out. You pacing your raps together. This n-gga rapping like Megan Stallion with Nicki. Cut that s–t out. Y’all just wanna be known. You wanna be known? Shoot yourself in the lake.

Interviewer: Maybe you didn’t hear what I said. Benzino was sitting home, chilling. Eminem just dropped record out of the clear blue sky and it was a diss record against Benzino.
Crunchy Black: Yeah, he might smell the man s–t a long way but in real life that was something that was old. He just came back and thought about it and said okay. I don’t know what they got going on but a lot of folks been f–king up.

Interviewer: Benzino dropped two joints and both of them were dope. And don’t get me wrong. You are talking to Eminem fan right now. Eminem is bananas on the mic and anybody who know me I give credit where it’s due. I’m from the East Coast, I respect lyrics. But my man Benzino dropped two bangers. He came back strong.
Crunchy Black: He dropped two? Eminem dropped one and he dropped two? Then he lost again.

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Mekhi Phifer recalls shooting ‘8 Mile’ with Eminem & his reaction to ‘Lose Yourself’

Mekhi Phifer, who played Future in Eminem‘s ‘8 Mile’ movie, has recently joined Rich Eisen on his show where he dished the dirt on making ‘8 Mile’, his time on ‘ER,’ and landing his first-ever role in Spike Lee’s ‘Clockers’ in a round of ‘Celebrity True or False.’

“Yes, I almost turned down the role in 8 Mile because of ER TV show. To my agent I turned it down. And then they were like ‘no, you are not turning this down’ because I was due to start ER. ER was already a mega show. I was joining at the end of season 8, last couple of episodes and I really wanted to play a doctor. ER had all them Golden Globes, the Emmys and 9/11 had just happened. So, people were scared to fly. I’m New Yorker, I saw what happened to the towers. I did know Curtis Hansen work, LA Confidential and Wonder Boys and all of that, great great great director, rest in peace.” said Mekhi Phifer.

Then he continued: “They flew my out to Detroit and I met with Eminem. We spent few days together and chopped it up. It was great. We hit it off immediately. I saw how serious he was. They could not give me the script. I had to read the script in Curtis’ office because they were being so hush hush about it. I loved it. But it was not what you see on the screen. I knew I could bring some nuance to it and something different, certain energy and certain spirit so…Then ER’s John Wells said go do the movie and soon as you finish the movie, you come and start ER. I rep the movie and the week later I was on ER set. I’m glad I did it. I mean, Eminem threw my name in the song and won an Oscar. It was the most popular downloaded songs ever. ”

“I was surprised when he included my name in ‘Lose Yourself.’ We were shooting one day. Eminem had three trailers. He had one trailer to sleep and stuff like that. He had a studio trailer because he was doing his album and the soundtrack at the same time. And he had a gym trailer to work out. And around two in the morning, we are shooting one night and he came back to the set and said ‘Yo, Mekhi, after this take I wanna take you to the studio. I want to put your name in the song. We all went to the trailer and he played the song and it was raw. It was not mastered or mixed. We got to the party like ‘there’s no movie, there is no Mekhi Phifer’ and everybody erupted. I didn’t know it was gonna be…I didn’t know 8 Mile was gonna be 8 Mile. And I didn’t know the song was gonna be as impactful.”

“He told me if I put your name on a song, is that cool? I said ‘hell yeah! that’s cool!’ because back then Eminem was crushing people with…you know, he was killing people if he put your name in the song, usually it’s not good. It ends your career. He smack you around with his lyrics. So, I was very proud of that and very appreciative of him making me a part of that in a bigger way than was initially it was gonna be.”

“My stuff during battle scenes were totally ad-lib. All of the stuff that I said on stage cause that was not on the script. All of my instructions to the rappers, all of my audience participation, all of that was ad-lib. They wrote their rhymes because they had to have rhymes written because of continuity. But my stuff was totally ad-lib. ‘DJ, spin that s–t!’ all that stuff was ad-lib and the reason I said ‘DJ, spin that’ is because I forgot the guys name [laughs]. I don’t remember his name but he was a very good DJ. Shout out to Detroit, I’m sure he’s favorite in Detroit.” Mekhi Phifer added.

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Robert Horry recalls talking trash with Eminem at 2005 NBA Finals

The fierce battle between the Detroit Pistons and San Antonio Spurs back in the 2005 Finals had Detroit legend Eminem watching and supporting the Eastern Conference champs. Making a fortune out of his impressive way with words, Slim Shady talked trash against the visitors. Robert Horry recollected being targeted by Eminem in Game 5 of the series during recent interview on Games with Names, hosted by former Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman.

“I noticed in the clip earlier that you had you show Eminem up there. And I never talked trash, and Eminem was behind the bench saying, ‘You won’t be getting No. 6 tonight, buddy.’ I looked at him, and so I started talking trash to Eminem. After I hit my first shot, I said, ‘You in f–king trouble now, dawg. They better f-king get me.’ I said, ‘It’s on.’ … He just started smiling. He didn’t say much. And then after I did this dunk on Rip (Richard Hamilton), I looked at him like, ‘Told you. It’s f–king over.’ It was just one of those things I never talk trash but when someone talks trash to me and it’s Eminem, the one of the greatest rappers of all time, I had to talk trash back to him.” said Robert Horry. And the Julian Edelman added: “We gotta rename this game. It’s the Eminem Game. Eminem, thank you for talking s–t to Big Shot Bob cause it made him talk himself into a moment.”

Eminem was probably hyped for his hometown team, as the Pistons were gunning for a two-peat then. The artist was also sighted in the 2004 Finals and likely celebrated delightedly when they slayed the giant, the Los Angeles Lakers.

In 2005, though, they faced off against a squad that was also defensive-minded and played physically…As many folks expected, the series turned out to be a bloodbath, and the Spurs were fortunate that Horry found additional motivation in Game 5, which was the last contest hosted by Detroit because the Finals was played under the 2-3-2 format at the time and San Antonio had home court advantage. So, you can only imagine how rowdy the home crowd was.

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Charlamagne reacts to Benzino crying over Eminem beef

Charlamagne tha God, Jess Hilarious and DJ Envy have recently discussed Benzino’s new emotional interview on Drink Champs with NORE and DJ EFN.

During Drink Champs interview, Benzino got drunk, got emotional and started crying: “I don’t have nothing against Eminem. He can rap but I care about us more. I don’t want to talk about it no more. For 22 years, every time I do interviews they ask me about Eminem. The fu-k you want me to do? C’mon man. My daughter came to industry figuring ‘I gotta be cool with Eminem because everybody is against my dad.’ You think this sh-t is fu-king cool? Nah man, we are failing as a people. I don’t hate Eminem. I don’t know him to hate. I don’t hate white people. I’m tired of this sh-t man. It’s too much.”

After Jess Hilarious played the audio for Charlamagne, he said: “I like when people get that drunk. That’s when alcohol gets your holiness soul, you just start spilling your gut and give your life to the Lord in that moment. I respect it.”

He then continued: “Whatever he said in that moment is what he means. So, he don’t hate white people and he don’t have a problem with Eminem like that. That’s it.” From there, DJ Envy added: “I feel Benzino. They play on Benzino’s name a lot. Let’s be honest. Benzino was one of the people who created The Source magazine which was an institution that helped so many different artists. They were doing so well.” Charlamagne added: “They always coming for his neck. You know what I mean. Salute to Benzino. And Salute to Drink Champs.”

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