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Billie Eilish raps Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” at Coachella party

Billie Eilish was one of the surprise guests at Coachella! The 2024 music and artists festival kicked off its annual two-weekend run in Indio, California, on Friday — and, as expected, this year’s lineup wowed the crowed with electric performances and unexpected appearances on stage. Headliner Lana Del Rey kicked off Coachella weekend with a dreamy hit-filled set that featured songs like “Summertime Sadness” and “Doin’ Time.” This marked Del Rey’s return to the Coachella stage for the first time in a decade — “exactly 10 years ago to the day,” she told the crowd.

Del Rey surprised festivalgoers in more ways than one, between making her way to the Main Stage on motorcycle through the crowd of thousands before welcoming major star power like Billie Eilish to join her in dueting “Video Games” and Ocean Eyes.”

On Saturday Eilish did a surprise DJ set on one of Coachella’s smaller stages called The Do LaB. She previewed a handful of new songs from her new album: “Lunch,” “L’Amour De Ma Vie,” and “Chihiro.” That last one is named after the main character in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, and Eilish also teased it during a Zane Lowe interview on Friday. She also danced around with the camera to some of the iconic songs, and one of them was Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.” Check out couple of videos below:

@fresapresa Billie and friends ✨#billieeilish #coachella2024 #coachella #eminemtoktik ♬ original sound – Frida

Billie Eilish shaking her bu-t to an Eminem song is a thing I thought I would never see. Few years back, She said: “I was scared of Eminem. My whole life. Always. I, dude, terrified. That dude freaked the f**k out of me. Oh my God.” And of course, Eminem being Eminem came up with the best response – shouting out Eilish in a verse of one of his tunes. In ‘Alfred’s Theme‘, the lyrics read: “Homicidal visions when I’m spitting like this / But really I’m just fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes which is really childish / And silly, but I’m really like this, I’m giving nightmares to Billie Eilish.” It appears Em helped Eilish stop being so scared of him.

Lil Uzi Vert sells Eminem-inspired merch at Coachella 2024

Lil Uzi Vert, who performed at Coachella 2024 on Friday night this week, sold merchandise at the mega festival, making a play on words of “their” pronouns as well as “Eminem.” The $40 black t-shirt features the phrase “THEMINEM” across the front. Uzi came out as using they/them pronouns back in summer 2022.

Speaking with 032c magazine, last year, Lil Uzi explained: “No, I never hesitated but I did take my time to learn as much as I could about this before I was able to proceed. Taking the time to figure out who you are is a big part of what it means to be alive. Once you figure out whether you’re here with it, there with it, or both, you’re not alone anymore. This community offers access to a certain kind of support that you might not have had [previously during] your entire life because you weren’t raised that way. I come from a household where it’s not okay to be ‘non’ anything.”

We are not sure why he went with the Eminem-inspired merch cause Lil Uzi seems not to be a fan of Slim Shady. Couple of years ago, during a livestream with Adin Ross, Uzi said: “Eminem is not in my top 5. Who give a f–k about his albums, he sounds like you’re just an eater. Give me Eminem’s best bar that’s not under 2003. You are probably listening to I’m Not Afraid.” Check the merch below:

Azealia Banks lashes out on Eminem & Kendrick Lamar AGAIN

Singer and rapper Azealia Banks, who is well-known of her controversial talks, has recently weighed in on J. Cole apologizing to Kendrick Lamar for a diss record and involved Eminem into her rant on Instagram.

“Ya know, a 4’9″ n-gga who can’t do a push up starting beef with everyone he’s jealous of because of his powerful relatives is very soon going to run out of gas. Kendrick’s relatives are eventually going to become tired of being involved in this girly a-s drama. Next time Kendrick pulls one of these, please ask him to come outside. Threatening people’s lives while preaching that all that black royalty s–t is bogus.” said Azealia Banks.

The she continued: “Not to mention, there are slew of white ghostwriters, literally penning these songs about the “black struggle” for Kendrick and tons of other rap n-ggas. Kendrick’s place in the grand scheme is to transform the devastating realities of life in black America from hard foot into a puree for toothless white consumers to feel good about themselves and and like they have made a change because they bought the Kendrick Lamar CD. I’m sorry. I really can’t believe the industry gave me such a hard time for expressing my opinion while these rap n-ggas literally have the girliest beef ever. Like, why don’t you n-ggas figure out who is literally hunting you all and and figure out how the f–k to stay alive instead of this bulls–t. And Kendrick, make some a-s shakers, for f–ks sake, you’ve been short and angry for a decade.”

“You too Eminem… White Male rage has no place in hip-hop. Make an a-s shaker dammit. Eminem really makes school shooter music. We don’t care about your battle with drugs. Sober people got hit by cars too. Like, how did hip-hop really let this white dude get away with lyrics about fantasizing about killing his mother. Like… No. Em belongs in the psych ward. I can’t beleive we s–tted on Vanilla Ice (who is actually swagged the f–k out) to accept Eminem’s weird a-s.” Azealia Banks added.

This is not the first time Azealia attacked Eminem. She went at Eminem in few other occasions. Couple of years ago, she said on Instagram: “Eminem always been annoying and garbage. I can’t, won’t and refuse to consume white male anger in rap form. I’m picking Paul Wall and Bubba Sparxxx over Eminem ANYDAY. Can we also make Eminem’s glorified white male rage a factor in what influences white school shooters lmao… We love to blame black parents and black stars for *what’s wrong with our youth* but really let Em write whole songs about wanting to murder his own mother. We really should blame Eminem for everything.”

Bubba Sparxxx talks first time meeting Eminem

Bubba Sparxxx has recently sat down on BHighTV with Princess of Crime Mob and the rest of the crew where LaGrange, Georgia-born hip-hop artist recalled first time meeting Eminem at the Anger Management tour and almost giving up after hearing “My Name Is.”

“I’d like to talk to him [Eminem] now. I believe I will soon. I really want to do a record with Eminem in the next 365 days. That’s a challenge. I did meet Eminem in 2003, I believe it was the Anger Management tour. Just to set the scene: Everybody was there 50 is there, Andre is there, T.I. is there and Bizarre said ‘he want to talk with you’ like I was first [laughs]. This is the height of the beef with Ja Rule and all them.” said Bubba Sparxxx.

Then he continued: “First of all, two layers of presidential security so we go through the security, we get back there and Eminem is playing ‘Hail Mary’, so I walked in, waits till the song finishes and he said one of the most complimentary things anybody has ever said to me and it took me a days to really put it in perspective and understand exactly what he was saying. He said, I got nothing but good things to say about you. I said that’s mutual man, I really appreciate it bla bla bla. He said ‘look, I don’t know, if there had never been me, maybe you would have made it, but you deserved to make it whether there was ever me or not.’ Something like that. I forgot the exact words.”

“He said in the way where he kind have messed up for the rest of the night cause I was like ‘what is he saying though?!’ I didn’t feel like it was disrespectful but…The day I first saw Hi My Name Is, I went into deep depression man cause at that time it kinda looked like they ain’t gonna let another white boy. This white boy was perfect and he had Dr. Dre?! What?! I was like ‘well, f–k it.'” Bubba Sparxxx added. You can watch the interview below:

Nasaan recreates Proof & Eminem’s classic freestyle in new music video ft. Royce 5’9″

Ahead of his much anticipated ERROR 404 project that drops next month, NASAAN has rolled out the self-directed video for a new single titled “GOATED,” featuring his mentor Royce Da 5’9″. In the video clip, NASAAN, who also edited the video, pays tribute to his late father, Big Proof, by recreating the Detroit Mayer’s 1999 MTV News freestyle clip shot in the car with Eminem. Notably, the “GOATED” video arrived on April 11, i.e. 18 years to the day since Proof was fatally shot at the age of 32 and it’s duration is 3:13.

Expect to hear “GOATED” single a lot this year, as NASAAN has landed a partnership with ESPN and The National Basketball Association that sees the song being given the four-month licensing deal treatment. This means you’ll likely hear it during the playoffs, not to mention at other NBA-sanctioned events.

ERROR 404, out May 31, was previously teased with the release of the Icewear Vezzo collaboration “CULLINAN GANG,” complete with an official video by Unpaused Studios. abytron, Swavay, Pooh Beatz, and Turbo are also set to make appearances on the Assemble Sound and Atlantic Records release.

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Busta Rhymes shows massive love to Eminem

In the recent episode of ALL THE SMOKE, Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson are joined by hip-hop icon, actor, producer, and one of the leaders of rap’s ‘golden age’, Busta Rhymes, for a tell-all sit down about his life and career. Busta shares incredible untold stories about Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z and Tupac, discusses the origins of speed rapping, reflects on his most iconic songs and details his health journey. Plus, working with Janet Jackson and Mariah Carrey. At one point of the interview, he showed massive love to Eminem.

“I’mma keep it a buck. I don’t think nobody could f–k with Eminem. I’m sorry, Dr. Umar stop it. You wildin’ son. And there is a lot of s–t that Dr. Umar says that I agree with but this is one particular one where you way off the kilt bro. Eminem is the truth bro.” said Busta Rhymes.

Then he continued: “I got a song coming out with an artist that I had to address about his testimonial and opinion on Eminem too. I had to check him on his own song in rhyme form. So y’all stay tuned for that. I’m huge fan of the artist that I made a record with… Now that being said, Kendrick is my favorite, Eminem is my favorite, Talib Kweli, Luda’s one of my faovrites. Smino, JID, J. Cole, Drake, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross. I got way too many favorites. Rakim is is one o my favorites, Kane, Slick Rick, KRS-1, Chuck D.

“Eminem brings best out of me. I did a song with Eminem called ‘Calm Down.’ I sent him 16 bars. He sent me back 48. You are not doing that to me on my own record. I sent back 54 bars. He sends me back 62. I sent back 68. Who we making a song at this point? We ain’t making a song for consumer. We just battling on a record for seven minutes. They ain’t playing it in the club. They are not going to play it in the radio. We might get satellite radio spins. We might gt some motherf–king blogs talking about this because it’s an eventful moment. But we turned a record that could have been a radio joint into me and you straight straight raw hip-hop. ‘F–k the rules’ moment. Because we love it so much. That the competitive nature we both have forced us to bring the best out of each other. Only dudes like that can cause me to be this way. So I love Em, I love Kendrick and I love Talib Kweli.” Busta Rhymes added.

50 Cent reacts to J. Cole apologizing to Kendrick Lamar

J. Cole has publicly apologized to Kendrick Lamar for dissing him on “7 Minute Drill” from his new album Might Delete Later, while performing at Dreamville Festival. Walking back his lyrics about his longtime friend on the surprise song that was released on last week, Cole expressed regret about releasing the track.

“I’m so proud of my new album, except for one part. It’s one part of that s–t that makes me feel like, man that’s the lamest s–t I did in my f–kin’ life, right? And I know this is not what a lot of people want to hear. I was conflicted because: one, I know my heart and I know how I feel about my peers. These two n-ggas that I just been blessed to even stand beside in this game, let alone chase their greatness. So I felt conflicted ’cause I’m like, bruh, I don’t even feel no way. But the world wanna see blood. I don’t know if y’all can feel that, but the world wanna see blood.” said J. Cole to the crowed during his headlining set.

Then he continued: “That s–t disrupts my f–king peace. So what I want to say right here tonight is in the midst of me doing that, trying to find a little angle and downplay this n-gga’s f–king catalog and his greatness, I want to say right now tonight, how many people think Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest motherf–kers to ever touch a f–king microphone? Dreamville, y’all love Kendrick Lamar, correct? As do I. I just want to come up here and publicly be like, bruh, that was the lamest, goofiest s–t. I say all that to say it made me feel like 10 years ago when I was moving incorrectly. And I pray that God will line me back up on my purpose and on my path. I pray that my n-gga really didn’t feel no way and if he did, my n-gga, I got my chin out. Take your best shot. I’ma take that s–t on the chin, boy. Do what you do.”

“All good. It’s love. And I pray that y’all forgive a n-gga for the misstep and I can get back to my true path. Because I ain’t gonna lie to y’all, the past two days felt terrible. It let me know how good I’ve been sleeping for the past 10 years.” J. Cole added. The Dreamville boss also said he would be taking the diss track off streaming services but at the time of writing this article, it is still available on Spotify and Apple Music.

J. Cole’s apology was not well received by many in Hip Hop and it looks like 50 Cent is one of them. Taking to his social media accounts, Fif posted a screenshot of the article of Cole apologizing with the caption: “WTF how I miss this, J. Cole call my phone, right now!” Check the post below:

Dr. Dre jokes about Stevie Wonder’s blindness after meeting him

Dr. Dre has cracked a joke about Stevie Wonder being blind after meeting the iconic musician. Making a very rare post on Instagram, Dr. Dre posted a picture of himself and Stevie Wonder with the caption: “Just bumped into my hero and every musician’s favorite, Stevie Wonder… Stevie said ‘It’s good seeing you.’”

The joke went over well on social media, with Flavor Flav commenting: “[face with tears of joy Emojis] he always say the same to me, that’s my guy.” 2 Chainz also wrote: “Haha man hell naw Killa.” Busta Rhymes also commented crown and laughing emojis. N.O.R.E replied “[face with tears of joy Emojis] I knew he could see.” Aftermath producer Fredwreck wrote Smiling Face with Sunglasses emojis.

Dr. Dre previously revealed that he turned down the chance to work with the “Superstition” legend despite the fact he idolizes the musician. Speaking to Kevin Hart for his Hart to Heart podcast, Dre said their paths crossed when he needed a sample cleared by Wonder. “So I’m workin’ on an album with Marsha Ambrosius. She’s amazing,” he said. “We did a song using Stevie Wonder’s music, and he had to clear it. And he called me up, ‘Yo, Dre’ — for some reason, Stevie Wonder calls you like super early in the morning, like six, seven in the morning or something. Like, just ’cause you can’t see the time.”

He continued: “True story. [He was like], ‘I don’t like the lyrics. I don’t like the lyrics, Dre.’ Okay, we went in and changed the lyrics. What the f–k is the difference? Like 5 a.m. or 5 p.m. for Stevie? So this s–t happened.” Dre added he had another phone call with Wonder after they made the changes and the prospect of them working together came up. “He called me back like, ‘Okay, Dre. Now I like the lyrics. Why don’t we work together and just write a song together?’” he remembered. “[I was like], ‘Yeah. Alright. Alright, Stevie,’ and yeah… I didn’t show up. “What the f–k am I gonna do in the studio with Stevie Wonder? Huh? Touch the drums? No. Touch the keyboard? No. What the f–k? Nah. I went that way.”

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Eminem VS Busta Rhymes – The Drink Champs Edition

In one of the recent episodes of Drink Champs, The D.O.C. sits down with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN to discuss his monumental impact on hip-hop. From his early days with N.W.A. and discovering Snoop Dogg to surviving a life-altering accident, The D.O.C. shares his incredible journey in the music industry. He also dives into his close relationship with Dr. Dre, the making of his upcoming documentary, and his dedication to the craft of writing. This is an interview you don’t want to miss, as The D.O.C. offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a true hip-hop legend. At one point of the interview, The D.O.C. played a traditional Quicktime With Slime game, where the hosts ask the guest to choose between two artists or subjects and if he/she can’t answer, then she/he drinks a shot.

When N.O.R.E. asked The D.O.C. to choose between Eminem and Busta Rhyme, here is what he replied: “Both of these guys are my guys.” He did not answer the question…I went a head and compiled every video where the hosts asks their guests Eminem VS Busta Rhymes. You can check it out below.

WIZ KHALIFA: Busta Rhymes for sure. Lyricism is up there but Busta be like ‘I’ll kill that n-gga!’ Busta inspired me a lot, man. You might not see it in my style but just being animated, being more goofy and more silly, just being myself. He’s great on stage. I’ve always loved fast rappers. That’s always been one of my favorite things growing up.

AKON: It depends. These are two different lanes. You can’t compare these two. I gotta go with both.

T.I.: I’mma go Busta Rhymes. Not because I don’t have enormous respect and admiration for Em but but Bus has always been one of the brothers to me. Em to me though, he don’t have to f–k with nobody but he still does so I gotta show admiration to Em and salute him for that.

For the rest, watch the video collection below:

Daylyt blames Eminem for mumble rap rise

About 3 months ago, during one of the episodes of Last Second Sea, one of the best battle rappers Daylyt gave one of the weirdest compliment to Eminem I’ve ever heard.

While reacting to one of the Loaded Lux’s bars during the battle against Hollow Da Don, Daylyt said: “This is better than all of y’all careers, everyone. Everybody that has battled in the past XYZ amount of years why y’all try to do this?”

He continued: “I remember I was talking to somebody about when Eminem first popped up in rap. And Eminem is the reason mumble rap exists. Eminem rapped that a level of so high that everybody just gave up. It was like ‘you know what? we will never get there. Let’s just go backwards. And that’s what happens to battle rap. This is the highest level, why n-ggas don’t try to be better than this. N-ggas just go like ‘you know what? I’mma just go that way. This is crazy man.”

Daylyt has established himself as an innovative and key figure in both the music and creative industries over the years. He applies his unique style and personality to everything he does and in the process leaves audiences in astonishment, always wanting to know what he’ll do next and how he’ll do it.

Channeling his energy towards art has been massively important for Daylyt. After growing up in a tough area of Los Angeles he felt it was important to surround himself with a loyal team of people who all share the fundamental values of commitment and professionalism in order to achieve a common goal. This creative and professional outlook has led to an impressive photography career, with his remarkable work encompassing a new era we are entering of freedom, empowerment, sexuality and most importantly, artistic expression, using professional, prominent fashion looks…Check out the interview below:

Wallie the Sensei describes witnessing Eminem, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg in recent studio session

Wallie the Sensei emerged as the new face of Compton hip-hop with his 2020 single “Scandalous,” where he offsets grim gangsta narratives with silky-smooth production and an elastic, irresistibly melodic flow. He has recently sat down with Bootleg Kev where he described meeting Eminem and Snoop Dogg in Dr. Dre’s house and witnessing the three hip-hop titans recording couple of tracks together.

“I just f–king met Eminem, Dr. Dre and Snoop. I went to Dre house for a day and I got to sit in the session and watch them work. Bro, that was the dopest s–t I’ve ever seen. When I met Em, he was like ‘Marshall’, I’m like, bro, I know who you are. You are one of the best rappers ever.” said Wallie the Sensei.

Then he continued: “Now I understand why they call Dre Dr. Dre. The s–t that he do in the studio he really doctor them songs. He might be the coldest to ever do it. How did I get the invite? One of my homies is related to Dre and since I got s–t buzzing, he was like ‘I gotta get you over there’. Dre’s house is co comfortable I fell asleep for hours.”

“That s–t was cold. They were working on the last couple songs of and album, I don’t know if it was for Snoop album? But Dre was really particular with these bars and s–t. When he got his star, Snoop gave a speech and said Dre still makes him do very line thousand motherf–king time, he was not cappnig. All of them are legends, Snoop, Em, Dre. I’m so grateful to be on that session and hopefully one day I can be like them. Me being there led me to meet dopest producer in the f–king world, Dem Jointz. Bro he cold. Ain’t nothing that dude can’t do.” Wallie the Sensei added. You can watch the interview below:

Jake Bass teases Linkin Park & Eminem collaboration

Jake Bass, who has recently became a touring member of D12, playing guitar with them internationally, tweeted a picture of himself in the studio with Draven Sebastian Bennington, a son of lead vocalist of Linkin Park, late Chester Bennington, who is also a musician, dropping his debut single last year.

In the caption, Jake Bass wrote: “When two worlds collide… 2nd Generation!!! Y’all ain’t ready for this music!!! @dravenbstudios @linkinpark @eminem #DravenBennington #JakeBass #LinkinPark #Eminem #BocaJMusic #BassmentSounds,” hinting on Linkin Park and Eminem collaboration song? Or maybe a remix or something?

Last year, Draven Bennington also posted a picture with Jake Bass, who is a son of Jeff Bass of Bass Brothers, with the caption: “There are no amount of words to express how amazing last week was! I’m still buzzing off all the energy! Thank you so much @mrjakebass @fbt_studios for taking me in open arms and letting me make magic with you guys! I can’t wait to come back out there soon! Motown here we come! Also thank you so much to the amazing artists @lazdetroit and @aproposmusic you guys are so supportive and helpful and make me feel right at home in the studio! I can’t wait to see what we collab on!”

One fan on X commented: “Eminem // Linkin Park collab ????? Granted this would’ve been way bigger in like 2004 I’m still excited for that mashup.” Another said: “It’s crazy cause Linkin Park and Eminem are my all time favourites. Meteora is actually my fav album ever.” Someone on reddit said: “Teenage me would s–t a brick.” Another said: “Please delete this whole thread. Lol. As a LP fan, it is most definitely Chester’s son and he is an awful artist who has been trying get some clout for his s–tty songs by dragging his dad or Linkin Park’s name into it. His mom is Chester’s ex-wife who sued Chester’s estate for child support and royalties like 3 months after he died. Draven here hates the rest of Chester’s family and the rest of Linkin Park as well. He’s 21 now so he can take the heat.” Someone replied: “After a quick mental breakdown I realized Jake is just clout chasing and worked on some music with Chester’s son 🙁 Nothing to do with Em or LP.”

Couple of months ago, Linkin Park’s co-lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer Mike Shinoda talked about possible Eminem collaboration during his question and answer session on Twitch: “Am I gonna collab with Eminem? Probably not. I think Eminem is incredible but it’s not on to-do list. Do I want to battle Eminem? You mean imagine me like a toddler getting blown up by a nuclear weapon? Eminem is the greatest freestyle rapper, greatest battle rapper of all time. I don’t give a s–t what anybody says.”

In November 2016, Jake and F.B.T. Productions co-produced and performed the instrumentation on the 20th anniversary remix of Eminem’s 1996 debut single “Infinite”, and produced the mini-documentary Partners In Rhyme: The True Story of Infinite. The single, available for the first time digitally, entered Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart at No. 9 with 28,000 downloads sold in its first week. The remix also entered the Digital Song Sales chart at No. 21, the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at No. 37, the Spotify Viral 50 chart at No. 47 and The Hot 100 at No. 97.

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