Former Shady Records artist Obie Trice has recently asked his fans a favor on Instagram.
Few days ago, some of the fans were in shock when Obie’s verified Facebook page made a weird comment on other Facebook page who shared Eminem‘s daughter, Hailie Jade Mather’s pictures: “Da Bruhs gonna love her.”
It turns out Obie Trice’s Facebook page was hacked long ago. Yesterday, the Detroit rapper jumped on Instagram to ask his fans report his Facebook page cause he does not own it anymore: Obie shared a picture with the caption on it: “Facebook band page is hacked. Please report it.”
If you don’t know how to report a page on Facebook, check this article here.
Hardcore fans knew Obie would never disrespect Eminem’s daughter but now it’s time everybody to know that. Obie has always been loyal to Em, even after his departure from Shady Records.
Back in 2003, Obie Trice even jumped on a track “Doe Rae Me (Hailie’s Revenge)” with Eminem and D12 to respond Ja Rule’s ruthless words about Hailie.
Dr. Dre will be honored during the Recording Academy Honors Presented by the Black Music Collective event taking place during Grammy Week at the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, February 2, 2023. The legendary producer will receive the Recording Academy Global Impact Award for their personal and professional achievements in the industry of music.
Alongside Dr. Dre, Lil Wayne and Missy Elliot will be presented with the same award.
“I am so thrilled to honor and celebrate these four giants in the music industry. Last year’s inaugural event was such a highlight during Grammy Week and now with Dre, Missy, Wayne and Sylvia there to pay tribute to this year, it’s definitely going to be another night to remember. I continue to be proud of the work of our Black Music Collective as it’s a vital part of what we do here at the Academy.” – said Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr.
The 65th annual Grammy Awards will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, United States, on February 5, 2023 and will broadcast live on CBS network.
“At our BMC Honors GRAMMY Week event, we will be honoring seven-time GRAMMY-winning artist, producer, founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, entrepreneur, and philanthropist with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award.” – the statement was released by Recording Academy on Twitter.
At our #BMCHonors GRAMMY Week event, we will be honoring seven-time GRAMMY-winning artist, producer, founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, entrepreneur, and philanthropist @DrDre with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award: https://t.co/TVT8gCUdgI ✨ #GRAMMYspic.twitter.com/oGzUSN34lB
Couple of days ago, TMZ caught up with the “8 Mile” star Mekhi Phifer where the Hollywood star turned down the possibility of Eminem shooting “8 Mile 2” movie but it seems 50 Cent is already working on the 8 Mile TV Series about Eminem’s legendary career.
“Second part? Sometimes it’s best to leave at one. Sometimes it’s best to leave it alone, once you make a classic, there is no reason to fool around with it. There has not been any conversations about it and it might never happen. Leave the classic alone and it will all be good. Just live with the 8 Mile. It might be interesting what happened next but the story that we told it was all good. I would not be in it. I’m sure Eminem would be in it either.” said Mekhi Phifer.
Today 50 Cent dropped by the neighborhood to speak with Big Boy about Black Mafia Family Season 2, touring 36 countries, and surpassing 1.8 billion views in 2022. He also discusses his Super Bowl performance with Dr. Dre and Eminem, his First Pitch for the Mets, and his hit song “In Da Club.” Plus, 50 Cent revealed Eminem turned down $9 million offer to perform at the FIFA World Cup 2022. He also revealed his plans to create an “8 Mile” TV show.
“I’m gonna bring his 8 Mile to television. And Em knows it. It’s gonna be big. I’m working on it. I ain’t got no does. I’m betting one hundred. It should be there for his legacy. It’s important to me that they understand it. It’s a modern version of Em, think about Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Like a modern version of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I wanna be able to show and offer a lot more details. I’mma do Snoop Dogg story too.” said 50 Cent during the 40-minutes interview.
In an exclusive interview on Rap Radar Podcast with Elliott Wilson and Brian “B. Dot” Miller, debuting through iHeartRadio, Griselda co-founder Westside Gunn explained how being in the middle of the underground Hip-Hop scene and the mainstream has helped his rap career. It’s also given him the chance to uplift the rappers on his New York-based label and display their talents for major artists in his inner circle to see like Eminem, JAY-Z, Drake and others.
“When you’re underground, a lot of eyes and ears aren’t on you. Now like I said, I’m right in that middle. So I know if I curated a project, Drake might listen to it. Travis might listen to it, Tyler might listen to it, Hov might listen to it, Nas might listen to it, Marshall might listen to it. So I do these albums so Hov can hear Rome. So Nas can hear Rome. So Marshall can hear Rome, you feel me?” said Gunn.
Then he added: “Since y’all paying attention to me, let me show you something. That’s what it’s about. It’s spreading the culture. I’m not selfish. I want my guys to shine.”
After the end of 2023, Westside Gunn is also considering retiring from hip-hop scene.
In a series of tweets, the Buffalo rapper began his farewell by saying he has nothing else left to prove. He then started recapping his career, listing out some of his collaborators and producers he’s worked with. The list is pretty legendary from late rappers MF Doom and Prodigy to Jay-Z and Eminem.
Check out the tweets below:
23’ def my last year doing this s–t, I don’t have nothing else 2prove, I put my team on, I put my city on, I worked w/everybody I ever wanted to work with, plus MFs still don’t even understand 1-10, FLYGOD, Awesome GOD, or Pray for Paris(mind u Virgil did the cover) im the 🐐🤷🏽♂️
I’ve worked with WU, Mobb Deep, Run the jewels, Blackstar, Lox, The Roots, Kanye, Lil Wayne, 2Chainz, Durag Dynasty, Combat Jack(RIP) was there when I recorded HWH4, 50cent, Banks, Kool G rap, Royce,Anderson Paak, nominated for a Grammy right now with Mary J Blige and MANY MORE
I worked with Tyler, Asap Rocky,PB Carti, Wale, my music played at Fashion Shows in Paris, Japan, countless Tattoos, Countless murals, I’ve never taken longer than 10-14days to make ANY project.. not 1x a year either multiple albums a year and I elevated every single time
TMZ has recently caught up with the “8 Mile” star Mekhi Phifer shortly after the classic hip-hop battle movie marked its 20th anniversary in 2022. The interviewer asked if there was anything in the works for a new story related to the OG characters of the film and here is how he replied:
“Second part? Sometimes it’s best to leave at one. Sometimes it’s best to leave it alone, once you make a classic, there is no reason to fool around with it. There has not been any conversations about it and it might never happen. Leave the classic alone and it will all be good. Just live with the 8 Mile. It might be interesting what happened next but the story that we told it was all good. I would not be in it. I’m sure Eminem would be in it either.”
Then interviewer asked him if he’s in contact with Em and what’s his favorite work done by Eminem, on which he replied: “I talk to him yeah. About his music. His best work of all time? It’s hard to say. He has done so much great things, so many great things.”
You can watch the video below:
Couple of months ago, the producer Mike WiLL Made-It suggested the Detroit legend to make the sequel 8 Mile movie.
“Eminem needs to do 8 Mile 2. His story when he got the deal and s–_ went up…” – tweeted the Grammy-award winning producer.
Eminem need to do 8 Mile 2… his story when he got the deal & shxt went up..
8 Mile is a critically acclaimed film with a massive commercial success. It opened at No. 1 in the United States with $51.3 million grossed in its opening weekend and an eventual total of $242.9 million in box office worldwide.
According to the official reports, Eminem was named as the most watched rapper on YouTube in 2022 after finishing the year wit more than 5 billion views.
50 Cent shared the news on Instagram with the caption: “That’s my Boy! I’m gonna remind people I’m nice this year. New Music, New TV, New movie… let’s go!”
The same picture was shared by James Larese, a music director who has previously worked with Eminem on “From Detroit To The LBC,” with Snoop Dogg, “Is This Love (09′),” with 50 Cent “Darkness,” “Rainy Days” with Westside Boogie, “Lucky You,” with Joyner Lucas, “Fall” and “Fast Lane” with Royce 5’9″ music videos. They also has recently worked on SNL sketches when Eminem made the cameo with Pete Davidson.
In the caption of his story, James Larese wrote: “Numbers don’t lie. 22’ was special but 23’ gonna be one for the books.”
The Burn It Down Group, which is a marketing team for Shady Records, also shared the news on Instagram, saying: “It’s going to a Big Shady 2023.”
Aside from Eminem probably dropping new album and music videos, Slim Shady is rumored to headline some of the biggest stages this year as a part of his tour. Eminem is probably making the comeback after 3 years break from his 12th solo studio album Music To Be Murdered By. Watch the video for details below and tell us your expectations in the comments!
Lupe Fiasco has recently shared footage of him teaching his new “Rap Theory & Practice” class at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As part of the course, which is described as “an exploration into the underlying fundamental functions, structures, and principles of rap,” Fiasco decodes and breaks down lyrics from himself, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar.
Songs that Lupe Fiasco examined during the lecture included Eminem’s 2000 hit song “Stan,” from The Marshall Mathers LP album, Kendrick Lamar’s “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” and his own track “Jonylah Forever,” from his 2018 release DROGAS Wave.
“Stan! Anybody not aware of Stan? Anybody not blown away with that list? Stan is probably Eminem’s greatest record. Arguably, hands down, probably Eminem’s greatest record. This song is about a fan. It’s where we get the word Stan from. The song is about a fan who writes Eminem a letter. “Dear Marshall…” and writes his first verse. Writes another letter in second verse that’s little bit more aggressive. Then he does the third verse, per say. It’s a recording. Stan recording himself, kidnapping his girlfriend and doing this wired murder suicide plot. And he’s recording this thing to Eminem and at the end of the verse he comes to realization, ‘oh s–t, how I’m gonna send this out?!’ But that’s not a plot twist. That’s great. you gotta stop there but there is fourth verse. And the twist is, Eminem finally receives the letter from the first verse and he sat down to response: ‘Dear Stan…” and at the end of the verse, Eminem has the epiphany ‘oh s–t, it was you.’ The layering and the complexity of how he worked that repetition plot break structure, it was masterful. Taking very simple concept that we all learned when we were kinds.” said Lupe Fiasco.
With four Billboard No. 1 singles, 13 Top 10 hits and 41 Hot 100 songs, 50 Cent may have dominated hip-hop 2000s and 2010s but nowadays he is looking to climb the charts of a different kind — with TV Shows and his latest podcast.
Fifty has recently spoke to PEOPLE magazine about his growing interest in true crime and his latest project, his Surviving El Chapo podcast.
“I like true crime, period, the entire genre. If you don’t read the news, if you’re not in the current events, [then you should]. I do.” said Fiddy.
In recent years, 50 Cent has put making new music on the back burner while expanding his profile as an actor and producer. Jackson found success acting on the Starz series Power from 2014 until 2020 and has a role in The Expendables 4 next year. As a television producer, he helped bring the crime drama Black Mafia Family to life and saw his Hip-Hop Homicides series premiere on AMC earlier this month.
Eminem has recently been named as the most watched rapper on YouTube in 2022 with more than 5 billion views and 50 could not help him not to react to it. In his Instagram post, Fiddy shared screenshot of an Eminem article with the caption: “That’s my Boy! I’m gonna remind people I’m nice this year. New Music, New TV, New movie… let’s go!”
In the next post, 50 Cent wrote: “I didn’t put nothing out in a while. I would be mad if I was new and I wasn’t on the list.” Check the post below:
Knoc-turn’al, who was introduced to the world on Dr. Dre’s multiplatinum album 2001, has recently sat down Cam Capone News where he talked about Eminem and Dr. Dre.
Knoc shined on the songs “Some L.A. Ni–az” and “Bang Bang.” Knoc-turn’al also penned some of the verses for the 2001 album. Dr. Dre then featured Knoc-turn’al on the Dr. Dre classic single and video “Bad Intentions” for the movie soundtrack “The Wash.”
“Eminem has always been fire. He’s a good dude. He has been through a lot but he got it keep together. Eminem has always been a jokester fun dude to be around. You gotta understand he had to work ten times harder than African-American in this business because he’s white. So he had to work harder than us. He had to prove himself. And people don’t understand that point.” said Knoc-turn’al in a new interview.
Then he continues: “Crazy thing is that, Eminem is die-hard, true person. If he cares about you he cares about you. If he don’t, he don’t. Even on The Chronic, 2001 tour, Eminem taking all the b–ches and I can’t even get one. All I am is that I’m on Dr. Dre’s album. I was like ‘give me ne of them dolls’ while he was on stage and he said ‘I think you already stole couple of them.’ Being around him is a fun. He’s a jokester but you gotta get to know people to understand the pain and different things they have been through.”
“I came at the time when Xzibit, Eminem, Hittman, Mel-Man had been around and we had fun.” – Knoc-turn’al added.
Then he continues talking about some of his favorite stories when touring with Dr. Dre. You can watch the interview below:
Image: Eminem holding Jordan 4s Retro Encore for Complex magazine & DJ Khaled holding the same sneakers
To get the hands on Eminem and Jordan 4 Retro Encore sneakers that cost around $40,000 are very rare case in today’s world and it seems DJ Khaled finally got them.
“I finally got them. Anybody know me knows that I’ve been trying to get this longest time. Yes I have a lot of sneakers. I collect sneakers. I collect watches. And I love my sneakers. But I’ve been trying to get these for so long and I finally got them. This is the OG, don’t get twisted. The world has made like 23 pairs of this. I’ve been trying to get them and I could never get them and I finally got them. Look at this! C’mon man! You gonna see me wear these real soon. God did!” said DJ Khaled in one of his latest Instagram videos and in the caption, he wrote: “Never give up !!!!! GOT EM !!!!!!!!!! STILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!”
In the comment sections, P.J. Tucker commented freezing emoji. For the record, Philadelphia 76ers player has recently wore the same Eminem x Jordan 4 Retro Encores in one of his recent NBA games on Christmas.
There are supposed to be only 50 pairs of these “Encore” Jordan IVs made for Eminem and his crew. PJ Tucker is out there playing in em at MSG 🤯 pic.twitter.com/5SIIGedaxA
It seems, DJ Khaled two dreams have both came true in 2022. He finally got that rare Eminem Air Jordan 4s and got Slim Shady as a feature on his “GOD DID” album: “Use This Gospel (Remix)” by Kanye West, featuring Eminem and produced by Dr. Dre.
In October, 2022, GRIP dropped a mixtape called “5 & A F*** You,” the follow-up project of his Shady Records debut album, titled “I Died For This?!,” which featured guest appearances from AHYES, Marco Plus, Wara and Tate228.
The East-Atlanta rapper originally intended to record an EP in a week, but instead ended up extending the project to mixtape length, letting it run its proper course. You can feel the emotion in his voice when he raps: “The day Em spit me my lyrics, I knew I really made it / To have him and Royce on my album, that shit feel amazin’/ ‘Cause they giants in my eyes, residin’ where I aim to be / Remember buyin’ they CD and now they give me game for free.”
After “Cook Up” and “The F Word,” GRIP has recently dropped the music video of “94 Flow,” featuring AHYES. The song is produced by Latrell James and its chorus references to A Tribe Called Quest song, titled “Oh My God.”
Today, GRIP is back again with The Radar Freestyle, spitting over Peezy’s “2 Million Up” instrumental. You can watch it below:
In the original song, the Detroit’s own Peezy references Eminem with the following lines: “Hit your house party, f–_ it up, we misbehavin’ / Gotta keep an eye on my n–_a Slim cause he Shady.” You can watch the video below:
Grammy-nominated music video “The Heart Part 5,” by Kendrick Lamar, that was released alongside the song on May 8, 2022, almost featured an Eminem deep-fake.
In the video, K. Dot performs the song against a red wall, while using deep-fake technology to transform himself into 6 modern Black American figures: in order, they are former football player and convicted felon O. J. Simpson, rapper Kanye West, actors Jussie Smollett and Will Smith, former basketball player Kobe Bryant, and late rapper Nipsey Hussle.
In a recent interview with The New York Times magazine, it was revealed that Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar collaborated with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who both own a company specializing in the deep fake technology. The famous TV duo lent the technology to the pgLang pair, who were the first artists to use the technology in their music video.
“You see Kendrick turned into Tupac, Kendrick turned into Kanye, and I think we had Eminem and we were like ‘What if we did the Jussie Smollett!” Eminem didn’t make the final cut, and K. Dot ended up on deep fakes of Kanye West, Nipsey Hussle, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, OJ Simpson and Jussie Smollett.
New Jersey rapper who goes by the name of AK took to social media shortly after the video dropped to accuse Kendrick of stealing his idea. Austin Kassabian claimed Kendrick copied the deepfake concept from his “Family Tree” video, which was released back in September 2020. The black-and-white clip shows AK rapping into the camera in front of a blank backdrop as his face transforms into some of the biggest names in hip-hop: Lil Wayne, Missy Elliot, Eminem, MC Lyte, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Nate Dogg, T-Pain, J. Cole, Nas, Rakim, Andre 3000, 50 Cent, Jay-Z and Drake.
In the song, AK raps: “I am AK, I am not the next Em / But everybody telling me that I’m the next him / But understand there will never be a next Em / You’ll probably twist my words and say I don’t respect him / I always preach to keep it real so I’m about to now / Em did not influence me ’cause I was not allowed / To listen to him, my parents said I was just a child / I wondered why and I look back and I got it now / My young mind back then probably wasn’t ready / To hear the shit that he talked about, they said he was too edgy / I couldn’t listen to anything, younger me, he was begging / I couldn’t wait to hear the song about his momma’s spaghetti / His influence on me was indirect / ‘Cause I was listening to Hopsin, I was obsessed / I come to find he was the same way when it came to Em.” (via Genius)
