For his highly anticipated Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, legendary hip-hop artist LL Cool J amped up the energy in Cleveland considerably, thanks to a career-spanning set which featured another icon from Detroit, Eminem.
LL started off his set with a banger, going into 1987’s “Go Cut Creator Go,” from “Bigger And Deffer” album.
After a bit of 1988’s “Going Back to Cali,” surprise guest Slim Shady nonchalantly walked onstage to perform “Rock the Bells” with his idol. LL and Eminem performed like they were in a rap battle, trading lyrics on the song with no-holds-barred ferocity.
Before we upload the official Hall Of Fame performance, you can watch the rehearsal video below, featuring Eminem and Dr. Dre:
Back in 2009, Eminem released music video of “We Made You” from Relapse album which featured cameos from 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Oxen, Lisa Ann and Bobby Lee among others.
Comedian Bobby Lee has recently set down with Steve-O’s Wild Ride where he recalled how he ended up on Eminem’s music video.
“One time I was in a Korean restaurant with my girlfriend and this Korean guy comes up to me and he was like ‘hey dude, I like your comedy, I’m director, you wanna do music videos?!’ and I don’t know what it was but I gave my number. So a week later, that dude texted me: ‘tomorrow, music video, Eminem and Dr. Dre!’, I was like, WHAT?!”
“He gave me an address, I show up and next thing I know I’m in a f**kin van with Dr. Dre and Marshall, Eminem! And I’m doing one of their music videos. It’s called ‘We Made You.’ This guy was a f**king director of Eminem’s music video.” said Bobby.
Last month LL Cool J was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the legendary rapper did not leave without bringing his friends onstage.
Dr. Dre inducted LL Cool J with lots of praise and playful jokes during his speech and Eminem performed “Rock The Bells” with his childhood idol.
Marshall even left a fanboy note to LL on his social media, saying: “16 years old Marshall is so proud- congrats L!”
Tonight, the performance airs on HBO Max. It was announced by Eminem himself on social media with the caption: “Rock The Bells with the GOAT, tonight on HBO Max.”
Shady Records’ compilation album, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, which was released in 2006, goes platinum in the United Kingdom, selling 300,000 units in the country.
The album began as a street mixtape project but in one of the interviews, Eminem said: “But what happened is that the material was so good and the tracks were getting produced like a regular album. Instead of putting it out there rough and unfinished, I thought we should add some other new tracks, make it a real album, and put it in the record stores to give these new artists a real boost.”
The Re-Up’s album cover art was drawn by Eminem himself and portraits all Shady/Aftermath artists.
The album is also certified platinum in the United States and double platinum in New Zealand.
Yesterday, the video of a professor reading and rapping Eminem’s “The Way I Am” verse has surfaced online.
Supposedly, the professor is teaching his students “Anapestic Tetrameter,” which is a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line and “The Way I Am” looks to be the perfect example for it.
Unfortunately, the uploader did not concrete which University was it, nor the name of a professor but Stans look very pleased.
Check out the video and some of the reactions of fans below:
As usual, Kxng Crooked was doing daily hip-hop discussion on Twitter when fans started conversation about interesting topic: Fast rapping and Eminem’s influence on it.
You can check out the dialogue below and tell us your opinions in the comment sections of our social media accounts.
I’m not gonna say Eminem even popularized fast rapping but I feel it’s exploded since Rap God. He has a lot of influence on certain rappers to the point it’s over saturated. Obviously fast rapping has existed before him.
Yea he definitely had a hand in the over- saturation part because he influences a lot of upcoming rappers worldwide. I started choppin in ‘93 and you could literally count on one hand the number of artists doing it. Now hit up YouTube and see what’s happening. https://t.co/UBPFfgEf25
These stans think Em popularised everything. Let’s keep it a buck Em was late to the party on fast rap. Are we gunna act like Bone Thugs, Twista, Tech, Busta ect. Wasn’t world wide with it way before Em.
i literally said the opposite but you can’t deny that the influx of fast rappers in the last decade is highly attributed to eminem especially on youtube. They joke about the lyrical miracle rappers which Eminem literally said in the Shady 2.0 freestyle.
Kevin E G Perry, the editor of The Independent publication, listed the clunkiest and most baffling song lyrics of all time and included one line from Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie” song, featuring Rihanna.
Kevin says: Marshall Mathers is without question one of the most talented and inventive lyricists of his or any other generation, and he has written countless great bars. Even Em can drop a howler, however, like this physically painful pun from “Love The Way You Lie”, his 2010 collaboration with Rihanna,” regarding the following lines: “Now you get to watch her leave out the window/ Guess that’s why they call it window pane.”
At some time in February 2021, Generation Z started a social media campaign on TikTok to cancel Eminem over the controversial lyrics of the song “Love The Way You Lie” but it did not work.
If you are interested in the full list of embarrassing lyrics listed by Kevin Perry, you can visit the Independent website here…or, maybe don’t, instead, re-watch Eminem’s Love The Way You Lie below:
Yesterday, rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed in Memphis at the age of 36.
Maurice Hill, the owner of the shop where the shooting happened, Makeda’s Butter Cookies, told FOX13 that Young Dolph walked into the store to buy cookies. Someone then drove up and shot and killed him at the South Memphis bakery.
Young Dolph is not a close affiliate to Shady Records but he is another fallen solider of hip-hop who once showed love to Eminem on a song with Kay Glock.
“Water on Water on Water” is a song from Young Dolph and Kay Glock’s 2019 collaborative project titled “Dum and Dummer,” produced by BandPlay.
In the song, the Memphis emcee opens the third verse with the following lines: “Came up in my hood selling fifties like Slim Shady (Fifty) / Flood the street like Walgreens and got choppers like the Navy (Navy).”
“Me and Em, we have a song, he just recently let me listen to his verse and it is just crazy, he is chainsaw and s**t. It is good! I think people will be pleasantly surprised when they hear me and him rapping together. It is the first time we did something together and shout out to Em and Rosenberg and to his whole crew, staff, everybody… This is a record that I think people gonna be excited… What I did with Em is super HOT! “– LL Cool Jay (2014)
2. 50 Cent – “Champions” ft. Eminem (Album: Street King Immortal)
“The other song is ‘Champion,’ me and Em. We actually recorded it in Detroit and it is one of those songs that Em was set on this record. Because when he heard it, he was like ‘this is for me and Fifty’ and he wrote his verse on actual record and I came in and played it and I was like ‘ok this is cool, let me think how actually I wanna approach the record,’ then I go to other studio to record it and had to hear it again. Because he made mentions and I do not wanted to make same mentions. Some of the people that he got a lot of respect for and music culture and I do not wanna repeat that.”– 50 Cent (2013)
3. Royce Da 5’9″ – “Rap On Steroids,” ft. Assassin & Eminem (Album: Trust the Shooter EP)
At the and of this song, Eminem is shouting “Shady I’m rapping on!.” When it was released, in the early 2016, off Trust the Shooter EP, Royce said that this is just a snippet and full song features Eminem. Jahlil Beats, the producer of the song, has also confirmed it.
4. Dr. Dre – Die Hard ft. Eminem (Album: Detox)
The song premiered on the final episode of “Fight Camp 360º: Pacquio vs. Mosley” in 2011. It was reported that full song with Eminem’s verse would be released soon but the song has never seen the light of day.
5. Daylyt ft. Eminem
“After Total Slaughter I got the call and it was like ‘Yo, here is a gift for you,’ and I did not know what it was. I download the wave and it was just random Em hook and I was like ‘Oh s**t, OKAY. I replied to the email but nobody replied back, then I was like ‘What the f**k I thought we had some kind of friendship’ [Laughs]. He had zero connection… It was like here ni**a take it, now get the f**k out of here. I hit the DM on twitter, on Instagram but nobody replied , then I was like just gotta be happy with what I got.” – Daylyt (2016)
6. Boogie – “Freak,” ft. Eminem & Anderson. Paak (Album: Bodied Movie Soundtracks)
“Freak” was featured in Eminem-produced 2018 battle rap movie “Bodied.” It was reported that the soundtracks album of the movie would be released with “Freak” on it but it didn’t go as planned.
After breaking Spotify’s record for the most streamed album in a single day, Taylor Swift’s re-recording of Red has its sights set on the Australian album charts.
Red (Taylor’s Version) is expected to claim No. 1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart. Previously released Fearless (Taylor’s Version) opened at No. 1 in Australia upon release back in April, 2021, giving the US singer her 8th consecutive No. 1 album on Aussie charts.
If she debuts at No. 1 with Red (Taylor’s Version), which is 99% confirmed, she will tie with the current record for most consecutive No. 1 studio albums, held by none other than Eminem with nine!
Eminem’s solo studio albums that managed to hit No. 1 on Australian charts are: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), The Eminem Show (2002), Encore (2004), Relapse (2009), Recovery (2010), The Marshall Mathers LP2 (2013), Revival (2017), Kamikaze (2018), Music To Be Murdered By (2020).
On this day, exactly 22 years ago (November 16, 1999), Dr. Dre released his second solo studio album, “2001,” featuring guest appearances from Eminem, The D.O.C., Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Xzibit and Nate Dogg. The album was produced mainly by Dr. Dre and Mel-Man.
The album debuted at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 516,000 copies. It also entered at number one on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. “2001” is eligible for 8x platinum in the United States for selling more than 8 million copies in the country.
“2001” received positive reviews from critics. Its singles were also nominated for the Grammy awards. “Forgot About Dre,” featuring Eminem won Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 2001 Grammy Awards.
You can revisit the legendary hip-hop album below:
Nasaan is spitting bars from Royce Da 5’9″‘s Heaven Studios as young Detroit rapper is back with the new freestyle titled “Underrated.”
In the song, Nasaan mentions how he gets inspired every time he visits Eminem:
“Plaques? Stats? Can’t cope that conversation. But still will walk in Marshall’s office and talk as through I’m the f**ing greatest, even though I’m nameless.” he raps.
The lyrics are the reference to Nasaan’s tweet from March:
so crazy cuz i feel old af (22) and get mad i’m not a megastar but then ill talk to Em and he’ll be like “Man, i wish i was where you were when i was your age or that advance musically”
