Newest Shady Records signee GRIP delivers his brand new album “I Died For This!?,” his first release since joining Eminem’s label.
Clocking in at seventeen tracks, “IDFT!?” features guest appearances from none other than label boss Eminem on a track “Walkthrough.” Another lyrical heavy-hitter holding it down is Royce Da 5’9″, as well Wiley From Atlanta, Wara, Dead Cassettes, Tate228, Big Rube, Ahyes, Kaynellz, and Kenny Mason.
“We all got excited about GRIP after we heard ‘Snubnose.’ It was really refreshing to hear a new artist so focused on making a conceptual project and it caught my attention.” told Eminem to Complex magazine.
Yesterday, Nasaan took to twitter to share little story to his fans about Eminem and Paul Rosenberg.
“Sometimes I randomly think about when I was sitting with Paul and Em and some platinum plaques came in the mail. Guy goes ‘where should we put these’ and Paul says: ‘ehh, just throw them in the closet with the rest, we don’t have room. I was like ni**a what?!?! S**t was so inspiring.”
sometimes i randomly think about when i was sitting with paul and Em and some platinum plaques came in the mail. Guy goes “where should we put these?”
Paul: “ehh, just throw em in the closet with the rest, we don’t have room”
In a new interview with Complex, Eminem talked about his latest Shady Records signee, GRIP.
“We all got excited about GRIP after we heard Snubnose. It was really refreshing to hear a new artist so focused on making a conceptual project and it caught my attention.”
“It’s definitely great when artists we sign connect with a larger audience, and 50 Cent is a perfect example of that. Obviously we want anyone who signs with Shady to succeed. But first and foremost we’ve always focused on the raw talent and ability of the artist as an MC. We’ve always been pretty clear on that being the main thing we look for: high level fundamental skills and mechanics are definitely the priority.”
“It’s really important in a creative collaboration for there to be that personal connection for it to succeed. Shady is a boutique label and we don’t sign a lot of artists, so we have a chance to get involved at a deeper level with the ones we do. And I think that goes both ways. I like to be motivated by the artists we sign and I want to feel pushed by their creativity as well.”
“The people we sign have a point of view and vibe that made us want to work with them in the first place. Part of our job is to help them get out to a bigger audience but also I don’t like to insert myself where I’m not needed. I am looking to find where and how I can get involved that adds to or builds on what the artist is already doing.” says Eminem.
During the conversation with Complex Magazine, GRIP talked about an upcoming song with Eminem from his Shady Records debut album, I Died For This, releasing August 27, 2021.
Complex magazine: We’ve got to talk about “Walkthrough!” That’s the one with the Eminem feature, and that Em verse is interesting because he’s addressing you directly. He says your name and he’s talking to you, basically warning you about what’s going to come with the success. Did you know that was coming or were you surprised when you heard that?
GRIP: Oh, no, I was surprised. I think I was on my way to the movies and [my manager] Tig was like, “Yo, Eminem verse incoming.” And I’m just waiting on it, I’m waiting on it, I’m waiting on it. I keep on refreshing my email like f**k, man. I finally just put my phone in my pocket, I watch the movie, and by the time I get out of the movies the damn verse is there and I listen to it and I’m like, “Oh, s**t. He went the f**k off.”
I made that song with Em in mind. And when I played him the album, I just remember him saying that hook is nuts. So, I was like, “Yeah, this is a song I actually wanted you to get on.” In my verse I’m talking about where I come from, what I had to get through to get to this point. Then his s**t is from a veteran’s perspective, who went through this already and who thought that cash was going to change things, but then he gets into the perils of this s**t.
We didn’t talk about it beforehand. It sounded like good chemistry, but I’m just glad that he f**ked with it enough to hop on it and give it 32, 40 bars, however long he went. I was excited. That’s huge. The fact that he even mentioned my name, it was one of those things. Now it’s really full-circle. Now I got a track with Eminem. It was a surreal moment.
With that verse, it was like I pulled something out of him. I’m excited for the fans to hear that, I feel like the song is dope as hell. Hopefully that’s a fan favorite—of course, it’ll probably the biggest song. Not probably, it will be the biggest song I’ve done so far, for sure.
After Royce 5’9″ and Lupe Fiasco fallout, the two dropped diss-tracks aimed at each other. Nickle dropped “Silence of Lambda| and LU came back with “Steve Jobs.” Each tracks went hard on its ways.
Few days later, Micky Factz sided Lupe and unleashed another diss-track towards Royce, titled “Wraith.”
After hearing Micky’s diss, Royce expressed his astonishment on why his Slaughterhouse brothers did not intervein, on which, he received response from Kxng Crooked, saying he does not think a so called beef with Lupe is that much serious and he prefers Royce to put his effort in Slaughterhouse reunion.
Today, Royce received back-up from his brother, Kid Vishis, who dropped almost 8 minutes diss-track on Lupe Fiasco and Micky Factz.
You can bump “2 Snaps In A Circle,” produced by FoulMouth below:
Georgia’s Lasha Bekauri, who won the gold medal in the men’s 90 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, has shared a video of him working out in the gym while bumping Eminem’s 1999 classic song “My Name Is” from The Slim Shady LP album, with the caption: “Hard work.”
At the age of 21, Lasha is already a gold medalist at the Olympics, 3X European Champion, and 3X World Champion.
Based on a new study by Money.co.uk, an English price comparison website-company that specializes in findings from bank figures, mortgages and more spending, following the timelines of certain rappers could cost you more.
If you are a music fan, you have probably spent a lot of money throughout your life on concert tickets, merch, and various other products and events sold by your favorite artists.
The study surveyed 65 of the world’s biggest artists and rap/hip-hop acts occupies the first five spots. The list is led by Eminem, with an estimated $2,966.66 cost per fan. Travis Scott comes second ($2,244.39), then Drake ($1,543.42), Kanye West ($1,395.56) and Kendrick Lamar ($1,231.31) all followed Eminem as the most expensive artists for fans to support.
Several deciding factors went into the criteria including calculating in the average price of an album download + average price of a 12″ vinyl album, the cost of official merch products, the artist’s average concert ticket price and the value of authentically autographed items.
Check out Top 15 most expensive artists below and for more details, visit HipHopDX here.
In one of his latest interviews, Ice Cube was asked to list his top five rappers of all time but the legendary rapper and actor went to name top 15.
“I go back to guys who set the bar. One of my first greatest is Melle Mel, another great emcee, I believe who brought more style to rhymes is KRS-1, another guy is my favorite of all time who introduced consciousness on another level into rap it’s Chuck D. Another one is another trendsetter, one of the OGs who helped the west coast get on the map, that’s Ice-T.”
“Snoop is one of my favorite rappers of all time, so is Biggie, so is Jay Z, so is Nas. We got rappers like Ras Kass on the west coast that’s crazy, Eminem – one of the best to ever touch the mic. Lil Wayne goddamn, he’s nasty! Oh, and Black Thought, monster! I’m gonna say Slick Rick. I’m gonna leave the last one blank [Laughs]. There are so many great emcees to name.” says Ice Cube.
Shady Records latest signee GRIP has just announced the tracklist of his Shady debut album “I Died For This,” set to for release on August 27, 2021.
TRACKLIST OF “IDFT?!”
1. Enter Stage Right
2. And The Eulogy Read!?
3. Hands Up!
4. Momma Told Me!
5. Placebo
6. Gutter
7. LDDTTINT!?
8. A Soldier’s Story?
9. Walk Through!
10. The Lox!
11. EnemƎ?
12. Conman?
13. Glenwood Freestyle
14. At What Cost?
15. Patterns?
16. Dennies…Exit Stage Left?!
The album is executive produced by TU! and it features Eminem, Royce 5’9″, Wara, Wiley From Atlanta, Dead Cassettes, Tate228, Big Rube, AhYes and KayneLLZ & Kenny Maso.
Eminem will probably be featured on “EnemƎ?” track as it includes the backwards “E.”
You can check the announcement below.
“IDFT!?” Tracklist
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Horseshoe Gang rap group released Slaughterhouse tribute EP, titled “Slaughterhouse Records.”
The new project includes 4 tracks which are remakes of Slaughterhouse songs with the original titles: “Onslaught,” “Hammer Dance,” “Psychopath Killa,” and “Microphone,” featuring Kid Vishis.
Check out Knxg Crooked’s brothers murdering each of the tracks with Royce’s brother below!
As the Slaughterhouse reunion talks continue, Joe Budden might seriously be considering a return to rap, as he tells Benny The Butcher that he wants to do a song with him in the future.
“Benny, we are going to rap together one day and you are not going to say that ‘Butcher Coming’ s**t when I’m there. We are going to rap together one day and I gotta get him to tuck that ‘The Butcher is Coming’ away.”
Looks like, Benny is down to team up with Joe as the Griselda rapper responded on Twitter: “lol let me pick all the beats for a new Joe Budden tape and drop it on Black Soprano Family. Would be crazy trust me.”
Joe Budden replied with eyes-open-wide emoji and later on, he teases his return on Instagram comments. Check it below:
Journalist Jason Jenkins and screenwriter James Gibson have recently dive into the movie The Crow: Lazarus, which was intended to be the 4th theatrical installment in The Crow franchise before the series went fully straight-to-video with Lance Mungia’s 2005 sequel The Crow: Wicked Prayer. To have starred rappers DMX and Eminem, Lazarus was intended to have a larger budget and markedly different approach to the series’ core story of undying love and violent retribution, elevating the title back to theatrical prestige after the previous follow-up’s scant single-cinema release.
Mr. Gibson says: “We wrote a draft. DMX loved it. They were trying to figure out who they were going to get to play opposite him. I think they were approached by Eminem’s people. And Eminem was just as picky as DMX then. 2000, 2001, he was blowing up huge. He said if DMX was going to be in the movie, he wanted to be in the movie. So we decided, ‘Okay, yeah. Let’s have him play Stone.’ Obviously, in that draft, it hadn’t been tailored to him yet. I think having that guy be white was going to change the dynamics somewhat. But it was nothing that couldn’t have been done with a few tweaks here and there. But he read the script, even though the character was written as black, he knew it was gonna be tailored to him and he agreed to do it. They had made a deal with him, they were going to pay him like $4 million or something to be in it. And this is like two years before 8 Mile.”
“So he hadn’t been in a movie yet. This was going to be his motion picture debut. So it was going to be DMX as the good guy, the most badass guy in the world with a lot of heart. Eminem playing a mustache-twirling bad guy, the most villainous guy in the world. Obviously a gigantic, huge soundtrack. You’ve got the two biggest rappers, you know? It just seemed to me like it can’t lose, right? It just seemed like a no-brainer. We were all really excited about it, we were in pre-production, and … Miramax had this weird thing, where they were involved, but they weren’t involved.”
“They got a call from either Harvey or Bob Weinstein. It might’ve been Bob, because he was in charge of Dimension. ‘Nobody wants to see a movie with two rappers,’ was what he said. ‘Nobody wants to see a movie with two rappers.’ No one’s going to pay to see a movies with two rappers? Okay. They’re the two biggest f**king pop stars in the world at that point! Eminem was going to get even bigger, X was at his peak right then. And 8 Mile, when it came out a year and a half later, had like a $35 million opening weekend or something. And that was a drama. I mean, it kills me because I probably would have bought a house with the money that we’d have made, you know? [laughs]”
“What they then decided to do, and at this point I was no longer involved, was they decided – ‘Okay, what if we make it not a Crow movie?’ They would just make it a movie set in the music business. A guy gets killed and gets revenge, have the same thing, but take out all of the crow elements and make it some other kind of supernatural origin story.”
“They did manage to get it set up for awhile at another studio under that guise. They took The Crow out of the title and just called it Lazarus, but it ended up not going anywhere. At that point, I think Joseph got offered Torque and he bowed out to do it, and then the movie just kind of fell apart. At that point, I don’t think they were going to be able to keep Eminem, so it just fizzled. Just one of the things. It could have happened, but it didn’t. It’s a drag. But it was fun to write it, you know?”
