Following 3-years of hiatus, Hopsin recently shared a video in which he opened up about some of his personal struggles he’s been experiencing for the last few years. He also dropped some new tracks, titled “Your House.”
Few hours ago, California rapper shared a picture of his high-school grades, and most of them were failures. On the same post, he shared a video of one of his performance with packed audience: “I found my high school report card from my senior year. All I’m gonna say is…YOU define YOU. I was never a failure. I just sucked at being who they wanted me to be.”
Detroit rapper Nasaan, who is Big Proof’s son, commented on a post: “God damn ni**a. What were you doing?!” on which Hopsin replied: “Listening to your Dad’s rap group mother f**er.” As you might already know, Hopsin is huge fan of Eminem and D12. Check out the screenshot below:
About two years ago, Westside Boogie released his Shady Records debut album Everythings For Sale. Since then, the Compton rapper dropped dozens of freestyles and collaborated on a singles with Top Dawg and Dreamville artists, as well as Joey Bada$$ and LVRN.
Few hours ago, Westside Boogie who is preparing his second Shady Records album, dropped a “Joe Exotic Freestyle” with some visuals to keep the fans warmed up. You can bump it below!
While we are waiting for Conway The Machine’s Shady Records debut God Don’t Make Mistakes, Griselda lyricist is dropping another mixtape, titled If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed, a collaborative project with Big Ghost LTD. The project serves as the follow-up of No One Mourns The Wicked, which they dropped last year.
The project is set to be released on 5th of February, 2021. Conway has also announced the first signing to his newly formed record label Drum Work Music. Check both announcement below:
Legendary rapper Treach from legendary hip-hop group Naughty by Nature, has recently set down with Sway In The Morning for an interview. At one point, Treach was asked what he thinks about Eminem’s longevity reference on “Zeus” where he namedrops Drake.
“Of Course I can relate what Eminem said, you know what the thing is, a lot of artists did not understand that. We didn’t understand. When you come out there and you think like this is forever. Like I am going to keep making these records. I am going to keep getting these radio plays. I am going to keep shooting these videos. Keep boom boom boom. One thing that is definite in the game that we have seen is if you on your dean is torment until the pandemic comes. You got to realize you are looking at a decade if you are blessed. A decade before you considered old school and the new doors opening up for the younger artists coming out. Because Hip-Hop has always been a new artist game.” says Treach.
Adam John Grandmaison more commonly known as Adam22, who is a host of No Jumper, has recently set down with VLAD TV where they talked about Eminem and Lil Pump situation.
“It does not feel like he is necessarily huge right now. I wonder, to what extent, the people would be open to a comeback. It kind of feels like the Eminem thing and the Trump thing, to whatever extent people we are gonna be open to hearing him again, it kind of feels like a lot of that might have closed the door for people’s willingness to f**k with him. Not artists but the fans, you know.”
“He is kind of running through a lot of same stuff that he already got popping off. Saying ‘F**k Eminem’ right now is same like saying ‘F**k J. Cole’ at that time. You pick an elite rapper who is beloved and say ‘F**k you.’ That will get viral for a little bit but where do you go from there? So I did not love seeing that. It was kind of bummer.” said Adam.
Naomi Osaka, a Japanese three-time Grand Slam singles champion tennis player who has been ranked No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles, was asked to name her favorite Eminem song on her Instagram Story. Here is what she replied:
“My favorite Eminem song is ‘Space Bound.’ I designed whole dream scenarios for this song and I would check and out of it everything trying different approaches for my character that I made specifically for that universe. I might be biased but I think it is a really good song.” she replied.
You can check out the screenshot of the story below:
Thistin Howl The 3rd was on Off the Cuff Radio and on this clip below, he talks about being in the Rap Olympics with Eminem and how he used to come to the hood everyday to kick it with them.
“Rap Olympics 1997 was a beautiful experience man. Gotta learned a lot, all my team members and you know being surrounded by a whole team of hungry battle freestyle rappers that will attack you at all times. That would sharpen you up even more. Everybody on my team was top-notch off the head was super skilled with it.”
“Me and Eminem, we both expected big things out of each other’s career. Eminem was really the truth, I believe he felt the same about me, and we always promise that whoever makes it first will be on each other’s albums. Eminem used to even come and hang out in Brownsville with me man. He was really skilled, he’s really the truth man, I can’t take anything away from that man. I’ll be hearing all these other people try to say he got this from so and so over, that man was exactly the way he was when I met him. He was a super MC, very humble very cool very down to earth, we got along well. A lot of times we wouldn’t even talk man, our whole conversation would be in rap form and freestyle, how hungry we were for it.”
In the latest Tour Tales episode, guitarist Rayfield Holloman talked the touring experience with Eminem. Check out the interview below.
Interviewer: From there, how did you connect with Eminem?
Rayfield Holloman: Adam Blackstone. He’s the chief dot connector. My introduction to Em was me filling in for Adam playing bass. Adam asked me and it felt like a daunting task because the guitar is my main instrument. To fill in for someone as skilled as Adam on a show with Eminem felt a little daunting at first. I definitely got through it. Once I met Eminem, I saw how cool and down to earth he was. In rehearsals, he’d be cracking jokes. It made me feel comfortable in that space. It was a relaxed atmosphere. He doesn’t make you feel you have to meet a certain standard. As long as you’re doing your job, you’re good. It was awesome to see how someone who is such a legend could be humble and super chill. I’ve seen large crowds at 50,000 seat stadiums and festivals. But, I had never played crowds larger than Eminem crowds. When Eminem does a show, especially overseas, it’s no less than 60,000 in the audience. To be in Milan, look out in the crowd, and there are 98,000 people there, I’m like, “Oh my! He’s a god.” They were all there to see him.
Interviewer: What is the wildest fan reaction you’ve seen at an Eminem show?
Rayfield Holloman: I’ve seen a few girls in the crowd topless at Eminem shows. I’m not going to hold you, I love shit like that (laughs). I love when you give it your all and be free. I think it was in Australia when we toured a few years ago. I’ve seen people bare it all out there.
Interviewer: What song during his shows do you feel fans can hear your biggest contribution?
Rayfield Holloman: I think one song where the guitar is highlighted would be on the song “The Way I Am.” At the end of that song when he performs it, there’s a guitar solo. It’s a highlight of the show. It’s when Em walks off and allows him to go backstage to take a breath. At the same time, it’s a very dynamic moment musically.
Interviewer: What shows did the pandemic cancel for you and what will be its long-lasting effect on touring?
Rayfield Holloman: In 2020, I had a whole calendar full of shows with a band called Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Robert is family to me and I’ve been touring on and off with him since 2006. We had a lot of shows lined up for 2020 that got cut short along with other possible opportunities. Even with Eminem, there were some things that were in the works that got shut down.
In one of his latest Streams, Denaun Porter was answering questions from fans when one of them asked if he will ever play online games on PlayStation with Eminem.
Here is how Mr. Porter responded: “He does not know how to play. He does not even know how to turn the PlayStation on. He does not even know how to take selfies.”
Few days ago, Az Izz of Outsidaz released a disstrack towards Eminem and later on, he went on DoggieDiamondsTV and bragged about how his diss track made Eminem to retire.
Young Zee, one of the founding members of the group, has recently responded to Az’s interview, exposing him for lying:
“Somebody sent me the link to that interview and I just heard bunch of bulls**t. I would not paying this little rat no attention but once I saw he talking about origin of Outsidaz I was like ‘bro why are you lying?’ He said lots of stuff about Em that’s totally not true. How he used to hang out with Em in my house? What he talking about? he met Eminem in a process of working on music. He thinks Eminem own him something? Em owns him nothing! He has no right to jump on Em. He thinks Eminem stole his style? That’s a total lie.”
“Eminem put me on mad s**t. Az Izz never did a tour with Eminem. I did 8 tours. He put me on 8 Mile soundtracks, D12, I made millions of dollars with Eminem. Literally millions of dollars. He doesn’t owe me nothing else. We are two people who rhymed together, that knew each other with respect of good rapping. He doesn’t owe me nothing. We did all this for the love of hip-hop and for the love of each other as a person.” – Said Young Zee
Since the release of Music To Be Murdered By: Side B, Eminem has been trending on Twitter often and it’s for all the right reasons.
The Rap God has now surpassed R&B singer Mariah Carey’s number of monthly listeners on Spotify. According to Eminem Charts account on Twitter, Eminem now has 39 million monthly listeners on Spotify, which is two million more than Mariah Carey’s 37 million.
You can check out the tweet below:
Eminem (39M) has now surpassed Mariah Carey (37M) becoming the second act pre 2000’s with the most monthly listeners on Spotify currently. pic.twitter.com/qovUvDx120
O’Shea Jackson Jr. has been in the industry his entire life, coming from hip-hop royalty with the legendary Ice Cube being his father, O’Shea has definitely cemented his place in Hollywood with his expanding resume and building career.
Recently, O’Shea Jackson tweeted the screenshot of Eminem’s “Hello” song with the caption: “Man Eminem is spitting on this s**t, man.” Check out the tweet below:
Back In 2020, O’Shea also named Eminem in his Top 5 rappers, asked by Nick Cannon:
I love you Nick. Shady is raw. People might wanna get on his new s**t tough but he’s one of the few artists where I’ve copped every album bro. He in my top5 https://t.co/a9mbmVZjEQ
