Hardy covers Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre’s “Gin And Juice”

Hardy‘s mama ain’t home and that means it’s time to party. The Philadelphia, Mississippi-born country rock musician served up “Gin and Juice” with a twist on his newly-released cover of the Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre’s classic tune. The cover fuses country rock with California rap as Hardy lays out the itinerary for his night with the boys: roll down the street smoking indo, shoot some deer with the bullets filling up his pockets, and throw back some G&Js.

“A while back, I got a phone call saying that Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg would like for me to record my own version of ‘Gin and Juice’ for the launch of their new drink, Gin&Juice,” Hardy shared in a statement. “I’m still in disbelief, but I am so stoked that I’m dropping my version of ‘Gin and Juice’ with the blessing of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg themselves. Thankful for the opportunity.”

On his Instagram post, Hardy captioned: “I’m still in disbelief, but I am so stoked to announce that I recorded my version of this classic record for the short film Gin and Juice with the blessing of @drdre and @snoopdogg themselves. Thankful for the opportunity. Song drops tonight at 11p CT. Enjoy @dreandsnoop.”

Hardy kept the structure of “Gin and Juice” as a foundation for his own spin on it, which name dropped some friends and flipped Snoop Dogg’s “Gs up, hoes down while you motherf–kers bounce to this” with “Gs up, h-es down while you rednecks bounce to this.” In this version, the drink Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre took in the middle of the street is now swallowed down on an old back road, but his mind is still on his money and his money is still on his mind.

Hardy will explore more of this rock sound — and potentially less of the rap sound — on his as-yet-untitled forthcoming studio album. Two songs from the record, including “Rockstar” and “Quit,” have already been released. Earlier this year, Hardy performed at the Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace Big Game After Party at Encore Beach Club inside Wynn Las Vegas. The massive, star-studded Super Bowl after party was hosted by Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre…You can bump the new cover below:

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Devon Sawa says Macaulay Culkin was first choice for Eminem’s “Stan” video

In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Devon Sawa looks back over his career to one of the biggest projects he has ever worked on: the iconic 2000 music video for Eminem‘s “Stan,” from The Marshall Mathers LP album and reveals that the first choice for the video was “Home Alone” star Macaulay Culkin.

Vancouver, Canada-born actor has recently sat down with ET, while promoting the 3rd season of the horror TV shows “Chucky,” and he looked back at his past works as part of a career retrospective, and the cultural impact of his performance in the famous music video, playing the titular Stan.

I will never forget, they told me on the day that I was going to lip-sync it. I remember, after the first take I did, Dre running in and being like, ‘It was good, but can you try it with some rhythm this time?’ And I was like, ‘Oh my god.’ And that was kind of how the day went. But it’s such an iconic video. Dr. Dre was there, D12 was there, I think Snoop was wandering around, Cypress Hill. It was just such a wild three days of filmmaking, it was amazing.” said Devon Sawa.

Then he continued: “They went out to Macaulay Culkin first. I think that they wanted Macaulay Culkin, and he wasn’t available, or didn’t want to do it or whatever. Then Dre, who had just seen Final Destination and was a fan, suggested me. There happened to be somebody in the casting office that knew somebody who was friends with me, and they called me that way… and it ended up working out pretty good.  It’s also one of the proudest things I’ve been a part of.

It’s been nearly 25 years since the video came out, and Sawa admitted that he still knows the lyrics, and has found himself occasionally singing along. “If it came on in my car or something like that, I would jam along to it,” he said. “I’ll tell you one thing, I know it better now than I did that day. Because I’ve heard it millions of times since.

Eminem to appear at the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit

Motor City legend Eminem is expected to make an appearance at the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit, set to take place at Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza from April 25th to April 27th.

What is the NFL Draft?
It’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like — it’s when the 32 teams of the NFL choose their newest players from the latest generation of football phenoms.

When is the NFL Draft?
Officially, it starts April 25 at noon and runs through 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 27. But you can find draft-themed attractions and events before and after. The NFL shop, for example, located at 1001 Woodward Ave., opens for business April 20 at 10 a.m. It’ll run for four days before opening again April 25. Round one of draft picks begins at 8 p.m. The second and third round begins at 7 p.m. on April 26. Rounds four through seven start at noon on April 27.

When are the Lions up in the draft?
The Lions have seven total picks, including the 29th overall pick in the first round. From there, it’s No. 61 in Round 2, No. 73 in Round 3 (which they got from the Minnesota Vikings), No. 164 in Round 5, No. 201 (from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) and No. 205 in Round 6, and No. 249 in Round 7. These can change, though. Teams can trade at any time, including during the draft itself.

Will there be entertainment?
Yes! Detroit native Big Sean will headline a series of free concerts tied to the NFL Draft. And Motor City’s beloved Detroit Youth Choir also will perform, along with Canton-raised singer Bazzi. The concerts will be held on the Draft Theater stage and are standing room only, and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

What kind of food will be available at the NFL Draft?
No matter what you like to eat, you will probably be able to find something at the “Taste of the Town” tailgate. A small collection of the many local restaurants featured, according to the NFL

  • Waka by Baobab Fare
  • Detroit 75 Kitchen
  • Haraz Coffee House
  • Mom’s Spaghetti (yes, this is Eminem ‘s restaurant)
  • El Parian Taco
  • Louisiana Creole Gumbo
  • Kuzzo’s Chicken and Waffle
  • Bangkok 96 Street Food
  • And many, many more options.

For more info, visit The Detroit News.

The Game defends Eminem against Dr. Umar comments

The Game has recently sat down with DJ VLAD where the Compton rapper responded to Dr. Umar saying Eminem can’t be one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white.

“I don’t agree with Dr. Umar. with him saying that. Eminem is undoubtedly one of the greatest rappers ever for obvious reasons. Again, Michael Jordan probably can’t even f–kin’ dunk from free-throw line today so if we wanna say Eminem’s not great today motherf–kin’ Jordan can’t f–kin’ jump from the free-throw line.” said The Game.

Then he continued: “We all get older but that does not mean we don’t respect or don’t understand the magnitude of what somebody did when they were at their beginning and at their pick. So Eminem is for sure one of the best rappers ever. I don’t give a f–k if he’s white, black or whatever. Dr. Umar seems to be pretty educated and he also has an opinion and a platform. I respect his opinion but I don’t got to f–king agree with it. And I’m not even… I have not seen Eminem in 20 years and we had our little back and forth which is all good. Still it is what it is. I’mma keep it a buck. I’m not gonna lie. Eminem is one of the greatest rappers of all time. You can take this sound and use it against me but I don’t give a f–k. It is what it is.”

“But Eminem respects me at the end of the day. If you ask him and he’s going to be honest, he gonna tell you that he respects me and my pen game. He knows what I’m capable of and that is what it is. Dr. Umar had an opinion and I don’t disrespect it but I don’t agree.” The Game added. You can watch the new interview after the jump below:

Has Ed Sheeran just accidently confirmed another song with Eminem?!

Ed Sheeran has recently sat down with Rohit Sharma and Gaurav Kapur for an interview where at the end of their 40 minutes conversation they talked about Eminem. When Interviewer asked Sheeran to name his favorite artists that he worked with, here is what he replied:

I really enjoyed collaborating with Beyoncé. I just didn’t expect her to say yes. And Eminem… Eminem is someone that I’ve now worked with four times. He was my hero as a kid. I used to have a stutter and I cured my stutter by listening to Eminem music. I had an opportunity to meet him in 2013. I’ve had some success but not like a lot of success and I had an opportunity to meet him and I let him walk by and I said I don’t wanna meet him because I want him to meet me. I want that to be a moment. And then that came to fruition and now we are actually close. So, Eminem and Beyoncé are two of my favorites to work with.

Ed Sheeran and Eminem have previously collaborated on three occasions: 1. “River” 2. “Remember The Name” which also features 50 Cent and 3. “Those Kinda Nights”. So, Sheeran either: 1. messed up the counting 2. has another collaboration on the way with Eminem 3. has previously recorded unreleased track with Eminem. 

Out of their three collaborations, “River” is most successful. It reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom, making it Eminem’s 9th No. 1 there and Sheeran’s 5th. It also reached No. 1 in Austria, Norway, Scotland and Sweden as well as the top 10 in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland, and the top 20 in Belgium and the United States. The song is triple platinum in Australia and double platinum in Denmark, Sweden and United Kingdom. The song is also eligible for 3x platinum in the United States. The song also has more than 820 million streams on Spotify.

Dame Dash plays a race card on Eminem while discussing greatest rappers of all time

Entrepreneur and record executive Dame Dash who co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records along with Jay-Z and Kareem Burke, has recently sat down with Patrick Bet-David on Valuetainment where the two discussed who’s the greatest rapper of all time.

When Patrick asked Dash to rank Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, André 3000, Nas and Eminem, here is what he replied: “Biggie and Pac died early, André 3000 does not do shows but he could rap. Nas, what about him? Eminem is white and he can rap really well, he can really rap but he is still white.

He then continued: “If you were to ask about hip-hop out of 10 white people that came in here, would any of them be specialist if they were from that era? probably not, other than Eminem. If you would ask 10 black people from that era like myself about hip-hop, they would know because in that moment, hip-hop was black sport, created by black people so it’s hard to for a black man to say white man is best at anything that’s supposed to be a black sport. You’re not get that from me. I’m a racist. I don’t call it racist cause racist is when you judging a man for his color. I don’t judge a person because of their color of their skin, I judge them because of the color of the soul. I’m racist in  that way.

Dame Dash served as Jay-Z’s manager and business partner at Roc-A-Fella Records, and in 1999, he organized a tour for Jay-Z which made $19 million. Their relationship soured as a result of two subsequent events. The first was when Roc-A-Fella Records was purchased by Def Jam Recordings (which had previously only owned half of the company) in 2004, after which Jay-Z agreed to take a job as Def Jam’s president. Then, in late 2005, Jay-Z bought Dash out of his stake in Rocawear… Watch the new interview below:

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.

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