DJ Whoo Kid has recently shared a clip from his interview with Lil Wayne that happened about a month ago where the two briefly talked about new Eminem and Juice WRLD song, “Lace It,” which was not yet released at that time.
Whoo Kid: Shout out to Eminem, I think he sent me a joint with Juice WRLD. RIP Juice WRLD. So we are going to get into that.
Lil Wayne: Ugh, RIP… Wait, wait! Em got a joint with Juice WRLD? That’s hard! It’s so cool. That made me feel awesome! That made me feel good. Em cool for that.
Keep in mind that the interview was recorded about a month ago, weeks before “Lace It” song dropped. You can watch it below:
Detroit rapper Lazarus drops new single titled “Scalpel,” produced by Detroit’s own super-producer Denaun Porter. The song showcases the art of lyricism bring it to new heights as Lazarus delivers multi-syllable rhymes and flow schemes with the sharpness of a surgical scalpel.
I recently had the opportunity to listen to an advanced copy of the latest single by Lazarus. I must say, I was really excited to see him collaborating with Mr. Porter Of D12 this time. This isn’t a duo I thought I’d ever see, but I’m always happy when different players in the game link up. You never know what might result in accidental magic.
There’s definitely no shortage of clever bars and tricky flows. Front to back the track aiming directly at barheads. Still, after countless listens, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t struggle to understand what this track’s actually about. There’s many obvious attempts to tie things together by working in a lot of lyrics that reference scalpels in some way. Some of it is actually really clever, but a lot of it feels just a little forced. If you zoom out and look at the entire track, it comes off pretty unfocused lyrically. One minute, we’re referencing every trendy news story, next Lazarus just goes off on some vaguely braggy bars about himself. On paper, the track is very impressive if we’re just talking about wordplay and how sharp his pen is. When you line-up the track against everything else already available in hip-hop though, it’s really tough to find a reason to choose this first.
The lyricism is 100% here, there’s no denying that. Unfortunately there’s some trade-offs. One of them would be a be a lack of a strong hook. Instead of capturing the main vibe, the chorus feels more like a commercial break that I wish had a skip button for. Lazarus just repeats the same 5, non rhyming words a few times over as we wait for next verse. The hook is just flat-out boring and forgettable. It’s especially weird coming from me, because I usually don’t care about hooks as long as the verses “wow” me for whatever reason. Heck, some of my all time favorite tracks don’t even have hooks. I’ll use this analogy: If a tooth is causing you pain, either fix the tooth or remove it. Give me a 3 minute track with back to back verses if you can’t give me a compelling hook.
Like the song title suggests, this is a sharp track designed for a specific task. “Scalpel” doesn’t present itself as a versatile cut designed to be the massive hit that captures every type of listener. At the end of the day, it’s a track I wouldn’t mind throwing into a larger playlist and hearing it it comes up once in a while. Otherwise, I’m likely not going to remember this track or find myself going out of my way to look for it in the future.
Two weeks after Juice WRLD ’s 25th birthday — and a week after the four-year anniversary of his death — his estate has shared first single of The Party Never Ends album, called “Lace It,” featuring Eminem, produced by Benny Blanco.
Both hip-hop artists warn of the dangers of drugs over their respective verses, with Eminem — who survived his own battle with addiction — listing some of his musical peers that didn’t make it: Lil Peep, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Shock G, Pimp C, Prince, and Michael Jackson.
“I was lucky, my escape was narrow and due / Now think I take it for granted / That I’m still here, synthetic heroin you tried to kill me, then you murdered Jarad, didn’t you? Addiction’s like a f–kin’ vicious cycle / Juice, we will forever miss you / To the younger generation, I ain’t lecturin’ you, but man just be careful when you…” – raps Eminem during his verse.
“Lace It” marks the second posthumous collaboration between Eminem and Juice WRLD. The first one was “Godzilla” from Eminem’s 2020 album, Music To Be Murdered By. As far as Benny Blanco, him and Juice have worked on a handful of tracks together prior to Higgins’ death, including “Roses,” “Black & White,” “Graduation,” and the posthumous “Real S–t.”
In a statement with Rolling Stone magazine, Jared’s mother Carmela Wallace said of “Lace It”: “I can recall Jarad playing Eminem’s music on repeat at home because he was a huge fan. This is a bittersweet moment for me; I am happy that Jarad had a chance to make music with someone he admired and sad that he cannot be here to take in the moment; Jarad left us way too soon.”
Juice WRLD died of a drug-related seizure back in December 2019 at the age of 21. Four months later, the rapper’s mother Carmela Wallace announced the establishment of the Live Free 999 Fund, which aims to support young people in their battles with anxiety, addiction, and depression.
The Game has never been shy about throwing shots at other rappers, but the Compton-born rapper has admitted that his recent disses of Eminem had a hidden motive.
In a new interview with DJ Vlad, The Game said that he went at Eminem on the song “The Black Slim Shady” from his Drillmatic – Heart vs. Mind album because he was mad at Dr. Dre for not inviting him at the 2022 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show which featured Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige and Anderson .Paak.
“Throwing shots at Eminem and beefing with Eminem, it was just me being upset with Dr. Dre. Dr. Dre can’t out-rap me, so I just went at Em, just because that’s just how I get sometimes.’ The Game said.
Then he continued: “But it’s always competitive. It ain’t like I’m gonna see Em and be like, ‘What’s up now?!’ It’s Em, you know what I’m saying? And Em took his shots on a record that dropped, and yo, Em is a funny guy.”
In the same interview, The Game spoke about working with Eminem on a song “We Ain’t” from his 2005 album, The Documentary: “Watching Eminem record, and his whole recoding process, that might have been one of the highlights of my career because I don’t know if you want to call it weird, legendary or some Einstein type of s–t, evil genius type of s–t, but Em is very very complex and different individual in good ways. When he writes raps, he turns the paper around and he just writes in circles and then he turns it, when he reads it, he turns it back opposite way and starts to read it. That was when we were using papers for recording process, I don’t know his recording process these days. Back in those days, Eminem would just eat Taco Bell and drink Mountain Dew like it was like, I don’t know man, like Snoop with smoking weed. That process was dope. I’m forever grateful for being able to experience prime Eminem in his essence in Detroit, that’s one of the highlights of my career.”
To promote her new album Pink Friday 2, Nicki Minaj has recently visit Andy Cohen on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” show, where she revealed that her documentary will most definitely be released despite the delay.
“It’s going to be a great experience for my fans…What happened was, because my album was not done when I was going to originally put it out, I didn’t want the documentary to come out without the music. That would’ve made no sense to people.” she said.
Then she continued: “Because of that, that network, they had to go with something else and I couldn’t force a documentary out either. I wouldn’t have wanted it to come out right now because then it would take time from them really being able to really listen to music. And so now that they’ve digested the music, when the documentary comes, it’ll be a different level of emotional roller coaster I think.”
Nicki Minaj also played “Shag, Marry, Kill” during her visit. After the Shag Roulette machine spun, Lil Wayne, Drake and Eminem popped up. Now Nicki has to make the choice: Which one to shag, which one to marry and which one to kill. Here is what she replied: “HOW DARE YOU?! You know I would never say that but let me put my thought outside of my brain. Can I shag two and marry one? I’ll shag ‘pf mta’ and I’ll marry ‘braa’.
Considered one of the rarest releases of Air Jordan 4s, the Eminem “Encore” has become a long sought-after addition to many collectors.
The Air Jordan 4, a highly popular model in the Air Jordan line, was designed by renowned Nike designer Tinker Hatfield as his second creation for the brand. Notably, it marked the second Air Jordan to feature visible Air technology. Initially released in 1989, the Air Jordan 4 came in four colorways: white and cement grey, white black and red, off-white and military blue, and black and red (Bred). Its immense popularity led to numerous innovative collaborations over the years.
In 2005, Eminem partnered with Nike to produce a unique blue, red, and black version of the Air Jordan 4. Known as the ‘Encore’, the pair pays tribute to his Encore album release. It was rumored that only fifty pairs of this original release were distributed among friends and family. The ‘Encore’ edition is celebrated for its rarity and desirability, with a design featuring blue synthetic nubuck uppers, black netting on the tongue and mid-panel, black “wings” supporting the lacing, and red Jumpman logos on the heel and tongue.
Exceptionally rare, this Air Jordan 4s ‘Encore’ features Eminem’s signature on each shoe, as well as a “2005” inscription. The sneakers are accompanied by a letter from James Spence Authentication in regards to the signature.
Those interested can check out the shoe at Sotheby’s, now available for auction. Celebrated for its rarity and desirability, the shoe is estimated to hit between $40,000 to $60,000 USD. At the time of writing, the shoe’s current bid is $30,000 USD.
In a new interview with Mcdontstop, composer, producer and music engineer Jake Bass, who is a son of legendary Jeff Bass from Bass Brothers, talked about the making process of Eminem’s “Kim” song from his 2000 classic album The Marshall Mathers LP.
“That’s the record my dad and uncle did and fun fact, that was the first song I ever learned how to play on piano. That song, that was done out in California. Same around the time they were doing all the Slim Shady stuff and starting to put together the next record before they all moved back home to Detroit. That was a record that Em had come in one day with really bad attitude and pissed off and everything.” – said Jake Bass.
Then he continued: “When he was working with my dad he would always come into the studio with a mood and obviously that mood was dark, angry, sad. My dad didn’t know it was going to be twisted at the same time at that moment but he knew I want something that’s f–king dark and scary so my dad would sit down at keyboard like this ‘no, try going darker, okay, like this, maybe deeper, okay, like this, no, maybe a piano,’ and then, my dad would just whip ideas out and he started playing that piano lick and that was it. Loop that, my uncle played drums on it which was f–king awesome. Everyone thinks it’s a sample and it’s not! Everyone thinks it’s f–king Led Zeppelin sample but it’s not. It’s all real. And Em did vocals in one take. That entire session was 30 minutes. They put that together quick. And it was like, OH MY GOD, he painted an entire picture and he put together a whole f–king movie in 6 minutes. They knew it was something special.
“Working with my dad and uncle at that time especially it had to be that way at that time because that’s a very personal, very vulnerable record. And he worked with my family for many many years before that so it was a comfortable setting to scream like that and play both characters. It was very much Slim Shady. That was something that he was able to be vulnerable with in the studio with my dad and uncle. And you have to be putting record like that and to produced a record like that, you have to tap in, you know.” Jake Bass added.
Juice WRLD is back yet again with another single despite the fact that he’s been dead since 2019. I’m always so conflicted about this. On one hand, it’s great that Juice’s fans still get to feel like their favorite artist is active despite losing him almost 5 years ago. On the other hand, something just doesn’t feel right about a label milking a dead artist to the point that they’re releasing more music from the grave than André 3000.
Of course you knew, I had to come back from the grave myself to review this new Em joint. We know his verse was recorded at least within a year because he references events that happened in January of 2023. I’ll be honest, I’ve never been a fan of Juice’s music despite him being an absolute monster when it comes to freestyling. The kid was a genius. I just wish he’d brought that flavor over to his albums. Like when he worked with Eminem on “Godzilla,” I like him in small doses. He’s fine as a hook with maybe the odd bridge, but I can’t take much more than that. It’s just that ear-piercing autotune and those melodramatic flows that every trapper seems to love. This track is kind of an anomaly to that rule though do to the nature of Eminem’s guest verse.
Eminem’s verse is one of the most focused guest spots in a song I’ve heard from him in a long time. The subject is so personal to him that I guess it would come naturally. He had a near-death experience himself back in 2007. Since then, he’s shown signs of survivor’s guilt when reacting to other rappers who’ve also overdosed the same way he did but didn’t survive. You hear that all over this verse as well. Eminem is sympathising with the new generation of rappers here. He starts off by walking us through how easy it can be to get hooked on drugs and how it feels to become dependent on them: “You pop some ecstasy first, it gets progressively worse Try your best to reverse unsuccessfully flirtin’ with certain death… as you spiral downward, listen, I know just how it is.” I’m definitely getting some dad rap vibes here, but in a good way. It’s really smart of Eminem to try to relate to the new school kids like this. Who knows? Maybe the right person will hear this and he’ll save a life. This doesn’t feel like just any Eminem verse that he wrote and sent off to fill a standard 16 bar spot to promote someone’s album. He feels genuinely driven by emotion, like he’s actually writing with a purpose.
What I love about Eminem’s music, is the fact that he can be pouring his heart and soul into a track, but he’ll rarely forget he’s also a lyricist. The multi-syllable rhymes and creative word play that comes out of this man’s pen will never fail to impress me. Yeah, you’ll get the odd dad joke here and there: “Like a rabbit out a hat, you’ll wanna pull your hair out“… but for every bar like this you’ll get something deserving of a stank-face level chef’s kiss.
Near the halfway point, Eminem’s tone naturally starts to steer towards anger from sadness. When he starts referencing Juice directly by his first name, you can hear the frustration in his voice. Something about Juice passing in particular, hurt Eminem: “You tried to kill me, then you murdered Jared didn’t you? You piece of s–t“. From here, Eminem runs down a list of names of other celebrities that’ve lost their lives to drugs, strengthening his warning. That’s right folks, Eminem just dissed drugs. He finishes his verse by just asking the new generation to be careful when experimenting with substances. I think he knows it would be hypocritical for him to tell anyone not to do drugs, and I think he knows he can’t stop anyone from doing what they’re going to do. He just comes off like the cool dad that knows you’re going to experiment, but just asks that you do so responsibly.
Overall, I’m really happy with this track. I’ve seen so many rappers throw a phoned-in, generic verses into posthumous albums. Eminem took the time to really put the thought, time and attention into the track. He made sure speak from his own experiences with addiction, which helps give off a true sense of sincerity.
This month marks four years since emo-rap icon Juice WRLD passed away, who overdosed at age of 21. Plenty of posthumous projects has come out, and there’s still more. A few years ago, we got a collaboration between him and Eminem for “Godzilla,” from Shady’s Music To Be Murdered By album and today there’s another called “Lace It,” produced by Benny Blanco, from Juice’s upcoming album The Party Never Ends.
After the release of the song, Benny Blanco could not hide his emotions and shared it to his followers on Instagram. “People always say things like “this song means a lot to me” or “it changed my life”… when discussing a piece of music they’re listening to… “Lace It” truly gives that a new meaning to me because the day we recorded was also the last time I ever saw Juice… everyday that moment gets further away… and I’d trade this or any other song we did to have him back… I didn’t think I would be crying while writing this but here we are… Jared you are talent that will never be matched… Your laugh and spirit are infectious. I’m gonna play this song so loud. You can hear this in heaven tonight… We miss you.” he said.
The he continued: Marshall, I don’t even know where to start… I remember exactly where I was the first time I saw the video for “My Name Is” it stopped me in tracks… I knew in that very moment that I had to make music and that I was gonna dedicate my entire life to it… You paved the way for people to be different and not feel weird about being an outcast… Both me and Juice wouldn’t be who we are without you… Thank you.”
Selena Gomez, who is the most followed musician on the platform and is reportedly in relationship with the Reston, Virginia-born record producer, commented heart emoji under Benny Blanco’s post. Check out the post below:
This was so unexpected! Out of nowhere, Juice WRLD and Eminem are teaming up once again! This time, Benny Blanco is also featured.
Till this day, “Godzilla,” from Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By album was the only song the two had together. Juice previously listed Em as one of his biggest influences and has frequently referenced his music, most notably on his May 2018 track, “Lean Wit Me.” In October 2018, Juice joined Tim Westwood TV, where he freestyled close to an hour over different Eminem beats.
“Godzilla” also serves as Juice WRLD’s first posthumous release since his passing on December 8, 2019—six days after his 21st birthday. Juice reportedly recorded the chorus for the track before his untimely death, although he was unable to complete his actual verse for the song in time. Later in January 2020, a picture surfaced on XXL that depicted Juice WRLD and his friends after he recorded the chorus.
“Lace It” is a collaboration with Eminem and Benny Blanco and is the first official single for Juice’s upcoming album The Party Never Ends. Juice WRLD and Eminem both reflect on substance abuse on the track.
The song’s existence was originally revealed on December 7, 2023, when the cover art to the single leaked online. Juice WRLD’s manager, Lil Bibby, responded to the cover art leak tweeting “Not real”.
On December 15, 2023, it was stated by a member of Juice WRLD’s team that a single was meant to have dropped that night but did not due to issues with benny blanco. Later that day, Lil Bibby posted the official cover art stating the song would be releasing tomorrow and proving the song’s existence despite originally calling it fake.
The song is now officially out! You can bump it below!
The legendary emcee, Big Daddy Kane and Noah Callahan-Bever sat down together in Brooklyn, NY in celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The two discussed Kane’s iconic career, getting the only sample ever cleared by Prince, hitting the studio with Rick James in the ’80s, being left of the Batman soundtrack, and the many challenges he’s faced in his career and how he’s continued to persevere. He also asked questions from Eminem, Nas and Pusha T.
Interviewer: First question comes from Mr. Marshall Mathers, Eminem, who is curious — because you were doing it so early in your career when most rappers weren’t, how did you know or how did you learn how to do multi-syllable flow, like when you said: making sure every lyrics is done fine and make one line bright as sunshine?
Big Daddy Kane: Em asked me that question before. Yeah, he has asked me that before. I don’t know, I guess it’s the type of thing when you’re running out of rhymes, you figure out the ways to match words together to keep the rhyme going on. What I think Eminem originally asked me about was ‘Rap Prime Minister, some say sinister Non-stopping the groove, until when it’s the…” He points out, Sinister, Minister, okay, but now what else rhymes with that? So, I just put ‘Non-stopping the groove’ until ‘when it’s the’, say fast enough ‘when it’s the’ and it rhymes with Sinister. I just run out words and you create your own, you know. In all honesty, when I did that, I never paid attention to that I was pushing the entire genre until Eminem mentioned it to me a couple of years ago, I never paid attention to it.
Back in 2021, Big Daddy Kane confirmed that he interviewed Eminem for his upcoming Netflix documentary, titled “Paragraphs I Manifest.” The release date of the docu-series is still unknown… You can watch the new interview below:
50 Cent and Nicki Minaj have connected for the first time ever on their new single, titled “Beep Beep.”
The track was featured on Nicki’s most recent album, titled Pink Friday 2, but without 50’s verse. The new version featuring 50 dropped on Monday is now available on streaming services. Last week, Nicki promised to release a new track every day this week until Friday.
“Next week #GagCity welcomes a new edition every day beginning Monday or Tuesday,” Nicki Minaj tweeted. “Every day until Friday, you’ll get an [additional] song that completes my fave body of work to date. 4 more songs.”
Pink Friday 2 stands at 22-tracks and the album features appearances from Lil Wayne, J. Cole, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Drake, and more. This is her first solo release since 2018’s Queen, and it’s already broken records. Chart Data notes the album’s estimated 41 million streams from the weekend has set the record for the biggest debut for a female Hip-Hop album in Spotify’s history. HITS Daily Double projects a No. 1 Billboard 200 debut for the album with the sales of approximately 200,000 album equivalent units in its first week of release.
