Stephen King reacts to Eminem’s surprise appearance at Ed Sheeran’s concert in Detroit

Stephen King, the American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, has recently reacted to Eminem’s performance with Ed Sheeran in Detroit this weekend.

The audience at Ed Sheeran’s concert in Detroit on Saturday lost themselves in the music when the Motor City legend showed up for a surprise performance.

In videos posted to Ed Sheeran’s Instagram page on Sunday, the singer keeps the surprise close to the chest by telling his audience he wanted to perform a “cover” of an Eminem song. As Sheeran strums his acoustic guitar while singing his rendition of the iconic opening lines of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” Slim Shady is seen stepping on the stage to join in on the verse as the crowd cheered.

“Detroit. What a moment,” Sheeran wrote in the caption of his post. Sheeran is also seen telling the crowd that Eminem was only going to come on and do one song. “And I said, ‘you can’t come on in Detroit and do just one song.’ Do you want another song?” The duo then performed Eminem’s 2000 hit  song “Stan,” which originally features Dido, from The Marshall Mathers LP album.

One of the fans shared the video of the performance on Twitter with the caption: “And 21 years after “8 Mile,” Eminem and “Lose Yourself” still bring down the house.” On which, Stephen King replied: “F–king great.”

Check out the tweet below:

Stephen King also know as “King of Horror,” whose books have sold 400 million copies worldwide, has Eminem mentioned in one of his thriller novels, titled The Institute.

On the 435th page of the book, there is a conversation between two characters, where one of them mentions Eminem.

– You look remarkably stupid with your hat on that way, Mr. Jamieson.
– What can I say, I’m an Eminem fan, now shut up.

Eminem reference in ‘The Institute’ (2019) by Stephen King.
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Crowd loses it as Eminem makes surprise appearance at Ed Sheeran’s concert in Detroit

Eminem has just made a surprise appearance at Ed Sheeran’s concert in Detroit!

Wearing GRIP’s new album “STILL” t-shirt, Slim Shady and Sheeran performed “Lose Yourself” and “Stan”

The crowd at Ed Sheeran’s Detroit concert just lost it as Eminem stepped out joining the singer on stage.

The pop singer  was about three quarters through his concert at Ford Field on Saturday, July 15th, 2023, when he announced to the crowd that he wanted to perform a cover of “Lose Yourself”

In video footage shared on to social media, strumming to the beat to the hit song, Lose Yourself, Sheeran begins to sing the first verse of the song as the crowd cheers on and sings along.

However, the fans absolutely lost as the Eminem emerged from the trap door to the stage, continuing the song without a hitch. The cheers from the fans had gone ecstatic but they impeccably sang along with even more zeal.

One fan noted, “Eminem knows how to make an entrance, And the crowd erupted like it is really the greatest moment in their lives.. Thank you, Ed Sheeran.”

“Can I just say one thing? He was going to come on and do one song and I said you can’t just do one song,” the Perfect singer told the crowd.

After the performance. Eminem addressed the crowd: “Detroit, I missed y’all. Thank you. I appreciate you. I love you.”

You can watch the performance below:

50 Cent reminds everyone how he & Eminem dominated the 2000s

50 Cent sends a friendly reminder for his fellow rap peers who probably have forgotten how dominant both he and Eminem were in the music industry in the 2000s.

Fiddy has recently took to Instagram on Thursday (July 13, 2023) to share a couple of photos that represents the list of Top 10 rap albums with the biggest first week sales and the most streamed rap albums released in the 2000s.

The first photo lists the albums with the biggest first-week sales:

  1. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP – 1.78 million copies.
  2. Eminem – The Eminem Show – 1.32 million copies.
  3. 50 Cent – The Massacre – 1.15 million copies.
  4. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III – 1.05 million copies.
  5. Drake – Views – 1.04 million copies.
  6. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV – 964,000 copies.
  7. Kanye West – Graduation – 957,000 copies.
  8. 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ – 872,000 copies.
  9. Eminem – Encore – 871,000 copies.
  10. Kanye West – Late Registration – 860,000 copies.

The second photo lists the most streamed rap albums on Spotify that were released in the 2000s:

1. Eminem – The Eminem Show – 5.7 billion streams.
3. 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ – 3.7 billion streams.
4. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP – 3.7 billion streams.
6. Eminem – Encore – 2.5 billion streams.
8. 8 Mile – 2.1 billion streams.
9. Relapse – 1.9 billion streams.
11. The Massacre – 1.8 billion streams.

Fif made sure to rub in the fact that he’s outsold most of his competition throughout his career and that only his friend and mentor Eminem has moved more records than him. In the caption, he wrote: “The funny s–t is only Eminem sold more then me. I made ni–s so uncomfortable they don’t want to remember LOL.”

Tony Yayo replied with Vertical Traffic Light emojis in the comment section. Check out the Fiddy’s post below:

Dr. Dre says that only person he ever heard on a demo tape and really liked was Eminem

On his Peacock talk show called Hart to Heart, Kevin Hart has had chats with many of the greatest and brightest names in music, including Jay-Z and Miley Cyrus. The Emmy-nominated multi-hyphenate has enlisted Dr. Dre, a legend in the music industry, for the most recent installment of the program. The seven-time Grammy-winning rapper and record producer briefly talked about Eminem and Snoop Dogg.

“I’ve collaborated with some of the smartest motherf–kers and the most talented motherf–kers that ever stepped in studio. The only person that I ever heard on a demo tape that I really liked and really f–ked with in he studio was Eminem.” said Dr. Dre.

Then he continued: “Everything else is the word of mouth. It’s exactly what you said, ‘oh you gotta hear hear this guy. Hey, you got to hear this guy named Snoop. Brought him in the studio and he started rapping. He didn’t even understand a song structure on anything like that. I think DOC taught him to do that s–t. It just happened like that.”

You can watch the interview below:

Dr. Dre talks about N.W.A. and Straight Outta Compton with Kevin Hart

On his Peacock talk show Hart to Heart, Kevin Hart has had chats with many of the greatest and brightest names in music, including Jay-Z and Miley Cyrus. The Emmy-nominated multi-hyphenate has enlisted Dr. Dre, a legend in the music industry, for the most recent installment of the program. The seven-time Grammy-winning rapper discusses the making of The Chronic and the Straight Outta Compton biopic.

In a clip from Kevin Hart’s Hart To Heart series obtained by Billboard, Dre detailed how he shifted towards a solo career after NWA. “The difference there was money and business got involved, and it separated the friendship. I had to separate myself from Eazy-E because he decided to take a different route. Ice Cube had already left, so I’m out here on my own. I have absolutely no idea what the f–k I’m gonna do, I just know I have this talent and I’ve been developing these skills with mixing in the whole s–t.” – said Dre.

Then he continued: “Close friend of mine, we call him D.O.C., talked me into doing The Chronic album. It was not my decision. I was talked in to do that. And I just went in there and went for it because I felt like at that time it was life or death situation. This record is gonna determine whether I’m gonna stay in the studio or not.

“It’s really tough to find that kind of ambition and energy today.” Dr. Dre added.

From there, Dre continues talking about Straight Outta Compton: “We’re in there, we’re kids and we’re saying the most wild outlandish s–t just to get some attention. Okay we are not gonna hit them over the head with a pillow  we are gonna hit them over the head with a sledgehammer when we come out. Straight Outta Compton, F–k The Police, all of that. We wanted to come out and get attention. It was really just for to impress our neighborhood. If we can be good in LA and everybody in LA is paying attention to us that was good enough for us at that time. Little did we know we are gonna get attention around the world and FBI, that s–t was crazy.”

“I think that everybody that were involved in the movie Straight Outta Compton, at the beginning, didn’t believe in the movie and didn’t trust it. And then myself, Cube and Gary Gray, we went for it.” said Dre.

Watch the clip below:

Harley Cameron raps Eminem’s “Godzilla” as she releases The Acclaimed diss track

Harley Cameron, an Australian professional wrestler and singer currently signed to All Elite Wrestling, has officially made her rap debut!

Harley Cameron, whos real name is Danni Ellexo, premiered her new music video on the July 12 episode of AEW Dynamite, showing The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens) the art of hip-hop.

In the video clip, Cameron spits part of her verse in the style of Eminem’s quick time lyrics on “Godzilla,” featuring Juice WRLD, from Music To Be Murdered album. After interpolating Eminem’s lyrics from “Godzilla,” she followed up by rapping, “Hell yeah I’m that good baby, I just quoted Shady.”

The song takes aim at The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn as they’ve been feuding with the QTV group in recent weeks. You can watch the video below:

This is not the first time Harley Cameron expressed her love to Eminem and his 2020 hit song. Last year, she posted a video of herself rapping over “Godzilla.” In the caption, she wrote: “I’m obsessed with this rap by the rap god Eminem. I’m gonna get it one day ! this is my swing on it.”

Check out the video below:

GRIP freestyles over Kanye West’s “Real Friends”

On the latest episode of “A TRIP TO THE CORNER STORE,” GRIP dropped some bars over Kanye West’s “Real Friends,” to promote his latest release, “STILL (5 & A F*** You).” The instrumental is produced by Noah Goldstein, MIKE DEAN, Darren King, Sevn Thomas, Ging, Havoc, Boi-1da and Kanye West himself.

Shady Records’ GRIP is back again after releasing his very well received album “I Died For This!?” 2 years ago, followed by the lesser noticed but worth your time “5 & A F*** You” last year. GRIP is known for being a gritty-flowed new school artist that doesn’t have to rely on whatever sound is currently trending.

Now GRIP is back with a short and sweet, 11-track Deluxe/Follow up album to compliment the first “5 & A F*** You” project. Maybe “sweet” is the wrong word to describe this one. This might be the most I’ve ever seen GRIP let go of his inner aggression and let everything loose. If the title didn’t already make it clear enough, you’ll understand once you push play on track one.

You can watch the freestyle and stream the new album after the jump below!

Azizz claims NAS ghostwrote for Eminem, says Shady entirely copied his style

Az Izz, the member of Outsidaz hip-hop collective, which was formed in 1991 after underground rapper Young Zee met D.U. and Pacewon at a New Year’s Eve party, has recently hit twitter to lash out on Eminem, who was the member of the group in the past, alongside Bizarre of D12.

In his Twitter rant, the Newark, New Jersey-born rapper claims Eminem copied his styles and used to use NAS as the ghostwriter. He also called out Eminem for being ‘the most ungrateful rapper’ ever.

“To Da Stans, Dr. Dre wasn’t around during the struggle. When a mofo is as fake as this clown you can’t take your foot off his neck. The Most Ungrateful Rapper To Ever Touch A Mic ⁦- Eminem! How you shoutout 100 MCs who did nothing for you in your Hall Of Fame speech but not Me and Slang?!” says Aziz

Then he continues: “If they invented the streaming service and they signed an artist why would they not make it look like that artist is the number one selling artist out. Even though we all know ain’t nobody really listening to Eminem anymore. Hip-Hop is in Atlanta. Down south! Not up north or mid west.”

“Yo, they done blackballed n shadow banned me. I made them remove the dislike button on YouTube cause I was getting paid no matter what. Then I ended Shady Records and made The Slaughterhouse breakup cause them ni–as ain’t know they were on a plantation. Where is my flowers. GOATED.

“I’m bout to make all the Stan’s convert to Izians.”

“Aloha Fools Tune In Or Get Tuned Out. I be having these Stan’s heated when I say chit like. I Ain’t Shady But I’m The Real Slim.”

“Aloha Fools! Since I got you Stan’s attention let me try to educate some of you who weren’t born yet. This Album All Natural was my very first compilation Album. Which Ended Up Becoming The First Outsidaz Album. I produced everything on this project. So Low.”

“Aloha Fools! To my Stans aka Izians. I’m The Real Slim. This was another banger I produced n set off way b4 Em showed up.”

“Aloha Fools. To the Stans I’m gonna convert all of you to Izians. This is me on the production and R.I.P Slang going back to back. I’m trying to show y’all we were already Dopeliss before the white Boi infiltrated. They thought we were a gang so they sent Em CIA a– to divide us.”

“Aloha Fools! Aye Stan’s If you listen clearly you can tell this was when ⁦Eminem fell in love with my style. Once again I’m on the production and setting it off. Listen to my voice you can hear him mimicking me clearly. Plus he was the one who picked the beat over Gov track.”

“Now here is where it gets interesting. This Iz Slang’s verse. ⁦Eminem was no where to be found plus he def didn’t rap like this. I feel like I’m in court fighting for my freedom. Mind you I got to America in 88 by 96 97 I’m keeping up with Slang. Em’s a fraud a biter.”

“Since I took my light back I’m back Spittin like share subscribe to a real Authentic GOAT no Ghostwriters . I could’ve sold this song to Marsha he but records. I know for a fact Nas has written for Em. I know someone’s pen when I hear it.”

“This Izz A Fight To The Finish. Ima make y’all mans tell the truth. I know someone told him he could run with my style. Who was it ⁦Eminem. Tell the truth n shame the devil.”

Check out the tweet below. All the rest of the tweets can be seen on Azizz’s Twitter.

Thirstin Howl III recalls being around with Eminem before fame

Brooklyn, New York rapper Thirstin Howl III has recently sat down with Bootleg Kev for an interview where he briefly talked about Rap Olympic days with Eminem.

Bootleg Kev: You were part of Rap Olympics right? Which were, for people who don’t know, very pivotal to a lot of people’s careers, specifically we always hear Eminem is synonymous with Rap Olympics and its a part of his story and you were a part of his team when you did the Rap Olympics. Who did you guys go against?

Thirstin Howl III: I believe it was Project Blow. They were the only ones that showed up. There was a long roster of teams that were supposed to be there from every popular rap group that was out. And nobody showed up. Everybody on my team was a master in freestyling off the head. Juice, Eminem, myself, Wordsworth, Kwest Tha Madd Lad. Sit in the room with us and you f–king get blown. Even Craig G was out there hanging out with us.

Bootleg Kev: I just remember Eminem being a real backpack rapper I guess back then. If you knew about him you knew about him but he was definitively underground guy. How crazy was that for you to kinda see from battling with this dude to doing MTV VMAs and becoming absolute superstar? Eminem was lyrical rapper. He was lyrical miracle spiritual dude. So if you heard his records prior to him getting to Dre, you would never think like, he was even capable making a crossover records.

Thirstin Howl III: I always believed that because being around Em man, I knew he was destined because his talent blew everyone away. We had a big mutual respect for what we both were able to do. So, I knew at any moment something was going to happen and he was really an actual factual truth. When I credit anyone in the industry I base everything off skills first. For me skills are first. I don’t care about nothing else. Eminem had the skills to take it there. I was around several artists and I’ve seen them blow up and all they it did was give me hope. It showed me that its possible. To see the level Em got into I was like ‘I’m next, coming!’.

Thirstin Howl III and Eminem have previously worked together on DJ Spinna produced track “Watch Deez” from Thirstin Howl’s 2000 album titled Skillosopher.

Tony Yayo recalls Eminem’s the most gangsta moment against Suge Knight

In the latest episode of Drink Champs, Tony Yayo joins DJ EFN and N.O.R.E to share his unbelievable journey in the music industry. From his early days with 50 Cent and G-Unit to his experiences with iconic artists like Nas and Jay-Z, Tony Yayo provides an inside look into the challenges, triumphs, and controversies that shaped his career.

At one point of the interview, Yayo recalled how Eminem handled the altercation with Suge Knight: “It’s the s–t about the Suge. He lights the cigar and he’s trying to see what you gonna do. So, Eminem, 50 Cent, everybody outside, ni–a lights the cigar and I was bugging cause this is where I see Eminem was real. He was like ‘I DON’T GIVE A F–K, MAN!’ I swear, this is where I knew Eminem is the real ni–a. Fifty ni–as outside and he’s like ‘WHAT’S UP!’ and that ni–a Suge just walked away.” said Tony Yayo.

Then he continued: “That Mexican ni–as where kinda confused, like, they did not know what was going on. But the ni–as came outside. Eminem came outside one hundred percent. And Eminem was like ‘I DON’T GIVE A F–K, MAN! ‘I DON’T GIVE A F–K, MAN.’ Remember, it’s documented, Proof told Suge ‘you killed Tupac’ in the middle of the party. Them Detroit ni–as are kinda crazy bro. The Seven, Eight Mile ni–as have always been crazy.”

Later in the interview, Yayo also defended Eminem from people who are trying to discredit his GOAT status.

“The wildest s–t I know about Eminem is ‘Many Men,’ he knew the footsteps in ‘Many Men’ came from poltergeist. Eminem is the type of ni–a who stays in the studio. Eminem is the type of ni–a that has a diss record against you and you won’t even know. And he’s a humble guy. He’s just one of them ni–as who really care about the music.” Yayo.

Then he continued: “We came in the game with beef. We came beefing with The Source magazine. Benzino. So ni–as will say this about Eminem, that about Eminem. This motherf–ker white boy. Culture vulture. But he’s the ni–a that put the ni–as on. You never forget the ni–a who turned the lights on bro. No matter what color or what race he is. I love Eminem.”

“Ni–as be like ‘yo, we do not listen to Eminem in the street club. We don’t listen to Eminem in the car’ but you go to Spotify and he’d still be the number one ni–a in twenty years.”  he added.

Check out the video below:

Today in 2010, Eminem’s “Recovery” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard 200

On this day, exactly 13 years ago (July 11, 2010), Eminem’s “Recovery” album debuted at No. on the US Billboard 200 charts with first-week sales of 741,000 copies. It became Eminem’s sixth album to debut at No. 1 in the United States.

In its second week of release it remained at number-one and sold 313,000 copies. It also entered at number one on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums chart. In its ninth week of release the album remained at number one for its seventh non-consecutive week.

Recovery debuted at No. 1 on the United Kingdom Albums Chart, selling 140,000 copies in its first week in the country. In Canada, the album sold 85,000 copies in its first week and debuted at No. 1 on Canada’s Albums Chart. The album spent six consecutive weeks at number one, and retook the top spot after one week at number two.

By the end of its release year, Recovery had sold over 5.7 million copies worldwide. It was one of the best-selling album of 2010 in the United States with 3.4 million copies, and it had sold 2.3 million copies in other territories for a total of 5.7 million copies worldwide by December 2010. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, it was also the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide. The album was the best-selling album in Canada in 2010 selling 435,000 copies; more than double the album in second place.

Recovery spawned four singles: “Not Afraid”, “Love the Way You Lie” with Rihanna, “No Love” with Lil Wayne, and “Space Bound”, with the former two both reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In 2022, Recovery was certified 8x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), becoming Eminem’s third best-selling studio album behind The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002).

At the 2011 Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year; the latter two were for “Love the Way You Lie”. The album earned Eminem Grammy award, American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, among other awards.

You can revisit the album below:

Ja Rule says 50 Cent used to want to do a song with him to get big

During a recent interview with Math Hoffa, Mecc, Champ, Bigga, and Gat on My Expert Opinion, Ja Rule recounted a conversation he had with 50 Cent many years ago, during which he expressed his interest in collaborating on a song together. Initially, everything seemed fine between them.

“I use to go over to Jam Master Jay’s studio when he was signed to JMJ because Black Child was over there. He was also signing to JMJ. So I go over there, go see my n**ga Black. And you know… I was already on. I had a record deal with my n**gas Cash Money Click, so he used to kick it with me. 50 Cent used to want to do a record with me. The record never got done.” said Ja Rule.

Then he continued: “I got nothing against him but the record never got done. I’m busy, I’m running around, I’m trying to do things. It’s no slight to nobody, it just didn’t happen We had our first encounter in Atlanta. We had a talk. Uncle Chaz came to me, said, ‘Yo, homie ’bout to pull up. Would you want to have a conversation?’ I said, ‘Alright cool, we’ll have a conversation,'”

“And when we had a conversation — ‘Yo, it’s just a record. You know I’m just trying to get out there. Chump s–t, wack s–t. I’m a real artist, n**ga. I’m a real n**ga. This is wack to me, n**ga. I don’t give a f–k. If we’re gonna talk about it. Let’s talk about it. And I know what n**gas is gonna say at home. ‘Why are you talking about this 30 years later?’ I don’t want to talk about this. My n**gas right here want to talk about this. To me, 50 is not a real artist. That’s not a real man. It’s not a real n**ga. You know what I’m saying? To want to pull down other n**gas to pull yourself up? That ain’t my style. If you a real n**ga, go make your records and shine.” he added.

You can watch the interview below:

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