Kuniva of D12 jumps on a new track from Bag Of Tricks Cat, called “Count On That,” which also features Sincerely Collins.
In 2022 a native of Glendale, Arizona was signed to Whitney Peyton’s Alpha Howse label and “Count On That” is released under their management.
Some of the quotable lyrics from the song includes: “This ain’t a game, and you know your boy / Don’t care about your solider story / You all about glitz and glory / Ain’t really ’round when shit gets gory / I’ve been putting in work, it’s proven / Don’t care about how you’re moving / We all about stacking and building / Focused on winning, y’all steady losing / And you can’t stop the movement / Kuniva, he’s the truest…”
Kuniva is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his “Lost Gold” album which will be available as a digital rerelease on September 22nd, 2022 with remastered tracks.
Eminem has recently hit the social media with the new picture with Denaun Porter and couple of Mercedes-Benz cars around him.
In the caption, Eminem wrote: “With me and Denaun Porter it’s always personal never business! EmDp, Mercedes Benz, (just having fun this ain’t a new project, ain’t an advertisement),” while tagging Mercedes Benz’s official twitter account and hashtagging #EmDp (Eminem and Denaun Porter).
The picture is actually a homage to legendary hip-hop duo EPMD. It references the album cover that Erick and Parrish made back in 1989, called “Unfinished Business.”
Last year, on a song called “EPMD 2,” Nas recruited Eminem and EPMD on a track that served as the sequel to Nas’ February 2021 track, which also features producer Hit-Boy, who co-produced the song and King’s Disease II album. The artists dive into the religious side of ongoing events and pay tribute to those who have passed away recently.
Even though Slim Shady said it himself that it’s not about the new project, fans believe it otherwise. Last time Eminem showed homage to legendary hip-hop act, KAMIKAZE album dropped. So, maybe fans are right after all. Check out some reactions below:
In an interview on the Rap Radar podcast, The Game addressed his recent 10-minute Eminem diss track “The Black Slim Shady” on “Drillmatic: Heart Vs. Mind” album. Speaking with Elliott Wilson and Brian “B.Dot” Miller, the West Coast rapper named few reasons he went against Eminem.
“What’s the reason going at Eminem? Number one, just because nobody does. Number two, I pissed off a lot of people with that song, you know Em got a lot of Stans. But as far as it being personal, it’s not personal. I came up on Em too. I remember the first time that ‘My Name Is’ came out. I was, like, ‘whoa’-ed by it. I felt the same feeling when I heard that, that I felt when I heard “Juicy” from Notorious B.I.G. the first time. … I always f**ked with Em,” he said.
The Game continues with revealed third reason of dissing Eminem: “I think me and 50’s fallout kinda made Eminem choose a side and he was not doing the s**t that I did. He was like, ‘I’m going with 50. F**k you n***as.’ But I just felt like I had some emotions, a little bit, about Super Bowl s**t and all of that. And that’s Dre’s boy, and Dre don’t rap. So it’s like, if I wanna have a conversation with Dre or I’m mad at Dre, let me poke shots at Eminem. And 50 can’t out-rap me, he’s doing his TV thing and more power to him, the shows are great. But as far as rap s**t, I got that locked. So the only person I could rap with, or try to poke the bear and see if he really want to go there, is Em.”
Then interviewer asked about The Game’s Top 10 rapper tweet from last year, where the Compton rapper puts Eminem at No. 4. On that Game replied: “There are emcees out there that you might have thought was number one at one time and not your favorite anymore. Another thing is, it’s like Floyd Mayweather and Muhammad Ali thing. If he’s number four and I feel like I’m number one for me, why would not I take shot or challenge everybody in my top 10? why not? If you met Floyd Mayweather when you were coming up in Olympics and he ended up being undefeated and now you have the chance to fight him you turn it down because you are a fan? Are you not training to be better than Floyd? With Em, it was not a personal thing. I did it with Hov when I was younger. Hip-Hop gotta be interesting. These ni**as these days are goddamn boring or everytime somebody wants to beef somebody got to die, I don’t get that. Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s just hip-hop and leave it that way. If I see Em, I’m NOT FIGHTING EMINEM. Lyrically, outside maybe Em or Kendrick or Cole or some of these super lyrical ni**as, I don’t think nobody can lyrically go at me.”
On XXL Magazine’s 25 years anniversary, Eminem shared incite on what he’s learned, how he stays motivated and why being a true lyricist has always been essential to who he is as a person. During the interview, he briefly shouted out Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Big Sean and Joyner Lucas.
“At this point, a lot of the big achievements that could come in your career have happened for me already, so I don’t hyper-focus on numbers and being on charts. What I hyper-focus on is people like Kendrick Lamar, Joyner Lucas, J. Cole and Big Sean, and watching them and how the f**k they’re doing their shit. Because they’re also focused on being the best rappers.” says Eminem.
Yesterday, Joyner shared the quote of the interview on his social media accounts with “goat” emoji in the caption. Royce Da 5’9″ commented fire emoji on Joyner’s post.
Eminem has also recently talked about Joyner Lucas collaboration on his “Kamikaze” album during the latest episode of Paul Pod. “Joyner sent two songs to Royce to get them to me and I was in the middle of writing Kamikaze. Me and Royce already had few conversations about Joyner. We were like ‘this guy is a f**king truth man. First think I saw was his BET cypher. He had two records, “Lucky You” and “What If.” Music video of “Lucky You” is inspired by Will Smith’s movie “I Am Legend.” “What If” record went couple different processes of hooks and I remember I got Skylar to write a hook for it and to me that s**t was crazy. I don’t know what happened in between that time once the record was leaked but it leaked without Skylar’s hook. In an original version, I think I re-wrote something. “What If” song is an example how internet can ruin the s**t. Leaks are terrible. You are not supposed to know what the concept is before it comes out.”
In the piece, Em explained that drugs really only became a part of his life after the release of his 1999 album, The Slim Shady LP. He and his friends would make regular trips from Los Angeles to Tijuana, Mexico to buy pills like Vicodin, and the rapper recalled one instance where customs officers threw one guy “on the ground and start[ed] pulling pills out his pockets and shit.”
As his fame increased, and drugs became more plentiful — especially when he went on tour — Eminem said he started to realize he was battling addiction, but still managed to “keep it on the low and keep it together” as much as possible. Things really got bad in between 2000’s The Marshall Mathers LP and 2002’s The Eminem Show, when he was taking a mix of Vicodin, Valium, and alcohol. At one point, he even added the sleep aid Ambien, noting, “I would take a little to perform, which you would think doesn’t make sense, but Ambien is a mind eraser. So, if you don’t go to sleep on it, you get in this weird comatose state.”
50 Cent has responded to Eminem’s latest photoshoot with love and appreciation message on social media: “This my favorite white boy, I swear to God I love him to death.” You can check the post below:
Fredwreck also responded to the event, giving Eminem a nod on Twitter:
Eminem’s manager Paul Rosenberg sat down with Slim Shady for the part two of “Curtain Call 2” interview on Paul Pod podcast where the two talked about how Dr. Dre’s brain Aneurysm played a big role in reconciliation with Snoop Dogg, collaborating with late rapper Juice WRLD, how it frustrates him what people think about his rhymes and much more.
About Snoop Dogg beef
Me and Snoop had our little issue, when that thing happened with Dre, the brain aneurysm, we were like ‘bro this is stupid as hell to be feuding right now.’ I don’t remember if I called him or he called me but we talked it out and I think there was a miscommunication in regards to him being on my album Marshall Mathers LP2 on a track “B**ch Please II” and he wanted to do something with me again and he gave you [Paul Rosenberg] the idea and he said something like ‘let’s hear what the song sounds first and he took it the way that ‘I don’t f**k with him.’ And I explained to him like ‘bro Doggystyle changed my life.’
About Juice WRLD
We had been talking about Juice WRLD for a while. And we just wanted to do something with him. We liked his freestyles over my instrumentals. It was crazy. I had a different hook on “Godzilla” and never was really crazy about it. I had verses and that was the reason we asked him for the hook. He sent us two things that were great and the first one was that Monster hook. I was like ‘holy s**t.’
About Rap Critics
It’s frustrating when you do something technically and people who think they know what hip-hop is about start giving opinions on it. They don’t hear what the f**k you doing. If I rhyme entire f**king sentence, every syllable hit, they would literally think that at the end of it I was rhyming ‘back’ and ‘cat’ because they skipped over 30 other syllables. They don’t understand that there is art to that. Kool G Rap has done it so well, Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J, there is an art to that. We [me and critics] are not listening with same ears.
Eminem celebrates XXL’s 25th anniversary with a look back at his illustrious career, which the magazine has carefully documented the entirety of. In his own words, Em shares incite on what he’s learned, how he stays motivated and why being a true lyricist has always been essential to who he is as a person.
On Meeting Dr. Dre and Making The Slim Shady LP:
“I remember saying, ‘If I could just get with Dre, man, my God that’d be so crazy. He’s so f**kin’ ill.’ Three weeks later, I was at Dre’s house. We made The Slim Shady LP. That was a fun album to make, but it’s also where everything suddenly changed. One of those changes was that drugs became a part of the way I was living my life once I got signed.”
On His Role in Today’s Hip-Hop:
“My role in today’s hip-hop is to always try to be the best rapper. That’s it. That’s how I want to feel inside. That’s what I want to feel. And I can’t do that until I listen to what the f**k J. Cole just put out. What the f**k did Kendrick just put out? And I’m thinking, Oh, these dudes ain’t playing. I don’t want to get swept away in that shuffle. I still want to let everybody know who the f**k I am. Like I said, ‘They rap to be the best rappers.’ I’ll hear some s**t by them, and I’ll be like, Yo, I ain’t the best rapper right now. I need to f**kin’ get up, get back on my s**t.”
On Looking to the Younger Generation of Artists:
“I want to do things that nobody from this point on can ever top. Rap to a level that no one else could get to. And again, it’s subjective, and every rapper, especially rappers in competitive rap, wants to be the best rapper. So, I look for the younger generation to push me. I don’t have to make albums. I don’t have to do anything at this point. It’s about wanting to, and that’s never changed for me no matter what level the fame’s gotten to. I still love to rap. It’s always been the most important thing to me. I still have fun writing.”
On When Eminem’s Addiction Got Bad:
“I was able to downplay my addiction and hide it for a while until it got really bad. And also, at that time, so much s**t was happening with the whole 50 beef with Ja Rule. We started feuding, going back-and-forth, and I’m making all of these diss records and s**t. So, I’m coming off The Marshall Mathers LP and going into Encore when my addiction started to get bad. I was taking Vicodin, Valium and alcohol. I kinda fell off the map a little bit and didn’t explain why I went away. I remember things started getting really, really bad when me, 50 and G-Unit did BET’s 106 & Park. We performed ‘You Don’t Know’ on the show and then we did an interview afterward. That’s when the wheels started coming off. One of the hosts was talking to me and I could not understand a word she was saying. 50 had to cover for me and answer every question.”
On the Encore Album Being a Misstep:
“[Encore] became a misstep and I struggled to get over the fact that I didn’t do my best. My best would’ve been good enough if the leaks hadn’t happened. But I released what I had at that point in time, and I feel that put a kind of a mark on my catalog. Encore did some decent numbers, but I was never that concerned with numbers. I was more so worried about what people think about the album. Critics and fans were important to me, and they were always at me about that project.”
Read Eminem’s complete cover story in his own words on the XXL website here. Also check out the new photoshoot below:
Paul Rosenberg takes an in depth look at the hits, art and albums that make up the legendary musical library of Eminem as told through first-hand experiences by the participants and collaborators on these celebrated projects. It’s a 7-part series exclusively released in celebration for Curtain Call 2. For the sixth part, Paul brings out none other than Eminem for the interview which you can check out below.
The process of making Relapse
I remember when I first got sober all the s**t was out of my system. I remember just being really happy. Everything was f**king new to me again. It was the first album and the first time I had had fun recording in a long time. I started having fun with music again and I was re-learning how to rap. Took a long time for my brain to start working again…”Detroit Basketball” was the first thing I recorded and it was f**king weird because my brain was turning back on. I started going over the lines, thinking ‘wait, that’s not good.’ I don’t know which version was leaked but there were like twenty version of that s**t. For the Relapse album, I think “Must Be The Ganja” was the first song I recorded and made into the album. Dre was feeding me with beats and I think “My Mom” was second.
About “Beautiful”
Couple things come into play. One, I had just started watching bunch of serial killer documentaries and s**t and it started giving me ideas like I could if I tried to sound like a demented serial killer. ‘Beautiful’ came out earlier sessions when I was still f**ked up. It was probably only decent song I had made during that time. I didn’t want to put it on the album because it it didn’t fit the concept of everything else, accents and all that s**t.
His thoughts on Relapse album
I remember when we were in Hawaii, I was listening to some s**t from The Eminem Show. I remember some of my older s**t and going like ‘why don’t my s**t feel anything right now’ so when we did first recording session for Recovery I was in Hawaii with Dre. I don’t have problem with some of the rhymes and some of the verses as far as lyrically, it’s just accents. I felt like I sounded so demented in that s**t that I got cemented in that s**t. and I bent it back, b**ch and then I went to scratch itch. So listening to my older s**t I was like ‘I need to feel like this again’ and the first song that I did was ‘On Fire’
About scrapped Relapse 2 album
There are probably enough songs to make another Relapse album, not that hasn’t either leaked out or were used Relapse: Refill. There are lot of songs from Relapse that didn’t leak out but they are terrible songs. They didn’t even make into the album Relapse and if you know how I feel about Relapse album then that should say something. So there is no Relapse 2.
About Recovery album
At that time, I was looking at how Drake and Wayne changed the landscape. It pushed me and motivated me. Recovery was the first album with me back on a wordplay because I started getting away from Relapse. I was watching Wayne like ‘holly s**t wordplay is back’ and I was like ‘I can do that!’ I recorded songs for Recovery and I was done but then you [Paul Rosenberg] told me ‘I got one beat and chorus you need to hear.’ When I heard it, I got into a car and I wrote two verses on my way to home. And then I told you ‘Okay tough guy. I’m done with the record but now you need to put Rihanna on it.’ I remember we wanted to get her on any song. So there was actually an attempt to get her on something. It actually leaked, it was “Fly Away” song.
About “Rap God” song
I don’t remember exactly how it came about but I do remember that when I first recorded it, I was still playing CDs back then, I’m listening to it in the car and when it cuts off it says ‘six minutes’ and I was like ‘what the f**k that s**t’s exactly six minutes?! That’s crazy, so I want back and that’s were the intro comes from… For some reason, summa-lumma, dooma-lumma was stuck into my head and I just kept repeating the phrase. That rhymes with lots of s**t so I started rhyming. That part is kind of stunt in there. I remember when I wrote it I was thinking ‘when I go into the studio am I going to be able to say this s**t?’ Sometimes the s**t I write my mouth can’t say it.
Visiting Rick Rubin at his house
The first time I met Rick Rubin was with you. We went to his house and his house was still under construction. I went to use his bathroom and after I used bathroom, I gotta dry my hands and there was a paper towel in there, dried my hands but there was no garbage so I put the paper towel in toilet, hit flush and it started overflowing. [Laughs].
Then Eminem continues talking about Tinnitus, Hell: The Sequel and Revival. You can check the interview below:
Westside Boogie has recently sat down with Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee on Power 105.1 FM’s Breakfast Club where he talked about his latest album More Black Superheroes, his past relationships, therapy sessions, linking up with Eminem, relationship with Kendrick Lamar and much more.
About ‘More Black Superheroes’ album
The process of making this album was tough because the accountability factor that came with therapy. By that time I had a healthy relationship and when I lost her I was still happy because I was like ‘I’m gonna make a fire album, I can make a heart-break album.’ Then I’m at therapy and my therapist make me address the stuff and make me hold myself accountable so I felt like I could not approach music the same. It was hard to make certain songs and it took awhile to figure out what I wanted to talk about.
About linking up with Eminem
I was sitting in church in Compton. I was doing gospel raps at first and there were a little kids who were going to church and were already a gang members and I thought they were the coolest ni**as in the world so I became a follower. I started going in church with them and gospel rap was not a thing anymore. Just started rapping around the city. Got my baby mama pregnant at 19. I was recording in my mama’s room for about 4 years. This white man hit me on Twitter. In a hood we think that any white man hit us means we made it. That’s what I thought at that time. He became my manager. He came from Indian background. He was working with the likes of Skrillex.
Interscope ended up calling me. But they put me on the shelf. Then LVRN came around and two weeks before that my new manager had called me and said ‘hey man I don’t know hw Paul Rosenberg found your music but he f**king with you and he wanna fly you to Detroit.’ I had new management and Eminem took over my contract out of nowhere. I don’t know how he found me. They said Rihanna’s post about me was a thing. Eminem told me the songs that he liked was like my album cuts and he was explaining me those lyrics and that’s what made me trust a judgement because he was not talking to me about the viral songs. We had that conversation, I went home and he just gave me the freedom to create, that’s why I appreciate him. Because he gave me advice when I needed it but he does not overstepping my creative process.
About relationship with Kendrick Lamar
That’s my favorite rapper. He’s from my neighborhood and I just appreciate the doors he opened with just about being himself. I never expect Kendrick to do nothing for me. He did gave me opportunities because just let me come around and to see certain stuff being in the studio with him. So yeah, shout out to him. I do have a relationship. It’s not like he’s my best friend but somebody from my neighborhood who was accessible to everyone from my neighborhood.
Azealia Banks has just reignited her one sided beef with Eminem.
She is never one to hold her tongue, especially when it comes to her takes on hip-hop. Yesterday, the rapper shared her thoughts on some of the rap game’s biggest names, such as Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne.
Banks began to explain why she thinks Lil Wayne is a better rapper than Jay-Z, beginning with their respective catalogs. After offering her praise and criticism to Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and Styles P, she attacked Eminem. “Eminem is, was and has always been annoying garbage. I can’t, won’t and refuse to consume white male rap anger in rap form.”
“I’m picking Paul Wall and Bubba Sparxxx over Eminem ANYDAY,” she added before going full rent on Slim Shady.
“Also — 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.”
Additionally, she pointed out how Eminem landed an Elton John feature in spite of using homophobic slurs in his music: “Also, I’m pissed because Em said fa**ot and got an entire Elton John collab out of it. I was supposed to win a prize too gatdamnit.”
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced its class of 2022. Eminem is being inducted in his first year of eligibility, and he’s joined in the 2022 class by Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon, Eurythmics, and Pat Benatar.
This year’s Ahmet Ertegun Award winners include Sugarhill Records founder Sylvia Robinson, Interscope and Beats founder Jimmy Iovine, and lawyer to the stars Allen Grubman.
It was the first year that Eminem, Parton, Richie, and Simon were nominated. This year won’t be Eminem’s first year at a Rock Hall ceremony. Last year, he performed “Rock the Bells” with LL Cool J at the 2021 induction ceremony. In 2009, he also gave the speech inducting Run-D.M.C. into the Rock Hall.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2022 induction ceremony will take place on November 5 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. It will simulcast on SiriusXM’s Volume channel and air at a later date on HBO and HBO Max.
Rock Hall confirmed that Eminem will also perform at the ceremony.
To honor Slim Shady’s induction to Hall Of Fame, the Rock Hall released a short documentary, describing the Detroit legend’s career highlights. You can watch the video below:
Last month DJ Khaled released star-studded new album “God Did” which includes a song “Use This Gospel (Remix)” with Kanye West and Eminem, produced by one and only Dr. Dre. As Ye previously said, the song is his daughter’s all time favorite song.
In an interview with Lowe, Khaled revealed how the remix ended up on the album. He stated that Ye had played him Jesus Is King Part II in full a year and half prior, calling it “incredible”. Even though West and Khaled had recorded a couple of tracks for God Did, they were never finished due to the rapper’s schedule. As part of a “last minute magic gift”, Khaled asked West if he could include the remix on God Did since it perfectly fit the album’s theme. According to Khaled, West loved the idea, which he joked “You know Ye don’t love no idea”. Before confirming the inclusion, West insisted on contacting both Dr. Dre and Eminem for their approval.
Musically, the remix is a gospel track, with rock undertones. The song is reminiscent of Slim Shady’s early 2000s work, though it features heavier drums. Em performs a fast pace Christian rap verse on the remix, replacing Clipse’s appearance on the original track. His verse is succeeded by a dubstep outro, contributed by Dr. Dre.
In the song, The Detroit legend expresses uncertainty about holding on, detailing combatting addiction and temptation while he has raised his daughters. Em also compares his controversies to West’s, places his faith in “the Father”, and thanks Jesus, concluding with: “Praises to Jesus, I will always.”
The song debuted at No. 1 on US Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart, giving Eminem his first ever chart-topper in this category.
If they would’ve told me 10 years ago that Dre and Em would have the #1 gospel song out one day I’m not sure if I would have believed them. 😂😂 congrats to #aftermath and the ICU…. One of the greatest team of musicians ever assembled under one roof. https://t.co/H9DxnzxfcT
