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Westside Boogie talks how Rihanna changed his life forever, relationship with Eminem, new album & more

Shady Records’ Westside Boogie has recently set down on Nothing Beats Experience podcast with Smoothvega where the Compton rapper talked about Rihanna, Eminem, signing to LVRN and Shady Records, his upcoming album, mental health and more.

About Rihanna

I was on tour with Denzel Curry when Rihanna sang my ‘Ni**a Needs’ video. I had been signed to Interscope for couple of years and I still only had like 10k followers. So, when Rihanna posted me, I thought it was fake, I thought it was fake page. She posted me and my followers went up from 10K to 150k in like 30 minutes. That’s a power of Rihanna. So Rihanna singlehandedly changed my career forever. I’m forever grateful for her.

Hard times at Interscope

So, I was still on a shelve of Interscope after two years. That was tough for me. Going through ups and downs. All my friends thinking I’m super rich but I was still barely being able to take care of my kid at that time, even though I was signed to one of the biggest labels in the world.

Signing to LVRN and Shady Records

One day, my AR from Interscope told me ‘We have to figure out something. It’s that management group called LVRN and I really feel you are good match’ and at the same time, I randomly got a call from Eminem. I don’t know how the universe did that to me or why it did for me but I think its my constant belief in myself and not giving up. Got a call from Eminem. He said he wanted to meet me. Flew me out to Detroit. And next thing you know, I was signed to Eminem.

His musical influences

I’m such a singing, RnB headass ni**a. I was listening nothing but gospel music at the beginning. Then there was slowly transition to Lauryn Hill. There was a gospel movie “Sister Act 2.” Once I saw it, I thought oh I love this girl. I love Lauryn Hill. And then somehow JAY-Z was introduced into my life. I don’t know how it happened. I think that was the first artist I searched down on my own and I fell in love with Jay. And then I fell in love with Wayne. They are two artists that I ever idolized.

About Eminem 

We went to the studio in Detroit. It’s always the same thing with Tracy: “Marshall’s ready for you now,” “Marshall’s ready to see you.” He’s like freaking president. And that’s the part that makes me nervous when she come by like that. Tracy, I love her but she scares me too. Eminem is dope. Before I met him, I was like ‘that’s one of the biggest rapper ever, he is not gonna act like human but then when I met him, he was like just another person trying to figure life out and that’s dope to me. He even knew my songs that was not popular. He knew those songs. He was telling me details about those songs and certain rhyme schemes I did. He was praising my bars it was best thing ever. I was like, oh, I love him. He really cares about the craft. He is so competitive, he’s not going to make you feel support, he going to kill everybody. [laughs] That’s what amazing about him.

His upcoming album

Best thing with working with Shady is that they just let me do my thing. Eminem just waits for me to bring him my new music to him. He does not put too much pressure on me. An album is done but I still have to go to the final Eminem-stage. I played the album to him couple of months ago. My problem is I always hate my songs from couple of months ago. I’m always critiquing myself. I probably have 5 to 10 album material because of that. I have a title of the album but I can’t say it.

Then Boogie continues talking about mental health. You can watch the full interview below:

Lizzo does karaoke to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” at her Christmas party

Detroit rapper and singer Lizzo hosted her nearest and dearests at her Christmas party.

The 33-year-old Grammy-winning artist arranged a karaoke setup in her home theater and gave her own renditions of multiple songs.

One of her selections was Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” the Oscar and Grammy-winning song from 2002 movie, 8 Mile.

You can watch the video below:

J. Cole shows love to Eminem & Royce 5’9″ in the new interview with Nardwuar

Finally, Nardwuar landed his J. Cole interview. The interview with Dreamville head honcho has been at least a couple years in the making.

In almost 1 hour long interview, J. Cole briefly talked about getting inspired by Canibus, Eminem, Royce 5’9″ and Big L.

“Canibus was huge inspiration on my teenage years of rapping. Just ferocious, barred up, lyrical, punch lines, any cypher, any gathering of three or more people that wanted to rap, destroying it. That was my whole mo, my forte and Canibus was big part of that. Eminem was big part of that. Royce 5’9″ as big part of that, Big L was big part of that.” – said Cole.

At one point during the interview (After 43 minutes), J. Cole confirmed that he told Dr. Dre about Kendrick Lamar: “Who told you that? Who gave you that piece of information? The answer is yes, I did. I’m not gonna say I was the first to tell him but when Dre was working on Detox album, yes, I was like ‘you gotta sign this kid from Compton. Shout out to Dr. Dre, he made right decision.”

You can watch it below:

Eminem wishes fans Merry Christmas in very Eminem way possible

Eminem has just wished Merry Christmas to his fans on social media.

The Rap God shared a painting of himself in a chainsaw uniform in front of Christmas fireplace with the caption: “Merry fackin’ Christmas” with Christmas tree and middle finger emojis.

The caption is a reference to his iconic “FACK” track from his 2005 Greatest Hits album: “Curtain Call: The Hits.”

Check out Eminem’s post below:

List of all songs Eminem released & was featured in 2021

It was a very calm year for Marshall Mathers. With almost no new music and couple of legendary features, Eminem’s 2021 songs list are below:

1. Eminem – “Killer (Remix),” ft. Cordae & Jack Harlow

2. NAS – “EPMD 2,” ft. EPMD & Eminem

3. GRIP – “Walkthrough!,” ft. Eminem

4. Skylar Grey, Mozzy, Polo G & Eminem – “Last One Standing”

5. LL Cool & Eminem – “Rock The Bells” (Live at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame)

6. Juice WRLD – “Eminem Speaks” (Eminem Interlude)

7. Dr. Dre – “Gospel,” ft. The D.O.C. & Eminem

8. Kanye West – “Use This Gospel (Remix),” ft. Eminem (produced by Dr. Dre) [Snippet]

9. Eminem – “Venom” (Remix)

Eminem also released one music video for “Higher” track from his 2020 album, Music To Be Murdered By: Side B.

You can listen to all of the tracks in the YouTube playlist below:

Grip drops new freestyle over Nas’ “Wave Gods”

Grip spits new freestyle over Nas’ latest track “Wave Gods,” featuring A$AP Rocky and DJ Premier from Escobar’s latest album “Magic.”

The Shady Records’ hitman opens the track with the shoutout to the legendary figures of hip-hop: “Yeah, shoutout that ni**a Nas, man / One of my f**kin’ favorites / Ni**a, I heard this beat and I had to do it, ahaha / Yeah, shoutout the ni**a Hit-Boy too… Uh, one take.”

East Atlanta’s finest also makes dope reference to Eminem with the following lines: “I’m eatin beats up wit Slim til I’m at least up some M’s” and warns his peers that 2022 belongs to him “It’s been quite a year, I see you boys 2022.”

You can bump the new freestyle below:

50 Cent: “I love Eminem to death, I’m so grateful what he did for me”

50 Cent has recently spoken exclusively on Express UK about his BMF series, which featured a big role from Snoop Dogg and a cameo from Eminem as a White Boy Rick.

In the new interview, Fifty talked about the 7th episode that he directed and had an Eminem cameo.

“Working with Eminem was great. I think it was the comfortability of me directing that even allowed him to say yes to that. He was like ‘well, what are we doing? ‘Cause we are doing it.’ It’s not like someone else is telling me what to do, and I am uncomfortable.”

“It’s always easy for me to work with Em. I love Em to death, ‘cause that’s my guy. He launched my career. At the point that he’s saying ‘yo, 50’s gonna be the next biggest thing. He’s at 23 million copies sold on the Marshall Mathers LP. That was all he had to do for me music-wise, I took off. I was ready to go.”

“I remember that but some people forget. They look at it and say ‘I made you a lot of money.’ And I don’t look at it like that. I look at it like, ‘I’m so grateful for what you did.’” – said 50 Cent.

For the full interview , visit Express here.

Jay Z’s “Top 5 Emcees” interviews resurface after HHT tried to discredit Eminem

Few days ago, JAY-Z hopped onto Alicia Keys’ Twitter Spaces room to chat about the music industry on Tuesday night, giving his thoughts on a potential Verzuz match-up by telling the hundreds in the audience that he believes nobody can stand alongside him on that platform.

Since he made the comments, hip-hop fans on Twitter thought Eminem could be a good challenger for Jigga, but many of them started to discredit the Detroit legend.

As a result, Hova’s old interviews where he’s naming Eminem as a Top 5 Emcees of all time has resurfaced online.

Back in 2009, in an interview with Big Boy, JAY-Z was asked to list his own Top 5 Emcees: “I got the usual suspects – Biggie, Pac, Scarface, Eminem and Andre 3000. Off top of my head, that’s would be my top 5.”

In his 2012 interview, Jigga responded the same question with: “I would choose Biggie, because of his ability to tell the stories to be humorous, to be dead serious, he just had it all. I would choose Tupac because what he does not have and technical skills will be overcame by passion. Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-1 we gotta put him as well. I need more Emcees, you gotta have Eminem and Nas but those five and then we will switch them up.”

In 2018, Hova also praised Eminem’s cadence. Listen to all of them interviews below:

 

Eminem Vs Jay-Z is now trending after Jay said ‘no one can stand against me on Verzuz’

Whenever Jay-Z speaks, hip-hop fans listen, and he set the record straight yesterday that no one can face him on a stage in a Verzuz battle.

Jigga said it while talking with Rob Markman and Alicia Keys on Twitter Spaces.

“No one can stand on that stage with me. It is not a chance in hell that anyone can stand on that stage with me. You got to stand in front of the ‘Grammy Family Freestyle’ live? No one has ever even seen me perform that, you got to stand in front of that? That ain’t never going to happen.” said Hova.

Later, hip-hop fans on Twitter flooded the feed with Eminem Vs Jay-Z tweets and the hip-hop world is divided by two.

You can check out some of the reactions in the video below:

The D.O.C. teases new Eminem and Dr. Dre albums

The D.O.C., who has recently teamed up with Dr. Dre and Eminem for “Gospel” song from GTA V: The Contract soundtracks, answered few questions from fans on Twitter.

The legendary hip-hop artist retweeted the user who asked about Eminem’s album and then replied: “It’s probably pretty close but I can’t say.”

Check out some of the questions and answers below:

If you can’t see the question above, check the screenshot below:

Fredro Starr talks Eminem using his beat in “8 Mile” movie

Fredro Starr has recently set down with VLAD TV where the New York-born producer and actor recalls attending “8 Mile” premiere without tickets and finding out Eminem used his beat in the movie while being in font of the seats

“So, I went to 8 Mile premiere. We didn’t have no tickets but we were cool with Dre. We were there just to pop up. 8 Mile premiere was big red carpet, it was like, LOCK DOWN. We were waiting outside like ‘yo, how we gonna get in this s**t’ and then Dr. Dre pulls up and says ‘yo, come with me.'”

“So now we are at 8 Mile premiere with no tickets, we got in with Dre and we sitting in front of the seats just chillin. And I didn’t even know my beat was in the movie. Nobody told me. So, we are watching the movie and it was dope and then Eminem is battling that ni**a Papa Doc and the beat comes on. I was like ‘OH S**T, THIS BEAT IS IN THE MOVIE?!’ Just to see Eminem rhyming on that beat was inspirational. Royalties still popin’. Shout out to Eminem on that one! S**t like that makes me wanna do beats again.” – says Fredro.

Watch the interview below:

Fredro Starr is referring to Onyx’s “Last Dayz” beat which you can bump below!

Eminem, 50 Cent & Paul Rosenberg are voting members for XXL Awards 2022

XXL Magazine announces their first ever award show and Eminem, 50 Cent, Paul Rosenberg and Eminem’s publicist Dennis Dennehy will be voting for the winners.

In XXL’s announcement, we read: Get ready for the XXL Awards 2022. Here are all of the hip-hop industry’s movers, shakers and veteran artists that will be voting for the winners as the members of the first-ever XXL Awards Board. Check back in January for the official nominees, to vote for XXL’s People’s Champ and to see which artists snag trophies.

The board members consist of 157 artists, Entrepreneur, podcast hosts and others, including 2 Chainz, Sway Calloway, Big Boy, Big Tigger, Bun B, Charlamagne Tha God, Steve-O, Mike Dean, Ebro Darden, DJ Khalid, DJ Drama, DJ Envy, DJ Whoo Kid, E-40, Fat Joe, Gucci Mane, TDE’s Punch, Jeezy, Juicy J, Just Blaze, Lil’ Kim, Angie Martinez, Missy Elliott, No I.D., Run The Jewels, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, Wendy Washington, Yo Gotti and many more.

For the full list of members, visit XXL here.

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