Based on a new study by Money.co.uk, an English price comparison website-company that specializes in findings from bank figures, mortgages and more spending, following the timelines of certain rappers could cost you more.
If you are a music fan, you have probably spent a lot of money throughout your life on concert tickets, merch, and various other products and events sold by your favorite artists.
The study surveyed 65 of the world’s biggest artists and rap/hip-hop acts occupies the first five spots. The list is led by Eminem, with an estimated $2,966.66 cost per fan. Travis Scott comes second ($2,244.39), then Drake ($1,543.42), Kanye West ($1,395.56) and Kendrick Lamar ($1,231.31) all followed Eminem as the most expensive artists for fans to support.
Several deciding factors went into the criteria including calculating in the average price of an album download + average price of a 12″ vinyl album, the cost of official merch products, the artist’s average concert ticket price and the value of authentically autographed items.
Check out Top 15 most expensive artists below and for more details, visit HipHopDX here.
In one of his latest interviews, Ice Cube was asked to list his top five rappers of all time but the legendary rapper and actor went to name top 15.
“I go back to guys who set the bar. One of my first greatest is Melle Mel, another great emcee, I believe who brought more style to rhymes is KRS-1, another guy is my favorite of all time who introduced consciousness on another level into rap it’s Chuck D. Another one is another trendsetter, one of the OGs who helped the west coast get on the map, that’s Ice-T.”
“Snoop is one of my favorite rappers of all time, so is Biggie, so is Jay Z, so is Nas. We got rappers like Ras Kass on the west coast that’s crazy, Eminem – one of the best to ever touch the mic. Lil Wayne goddamn, he’s nasty! Oh, and Black Thought, monster! I’m gonna say Slick Rick. I’m gonna leave the last one blank [Laughs]. There are so many great emcees to name.” says Ice Cube.
Shady Records latest signee GRIP has just announced the tracklist of his Shady debut album “I Died For This,” set to for release on August 27, 2021.
TRACKLIST OF “IDFT?!”
1. Enter Stage Right
2. And The Eulogy Read!?
3. Hands Up!
4. Momma Told Me!
5. Placebo
6. Gutter
7. LDDTTINT!?
8. A Soldier’s Story?
9. Walk Through!
10. The Lox!
11. EnemƎ?
12. Conman?
13. Glenwood Freestyle
14. At What Cost?
15. Patterns?
16. Dennies…Exit Stage Left?!
The album is executive produced by TU! and it features Eminem, Royce 5’9″, Wara, Wiley From Atlanta, Dead Cassettes, Tate228, Big Rube, AhYes and KayneLLZ & Kenny Maso.
Eminem will probably be featured on “EnemƎ?” track as it includes the backwards “E.”
You can check the announcement below.
“IDFT!?” Tracklist
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Horseshoe Gang rap group released Slaughterhouse tribute EP, titled “Slaughterhouse Records.”
The new project includes 4 tracks which are remakes of Slaughterhouse songs with the original titles: “Onslaught,” “Hammer Dance,” “Psychopath Killa,” and “Microphone,” featuring Kid Vishis.
Check out Knxg Crooked’s brothers murdering each of the tracks with Royce’s brother below!
As the Slaughterhouse reunion talks continue, Joe Budden might seriously be considering a return to rap, as he tells Benny The Butcher that he wants to do a song with him in the future.
“Benny, we are going to rap together one day and you are not going to say that ‘Butcher Coming’ s**t when I’m there. We are going to rap together one day and I gotta get him to tuck that ‘The Butcher is Coming’ away.”
Looks like, Benny is down to team up with Joe as the Griselda rapper responded on Twitter: “lol let me pick all the beats for a new Joe Budden tape and drop it on Black Soprano Family. Would be crazy trust me.”
Joe Budden replied with eyes-open-wide emoji and later on, he teases his return on Instagram comments. Check it below:
Journalist Jason Jenkins and screenwriter James Gibson have recently dive into the movie The Crow: Lazarus, which was intended to be the 4th theatrical installment in The Crow franchise before the series went fully straight-to-video with Lance Mungia’s 2005 sequel The Crow: Wicked Prayer. To have starred rappers DMX and Eminem, Lazarus was intended to have a larger budget and markedly different approach to the series’ core story of undying love and violent retribution, elevating the title back to theatrical prestige after the previous follow-up’s scant single-cinema release.
Mr. Gibson says: “We wrote a draft. DMX loved it. They were trying to figure out who they were going to get to play opposite him. I think they were approached by Eminem’s people. And Eminem was just as picky as DMX then. 2000, 2001, he was blowing up huge. He said if DMX was going to be in the movie, he wanted to be in the movie. So we decided, ‘Okay, yeah. Let’s have him play Stone.’ Obviously, in that draft, it hadn’t been tailored to him yet. I think having that guy be white was going to change the dynamics somewhat. But it was nothing that couldn’t have been done with a few tweaks here and there. But he read the script, even though the character was written as black, he knew it was gonna be tailored to him and he agreed to do it. They had made a deal with him, they were going to pay him like $4 million or something to be in it. And this is like two years before 8 Mile.”
“So he hadn’t been in a movie yet. This was going to be his motion picture debut. So it was going to be DMX as the good guy, the most badass guy in the world with a lot of heart. Eminem playing a mustache-twirling bad guy, the most villainous guy in the world. Obviously a gigantic, huge soundtrack. You’ve got the two biggest rappers, you know? It just seemed to me like it can’t lose, right? It just seemed like a no-brainer. We were all really excited about it, we were in pre-production, and … Miramax had this weird thing, where they were involved, but they weren’t involved.”
“They got a call from either Harvey or Bob Weinstein. It might’ve been Bob, because he was in charge of Dimension. ‘Nobody wants to see a movie with two rappers,’ was what he said. ‘Nobody wants to see a movie with two rappers.’ No one’s going to pay to see a movies with two rappers? Okay. They’re the two biggest f**king pop stars in the world at that point! Eminem was going to get even bigger, X was at his peak right then. And 8 Mile, when it came out a year and a half later, had like a $35 million opening weekend or something. And that was a drama. I mean, it kills me because I probably would have bought a house with the money that we’d have made, you know? [laughs]”
“What they then decided to do, and at this point I was no longer involved, was they decided – ‘Okay, what if we make it not a Crow movie?’ They would just make it a movie set in the music business. A guy gets killed and gets revenge, have the same thing, but take out all of the crow elements and make it some other kind of supernatural origin story.”
“They did manage to get it set up for awhile at another studio under that guise. They took The Crow out of the title and just called it Lazarus, but it ended up not going anywhere. At that point, I think Joseph got offered Torque and he bowed out to do it, and then the movie just kind of fell apart. At that point, I don’t think they were going to be able to keep Eminem, so it just fizzled. Just one of the things. It could have happened, but it didn’t. It’s a drag. But it was fun to write it, you know?”
Richard Wershe Jr., also know as “White Boy Rick,” who became FBI informant at the age of 14 and later was sentenced 30 years in prison, says he is honored that Eminem will be portraying him in 50 Cent’s upcoming TV Series, “Black Mafia Family.”
“Of course, it’s Eminem so that’s an honor to have him portray me in a series. He was actually one of the first people that was looking at doing the movie about me so it’s pretty cool that later down the line, he gets to take on this role.”
When asked what kind of advice he would give to Eminem for the role, Rick said that he doesn’t think he needs to give the Detroit legend any tips, claiming that he’s a professional: “I don’t think I have to tell him anything at all. He is professional. Everything he does, he does very well. His music, it speaks for itself. He is an icon, he is a legend. This, for him, will be a small thing. I think he will kill it whatever he does. I’m a fan. It’s an honor to have him do it. He is a Detroit legend. I have a huge name here, so from one Detroiter to another…just kill it!” – said Wershe.
In one of his latest episodes of Expert Opinion, Math Hoffa details the story of Benzino reaching out to him to record a disstrack towards Eminem.
“You know, years ago, when I was still youngster, Benzino called me up to be a part of that mixtape dissing Eminem. I agreed because this was the way to skip the shiny suits. This is pre-DMX. DMX came through and saved us from the shiny suits. Once I got the opportunity, I was like ‘yo I could skip that’ and everybody will know who I am.”
“I got in studio. I thought he was going to fall back and let me handle it. He had a response ‘Die Another Day.’ After that, he played Huddy’s response. After that he played LO’s response. Then after that he was like ‘yo I got these Spanish guys, they are dissing Eminem in Spanish.’ I think their name was Uno Dos or something like that. At that point, I was like ‘bro what you doing?!’ He was like ‘yo, I’m making whole mixtape and I’m going to drop it on Source.’ And then I was like ‘Naah, this ain’t it’ cause in my mind I was like ‘Em is better than you man’ [Laughs]. Benzino had his ways and I was not feeling it.” – said Math Hoffa.
Kxng Crooked has recently shared his thoughts on Nas, Eminem and EPMD’s news song “EPMD 2.” Here is what the Slaughterhouse emcee has to say:
“About Em… A lot of people were like ‘why he had to go so hard’. His fans tweet me all the time and they say ‘if he does not do that, then they say oh he didn’t kill it this time he should have killed it or he laid back or he took his foot off the gas pedal’ and I feel like those people need to be more open-minded and be educated on different ways that you can kill a beat.
“If they think that the only way to kill the beat is aggressively attacking it and butcher knife it to death, just those people who feel like that, be a little more open-minded because there are lots of slow flows that have killed beats over time. We talk about Rakim, BIG, King Tee, Ice Cube, Scarface. They have all killed beats with slow flows.”
According to Billboard, Nas’s “King’s Disease II” album lands at No. 3 on US Billboard 200 chart with over 56,000 total album-equivalent units sold.
This numbers are improvements compared to the first King’s Disease album, which debuted at No. 5 on the US Billboard 200 chart with 47,000 total album-equivalent units sold.
KD II chart debut marks Nas’ highest charting album since his 2012’s album, titled Life Is Good, which debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart with the sales of 149,000 copies.
The song “EPMD 2” which features Eminem and EPMD, debuted at No. 79 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100. It earned EPMD their third career entry on the chart and first since “The Joint” in 1997.
Detroit legend Eminem will play Richard Wershe Jr., known as “White Boy Rick,” in 50 Cent’s upcoming Starz drama TV Series, based in Detroit.
The show, ‘BMF,” (Black Mafia Family) is based on the story of two brothers, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, who came from Detroit and led one of the most influential crime families in the United States in the 1980s.
Eminem will be playing Wershe Jr. also known as White Boy Rick, who was an FBI informant in Detroit during the 80s. Unfortunately, he will be in only one episode.
50 Cent confirmed the news via his social media accounts! You can check out the announcement and the trailer of the show below:
Oh yeah i’m bringing the big dogs out, I couldn’t do a show based in Detroit without incorporating the legend @eminem. Got him to play white Boy Rick in BMF, this shit is out of here. 🚦Green Light Gang #bransoncognac#lecheminduroipic.twitter.com/YaklhzgJER
In one of their latest episodes, N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN chopped it up with Asher Roth, Mickey Factz and Blu on Drink Champs.
At one point of the interview, Asher Roth was asked about Eminem comparisons and getting dissed by Eminem on The Marshall Mathers LP 2 back in 2013.
“Comparisons with Eminem is tough. At the end of the day, it’s banter, it’s media. It’s like people have to talk about something. Em is generational as far as an appeal, the numbers he was doing and there is kinda like white rapper quota. When you bring up Beastie Boys, part of the culture but also a visitor at the same time, especially a kid coming from burbs, I’m a product of hip-hop and rap music and what it’s been able to accomplish. And the voices that been able to put on platform and inspire kids like myself and Em was part of that. The group of people that you listen to like ‘cool I guess I can rhyme too,’ even just who I am as a person, rhyme style and everything like that. For me it was kinda like in one ear and out the other that was for other people to discuss.”
“Em threw shots at me before, not really but yeah. It kinda felt like compliment. It’s like a benchmark. But my focus is so much on education and even where I’m at in Philadelphia. It was never about getting into beef with somebody and sell more records. If I was more into entertainment industry and little bit more understanding like ‘let me beef with this and it will put me on little bit more of a pedestal so I can sell more records. That was never really my goal so I actually shied away from the entertainment side just to be able to do what I was focused on.” said Asher.
