Since the release of Music To Be Murdered By: Side B, Eminem has been trending on Twitter often and it’s for all the right reasons.
The Rap God has now surpassed R&B singer Mariah Carey’s number of monthly listeners on Spotify. According to Eminem Charts account on Twitter, Eminem now has 39 million monthly listeners on Spotify, which is two million more than Mariah Carey’s 37 million.
You can check out the tweet below:
Eminem (39M) has now surpassed Mariah Carey (37M) becoming the second act pre 2000’s with the most monthly listeners on Spotify currently. pic.twitter.com/qovUvDx120
Eminem has just released the music video of “Higher,” which features Dana White, footages of UFC fights and videos of the fans sent to him a week ago.
In the video, Eminem pays homage to his biggest influence when growing up: LL Cool J. Specifically LL’s Grammy-winning single “Mama Said Knock You Out.” The song that was inspired by his grandmother, who told him to “knock out” critics who were disappointed in his previous album.
“Mama Said Knock You Out” uses samples from James Brown’s “Funky Drummer,” the Chicago Gangsters’ “Gangster Boogie,” Sly & The Family Stone’s “Trip to Your Heart” and “Sing a Simple Song”, and his own track “Rock the Bells” which Eminem performed at Hip-Hop Honor Awards 2009.
“Higher” is a song from Music To Be Murdered By: Side B, by Eminem, produced by himself. In the song the Detroit legend shows off his lyrical capabilities and talks about his life after fame.
The song’s hook is performed by Sly Pyper and Eminem is now the official theme song to #UFC257, featuring Dustin Poirier vs Conor McGregor fight. The song was also featured in the promo video of Football’s National Champion finale.
On the New Year’s Eve, Eminem appeared on his radio station Shade 45 to talk about every songs from the Side B album. The interviewer asked what motivates Eminem right now, and the Rap God answered:
“As far as things like to motivate myself like it’s just the same thing I’ve always tried to do is like “make this better than the last one. But I draw inspiration from all over the place whether it be from new rappers coming up, I’m always checking for the next dude, the next female, whoever.”
About a week ago, Eminem asked fans to sing the hooks of the song and the best ones are now included in the video, alongside exclusive footages of Poirier VS McGregor fight. You can check out the latest motivational track from Eminem below:
Eminem has recently visited Sports Center on ESPN with Dana White and it seems the debate got little heated.
In the short video clip shared by former UFC fighter, current comedian and podcast host Brendan Schaub, it appears that Eminem is critiquing the UFC president: “Best part of your opinion is that it does not matter and if every fighter that you had listened your opinion when you doubted them you would not have f**king league.”
Watch the clip below. Full video is not yet available. THE CONTEXT MIGHT BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Story is being updated. Stay tuned!
Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon album, which was executive produced by 50 Cent, is officially Ireland’s biggest debut album released in 2020.
Pop Smoke’s Meet The Woo mixtapes put him on the map, but his legacy was firmly cemented with his debut and posthumous album Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart in July, and returned to the top spot 10 weeks later to claim a further 5 non-consecutive weeks at the top.
The album has tied with Eminem’s Recovery album for the most weeks at No.1 in Ireland’s history for a rap album (6-6 weeks at No. 1)
Another Eminem’s record stays untouchable though. Slim Shady has the most number 1 rap albums on the Official Irish Albums Chart history. Check the numbers below:
The Outsidaz were the hip-hop collective group formed in 1991 by Young Zee and Pacewon. They were strongly affiliated with D12 as the members of the groups collaborated on different projects in the past.
Eminem shouts out the Outsidaz at the end of the song “Just Don’t Give a F**k”, in the beginning of “C** On Everybody”, “As the World Turns” and “Till Hell Freezes Over.”
A rift developed between Eminem and Tha Outsidaz when Young Zee and Pace Won each recorded verses alongside D12’s Bizarre for the “Amityville” track for Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP album. Reportedly, Dr. Dre complained that Eminem had too many guest appearances on the album, so Pace Won and Young Zee’s verses were removed from the track.
Since then, Young Zee and Pacewon released couple of diss-tracks towards Eminem. But in 2015, on a song “Fine Line,” Eminem spits a verse showing his appreciation to them:
Put a thousand lighters in the sky for the Outsidaz Wow, I must have had Alzheimer’s Long time since I shouted them out, ’bout time ‘Cause it’s been on my mind lately how Zee, you always supported me You vouched, I will never forget that and How you guys accepted me for me and Pace I love you too, you slept on my couch And I’ve been thinkin’ ’bout the time When I slept on the floor at The Outhouse Rhyming’s all we ever wanted to do And regardless how life has turned out Inside I’ll, I’ll always be an outsider
Today, out of nowhere, one of the members of the group, Az Izz released a diss-track to Eminem. Previously, Az hyped the song by saying “Eminem will retire after hearing the song.” But how well Az Izz did, you can listen to the song below:
On Rich Eisen Show, Actor Anthony Mackie reveals a never before told story about ‘8 Mile’ final battle, B-Rabbit (Eminem) against Papa Doc.
“One day we sit on a set and Eminem comes over and he’s like ‘what’s up man, I was reading a script and there is no reason for me not to like you, you are cool dude, I like you’ and then I said ‘I like you too.’ And then he was like ‘So you don’t mind if I add some stuff about you? I’m like sure go ahead. So before the entire 8 Mile final battle, he googles about me and learns about me and he basically makes fun of me as Papa Doc. [Laughs] And then I’m like ‘you getting little personal Mr. Marshall… I didn’t really go Cranbrook, but I did go at private school [laughs].” said Anthony Mackie
At the end of the video, one of the hosts also reveal a story about Brittany Murphy: “I was friends with the late Brittany Murphy and one time she told me a story that she had no idea how to throw up a middle finger cause she never flipped anyone off in her entire life until she did 8 Mile with Marshall. Eminem and her sit down and was teaching her how to do it. And if you watch the movie, he has a weird way of flipping people off. And if you look, she does the exact same way he does.”
And the hosts finally decided to re-watch 8 Mile movie again. Watch the full thing below:
Fat Joe has recently teamed up with Bow Wow on Instagram Live and as usual, the Ohio rapper was asked his Top 5 rappers dead or alive. Check the conversation below:
Bow Wow: Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Ice Cube, LL Cool J and Jay-Z. I was going to throw Eminem in there. I’ve seen lots of cats asked about their Top 5s and they are not putting Eminem in there but as far as lyricism and wordplay he deservers it. I just don’t understand how Eminem rhymes the words that does not rhyme but he makes them rhyme.
Fat Joe: He’s incredible. Eminem is something else. You know and I know if he was not something else he would not be where he’s at. Because they would not let him get that type of pass. That man was so exception. I remember when Eminem’s first album came out we were in LA for Grammys and me and Big Pun waited on line, and Pun was nominated for two Grammys and he was double platinum and me and him literally, physically waited on line at the Tower Records to buy Eminem’s album. One of the biggest misconception ever is to all the other new white rappers who come up in the game they feel like they gotta diss Eminem to get on another level. Which is NOT TRUE. And they wanna go to war even though they dead nice too. The next Puerto Rican rapper don’t gotta diss Fat Joe! Show me love, I’ll embrace you and show you love!
Bow Wow: It’d be a clout too Joe. But clout only lives short. It’s gonna last two or three days.”
Snoop Dogg has recently visited Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen where he finally addressed Eminem’s “Zeus” directly.
When the host let guests ask the question to Snoop Dogg, one of the guests asked about Eminem situation. Here is what Snoop replied:
“We are still friends. I think that is family business and I do not want to make more than it is. I mean, he said what he said, I respect that and we are just going to keep it right there. That is family business.”
This is the finally confirmation that Eminem and Snoop Dogg so called ‘beef’ has ended as soon as it escalated. You can watch the new video below:
Young Buck has recently set down with DJ VLAD where he detailed the story of his infamous encounter with a trans woman.
“When that s**t first happened, just to be honest with you, it f**-ed me up like it would f**- anybody up. For me, it was one of them situations where I reacted not even seeing the video first because I know where I stand at. Like I said, I do not got a problem with them people. That was not me. But when I seen the f**-ing video, I said, damn, that is me in that f**-ing video. But it was not me knowingly going into a situation knowing that this is what the f*** it was. It was one of those things where I was catfished out of some s**t pretty much. A person was in these DMs sending p**sy pictures squirting all over the room and pop up and say ‘I’m in your city’. Me, at the time, thinking with my d**-, I smashed over there thinking I am gonna smash on this b***- and walk in the situation– it was not even me knowing what the person was at the time, it was me feeling like, hold on, this is a f**-ing robbery or set-up because when I realized, ‘hold on, that ain’t the same motherf**-er that’s been in the video’, I immediately got the f*** out of the room.”
“It’s clearly a situation where they were using the video to try and set me up for whatever reason or whatever they were trying to do. Because when I seen this s**t, I could see the way the camera angles were set up, but there was nothing that came from that. It was me getting out of the room honestly thinking that it was a f**-ing set-up from a b***- because nothing came from it. I approached the situation like, ‘ay, put this motherf**-er in your mouth’ from the understanding of what it was through these DMs and texts at that time was, ‘I am on my period’. So I was basically coming in, looking for the godd**n head out the b***- but it ended up not being a f**-ing b**-h and I ended up not getting no head from this motherf**-er.”
50 Cent responded to his interview on social media, saying: “Damn this boy really different [Laughs]. Caught with another transgender contender.”
Fat Joe has recently set down with Detroit’s own Lazarus on Instagram Live to talk about many things that’s going on in the world right now.
As usual, Fat Joe asked his guest from Detroit to list his top 5 rappers of all time. Here is what Lazarus replied:
“My top five…Obviously Pac and Biggie, that cliché gotta stay in there. Because the impact they had on me. The genius GZA, who’s also personal mentor of mine. That’s one of my favorite emcees. He might be my favorite emcee just because of wordplay, science that he puts into it, you could see the connection to it. “Liquid Swords” is my favorite album of all time. Shout out to GZA, genius. Then I probably go with Nas and Eminem and Big Pun. That’s six but you know…”
John Salley has recently set down with DJ VLAD where he talked about Eminem and Snoop Dogg situation. During the interview, VLAD asked the veteran basketball player what if Snoop Dogg responded Eminem with a diss track..
“Eminem’s response was dope! But if Snoop Dogg dissed Eminem, it would be the biggest mistake of his life. Snoop is hip-hop. Jay-Z is great. NAS is great. Biggie is great. Tupac is great. Eminem is great. Hip-Hop as it is as we see, it’s Snoop Dogg, to the point where everybody knows that. So when you walk in and you see Snoop you think we and hip-hop. He changed everything. Biggie said I wanna sell records like Snoop. So for him to reply to that, nah, Eminem just said you are like God to me. So Gods can do whatever they want.”
“Just do not go after Eminem. He’s too lyrical. Prowess to this young man. I love hip-hop. When I hear lyrics and I just get caught up in the wordplay, that’s why I like J. Cole. That’s why I like Kendrick, Logic, Joyner Lucas. I still listen to Nas and Jay-Z to this day. 2 Chainz is probably my favorite next to Eminem and Royce Da 5’9″, of course Andre 3000 too but Eminem putting words together like nobody. Nah, don’t do that.” said John Salley
