Today 50 Cent dropped by the neighborhood to speak with Big Boy about Black Mafia Family Season 2, touring 36 countries, and surpassing 1.8 billion views in 2022. He also discussed his Super Bowl performance with Dr. Dre and Eminem, his First Pitch for the Mets, and his hit song “In Da Club.”
“My relationship with Em is a lot more texting cause I’m moving a lot. Because of the Super Bowl I got an inquiry about the World Cup and they had a budget of nine million dollars for it. I would have took one big. And then another eight… I’m just saying, if you do one-off show maybe you would do the biggest live sporting event in the world. I talked to Paul Rosenberg and everybody around him and he was like ‘Em’s not gonna do it.'” said 50 Cent during the interview.
During the interview, Fif also revealed that Dr. Dre has couple of feature films that were never released.
Couple of days ago, TMZ caught up with the “8 Mile” star Mekhi Phifer where the Hollywood star turned down the possibility of Eminem shooting “8 Mile 2” movie but it seems 50 Cent is already working on the 8 Mile TV Series about Eminem’s legendary career.
“Second part? Sometimes it’s best to leave at one. Sometimes it’s best to leave it alone, once you make a classic, there is no reason to fool around with it. There has not been any conversations about it and it might never happen. Leave the classic alone and it will all be good. Just live with the 8 Mile. It might be interesting what happened next but the story that we told it was all good. I would not be in it. I’m sure Eminem would be in it either.” said Mekhi Phifer.
Today 50 Cent dropped by the neighborhood to speak with Big Boy about Black Mafia Family Season 2, touring 36 countries, and surpassing 1.8 billion views in 2022. He also discusses his Super Bowl performance with Dr. Dre and Eminem, his First Pitch for the Mets, and his hit song “In Da Club.” Plus, 50 Cent revealed Eminem turned down $9 million offer to perform at the FIFA World Cup 2022. He also revealed his plans to create an “8 Mile” TV show.
“I’m gonna bring his 8 Mile to television. And Em knows it. It’s gonna be big. I’m working on it. I ain’t got no does. I’m betting one hundred. It should be there for his legacy. It’s important to me that they understand it. It’s a modern version of Em, think about Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Like a modern version of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I wanna be able to show and offer a lot more details. I’mma do Snoop Dogg story too.” said 50 Cent during the 40-minutes interview.
Lupe Fiasco has recently shared footage of him teaching his new “Rap Theory & Practice” class at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As part of the course, which is described as “an exploration into the underlying fundamental functions, structures, and principles of rap,” Fiasco decodes and breaks down lyrics from himself, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar.
Songs that Lupe Fiasco examined during the lecture included Eminem’s 2000 hit song “Stan,” from The Marshall Mathers LP album, Kendrick Lamar’s “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” and his own track “Jonylah Forever,” from his 2018 release DROGAS Wave.
“Stan! Anybody not aware of Stan? Anybody not blown away with that list? Stan is probably Eminem’s greatest record. Arguably, hands down, probably Eminem’s greatest record. This song is about a fan. It’s where we get the word Stan from. The song is about a fan who writes Eminem a letter. “Dear Marshall…” and writes his first verse. Writes another letter in second verse that’s little bit more aggressive. Then he does the third verse, per say. It’s a recording. Stan recording himself, kidnapping his girlfriend and doing this wired murder suicide plot. And he’s recording this thing to Eminem and at the end of the verse he comes to realization, ‘oh s–t, how I’m gonna send this out?!’ But that’s not a plot twist. That’s great. you gotta stop there but there is fourth verse. And the twist is, Eminem finally receives the letter from the first verse and he sat down to response: ‘Dear Stan…” and at the end of the verse, Eminem has the epiphany ‘oh s–t, it was you.’ The layering and the complexity of how he worked that repetition plot break structure, it was masterful. Taking very simple concept that we all learned when we were kinds.” said Lupe Fiasco.
Knoc-turn’al, who was introduced to the world on Dr. Dre’s multiplatinum album 2001, has recently sat down Cam Capone News where he talked about Eminem and Dr. Dre.
Knoc shined on the songs “Some L.A. Ni–az” and “Bang Bang.” Knoc-turn’al also penned some of the verses for the 2001 album. Dr. Dre then featured Knoc-turn’al on the Dr. Dre classic single and video “Bad Intentions” for the movie soundtrack “The Wash.”
“Eminem has always been fire. He’s a good dude. He has been through a lot but he got it keep together. Eminem has always been a jokester fun dude to be around. You gotta understand he had to work ten times harder than African-American in this business because he’s white. So he had to work harder than us. He had to prove himself. And people don’t understand that point.” said Knoc-turn’al in a new interview.
Then he continues: “Crazy thing is that, Eminem is die-hard, true person. If he cares about you he cares about you. If he don’t, he don’t. Even on The Chronic, 2001 tour, Eminem taking all the b–ches and I can’t even get one. All I am is that I’m on Dr. Dre’s album. I was like ‘give me ne of them dolls’ while he was on stage and he said ‘I think you already stole couple of them.’ Being around him is a fun. He’s a jokester but you gotta get to know people to understand the pain and different things they have been through.”
“I came at the time when Xzibit, Eminem, Hittman, Mel-Man had been around and we had fun.” – Knoc-turn’al added.
Then he continues talking about some of his favorite stories when touring with Dr. Dre. You can watch the interview below:
Image: Eminem holding Jordan 4s Retro Encore for Complex magazine & DJ Khaled holding the same sneakers
To get the hands on Eminem and Jordan 4 Retro Encore sneakers that cost around $40,000 are very rare case in today’s world and it seems DJ Khaled finally got them.
“I finally got them. Anybody know me knows that I’ve been trying to get this longest time. Yes I have a lot of sneakers. I collect sneakers. I collect watches. And I love my sneakers. But I’ve been trying to get these for so long and I finally got them. This is the OG, don’t get twisted. The world has made like 23 pairs of this. I’ve been trying to get them and I could never get them and I finally got them. Look at this! C’mon man! You gonna see me wear these real soon. God did!” said DJ Khaled in one of his latest Instagram videos and in the caption, he wrote: “Never give up !!!!! GOT EM !!!!!!!!!! STILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!”
In the comment sections, P.J. Tucker commented freezing emoji. For the record, Philadelphia 76ers player has recently wore the same Eminem x Jordan 4 Retro Encores in one of his recent NBA games on Christmas.
There are supposed to be only 50 pairs of these “Encore” Jordan IVs made for Eminem and his crew. PJ Tucker is out there playing in em at MSG 🤯 pic.twitter.com/5SIIGedaxA
It seems, DJ Khaled two dreams have both came true in 2022. He finally got that rare Eminem Air Jordan 4s and got Slim Shady as a feature on his “GOD DID” album: “Use This Gospel (Remix)” by Kanye West, featuring Eminem and produced by Dr. Dre.
In October, 2022, GRIP dropped a mixtape called “5 & A F*** You,” the follow-up project of his Shady Records debut album, titled “I Died For This?!,” which featured guest appearances from AHYES, Marco Plus, Wara and Tate228.
The East-Atlanta rapper originally intended to record an EP in a week, but instead ended up extending the project to mixtape length, letting it run its proper course. You can feel the emotion in his voice when he raps: “The day Em spit me my lyrics, I knew I really made it / To have him and Royce on my album, that shit feel amazin’/ ‘Cause they giants in my eyes, residin’ where I aim to be / Remember buyin’ they CD and now they give me game for free.”
After “Cook Up” and “The F Word,” GRIP has recently dropped the music video of “94 Flow,” featuring AHYES. The song is produced by Latrell James and its chorus references to A Tribe Called Quest song, titled “Oh My God.”
Today, GRIP is back again with The Radar Freestyle, spitting over Peezy’s “2 Million Up” instrumental. You can watch it below:
In the original song, the Detroit’s own Peezy references Eminem with the following lines: “Hit your house party, f–_ it up, we misbehavin’ / Gotta keep an eye on my n–_a Slim cause he Shady.” You can watch the video below:
Grammy-nominated music video “The Heart Part 5,” by Kendrick Lamar, that was released alongside the song on May 8, 2022, almost featured an Eminem deep-fake.
In the video, K. Dot performs the song against a red wall, while using deep-fake technology to transform himself into 6 modern Black American figures: in order, they are former football player and convicted felon O. J. Simpson, rapper Kanye West, actors Jussie Smollett and Will Smith, former basketball player Kobe Bryant, and late rapper Nipsey Hussle.
In a recent interview with The New York Times magazine, it was revealed that Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar collaborated with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who both own a company specializing in the deep fake technology. The famous TV duo lent the technology to the pgLang pair, who were the first artists to use the technology in their music video.
“You see Kendrick turned into Tupac, Kendrick turned into Kanye, and I think we had Eminem and we were like ‘What if we did the Jussie Smollett!” Eminem didn’t make the final cut, and K. Dot ended up on deep fakes of Kanye West, Nipsey Hussle, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, OJ Simpson and Jussie Smollett.
New Jersey rapper who goes by the name of AK took to social media shortly after the video dropped to accuse Kendrick of stealing his idea. Austin Kassabian claimed Kendrick copied the deepfake concept from his “Family Tree” video, which was released back in September 2020. The black-and-white clip shows AK rapping into the camera in front of a blank backdrop as his face transforms into some of the biggest names in hip-hop: Lil Wayne, Missy Elliot, Eminem, MC Lyte, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Nate Dogg, T-Pain, J. Cole, Nas, Rakim, Andre 3000, 50 Cent, Jay-Z and Drake.
In the song, AK raps: “I am AK, I am not the next Em / But everybody telling me that I’m the next him / But understand there will never be a next Em / You’ll probably twist my words and say I don’t respect him / I always preach to keep it real so I’m about to now / Em did not influence me ’cause I was not allowed / To listen to him, my parents said I was just a child / I wondered why and I look back and I got it now / My young mind back then probably wasn’t ready / To hear the shit that he talked about, they said he was too edgy / I couldn’t listen to anything, younger me, he was begging / I couldn’t wait to hear the song about his momma’s spaghetti / His influence on me was indirect / ‘Cause I was listening to Hopsin, I was obsessed / I come to find he was the same way when it came to Em.” (via Genius)
Music and Basketball fans often get to see LeBron James bobbing his head to new releases, especially to a rap music. The Basketball legend loves posting videos of himself enjoying music and jamming along to the beat.
However, its rare to see James’ eight-year-old daughter enjoy some music. Few hour ago, Lebron posted a video of himself and his daughter Zhuri James reciting Eminem’s Oscar and Grammy winning song “Lose Yourself.” James captioned the video: “My babe loves this song!! Great DNA!!”
This is not the first time a celebrity’s daughter is listening to an Eminem song. Couple of weeks ago, Kim Kardashian posted a video of her and Kanye West’s daughters enjoying listening to Eminem’s “Big Weenie” song from Encore album. The video went viral on TikTok and collected more than 43 million views in few days.
It was not the first time Kanye West’s daughters are bumping an Eminem song. Last year, they lip-synced over his classic song “The Real Slim Shady” from The Marshall Mathers LP album.
Kanye once even revealed that his daughter’s most favorite song is “Use This Gospel” and thanked Eminem for doing the remix of the song on Twitter “EMINEM THANK YOU FOR RAPPING ON THE DR DRE REMIX OF USE THIS GOSPEL I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED AND RESPECTED YOU AND IM HONORED TO HAVE YOU BLESS THIS SONG … ITS ALSO NORTH WEST’S FAVORITE KANYE WEST SONG OF ALL TIME.”
You can check LeBron and Kim Kardashian’s videos below:
Genius, the biggest digital media company that provides annotations and interpretation to song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents, has released the most viewed pages on their platform.
Topping the list of most viewed rappers in 2022 with more than 19 million pageviews is Kendrick Lamar, who dropped his long-waited critically-acclaimed album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers in May.
Joining Kendrick in the Top 6 are Kanye West, Juice WRLD, Drake, Eminem and YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a young talented rapper who released a bunch of music in 2022 while on house arrest in Utah.
Check out the Top 6 rappers of 2022 on Genius below.
1. Kendrick Lamar – 19.5 million pageviews.
2. Kanye West – 17.5 million pageviews.
3. Juice WRLD – 14.9 million pageviews.
4. Drake – 14.2 million pageviews.
5. Eminem – 13.5 million pageviews.
6. YoungBoy Never Broke Again – 7 million pageviews.
Despite not released an album for almost 3 years, Em‘s lyrics managed to be one of the most viewed pages on Genius. His all time top 10 most viewed songs are:
1. Rap God – 17.9 million pageviews.
2. Killshot – 7 million pageviews.
3. Lose Yourself – 6.7 million pageviews.
4. Godzilla (ft. Juice WRLD) – 6.3 million pageviews.
5. The Monster (ft. Rihanna) – 4.8 million pageviews.
6. Lucky You (ft. Joyner Lucas) – 4.7 million pageviews.
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published an interview with legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, where he discussed a range of topics from the rise of technology and streaming to his favorite television shows.
When asked about how he discovers new music, Dylan said it arrives “mostly by accident”, before listing musicians who he’s been listening to of late and among them was Eminem and Wu-Tang Clan, both of whom Dylan said he is “a fan of”. He praised both for their “feeling for words and language”, saying he enjoys “anybody whose vision parallels mine.”
Bob Dylan previously mentioned Eminem in a 2001 interview with Time magazine. Dylan revealed that he hadn’t listened to much of Eminem’s music, but said that the rapper was “doing something right. I almost feel like if anything is controversial, the guy’s gotta be doing something right.”
For the full interview, visit The Wall Street Journal here.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again also know as NBA YoungBoy is among a few rappers who achieved massive streaming and viewing numbers in 2022 while remaining nearly invisible to the pop establishment.
NBA YoungBoy is the archetype for this phenomenon. His total streaming numbers are second to only Drake’s among all artists, and yet he is hidden. He has no radio presence. He isn’t even in the Top 20 on Billboard’s year-end artists list. Nor is he one of Spotify’s Top 5 most-streamed artists in the United States.
In 2022, The Baton Rouge-born rapper broke Eminem’s record for most solo music videos with over 100 million views on YouTube and now he shared Eminem’s “The Wash” movie scenes to his 12 million subscribers. In the caption, NBA wrote: “Good morning a–holes!”
“The Wash” is a 2001 American comedy movie written, produced and directed by DJ Pooh and starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and DJ Pooh, with guest appearances by Eminem, Ludacris, Kurupt, Shaquille O’Neal, Xzibit and Pauly Shore. The film was released on November 16, 2001.
Some fans thought YoungBoy was hinting on Eminem collaborations and some think he’s an Eminem fan and most of them didn’t even care. Check out couple of reactions below and tell us, would you want NBA and Slim Shady collab?!
In 2022, Eminem released and was featured in total of seven songs, mostly produced by Dr. Dre, featuring the likes of 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, CeeLo Green, The D.O.C. and Cordae. Even though it had not been much active year for Em, he performed at one of the biggest stages in the world, that includes Super Bowl Halftime performance, Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and MTV Video Music Awards. Traditionally, at the end of every year, we have listed all the songs Slim Shady jumped on in 2022.
Cordae and Eminem teamed up on the remix of “Parables” for “From A Bird’s Eye View” album, produced by Cardiak and Nami. “Parables (Remix)” opens with the same two Cordae verses heard on the original. In the song, Eminem raps overcoming adversity on his verse, a showcase for his rapid-fire punning. He starts by remembering how, as a young rapper, he dreamed of nothing more than being featured in the hip-hop magazine The Source, which would award “five mics” for killer albums and promote new talent in the “Unsigned Hype” column.
2. Dr. Dre – “Gospel,” featuring Eminem & The D.O.C. (February 4, 2022)
Originally, “Gospel,” debuted in December 15, 2021 through GTA Online: The Contract but it was officially released on streaming platforms on February 4, 2022, a week before legendary Super Bowl performance, which also featured 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Anderson .Paak. Contrary to most Eminem verses, the pace throughout “Gospel” is relatively not fast. GTA Online: The Contract showcases Dre’s beginnings of a comeback in the music game after not having dropped a project of his own since 2015’s Compton.
3. Eminem – Jimmy, Brian and Mike (May 26, 2022)
Originally recorded sometime in 1999-2000, Eminem released the song alongside 38-track expanded edition of his blockbuster 2002 fourth solo studio album, The Eminem Show, in honor of the LP’s 20th anniversary. The song is produced by Eminem, Mike Elizondo and Dr. Dre and Em originally recorded it for his third solo studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP, before scrapping the track in its early stages. “A couple months ago for this EXPANDED EDITION release Em went back to the lab, recalled the sessions, finished the chorus and put the touches on it so that it could be included in the Bonus Tracks added to the album. Please sit back and enjoy the show.” said Eminem’s manager, Paul Rosenberg.
4. Eminem & CeeLo Green – “The King and I,” (June 16, 2022)
The song was released on June 16, 2022, as the fourth single from the soundtrack to the Elvis Presley biopic film Elvis. It was later included on Eminem’s second greatest hits album, Curtain Call 2, released through Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope Records. Produced by Dr. Dre, the song samples Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock”, and showcases the two artists taking turns, paying homage to Presley. “Me and Eminem have been friends for years. I’ve longed for an opportunity to work with him. He said, ‘Hey man, can you do this for me? I need it really quickly, I need it tonight.’ So when Eminem says he needs something tonight, you deliver.” said CeeLo Green. The song debuted at No. 86. on UK’s Single’s chart.
5. Eminem & Snoop Dogg – “From The D 2 The LBC” (June 24, 2022)
Originally intended for Mount Westmore album, the song was released as the second single from Eminem’s second greatest hits album, Curtain Call 2. Produced by Eminem the track marks the first collaboration between the two rappers in over 20 years, having last appeared together on the track “Bitch Please II” from Em’s iconic album, The Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000. On the day of the single’s release, Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed the song live at ApeFest, a festival held in New York for Bored Ape NFT holders, about a month later, they also brought the song live on MTV Video Music Awards. The song debuted at No. 72 on US Billboard Hot 100, making the first entry for Eminem in 2022.
6. Eminem – “Is This Love (’09),” featuring 50 Cent (August 5, 2022)
“Is This Love” is an unreleased song from 2009, most likely recorded for Em’s Relapse 2 album, yet was kept in the vault due to the negative reviews received by Relapse from Critics. This track is one of the three recorded by the duo in 2009, with the one, “Psycho”, being put on 50’s album, Before I Self Destruct and Relapse’s “Crack A Bottle,” which also features Dr. Dre and became No. 1 single in US. Like “Jimmy, Brian and Mike,” the track contains re-recorded vocals by both Em and Fiddy.
7. DJ Khaled – “Use This Gospel (Remix),” featuring Kanye West & Eminem (August 25, 2022)
In 2020, Ye announced a remix of his daughter’s favorite song, featuring Eminem and produced by Dr. Dre. Kanye tweeted that he had always loved and respected Eminem, expressing respect towards him for appearing on the song. The two of them had previously collaborated on the single “Forever” in 2009, alongside Drake and Lil Wayne. The song was released by DJ Khaled through his thirteenth studio album God Did.
You can listen to the songs through our Spotify playlist below:
For the list of all Eminem songs, released in 2011, visit here.
