A new documentary titled The DOC, which the legendary rapper The D.O.C. produced himself and first-time film director Dave Caplan helmed, is telling Tracy Lynn Curry’s full story, from his humble beginnings in Dallas to his recent religious reawakening.
The film’s talking heads are a who’s who of hip-hop, including interviews with Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Tone Loc, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Too $hort, Xzibit, and on and on, as well as members of Curry’s family and his ex Erykah Badu.
The movie premiered few days ago in New York as part of the Tribeca Film Festival and it will be available for streaming soon.
The D.O.C. took a time to share a picture with Eminem and Dr. Dre on his Instagram to show the appreciation to every person who were involved in the project: “All of these amazing people did a fantastic job on what they’re calling the Hidden Gem at Tribeca!! Thank you all!”
The Game joins Brandon Marshall, Pacman Jones, and Nick “Swaggy P” Young in Episode 36 of I Am Athlete. Watch and listen below as the Compton rapper talks about 50 Cent, Eminem, L.A. Lakers, becoming an independent artist and his upcoming new album “Drillmatic”.
“I say Eminem is slightly overrated. He came in with Dre and whenever you get certified by black hand it helps you out and there is a thing called white privilege too. It is what it is. It exists and it helps.”
“I said then years ago that nobody is better than Eminem but, when you was 4 years old, did you help me cross the road? But what about 14? Then years is a long time. How I felt back then, I don’t feel the same. And the reason I felt like that back then was because I was part of the family still.”
“Even before I was signed to Aftermath, they put Eminem on the pedestal. Interscope put the bag behind them, media, which is predominantly run by white people, they paid to do it. They still do it. It’s called promotion. They put money behind the biggest artists. If you are Adele, you are getting the bag behind you but the singer that sings just as good as Adele who is on the same or different label, might not get the bag behind them. It really breaks down to the politics inside the building. So, they made sure Eminem was going to be Eminem. I was a fan of that too. I was fan of Dr. Dre and Hi My Name Is. I’m not saying Eminem can’t rap or he is not an amazing rapper. All I ever said was he’s not just better than me.”
“Money, power and media can make you believe anybody is great. So again, Em is an outstanding rapper but I’m just better… Even when I was Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre back in the days, in the rooms where 50 Cent and Eminem were allowed to walk in, I never got the invite. Like the Super Bowl. You never say I’m better than Eminem because they never put me in the places where my talents can be magnified.”
“I’m definitely Top 20. I got too many rappers that I love that are in the Top 10 to put myself in the Top 10. I can just run them down just for you to understand why. And this is no particular order. I like Biggie, Pac, Jay, Nas, Andre 3000, Eminem will be in my top 10 just because what he has done and it does not matter who put what behind him, he did, he did rap to get there so there is Em, Ice Cube, Snoop, I like Kendrick in my Top 10 cause I watched it happen.” said The Game.
Westside Boogie’s second Shady Records album “More Black Superheroes” will be released this Friday (June 17, 2022) and it will feature Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy, Smino, and more.
The debut album Everything’s For Sale was one of the best releases of 2019, but it’s been three long years since he’s dropped a full body of work but Boogie is now back with his alter egos.
The Compton rapper shared the official cover art and tracklist for the 12-tracked album which will feature guest appearances from Soulja Boy, Snoop Dogg, Smino, Teezo Touchdown, KalanFrFr, and Shelley fka DRAM, who appears on the previously released single titled “Aight,” and more.
“This album is about embracing our powers. This album is for you because you survived all your trials, for the black fathers that go out in the world and feel like they have to hide all our true feelings because it seems weak to express how you’re hurt but no that’s one of your biggest strengths, For the people that feel boxed by the world and have to hide there many sides ..I love you let’s heal together. MORE BLACK SUPERHEROES out on Friday now go pre save my s**t.” said Boogie in the post.
Shady Records artist also released the opening track, “Killa Mode.” You can pre-save the album here, check the announcement and listen to the new track below:
50 Cent has started the United Kingdom tour this week and the crowd’s admission has been impressive so far!
Fifty was performing at the OVO Arena in Wembley last Friday, 10 June, 2022 when he made the crowd slightly emotional after he said he was not sure if the United Kingdom would remember him.
Fiddy told to the thousands in the crowd: “You all did not forget. I thought you forgot about me.” He then made a reference to Dr. Dre who produced 50 Cent’s major-label debut album, an all-time classic, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, back in 2003.
“You know like they Forgot About Dre,” 50 added before spitting some Eminem bars from the song: “Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say but nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish and motherf***ers act like they forgot about Dre.”
“Forgot About Dre” is a song from 1999 by Dr. Dre and Eminem and the theme, as you might have guessed, was a message to the ‘haters’ who thought the producer had ‘fallen off’.
After spitting few lines of Eminem’s hook, 50 kicked off one of his hit songs “Ayo Technology,” which features Justin Timberlake.
The Game joins Brandon Marshall, Pacman Jones and Nick ” Swaggy P” Young in Episode 36 of I Am Athlete podcast.
The LA rapper explains his thoughts surrounding not being selected to perform in the Super Bowl LVI Halftime show with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar featuring 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak.
“The reason I was not on Super Bowl is that I’m not ‘safe artist’. You don’t know what Game gonna do when you get up there. The Super Bowl was in LA. It’s Dr. Dre’s Super Bowl but it is Jay-Z! Jay-Z understands the dynamic of west coast hip-hop very well and I don’t think Jay-Z would have a problem if Dre would have said ‘we bring The Game to Super Bowl.'”
“Outside of myself, I think YG should have been on Super Bowl. If it was New York Super Bowl, you might have saw Jay-Z, you might have saw NAS, Mary J. Blige and Fivio Foreign and Alicia Keys. You might have saw anybody cause we on the west coast are only motherf**kers that have this crab in the barrel mentality where we wanna keep down or don’t do things based on what somebody else might think it looks like.”
“Snoop Dogg was there because Snoop Dogg is safe, and he’s a legend. My grandmother knows about Snoop and so do my children. Snoop is an icon. Dre is an icon. Eminem is an icon but Em is not from LA. 50 Cent is not from LA. I’m not taking away from the fact that they were on Super Bowl but LA would not be on Detroit Super Bowl, or New York Super Bowl. It’s was LA Super Bowl and I didn’t get the call. I was hurt by that.”
“I feel like Dre should have called and said why. I would understand that. Because I talk to Dre. I talk to Dre often. I just know that if I was Dre and he was Game, he would have been up there. That’s it. It’s LA and I’m LA. I AM LA. I am in the streets. So it hurt. Am I bothered by it? Ain’t nobody bothered by it today. I feel that it was amazing Super Bowl and it was a win for our culture as a whole.” – said Game.
Elvis, which is a 2022 biographical musical drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, respectively, as singer Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Tom Parker, with Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Olivia DeJonge, Luke Bracey, Natasha Bassett, David Wenham, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Xavier Samuel, and Kodi Smit-McPhee in supporting roles, is set to be released in the United States theaters on June 24, 2022.
The soundtracks album, which is dropping on the same day as the movie, includes a song titled “The King And I” by Eminem, featuring CeeLo Green and produced by Dr. Dre On May 23, 2022, Eminem announced on Instagram his involvement in the film. He shared a very short snippet of the song.
Few hours ago, the official announcement was made by Warner Bros. on Instagram with the caption: “The #ElvisMovie soundtrack is THE sound of summer featuring Doja Cat, Måneskin, Kacey Musgraves, Eminem and more! Dropping June 24. Pre-order the soundtrack now via the link in the bio.”
You can pre order the album here and check the announcement below:
Earlier this year it was announced that a documentary about legendary rapper The D.O.C. is premiering this summer, and it features heavyweight cast of Hip Hop stars like Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Xzibit, Too $hort, Kurupt, Daz Dillinger and more.
The documentary is set to premiere this week at the Tribeca Festival. The Dave Caplan-directed feature promises to tell the story of D.O.C. from his work in the Fila Fresh Crew to grappling with his legacy in the world of hip-hop.
In the clip shared by Slim Shady with the caption: “No one can do it better… me and THE DOC from his upcoming documentary,” Eminem offers some high praise for one of D.O.C.’s best solo songs and highlights how he really pioneered the West-Coast sound in the late ‘80s.
“He was doing things that nobody had done yet, like just lyrically “I would’ve been down with Rock but I’d be broke / By the punk, I’m openin’ up my trunk / To reveal, death, livin’ it up, my life is like a story / Yellin’ it, ‘cause nobody else is tellin’ it / Checkin’ it, always gettin’ paid ‘cause the rap is sort of a twist.” rapped Eminem the song titled “Mind Blowin'” from 1989 album No One Can Do It Better.
He then called over D.O.C. to hear him rap the verse, for a clarification on one of the track’s lines. “What the f**k… What was that right there?” he said after interrupting himself. “Never a segment in negative / ‘Cause I’m employin’ what you’ve been missin,’” he replied.
“How the f**k did you do that s**t, goddamn,” Em added.
The Game pulled up to chat with Speedy Morman in the hills of Los Angeles this week. There, they spoke on whether or not rap lyrics should be used in court, the topic of white privilege and how it has played a role for rappers like Eminem and Jack Harlow.
“I am better than Eminem. I’m a fan of Em just like everybody else but he is not my favorite rapper and I feel like if Em is honest he thinks he has two and half three albums out of eleven that are really sold projects, so do I. So what constitutes Em being better rapper than me if I got classic albums too?”
“Eminem came at a time when he was a white rapper and we all know about white privilege, it exists in hip-hop as well. Especially at the time when Em came in. He was the best white rapper in the world. I’m not saying Eminem is not one of great rappers but so am I and he’s not better than me.” said The Game.
Griselda’s Benny the Butcher is raising money for the families of the 10 victims of the racially motivated mass shooting in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. Yesterday, the rapper released his track titled “Welcome to the States” addressing the massacre and the need for reforms.
“Ideologies formed on hate, now the grocery stores ain’t safe.” raps Benny on the track that samples Kendrick Lamar “We Cry Together.”
The black-and-white music video — which has a fundraiser for the National Crime Victim Bar Association and other organizers helping the shooting victims’ families tied to it — laces clips of grocery stores and American imagery with historical clips of the Ku Klux Klan.
“Mass shooting in my city, eight minutes from where my block at. Saw innocent people shot at a supermarket I shop at,” he raps, before ending the song with an audio clip from President Joe Biden’s speech addressing the shooting.
Benny has also recently shouted out Eminem and Pau Rosenberg for signing Griselda to Shady Records. In a tweet, he said: “What Paul and Eminem did for Buffalo and hip hop just by signing Griselda is forever appreciated.”
You can check the tweet and Benny’s new track below:
What Paul and Em did for Buffalo & hip hop jus by signing Griselda is forever appreciated 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Stranger Things stars Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown have recently sat down for a game of “Song Association” with Elle few days ago, and needless to say, things got hilariously feisty between the two.
Before they even started the game, the Hollywood stars confessed that they would put in some practice ahead of time. “I mean, we tried playing it yesterday just for fun,” Schnapp admitted to the camera. “Millie crushed me, so we’ll see how it goes.”
From there, the pals — who play Eleven and Will Byers in the Netflix sci-fi hit, which just dropped season four — went round for round trying to come up with songs and sing them before the other when given a single word. Among their prompts? “Monster” (“Monster by Kanye West and “Monster” by Eminem and Rihanna), “Easy” (“Easy on Me” by Adele) and “Life” (“Life” by Drake, though Brown couldn’t come up with the lyrics and had to substitute Rascal Flatts’ “Life Is a Highway” after time ran out.)
Grammy-award winning singer CeeLo Green was recently given an honorary doctorate degree in humanitarianism from Global Alliance International University.
In a new interview with KTLA, Green credited his music and overall positive vibe for the major honor. “I think what I have been able to accomplish over my 30-year career is a lot of love and generosity and being an all-around good person.”
Green also talked about highly-anticipated “Elvis” movie where him and Eminem have a song titled “The King & I”
“Me and Eminem have been friends for years, I have 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.”
Legendary rapper Ras Kass has recently sat down on No Jumper podcast where he explained why he thought The Game going at Eminem is a desperate move and why he is a pathetic rapper!
“He’s the worst. Him going at Eminem is a desperation. I smell desperation. Everybody wants a shot at the title, man, cause there is more money but what are, how you to deserve to get there? What did you do to get there? Bar up bro. And other part is, if you sit around in a team and they write your raps then you are not a lyricist.”
“It’s called rap. At least write your rap ni**a. Can’t do that? And you say you are the greatest and you that dude? You asked me about battling Eminem…Eminem writes his rhymes! And let me tell you what every rapper does. Every ni**a who get popular they do same groupie s**t: “My top five? Eminem, Jay-Z, Nas, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and ME!” F**K OUTTA HERE. Everybody wants to be big dog with obvious popular ni**as. It’s the corniest thing ever made.” said Ras Kass.
