Eminem and the MC5 might become the latest entrants into the list of Detroit’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Couple of days ago, Marshall Mathers was nominated for Rock Hall, 25 years and three months after his debut album, “Infinite,” was released.
If inducted, Eminem and the MC5 would become the 20th and 21st Detroit performers enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and the first since the Miracles were selected in 2012.
Inductees are selected by a panel of 1,000-plus artists, historians and other music professionals, with a public vote also incorporated into the process. Fans can cast their ballots at vote.rockhall.com.
Eminem was already number one voted artist on the list but Slim Shady still asked his fans not to stop voting. “Eminem nominated for Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction! Voting open now thru 4/29 and capped at 1 ballot per day. Top 5 make it in. Stans get busy!” posted Shady Records page, which was reshared by Eminem on his story.
Check the post and standings after the jump below:
This week, Eminem has three albums on the Billboard 200, with one returning and another reaching a significant milestone.
Music to Be Murdered By climbs to No. 139 while The Eminem Show resurfaces at No. 73 and Curtain Call: The Hits falls to No. 106.
Eminem’s latest offering Music To Be Murdered By (2020) has now been on the list for a total of 104 weeks, or full two years, making it the first 2020s album to achieve this milestone.
After dropping the first single “Piano Love” last year, Conway The Machine announced the release date for his Shady Records debut album, God Don’t Make Mistakes, which is dropping on February 25, 2022.
Today, Griselda’s heavy-hitter drops second single “John Woo Flick,” which includes guest appearances from Benny The Butcher and Westside Gunn with Daringer behind the board.
“Announcing the release date of God Don’t Make Mistakes with my new single ‘John Woo Flick,’ its perfect timing. Finally, my fans get to hear the music I put my heart and soul into.” said Buffalo’s finest in recently released statement.
As previously revealed (but it’s the subject of change), Conway’s God Don’t Make Mistakes album features guest appearances from Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Benny The Butcher, Westside Gunn, Jill Scott, T.I., Beanie Sigel, The Alchemist, Hit-Boy, Daringer and Beat Butcha among others.
Variety magazine has recently sat down with U2 singer Bono and his bandmate, the Edge, this week.
This year the legendary rock band came up with “Your Song Saved My Life,” tune for a climactic scene in “Sing 2” that is currently shortlisted in the Oscars’ best original song preliminary voting.
During the interview, the Edge and Bono talked about a variety of subjects, including: the subterfuge of sneaking serious themes into family-friendly animation and their previous Oscar nominations and losses.
Back in 2003, U2 was nominated at the Oscars for “The Hands That Built America” song from Gangs of New York but lost to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” from 8 Mile movie. They also lost in 2014 to Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopezs.
Interviewer: Looking ahead to the Oscars this year, the shortlist, it’s star-studded, and talent-studded. Looking at who you’re up against, is there anybody you’d the most embarrassed about beating, if you won?
Bono: Oh, no. We’d never be embarrassed about beating (anyone)! Although I will say, (losing to) Eminem (in 2002, when U2 was nominated for a song from “Gangs of New York”), I have to be honest, that song, “Lose Yourself,” we were sitting there — he wasn’t even there — and it’s really an extraordinary song. I still had a tiny bit of humble, and there was a part of me there that was going, “Mmm. This will be hard. To win against that could backfire.” But we lost to a children’s animation, I think, for “Ordinary Love” (in 2013, when “Let It Go” won). But it had that incredible psychedelic line in it, didn’t it? [When Elsa sings, “My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around.”] So we had to let that go. … Look, at this point, you just want your song to get a chance to be heard, and this is a great vehicle for it.
Bono also briefly talked about Eminem’s “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” song: “Opening up to questioning why you do things, and about how you grew up and why you ended up where you ended up and all of those kinds of questions, once I opened that door, I couldn’t close it. And there was a lot for me to look at. Was it Eminem who talked about tidying his room [laughs] — “Cleanin’ Out My Closet”? That’s just an amazing song. Yeah, it was a bit of tidying of the room.”
Yesterday, Eminem was nominated for entry into music’s most elite club: Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Slim Shady is the only one of the 17 contenders to receive a nomination in his first year of eligibility, which is 25 years after a recording’s debut. His first ever solo studio album “Infinite” album debuted in 1996.
Fan voting has also started. As the official website says the top five artists, as selected by the public, will comprise a “fans’ ballot” that will be tallied along with the other ballots to choose the 2022 inductees.
Royce 5’9″ showed support to Eminem by sharing the screenshot of his votes with the caption: “Guess who’s voting this year?”
Skylar Grey also pinned a story to her Instagram, saying: “Cast your vote daily for Eminem to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame”
Nasaan also humorously asked his fans to help Eminem get the most prestigious award in music: “Hey guys! my uncle raps or whatever, goes by the name “Eminem” he’s pretty good too. He’s been nominated for this thingy thing award. If you could be so kind to cast him a vote it’d be awesome, we’d really appreciate it.”
hey guys! my uncle raps or whatever, goes by the name “Eminem” he’s pretty good too. He’s been nominated for this thingy thing award. If you could be so kind to cast him a vote it’d be awesome, we’d really appreciate it 🥲https://t.co/cPphtKkIDo
Conway The Machine has been putting his time to good use in preparation for his major label, Shady Records debut, God Don’t Make Mistakes, which will be released on February 25th.
The Griselda heavy hitter released a freestyle over Kanye West’s Donda opening track “Jail” last week and he is back at it again. This time Conway spits over “Devil In A New Dress.”
In the freestyle, Conway raps:
“Gotta remember, me and these n***as ain’t similar,
Bout to drop my new sh*t and change the temperature,
Drop my album in February to f*ck the winter up,
And I built a company to pull my n***as up”
While expressing his superior abilities and demeanor, Conway spoke on some messages he’s learned from the greats and his admiration of them. He referenced Jay-Z saying that Jigga told him “Don’t worry, n***a, I got you.
Conway also gave a nod to the revered Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, as he recorded it “Two years from the day we lost Mamba, May he rest in peace.”
Today, Eminem was nominated for entry into music’s most elite club: Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Marshall Mathers is the only one of the 17 contenders to receive a nomination in his first year of eligibility, which is 25 years after a recording’s debut.
When the honorees are revealed in May, if Eminem gets crowned, he will become only the second white hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, following the Beastie Boys, who were inducted in 2012.
Slim Shady would be only the seventh rapper to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, with Jay-Z being the most recent rapper.
Eminem — who will be performing alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige at the Super Bowl halftime show on February 13 — is probably the only slam dunk to be inducted in a wide range of nominees this year. Other first-time nominees include Beck, Duran Duran, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon and A Tribe Called Quest.
Fan voting has started. As the official website says the top five artists, as selected by the public, will comprise a “fans’ ballot” that will be tallied along with the other ballots to choose the 2022 inductees. Fans will need to login to Hall Of Fame website to vote. Voting is capped at one ballot per day.
According to a fresh leak from a well-known Grand Theft Auto leaker, the first GTA 6 songs have leaked.
Grand Theft Auto VI has yet to be officially confirmed by Rockstar Games, but it’s currently in development for the PS5, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X, according to a slew of reports and leaks, and it might be disclosed shortly. A couple tracks may have just leaked ahead of any official announcement or reveal. If the information is correct, this will be the first significant GTA 6 leak.
GTA 6 NEWS & LEAKS, a Twitter user who covers Grand Theft Auto 6 news, rumors, leaks, forecasts, and Easter eggs, just translated a message claiming to have uncovered four tracks in the future game.
According to the translation, the original poster Matheusvictorbr- discovered two songs dubbed “familiar” on a radio segment. The tracks in dispute were Pet Shop Boys’ “Domino Dancing” and Caribou’s “Odessa.”
Another two songs, Santigold’s “Nonsense Youth” and Rihanna and Eminem’s “Numb,” which was released back in 2012, from Riri’s Unapologetic album, were supposedly discovered tied to another, unnamed exclusive radio piece.
This Friday, Nicki Minaj is coming back with new single, featuring Lil Baby!
To promote the new track, Nicki Minaj released the trailer of the song and did an Instagram livestream session yesterday where Barbie showed love to 50 Cent and praised his recent success in television.
“Shout out to 50 Cent. Shout out to Fifty. Congratulations to Fifty. Proud is an understatement. If you know you know.” – said Nicki.
50 Cent cut that part of the livestream and shared it on his Instagram with the caption: “This is that South Side s**t I be talking about. We don’t come to make friends. We come to take over.”
Before Machine Gun Kelly and Eminem beef started off, MGK was a big fan of Eminem and it looks like he remains so.
Since changing the genre, Texas-born rapper-turned-to-rocker has been beefing with legendary heavy-metal rock band, Slipknot.
Slipknot member Corey Taylor recently revisited the beef during a Question and Answer session at his performance on the 2022 ShipRocked Festival cruise during January 22 – 27.
“For those of you that don’t know, MGK doesn’t like me very much. And let me follow that up by saying I don’t care,” Taylor told the audience. “This genre really doesn’t get the f**king respect that it deserves. MGK don’t get to walk in as some weird substitute teacher and pretend that you can tell us what to wear—boots, shoes, house-f**king-shoes, slippers. Why don’t you suck every inch of my d**k? You don’t get to do that. And these are bands that maybe I don’t even f**king know, but guess what? I f**king respect them because they get on f**king stage and they f**king give every f**king thing they’ve got.”
In response (supposedly), Machine Gun Kelly quoted Eminem’s lyrics from “The Way I Am” song on Twitter: “I am, whatever you say I am.”
Cordae has recently sat down with Ebro Darden to unpack his album ‘From a Birds Eye View,’ where he talked about Eminem and Lil Wayne collaborations on the album.
“When I made ‘Parables,’ song I knew Eminem’s vocal tone would sound good on that because the beat is like that airy vibe on some Slim Shady, Marshall Mathers LP sort of vibe. So I knew his vocal tone would thrive on that.” – said Cordae
“With ‘Sinister,’ with Lil Wayne, that really wasn’t even going to be an album cut, but Wayne accented that, he brought that record up, honestly. So I just want to make the best music possible, versus like, ‘Okay, I got Em on this, let me redo my verse, let me redo this verse because I got Wayne on it.’” – Cordae added.
He continues: “Funny enough, I was going to put Eminem on ‘Sinister’ as well. It was going to be Wayne and Eminem all on ‘Sinister.’ Just for all the Hollywood glitz and glam, it would have been cool because it is Wayne and Em on the same track. I know how Drake did it on ‘Forever,’ and I was just like, ‘Yo, that is just a flex move of putting Wayne and Em on the same record.’ Nobody has done this since Drake did it on ‘Forever.’ I am kind of just showing my muscle. But it would not have been the proper record, if that makes sense.”
Former NBA player and sport analyst Jalen Rose and ESPN broadcaster David Jacoby has recently discussed potential Eminem and Busta Rhyme’s Verzuz battle on ESPN’s News That Matter.
Jalen Rose said he wants the two emcees to actually spit bars on the stage, while David Jacoby expressed a desire to see ‘bigger opponent’ for Eminem.
Legendary rapper E-40 has recently visit Jalen and Jacoby on their show where he talked about Busta potentially facing Slim Shady in Verzuz:
“I’m gonan keep it one thousand. I love Eminem. I love Busta too, to the fullest and his talent speak for himself but Busta Rhymes will eat Eminem in a Verzuz battle. I really believe that. Busta Rhymes go crazy! Because now its turned to performance type of situation. Busta Rhymes is animated. He got gas. He rap fast. He has all that. He do all the stuff Eminem do and Busta Rhymes got up-temp slash to get the party going.” – said E-40.
