Back in 2013, Eminem released critically acclaimed song “Rap God” as the third single from his eighth studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
The song entered the Guinness World Records as the hit single that contains the most words. “Rap God” was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 2014.
The single also saw the charting success as it debuted at No. 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Almost 9 years later, we might get the remix version of the song as Eminem’s manager Paul Rosenberg was impressed with fan-made remake of the song. A twitter user named @themrcii_ shared the snippet of the remix and asked Paul to have a listen. Few hours later, Paul responded with: “Post a link to the whole thing. Sounds cool.”
Cordae has recently released a new album From A Bird’s Eye View which included a song “Parables” (Remix), featuring Eminem.
To promote his new project, Cordae visited Nessa’s show where he talked about the album and having multiple conversations with Eminem:
“Eminem did an interview [with Kxng Crooked] and he was really like ‘I really rock with Cordae, he is one of my favorite new artists.’ To summarize what he said. He basically gave me a lot of love and the fact that he knows who I am and likes my music that I put out, that was already enough for me. He reached out to put me on “Killer Remix” [with Jack Harlow] and I was like ‘yo I am gonna send you something as well.’ We had a phone conversation. We talked for like an hour and a half. It was a really dope conversation. We were just talking about Hip-Hop and everything. It was a great conversation and he was like ‘yo we got to work too you know, If you need something… We did not talk about music until like the very end and he was like yo whatever you need from me I got you, we definitely gotta get in some work so It was very dope.”
“Eminem is like the biggest, in terms of pure sales and success, like he is the biggest rap artist of all time. Straight up. And other than sales and success commercially and all these other things he is like one of my early influences in music. Those first two albums man [The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP], like every artist that raps with some sort of dexterity or lyricism, takes notes from those first two albums, I guarantee. So it’s definitely blessing have him on there for sure.” said Cordae.
“Matter of fact, I just text him, I sent him a voicemail like I appreciate you, bro.” – He added
The Source magazine founder Dave Mays has recently set down with DJ VLAD, where he talked about Eminem’s racist tapes and crediting magazine for launching Eminem’s career.
“With Eminem situation, it started because Benzino felt…When the movie 8 Mile came out…Let me back up and say this… The Source discovered Eminem! The Source had Eminem on Unsigned Hype! Eminem is the first ever white person on the cover of The Source. Eminem wins lyricist of the year at The Source Awards in ’99 over some heavy competition. We helped launch Eminem’s career. We supported Eminem for those first few years.”
“But by 2002, this is when 8 Mile was coming out and this is when the media goes like ‘Eminem is the king of hip-hop,’ ‘he is the greatest to ever do it.’ They were just going crazy the way they were portraying him. That rubbed Benzino in a wrong way and it had him thinking like ‘this can be bad for hip-hop.’ Just like Elvis was used to change trajectory of Rock N’ Roll music and cut out black folks. He felt that way and he made a diss song on a mixtape. A little eight line diss. In a matter of weeks, after the mixtape got put out we started getting phone-calls like ‘Eminem’s already in the studio he made like three records dissing The Source and dissing Dave and Benzino and they were going crazy and whatever…”
“What I will say is…It became personal. It was not meant to be personal. The issue was not about Eminem per se at that time because when it starts those racist tapes don’t exists. Nobody knows about those tapes. WE don’t know about those tapes. Those only surfaced a year down the line after the back and forth. Eminem comes out with songs dissing The Source. Benzino makes songs and videos dissing Eminem and going back and forth.”
“A year down the line these three white kids from Detroit showed up in my lobby. They were sitting there couple of hours trying to get to see me. And finally I get the message and I bring them in and they play me some of this music, the racist rap hour. Eminem and his group at that time, three other white guys made this whole tape with a lot of racist stuff on it and of course that was shocking to hear and as a magazine we had an obligation to report that and put it out there. There was some negotiations behind the scenes with Interscope trying to shut it down and trying to get us not to put them out and bury them so nobody would know about it and we published and they sued us in a federal court and we won a landmark copyright ruling where the judge allowed us to put out only a very small portion of the tape under what’s called fair use law. A lot of stuff that was on a tape never got out.”
“I don’t think you could attribute the decline in newsstand sales strictly to the situation with Eminem. This is dot-com era is thriving, magazine sales are declining. There are other factors. So the point I’m saying is, that’s not the thing that caused the downfall financially of The Source. There were more significant factors. So If I had to change anything, it would probably be taking out that 12 million dollars loan and gambling on dot-com. That’s what I f**ked up. If I hadn’t done that I think things would have been different.”
“Even coming through the Eminem situation. We were coming out of that. Source Awards was still happening. We were still getting tons of advertising. People still loved The Source. I think lots of these narratives come from people in music and media industry. I don’t believe a lot of these narratives come from fans. Interscope and Universal Music controlled almost 80% of all the hip-hop being sold at that time. Everybody was on their payroll. Lots of them respected The Source’s position but were too scared to speak out and support us because it would have impacted their livelihood and that’s understandable.” said Dave.
Swifty McVay of D12 is back with a new project titled “Swift McVay Presents: Detroit Life 2.”
The 13 tracks offering includes guest appearances from Kuniva, Jon Connor, 80Empire, MRKsx, Tristan Lee, Lil David Ruffin, Beez, Mr. Wrong, StretchMoney and PDot.
After dropping “Not Again” and “Let U Go,” Denaun Porter drops another single, titled “I’m Leaving.”
“I love feeling an emotion that could be from the past or just being inspired by a story I hear and translating what that must feel like into song… I love doing songs like these as well as just raw rap. Hell if you can do it why not right? I hope you enjoy.” said Mr. Porter while sharing his new single to the fans.
This time, legendary artist from D12 asked his fans to comment “raised hand” emoji if they can relate to the song: “The hardest thing to do is to leave a situation not in turmoil, but in peace…..When you know it won’t change?! You have to change! throw up the “✋🏾” if you can relate.” said Denaun on Instagram.
Cordae drops his highly anticipated new album From A Bird’s Eye View which includes guest appearances from Eminem, Nas, Lil Wayne, Freddie Gibbs, Lil Durk, Gunna, Stevie Wonder, H.E.R and Roddy Ricch.
Slim Shady is featured on the remix version of “Parables” track, produced by Cardiak and Nami.
In a song, Eminem gives shout out to Meek Mill while throwing jab at Tekashi 6ix9ine:
“S**t’ll make you wanna cop out like a plea deal so I treat beat like it’s Tekashi / Spit on that b**ch like Meek Mill / My addiction got me weak willed / I’m relapsing I think I can’t seem to stop eating Beat Pills / And Dr. D.R.E., he still keeps on giving me refills.” he raps.
After collaborating on “Killer” remix back in 2021 which also featured Jack Harlow, Cordae teased on his social media that he had another song coming with Eminem and it’s finally here!
FOX 5 journalist Wisdom Martin gave Eminem an ‘F’ grade while talking the best and worst rappers of all time with Big Daddy Kane, DJ Kool and Kwamé who are getting ready for their upcoming All Stars of Hip Hop concert at Eaglebank Arena this year.
“Bad grade goes to my least favorite rapper of all time: Eminem. ‘F.’ Worst rapper I’ve ever heard. If it was not for Dr. Dre he’d probably be hosting a show with me. That’s how bad he is. He’s just not good to me. bla bla bla Slim Shady, bla bla bla. No, it’s not good. It’s not! Without Dr. Dre… I don’t know.” – said Wisdom Martin
Big Daddy Kane was left speechless, DJ Kool left the interview and Kwamé was laughing at him while kept asking “WHY?”
After dropping “Let U Go,” Denaun Porter is back with another single, titled “Not Again.”
Mr. Porter shared the cover of the single on Instagram with the caption: “So MiGo straighten my self out so I don’t trip on you… but you don’t do that inner work so I can’t say I trust you.”
In the next post, the legendary Detroit artist told fans to drop ‘person facepalming’ emoji if they ever said they wouldn’t fall in love again.
Busta Rhymes has shared some great news about his next body of work. The follow up of Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath Of God is officially complete, according to the legendary rapper himself.
Busta has recently took to Instagram where he shared the update on the upcoming project and dropped a shout-out to DJ Kay Slay, who is fighting COVID19 at this moment.
“New Album Done. DJ Kay Slay you on my mind while I’m recording King. Keep Fighting!! We need you and we got too much shit left to do.” said Busta in the caption while previewing new song snippet, giving shout out to Kay Slay and Dr. Dre:
“We gettin’ gutter while I’m listenin’ to Kay Slay/ Or West Coast, looks like it’s Dre Day,” he raps on the track.
Mr. Porter, who is one of the innovators in the Detroit hip-hop scene, has been busy working and touring with Eminem lately, but in the midst of a world-changing pandemic, it looks like Denaun found a time to work on his own music.
One of the most filthy-minded rappers from Dirty Dozen changed his style and became the RnB singer, thanks to his captivating, sweet voice and wide talent of rapping, singing and producing.
Denaun shared the soulful new single on Instagram with the caption that reads: “We all get a lesson that hurts and we don’t understand, until the day we have to teach the same lesson….. this is one of my stories.”
Later, Mr. Porter also shared the snippet of another single, titled “Not Again,” dropping Tuesday. You can stream the new single and listen to the snippet below!
Last month, JAY-Z jumped onto Alicia Keys’ Twitter Spaces room to chat about the music industry.
During the podcast, Jigga gave his thoughts on a potential Verzuz match-up by telling the audience that he believes nobody can stand alongside him on that platform’s stage.
After those words, hip-hop fans have been theorizing on who would be best to face-off against Hova. Mentioned list of artists included Kanye West and Lil Wayne but mostly, Eminem’s name surfaced on social media users’ feeds.
Detroit rapper Seven The General has recently hit Instagram to share his thoughts on the topic:
“This is unpopular opinion cause you know JAY-Z is the greatest rapper ever, to me, personally. But there is one person, that can stand on the stage and battle Hov and it ain’t who you all think. IT’S EMINEM. IT’S EM THE F**KING NEM BRO!”
Fat Joe has recently set down with Big Boy where he talked about his biggest regret in music industry: NOT SIGNING EMINEM. Read the interview and watch it after the jump below:
“At that time, I was just immature, I was crazy. So what happened was I was just at these places and people were giving me their demos and [I could not listen to all of them]. If you go in my DMs now, there are like thousand fat Spanish guys who rap like ‘Yo Joe, Papi, what’s up?’ I don’t get none of that. I let my wife look at my DMs and she sees all that fat Spanish guys talking about being next Big Pun and Fat Joe.”
“So when I go to Revolt, some of them were giving me their demos. I was at these places and I was trying get myself in the game and Eminem apparently was giving me his demos. So years later, me, him and B-Real of Cypress Hills were at the dinner and Em was like ‘Joe, I’mma tell you something. I gave you my demo like six times’ and I was like ‘NOOOOO?! CHESUS CHRIST.”
“I remembered Eminem from performing with this group called Outsidaz. There were very dope. There was Lyricist Longue in New York, this is when I met Biggie too. Biggie was battling twenty guys, beating everybody, white, black, Chinese, he was killing everybody on stage. So now, Eminem, skinny white boy…Me and Pun headlined Lyricist Longue and he performed with Outsidaz. They were all black kids with dreadlocks, and skinny white boy, he was so skinny and going so crazy, they were holding him by his pants cause he was gonna fall off the stage. We all knew he was crazy. We knew this white boy…It was too late. It was not demo time. He was on. He was just about to go with Dr. Dre and all that. Me and Big Pun were like this white boy is CR-AZY.”
“And I always tell a story, when his first album came out it was Grammy week. Me and Big Pun stood the night before the album came out in the long line of Tower Records to get Eminem’s album. The first album. We bumped that all night and went to the Grammys next day. And we had no idea this was the same guy I passed on signing six times. I learned it that night when we had dinner.”
“We make great music. Of course I don’t think it would be the same Eminem if he signed him. That was legendary Dr. Dre who gave him that whole different things. Dre’s beats was crazy but he would have been hot with us too. We made Big Pun. We made Remy Ma. We made DJ Khalid. We could have made him a big star. It probably would have been a different kind of star. Fat Joe liked flash, show off and this kind of stuff and Eminem was not doing that, he was on some other s**t.”
