Tag: 2023

Grammy to honor Dr. Dre with Global Impact Award

Dr. Dre will be honored during the Recording Academy Honors Presented by the Black Music Collective event taking place during Grammy Week at the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, February 2, 2023. The legendary producer will receive the Recording Academy Global Impact Award for their personal and professional achievements in the industry of music.

Alongside Dr. Dre, Lil Wayne and Missy Elliot will be presented with the same award.

“I am so thrilled to honor and celebrate these four giants in the music industry. Last year’s inaugural event was such a highlight during Grammy Week and now with Dre, Missy, Wayne and Sylvia there to pay tribute to this year, it’s definitely going to be another night to remember. I continue to be proud of the work of our Black Music Collective as it’s a vital part of what we do here at the Academy.” – said Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr.

The 65th annual Grammy Awards will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, United States, on February 5, 2023 and will broadcast live on CBS network.

“At our BMC Honors GRAMMY Week event, we will be honoring seven-time GRAMMY-winning artist, producer, founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, entrepreneur, and philanthropist with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award.” – the statement was released by Recording Academy on Twitter.

Westside Gunn reveals how he gets Eminem & Jay-Z to listen to his Griselda artists

In an exclusive interview on Rap Radar Podcast with Elliott Wilson and Brian “B. Dot” Miller, debuting through iHeartRadio, Griselda co-founder Westside Gunn explained how being in the middle of the underground Hip-Hop scene and the mainstream has helped his rap career. It’s also given him the chance to uplift the rappers on his New York-based label and display their talents for major artists in his inner circle to see like Eminem, JAY-Z, Drake and others.

“When you’re underground, a lot of eyes and ears aren’t on you. Now like I said, I’m right in that middle. So I know if I curated a project, Drake might listen to it. Travis might listen to it, Tyler might listen to it, Hov might listen to it, Nas might listen to it, Marshall might listen to it. So I do these albums so Hov can hear Rome. So Nas can hear Rome. So Marshall can hear Rome, you feel me?” said Gunn.

Then he added: “Since y’all paying attention to me, let me show you something. That’s what it’s about. It’s spreading the culture. I’m not selfish. I want my guys to shine.”

After the end of 2023, Westside Gunn is also considering retiring from hip-hop scene.

In a series of tweets, the Buffalo rapper began his farewell by saying he has nothing else left to prove. He then started recapping his career, listing out some of his collaborators and producers he’s worked with. The list is pretty legendary from late rappers MF Doom and Prodigy to Jay-Z and Eminem.

Check out the tweets below:

Mekhi Phifer talks about the possibility of Eminem’s “8 Mile 2”

TMZ has recently caught up with the “8 Mile” star Mekhi Phifer shortly after the classic hip-hop battle movie marked its 20th anniversary in 2022. The interviewer asked if there was anything in the works for a new story related to the OG characters of the film and here is how he replied:

“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.”

Then interviewer asked him if he’s in contact with Em and what’s his favorite work done by Eminem, on which he replied: “I talk to him yeah. About his music. His best work of all time? It’s hard to say. He has done so much great things, so many great things.”

You can watch the video below:

Couple of months ago, the producer Mike WiLL Made-It suggested the Detroit legend to make the sequel 8 Mile movie.

“Eminem needs to do 8 Mile 2. His story when he got the deal and s–_ went up…” – tweeted the Grammy-award winning producer.

8 Mile is a critically acclaimed film with a massive commercial success. It opened at No. 1 in the United States with $51.3 million grossed in its opening weekend and an eventual total of $242.9 million in box office worldwide.

50 Cent reacts to Eminem’s latest YouTube achievement, promises new music in 2023

With four Billboard No. 1 singles, 13 Top 10 hits and 41 Hot 100 songs, 50 Cent may have dominated hip-hop 2000s and 2010s but nowadays he is looking to climb the charts of a different kind — with TV Shows and his latest podcast.

Fifty has recently spoke to PEOPLE magazine about his growing interest in true crime and his latest project, his Surviving El Chapo podcast.

“I like true crime, period, the entire genre. If you don’t read the news, if you’re not in the current events, [then you should]. I do.” said Fiddy.

In recent years,  50 Cent has put making new music on the back burner while expanding his profile as an actor and producer. Jackson found success acting on the Starz series Power from 2014 until 2020 and has a role in The Expendables 4 next year. As a television producer, he helped bring the crime drama Black Mafia Family to life and saw his Hip-Hop Homicides series premiere on AMC earlier this month.

Eminem has recently been named as the most watched rapper on YouTube in 2022 with more than 5 billion views and 50 could not help him not to react to it. In his Instagram post, Fiddy shared screenshot of an Eminem article with the caption: “That’s my Boy! I’m gonna remind people I’m nice this year. New Music, New TV, New movie… let’s go!”

In the next post, 50 Cent wrote: “I didn’t put nothing out in a while. I would be mad if I was new and I wasn’t on the list.” Check the post below:

3 upcoming hip-hop documentaries, featuring Eminem

Image: Big Daddy Kane, The DOC, Eminem, Chuck D

1. “Paragraphs I Manifest” by Big Daddy Kane

Last year, in an interview with HipHopDX, legendary rapper Big Daddy Kane confirmed that he was interviewing Eminem and Jay-Z for his upcoming Netflix documentary, called “Paragraphs I Manifest.” The hip-hop icon said: “I got Jay Z, Eminem, KRS-One, Doug E. Fresh. I even got some of the battle rappers like Goodz Da Animal and Aye Verb, so it is coming out real good. I am supposed to do Common on Monday.” He even shared a picture with Eminem from the studio where the interview was held. Release date is yet unknown.

2. The DOC by The D.O.C. 

THE DOC documentary is about legendary rapper The D.O.C. which premiered this summer at some movie festivals. It features heavyweight cast of Hip Hop stars like Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Xzibit, Too $hort, Kurupt, Daz Dillinger and more. It is directed by David Caplan and chronicles the life and career of Tracy Lynn Curry, who rose to fame in the late ’80s and early ’90s as a platinum-selling rapper, songwriter for N.W.A, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E and others, and co-founder of Death Row Records.

Eminem even shared a clip of himself and The D.O.C. from the documentary and in the caption he wrote:  “No one can do it better… me and THE DOC from his upcoming documentary.” Release date is yet unknown.

3. “Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World.” by Chuck D

The four-part music documentary boxset featuring and executive produced by Hip Hop legend, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, called “Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World,” is to premiere on BBC iPlayer on 21st of January, 2023. The docuseries will tell the story of the relationship between politics and the Hip Hop movement, recounting the origins of the revolutionary artform through first-hand accounts and charting the journey of how Hip Hop became a cultural phenomenon, against a backdrop of social and political American history.

Hip-Hop legends featured in the series include Eminem, B-Real from Cypress Hill, DMC, Ice-T, Fat Joe, KRS-One, LL COOL J, MC Lyte, Monie Love, Abiodun Oyewole, Roxanne Shanté, and Will.I.Am.

Eminem to appear in new hip-hop documentary produced by Chuck D

The BBC is to air a new four-part music documentary boxset featuring and executive produced by Hip Hop legend, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, titled “Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World.”

Developed by Chuck D and his producing partner, Lorrie Boula, the series will drop as a box-set on BBC iPlayer on January 21st and has been co-produced by BBC Studios and PBS.

“Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World” will tell the story of the relationship between politics and the Hip Hop movement, recounting the origins of the revolutionary artform through first-hand accounts and charting the journey of how Hip Hop became a cultural phenomenon, against a backdrop of social and political American history.

Throughout the series, the way in which Hip Hop quickly created a provocative narrative of America is explored by weaving together interconnected moments via intimate interviews with integral players in the movement and archival footage.

Hi-Hop legends featured in the series include Eminem, B-Real from Cypress Hill, DMC, Ice-T, Fat Joe, KRS-One, LL COOL J, MC Lyte, Monie Love, Abiodun Oyewole, Roxanne Shanté, and Will.I.Am as well as other hip-hop culture figures such as Rev Al Sharpton, Sway Calloway, Walter “Hawk” Newsome, Nelson George, Dr Rosa Alicia Clemente, Lee Quiñones (influential New York graffiti artist), Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Michael Holman, Ernie Paniccioli, Dan Charnas, Shinese Harlins-Kilgore, Soren Baker, Dancin’ Doug Colón (one of the original b-boys), Leah Wright Rigueur, and more.

About the docu-series, Chuck D said: “The Hip Hop community has, from the start, been doing what the rest of media is only now catching up to. Long before any conglomerate realized it was time to wake up, Hip Hop had been speaking out and telling truths. Working with PBS and the BBC is an opportunity to deliver these messages through new ways and help explain Hip Hop’s place in history and hopefully inspire us all to take it further.”

Max Gogarty, Commissioning Editor of BBC said: “Hip Hop is one of the most influential and culturally defining movements of our time and we feel privileged to be able to bring this story to audiences, in collaboration with one of its founding figures – Chuck D. We’re grateful to all of the contributors in this series and our partners PBS who have helped tell this important story”.

Produced in partnership with PBS, the four-part series will premiere in the U.S. on January 31st. Chuck D is also preparing to release his first fine art book called Livin Loud on November 29, 2022.

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