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Billie Eilish raps Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” at Coachella party

Billie Eilish was one of the surprise guests at Coachella! The 2024 music and artists festival kicked off its annual two-weekend run in Indio, California, on Friday — and, as expected, this year’s lineup wowed the crowed with electric performances and unexpected appearances on stage. Headliner Lana Del Rey kicked off Coachella weekend with a dreamy hit-filled set that featured songs like “Summertime Sadness” and “Doin’ Time.” This marked Del Rey’s return to the Coachella stage for the first time in a decade — “exactly 10 years ago to the day,” she told the crowd.

Del Rey surprised festivalgoers in more ways than one, between making her way to the Main Stage on motorcycle through the crowd of thousands before welcoming major star power like Billie Eilish to join her in dueting “Video Games” and Ocean Eyes.”

On Saturday Eilish did a surprise DJ set on one of Coachella’s smaller stages called The Do LaB. She previewed a handful of new songs from her new album: “Lunch,” “L’Amour De Ma Vie,” and “Chihiro.” That last one is named after the main character in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, and Eilish also teased it during a Zane Lowe interview on Friday. She also danced around with the camera to some of the iconic songs, and one of them was Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.” Check out couple of videos below:

@fresapresa Billie and friends ✨#billieeilish #coachella2024 #coachella #eminemtoktik ♬ original sound – Frida

Billie Eilish shaking her bu-t to an Eminem song is a thing I thought I would never see. Few years back, She said: “I was scared of Eminem. My whole life. Always. I, dude, terrified. That dude freaked the f**k out of me. Oh my God.” And of course, Eminem being Eminem came up with the best response – shouting out Eilish in a verse of one of his tunes. In ‘Alfred’s Theme‘, the lyrics read: “Homicidal visions when I’m spitting like this / But really I’m just fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes which is really childish / And silly, but I’m really like this, I’m giving nightmares to Billie Eilish.” It appears Em helped Eilish stop being so scared of him.

Lana Del Rey tells Billie Eilish she grew up on Eminem’s music

To promote her new single, Lana Del Rey has recently done a conversation with another pop superstar, Billie Eilish. During the interview Lana revealed that Eminem and Country music was the only thing she heard before moving in New York.

DEL REY: I will also say, in terms of everyone who’s paved the way for me, the way Cat Power delivered her songs in the ’90s and in the early 2000s, and even now—we’ve toured together and I’ve told her so many times, “I should be opening for you.” I was a high soprano, which you can kind of tell in the way that I talk, but her low tones, I would practice them the way she sang that song where she’s like, [sings] “Bay-be-doll.” I was like, “Oh my gosh, I could sing like that.” I realized I had a low register too. And when I learned that she played a big concert in New York with her back turned to the audience, that was when I realized I might have a chance. Then, I watched this documentary when I was 20 called The Devil and Daniel Johnston with my boyfriend at the time, Artie Levine, and seeing that Daniel was super different and he had a bit of a cult following, I realized there might be a chance here. I definitely had my muses, but it was so much later on in life because I didn’t move to New York until I was 18, and that was when I first heard anything other than Eminem, country, and NPR. All of a sudden, I got a f—ng crash course in music.

EILISH: Everything you’re saying is blowing my mind out of my skull. You will never understand how much of an impact that you have had on me in my life.

This is not the first time Lana Del Rey mentioned Eminem in a positive way. Back in 2012, the singer told RNB Junk in Milan that Slim Shady’s music changed her life: “He really changed my life because I didn’t know music could be intelligent. He was talking about his own life, and he wasn’t just rhyming over music for rhyme’s sake… That made me think I could talk about the way things were instead of just making stupid music.”

“Eminem really changed my life because I didn’t know music could be intelligent.”

– Lana Del Rey

That did not stop Eminem to play on Lana’s name in his 2014 Shady Records cypher: “Play nice? B–ch I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance/ ’Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens.”

As for Billie Eilish, in her 2019 interview with Noisey magazine, revealed that she was scared of Eminem when growing up. When asked to choose her favorite rapper between Eminem and Childish Gambino, she admitted: ”I have to say Childish Gambino, one billion percent. I was scared of Eminem my whole life. Terrified. That dude freaked the f–k out of me. Oh my god.”

Em kind of responded Billie in his 2020 song “Alfred’s Theme,” from Music To Be Murdered By album with the following lines: “I’m just fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes / Which is really childish and silly, but I’m really like this / I’m giving nightmares to Billie Eilish, I’m Diddy’s side b–ch.”

For the full conversation between Lana Del Rey and Billie Eilish, visit Interview Magazine. And listen to Lana’s new song below:

Eminem shows love to Billie Eilish during her stop in Detroit for “Happier Than Ever” world tour

Billie Eilish planned to perform at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit as part of her “Where Do We Go?” World Tour in 2020, but she had to cancel the show due to the pandemic.

Finally, the singer returned triumphantly to Detroit for a sold-out stop on her “Happier Than Ever,” The 2022 World Tour. During that stop, Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas, received a warm welcome from Eminem.

The Detroit legend greeted the British superstar and her brother with his iconic Mom’s Spaghetti meals.

Finneas O’Connell took to Instagram to share a picture of the meal on his story with the caption: “Thank you, Eminem.”

You can check the post below:

 

Eminem responds Billie Eilish on a new song “Alfred’s Theme”

Eminem has released a new album “Music To Be Murdered By” Side B which includes 16 new tracks, featuring Dr. Dre, Skylar Grey, White Gold, Ty Dolla $ign, DJ Premier and more. As usual, Eminem name-drops lots of names in music industry, including Billie Eilish

The album includes a song “Alfred’s Theme,” where Eminem raps:

Homicidal visions when I’m spitting like this
But really I’m just fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes which is really childish
And silly, but I’m really like this, I’m giving nightmares to Billie Eilish

This is a response to Billie Eilish interview with Noisey back in 2019, where she was asked to choose her favorite rapper between Eminem and Childish Gambino, she admitted: “I have to say Childish Gambino, one billion percent. I was scared of Eminem my whole life. Terrified. That dude freaked the f**k out of me. Oh my god. But you know, Childish Gambino created me dude. I do not even know, that is crazy, that is a god you ca not even put him in a list of other people.”

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