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Eminem officially starts new album rollout!

Eminem has just sent the fans into madness as the Detroit legend shares pictures of himself in the studio with Dr. Dre, Royce 5’9″, The Alchemist, Denaun Porter and his recent Shady Records signee, Ez Mil. It is highly possible that all these artists that appear in the picture are featured on the new album or Eminem just invited them for a listening session.

One thing that we know for sure, Dr. Dre will be on the album. “Let me tell you something. Let me explain something right now. Eminem is working on his own album which is coming out this year and I actually talked to him and he said it was okay for me to make that announcement right here on this show. So yeah, the album coming out, I got songs on it and it’s fire. I’m actually going to hear entire album for the first time tomorrow. He holds his music close to his chest so I have not heard everything. I have not even heard everything complete that I’ve done but I’m gonna hear it and he’s putting out album this year. There are things on there that I have to mix that I’ve done but I got a chance to hear album in its entirety.” said Dr. Dre during his visit on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

In the caption of the new post, Eminem wrote: “Nuthin 2 see here… plenty to hear!!!” Busta Rhymes, Bizarre of D12, Boldy James, Fredwreck, Nasaan, King Iso, Adam22, Helluva, DJ Pooh, R-Mean, have all reacted in the comments. Royce 5’9″ also posted the picture with the caption: “3-21-24 At @drdre ‘s House …” On which DJ Premier commented: “On my Born Day. That’s a good day!” Busta Rhymes also commented King Crown emojis. Nasaan, Dem Jointz, Page Kennedy, Smoothvega, have also commented. Ez Mil also re-shared the post with the caption “‘La lang.”

Last time Eminem dropped the full body of work was more than 4 years ago. Em dropped his 11th solo studio album Music to Be Murdered By on January 17, 2020, through Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope Records. Just like Eminem’s previous studio album Kamikaze (2018), the album was released with no prior announcement. The album was produced by many producers, with Eminem and Dr. Dre serving as executive producers. It features guest appearances from Skylar Grey, Young M.A, Royce da 5’9″, White Gold, Ed Sheeran, the late Juice WRLD, Black Thought, Q-Tip, Denaun, Anderson .Paak, Don Toliver, Kxng Crooked and Joell Ortiz.

The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 279,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. Subsequently, Eminem became the first artist to have ten consecutive number-one albums in the US and one of six artists to have released at least ten US number-one albums. Music to Be Murdered By reached number one in 16 countries. Music critics praised Eminem’s lyrical abilities and the improved production after Kamikaze, while criticism was directed towards the album’s formulaic song structure, lack of innovation, and shock value.

On December 18, 2020, Eminem released a deluxe version of the album, named Music to Be Murdered By – Side B, without any prior announcement. It includes the original album’s 20 tracks along with 16 new ones. It includes a variety of features, with guest appearances from Skylar Grey, DJ Premier, Ty Dolla $ign, Dr. Dre, Sly Pyper, MAJ, and White Gold…Check out Eminem’s latest post below:

Denaun Porter shares his thoughts on Eminem dissing Benzino

Denaun Porter has just shared his thoughts on Eminem dissing Benzino on “Doomsday Pt. 2” from Cole Bennett and Lyrical Lemonade album, All Is Yellow.

Shadyverse fan account shared a video of Benzino saying: “Nothing y’all can tell me. I’m cooking your Rap God. The guy that you have been obsessed with, especially the black Stans… ughhhh. You are the f–king worst. The blacks Stans, oh my god.”

Under the post, Denaun Porter commented “Ghost” and “Writing Hand” emojis, meaning that Benzino used a ghostwriter for a diss-track. Someone in the comments replied: “Em instigated this war again and not gonna reply to Benzino disses. That’s kinda weak if he don’t.” On that, Mr. Porter replied: “Nope, nobody was paying attention to dude. He’s been taking shots the whole time but no body cared or was even thinking about dude so Em actually didn’t instigate it, but he shouldn’t have paid it no attention, now people are paying attention. That’s all.”

Yo can check the video below:

Royce 5’9″, Denaun Porter, Swifty McVay, Kxng Crooked respond to Dr. Umar comments about Eminem

During one of the recent episodes of Joe Budden podcast, a staunch Pan-Africanist, motivational speaker, psychologist, activist and social media personality Dr. Umar said Eminem can’t be considered one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white. Aside from MC Shan and DJ Akademiks, Royce 5’9″, Denaun Porter, Swifty McVay of D12 and Kxng Crooked have also came out in Eminem’s defense.

“So, never heard or seen my brother say he was anything but grateful and happy to be a part of the culture. He’s not even on that. He just happens to write relentlessly, gives 100 percent effort relentlessly and always respectfully to the culture recklessly s–t on any other artist that came before him. You never heard nobody say he did sh–t to them only what he didn’t do for them. And while he might not have built an actual school, the dude never wants a camera around for anything he does charity wise…because he’s not about that, he ain’t ever been nothing but stand up donating and helping with respect to the persons situations.” said Denaun Porter under the comments section on one of the posts on Instagram.

Then he continued: “In my opinion, people choose to hate a motherf–ker these days because he doesn’t donate to the cause you deem worthy. A man counting your pocket doesn’t mean he know who you have helped. I respect Dr. Umar for what he tries to accomplish but this is just an opinion. It doesn’t change the character or is anywhere near altering to how homie moves with the highest respect for and in the culture. He knows he ain’t black. He also doesn’t act like it or expect s–t. He does try every time his best, he just humbly is one of the dopest motherf–kers that ever touched a pen and that makes some of y’all uncomfortable. Respectfully and gracefully I don’t give a f–k what a ni–a say about my brother. He will always be one of the GOATs.”

Denaun Porter’s response to Dr. Umar’s Eminem comments.

Royce 5’9″ also defended Eminem and said: “Dr. Umar said it was nothing personal. Bro is top 5 dead or alive and been that for decades via general consensus. No one man’s opinion could ever change that so let the man have his opinion lol. Nothing to be upset about. I get what he is trying to say. He feels hip-hop originated in Africa, therefore non-African could never be at the pinnacle. It originated in Queens, New York and it is not a color code but there is a few cultural characteristics that are unique to just black people. Nobody could ever crip a Cali ni–a but the whole world is slanging and banging.”

He then continued: “This is an art form and a business but most important, a skillset. Bro came up with his own way to do it on the highest level and pushed every boundary, checked every box. He cold dog. Now on the flip side, Umar is just looking at rap how high level white executives look. We gotta shock the world to be come a billionaires and we still might end up broke and in jail if we piss of the wrong gate keeper.”

Royce 5’9″s response to Dr. Umar’s Eminem comments.

D12’s Swifty McVay also came out in Eminem’s defense and said: “Some fans think he’s the GOAT, some fans don’t. Just like with any other legendary lyrical architect. But why it gotta turn into a race thing though?! S–ts stupid as f–k. He was the wrong person to ask about Em. SMH.”

Swifty McVay’s response to Dr. Umar’s Eminem comments.

Kxng Crooked also talked about it during his Crook’s Corner podcast which is not out yet but he gave us a snippet of the video clip where Long Beach rapper says: “Dr. Umar was almost right, when he paired Eminem with white supremacy. Because, Eminem is white and he’s a supreme emcee. He’s white! And he’s supreme MC! Almost like white supremacy but really nothing like white supremacy.”

New Song: Lazarus & Mr. Porter – “Scalpel”

Detroit rapper Lazarus drops new single titled “Scalpel,” produced by Detroit’s own super-producer Denaun Porter. The song showcases the art of lyricism bring it to new heights as Lazarus delivers multi-syllable rhymes and flow schemes with the sharpness of a surgical scalpel.

I recently had the opportunity to listen to an advanced copy of the latest single by Lazarus. I must say, I was really excited to see him collaborating with Mr. Porter Of D12 this time. This isn’t a duo I thought I’d ever see, but I’m always happy when different players in the game link up. You never know what might result in accidental magic.

There’s definitely no shortage of clever bars and tricky flows. Front to back the track aiming directly at barheads. Still, after countless listens, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t struggle to understand what this track’s actually about. There’s many obvious attempts to tie things together by working in a lot of lyrics that reference scalpels in some way. Some of it is actually really clever, but a lot of it feels just a little forced. If you zoom out and look at the entire track, it comes off pretty unfocused lyrically. One minute, we’re referencing every trendy news story, next Lazarus just goes off on some vaguely braggy bars about himself. On paper, the track is very impressive if we’re just talking about wordplay and how sharp his pen is. When you line-up the track against everything else already available in hip-hop though, it’s really tough to find a reason to choose this first.

The lyricism is 100% here, there’s no denying that. Unfortunately there’s some trade-offs. One of them would be a be a lack of a strong hook. Instead of capturing the main vibe, the chorus feels more like a commercial break that I wish had a skip button for. Lazarus just repeats the same 5, non rhyming words a few times over as we wait for next verse. The hook is just flat-out boring and forgettable. It’s especially weird coming from me, because I usually don’t care about hooks as long as the verses “wow” me for whatever reason. Heck, some of my all time favorite tracks don’t even have hooks. I’ll use this analogy: If a tooth is causing you pain, either fix the tooth or remove it. Give me a 3 minute track with back to back verses if you can’t give me a compelling hook.

Like the song title suggests, this is a sharp track designed for a specific task. “Scalpel” doesn’t present itself as a versatile cut designed to be the massive hit that captures every type of listener. At the end of the day, it’s a track I wouldn’t mind throwing into a larger playlist and hearing it it comes up once in a while. Otherwise, I’m likely not going to remember this track or find myself going out of my way to look for it in the future.

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New Song: Snoop Dogg & Denaun Porter – “Tomorrow”

Snoop Dogg and Denaun Porter join forces for a new song “Tomorrow” featured in the season finale of “Godfather of Harlem” on MGM+ airing today March 26th of 2023.

“Godfather of Harlem” is a TV prequel to the 2007 movie, ‘American Gangster’, which centered on the criminal enterprise of Frank Lucas. A gangster named Bumpy Johnson makes his way in Harlem during the 1960s.

In the song, Snoop Dogg provides two smooth verses, while Mr. Porter is singing the hook over the beat that he produced.

This marks the first release from Denaun Porter since his January 2022 release “Me Vs You,” the follow-up single of “Not Again,” “Let U Go,” and “I’m Leaving” singles.

You can bump the new song below:

10 best songs featuring Mr. Porter

Today, our boy Denaun Porter, also known as Kon Artis and Mr. Porter by his stages names, has turned 48 years old. To honor his birthday, we have listed some of the great features he has done through his incredible career. Happy birthday Denaun!

1. Tech N9ne – “She Devil,” featuring D12 (2002)

“She Devil” is a song by Tech N9ne, featuring D12’s Bizarre, Kuniva, Kon Artis (Mr. Porter), Swifty McVay and Big Proof, produced by RonnZfromBerlin from Tech N9ne’s album called “Absolute Power.” Additional vocals in the song are provided by Kendra Matthews, Alonda Patterson, Grant Rice, Erica Hugunin and Krizz Kaliko.

2. Gorillaz – “911,” featuring D12 & Terry Hall (2001)

The song was recorded right after 9/11 events when D12 was stuck in England where they came across the Gorillaz. Damon Albarn and Terry Hall had previously spoken about collaborating together, and since Albarn had been wanting to experiment with Middle Eastern music, they decided on this track, inspiring Albarn to take it in a different direction. Damon Albarn invited the band back to his studio to listen to an early version of the song, they added additional production to the song, then laid down their verses. All D12 members are featured on a track, except Eminem.

3. Obie Trice – “Spread Yo S–t,” featuring Kon Artis (Mr. Porter) (2003)

“Spread Yo S–t” is 11th track on Obie Trice’s Shady Records debut album Cheers. It features and is produced by Mr. Porter himself. In the song Obie addresses those who pervade their slanderous misinformation to depreciate his leverage as an artist while Mr. Porter provides the hook and the intro of the song is done by Big Proof.

4. Method Man – “We Some Dogs,” featuring Redman, Snoop Dogg & Mr. Porter (2004)

In 2004, Mr. Porter jumped on a track with some of the greatest names in hip-hop: Method Man, Redman and Snoop Dogg. Porter provided the hook for a track which was included in Method Man’s album, called Tical 0: The Prequel.

5. Busta Rhymes – “They’re Out to Get Me,” featuring Mr. Porter (2006)

“They’re Out to Get Me” is a song from Busta Rhymes’ 2006 album, titled The Big Bang. The song features and is produced by Mr. Porter. “They see my name and lifestyle and say I changed / They so cold… I know… that they’re out to get me,” sings Mr. Porter. A common concept among people is that they tend to drift away from once close friends either consciously or not. And it is a common saying to tell someone he/she has changed in is attitude toward his friends.

6. Pharoahe Monch ‎- “When The Gun Draws,” featuring Mr. Porter (2007)

“When The Gun Draws” is number seven track from Pharoahe Monch’s second solo album Desire, released on June 26, 2007. Monch spits from the perspective of a bullet, touching on social issues, conspiracy and the assassination of political figures. Monch spits from the perspective of a bullet, touching on social issues, conspiracy and the assassination of political figures. The song is produced by Mr. Porter. He also composed the chorus of the song in which he sings: “First the gun draws and you know / That something’s happening / Then darkness falls and, oh / Your heart beats rapidly / Be prepared because / War is coming / You can’t be scared now / When the streets is calling you.”

7. Royce Da 5’9″ – “Mine In Thiz,” featuring Mr. Porter (2009)

“Mine In Thiz” is a song from Royce 5’9″‘s fourth solo studio album Street Hop, released in 2009. The song is produced by Denaun Porter as well as he’s featured on the hook of the song.

8. Snoop Dogg – “My Own Way,” featuring Mr. Porter (2011)

“My Own Way” is track number 3 on Snoop Dogg’s eleventh solo studio album called Doggumentary and it is another song that is produced Mr. Porter and features him on the hook of the song. Snoop even dropped the music video of the song on April, 2011 but Mr. Porter did not make the cameo.

9. PRhyme – “Made Man,” featuring Mr. Porter & Big K.R.I.T.

In 2018 Mr. Porter jumped on a track with PRhyme to do a chorus for DJ Premier-produced track “Made Man,” from PRhyme 2 album.

10. Eminem – “Yah Yah,” featuring Royce Da 5’9″, Black Thought, Q-Tip & Mr. Porter (2020)

On “Yah Yah,” a 10th track from Music To Be Murdered By, Eminem enlists fellow emcees Royce Da 5’9″, Black Thought and Q-Tip for a posse cut over an upbeat boom-bap instrumental, produced by featured artist Denaun. Over a near five-minute runtime, the rappers pay homage to inspirational hip-hop veterans and display their lyrical prowess.

Denaun Porter drops another single “Not Again” 🤦‍♂️

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.

You can stream the new song below:

Denaun Porter drops new single “Let U Go”

Denaun Porter is back with some new music!

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!

Denaun Porter laughs at rumored features of Eminem’s upcoming album

Denaun Porter, who is probably the closet man to Eminem in Shady camp, had a little bit of laugh when he saw the rumored features of Eminem’s upcoming album, which has recently been spreading on reddit.

One of the Eminem fans accounts on Instagram, posted a picture of supposed features on Slim Shady’s upcoming album, which includes: The Weeknd, Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Post Malone, Elton John and Nas.

Under the comments’ section, Mr. Porter replied: “Please tell me where y’all come up with these theories and how they are rumors please? I’m really interested in the process?”

Another fan account said: “So to answer your questions, the main source of rumors is a guy ob reddit that somehow in the past seemed to be able to predict something but that’s also been wrong sometimes. This one is On Thin Ice instead, an account specialized in rumors that also in the past sometimes was right and other wrong. When they are wrong they say it’s all been scrapped or delayed. Imo what fans can legit do is only trying to keep eyes and ears well open and to connect the dots… just for fun.”

On which Denaun replied: “yea who would you believe more? Some guy on Reddit or me?”

You can check the screenshot of the comments below: