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Rae Sremmurd talk sampling “Stan” & Listening to Eminem growing up

Rae Sremmurd have recently sat down with Bootleg Kev to promote their new album “Sremm 4 Life,” which includes long-awaited Eminem‘s “Stan”-sampled single “Not So Bad (Leans Gone Cold).”

“We just get the clearance man. Shout out to everybody. It’s not easy process. It’s not just one person. It’s not just Dido. We just recently got the clearance and it’s was perfect timing for the album. It’s a turn up song. I feel like world formed that song because it was some viral stuff going on when I sung it the world just been playing it. They wanted the version with the beat so the world really produced that song. Fans produced that song.” said Swae Lee.

Then the host asked the Mississippi duo if they were listening to Eminem when growing up on which they both instantly replied ‘yeah! for sure!’

“That was definitely my favorite rapper. I used to try to rap like him at one point in a time, in my life. I was young. I was super Eminem fan. We had a video where it was like 100 of him. He was really controversial. He was tight.” said Slim Jxmmi.

You can watch the interview below:

Millyz releases music video of “Tonight,” remake of Eminem’s “Stan”

Cambridge, Massachusetts-born rapper who goes by the name Millyz who has recently announced that he got the “Stan” sample clearance from Eminem, drops the music video of it, titled as “Tonight.”

Few months ago, Millyz shared the snippet of the song, singing the remix version of Eminem’s “Stan,” which originally samples Dido’s “Thank You.”

Earlier this week, Millyz took to Instagram to shout out Eminem and give fans another listen of the song, which finds him singing over “Stan’s” signature melody. “OMG WE CLEARED THE “STAN” SAMPLE!!! DROPPIN 3/9!!! Salute to the GOAT.” He wrote in caption.

In his story, the Massachusetts rapper wrote: “We cleared the Eminem Stan sample. For everybody who been asking when I’m droppin, it was a long process but we lit now. I’m dropping asap! Shout out to the GOAT!”

Today, Millyz dropped the full song and music video directed by Frankie Fire & Rook came with it. The track is produced by Kaydee Pro & Vogo. You can watch the clip below:

Today, 20 years ago, Eminem released “Stan”

On this day, exactly 20 years ago (November 21, 2000), Eminem released “Stan,” featuring Dido, as the 3rd single from his third solo studio album “The Marshall Mathers LP.”

The multi-platinum “Stan” single was one of his most well-received singles. VH1’s ranked the song at number 15 on the list of Top 100 Hip Hop Songs of All Time. Rolling Stone magazine also put “Stan” at number 296 in their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was named in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

Based on the content of the song, this song has cemented itself in history, with “Stan” being entered into the Oxford Dictionary as an informal noun. It is generally considered to be a portmanteau of “stalker” and “fan,” but Oxford defines the term as: An overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity.

In a 2011, Eminem appeared on Shade 45 radio channel where he revealed: “There was a verse where Stan got out of the water. He escaped and came to my house to kill me. Then I had to kill him first but I missed him, and he was in the hospital for like three weeks. Then he was pissed off that I did not write him get-well cards, so he came to kill me again, and in the last verse finally I just blew his head off.

In 2013, Eminem released the second part of the song, titled “Bad Guy,” wherein Stan’s younger brother Matthew avenges his brother’s death. Listen to the song below: