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Grafh explains why he choses Eminem over Busta Rhymes, shows love to Royce 5’9″

In one of the recent episodes of Drink Champs, Grafh and Memphis Bleek dive deep into their careers in hip hop. From Grafh’s early days with Black Hand and his near-signing to Roc-A-Fella, to Bleek’s experiences as a core member of the iconic label, the duo share never-before heard stories. They discuss Grafh’s alleged beef with 50 Cent, his ghostwriting for J.Lo, and his fight with Busta Rhymes. The conversation also touches on the importance of lyricism in hip hop, the impact of the Griselda movement, and the legacy of Chaz Williams. Grafh opens up about industry blackballing and his journey to independence, while both artists reflect on the evolution of their careers and the current state of hip-hop.

At one point of the interview, Grafh played a traditional Quicktime With Slime game, where the hosts ask the guest to choose between two artists or subjects and if he/she can’t answer, then she/he drinks a shot. NORE and DJ EFN of course asked a traditional question, ‘Busta Rhymes or Eminem?’ and Grafh chose Eminem.

“I’mma have to go with… Damn, Bus my nig-a too though. I’mma go with Em, cause he influenced my style. I’m combination of like Prodigy, Eminem, Nas, Jada, Royce and Jay-Z. But I love Busta, man.” said Grafh.

Later in the interview, the Queens, New York-born rapper showed love to Eminem and Royce 5’9″: “They used to call me Black Eminem for a while. That’s one of the best compliments to me. I think Em is one of the top nig-as. A lot of my influences were them type of nig-as. Royce and him, both of them nig-as influenced my s–t. So, that’s a big compliment to me, the Eminem s–t. I always wanted to do a song with Em. Just one nostalgic s–t because I look up to him as MC and have to see who get the better verse and we have to go hard. A lot of times when I make a record though, I’m not trying to get the best verse. I’m trying to make the best record but with Em, we gotta get the best verse. With Em, it is a blood sport nig-a. This is personal. Cause that’s a fact, he’s coming to smoke s–t.” said Grafh.

You can watch the interview below.”Busta Rhymes VS Eminem” talk starts at 59:47. The Eminem and Royce shout out starts from 1:04:18.

Danny Brown talks about Eminem vs Benzino & MGK on Drink Champs

In the latest episode of Drink Champs, Detroit’s own Danny Brown sits down with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN to discuss his journey to sobriety, his love for Detroit style pizza, and his take on the Eminem vs. MGK and Eminem vs. Benzino beef. Brown also delves into his musical influences, including Nas, Ghostface Killah, and the UK grime scene. The Detroit rapper shares stories about losing his teeth, his experiences with Adderall, and his admiration for the Insane Clown Posse’s business model. Throughout the interview, Brown showcases his unique personality and his deep appreciation for hip hop culture.

At one point of the interview N.O.R.E. asked him whose side he’s on in Slim Shady and Benzino beef. Here is what Danny replied: “I mean, I’m obviously going to ride with my city. I’m an Eminem guy.” Later, the crew talked about Eminem vs Machine Gun Kelly and Em’s influence on the game.

DJ EFN: Eminem or MGK?
Danny Brown: C’mon man. Y’all tryna be funny now. I mean, of course it’s gonna be Em. We would not get MGK if it was not for Em. No white boys coming around, you know. We had 3rd Bass, [Beastie Boys, Vanilla Ice]. My favorite white rapper right now is El-P.

N.O.R.E.: I’m not gonna lie, we just had Benzino on Drink Champs. I did defend Eminem as much as I can but my favorite white rapper of all times is Eminem. I can’t deny that at all. Zino is my brother but the thing about it is, I don’t like Eminem because he’s white, I like Eminem because I like Eminem. That’s it. I know what he was trying to bait me into doing but no, it’s not I like him because he’s white, I like him because I like syllables, I like how he puts motherf–king words together. F–k that, I don’t care.
Danny Brown: I mean, that’s rappers’ rapper type s–t. You understand how difficult it is to do what he do when you do this s–t. So, motherf–kers always trying to talk s–t. Like ‘we don’t hear Eminem in the club.’ N-gga! You still go to the club?! You hear Eminem at f–king football games and stadiums and s–t like that. At the end of the day, no one can take what he’s done for white boy rappers. It wouldn’t be y’all n–gas now it’s so many f–king Eminem clones in this s–t.

N.O.R.E.: If you go to Spotify, Eminem is still No.1 f–king artist listened to. You know why I wanted to defend Eminem? It’s not only because of Benzino. It’s because I hate when people say ‘yeah, he’s nice for white for a white guy.’ He’s nice because he’s nice!
Danny Brown: No, he was better than n–gas when he first came out. That’s the way he got cracking.

Benzino breaks down in tears while talking about Eminem on Drink Champs

Benzino has recently sat down with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on Drink Champs where he talked about many things, including his revived beef with Eminem. At one point of the interview, drunk Zino broke down in tears.

Benzino of course started the interview with lashing out on Eminem: “Let’s talk about Eminem, isn’t that why we here tonight? Fu-k Eminem. And fu-k everybody down with Eminem. Hip-hop is who we are. He can’t come in and invade hip-hop, and Rosenberg and make trillions of dollars. This n-gga didn’t even go to Nipsey’s funeral. F-ck Eminem bro!”

He then continued: “They trying to kill me right now cause the sh-t I’m saying cause it’s deep bro. His fans like him because he’s white. They don’t fu-k with us. F-ck Eminem, I dusted Eminem. Rap Elvis b-tch! How about that?! How come he ain’t answering me?”

Then DJ EFN asked, Eminem or Machine Gun Kelly. Here is what Benzino replied: “F-ck Eminem bro! Fu-k both of them bro. Fu-king Cassidy would kill Eminem in a battle rap bro. Why do you all give so much props to Em? Because he’s white? F-ck his music. We don’t listen to that in the hood bro.”

Later in the interview, when Benzino got drunk, he got emotional and started crying: “I don’t have nothing against Eminem. He can rap but I care about us more. I don’t want to talk about it no more. For 22 years, every time I do interviews they ask me about Eminem. The fu-k you want me to do? C’mon man. My daughter came to industry figuring ‘I gotta be cool with Eminem because everybody is against my dad.’ You think this sh-t is fu-king cool? Nah man, we are failing as a people. I don’t hate Eminem. I don’t know him to hate. I don’t hate white people. I’m tired of this sh-t man. It’s too much.”

You can watch the interview below:

Ludacris was asked to choose between Eminem & Busta Rhymes on Drink Champs

On the latest episode of “Drink Champs,” Ludacris joined DJ EFN and N.O.R.E. for a full breakdown of his ostentatious career.

Of course Champaign, Illinois-born rapper and actor played a quiz game, where you are taking a shot of vodka if you can’t answer the question. At one point of game, DJ EFN asked: “Eminem or Busta Rhymes?!” On which, Ludacris replied: “Ahh. Why y’all put those two together man. If it was not for Busta, I would not be here…God damn! I’m taking the shot!”

Elsewhere in the interview, Ludacris explained it had always been hard for him to win Best Rap Album at the Grammys, until he did it in 2007: “One of the best day of my life was me winning Best Rap Album at the Grammys. Every time I went to the Grammys, I’m in category with Eminem, Jay-Z, Ja Rule, DMX and these motherf–kers were killing that s–t. Luda’s huge artist but when it comes to these motherf–kers I’m losing every motherf–king award. And finally man, I make this album, Release Therapy and I went on there like ‘I’m making this f–king album and I’m going to win Best Rap album for this s–t. I don’t care what happens. I’m specifically going in, writing this s–t, making the way it needs to be. And when they called my f–king name bro, that did it for me. Because all these years, it was a decade of loss, and finally getting that recognition.”

Ludacris also revealed that he got the call for Fast & Furious role when he was on tour with Eminem: “I got that call from John Singleton. I’m glad you asked that cause I was on tour with Eminem at that time. This was after the Outkast tour. So, I was on tour with Eminem. I’m about to go on stage in 20 minutes. I get a call from my agent, saying John Singleton wants you to put yourself on camera to try out and read these lines for 2 Fast 2 Furious. I’m about to go on stage. I’m concentrated on killing this crowd right now. We get the camera. I’m looking at the lines and I’m like ‘let me get in this character, let me read these lines’ and now were are like 12 minutes before showtime ‘f–k it just put me on camera, this is the best they gonna get right now’ so I put myself on camera, go out and kill the stage and the next day ni–a called me and told me you got the part. And the rest is history ladies and gentlemen.”

You can watch the interview below:

Chuck D says Eminem & Black Thought are technically most gifted rappers

During a recent appearance on N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN’s Drink Champs podcast, legendary rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy says that both Eminem and Black Thought are technologically gifted when it comes to rapping.

“Eminem and Black Thought… big ups to Black Thought, The Roots, and also Eminem. Cyborgs, man. They are cyborgs, but let me tell you this: we can also get caught up cause’ you know, you got future generations, and then you got people who ain’t gonna even get on the register who are so dope.” says Chuck D.

Black Thought and Eminem were both featured on Billboard‘s Top 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time list, released in February, 2023, with Slim Shady ranked at No. 5 and The Roots frontman at No. 28. Chuck D himself landed at No. 34 on the list.

While Marshall Mathers and Tariq Trotter haven’t collaborated extensively, the two have showcased their lyrical abilities on a few occasions. They famously appeared together in the 2009 BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher alongside Most Def, before joining forces on wax for the first time on 2020’s “Yah Yah” from Music To Be Murdered By album, which also featured Denaun Porter, Royce 5’9″ and Q-Tip.

Check out Chuck D’s interview below:

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Joe Budden admits Slaughterhouse break-up was his fault

On the latest episode of REVOLT’s “Drink Champs,” hosted by N.O.R.E and DJ EFN, Joe Budden reflected on Slaughterhouse demise and the New York-bred rapper seemingly took full responsibility for their split.

“Come on, give me the blame; I’ll take it. I’ll take the blame. I ruined everything. Everything that you loved, I ruined that s–t. Even next to 10 years long of just stories and talking, hey, I did it. It was me. It was me!” said Joe Budden.

Then he continues: “I don’t know what was tremendous and what wasn’t but I think E1 [Entertainment] gave us an opportunity and I think Shady [Records] gave us an opportunity. I’m grateful for both. Like, which one was more lucrative, who knows. I don’t think our business was being done the right way at the time so I couldn’t say. We had four managers. That sounds like a mess. I did try to bring one person to manage the group’s entity at one point but that didn’t go well.”

Later on, N.O.R.E started talking about how Slaughterhouse was formed and reminded Joe Budden that him and Royce were dissing each other before joining forces in one group. On that, Joe replied: “You are conflating things. But I guess that’s true at different points. I did a record that was not the friendliest to Royce but I never put it out because him and I got cool and then it got leaked and then it was some back and forth going on. We squashed that and then I reached out for a verse. And that was a Slaughterhouse track. It was me, Royce, Crooked, Joell and Nino Bless. And the reaction was great. So we just kept it up. It was really as simple as that. We kept everybody from the song except Nino Bless. And shout out to him.”

You can watch the interview below:

Noreaga invites Eminem on Drink Champs

Back in 2016, N.O.R.E., also know as Noreaga reunited with DJ EFN to begin hosting the “Drink Champs” podcast. Since then, some of the biggest hip-hop names were featured in recent episodes, including Kanye West, Snoop Dogg and The Game.

Hip-hop superstars are sharing stories and updates while drinking alcohol. The podcast has achieved more than five million listens per month. Since November 2016, the show has been aired on digital cable television network, Revolt.

Noreaga has recently done a question and answer session on Twitter where fans asked different kinds of question. One of the fans asked him to invite Eminem to Drink Champs: “How about getting Eminem or Jay-Z on drink champs? Those would be epic.” On which NORE replied: “You say it like its that easy!!”

Another user said: “Lol, drunk Eminem would be fun. Try it.” On that, the Queens’ rapper replied: “Paul Rosenberg will never let drunk Eminem exist again and he is right!!!”

Then one of the fans replied: “You had Royce without alcohol right?” Noreaga was quick to reply: “Alcohol isn’t the problem with Em, I want him to know he deserves his roses!!!”

You can check the tweets below:

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Kanye West thinks The Game shouldn’t have made Dr. Dre comment on “Drink Champs”

According to Drink Champs host N.O.R.E., Kanye West thinks The Game should not have made comments about how he did more for the Compton rapper in two weeks than Dr. Dre in his entire career.

Last month, The Game was featured on N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN’s “Drink Champs” podcast. In more than four-hour long episode, the West-Coast rapper claimed: “Ye did more for me in the last two weeks, than Dre did for me my whole career.”

The latest episode of “Drink Champs” featured Snoop Dogg, N.O.R.E. asked Snoop his opinion about comments made by The Game but before taking Snoop’s answer, the show’s co-host revealed that he showed Ye the specific clip and he responded by saying: “I do not think Game should have said that.”

Snoop himself replied: “That is his personal experience. Kanye could have shown him something, Dre not really good at showing you nothing. He is basically good at bringing your talents to light, to where it is about you not what he do for you. I could not answer that, but Game is my little homie so I respect everything he say and do.”

You can watch the episode below:

50 Cent clowns Jay-Z for calling Eminem “white guy”

In the latest episode of Drink Champs, which featured Snoop Dogg, NORE revealed the conversation he had with Jay-Z before the Super Bowl Halftime show.

According to the host, Jigga received a call from Eminem who said he would not perform at the show if he can’t bring 50 Cent with him. And while telling this to NORE, Jay mentioned Eminem’s name as ‘white guy’

It seems 50 Cent was not impressed with Hova’s wording and went back the clowning mode. Fifty shared a picture of Jay-Z and Jean-Michel Basquiat, indicating he copied Basquiat’s hairstyle. In the caption we read: “Why did he say the white boy, why he did not say the biggest rap artist in the world? Happy Easter ! man enjoy the holidays.”

50 did not stop there and addressed NORE too: “Why would he have to say that should be the question? NORE, your big homie is running around trying to look like a gay painter.”

Jay-Z: “Eminem refused to perform at Super Bowl without 50 Cent”

Yesterday, Snoop Dogg did an interview on Drink Champs where the crew talked about the Super Bowl halftime performance and NORE revealed the conversation he had with Jay-Z, who did everything to bring the hip-hop superstars on the biggest stage of the world.

“I said to Jay-Z, I have to ask this straight up. ‘Who is gonna perform at NFL?’ and he said to me ‘I’m sorry for everybody who don’t understand. The white guy called for 50 Cent.’ I said, who is the white guy? Jimmy Iovine? And he said no, EMINEM called directly for Fifty and he said I can’t do it if I can’t bring 50 with me. That’s spiritful.” said NORE.

Then Snoop Dogg says: “Of course, that’s his guy! And guess who’s Dre’s guy? It’s me!”

You can watch the interview below:

Snoop Dogg reveals Dr. Dre originally didn’t want to do Super Bowl show: “Next call is Hi, My Name Is.”

Back in February Dr. Dre performed at the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI halftime show where the legendary producer brought out Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, and Anderson .Paak.

After the performance, Dr. Dre faced some criticism from disappointed fans that certain songs and rappers were not included in the show.

Yesterday, Snoop Dogg appeared on Drink Champs with NORE and DJ EFN where he briefly talked about the Super Bowl halftime show.

“What people do not understand is, he did not do nothing from the Ruthless catalog, the Death Row catalog, nothing from Snoop Dogg’s catalog… He only had 12 minutes. What could you do in twelve f**king minutes where you could satisfy everybody? … You gonna miss a beat, where was Ice Cube? That is the ace in the hole.” said Snoop.

Later in the interview, Snoop revealed that Dr. Dre did not originally wanted to perform at the Super Bowl: “Dre called to say, ‘They want me to do the Super Bowl, I do not know if I wanna do it. One thing you gotta know about Dr. Dre, is he is a guy that’s in the moment. So if he do not feel like he is got a record that is relevant at the moment, then he do not think he is the moment.”

“Convincing him was more or less about ‘ni**a I’m with you.’ When the Dogg stands with you your confidence level goes up to roof. And once you get the Dogg next call is ‘Hi, My Name Is.’ I ain’t suggest no motherf**king thing. Only thing I suggested I was like ‘can we do G Tang’ cause I felt like that song was pinnacle moment of who we are.” Snoop added.

You can listen to the interview below:

2 Chainz reveals he once angrily told Dr. Dre “I’M NOT EMINEM” during studio session

2 Chainz has recently set down with NORE and DJ EFN for 3 hours long interview on the Drink Champs.

During the conversation, the Atlanta rapper recalled the studio session with legendary producer, Dr. Dre :

“I went to Dre’s crib. I was rapping and it was little funny cause I was getting little frustrated because, I don’t know, I’m country, I’m from Atlanta. At this time I told him, ‘Look, I’m not a white boy from Detroit. I ain’t f**king have like…Because he was stopping me like ‘Nah, change it.’ I’m trying to rap but he is so perfectionist. It’s the reason he is who f**king he is so I got that.” – said 2 Chainz.

“I’m somebody that can probably do two or three songs in one night. But with Dre it would probably take months because of the process and work ethic he has. He is so perfectionist on how he does things. I think my accent and my annunciation was a problem. He was trying to tell me how to do it. And I told him ‘You know I’m from Atlanta right? I’m not gonna sound like the bro you have been working with.”

You can watch the interview below:

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