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Rehearsal video of Eminem’s Rock Hall performance has surfaced online

On Saturday night, November 5, 2022, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted its 2022 class in grand fashion. Inductees included Eminem, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. Judas Priest and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis also joined the Hall Of Fame with the “award for musical excellence.”

Longtime friend and collaborator, his mentor, the legendary producer Dr. Dre had the pleasure of inducting Slim Shady, recalling the first time Jimmy Iovine called to let him know that Eminem was a white guy. “That completely f—d me up. I knew that his gifts were undeniable. Each of us was what the other one needed — and I was willing to bet my entire career on it. He brought hip-hop to middle America.”

There was only one way to follow such a massive induction, and that was with an even fresher performance. Eminem delivered just that, ripping through hits like “My Name Is,” “Forever,” “Not Afraid,” “Stan,” “Sing For The Moment” and “Rap God” — while also featuring surprising guests from Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler to Ed Sheeran. The Alchemist was behind the board and Mr. Porter as a hypeman, as always.

After the performance, the time for Eminem’s speech came: “I’m not supposed to be here tonight. One, I’m a rapper; two, I almost died from an overdose; and three, I really had to fight my way through… I’m a high school drop-out with a hip-hop education.” said Eminem before listening more than one hundred hip-hop acts that influenced him through his spectacular career.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony aired on November 19, 2022 on HBO and today the rehearsal video with Ed Sheeran has surfaced online. You can check the never before seen video footage below:

Eminem – Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame performance (Full HD)

Eminem was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame by Dr. Dre on November 5, 2022 and the ceremony aired on HBO on November 19, 2022. Like we saw last year with LL Cool J, Eminem brought the heat on stage at Microsoft Theater.

Steven Tyler joined him to perform the Aerosmith-sampling “Sing For The Music” and Ed Sheeran subbed in for Dido on “Stan.”

Em’s daughter, Hailie, a frequent presence in his early discography, accompanied him to the ceremony, and the rapper followed his set with a uniformly humble speech in which he shared his gratitude for being alive to experience this moment.

“I’ll keep this as painless as possible, I’m f—ing stuttering and s—,” I’m probably not supposed to actually be here tonight because of a couple of reasons. One, I know that I’m a rapper, and this is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There’s only a few of us who have been inducted already. Secondly, I almost died from an overdose in 2007, which kind of sucked.” said Eminem.

The performance itself was spectacular as we expected. P!nk, Gwen Stefani, Olivia Rodrigo and LL Cool J were amongst others who enjoyed the show most. You can watch it below (via u/verse1230)

Eminem performs with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Ed Sheeran at Rock Hall

Dr. Dre has just inducted Eminem into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

“Over 20 years ago, Jimmy Iovine, who is also one of tonight’s inductees and one of my best friends, played a demo tape for me from a guy who called himself Eminem. The first thing I said when I heard it was, ‘what the f— did he just say?’ I loved it so much that I couldn’t stop listening to it.”

“A few days later, Jimmy called me and said, ‘you know he’s a White guy, right?” F—ed me up! The last thing I was thinking about when I was listening was that he was White. It never even crossed my mind. Looking back, I don’t know why it didn’t cross my mind. He certainly didn’t sound like a Black rapper, especially because of what he was saying. I guess it was my ignorance at the time, thinking that if you’re a really good rapper, you must be Black.”

“Not too long after that, we met for the first time. We hit it off and the next thing you know, we’re at my house working. The first time I put on a beat, he gets on the mic and says, ‘hi, my name is.’ Boom! And that was the beginning of what became an amazing creative collaboration.

“Then came the backlash. ‘Look at him, Dre! He has blue eyes! You can’t sign him! There was a massive amount of resistance from my own team and from a lot of people around me: people who had never even heard the music, but didn’t want me to sign him or work with him simply because he was White.

“While everyone else around me had their doubts, I knew that his gift was undeniable. His raw, dark, and humorous lyrics coupled with an impeccable cadence stood out from anything I had ever heard before, and he was hungry. Both of us were. We were two artists in do-or-die situations: he was desperate to find a way to feed his family and I was searching for something to sink my teeth into creatively. Each of us was exactly what the other needed and I was willing to bet my entire career on it.”

“My rebuttal to those naysayers went something like this: ‘he’s going to be the biggest selling artist on our label.’ Little did I know he was going to be one of the best-selling music artists of all time.” said Dre.

Aside of the induction, Slim Shady performed “My Name Is,” “Sing For The Moment” with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, “Rap God”, “Stan” with Ed Sheeran, “Forever” and lastly “Not Afraid.”

You can check the videos and photos below:

Eminem with Steven Tyler!!! What a night. pic.twitter.com/5QOnlqjc7k

— Jamie Iovine (@Jamie_iovine) November 6, 2022

Ed Sheeran reveals how Eminem inspired his 6-foot P*nis statue gift to Sam Smith

This week Sam Smith revealed on The Kelly Clarkson Show that Ed Sheeran had gifted him a 6-foot marble p*nis statue.

In his latest appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Ed Sheeran took the chance to explain himself, and revealed that none other than Eminem and Elton John had played important parts in inspiring the bizarre present.

“Elton John has been involved in my career from the get-go, and he buys me weird gifts. I can’t talk about them on TV — but, like, odd gifts. Sexual sort of objects …I love you, Elton.” said Ed.

Then he continues: “He is very proud of the fact that Eminem bought him and his husband, David, diamond-encrusted c**k rings for their wedding. I’m like, I need to one-up this, I need to get Elton a present that’s gonna make him go:” ‘Oh my god.’”

That’s when inspiration struck the four-time Grammy winner, who proceeded to order “a few different iterations” of p*nis sculptures. “I gave it to him for his birthday, and Elton was over the moon about it,” Sheeran chuckled. “It got out in the press that I’d done it. And people would just be like, ‘Can I have one?’ Sam saw one of them and said, ‘Can I have one?’ And I said, ‘What would you like?’ and Sam said, ‘One the size of me — six foot two.’ So … there we go. That’s it.”

You can watch the show below:

Ed Sheeran reveals what made him & Eminem to become a ‘pen-pals’

Ed Sheeran has recently appeared on “Later… with Jools Holland,” where the singer revealed that he and Eminem became pen-pals after bonding over a shared love of cassette tapes.

“I collect cassettes and I have got Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder and they are quite difficult to find. The only person I know who collects the same is Eminem.”

“He collects cassettes, that is his thing. He loves collecting. He is avid at going to find them. We have started having this, it is like a very cool pen-pal thing. I got a message the other day from Marshall about an LL Cool J cassette. He said, ‘This is the cassette which made me want to start rapping’.

“I sent him Van Morrison and I will send him David Gray’s ‘White Ladder’ next.” said Ed Sheeran

So far, Eminem and Ed collaborated in 3 occasions. “River” for Revival album, “Remember The Name,” ft. 50 Cent for No.6 Collaborations Project album and “Those Kinda Nights” for Music To be Murdered By album.

You can watch the new interview here.

Ed Sheeran reveals what him & Eminem were talking about four hours when they first met

In a new interview on Apple Music, Ed Sheeran talked about first time meeting and working with Eminem.

“It was in Detroit and I was playing a gig in Detroit. And yeah, I arrived at his studio. He has got loads of games consoles there. He loves games. I actually bought him a Nintendo 64 with GoldenEye on it as a gift. Yeah. I just stepped in there.”

“Actually, the first time we met, we did not make music. I hung out there for about four hours, and we just spoke Marvel and Avengers for about four hours and then the next time I went back, we made a tune. The first tune we made, I was in Mexico and his producer flew to Mexico, and I did the hook there and stuff.” – said Ed.

Sheeran and Eminem have done three songs together, “River” and “Those Kinda Nights” for Em’s albums and “Remember The Name” for Ed’s album, which also features 50 Cent.

You can watch the interview below:

Ed Sheeran tells funny story behind his Eminem & 50 Cent collaboration

Ed Sheeran chats about everything from salvaging Eric Clapton’s guitar from a fire, to collaborating with Eminem and 50 Cent, to the time he brought Courteney Cox to Tesco at Hot Ones on First We Feast.

At one point, the British superstar was asked to tell a bigger story behind his song “Remember The Name” featuring Eminem and 50 Cent.

“Collaboration with Eminem and 50 Cent fall in my Top 3 career accomplishments. Cause when I was in school, I mean, look at me, if you would to go to my school and ask which one of this kids is gonna do a song with Eminem and 50 Cent, no one would have guessed me.”

“I’ve done a song with Em for his album. And then I put together the collaborations project. I sort of asked him, I’d love to get 50 on it, and he was like ‘yeah no problem, I’ll get Fifty on it.’ And I remember, 50’s gonna probably disagree with that but, I was walking into the Wembley dressing room where we were presented the plaque. And I don’t think Fifty had a f**king clue who I was. I think afterwards he was like ‘oh, Shape Of You.’ But you could see in his eyes he could not recognize me.” says Ed Sheeran while laughing.

You can watch it below:

Ed Sheeran equals Eminem’s achievement on UK charts

Ed Sheeran’s new single “Bad Habits” (Asylum) debuts at No. 1 in the United Kingdom’s singles chart. “Bad Habits” notches 92,000 unit sales this week, including 8.7 million streams which gave the superstar singer his 10th U.K. number one.

“I’m absolutely over the moon, and did not expect this start at all. I’ve been away for such a long time that I know it’s gonna take a bit to get back to normal, so was expecting this tune to build as the weeks went on, but to debut so high week one is phenomenal, and something that after a decade in this industry I do not take for granted.” wrote Ed Sheeran on Instagram.

Ed becomes just the ninth act to reach that double-figures on the charts. The list goes like this:

Elvis Presley – 21 number one singles.

The Beatles – 17.

Cliff Richard and Westlife – 14.

Madonna – 13.

Only Take That – 12.

Eminem – 10.

Ed Sheeran – 10.

Calvin Harris – 10.

Ed Sheeran reveals a good habit he learned from Eminem

Ed Sheeran has released his comeback single ‘Bad Habits.’ To celebrate this awesome news, Ed Sheeran spoke to Fergal D’Arcy on TodayFM, where the superstar singer revealed the work ethic he learned from Eminem:

“In music, especially in American music, it is normal thing to work from 6pm to 6 am. This is not a normal schedule at all. Normal schedule is from 9am to 5pm. I actually learned it from Eminem. He does it. Eminem is like so strict when he works. I think he gets in at 10am and he leaves at 5pm, no matter what. And lunch is when lunch is.” – said Ed Sheeran.

“And it works. If you have family, you family can’t rely on someone who is fluid.” he adds.

You can watch the new interview below:

Akon also talked about Eminem’s work ethic couple of times during the interviews. One of the cases was HOT 97 inter view from 2019:

“Smack That song has interesting story behind. Working with him made me look at the business differently cause he was the first artist that I’ve worked with that actually treated the business like a real job.”

“He comes in at 9 A.M every day to the studio, takes his lunch break at 1 A.M, and is out of there by 5 PM. It’s like a schedule. I did not expect that from him. The first day I come, I come around 6 A.M.. Like we going to do an evening session. I get to the studio, they said ‘Em just left!’ He said ‘I am out of here!’ I said ‘I just got to the studio, you coming back here?’ He said, ‘yeah, I’ll be back there at 9 AM.”

“I was like, you joking right? but he was like I’ll see you at 9A.M. so I get there on 9 and he shows up exactly on time. Plays some beats, we vibing, Em’s like, ‘yo I am about to go out for lunch.’ I said I will meet you after…He goes takes his lunch, after an hour comes back. I play him the record, play him the chorus. He is like oh, this is it!”

“He goes into his verse. 5 PM comes. He’s halfway in. He’s like ‘alright bro, I’ll see you tomorrow. At this point, I’m like ‘Yo, this is crazy right! but then Em said ‘I just like to be here. I treat it like real job. I don’t make it no more than what it’s supposed to be. I don’t let it stress me out, stay longer than I have to. I got a family, I got a daughter. I want to make time.”

“I was like ‘damn, he is right. Some days I am in the studio three, four days. I do not come out. Don’t see my kids, don’t call my wife, none of that. I am sitting here like, [Em’s way] makes a lot of sense. Ain’t nothing gon’ change between today and tomorrow.”

“I met him next day and told him ‘you know what bro, you just gave me whole new outlook on how to treat the business. I don’t force it like I used to.”

Watch the interview below: