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Damizza recalls how Eminem’s “My Name Is” broke out on West Coast radio stations

American radio executive, record producer, artist and author Damizza has recently sat down with Mr. Criminal where he recalled the stories about Mariah Carey, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg and much more.

Damizza was ranked by The Source Magazine as one of the five most powerful people in Hip Hop in 1999, with his ties to radio as the senior director of programming and artist relations at Power 106 in Los Angeles.

During the new interview, Damizza told the untold story of how Eminem’s “My Name Is” first aired on west coast radio stations.

“I almost got fired so many times it was stupid. When Dr. Dre called me and invited me at his house he said ‘I need some advice’ I was like ‘DR. DRE CALLED ME FOR ADVICE? WHAT THE HELL!’. I showed up and he points to Eminem in the booth and says ‘how do I break the white boy?’ And I’m like ‘Dude, you tell me the story of N.W.A. from beginning to end and I’ll break the white boy for you.” Damizza said.

Then he continues: “I sat on his washer and dryer, he sat on his little stairs from like midnight to 6 a.m. he told me whole story of N.W.A. and Eminem comes out about six o’clock in the morning from the studio tired of waiting and he looks over and says ‘I’m going home’ and I said ‘No, you are not, you are going Baker Boy’s show on Power 106. You are going to announce that you are doing Friday Night Flavors 10th year anniversary. Give me that record, Hi My Name Is.”

“My boss said ‘put that white boy on stage and you are fired! Dr. Dre is over! That white boy…have not you heard of Vanilla Ice!?’ and all that kind of stuff. Everybody was looking at me like ‘are you really going to put white boy on stage? You crazy?’ I said ‘It’s Dr. Dre’s new artist.’ They all looked at me so before I knew it everybody’s on side of the stage. I’m there with Coolio, rest in peace, all of these guys are there and watching. Eminem got through the first part of that song ‘F–k You’ and that place went to s–t!”

“I walked in the office next morning. I literally had a box and I was putting my s–t in the box thinking I’m getting fired and then my boss came in and she was like ‘you are lucky that white boy killed it, bring me the record.’ And then we played Hi My Name Is. That’s how Eminem got started.” Damizza added.

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BlocBoy JB says he’s on Eminem’s level

BlocBoy JB says that he is one of the “best rappers in the world,” along with Eminem, J. Cole and Drake. The Memphis, Tennessee-born rapper, who is best known for “Look Alive” with Drake and “Rover 2.0” with 21 Savage, made the claim in a post on his Instagram Story.

“I’m One Of The Best Rappers In The World Y’all Just sleep. Bar 4 Bar only ni–a up der wit me is @eminem @champagnepapi @realcoleworld.” he wrote over a black screen.

The story was reshared by DJ Akademiks on Instagram and the fans madly disagreed with BlocBoy. “I’ve never seen clout chasing like this before bro is really going out sad = HE BROKE,” one user wrote. Another commented: “I know a ni–a from down the st with more bars then this ni–a.” Others in disagreement still defended BlocBoy from criticism: “I ain’t even mad at bro.. That’s how you’re suppose to feel about your music.”

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Celina Smith says she is Eminem’s cousin

The internet went crazy attempting to identify his lover after SteveWillDoIt shared a video of him and his girlfriend Celina Smith playing Minecraft in 2021.

We all know SteveWillDoIt as a popular gaming YouTuber with a huge following of almost 9 million subscribers. He’s known for his daring and sometimes outrageous challenges, like eating a Tide Pod or snorting an entire bottle of cinnamon. But fans have also noticed a woman accompany him in his mind-boggling escapades. Who is SteveWillDoIt’s girlfriend, Celina Smith?

As she claims, she’s a cousin of Eminem. In an interview last month, Celina Smith said: “Eminem is my cousin. Eighth cousin. Came up on my ancestry thing. I swear. And yeah, even my grandma was like ‘you know, that’s your cousin.’ Like way… Should I reach out? He would not believe me, I’m not gonna message him and be like ‘We are cousins.'”

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Eminem is most viewed rapper on YouTube in May, 2023

It is 2023 and Eminem is still the most viewed and streamed rapper around the Globe!

In May, 2023, Slim Shady accumulated 422 million views, which is the most than any other rapper and almost double as second place, Drake.

Check out the list of most watched rappers in May, 2023 on YouTube below.

422m – Eminem
238m – Drake
208m – NBA Youngboy
173m – 2Pac
167m – Future
160m – Lil Baby
159m – Nicki Minaj
152m – 50 Cent
150m – Lil Durk
143m – Doja Cat
124m – Wiz Khalifa
121m – Lil Wayne
120m – Juice WRLD
112m – Kendrick Lamar
106m – Metro Boomin
104m – Travis Scott
101m – Kanye West

Eminem was also the most watched rapper in every month of 2023: January, February, March and April with almost 2.5 billion views in total so far this year.

Machine Gun Kelly throws shot at Eminem on a new song

Machine Gun Kelly and Eminem have a history to tell! After trading disstracks back in 2018, MGK announced that his rap project was not well-received because of the beef with Detroit giant and decided to go in different direction musically but that did not make Slim Shady to stop as he continued throwing shade at Cleveland rapper on Music To Be Murdered By album.

After changing the genre and becoming punk-rock artist, MGK seems to be getting back to his roots as he has released couple of rap songs lately. One of the most recent releases is titled “Pressure” where Kelly appears to be throwing a little jab at Eminem.

“There won’t be a day I need a vest under my zip-up ‘Cause every time they tried to send a shot, it always missed us (Doo, drr).” raps Machine Gun Kelly on third verse. After MGK called Eminem’s daughter “hot as f–k” in 2012, the two engaged in a highly-publicized feud that culminated in Eminem’s diss track called “Killshot.”

Despite Eminem being known to end careers with his diss tracks, Kelly thinks “Killshot” missed as he not only maintain his success but also further went on to achieve his first platinum album, Tickets to my Downfall, followed by Mainstream Sellout, both of which reached number 1 on Billboard 200 charts.

MGK has said similar line before on a song called “Floor 13”: “I just spent too many minutes watchin’ little videos of sh–ty wannabe rappers dissing me. I just spent the winter livin’ after someone tried to send a kill shot, missin’ me.”

You can listen to the new song below:

Rakim names best match-up to go against Eminem, Royce 5’9″ reacts

Rakim, the God emcee, has recently shared a picture of Eminem and Black Thought on Instagram, asking fans what they think about the match-up: “Conversation of the day!! Talk about it in the comments. I’ll be watching.” – Rakim wrote in the caption.

Royce 5’9″ was quick to respond in the comments: “They have the words on a string … Like a yo-yo … The two most extreme examples of lyrical overachiever that you could pair together .. We’re not worthy.”

Rakim’s post also divided hip-hop fans into half. One user replied: “Both are èlite lyricist, I’d rather see them collab than go against each other! Em’s storytelling and rhyme schemes with Thought’s lyricism and flow are a deadly combination.” Another commented: “Black Thought, by a convincing margin, only because of the congruence of his bars. Em is extremely skilled and make words rhyme (whole sentences at times), but they don’t always make sense, or have the degree of depth that a Black Thought displays effortlessly…(one man’s opinion)” Someone said: “The mechanics of Em do not offer the nuance, soul, education, or relatability that Thought bestows.. though I would love to hear Em over more soulful tracks, personally I’d still rock with Tariq.”

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Royce 5’9″ talks about early relationship with Eminem, meeting Dr. Dre & more

Royce 5’9″ has recently sat down with Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg on Juan EP Is Life podcast, where the Detroit legend talked about Hip-Hop Shop days with Eminem, how their friendship formed, meeting Dr. Dre for the first time, his career highlights and more.

About Hip-Hop Shop

“After the school graduation, I started going to Hop-Hop Shop. First time I went to Hip-Hop Shop I rapped and I got gonged. I almost was not a rapper. That killed my confidence. I thought I was not ready. I walked in there and I seen Proof, Elzhi, Marshall, all of them killers. Hip-Hop Shop was an open mic slash clothing sore that was owned by Maurice Malone. So what you do is, you stand around in the circle and Proof is like the host, he just passes the mic around. If you get it, you gotta rap. And DJ Head is up top on the ones and twos and if you don’t get reaction fast enough then he puts on gong music and you gotta pass the mic. Proof was known as the best emcee. When I walked in there, I didn’t know anybody. I already heard about Proof. Marshall did not rap that day.”

After Hip-Hop Shop / meeting Eminem

“After I succeeded at the Hip-Hop Shop, I just kept going. Bad Meets Evil the vinyl was probably the first thing that I was a part of. Around ’97. I heard ‘Infinite’ before I met Marshall. ‘Infinite’ and ‘The Slim Shady EP.’ Mr. Porter produced the whole ‘Infinite’ album. Me and Eminem get close as soon as we met. I met him the night my son was born. We have already heard about each other. I was opening up for Usher at the show. He heard me kick the acapella on stage. And he asked me to meet me. So, we met each other, exchanged numbers and we started talking on the phone and that’s how the song Bad Meets Evil ended up happening. Once we did that, he took a liking to me, he got his deal with Dre and the rest is history.

About Bad Meets Evil deal

John Schechter, he’s a good friend of mine but he was introduced me through Paul Rosenberg who’s Em’s partner. I already had friendly relationship with Paul Rosenberg. I can’t remember exactly all the particulars but Paul wanted to set it up to where Em can do things outside of his deal. Also to help build me. So we just kept doing s–t together. And at that time, I also became Em’s hypeman for a minute. We were just together all the time. We were just building.

Meeting Dr. Dre

I remember sending out my demos to Marshall when he was out in Cali so he can listen to the songs. I get the call one day, my dad comes into the room and says ‘Ryan, It’s Dr. Dre on the phone for you.’ I answered the phone like ‘hello’ and he’s like ‘Yo what’s up, it’s Dre.’ I’m like WOW. So, Marshall basically played my s–t for him and he was feeling my s–t. So he was like ‘would you be down to come out here and work with us?’ I said ‘hell yeah.’ So I went out to Cali and we started working on The Chronic two (2001). From there, I ended up signing a deal with Tommy Boy where my album was executive produced by Marshall.

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Jelly Roll talks getting inspired by Eminem, calls him GOAT

Country singer Jelly Roll has recently gave an interview to Detroit Free Press where he revealed that he was inspired by Eminem and called him the greatest of all time.

The 38-year-old Tennessee native made an underground name in the 2010s with a series of hick-hop releases, forging a music career after spending much of his teens and early 20s in prison. He began his country transition in 2020, winning fans with soul-baring, therapeutic music that has been celebrated for honest rawness.

Friday in metro Detroit, he knew he was near the stomping grounds of a personal musical hero and influence, Eminem, who emerged from similar tough family circumstances to find his own redemptive arc.

“Eminem is the greatest of all time. There’s no denying that. I grew up feeling the same way. He inspired kids like me. He was early to infuse rap and rock, and I remember early on thinking you could mix genres based solely on what Marshall did. So he’s always been a big pivotal thing on what we’ve done. Plus, being a white-trash kid, you can’t help supporting another white-trash kid. I hope he feels the same about me.” Jelly Roll said.

“I think his music has always been cathartic because even when he was in his addiction, he was constantly crying for help out of it when you listen back to those records. Once he got past his first album, he just opened up the super-emotional side of him, and I think it changed the game for everybody. And he was one of the first rappers who did that.” he added.

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Yelawolf shows love to Eminem during Welcome To Rockville fest

Coupe of days ago, Yelawolf performed at the Welcome To Rockville festival in Daytona Beach, Florida where the former Shady Records artist performed some of his biggest hits, including “Best Friend,” from “Love Story” album which originally features Eminem.

Before performing the song, Yelawolf gave shout out to Eminem for changing his life forever: “This song is special to me because it represents the part of my career where it really changed my life so if everyone one time could just make some noise Marshall Mathers! One time, please. Thank you! This song is called Best Friend!”

“Best Friend” was released on April 14, 2015 as the fifth single from his second studio album “Love Story” via Shady and Interscope Records, and was later released on Eminem’s second greatest hits album “Curtain Call 2” in 2022, with Shady, Interscope, Marshall B. Mathers III, and Aftermath Entertainment.

The song reached top charts in several countries, including Belgium, Canada and the United States. “Best Friend” is certified platinum in US for selling more than 1 million units in the country.

On the song Yela calmly approaches the instrumental with a more spiritual tone, while Eminem goes into full aggressive mode spitting more than 16 bars as he usually does. This is also the only song on the album with a feature, and marks Em’s first musical release in 2015.

Yelawolf and Eminem have previously worked together on several occasions that include: “Best Friend,” “Psychopath Killer” by Slaughterhouse, “Twisted” with Skylar Grey, “2.0 Boys,” also featuring Slaughterhouse and “Throw It Up” also featuring Gangsta Boo.

Watch Yelawolf’s tribute to Eminem below:

Kxng Crooked responds Eminem retirement speculations

Although Eminem has made it clear that he’s always working and Mr. Porter has claimed that they are not even close to done, lots of fans on social media are speculating about Slim Shady’s retirement and rightfully so: More than 1200 days have passed since Eminem released a full body of work.

“Do you know if Eminem is retired?” One of the fans on Twitter asked Kxng Crooked on which he replied: “I don’t know if that’s a possibility.” One of the fans responded: “Thank you Crook. we’re losing hope out here.” Another commented: “He told LL he ain’t ever stopping until he loses it. I don’t think that happened.” Other said: “Em fans are weird let the dude get his rest, he’s literally said on his last album and Paul has said since the curtain call 2 eminem isn’t done putting out music.”

One of the users expressed his desire to see another collaboration between Detroit icon and West Coast legend: “Really hope you’re on his next s–t bro, you two on a track is definitely one of my favorite things.”

Kxng Crooked and Eminem have previously jumped on the track in several occasions: “I Will,” also featuring Royce 5’9″ and Joell Ortiz, “Welcome To Planet X,” featuring The Observer and Slaughterhouse tracks “Psychopath Killer,” featuring Yelawolf, “Asylum,” “Our House,” featuring Skylar Grey, “Throw That,” “2.0 Boys,” featuring Yelawolf, “Loud Noises” and “Session One.”

Check out Crooke’s tweet below:

Conway The Machine shows love to Eminem during Math Hoffa interview

Conway The Machine has recently sat down with Math Hoffa and MECC, CHAMP and GAT where the crew talked about Conway’s “Bang” single which has two versions of Eminem’s verse. The leaked, original version features a shoutout to deceased rapper, Mac Miller, and shots at rappers whom Eminem has beefed with in the past, including Machine Gun Kelly and Ja Rule. One highlight of this version was the diss aimed at Revolt, a music cable network founded and owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Math Hoffa: That verse from Em. He’s going mad at people. He’s brining up a lot of past situation. Did it ever cause friction for you?

Conway The Machine: Naah, not friction. It never caused no friction. I was just happy to get the verse man. There are two versions of his verse and when I heard it…Em is crazy man. Em is different. Stay out of his way!

Math Hoffa: Do you think that’s the direction that he was trying to lead you all?

Conway The Machine: I’m not sure. I don’t know man. I’m not sure if that was his motives.

Then the crew continued discussing The Game’s “The Black Slim Shady” track, which is supposedly a diss towards Eminem. Check the whole thing below:

Tee Grizzley & Skilla Baby talk Eminem’s impact on Detroit’s rap scene

Detroit rappers Tee Grizzley and Skilla Baby has recently sat down for an exclusive interview with HipHopDX to talk about everything from Eminem‘s “8 Mile” movie to “First Day Out” to their new project, toxic lyrics, Big Sean, Nipsey Hussle, Taylor Swift, Tee Grizzley’s gaming and much more.

At one point of the interview, the two started talking about favorite verse from each other. That’s where the Eminem-talk started.

“I walked in there nervous as hell. That’s why I was trying to play it cool. I mean, I’m with Tee Grizzley! So, I’m out here with T, I gotta throw my hardest punchline. Cause, you get one shot, palms sweaty, mom’s spaghetti.” said Skilla Baby.

Then interviewer asked if they ever had any interaction with Eminem while growing up.

“I don’t know nobody that really seen Eminem but Trick Trick. I heard he still live around where we are from, he just live far out. I never seen Eminem. I know he had restaurant downtown.” Skilla Baby replied.

Then Tee Grizzley continued: “I love Royce. I never talked to Eminem before. I definitely want to cook something with Royce in future but 8 Mile movie though, that is legendary.”

“We don’t wanna take nothing from Em though. He’s big where we are from. We just have not seen him. 8 Mile was big for us and all the Marshall Mathers s–t. All that s–t was hard. I ain’t saying I ain’t listened to his music. I banged his music. He’s big cultural impact.” Skilla Baby added.

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