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Eminem has been replaced on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart after nearly one month at No. 1

Eminem released his 12th solo studio album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) a little more than a month ago. Since then, the album has been performing greatly on the charts, especially in the Detroit legends home country, the United States and let’s not forget, the United Kingdom. Eminem’s new project had been running the show on several Billboard charts for weeks, but after a notable reign, it has finally come to an end.

The Death of Slim Shady has been forced from the top spot on two of Billboard’s albums tallies. This frame, the set slips from No. 1 to No. 2 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts. Marshall Mathers steps aside as Vultures 2, the latest collaborative album from Ty Dolla $ign and Kanye West debuts at No. 1. The LP marks the second successful project from the two hip-hop artist, and, for the moment, it’s running the show on the genre-specific tallies that The Death of Slim Shady previously dominated.

Ye and $ign debut their new set at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 charts losing out to Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department on both of those lists. On the Top Streaming Albums chart, the Vultures sequel launches at No. 6. Vultures 2 scored Ye’s second-lowest first week sales with 107,000 album-equivalent units. These units consisted of 46,000 streaming-equivalent units, 60,500 pure album sales, and 500 track-equivalent units. The album also accumulated a total of 50.44 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs.

The Death of Slim Shady, meanwhile, slips slightly on two of those charts. Eminem’s new full-length dips to No. 10 on the Top Streaming Albums list and No. 11 on the Billboard 200 this frame.  Eminem did manage to conquer the Billboard 200 the week that The Death of Slim Shady first arrived, while Ye and $ign failed to do so. Vultures 2 marks the end of Kanye West’s winning streak on that chart, as his last 11 projects released under his name have all reached the summit on the competitive roster.

In the coming weeks–and perhaps even in just a few days–Eminem could return to No. 1 on some of Billboard’s hip-hop-leaning tallies. The Death of Slim Shady has real staying power, as it’s already racked up several turns atop multiple lists, and fans are still listening and physical copies are scheduled to hit the stores in September.

Since the release of Eminem’s The Death Of Slim Shady album, many tried to take the crow on the Rap Charts but failed. As a result, some of the rap’s most anticipated albums debuted at No. 2 or lower, including Childish Gambino’s Bando Stone & the New World and Ice Spice’s Y2K!.

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Eminem introduces Dillon Francis to Ibiza show

American electronic music producer and DJ, Dillon Francis, also known by his alter ego DJ Hanzel, has recently did the show in Ibiza where he was introduced by none other than the Rap God himself, Eminem.

“What’s up Ibiza. It’s me, Eminem. I bet you wondering what I’m doing here. I asked myself the same f–king thing. Then I remembered Dillon Francis is about to throw down some fat a-s beats. So, let me stop talking and let’s get the f–king party started.” said Eminem in the audio clip played on the stage.

On the video, Dillon Francis: “Eminem, I owe you one bother.” And in the caption on X (formerly known as Twitter), he wrote: “I owe you my moms spaghetti,” while tagging Eminem.

Fans first thought Dillon made the intro using AI. One user asked: “Is that real or did you use AI.” Another said: “I need an experts opinion! is this AI?.” But one of he person close to Dillon Francis’ circle confirmed us that Eminem actually sent him and audio of the spoken words. You can watch it below:

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.

Elliott Wilson recalls XXL magazine beefing with Eminem

Elliott Wilson, the founder and CEO of Rap Radar, has previously worked as editor-in-chief of XXL Magazine, recently sat down with VLAD where he recalled beefing with Eminem in early 2000s and how he managed to get 50 Cent, Eminem and Dr. Dre on the cover of the magazine.

“[When I arrived] Eminem already had a beef with XXL magazine. I inherited his beef. I tried to resolve it. They had already wrote an article before I got there, like question white person running hip-hop. The white MC. So he was offended by that. He was in good rapport with The Source at that time, so he was anti XXL. When I got to XXL, my first mission was resolve this beef with Eminem. Get Eminem on my side but he wouldn’t accept it so then I wrote up and did whole magazine against him because he wouldn’t embrace me yet.” said Elliott Wilson.

Then he continued: “And then he dissed us on The Marshall Mathers album cause the first issue I did put a nasty illustration that I regret to this day, about his mother spanking him, so he’s talking about that in the song. But it’s legendary man. I got dissed on a title track of Marshall Mathers LP which is a classic so… My first issue! And it wasn’t even my attent. Was I trolling Eminem? I don’t think I was. I didn’t know what I was doing. I was trying to get it done [laughs].”

Elliott Wilson then continued talking about the iconic cover story XXL magazine made back in 2003 with 50 Cent, Dr. Dre and Eminem: “I don’t know if you know this Vlad but 50 Cent does not like me. Let’s give 50 Cent all the credit in the world. 50 Cent was the reason I was able to finally resolve this conflict I inherited with Eminem and join the situation. We were supporting 50. I remember going to the office and everybody’s pumping his mixtapes. 50’s the hottest guy at that moment in New York. You could not deny his impact. So, we just started doing these stories on him and just continually putting him in the magazine, continually showing support, we built great rapport with him so we just kept supporting him. So, when he signed to Eminem, we were like ‘oh s–t. Is he gonna cut us off?’ We thought 50 gonna say ‘I can’t f–k with you all. Eminem and those guys don’t f–k with you.’ He ended up do be the bridge to help solve the situation.” he said.

Elliott then continued: “And then what happened was, Benzino made a record dissing Eminem at the same time so I went to have a meeting with Paul Rosenberg to resolve this conflict cause I wanted that 50 Cent cover. So, we had this whole sit down and Paul was like ‘how would you like, Eminem, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent cover?’ I was like ‘this guy is f–king with me.’ I just wanted 50 Cent. He was like ‘you didn’t hear last night? Benzino dropped the diss record.’ I had not heard it. I missed it. So everything led to having that moment. Then Interscope pulled all the advertisements from The Source and gave it to us which empowered us to go on the run that we began.” You can watch the interview below:

Charlamagne reacts to Tyler, The Creator apologizing Eminem

In a recent episode of The Breakfast Club, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne tha God and  DJ Envy discussed Tyler, The Creator recently apologizing Eminem for criticizing some of his catalog that were released after Relapse album.

Jess Hilarious: I love when people are loud about being wrong. And I think that’s important too because a lot of times with artists people give them hell when they get into different place in their life, it’s like ‘oh, they don’t make the same music. They can’t rap no more, they can’t this and that.’ And it’s just like NO! People grow! And being able to be vulnerable is a thing now but back then when Eminem was doing it, wasn’t too many artists that was coming out, talking about the addictions and different things that were happening, so that’s good to hear.

Charlamagne Tha God: I respect it. There is nothing worse than letting the joke fly out and insult and then you find out they going through something traumatic so I respect him for owing that but it’s still art right? If you don’t like the art, you can still criticize the art.

You can watch the podcast below and check Tyler’s recent interview here.

Trick Trick pokes Machine Gun Kelly regarding Eminem beef

Machine Gun Kelly revived the Eminem beef couple of months ago when he said Eminem didn’t win the battle between the two.

Eminem responded to MGK on a song “Bad One,” featuring White Gold, produced by himself and Luis Resto, from his chart-topping The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace) album. In the song, the Detroit legend raps: “Mission accomplished, he pulled off his stunt / And pissed a billion people off at once (Yeah) / But I gotta keep going Tyson on Kelly (What?) / I bodied him twice and already / That little motherf-cker’s back throwing subs (Like what?) like a food fight at the deli / And that is why E got the attitude he got like Liza Minnelli / My male ego is the size of the belly on Jelly Roll.”

MGK responded back with just one tweet, saying: “G.O.M.D.” It’s an acronym for the statement “Get Off My D–k,” popularized by J. Cole. He didn’t stop there and recently performed “Rap Devil” in Cleveland with changed lyrics and added intro. In his performance, MGK used Eminem’s recent “Slim Shady VS Marshall Mathers” conversations as an intro, where Eminem talks with his alter ago about Machine Gun Kelly: “MGK f–ked your mother… He did but she’s your mother too, so?” MGK has also changed the text of the lyrics a bit. Instead of “Homie, we get it, we know that you’re the greatest rapper alive” he rapped “Homie, we get it, you’re not the greatest rapper alive (never).”

Trick Trick, who was namedropped in ‘Rap Devil,’ has recently put up a video story on his Instagram. In the video, Megan Fox appears to be avoiding a kiss from MGK and the caption said: “She realized Eminem was right all along.” Check out the screenshot below:

 

Tyler, The Creator explains why he owes Eminem an apology

In the latest episode of Mavericks, ‪Tyler, The Creator‬ sits down with Mav Carter to discuss his unique approach to art and music, what he loves and hates about internet culture and why he owes Detroit hip-hop icon, Eminem, an apology.

“Eminem put out his album called Recovery in 2010. I was big Eminem fan when that album came out and I f–king hated it. Hated it publicly like ‘this s–t is whack.’ I didn’t like it. And after watching that show [Netflix’s ‘Painkillers’], I felt so bad about those tweets because thinking from his perspective, someone like me publicly saying that stuff and him getting off drugs and being clean and getting to a point in his life that’s behind him, he probably felt like I was attacking him.” said Tyler, The Creator.

Then he continued: “I thought I was just like I don’t like music. He was in the different part of his life and probably felt like I was attacking him. And now I feel so bad about saying that stuff because my perspective was so limited. I love him. That dude taught me how to rap. I learned how to put words together in rhythm because of some of the Eminem stuff I was hearing, storytelling and things like that. So after watching that show, I felt so terrible about some of the things I said about that Recovery album cause I realized that was a big step and meant a lot to him and my f–king young stupid a-s is like ‘ughh, I wanna hear Same Song & Dance. And I loved The Eminem Show.’

“I felt terrible. If I ever see him I wanna tell him that in person.” Tyler, The Creator added. You can watch the interview below:

MGK performs Eminem diss “Rap Devil” with changed lyrics

Back in 2022, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb declared that  August 13 is “Machine Gun Kelly Day.” This year, the third MGK Day has morphed into a five-day party in Cleveland.

The-rapper-turned-to-a-punk-rocker throw out the party for his fans where he perform his biggest hit song “Rap Devil,” a diss towards Detroit hip-hop legend, Eminem.

In his performance, MGK used Eminem’s recent “Slim Shady VS Marshall Mathers” conversations as an intro, where Eminem talks with his alter ago about Machine Gun Kelly: “MGK f–ked your mother… He did but she’s your mother too, so?”

MGK has also changed the text of the lyrics a bit. Instead of “Homie, we get it, we know that you’re the greatest rapper alive” he rapped “Homie, we get it, you’re not the greatest rapper alive (never).” You can watch the performance if you want below:

LL Cool J says him & Eminem hit the studio together for their new song

In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, LL Cool J briefly talked about his upcoming song “Murdergram Deux” with Eminem from his highly anticipated 14th solo studio album The FORCE, which is set to be released on September 6, 2024, through Def Jam Recordings and the Virgin Music Group. The album also features guest appearances from Snoop Dogg, Fat Joe, Rick Ross, Sona Jobarteh, Saweetie, Busta Rhymes, Nas, Mad Squablz, J-S.A.N.D., and Don Pablito and is entirely produced by iconic producer Q-Tip.

Interviewer: Eminem is also featured on this album. He said, seeing you perform really inspired him and made him wanna rap. So, how much you appreciate this friendship?
LL Cool J: He’s great friend. Em is a great friend. We worked together in the studio on this song “Murdergram Deux” and it’s amazing. I love him as an artist. I had a lot of fun working with all of the artists. Snoop in the studio, Em in the studio. It was just a good energy. And I’m having fun too. I ain’t taking it that serious.”

The entire “Muerdergram Deux” song was leaked few months ago. In a recent interview, LL Cool J addressed the fact and revealed that the song was not a final version: “That’s terrible man, it’s so bad. It’s not AI but it’s not official. It’s not the right version. They just be over the top and people just be dabbling and… I don’t even know why even do that. It’s like, calm down man. They all just walking on in kitchen, touching the rolls before before the s–t is done and you know  just all up in the pots. Keep the food ain’t ready. You know how your grandmother slap your hand and s–t when you trying to put your hands in the pots early? That’s how I feel about this. Just cut that s–t. But it is what it is, it’s not AI, it’s a real joint.” said LL Cool J.

MC Eiht shows massive love to Eminem & Kendrick Lamar

MC Eiht has recently sat down on VLAD TV where he talked about Dr. Dre naming Eminem the greatest emcee ever and gave Slim Shady and Kendrick Lamar their flowers.

“Cause to him, it’s basically, not to say that’s his artist but, he’s different. Not to say that Cube and Kendrick or whoever were on the same patter. Snoop? You’ve seen that. You got a team of stars and s–t but there is only one Michael Jordan. You got a team of motherf–king great f–king picture painters but there is only one Leonardo da Vinci so that’s the category he’s putting.” said MC Eiht.

Then he continues: “To me, I feel, after seeing Kendrick, now Kendrick’s a great artist, he’s quoted that. Nobody could top Cube, Cube was the s–t. So’s Snoop. Snoop’s in the lane of his own but to him, in his opinion of <I’ve worked with ni–as from this color to that color, I’ve worked with motherf–kers from singing to rapping, to Jazz to f–king whatever and in my opinion, to me, Eminem is the greatest artist I’ve come across because he’s able to do something that I have not seen anyone else do as far as what he creates>.”

“My Name Is was so crafty. I used to bang that s–t out of Hi My Name Is. It was different. He’s given us all types of music. Something that we are related to as far as the ears and the beat is just captivating but then when you hear this motherf–ker talking about school and f–king parents and s–t like that, you only imagine yourself being in his shoes as from what he came from and it was crafty than just doing something typical like Ice Ice Baby. Something like they would not expect a white artist to do. So for him to be able to come with that depression and that expression about life and what he felt about it, it was just able to captivate different audience. Eminem, Kendrick, those are different dudes. You can’t put nothing past them. You have to give them their own lane. I don’t even consider them just rappers. That motherf–kers are different. Kendrick have passed the idea of me putting a CD in my car, rolling down the street, bumping and s–t. He’s the motherf–ker that I’m about to pull over and listen to what he’s saying. And I’mma go ‘damn! that ni–a said that?!’ That’s how you look at Eminem. That’s how you look at Kendrick.” MC Eiht added. You can watch the interview below:

Dutch, Math Hoffa & Mr. Mecc show love to Eminem & Royce 5’9″

FEA and Dutchie Man (Dutch) from Philadelphia hip-hop group Major Figgas have recently sat down with Math Hoffa, Mr. Mecc and the rest of the crew on the latest episode of My Expert Opinion where they briefly talked about Eminem and his new album, The Death Of Slim Shady.

Mr. Mecc: He knocked Taylor Swift off the charts. Shout out to Eminem.

Math Hoffa: Yeah, shout out to Em. I love the new album. Am I skipping? As a body of work I listen to the whole s–t. Because that’s what it is. A body of work. [If you skip past it you miss the chapter of the book]. Some people make projects that sounds like compilation. And there’s some people who make specific project that’s like it’s all wrapped together to enjoy the whole movie. You can’t watch the beginning, you can’t watch the middle, you gotta listen from start to finish. And I feel like The Death of Slim Shady is one of those projects that you have to listen from start to finish.

Dutch: He always brings out great bodies of work to me. It’s like he has a strategy with that s–t. To me, he’s not just going in there just rapping. He’s saying form beginning to the end, this book has to be a novel that people are going to read from beginning to end and get something out of every record. It’s never just going to be a throwaway with Em. Because he got ni–as like Royce around. You play your records for Royce and ni–as like him, they gonna tell you that ain’t it. I ain’t never heard Em spit a verse that wasn’t ‘that ain’t it’ verse. I’m being honest. The guy is on top of the f–king line.

You can watch the episode below:

Logic shouts out Eminem in 3 songs from his new album

After 7 years of wait, Logic has finally dropped off his 9th solo studio album Ultra 85. Clocking in at approximately an hour and 20 minutes, the 20-track effort features guest appearances from T Man The Wizard on “Mission Control,” DJ Drama on “Deja Vu,” Robert Ivory on “City in the Stars” and with ADÉ on “Ghost in the Machine,” Lucy Rose on “Interstellar” and Zelooperz on “ANTIDOTE.”

Ultra 85 follows up last year’s College Park and serves as the accompanying soundtrack to Logic’s upcoming novel of the same name — a sci-fi novel set in 2115 that follows the story of pilots Quentin and Kai.

Ultra 85 is quite literally years in the making; it was first announced in 2017 as part of the special Everybody booklet and almost didn’t see a release when Logic briefly retired from rap several years ago. There’s also some speculation about whether the project will be his last rap album after Sam Spratt, the artist who created almost all of Logic’s album covers, revealed on X that “Logic will be taking off the rap hat and going full musical producer” to create the musical score for Spratt’s Luci project.

Logic shouted out Eminem in three different songs from the new album. In the song “TELEPORT,” he raps: Made some friends and I made some M’s and I copped that Benz / Got a song with Wu, got a song with Em / Feel like this high won’t never end.” Logic flexes his collaborations with absolute hip-hop legends. He featured all of the living members of the Wu-Tang Clan on 2018’s “Wu Tang Forever.” The following year, he featured the Rap God himself, Eminem, on the song “Homicide.”

Another song where Logic shouted out Eminem is “Ghost in the Machine,” featuring Robert Ivory and Phil Adé. In the first verse, he raps “No, the game could never ban me / I’m a renegade like Em and Jay / Might as well be honest with what you say / ‘Cause no matter how you feel them f–kin’ people finna hate you anyway.” Logic addresses his position in the rap game by referencing Jay-Z and Eminem’s classic 2001 track “Renegade,” from The Blueprint album.

And lastly, Logic shouted out Eminem again on “Deja Vu,” featuring DJ Drama, a single that was released couple of months ago. In the song, he raps: “You think you got it, better get to praying / Who you know go toe-to-toe with Em? / “Homicide,” might have to go again / Student of the game, I studied him / JAY-Z, Nasir, and Rakim.” ‘Homicide’ by Logic, featuring Eminem was one of the lead singles that leads to the 5th full album from Logic, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind where it would receive and garner a positive reception. He talks about that feature with Eminem, saying that if he would ever have another Eminem feature, he will make it an effort to be on par with Eminem’s lyricism and delivery.

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