In July, once news broke that Filipino-American rapper and singer EZ Mil was hanging out and signing with Hip Hop royalty, namely Dr. Dre and Eminem, the Asian Hip-Hop world shook with anticipation. Now, he’s out hitting popular Hip-Hop podcasts to tell his story and show off his crazy freestyle skills.
During The Bootleg Kev Podcast, EZ Mil describes how his family moved to America, first to Los Angeles and then to Las Vegas. Then he talks about his love of making Death Metal songs and his favorite bands like Dying Fetus and Aborted. Bootleg Kev then pries back a few layers and questions him about his life-changing meet-ups with hip-hop icons, Eminem and Dr. Dre.
As usual on these podcasts, EZ Mil was asked to show off his skills on the mic so the audience could feel what Em and Dre saw in him, and EZ Mil impressed everyone by dropping rhymes in English, Tagalog, and back in English again. It’s a dope two minutes that proves that EZ Mil has the potential to be the first global Asian Hip-Hop superstar coming from the ground up.
Before freestyling, Ez Mil listed his hop-hop influences while growing up: “Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, Tech N9ne, Hopsin, Snoop Dogg.” Check out the interview and the freestyle below:
Back in 2018, Eminem — who Hopsin credits with making him want to rap — rattled off his name on the song called “Fall” from Kamikaze album. It was a career-defining moment for Hopsin, who didn’t hide his excitement at the time.
In the song, Eminem raps: “I belong here, clown! Don’t tell me ’bout the culture I inspire the Hopsins, the Logics, the Coles, the Seans, the K-Dots, the 5’9″s, and oh Brought the world 50 Cent…”
Hopsin posed a video on Instagram, saying: “Yo, craziest s–t just f–ing happened. Eminem just said my name on his goddamn song on his new album. This s–t is crazy. Listen. What the f–k! I didn’t even know he knew who the f–k I was! Goddamn. He said don’t tell him about the culture, implying I’m part of the culture. Oh s–t, man. I gotta call my mom.”
In the caption, he wrote: “YO!!! Eminem thank you for acknowledging me on Kamikaze!! HOLY F–K!! This is seriously the BEST F–KING DAY OF MY F–KING LIFE!! Not even exaggerating! For years I always wondered if you even knew who I was! God damn! Literally. The. Best. F–kin. Day. Of. My. F–king. Life!!!! Period! YOU JUST INSPIRED ME TO MAKE A NEW F–KING PROJECT! I’m about to hit the studio RIGHT F–KIN NOW! This was the motivation I needed to stay on track! Thank you EM!”
To promote his latest release, Hopsin had a phone-call interview with Allhiphop, where Panorama City, Los Angeles, California-born rapper recalled the moment Eminem namedropped him on “Fall” single: “That was a highlight of my life. The line where he named a few people, everybody’s huge. I definitely have a buzz, but everybody’s bigger than me. And not only that, I have no ties to the industry, so it made me feel even more grateful for it because I’m just the random guy on that list. I have no ties to that man other than just me being a fan and him inspiring me. There’s so many rappers in the world and he put me in there. That means he listened to my music.” he said.
Then he continued: “But that leads to more questions, where was Eminem when he heard my music? What song was it? What was I doing when he was listening to it? Was he eating a sandwich? Where was he?”
Hopsin then continued talked about his new single: ““Sometimes it’s weird writing songs. I can always go deeper, but I guess sometimes when writing songs about people, it’s a bittersweet feeling. You get to write your life experience with that person, but then you’re also kind of putting that person on blast. There was so much more that happened, but I’m like, ‘Do I go all the way?’ I don’t want to go into Eminem mode and get crazy because it could have gone there. But I was like, there’s no need to reveal all the other stuff.”
Hopsin is back and he’s brining something new to the hip-hop world: Hop-Sinematic Universe which is inspired by one of the biggest composers and music-producers Hans Zimmer, legendary comic book writer and producer Stan Lee, actor and filmmaker Jordan Peele, Detroit’s own hip-hop icon Eminem and Dragon Ball Z creator Akira Toriyama.
In his latest post on Instagram, Panorama City, Los Angeles-born rapper who was heavily inspired by Slim Shady, writes:
“This is not the intro to an album. It is not a tour promo. The question is….What would creativity look like if you fused Hans Zimmer, Stan Lee, Jordan Peele, Eminem and Akira Toriyama (DBZ creator) together?
Then he continues: “I do not have the exact answer, but I want to represent the idea of what that answer could potentially be. I will not lie, Hip hop has become really boring to me. Everyone’s doing the same stuff, pretending to be overly cool in ways that are not true to their nature. We are all just copying everyone to remain “safe”. I have been guilty of it too. I do not want to be safe anymore. So I am going to create truly from the inner child within me, without feeling like I have to fit the mold of whatever a rapper “should be”.”
“I am finally becoming the creator that my mother knew I was destined to be as a child. In a couple weeks, I am dropping again. Welcome to the Hop-Sinematic Universe.” – Hopsin added.
After the announcement, Hop dropped the cinematic music video of his new song “Arrival.” You can watch it below:
Hopsin has recently set down with Stevie Knight for a long interview and at one point, Lost Angeles-born rapper was asked to name his top five rappers dead or alive. Here is what Hop responded:
“Eminem, Kxng Crooked, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot and Ludacris.” on which Stevie Knight responded: “Damn, I never heard of that line-up.”
Then Hopsin continues: “Eminem because he is just f**king Eminem. Kxng Crooked has crazy flow, crazy flow patterns, crazy flow cadences, till this day unpredictable… I know a lot of people identify me with Eminem and all that he is a big part, Crooked I, I am telling you I have studied this man’s flow.”
Yesterday, Hopsin returned with a new single called “Alone With Me,” a track that finds him exploring the inner darkness and having a brutally honest conversation with himself.
In the song, Hop references Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and Joyner Lucas with the following lines:
Be honest, you live in the shadow of Joyner Lucas Jealous? I know that you are, my point is proven F**k happened to you? You was spittin’ so cold, you was the “Ill Mind of Hopsin” on the list with the GOATs Then you fell off, you should’ve took a different approach I hate to say it, but you’ll never be like Kendrick or Cole
Eminem fans also noticed that Hop is referencing Eminem’s “8 Mile” at one point of the music video. Check out the post below:
Following 3-years of hiatus, Hopsin recently shared a video in which he opened up about some of his personal struggles he’s been experiencing for the last few years. He also dropped some new tracks, titled “Your House.”
Few hours ago, California rapper shared a picture of his high-school grades, and most of them were failures. On the same post, he shared a video of one of his performance with packed audience: “I found my high school report card from my senior year. All I’m gonna say is…YOU define YOU. I was never a failure. I just sucked at being who they wanted me to be.”
Detroit rapper Nasaan, who is Big Proof’s son, commented on a post: “God damn ni**a. What were you doing?!” on which Hopsin replied: “Listening to your Dad’s rap group mother f**er.” As you might already know, Hopsin is huge fan of Eminem and D12. Check out the screenshot below:
Back is 2018, Eminem gave shout out to Hopsin on a song “Fall,” from Kamikaze.
Hopsin was left overwhelmed after discovering the reference on the song, where Eminem raps: “I belong here, clown, don’t tell me ’bout the culture. I inspire the Hopsins, the Logics, the Coles, the Seans, the K-Dots, the 5’9″s…”
In a video shared on his social media accounts, Hopsin could not hide the excitement: ”Yo, craziest s**t just f**king happened. Eminem just said my name on his god damn song on his new album. This s**t is crazy! I did not even know he knew who the f**k I was! God damn, he said do not tell him about the culture, implying I am part of the culture! I gotta call my mom!”
Next year Hopsin jumped on a song with D12’s Bizarre, titled “Leatherface,” which also features Lazarus and King Gory and since then fans were eagerly waiting for the Eminem collaboration.
In a recent interaction with fans on social media, Hopsin does not look like to feature Eminem anytime soon. Check out his comment below:
