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Westside Gunn reveals how he gets Eminem & Jay-Z to listen to his Griselda artists

In an exclusive interview on Rap Radar Podcast with Elliott Wilson and Brian “B. Dot” Miller, debuting through iHeartRadio, Griselda co-founder Westside Gunn explained how being in the middle of the underground Hip-Hop scene and the mainstream has helped his rap career. It’s also given him the chance to uplift the rappers on his New York-based label and display their talents for major artists in his inner circle to see like Eminem, JAY-Z, Drake and others.

“When you’re underground, a lot of eyes and ears aren’t on you. Now like I said, I’m right in that middle. So I know if I curated a project, Drake might listen to it. Travis might listen to it, Tyler might listen to it, Hov might listen to it, Nas might listen to it, Marshall might listen to it. So I do these albums so Hov can hear Rome. So Nas can hear Rome. So Marshall can hear Rome, you feel me?” said Gunn.

Then he added: “Since y’all paying attention to me, let me show you something. That’s what it’s about. It’s spreading the culture. I’m not selfish. I want my guys to shine.”

After the end of 2023, Westside Gunn is also considering retiring from hip-hop scene.

In a series of tweets, the Buffalo rapper began his farewell by saying he has nothing else left to prove. He then started recapping his career, listing out some of his collaborators and producers he’s worked with. The list is pretty legendary from late rappers MF Doom and Prodigy to Jay-Z and Eminem.

Check out the tweets below:

Here is how many days have passed since Eminem, Jay-Z & Lil Wayne released an album

After releasing 11 solo studio albums, Eminem seems to be taking a break. Slim Shady‘s last album, Music To Be Murdered By, was released in January 2020, meaning, 1045 days have passed since the Rap God dropped full body of work.

Later that year, Eminem did release the deluxe edition of Music To Be Murdered By, feeding his fans with 16 new tracks, with guest appearances from Dr. Dre, Skylar Grey, DJ Premier and Ty Dolla $ign among others.

The album was a commercial success. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 279,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. Subsequently, Eminem became the first artist to have 10 consecutive number-one albums in the US and one of 6 artists to have released at least 10 US number-one albums.

Another hip-hop giant who has not released a studio album for years is Jay-Z, who holds the record for the most number one albums in hip-hop history with 14 of his LPs hitting No. 1 on Billboard 200 charts. Last project Jay dropped was 1975 days ago, when he released “4:44” back in June, 2017.

The album was widely acclaimed by critics, who praised its emotional and personal content. It debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 with 262,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, making it Jay-Z’s 14th album to top the chart. Only The Beatles are ahead with 20 albums.

Lil Wayne is also making his fans thirsty off new music. Last time Weezy came out with full body of work was back in January, 2020 when he dropped Funeral album. The wait will soon probably be over as the legendary rapper has already announced two projects that are coming in near future: the sixth installment of Tha Carter series and third part of I Am Not a Human Being. 

Funeral debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with 139,000 album-equivalent units sold, 38,000 of which were pure album sales. It marked Lil Wayne’s fifth US number-one album.

Rick Rubin compares creative process of Eminem & Jay-Z

Rick Rubin, who has worked with Eminem, Geto Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Public Enemy, The Cult, Danzig, Kanye West, The Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, and Johnny Cash to name a few, has recently sat down with Joe Rogan for his latest episode of Joe Rogan Experience podcast where the legendary record producer talked about the difference between writing processes of Eminem and Jay-Z.

Joe Rogan: The different ways of approaching comedy, it has got parallel with music right? There are some artists that just want riff, they want to figure it out on the fly. They wanna do it all almost off the top of their head and then there are artists that every single word is gone over and meticulously analyzed pieced together.

Rick Rubin: Yeah, there is no right and wrong way. You have to just find your way. Whatever works for you. I’ve worked with artists who do it completely different ways. You’ll se like, Eminem, he’s always writing in the book. Always writing all the time. And he has got notebooks writing. And I asked him if these were rhymes to use but he was like ‘No, no, no. It’s like 99% of what I write I never use.’ It’s just to stay engaged in the process of writing and finding new ways to write. So that, when I need it, it just comes. And then, Jay-Z doesn’t write anything down. He just listens to the beat, hums and then goes on the mic 20 minutes later and just says whole complicated verse. I don’t know how he can remember it. Much less have just written it and just be able to do it free. It’s crazy.

Rick Rubin: When me and Jay-Z were recording “99 Problems,” I played the beat for him. He likes the beat. Then he says ‘okay just keep playing it.’ Then he sits in the back of the control room on the couch and he starts humming. As I said, in 15-20 minutes, he jumps like ‘Okay I got it.’ And then he goes in with no paper, no writing, nothing and delivers the whole thing. He does it again and again. Words would be the same but the phrasing is different. Words are same but the feeling of it, or the rhythm of it changes when he does it again. And when he does it a few times, he’s like ‘okay, that one is good.’ It’s insane. I’ve never seen like this.

You can watch the interview below:

Jay-Z shouts out Eminem on a new song with DJ Khaled, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne

DJ Khaled has just dropped a star-studded album “God Did,” which includes a long-awaited “Use This Gospel” remix by Kanye West and Eminem, produced by Dr. Dre.

The new project also includes a song with the same title as the album, “God Did,” featuring Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, John Legend and Fridayy.

In the song, Jay-Z gives a little shout out to Eminem with the following lines: “E was down ten for this / We just got his ten back then went back like, “Where the interests is?” / Em light up the O3 / We let y’all do the zazas, OG for the OGs / Some new ni**as out of pocket, talkin’ exotic / You barely been in the Baham— (Haha) that’s another topic.”

“Em light up the O3 (’03)” looks like to be a double entendre. Emory Jones lighting up the cigar that Hov is producing and Eminem lighting up the year 2003.

This is not the first time Hov is giving Eminem a nod. On a 2003 song “Excuse Me Miss,” with Pharrell Williams, Jay raps: “Got one chef, one maid, all I need is a partner / To play spades with the cards up, ALL TRUST / Who else you gon’ run with? The truth is us / Only dudes movin’ units – Em, Pimp Juice and us.”

On a 2009 song “A Star Is Born,” with J. Cole, Jigga raps: “Wayne did ‘A Milli,’ 50 did a milli / Ye too, but what Em did was silly / The white boy blossomed after Dre endorsed him / His flow on “Renegade,” f**king awesome! / Applaud him!”

You can listen to the new song below:

Michael Williams reveals he almost made an Eminem, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg & Outkast tour in 2005

In a recent installment of REVLOT magazine’s “Tour Tales,” Michael “Blue” Williams discusses starting on the road with Jodeci in the ‘90s, why Outkast had to leave Eminem’s 2001 European tour early, and more.

Interviewer: On Eminem’s All Access Europe DVD, he was hanging out with Outkast. What were those shows like?

Michael Williams: We were supposed to do the entire European run with Em. Big Boi’s wife went into labor, and we had to leave because he wanted to get back for the birth of his son. We still missed it, and he was mad at me about that. Those seven dates we did with Em were still crazy. The venues Em was doing were huge, and the crowds were also Outkast fans. Germany and these other countries knew all the words. It was an amazing run. It actually led to the greatest tour that never happened. The greatest tour I ever tried to pull together was going to be called ‘The Greatest Show On Turf,’ and it’d have Outkast, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and JAY-Z. We were going to do stadiums.

Interviewer: Wait, what?

Michael Williams: This had to be around 2005/2006. It was going to be each of them representing their blocks, so to speak. The stage was going to be each person’s neighborhood or block. We were going to do two stages that rotated. One stage would be the south, and then it’d flip around to New York. The other stage would be Detroit with Em, and Snoop with the west coast. Everybody would’ve brought out people from their crews. We couldn’t pull it off.

Interviewer: Was everyone on board besides Andre 3000?

Michael Williams: Yeah.

For the full interview, visit REVOLT here.

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:

Rass Kass tells his favorite story about Eminem & Jay-Z’s protegee

Rass Kass has recently done an interview with HipHopDX where the legendary rapper talked about how he made Jay-Z’s artists Eminem believer.

“We had couple of shows where Eminem opened up for me. I came out before Em that’s all, I had an opportunity before him. I brought one of Jay-Z’s artists with me one time and told him who Eminem was before Eminem was ‘Eminem’. He was from New York, Brooklyn and he was like ‘naah, white boy? Pff..’ We were in Detroit and he was opening up for me and I said to him ‘Eminem is better than 95% of us.’ He was like ‘NAAH’ especially being from New York. And then I said ‘I’m sorry I’m wrong. He’s better than 99.9% of us.’ He was like ‘get the f**k outta here, son. bla bla bla.’ He want back to Jay-Z and told him that. That was way before Em blew up. Way before ‘Renegade.’ Jay-Z had never heard of Eminem.”

“That’s one of my favorite Eminem stories before anyone knew who he was. Well, Detroit knew he was super talented. He was ill. And if any of my friend said he was not I would have looked at him funny cause you can’t deny Eminem’s talent. You can’t deny me. You can’t deny Rakim. You gotta give this people flowers. You gotta tell them ‘you are incredible, god blessed you with that talent.’ You ain’t hurting yourself by acknowledging somebody’s really amazing too. It should be motivation.” said Rass Kass

Watch the full interview below:

Conway talks the difference between his relationships with Eminem and Kanye West & Jay Z

Conway The Machine has recently released his long-awaited Shady Records debut album God Don’t Make Mistakes and before that, the Buffalo rapper made an appearance on Kanye West’s Donda album.

During the conversation with Charlamagne Tha God on The Breakfast Club, Conway explained the difference between relationships with Eminem and Kanye West and Jay-Z.

“Yeah. Relationship with Eminem was more business than personal. I do not want to say the wrong thing. I am kind of careful, but it was more business, and rightfully so, that is how our relationship started. We did not really have no, I guess, relationship like that. We spoke a couple times on the phone, kicked it with him a couple of times at Coachella and stuff like that, but he a good dude.” said Conway.

“He called me, told my album was a classic, man, and he loves what I am doing. I do not got nothing bad to say about him but you know, Ye and Hov, guys like that, they more personal. That’s nothing saying bad about Em. He held me down. Gave me this opportunity on his platform. He let us know ‘I’m kicking with you all.” Conway added.

You can watch the interview below:

Snoop Dogg shares new Jay-Z and Eminem picture with GOAT emojis

It’s good to see Snoop Dogg and Eminem showing mutual respect again!

In a recent interview with Sway, Eminem talked about his current relationship with Snoop: “It’s great that he made himself to be this relevant to this day. It’s incredible. That’s crazy. Me and Snoop are good. We talked months ago about the whole thing. We just set down and realized nobody wants beef within their own camp.”

After the Super Bowl performance, Eminem in “Doggystyle” hoodie took a picture with Jay-Z, which was shared by Snoop Dogg on his Instagram with GOAT emojis in the caption.

You can check the post below:

Also, be on the lookout for “From Detroit to the LBC” !

Conway shows love to Jay-Z & Kobe Bryant over Kanye West’s “Devil In A New Dress” freestyle

Conway The Machine has been putting his time to good use in preparation for his major label, Shady Records debut, God Don’t Make Mistakes, which will be released on February 25th.

The Griselda heavy hitter released a freestyle over Kanye West’s Donda opening track “Jail” last week and he is back at it again. This time Conway spits over “Devil In A New Dress.”

In the freestyle, Conway raps:

“Gotta remember, me and these n***as ain’t similar,
Bout to drop my new sh*t and change the temperature,
Drop my album in February to f*ck the winter up,
And I built a company to pull my n***as up”

While expressing his superior abilities and demeanor, Conway spoke on some messages he’s learned from the greats and his admiration of them. He referenced Jay-Z saying that Jigga told him “Don’t worry, n***a, I got you.

Conway also gave a nod to the revered Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, as he recorded it “Two years from the day we lost Mamba, May he rest in peace.”

You can bump the freestyle below:

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