In the latest episode of Drin Champs, N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN chop it up with the legendary, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg! A Drink Champs episode 30 years in the making.
Hip-hop is more than music; it’s a culture, a movement, and a collection of stories woven by pioneers who’ve shaped its sound and essence. One massive story is that of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Hip-Hop icons whose global influence spans decades. In this episode, COMPLEX offers an in-depth glimpse into their journey, highlighting their rise, collaborations, and impact at ComplexCon in Las Vegas.
The duo also premiered their much-anticipated Jelly Roll and Tom Petty song titled “LAST DANCE WITH MARY JANE” during the interview. Before they played the song, Dr. Dre said: “The great Tom Petty said something in our documentary, he said ‘the day Dr. Dre does the version of Mary Jane’s “Last Dance”, it’s gonna be an instant hit. Fortunately his family blessed us with the files and all of his vocals, so I did whole new beat and put his vocals on the chorus and his harmonica playing on the chorus and then Jelly Roll came to my house and sung the second verse. That’s the setup and that’s what we are about to hear.”
Eminem made his grand return to the MTV VMAs in dramatic fashion on September 11, 2024 as the night’s ceremony opener.
The show started with a quick-cut montage of people dressed up like the Detroit icon, a sea of Slim Shady clones in black crew neck T-shirts, white sneakers, dog tags, and blonde wigs. The video quickly burst into real life, as Eminem himself led the dupes through a door into the audience, and proceeded to rush the stage.
It was a reference to Marshall Mathers’ iconic performance at the 2000 VMAs, in which he led a battalion of Slim Shady clones in white T-shirts and blue jeans from the streets onto the stage. Toward the end of the first song in 2024 show’s medley, the Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) lead single “Houdini,” a spitting-image Slim Shady twin, dressed as if he’d walked back in time from the 2000 performance, joined him on stage.
The raucous energy of the ‘Houdini’ performance saw the likes of Taylor Swift and Camilla Cabello shoot to their feet and dance. But the mood grew somber and contemplative as “Houdini” transitioned into the next single from The Death of Slim Shady, “Somebody Save Me.”
Jelly Roll, who could not appear in person, was projected over the VMAs crowd onto a hanging black sphere that made him look, appropriately, like the man in moon. “Somebody save me from myself,” he sang, as Eminem paced the stage. “Me from myself. I’ve spent so long livin’ in hell.” The second half of Eminem’s opener saw him commanding the stage with the same confidence he’s always possessed, but with a new, more measured sense of security. He rapped to fans at the left and right flanks of the stage about his children, Hailie, Alaina, and Stevie.
Then actual home movies and photos began to play in a slideshow above the stage. As Jelly Roll began to croon the crescendo of the song, Eminem retired to an armchair placed next to the slideshow, as if stewing in his private feelings in a makeshift living room.
Jelly Roll watched the entire Eminem show with his teams and the reactions was shared to the public on social media. Jelly can be seeing watching the performance, saying “This is f–king crazy!” before reciting the lyrics of Eminem’s verse on “Somebody Save Me.” You can watch the entire video below:
Nick Major of Spout Podcast chipped it up with Jelly Roll as he embarked on his “Beautifully Broken” tour. Jelly Roll shared candid insights about the tour’s early success, including five consecutive sold-out shows, and the emotional highs and lows of performing live. He opened up about his past struggles, the importance of staying connected with his roots, and the profound impact his music has on fans. Jelly Roll also discussed his exciting collaborations with artist like Eminem, his deep connection to his music’s purpose, and his latest album, set to drop on October 11th.
“Collaborating with Eminem is by far the most unreal thing that’s happened in my career yet. There are probably five people on earth I’d meet that I would clearly be jittery around. It’d be like Gareth Brooks, James Taylor, Bog Seager, Eminem. People I grew up knowing every word of every son they ever released.” said Jelly Roll.
Then he continued: “When he sent the record and I got to hear it first time, for me it was such a fan cause it reminded me a ‘Mockingbird.’ It reminded me The Eminem Show Em, that era of him cause the rest of the album kinda felt like earlier Slim Shady but these couple of songs, ‘Temporary,’ with my friend, Skylar Grey, they felt really nostalgic, like deep Eminem, like Stan Eminem, that real story-teller Eminem. That Eminem that made you feel like you were in his living room with him and you knew his daughter and you knew the family struggles and you knew what he was going through, you felt it. For that to be combined with the song that I think I was my version of that, I feel like ‘Save Me’ is kind of a peep into my soul. For that to be the song that brought us together, I think it was so serendipitous.
“It was deep man. People don’t know this but he showed me, when we were sitting backstage for the video, that Camcord footage is real. That’s not a fix. That was not a made-up thing. He had years of this old footage from his drug addiction years that he had never even really properly went through because he knew that was from those years. And somewhere in the process of the album, I don’t remember the exact story but it was like he had either seen that video the day he wrote Somebody Save Me or couple days after he wrote Somebody Save Me. It’s really deep man. We’ve spent a lot of time on that video set really hanging. That dude got really deep with me. He’s a great guy, man.”
“I’m glad I got a second time to hang out with him cause the first time I met him I just completely made a fool of myself. I just did the nervous talk your face-off kind of thing. He’s not talkative as me. So, in general, he was kind of quiet. And we were just meeting and every time it got quiet I just started spitting fun facts about me. I had to apologize doing it but he was like ‘it’s all good dude.'” Jelly Roll added. You can watch the interview below:
Big Sean continues to show support to Eminem as he always does. Slim Shady has recently released the music video of “Somebody Save Me,” featuring Jelly Roll, the third single from his 12th solo studio album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace).
Eminem posted a short clip of the video on Instagram with the caption: “This is my song from me to you…” #SomebodySaveMe video OUT NOW! Link in bio.” Under the comment section, his brother Nathan Kane Mathers commented: “Nailed it Beautifully done Big Bro! We love you.”
Big Sean also commented: “Let’s go” with fire emojis. In the previous post, Jelly Roll commented: “Absolutely unbelievable.” Em’s daughter also recently talked about “Somebody Save Me,” “Temporary” and “Mockingbird” in the latest episode of her Just A Little Shady podcast, which you can check out here.
Eminem premiered the new music video for “Somebody Save Me,” featuring Jelly Roll, third single from his new album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) on YouTube yesterday.
The cut explores the Detroit hip-hop icon’s strained relationships while dealing with drug addiction, a heart-wrenching exploration of an alternate reality in which he died before his daughter Alaina’s graduation. “Alaina, I’ll be there in a minute, I promise,” Eminem raps in the somber track, which deals with heavy themes ranging from addiction to depression.
Then at the end of the music video comes a strange twist: an affiliate link promising a free month of therapy at BetterHelp, a mental health and online counseling services platform that has been embroiled in controversy for years now, as Polygon documented in detail back in 2018.
Unsurprisingly, many fans were left unimpressed by the inclusion. “I wish Em did more research on BetterHelp before advertising it, really not a good service,” one user wrote in a post on Reddit. “BetterHelp is terrible, sad to see that he’s advertising it,” another fan wrote. Someone said: “I don’t like betterhelp, the data selling is one problem (thankfully there are ways to prevent this) and their approach to commercialized therapy leaves a bad taste in my mouth. That being said, one free month for someone on the fence or someone who isn’t in a spot financially to take the risk of trying it out for the first time might not be such a bad thing. Do I wish it was more involved with a different service? sure, but also, this could still help a lot of people despite the bs with betterhelp. That being said, my suggestion? take the free month to familiarize yourself with the intake process and just to get a vibe of what it’s like, cancel the membership then go find yourself a real therapist, potentially one you can physically meet.”
BetterHelp’s track record has been called into question for years. Most notably last year, the Federal Trade Commission found that BetterHelp “broke its privacy promises,” handing over “sensitive health information through unavoidable prompts.” That’s despite promising its users that they can “rest assured” that “any information provided in this questionnaire will stay private between you and your counselor.”
According to the FTC, BetterHelp broke its confidentiality promises by selling health information of over seven million consumers to the likes of Facebook, Snapchat, and Pinterest for advertising purposes. In May, the embattled company agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle the regulator’s allegations, but has maintained that the move wasn’t an admission of wrongdoing. (Neither BetterHelp nor Eminem responded to a request for comment.)
The company offers relatively affordable online counseling sessions, often undercutting mainstream prices. Whether clients are getting quality mental health care, though, remains debatable. [VIA: Yeahoo.com]
Eminem releases the music video for “Somebody Save Me,” featuring Jelly Roll, second single from his 12th solo studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace). The video includes a lot of old footage, including never before seen footage of Hailie playing on the guitar.
“Somebody Save Me,” featuring Jelly Roll, produced by benny blanco, Emile Haynie and Eminem himself, is a closing track off Eminem’s 12th solo studio album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace) on which Marshall delves into his addiction to prescription medication, a battle that nearly claimed his life due to an overdose in 2007. The song portrays “an alternate reality” where Eminem never got clean off drugs, and as a result, missed many milestones in his family. This song is thematically similar to “Arose,” the last song off of Em’s album Revival, in which he also addresses his drug addiction and its impact on his loved ones.
The lyrics of “Somebody Save Me” are about Eminem’s relationship with his family during his past drug addiction, and are written from the perspective of an alternate reality where he died before his daughter Hallie’s graduation. The song opens up with a recording of one of his children, Alaina, begging him to eat dinner which he denies. All three verse of the songs are dedicated to one of his kids, namely Alaina, Hallie, and Stevie, apologizing for his addiction disrupting the family. He openly regrets not being able to be a proper father, saying he “[doesn’t] even deserve the father title.” After the songs intro and in-between each verse, a snippet of Jelly Roll’s “Save Me” plays, where he says “somebody save me, me from myself” among other parts of the original song after each verse.
Even though the song was not released or announced as a single before, it debuted at No. 27 on US Billboard Hot 100. After sampling the song, Jelly Roll’s original song “Save Me” was also back into the top charts.
Few days after the release of the album, Jelly Roll took to Instagram where he posted a picture of alongside Eminem with the caption: “I always say my childhood hero’s lived somewhere between Willie Nelson and Eminem. As a teenager (and still today) I could recite every song on the Slim Shady album, the Marshal Mathers album and the Eminem show. When I bonded out of jail at 17 years old and was sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville they would also play the “lose yourself” beat when I came out on stage at the freestyle battles. I related to every word Eminem wrote. I understand him and felt like he understood me, which was rare cause I spent most of my life feeling misunderstood. So you can imagine how I felt when I got that the call that Eminem would be sampling my song “Save Me” on his new album. And for him to use the song to discuss the other side of what could’ve happened if he would’ve allowed his demons to win brought me to tears. If you haven’t heard it yet , check out “Somebody Save Me” on Eminem’s new album “the death of slim shady” special shout out to Paul Rosenberg , you’ve been nothing but kind to me and treated me like family and gave me opportunities I didn’t deserve, forever grateful.”
Official YouTube channel of Eminem set the premiere date for “Somebody Save Me” music video for August 21, 2024. The post appeared couple of hour ago but it was removed few minutes later, for unknown reasons.
“Somebody Save Me,” featuring Jelly Roll, produced by benny blanco, Emile Haynie and Eminem himself, is a closing track off Eminem’s 12th solo studio album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace) on which Marshall delves into his addiction to prescription medication, a battle that nearly claimed his life due to an overdose in 2007. The song portrays “an alternate reality” where Eminem never got clean off drugs, and as a result, missed many milestones in his family. This song is thematically similar to “Arose,” the last song off of Em’s album Revival, in which he also addresses his drug addiction and its impact on his loved ones.
The lyrics of “Somebody Save Me” are about Eminem’s relationship with his family during his past drug addiction, and are written from the perspective of an alternate reality where he died before his daughter Hallie’s graduation. The song opens up with a recording of one of his children, Alaina, begging him to eat dinner which he denies. All three verse of the songs are dedicated to one of his kids, namely Alaina, Hallie, and Stevie, apologizing for his addiction disrupting the family. He openly regrets not being able to be a proper father, saying he “[doesn’t] even deserve the father title.” After the songs intro and in-between each verse, a snippet of Jelly Roll’s “Save Me” plays, where he says “somebody save me, me from myself” among other parts of the original song after each verse.
Even though the song was not released or announced as a single before, it debuted at No. 27 on US Billboard Hot 100. After sampling the song, Jelly Roll’s original song “Save Me” was also back into the top charts.
Few days after the release of the album, Jelly Roll took to Instagram where he posted a picture of alongside Eminem with the caption: “I always say my childhood hero’s lived somewhere between Willie Nelson and Eminem. As a teenager (and still today) I could recite every song on the Slim Shady album, the Marshal Mathers album and the Eminem show. When I bonded out of jail at 17 years old and was sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville they would also play the “lose yourself” beat when I came out on stage at the freestyle battles. I related to every word Eminem wrote. I understand him and felt like he understood me, which was rare cause I spent most of my life feeling misunderstood. So you can imagine how I felt when I got that the call that Eminem would be sampling my song “Save Me” on his new album. And for him to use the song to discuss the other side of what could’ve happened if he would’ve allowed his demons to win brought me to tears. If you haven’t heard it yet , check out “Somebody Save Me” on Eminem’s new album “the death of slim shady” special shout out to Paul Rosenberg , you’ve been nothing but kind to me and treated me like family and gave me opportunities I didn’t deserve, forever grateful.”
Em just released the teaser of the video. You can watch it below:
Jelly Roll‘s “Save Me” song gets another life on Eminem‘s new album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace), which dropped Friday (July 12, 2024) and features a surprise duet with the country star on its final track, an emotional open letter to his daughters.
The song, titled “Somebody Save Me,” heavily samples Jelly’s 2023 hit song, which reached No. 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts in November after Lainey Wilson jumped on the remix of the song.
Eminem sings about his addiction to prescription medication, which almost led to his death via overdose in 2007. In this song, he is apologizing for not being there for the people in his life, especially for his kids, during his addiction period. This song is very similar to “Arose,” a song off of Em’s 2017 album Revival, in which he talks about his drug addiction and how it affected his family and people around him.
Jelly Roll checked a historic item off his bucket list when notching a collaboration with Eminem on “Somebody Save Me,” which served as The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)‘s poignant closer track that brought tears to many fans around the world.
Hours after the track made waves on streaming services, Jelly Roll reflected on it in an emotional post to social media about having the chance to contribute to one of his childhood hero’s projects. “I always say my childhood hero’s lived somewhere between Willie Nelson and Eminem. As a teenager (and still today) I could recite every song on the Slim Shady album, the Marshal Mathers album and the Eminem show.” said Jelly Roll.
Then he continued: “When I bonded out of jail at 17 years old and was sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville they would also play the “lose yourself” beat when I came out on stage at the freestyle battles. I related to every word Eminem wrote. I understand him and felt like he understood me, which was rare cause I spent most of my life feeling misunderstood. So you can imagine how I felt when I got that the call that Eminem would be sampling my song “Save Me” on his new album. And for him to use the song to discuss the other side of what could’ve happened if he would’ve allowed his demons to win brought me to tears.”
“If you haven’t heard it yet , check out “Somebody Save Me” on Eminem’s new album “the death of slim shady” special shout out to Paul Rosenberg , you’ve been nothing but kind to me and treated me like family and gave me opportunities I didn’t deserve, forever grateful.” Jelly Roll added.
The Nashville-bred star met Eminem for the first time before hitting the stage together outside the Michigan Central Station venue last month. The heartfelt embrace was captured by Jelly’s wife, Bunnie XO. “When the goat meets THE GOAT,” she captioned the clip soundtracked by Eminem’s “My Name Is.” Jelly Roll joined Em on stage where they performed Slim Shady’s Aerosmith-sampling iconic track “Sing For the Moment.”
After joining Eminem on stage to perform “Sing for the Moment” at the Live From Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central event on Thursday, June 6, 2024, the country star Jelly Roll talked about the background story about the performance in an interview with Howard Stern.
“Man, it was so cool. Paul Rosenberg, his lifelong manager came to my Detroit show last year with Trick Trick. And we are all hanging out backstage and I’m just like ‘hey, does Marshall even know who I am?’ He’s like ‘yeah, that’s why I am here. Marshall loves you. We’re gonna figure something out, I want y’all to get together. And I’m thinking like ‘he’s just manager, he’s just just being polite.’ He told me that day like ‘I got something cooking. When it comes out, I’ll call you.’ Sure enough, they called about the Detroit show. And the first thing was ‘hey man, will you come and honor Bob Seager, we know how much of a fan of his you are, you always put him in your top 3, would you come sing Bob Seager and they wanted me to sing ‘Hollywood Nights’ and I was like ‘yo, can I sing ‘Turn The Page’ instead? And they were like ‘yeah, we can do this medley. And I was like ‘let’s do the ultimate Rock N’ Roll.” said Jelly Roll.
Then he continued: “Then they called and they were like ‘Eminem wants to know if you would sing a song with him. First of all, I get goosebumps up my body and I thought right then Howard, I bet it’s Sing For The Moment. And I said that on the phone and they were like ‘that’s exactly what it is.’ I was like ‘dude, I’m so in.’ And I didn’t meet him till the day we did it. I met him at rehearsal when we ran through it together. Man, I was so nervous. It definitely was not my best performance. You could see the nerves on my face. This song did a lot for me in dark moments of my life too. This particular song of his and I’m lifelong fan. There is not a white kid in the world that didn’t grow up listening to Eminem rapping. It gave me hope.”
“There is not enough praises for him. He’s inarguably the greatest rapper that ever lived. Ever. That’s not an arguable thing. So you are literally meeting the greatest that his craft, the greatest person to ever do that craft, you’re meeting!”
Few days ago, in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Jelly Roll said that it was the coolest thing that ever happened in his career: “When I think about coolest moments of my career, right now at the top, there has to be this thing that I got to go sing with Eminem in Detroit. I got to sing ‘Sing for the Moment’ with him, which is a record where he sampled Steven Tyler. I mean, just what an incredible night and I got to go do it in Detroit. It was unreal. When his manger called me, I was like, ‘Paul, don’t play.’ He was like, ‘I swear,’ And as soon as I met Eminem, it was like the coolest moment ever, man.”
Watch the interview on The Howard Stern Show below:
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.
Last month, Jelly Roll has shared information regarding his eagerly awaited new album, titled WHITSITT CHAPEL. The album, which is due out on June 2, will have 13 tracks and be titled after the church the Antioch native grew up attending.
“This album is about growth and gratitude happening in my life. I wanted to create a project that felt hopeful. I believe the worst feeling a person can have is feeling hopeless or worthless. This is therapeutic music. Real music for real people with real problems.” Jelly Roll shared in a statement.
WHITSITT CHAPEL serves as Jelly Roll’s debut full-length country record via BMG/Stoney Creek Records. Among the tracks featured will be his current singles, “Need A Favor” and “Unlive,” featuring former Shady Records artist, Yelawolf.
In the song, Yelawolf remembers getting a call from Eminem to offer him a record deal.
I was in Alabama at the trailer park Bangin’ my head on the wall Before I could buy my little girl a doll Before Eminem ever gave me a call I had that feeling that you have But I hit that roof and that life flashed Look around, sit down and write that And Yelawolf took off on white trash
