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Tony Yayo talks being in studio with Eminem, compares him to NAS

Tony Yayo has recently sat down with VLAD TV where he talked about being in the studio with Kanye West, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre and Eminem.

“To be in the studio with Dr. Dre and Eminem, that was my dream. I remember Fif calling me, smoking, and Dre’s playing in the clubs. That dude is best producer in the world and I’m in the studio with him. And we New York ni–as so I’m like this is a dream come true. Smoking LA weed, never left the hood, Dre is playing beats and I’m like ‘that’s dream come true!’ That’s why I’m always so humble. I might not have as much cars, chains, b–ches as other rappers but it’s not about that. It’s about experience, man.” said Yayo.

Then he continues: “Then we were in the studio in Detroit. It’s called as a b–ch. We are out there with Eminem. That’s f–king crazy. That dude just sold 16 million records. We used to go in LA with Dre and then we used to go in Detroit to mess with Em. Shout out to Tracy, Paul Rosenberg they all treated us as family over there.”

At this point, VLAD asked what makes Eminem to differ from another rappers in the booth. On that, he replied:

“I think what Eminem makes him astronomical is, when we were doing “Many Men” he was doing the production, cause does a lot of production on a lot of stuff on Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, it was the footsteps in the shots and he was like footsteps came from poltergeist, it’s crazy… Just like NAS, he’s as lyrical as NAS and then a lot of people say ‘I don’t really hear him in the club,’ but nah, it’s not about that, ‘I don’t really hear him in car,’ nah, that’s not about that too! Right now Eminem can sell out the stadium with no problem. 62 million monthly listeners on Spotify! Big boy numbers!”

“What he did for me and what I see he did for 50 and Banks and G-Unit as a whole, D12, Obie Trice, everybody went platinum and gold! Getting co-signs from him we had the overseas connection cause it was not really just Interscope. Interscope was part of Jimmy Iovine but Eminem is a machine in his own. He might not come outside and relate to other s–t that people wanna see him but still bro, look what he did with Griselda. They are fire but that Eminem cosign, when you look at Joe Budden and Slaughterhouse, Eminem cosign is a different kind of cosign. G-Unit would never be no serial video video game, socks, shirts selling millions if not Eminem and Dr. Dre cosign.” – Tony Yayo added.

You can watch the interview below:

Nas mimics Eminem’s “The Way I Am” rhyme scheme on a new song

Nas is back with the third installment of his Hit-Boy-produced King’s Disease series.

The East Coast legend began teasing the project back in 2021, right after he gifted hip-hop fans with his 15th studio album, called Magic. Nasir rapped on the track called “Ugly”: “I’m on offense every day until I see the love/KD3 on the way, this just to feed the buzz.”

One of the most shining tracks on the album is “Thun,” where Nas references his past conflict with JAY-Z, admitting he occasionally texts Hov joking about how their rivalry “ain’t over.”

“No beef or rivals, they playing ‘Ether’ on TIDAL / Brothers can do anything when they decide to / In a Range Rover, dissecting bars from ‘Takeover’ / Sometimes I text Hova like, ‘N–ga, this ain’t over,’ laughing,” he raps.

The first track of the album “Ghetto Reporter” is also one of the album highlights. In the track, Nas interpolates Eminem‘s flow from “The Way I Am” during rapping the following lines: “The audacity, masterfully crafted these classics, so naturally, Had to be Nasty back at it..” It mimics the flow and rhyme schemes of “The Way I Am” intro: ““I sit back with this pack of Zig-Zag’s and this bag…”

You can bump all both tracks below. And make sure to check out Nas’ new album KD3, which already is the album of the year candidate.

Canibus talks about Eminem and Nas on Instagram livestream

In one of his recent Instagram livestream, one of the greatest underground rappers, Canibus, talked about Eminem and Nas.

“Shout out to Escobar, everytime we met he had positive words and vibes. He gave me the words of encouragement. I will never forget that. This was early in the game. Definitely sending shout out to Nas.” said Canibus.

Then he continued talking about Eminem: “Marshall, sending shout out to Marshall too. If I could say a name to Marshall to disarm any kind of nonsense that people in the game or not in the game, people who like to start fire, the name I would say is Wendy Day. She was the glue. He was the cohesive, she was what I would call force multiplier in terms of unit cohesion. She was always trying to bring people together. Everybody knows who she is. Amazing person. Shout out to Wendy Day wherever you at. Hip-Hop would have been way different without you. So, Marshall, that’s the name I could say to let you know that that’s a wall that noone else can get behind. That’s a firewall right there. Nobody knows what Wendy Day said to you about me and what she said to me about you. So when you think anything Marshall, just think about WENDY nice little face.”

Couple of months ago, it was also reported that Canibus is releasing a song with Eminem, produced by Dr. Dre as an NFT.

You can watch the video below:

Grip drops new freestyle over Nas’ “Wave Gods”

Grip spits new freestyle over Nas’ latest track “Wave Gods,” featuring A$AP Rocky and DJ Premier from Escobar’s latest album “Magic.”

The Shady Records’ hitman opens the track with the shoutout to the legendary figures of hip-hop: “Yeah, shoutout that ni**a Nas, man / One of my f**kin’ favorites / Ni**a, I heard this beat and I had to do it, ahaha / Yeah, shoutout the ni**a Hit-Boy too… Uh, one take.”

East Atlanta’s finest also makes dope reference to Eminem with the following lines: “I’m eatin beats up wit Slim til I’m at least up some M’s” and warns his peers that 2022 belongs to him “It’s been quite a year, I see you boys 2022.”

You can bump the new freestyle below:

List of Jay Z & Nas songs where they shout out Eminem

1. Jay Z – “Excuse Me Miss,” ft. Pharrell Williams (2003)

Lyrics: “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.”

2. Jay Z – “A Star Is Born,” ft. J. Cole (2009)

Lyrics: “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!”

3. Nas – “Be A Ni**er Too” (2008) 

Lyrics: “There’s verbal books published by ni**as, produced by ni**as, Genuine ni**as, so I salute my ni**as / Not mad cause Eminem said, “Ni**a,” cause he my ni**a.”

4. Nas – “Ether” [Jay Z diss] (2001)

Lyrics: “You a*s, went from Jaz to hangin’ with Kane / To Irv, to B.I.G. – and Eminem murdered you on your own s**t.”

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Kxng Crooked shares his thoughts on Nas, Eminem & EPMD’s “EPMD 2”

Kxng Crooked has recently shared his thoughts on Nas, Eminem and EPMD’s news song “EPMD 2.” Here is what the Slaughterhouse emcee has to say:

“About Em… A lot of people were like ‘why he had to go so hard’. His fans tweet me all the time and they say ‘if he does not do that, then they say oh he didn’t kill it this time he should have killed it or he laid back or he took his foot off the gas pedal’ and I feel like those people need to be more open-minded and be educated on different ways that you can kill a beat.

“If they think that the only way to kill the beat is aggressively attacking it and butcher knife it to death, just those people who feel like that, be a little more open-minded because there are lots of slow flows that have killed beats over time. We talk about Rakim, BIG, King Tee, Ice Cube, Scarface. They have all killed beats with slow flows.”

You can watch the full thing below:

Nas, Eminem & EPMD’s “EPMD 2” debuts on Billboard Hot 100

According to Billboard, Nas’s “King’s Disease II” album lands at No. 3 on US Billboard 200 chart with over 56,000 total album-equivalent units sold.

This numbers are improvements compared to the first King’s Disease album, which debuted at No. 5 on the US Billboard 200 chart with 47,000 total album-equivalent units sold.

KD II chart debut marks Nas’ highest charting album since his 2012’s album, titled Life Is Good, which debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart with the sales of 149,000 copies.

The song “EPMD 2” which features Eminem and EPMD, debuted at No. 79 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100. It earned EPMD their third career entry on the chart and first since “The Joint” in 1997.

Watch: Nas & Hit-Boy thank Eminem for his “EPMD 2” verse

Few days ago, Nas dropped the second installment of his Grammy-winning album, “Kings Disease,” executive produced by Hit-Boy.

The album includes a song “EPMD 2,” featuring Eminem and EPMD, produced by Hit-Boy himself.

In a recent video, shared by Grammy-winning producer, Nas and Hit-Boy thank everyone who contributed for the album, especially Eminem: “Peace! Me and my brother Hit-Boy, we wanna thank you all man. Shady too! Escobar season!”

You can watch the video below:

Royce 5’9″ reacts on new Nas, Eminem & EPMD song

Few days ago, Nas dropped “Kings Disease II” album and a feature with Eminem and EPMD came with it.

50 Cent, LeBron James, Lupe Fiasco and few others have already reacted to the song.

Royce 5’9″ also expressed his reaction on Twitter. The Detroit emcee wrote “Esco and Em together is GOAT” with goat and fire emojis.

You can check out the tweet below:

LeBron James reacts on Nas, Eminem & EPMD’s new song “EPMD 2”

Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James has recently took to Instagram to give Brooklyn Nets’ Kevin Durant some high praise after Durant led Team United States of America to a gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

Durant was most consistent player throughout this year’s Olympics for his country and he capped off his impressive run with a 29-point game to secure the gold medal for the United States of America.

James did not take part in this summer’s games, but it is clear that he was cheering on his NBA colleagues from home.

It is also clear, he was enjoying Nas’ new album, King’s Disease II, especially “EPMD 2” track, featuring Eminem and EPMD.

You can watch the video below:

Nas reveals Dr. Dre’s advice after moving out in LA in a song with Lauryn Hill

Nas’ new album King’s Disease II includes a song titled “Nobody,” featuring Lauryn Hill, produced by Corbett and Hit-Boy.

In the song, Nas raps: “Sunny L.A., remember calls with Dr. Drе. He told me, “Don’t let thе palm trees fool you, ni**a, be safe.”

Nas currently lives in L.A and Dr Dre is telling Nas that whilst it might look like L.A. to be a beautiful destination, there is still an alternate side to what you see on the surface.

You can bump the new song below:

Lupe Fiasco reacts to Nas & Eminem’s “EPMD 2” ft. EPMD

After decades, Nas and Eminem have finally done a song together and it dropped this Friday!

Before you check out Lupe Fiasco reacting to the song after the jump, check out some of the reactions below:

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