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Esham says he’s only rapper who ever defeated Eminem, claims he never seen “8 Mile” movie

Detroit hip-hop pioneer Esham has recently sat down with Kid L where he discussed his timeline from before rap, during rap, his first album, his encounters with D12 and Eminem, and his closure of the situation with Detroit legend Big Proof. They also discussed his concern for culture protection for the city of Detroit.

Esham lying about 8 Mile
Proof from D12 used to go to my high school. I’m the person that made him want to be a rapper. I had rap records out when I was in high school. I was that person who did all of that. And me, I would help everybody, that’s just how I was raised. There is no outlets for musicians in Detroit. There is no Universal Records downtown, there is no Interscope record downtown so that frustration, that’s what got people out here just mad because they’ll do anything to get that record deal. I’ve seen so many people in the movie 8 Mile, none of them could get a record deal after that. Not one of them. Even being in that huge movie. It was a fantasy or something? I never seen 8 Mile movie. I live on 8 Mile, I know what real 8 Mile look like. It’s a rap movie about a rapper that be punching motherf–kers in the face of the city of Detroit. That s–t never happened. I got a question for Em. Why Proof could not play Proof in 8 Mile?

Esham lying about Eminem restricting Swifty McVay, Bizarre and Kuniva from mentioning D12 by using the N word
Did I have opportunity to sign to Shady Records? No. Why would I want to be a part of that. I don’t have nothing against them but they don’t actually put records out. I mean, whose records did they put out? Is it a real record company? Last time I checked Em said don’t say D12 in any records no more. He was like ‘y’all motherf–kers don’t say don’t say D12. It’s heavy on the ER when he said n-gger to him too. Did he call them n–gers or something? He was like ‘f–k you n-ggers.’

Esham lying about Proof and getting beaten up by D12 members
Bizarre said that they jumped me back in the days. First of all, Bizarre was over there getting some hot dogs from hot dog stands. He was not even there. Rufus needs to stop lying. But in all fairness, that was about the City of Detroit, that was not about no raps I made. We come from era of rap where you gon’ say my name then b–ch I’m coming. And I’m the only person that lyrically defeated Eminem. Hands down, flawless victory. He didn’t even respond. It was like me beating up on a baby. I don’t have nothing against these guys. You have to ask them why would y’all be talking about this man and he from the city. I just feel like it was an attack on my character. People who physically assaulted me…I’m from Detroit man, we really don’t be talking about that type s–t. It was 30 of them n-ggas but I’m still here. We were fighting Proof and them. Proof was the one we were fighting but Proof ain’t here anymore. And I squashed all that with Proof. I’m the reason that beef got squashed. Proof called me right before he died. He made up with me. He told me bunch of stuff about his label and all the discrepancies that he had and all the stuff that was going on over there and what Paul Rosenberg and all of them were doing over there to him and how they played him and stuff like that. I know what he said and I know what he went through. But we were man enough to squash that s–t.

Esham justifying himself form mentioning Eminem’s daughter Hailie in a diss record
Yeah, I said something about Eminem’s daughter. So what? That n-gga can say anything he wants about somebody. When you say my name, it’s on! This is f–king rap n-gga. You said something about Christopher Reeve when he was paralyzed? What about his family? You said something about Michael Jackson, that’s my motherf–king boy, now what?! Ain’t no motherf–kin’ ‘you said something’. If he still butur about that, f–king good! Good b-tch! I’ll say it again! F–k him.”

Eminem and Esham had a beef in the early 2000s. Esham released a disstrack on Eminem called “Chemical Imbalance” where he also dissed Eminem’s little daughter, Hailie. D12 members beat up Esham because of that song. Esham suffered a broken nose, ruptured eyeball, mild concussion and a loss of hearing in his left ear…You can watch the new interview below:

Twista says Eminem owes him a verse

Twista has recently stopped by HipHopDX for an interview to talk about his fastest bars, his legendary career, the anniversary of his critically acclaimed, multi-platinum and Billboard No.1 album Kamikaze (2004) and much more. At one point of the interview, the interviewer jokingly asked something about Eminem.

Interviewer: I was also gonna ask, Has Em sent over a free feature verse for stealing SEO clout on your album title yet? [meaning Kamikaze]
Twista: Nah, he need to. He owes me a verse on the song now. For that to happen [Laughs].

Interviewer: When you saw that, were you like ‘ah, c’mon, not again’ cause it happened with Common too. There was at least some back and forth about the album title.
Twista: Yeah, but it happens man. It happens. That’s something that I had to learn in hip-hop. You know, early on you would swear a person is concentrating on you, your little a-s when you doing it. But that thing happens man. So, like I said, I’m still a fan.

Even though hip-hop fans have been asking for it forever, Twista and Eminem have never worked together before. But better late than never, right?… Watch the new interview below:

Lil’ Troy recalls a story about his encounter with Eminem at Miami club

Huston-born hip-hop artist, Lil’ Troy, whose debut album Sittin’ Fat Down South came out in 1987, has recently sat down with Willie D on his podcast where he talked about discovering Scarface, J. Prince, son’s robbery case and much more. At one point of the interview, he recalled the story about his encounter with Eminem in one of the clubs in Miami.

“I’mma tell you story about Eminem. I like Eminem. He was in Miami. We all had Limos [Limousines] to take us to the club. Everybody had their own Limo. I got big section. I’m hot in Miami at that time. So people came in, Eminem came in. They had him over the little section over there but nobody was paying attention. He was not hot yet. He came back, went outside, they came and asked me about my Limo cause I had my Limo stayed there just in case I need to leave, don’t take my Limo, they were taking everybody else’s Limos, going back and forth and brining people to the club. I said leave mine right there, I might need to leave all of the sudden. I got enough clout, they gotta do what I asked them to do. Eminem came out with his man like ‘Eminem want to go back to hotel room but they ain’t got the Limo, can we use your Limo?’ I was like ‘Nah! you can’t use my Limo, I want my Limo stay right there. And 3-4 months later, Eminem is biggest in life.” said Lil’ Troy.

Then he continued: “I wish I came out and shook his hand and talk to him and let him have my Limo to go back to hotel room. He’d remember me or something [Laughs]. I’ve been so blessed that he never dissed me. He diss you on one line on a hit song, he don’t make song about you, he just diss you on his song on one line… When I heard him come out, I said ‘Man, I should have got cool with that white boy’ I’m truppin’ cause he blew right after that.”

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Donnell Rawlings shares his opinion on Dr. Umar saying Eminem can’t be GOAT because he’s white

Comedian, actor, and radio host Donnell Rawlings, best known as a cast member on the Comedy Central sketch comedy TV show Chappelle’s Show and the HBO drama tv-series “The Wire,” has recently sat down with DJ VLAD where he talked about Dr. Umar Johnson saying Eminem can’t be considered one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white.

“Here is the thing. This is the opinion of Dr. Umar. Me personally, I can’t focus on someone’s opinion. I like to talk about things that are fact based. That’s his opinion. There’s some people who think he could be and most of those are white people and there’s a lot of black people that say ‘Aright, enough is enough. Let’s admit that Eminem is a nice motherf–king rapper.” said Donnell Rawlings.

Then he continued: “And I will put like this with Eminem. It’s even tougher for him to get to the point where people even would even mildly respect him and it to be straight because he’s white. I understand, we at certain fields and things, we broke color barrier but for him to break the black rap color barrier, for people to even consider, it took a long time. ‘F–k that white boy’ it want from there to ‘Wait a minute, he’s nice and nice.’ But in some people’s minds he would never be able to be the all time greatest rapper and to be quite honest, I don’t give a f–k. I don’t even really f–king listen to music at all. But there is some people that are stuck in the fact that, they can’t get on the fact that he’s white and he’s nice.”

“Everybody’s top five is is all subjective on what you like. And at the end of the day, if you like JAY-Z, you like JAY-Z. If you like Eminem, you like Eminem. But me being mtherf–ker over 50, I don’t even really have time to even argue about. It just makes no sense. And certain topics there never gonna be no resolve. Anyone’s never gonna get the answer. I guarantee for the history of sports and everything, there’s never gonna be an agreement on who is the greatest basketball player of all time. It always gonna be LeBron versus Mike, there’s always gonna be Kobe. You will always have that conversation, you can put the stats up, who did what, what amount, how many, it’s all stuff to keep a the conversation going and me personally I don’t give a f–k about.” Donnell Rawlings added.

You can watch the interview after the jump below.

Trick Trick & Maestro Williams discuss Eminem & Benzino beef & some Detroit natives disrespecting Eminem

Award-winning producer Maestro Williams has recently sat down with Trick Trick on The Fly Zone radio show “The Sit Down” on Shade 45 to discuss Maestro’s multiple talents as an award-winning producer. Producing many different genres of music including, classically orchestrated arrangements in hip hop and is work ethics. At one point of the interview, the two talked about working with Eminem, some Detroit native people disrespecting Em and recent Slim Shady and Benzino beef.

Maestro Williams: I worked with Eminem in studio once. I got a call from Biz and I don’t know what was going on but I was keyboard player for that day. I was like ‘WAIT, WHAT?!’ So yeah, pulled up and we worked. He works in the studio like 9 to 5 job. Literally. He actually stayed little past five that day. He was working on some s–t I though it was dope. I never heard it on anything so I guess it was not dope enough. But we worked in studio together for sure. And then we were working on D12 mixtapes. The joints he did on there. I would mix that in with everything else.

Trick Trick: I’m just finding out about a lot of things that’s happening in hip-hop as far as Detroit concerned and one of the things that I keep seeing that’s weird to me is people going after Eminem that live here. I’m like, ‘you can pick another f–king target.’ They act as if they placing on some type of throne and then they trying to dethrone him. He’s not on the throne. He’s not trying to be on the throne of other than to be the greatest rapper to ever live which is a quest that is worldwide. And he put the f–k on the city, n-gga. Not even counting charitable donations he makes that he chooses to never say nothing about.

Maestro Williams: I don’t get it, I don’t f–king get it. I never got it and I never will. Well, first, let’s not act like he DID NOT. He still put on for the city. It’s so disrespectful. It hurts my feelings.

Trick Trick: Did you see Benzino?

Maestro Williams: Yeah, I did. You know what I did? I f–ked up. I commented on the excerpts that got posted on Instagram before I watched the whole video. I became one of them n-ggas I fear the most. I failed [Laughs]. let’s be honest. The parts that everybody saw on Instagram then s–t is funny. It’s a dichotomy of how he starts . Now, if they just did the crying part, it’s like ‘oh man, what’s going on?’ But when you see all ‘F–k Eminem’ parts before crying….[Laughs]. You can’t write that s–t in the movie. Reality is so much better than fiction. I was just telling cuz you can’t write that s–t bro. It’s the same interview, You wearing the same clothes ma n-gga. You go the same hairstyle. You can’t break this s–t up. You just said ‘f–k him, f–k anybody who rides with him’ and I’m like ‘wait n-gga, that’s me cause I ride with him! [Laughs] F–k you mean?! I don’t even know you. Why is this happening dawg.

Trick Trick: That’s me too n-gga! [Laughs]… Speaking from a deceit of a fellow counselor, that’s a sick obsession.

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Chris D’Elia describes meeting Eminem in his Detroit studio

Chris D’Elia has recently sat down with Adam22 on No Jumper Podcast where the comedian recalled meeting and chopping it up with Eminem at his Detroit studio.

Back in 2019, Logic and Eminem dropped “Homicide” song which features Chris D’Elia on the outro, which is taken from an August 2018 Instagram video of comedian Chris D’Elia doing his impression of Eminem. It inspired a meme about Eminem “using too many napkins.” In January 2019, Eminem took to Twitter to praise D’Elia for his imitation after he released another video titled “EMINEM IN THE CYPHER.” Em went on to sample this at the end of his January 2020 track, “Godzilla,” featuring Juice WRLD: “I’m not afraid to pull the — Man, stop, Look what I’m plannin’.”

During the new interview, Chris D’Elia said: “I don’t care about bathrooms at all. I go and piss and s–t any bathroom in the woods. I don’t care. You know the whole thing with Eminem, like, he wanted to do a song with me and stuff? I was in Detroit to do a show and they reached out. I don’t remember how but they were like ‘Eminem want you to come by the studio and say hi. I was like, cool.”

Then he continued: “We are in Mercedes Sprinter and I remember I had to pull over and s–t in someone’s yard on the way to Eminem’s. It was so f–ked up. I was s–ting myself. He pulls over, I open that thing and run into somebody’s yard. It was a nice place and I squat down. When I left, I was like, they’re gonna think a mountain lion came by. I got back into Sprinter and I f–king went straight to Eminem and he has no idea that I took a s–t into someone’s yard before I met him.”

“We were talking probably an hour and a half. It was so cool. He really like comedians. When I did that impression and he retweeted and they wanted to put me in the song and he played me and I played him. It’s still crazy by the way. I showed up in the studio and he saw me and he started rapping my impression of him. And I was like, what a f–king trip. Life is crazy. We sat down for an hour and a half. It was unbelievable. I even got to the point where I was like ‘I don’t wanna keep your time’ but they were like ‘Nah, stay!’ He was talking about rapping and how he came up and critics and his tour life. I mean, we covered it all, it was crazy.” Chris D’Elia added.

From there, Adam22 interrupted: “You shook his hand without washing your hands? You’ve just been clutching your a-s cheeks, pulling them apart in a squat stance in somebody’s yard taking a s–t?” On that, Chris replied: “I don’t know and hope I washed my hands. It was clean how I did it.”

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Awesome Dre comments on Eminem shouting him out at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

Awesome Dre, who is considered the first major artist to emerge from the Motor City and has influenced nearly every rap act from Detroit, all over the Midwest and beyond, has recently sat down with Kid L for an interview where he talked about Eminem shouting him out during his acceptance speech at the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Kid L: One of the last times that I’ve heard your name on mainstream media Eminem was at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, giving a speech and he shouted you out when he was listing all of his influences and inspirations, he mentioned Awesome Dre, which was insane right? Did you get to watch that live?

Awesome Dre: Nah, I didn’t see it on live but I was informed about it. He also mentioned our brother Merciless Ameer too you know. He came out at the time we came out too. So yeah, that was the s–t! Hell yeah!

Kid L: When you look at Eminem as an MC to MC type thing, it’s a cool to you but not as like stars-truck as most people would be?

Awesome Dre: Yeah, that’s the s–t. I mean, that motherf–ker who sold more records than anybody else in the world say that you was one of their influences that means I helped that moterf–ker sell all that [Laughs], more records than anybody else in the world. He listed a lot of motherf–kers man.”

Eminem at 2022 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame: “I’m gonna start with the 2 Live Crew, 2Pac, 3rd Bass, Alliance, Apache, Audio Two — Milk Dee, what up! — Awesome Dre, the Beastie Boys, Big Daddy Kane, Big Pun, Big L, Biz Markie, the Notorious B.I.G. of course, Black Moon, the Boogie Monsters, Brand Nubian, Brother J from X Clan, Buckshot, Casual from Heiroglyphics, Chill Rob G, Chubb Rock, Chuck D and Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, D-Nice, Dana Dane, De La Soul — now I’m about a third of the way done.”

“De La Soul, did I say De La Soul? Def Jef, Del the Funky Homosapien, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre of course, Dres from Black Sheep, Ed O.G., EPMD, Fat Boys, Fat Joe, Fu-Schnickens, Gang Starr, Geto Boys, Heavy D, House of Pain, Ice Cube, Ice-T, the Intelligent Hoodlum, JJ Fad, Jaz-O, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Just Ice, K-Solo, Kid & Play: I’m a tenth of the way done.”

“King Sun, King Tee, Kool G Rap, Kool Moe Dee, KRS-One, Kwame, Lakim Shabazz, Large Professor, Leaders of the New School, the one and only LL Cool J — love you bro. Lord Finesse, Lords of the Underground, Mantronix, Masta Ace, MC Breed, MC Lyte, MC Shan, Melle Mel, Merciless Ameer, Mobb Deep, Monie Love, Nas, Newcleus, Onyx, Organized Konfusion, Outkast, Andre 3000, Paris, Pharcyde, Queen Latifah, Rakim, Redhead Kingpin, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, I’m almost done.”

“Redman, Roxanne Shante, Run-D.M.C., Salt-N-Pepa, Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, Snoop Dogg, Souls of Mischief, Special Ed, Stetsasonic, now I’m all down to the S’s. Super Lover Cee and Casanova Rud, the D.O.C., the Roots, Black Thought, the Skinny Boys, Tony D, Too $hort, Treach from Naughty By Nature, A Tribe Called Quest, U.T.F.O., Whodini, Wise Intelligent and the Poor Righteous Teachers, Wu-Tang Clan and YZ.”

“Those were my rock stars man, and I just want to say, like, those are just a few of the names that I hope will be considered in the future for induction. Because without them, a lot of us wouldn’t be here. I know I wouldn’t.”

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John Salley responds Dr. Umar’s comments about Eminem

NBA legend, John Salley, who was the first player in NBA history to win championships with three franchises as well as the first player in the NBA to win a championship in three different decades, has recently sat down with DJ VLAD, where the two talked about Dr. Umar Johnson saying Eminem can’t be one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white.

“I love Eminem. I disagree with Umar about the color, period. It’s certain things that I understand why he says what he says, I’m a fan of Dr. Umar on a lot of things. But Eminem should be in the conversation as one of the greatest rappers of all time. It’s the way he puts things together…But, ‘in conversation’ because I’m still Kool G Rap. [Laughs]. Kool G Rap and DJ Polo…” said John Salley.

Then he continued: “I love Kool G Rap. I love Chino XL but when it comes to rhyming, just like Kobe and his focus on just being on basketball, you can tell that’s how Eminem is. Cause he still can tell you other people’s rhymes. To this day, he can reference other people’s thymes. Great rapper that did well, they had pulled from everywhere.”

You can watch the interview after the jump below.

Cyhi The Prynce says Eminem is Top 5 Rapper but suggests Em also used ghostwriters

CyHi The Prynce has been in the studio with Kanye West and Travis Scott for a while, and he’s used that experience to speculate about Eminem‘s writing process.

CyHi has recently sat down with Math Hoffa and the rest of the crew on My Expert Opinion where he shared some thoughts about Slim Shady. The Stone Mountain, Georgia-born rapper began by saying that in his opinion, Eminem is a “top five” emcee. “I don’t know what n–gas be talkin’ about like Em ain’t top 5. Em is top 5! I’m sorry.” And then “with no ghostwriters,” commented co-host Mecca, a comment that inspired CyHi to talk about the nature of inspiration.

“You think he ain’t have no ghostwriters? Man, you ain’t sitting around 12 n-ggas just f–king smoking blunts. It’s called D12. It’s called Proof. It’s called all them n–gas he grew up with.” – CyHi The Prynce said.

He then made clear, however, that he was not necessarily saying those people wrote bars for Eminem. Instead, he said that it was important for rappers to surround themselves with people who bring them “thoughts,” “ideas,” and “experiences.”

Without that, he said, “I wouldn’t have nothing to rap about. That’s more important than actually making it rhyme, is having something to talk about. Because there’s a lot of n–gas who can just rhyme and don’t be talking about s–t.”

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Flavor Flav calls Eminem best rapper alive, calls him a legend of the rap game

Flavor Flav, a founding member of iconic hip-hop group Public Enemy alongside Chuck D, has recently talked about Eminem with DJ Whoo Kid on Shade 45 radio.

“Eminem is my favorite rapper. Word up. And not only that, he still shouts Flavor Flav out in his records. Yeah boy! You know what? Check this out. I don’t care how they trying to color my man it don’t stop him from being number one. That’s all I got to say. And being number one don’t have no color. Word up man. Yeah, Eminem man! he’s the best rapper alive right now man! Can’t nobody beat him out. When you can’t be beat, that means you are the best.” said Flavor Flav.

Then he continued: “Let me tell you something. Back in the day, when Eminem, Snoop, Dre, they had this group together and this is when the first time Eminem seen me and when he seen me, he went ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. I didn’t know who he was at that time. I gave him mad love man. He went crazy over me and I gave mad love. Lets say like this, because a lot of those guys [Redman, LL Cool , Nas] are like mentors to Em. But then Em is like a mentor to them too. It’s all a mutual respect thing. That’s one thing I could say about Eminem. He has mad, mad respect from all of the legends in the rap game but he’s a legend himself. For real.”

Whoo Kid also promised the hip-hop icon to send Eminem’s recent merch as a gift: “Hook me up with a Detroit Lions and Mom’s Spaghetti sweater and I’ll be wearing that s–t through every airport in the world man.” Flavor Flav added. You can watch the entire thing below:

Treach & Willie D share their thoughts on Eminem

Hip-hop icon Treach from legendary hip-hop trio Naughty By Nature has recently sat down with another hip-hop icon, Willie D, from Geto Boys rap group has recently sat down on Willie D Live podcast where the two talked about many topics, including Eminem.

Willie D: I think that everybody know that you don’t play man, including Eminem. Eminem gave you big shout out man. He studied you man. That’s a huge accomplishment considering how so many million of millions people believe that Eminem is a top dog. They believe that he’s that dude. And for his to say ‘nah, Treach that dude!’ That’s crazy!

Treach: I always call him my lightskinned twin. A lot of artists will go and say ‘yeah I created the style, mad that bla bla bla bla, it’s me, me, me, me’ when somebody like that…And it’s not just me, he has a list of his favorite artists, I might be at the top of the list, for somebody give accolades like…That’s our era. We be like I feel like Run-DMC, LL, Slick Rick, the whole list, KRS-1, we’ll name a million artists because our ego won’t let us not name them because we actually came up. Where my style came from? Everybody I listened to. But I had to make my own style out of it. Now when Em comes saying I was his major influence in him getting better and seeing and studying me and everything else, everybody don’t do that.

Willie D: I first met Em at Beats Music Launch in Los Angeles. We were backstage and his manager brought me to the bus. Em had bus back there. And Em was like ‘I just got through listening though your album ‘Controversy.’ He’s really a student of the game and he’s a teacher. A good student eventually becomes the teacher, the professor. And Em knows his history. Like, he really knows his history and you are right, it’s not just you, he has a list of artists that he listened to that inspired him. And he put all that s–t together and he evolved into his own thing. Evolved into Eminem. But he’s one of the few dudes out there, especially as far as one of the top dogs, who would give credit. A lot of these dudes, they just hold their nuts. They will tell you in private they like you but they’ll never say it publicly.

Treach: Yeah! And then they play race card, like, he’s a white guy and he should never be accepted as one of the greatest or greatest or anything else, like, white people were never part of hip-hop. Actually, the first female that I heard rapping was blondie, saying the rhyme, talking about Grandmaster Flash. The Beastie Boys already knew that they were white and race card could get pulled. So, you’ve seen the first album cover, like the plane is crushing? We all listened to Beastie Boys and loved them and by the time they put out the video out we ain’t give a f–k if they were white. White people were in breakdancing. They were doing graffiti. Yes, us, we created it but the part of the culture of hip-hop, it was Hispanic white, black first but of course it was all part of it. So when you look at Em and say you don’t deserve a part of hip-hop or rap or a culture, it’s disrespectful to the art. You know what I mean? MC Serch! Can’t nobody that really know the lyrics say Eminem is whack or he just got where he at cause he’s white. Go and try that s–t and let him hear it and watch he tear your a– up on the record.

Willie D: Well, here is a thing about Em and most of other rappers that came up 20 years ago. They had to be stamped by black people. When it comes to black culture, most white people will sit back and see if black people like it first. And if black people like it then they start saying ‘okay what’s this about’ and then they become a fan. Em first fans were black. His firs fans were black. There is no doubt about it. Before he started getting played on those Top 40 stations, he was only being played on the hip-hop stations.

Treach: And before he even came out with records on 8 Mile, he was doing battles and everything else. He was in the black hood. Facts!

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Reggie Wright Jr. responds Suge Knight saying Eminem’s 2Pac album flopped

Former general manager of Death Row Records, Reggie Wright Jr. has recently sat down on bomb1st where he talked about Suge Knight claiming the only 2Pac album that flopped was “Loyal To The Game,” which was released by Eminem.

During a recent interview with Katt Williams, Suge Knight said: “All the people Pac helped, buying cars, houses, putting them in apartments, jewelry, putting them on the songs, being label mates with him, everything right? Nobody never stood up for him. So, once Pac left, even people from his own groups, they started doing songs with his enemies. They started taking pictures with his enemies. But at the same time man, a lot of people been wanting to do songs with Pac and some people even did some s–t with Pac and they never…There was only one Tupac project that ever flopped before that’s the one Eminem did, on all the releases. All the rest of them were successful.”

In a new interview with bomb1st, Reggie Wright Jr. said: “It was not bad idea to let Eminem control 2Pac’s album cause Em was hot at that time. He was the hottest thing on the planet. Early 2000s to mid 2000s. He was Interscope’s baby. He was their boy. Now, to your point and most people’s point, Em is not known as a producer and he had different style and different flow than Pac did. Different style of music, so why would you have somebody that playing basketball coaching a football team? Just because you are an athlete or musician, don’t mean how to do and be that type of athlete, that’s my point.”

He then continued: “I would have taken the chance because if you would have got a percentage of Em’s fans over with Pac current fans, man, you all just don’t know how Em was considered in the industry at that time. Still to this day, he still holds the records as far as music sales, if Drake has not broken it yet. So, I guess why Interscope went that rout. Do I agree? No.”

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