Comedian Pete Davidson has recently sat down with Seth Meyers on his Late Night Show where he revealed he phone-called Eminem after his SNL performances, impersonating Slim Shady.
“Those skits were written by the great Dan Bulla and Steven Castillo, great SNL writers, and Chris Redd. Eminem said a couple of nice things about me, and I, of course, heard them. I reached out and I was like ‘I would just like to say thank you’ and I just hit him up and said thanks, and he was like ‘yeah, man, you really did that. When I saw STU on the script, I was like, I do not know how it was going to go, but after you did that, it was fire.’ I was like, ‘Oh, thank you so much, you are the coolest,’ and then I just hung up as quickly as possible. That is all you need. You do not want anything more.”
Pete Davidson portraited Eminem in parodies of “Stan” which also had a cameo from Eminem, and “Without Me” featuring Jack Harlow.
Cassidy has recently sat down with hiphopisreal.com where where the hosts asked him about the one artist he would love to battle rap, on which Cassidy replied with naming Eminem:
“The only artists that I would get excited about are those that accomplished more than me in this world. Any battle rapper that you will bring up I am not going to feel, like, not taking anything away from battle rappers but I just felt like I accomplished more than any other battle rapper. I would get excited about somebody like Eminem, definitely, I want that.”
On the Season 4 premiere of Bridging The Generations Podcast, Kxng Crooked talked about Slaughterhouse, Dr. Dre, Eminem legacy and industry politics. At one point, the interviewer asked the legendary west coast rapper why lots of hip-hop fans take prop from Eminem. Here is what Crooked replied:
“I think there was a narrative that flew around a couple of years ago, saying Eminem was not part of the culture and he being a fan of the culture because of white privilege. Basically all these type of things and it became a trend to downplay his status in hip-hop. But he’s a student of the game. He got more hip-hop knowledge than average motherf**ker walking around the streets. He’s a motherf**king lyrical genius. He put the words together in the robotic form. He knows how to do this s**t because he studied the f**k out of this s**t.”
“If you are real lyricist, you’d understand what this man is doing. Let’s take away the sales, let’s take away everything and just listen to what he’s doing in the booth. And if you are real lyricist, you understand he’s phenomenal. Em had the presence of mind and the love for the culture to try to make sure the group like Slaughterhouse was introduced to the mainstream like ‘this are the type of motherf**kers that need to be occupying the space in mainstream rap.’ There are lots of motherf**kers that would never sign Slaughterhouse…To this day, Eminem f**ks with Slaughterhouse cause he’s a real hip-hop head.”
Then Crooked continues talking about how Slaughterhouse come together and what part Eminem took in the movement. You can watch the interview below:
Yesterday, Griselda’s Conway The Machine took a moment to catch up with Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, and Pete Rosenberg, where they touched variety of promising topics. When Ebro asked what can be expected on Conway’s upcoming Shady Records release, titled God Don’t Make Mistakes, The Machine replied:
“The illest lyricism, the most beautiful wordplay that has ever been witnessed by humankind. Ill shit man! Put it simply, I am just rapping, man. I am not on some humble time no more. We rapping or what, that is my message to n***as…Put me in that classroom, with the rappers.”
Dr. Dre has recently set down with Lil Wayne on Young Money Radio where the two talked about where they were at in their career in 1999. Dre also recalls having to name his 1999 album “The Chronic 2001” instead of “The Chronic 2000” after Suge Knight released a Death Row Compilation album under the same name and speaks on how he felt leaving his masters behind after leaving Death Row Records.
“At that time, leaving Death Row, there was a lot going on in my life. I got married in 1996. Had a son in 1997 and then I had to start label, build a new crew and you can imagine how much work that takes. All the things happening simultaneously. I just felt like the music I was doing at that time it was not completely up to par. I think the first record we did at Aftermath it went platinum but it was not my bet foot forward. It didn’t smash. Then Jimmy Iovine introduced me to Eminem and that’s when everything took off.” – says Dre.
And then Dr. Dre continues talking about what are the origins of the “2001” album title and how Suge Knight stole his ideas. You can watch the full thing below:
Iconic rapper, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s Melle Mel has recently set down with DJ VLAD where the two talked about battling Eminem:
“I would easily beat Eminem in a battle. It would be the easiest thing I ever did. Easy. Technically he is a great rapper but I’m the greatest. I know how to write it. When I put it down it’s gonna stay down. It would be the easiest thing that I ever did. And when people bring that up, just say ‘you can’t beat Eminem’. I’ve been doing this all my life. I don’t even write how I used to write but still, easy. Rap is my destiny. Everybody that’s out there rapping, they all trying to do something that I did 40 years ago.” said Melle Mel.
Then he continued: “Rakim was one of the rappers that could rap when we were rapping back then. He definitely is and he changed the game. He was rapping different but when I heard Eminem rapping, I could rap the same. The game didn’t change. It wouldn’t stop nothing. They toss around greatness to much. If you want to be great you have to change something.
“Eminem is great rapper why there is no 50 great white rappers? Why nobody saying who is top 50 white rappers? Cause Eminem changed nothing. I’m not saying he is not a good rapper but what I’m saying is what I did was greatness.” Melle Mel added.
Battle rapper Daylyt has recently done an Instagram Live session where he talked about why Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” is the anthem for anyone who is battling anything and what is the difference between prime and today’s Eminem.
“Prime Em… What Eminem does with his rhyme pattern is so amazing bro. It’s Amazing. Then I’m listening to doubles and stacks and the passion he puts in his verse. Yo, Em is so fire. Prime Em, ni**a’s so fire. I’m listening to this “Lose Yourself” song and I’m thinking of the setup of that record and as a battle rapper and a person that has stepped into any battle, I don’t just mean battle rap, I mean basketball games, sports, anything that was a moment that could shift your life, this song spoke to you. Any moment in life where you go. This record is for all those moments. And I think about that all the time, like, yo, that’s fire!”
“I just when through Em’s whole catalog and then I went though new catalog and I realize what is the problem with Em right now. Em has grown, mentally, physically, spiritually. He can’t rap about the things he rapped no more. But mainly, I’m gonna tell you, mainly what is hurting Eminem. Right now, it’s beat selection. Em is trying to do what he normally does over modern beats and he’s traying to add modern style production inside of his ability. Like, when you are adding water and oil together, it just don’t mix. If Em is to get on some boom bap, some heavy boom bap s**t…BOY! We need Eminem and Alchemist. We need Eminem and Dilla. We need Eminem and Willie D. We need Eminem on whoever produces for Conway The Machine. We need Em and them type of ni**as bro. Em will do DAMAGE if he gets back to those type of beats. Em would do an ultimate damage. And I’m only saying this because I want to put energy out there and hopefully Eminem is watching this. And hopefully somebody that’s related to Eminem is watching this. And tell Em I said this personally.”
“At the Eminem universe, they hate me and love me because I’ve been f**king with Em so much. And I troll a lot because I’m a fan. That’s what fans do. They troll and say opposite of how they feel. I’ve been listening to a lot Eminem and other than that, I’ve been listening to a lot of Ice Cube, Tupac, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole…”
G-Eazy has recently set down with DJ Whoo Kid on Whooly Wood Shuffle on Shade 45 where he talked about the collaborations that he have on his bucket list.
“Jay Z and Eminem, those are aspirations. I look at Em like all the other legends. If I ever get a verse it’d be crazy. To get to do records with the people like that, that caliber, that level of legend, you know what I’m saying. Being a somebody who’s forever student of the game but also grew up on this cats and still look up to that, you know what I mean?! Yeah, holla at Marshall, man!”
Recently Russ set down with DJ Suss One for an interview where he talked about his biggest musical influences. When Suss One asked Russ about his list of the greatest artists of all-time, Russ responded with a chart of his biggest inspirations, including a number of legends:
“I originally got interested in rap and hip-hop via 50 Cent and Eminem. Then I got into, it was in high school, I was a freshman in high school in ’06 so, when Lil Wayne was going crazy. I just remember being in high school when freestyles were dropping and the mixtapes. Wayne was running s**t. I remember what it felt like when ‘A Milli’ dropped. Just the idea of being able to spaz on a beat, that was Wayne.” said Russ.
Legendary rapper Treach from legendary hip-hop group Naughty by Nature, has recently set down with Sway In The Morning for an interview. At one point, Treach was asked what he thinks about Eminem’s longevity reference on “Zeus” where he namedrops Drake.
“Of Course I can relate what Eminem said, you know what the thing is, a lot of artists did not understand that. We didn’t understand. When you come out there and you think like this is forever. Like I am going to keep making these records. I am going to keep getting these radio plays. I am going to keep shooting these videos. Keep boom boom boom. One thing that is definite in the game that we have seen is if you on your dean is torment until the pandemic comes. You got to realize you are looking at a decade if you are blessed. A decade before you considered old school and the new doors opening up for the younger artists coming out. Because Hip-Hop has always been a new artist game.” says Treach.
Thistin Howl The 3rd was on Off the Cuff Radio and on this clip below, he talks about being in the Rap Olympics with Eminem and how he used to come to the hood everyday to kick it with them.
“Rap Olympics 1997 was a beautiful experience man. Gotta learned a lot, all my team members and you know being surrounded by a whole team of hungry battle freestyle rappers that will attack you at all times. That would sharpen you up even more. Everybody on my team was top-notch off the head was super skilled with it.”
“Me and Eminem, we both expected big things out of each other’s career. Eminem was really the truth, I believe he felt the same about me, and we always promise that whoever makes it first will be on each other’s albums. Eminem used to even come and hang out in Brownsville with me man. He was really skilled, he’s really the truth man, I can’t take anything away from that man. I’ll be hearing all these other people try to say he got this from so and so over, that man was exactly the way he was when I met him. He was a super MC, very humble very cool very down to earth, we got along well. A lot of times we wouldn’t even talk man, our whole conversation would be in rap form and freestyle, how hungry we were for it.”
Eminem has recently visited Sports Center on ESPN with Dana White and it seems the debate got little heated.
In the short video clip shared by former UFC fighter, current comedian and podcast host Brendan Schaub, it appears that Eminem is critiquing the UFC president: “Best part of your opinion is that it does not matter and if every fighter that you had listened your opinion when you doubted them you would not have f**king league.”
Watch the clip below. Full video is not yet available. THE CONTEXT MIGHT BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Story is being updated. Stay tuned!
