Actor, rapper, and singer, Orlando Brown, best known for his roles as Eddie Thomas in That’s So Raven, Cadet Kevin ‘Tiger’ Dunne in Major Payne, 3J Winslow in Family Matters, and Max in Two of a Kind, has recently sat down with Cam Capone News where he responded Dr. Umar saying Eminem can’t be one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white.
“Eminem is not wrong and Eminem is always right. He’s a f–king king bro! I love Eminem. Everybody know I love Eminem. He literally taught me how to rap. My thing about Eminem is, they just need to respect him, I always say that they need to have more respect. I feel like Eminem get respect he deserves but they play with it. I feel like he got the respect already, from the world. But the real people that’s inside, some musical people, Method Man and couple of others, wouldn’t just f–k with him, just to be disrespectful, just to make him feel like he has to fight for that he ain’t got to fight for.” said Orlando Brown.
Then he continued: “Because when you are sensitive on the inside who you are, because of what you have been through, some people know how to press the buttons, it’s some people out there, if you call them weak, they gonna f–king cry. Some people, you call them ugly, they are going to tear up. Some people actually know deeper than what Eminem told us and they use that against against him. I’m not saying he’s broken from it, I’m just saying he’s a king bro and these kind of questions only bring dirt to the kingdom. Why are we trying to dethrone Eminem all the time? We gotta be asking questions about the person that intellectually killed everybody, verbally on wax? No, we are not gonna keep doing that? We are not gonna keep on trying to take a man’s title that’s already there. Can’t do that. That’s disrespectful. He’s one of my favorite rappers.”
Actor and stand-up comedian, D.L. Hughley, best known as the original host of BET’s ComicView from 1992 to 1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys, and as one of the “Big Four” comedians in The Original Kings of Comedy, was recently interviewed by DJ VLAD where the host host of CNN’s D. L. Hughley Breaks the News was asked, who was accepted more in the hood, Eminem or Vanilla Ice.
On the question, D.L. Hughley replied: “Eminem. Easy… Easy. You talking about the hood right? Eminem could flow. Eminem was grimy and tricky lyrically. And basically, the only thing different between him and us… he lived in a trailer park and we lived in projects. To date, Eminem is probably top 10 greatest lyricist.” said D.L. Hughley.
“Him to have Dr. Dre behind him, just that, for me, he hit a cord in me where I was like ‘I f–k with this dude.’ D.L. Hughley added.
During the latest episode of Joe Budden’s The Joe Budden Podcast Dr. Umar “Ifatunde” Johnson, a staunch Pan-Africanist, motivational speaker, psychologist, activist and social media personality, talked about Eminem‘s status in hip-hop culture and said: “Let me say something to you. And this is going to my African fundamentalism. No non-African can ever be the best of anything African. It is an insult to the ancestors. It’s an insult to the race and it is an insult to every Black person. Do you think I can go to Palestine and be the best of anything of Palestinian culture? You never see that. You think I can go to Israel and be the best of anything in Israel whether it be a cook, an instrumentalist, a dancer? Hell no. We have to stop naming non-African people as being the best of any aspect in our cultural product because it’s an insult. I can acknowledge Eminem’s talent but for you to put him at the top, that’s white supremacy bro. I don’t see Eminem building schools and hospitals. I don’t see DJ Khaled building schools and hospitals,” and it seems MC Shan does not agree.
During one of his recent Instagram lives, hip-hop pioneer MC Shan, who was included in Eminem’s Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame speech showing admiration to hip-hop icons, defended Eminem against Dr. Umar comments.
“I got something to say to Dr. Umar. You pick on a wrong guy. Eminem deserves respect. You can’t look at Eminem as if he was Mark Zuckerberg and he came into our culture and he just robbed our culture. How do you think Eminem got into this culture? Because he was as ghetto as the rest of the motherf–kers, regardless to his skin. I wouldn’t be the biggest hip-hop producer who produced biggest reggae song [“Informer“] ever. Bigger than Bob Marley, the Guinness World Records say so and so who am I to sit here like ‘Snow was not as ghetto as I am’? I would go anywhere with Snow in the ghetto before I’d go with some people that I grew up with. Because that’s in him. They may be white and can do what they do but don’t be jealous of that. I’m not jealous cause Snow could do whole bunch of things that I could not. Snow was talking me to the mountains of Whistler where I was the only black person there. But he was part of our f–king culture.” said MC Serch.
He then continued: “Eminem is part of our culture Dr. Umar! I love Eminem. Eminem loves me. He has mentioned me on the Grammys or wherever he was. He didn’t have to say nothing about me. I’m not saying that about him because he said that. I’m saying it because he’s part of our culture! What about Serch? Serch was the first one. He made his way through this game. He picked up Pete Nice later on. Serch was real authentic individual. Back then, only MC Serch and Aaron Fuchs were allowed to the projects being Jew or white or whatever the f–k they were. If you was not Aaron Fuchs or MC Serch, they wasn’t letting you nowhere near the projects. If you wanna say MC Serch is about money and culture vulture , f–k you ni–a. Serch ma man! Anywhere you go, whatever was popping Serch was there! White boy!”
MC Shan did not stop there: “Dr. Umar, I understand you want this Black Culture thing but you are jumping on a wrong thing. That’s their magazines! We don’t own their magazines. Do you read it? You probably must do. I don’t read that s–t that says Eminem is number one. I never even hear that s–t until I heard you say it. Because you read their f–king propaganda. But, Em deserves a motherf–king slot in this game. Em was no rich motherf–ker to just come and rob rap game. He had more problems than any black. Eminem had f–king pill problems son. He had f–king white boy problems. He had problems overcoming drugs. Look at me! I was biggest f–king drug addict in hip-hop history, so they say. But look at me and look at Em. He had his own problems. I’m no doctor but you can’t sit there and tell me certain things. Ain’t nobody robbing us son. Em gets his respect from us. So, if you don’t want to respect him, you do what you do, we don’t f–k with you anyway like that. We talk hip-hop sh–t, you talk Black Culturism. Em is down with us son. Snow is down with us son. Serch is down with us son. So all of that, that you talking, you read in their books. Stop reading their s–t. Don’t f–k with Eminem. Do not f–k with Serch. And do not f–k with Snow. Stop with that propaganda. You just make everything a f–king race thing.”
“Motherf–ker, you know Em is nice. And why is he an innovator as far as hip-hop motherf–kers like myself are concerned? Because the style Eminem got! He got his own lane son. And you see Twista and him going back and forth but that’s within our culture. I think I’m better than Chris. Chris thinks he’s better than me. That’s what the f–k we do. You can talk all the s–t that you want but you leave Eminem, MC Serch and Snow out of your sentences for the simple fact that these are people that were down in the trenches with us when we were in the f–king trenches… Eminem made money… I don’t see you talk about all this black motherf–kers that made money ain’t putting nothing back to community.” he added.
During the latest episode of Joe Budden’s The Joe Budden Podcast Dr. Umar “Ifatunde” Johnson, a staunch Pan-Africanist, motivational speaker, psychologist, activist and social media personality, talked about Eminem‘s status in hip-hop culture and said: “Let me say something to you. And this is going to my African fundamentalism. No non-African can ever be the best of anything African. It is an insult to the ancestors. It’s an insult to the race and it is an insult to every Black person. Do you think I can go to Palestine and be the best of anything of Palestinian culture? You never see that. You think I can go to Israel and be the best of anything in Israel whether it be a cook, an instrumentalist, a dancer? Hell no. We have to stop naming non-African people as being the best of any aspect in our cultural product because it’s an insult. I can acknowledge Eminem’s talent but for you to put him at the top, that’s white supremacy bro. I don’t see Eminem building schools and hospitals. I don’t see DJ Khaled building schools and hospitals.”
Later, Dr. Umar went live on his Instagram to clarify his words and defend himself from the backlash he received on social media.
“Let me say this. I have nothing personal against Eminem. My comments on the Joe Budden podcast had nothing to do with Mr. Marshall Mathers, personally. And I want Mr. Marshall Mathers to understand that Dr. Umar Ifatunde harbors no personal ill will towards you. This is not personal! This is business. Eminem, I want to hear me young man. This is not personal! This is business! You are a talented musician, lyricist, producer and you seem you are an ‘okay’ guy. You never done nothing to me. And you never done anything that I personally witnessed to be worthy of condemnation. So, my comments are not personal. They apply to any non-African. This is about the business! The business about protecting the integrity of African culture.” said Dr. Umar.
Then he continued: “I said my comments on the Joe Budden podcast was about the business! Not personal! The business of protecting the sacredness, authenticity and integrity of the African culture. I said that no non-African can ever be the best of anything in African culture. You can’t be the best cook of African food. You can’t be the best rapper of African hip-hop. You can’t be the best singer. You can’t be the best priest of African culture. Nothing we create can a non-African be the best at. I don’t even see how an African can come to the conclusion that a non-African can be the best at anything when we are the oldest people. We are the first people. So, when you say a non-African is better at X, Y and Z than a member of the race, you are saying that this person can do this better than two billion Africans on the planet.”
The new episode of Joe Budden’s The Joe Budden Podcast is going to be as controversial as it gets. Dr. Umar “Ifatunde” Johnson, a staunch Pan-Africanist, motivational speaker, psychologist, activist and social media personality, visited Joe and the crew to discuss a wide range of issues affecting the Black culture and community. In the video snippet that has gone viral on social media, Dr. Umar shut the statement that Eminem is one of the greatest rappers in the history of hip-hop.
In the clip, which can be viewed after the jump below, Dr. Umar said that Slim Shady can not be one of the greatest rappers in hip-hop because of his skin color. According to Umar, since hip-hop was created by Black people, no White human being can ever be better than the group of people who created the music and culture.
“Let me say something to you. And this is going to my African fundamentalism. No non-African can ever be the best of anything African. It is an insult to the ancestors. It’s an insult to the race and it is an insult to every Black person.” said Dr. Umar.
Then he continued: “Do you think I can go to Palestine and be the best of anything of Palestinian culture? You never see that. You think I can go to Israel and be the best of anything in Israel whether it be a cook, an instrumentalist, a dancer? Hell no.”
“We have to stop naming non-African people as being the best of any aspect in our cultural product because it’s an insult. I can acknowledge Eminem’s talent but for you to put him at the top, that’s white supremacy bro. I don’t see Eminem building schools and hospitals. I don’t see DJ Khaled building schools and hospitals.” Dr. Umar added.
You can watch the segment below:
Dr. Umar says Eminem is not one of greatest rappers of all time because he’s not African.
Los Angeles hip-hop artist, Glasses Malone has recently sat down on NO VULTURES for an interview where he talked about white privilege in hip-hop.
“First off, Eminem is unbelievably talented, let’s start there. He’s not dope because he’s white. He’s just dope! Now, is he selling better because he’s white? Sure, white people relate to him and see themselves. That’s easy sale. Marketing 101. Show me, me, that look like this, I’ll buy.” – said Glasses Malone.
Then he continued: “I think Eminem is, don’t get me wrong, is top 10 talented, at worst. He’s as talented as any MC can be. This ni–a is unbelievable. But of course he’s gonna sell more units because people can market easier when you can see yourself in them. I mean, he’s the American guy.”
“Hip-Hop is all about street Urban culture. Kanye West’s first album was College Dropout. The average ni–a at his age was not going to college. There are some ni–as that’s from the ghetto that went to college but I don’t know about the Cuz’s experience but it ain’t really important. I love Ye s–t so… And I love a Drake s–t. But Drake s–t was just obvious. The point I’m saying is, Eminem grew up in the ghetto somewhere and some trailer park.” Glasses Malone added.
Eminem has previously addressed white privilege in many occasions, including in one of his hit songs, “White America,” in which he raps: “Look at my sales / Let’s do the math: If I was Black, I would’ve sold half / I ain’t have to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that / But I could rap, so f–k school, I’m too cool to go back / Give me the mic, Show me where the f–kin’ studio’s at / When I was underground, no one gave a f–k I was White…”
In a new interview with Mcdontstop, composer, producer and music engineer Jake Bass, who is a son of legendary Jeff Bass from Bass Brothers, talked about the making process of Eminem’s “Kim” song from his 2000 classic album The Marshall Mathers LP.
“That’s the record my dad and uncle did and fun fact, that was the first song I ever learned how to play on piano. That song, that was done out in California. Same around the time they were doing all the Slim Shady stuff and starting to put together the next record before they all moved back home to Detroit. That was a record that Em had come in one day with really bad attitude and pissed off and everything.” – said Jake Bass.
Then he continued: “When he was working with my dad he would always come into the studio with a mood and obviously that mood was dark, angry, sad. My dad didn’t know it was going to be twisted at the same time at that moment but he knew I want something that’s f–king dark and scary so my dad would sit down at keyboard like this ‘no, try going darker, okay, like this, maybe deeper, okay, like this, no, maybe a piano,’ and then, my dad would just whip ideas out and he started playing that piano lick and that was it. Loop that, my uncle played drums on it which was f–king awesome. Everyone thinks it’s a sample and it’s not! Everyone thinks it’s f–king Led Zeppelin sample but it’s not. It’s all real. And Em did vocals in one take. That entire session was 30 minutes. They put that together quick. And it was like, OH MY GOD, he painted an entire picture and he put together a whole f–king movie in 6 minutes. They knew it was something special.
“Working with my dad and uncle at that time especially it had to be that way at that time because that’s a very personal, very vulnerable record. And he worked with my family for many many years before that so it was a comfortable setting to scream like that and play both characters. It was very much Slim Shady. That was something that he was able to be vulnerable with in the studio with my dad and uncle. And you have to be putting record like that and to produced a record like that, you have to tap in, you know.” Jake Bass added.
Fat Joe has recently sat down with Hollywood legend Chazz Palminteri on his Chazz Palminteri Show where they talked about everything from growing up in the Bronx, his music career, his hip-hop influences, their mutual friends, life changing stories and their success coming up from the Bronx.
At one point of the interview, The Usual Suspects actor listed his all time greatest rappers before asking it to Fat Joe: “Who do you think are top, all time greatest rappers? I mean, I like Biggie, I thought Biggie was great. Obviously he didn’t do a lot of albums but when you listen to it…And I thought Tupac was very prolific and obviously Eminem.”
“I’ll add some names to that,” said Fat Joe. “Rakim, Jay-Z, Nas, Lil Wayne. My idols are Heavy D, LL Cool J. He’s a major influence in hip-hop. And KRS-One from the Bronx. I studied all of them. And who is your top 5 actors of all time?”
On that, Chazz replied: “Obviously Robert De Niro. Obviously Marlon Brando. I would absolutely put Al Pacino in there. I love Peter O’Toole, I would have to put him in there. And I would probably put James Dean. Three movies, three classics.”
On November 5, 2023, Rolling Stone magazine published a profile on DJ Khaled with comments and insight from his peers in the industry. Among them is Fat Joe, who revealed that Eminem’s verse on the “Lean Back” remix traces back to motivation given from the Grammy-winning producer.
“When we did ‘Lean Back,’ we did it in a studio in Khaled’s house. I remember when it came to be remix time, I would’ve never thought I had a chance in the world of getting Eminem. Khaled told me, ‘You could get Em.’ And I went all out and I got Eminem because he had pushed me to.” recalled Fat Joe.
Back in 2005, with the original version of “Lean Back” topping the Billboard Hot 100 and achieving gold status, Terror Squad’s Fat Joe and Remy Ma returned with the crunk remix produced by Lil Jon and featuring verses from Eminem and Mase.
Back in 2011, during the interview with Complex magazine, Fat Joe spoke about Eminem’s verse: “Me and Eminem were cool before he even had a record deal. I wouldn’t dare ask him for a favor. DJ Khaled was gassing me and this is when he was a little ni–a in the crew. He kept telling me, ‘Get the whiteboy!’ I was like, ‘Nah, I ain’t gonna bother him.’ And he was like, ‘I’m telling you, that’s your man. He’ll do it!’
He continued: “So I went and I asked him. And he hit me back like, ‘Yo Joe, you know you got one favor. Is this it?’ Eminem actually rapped at first on the original. And he was asking me, ‘Yo, why did you change the beat?!?’ And he’s another ni–a like Nas on ‘John Blaze’ who sent me mad verses. He did like 10 ‘Lean Back’ verses. He’s a perfectionist. It was incredible already. I didn’t understand why he would keep sending other ones.”
Timbaland is still in shock about Eminem’s guest verse on a Missy Elliot song that he produced more than 20 years ago.
Couple of days ago DJ Whoo Kid shared a snippet from an interview he did with the Virginia-born producer in which the two discuss Slim Shady’s aptitude for clever lyricism. Looking back at the recording session for the recent Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductee’s “Busa Rhyme,” which features on her 1999 album called “Da Real World,” the beatmaker recalled how impressed he was with Marshall.
“When I heard Eminem come in there and spit that verse, I was like, ‘Oh, can’t nobody see this guy. This boy different.” To make his point, he went on to reference the bars: “Well, I do pop pills, I keep my tube socks filled/ Then pop the same shit that got 2Pac killed… Those two bars — I couldn’t get past that.” said Timbaland.
On “Busa Rhyme,” Timbaland allows both Em and Missy to go off, with Slim Shady rapping about his d–k, punching a pregnant woman, and jumping out of the 93rd floor of a building. While Missy talks about how somebody ‘pissed her off’ and her reaction. The hook of the song samples “Play That Funky Music” by Wild Cherry.
Fat Joe has recently sat down with Hollywood legend Chazz Palminteri on his Chazz Palminteri Show where they talked about everything from growing up in the Bronx, his music career, his hip-hop influences, their mutual friends, life changing stories and their success coming up from the Bronx. Joe also has an incredible life lesson that he shares and the advice that he should’ve taken from A Bronx Tale in order to avoid a life changing event.
At one point of the interview, Fat Joe revealed that Eminem has recently sent him ‘Mom’s Spaghetti’ sauce as a gift. Couple of weeks ago, Detroit legend Eminem announced on social media that jars of his “Mom’s Spaghetti” Pasta Sauce would launch through the Mom’s Spaghetti official website. When the sauce popped up on the website, the sauce quickly sold out within hours.
“You know my brother Eminem just pulled out a ne sauce and its called ‘Mom’s Spaghetti.’ He sent it to my house I swear a god. He has a sauce available called Mom’s Spaghetti!” said Fat Joe.
Then Joe went on praising Em: “He’s the best. He is phenomenal. He’s too great. You cant’ stop him. He’s too great. He’s like an alien. He’s amazing.”
On that Chazz Palminteri replied: “I do not know him well but I met Dr. Dre and I got to know him a little bit through Jimmy Iovine and I met him bunch of times. And he would tell me, when he first heard Eminem rap, it was like ‘WHAT THE F–K?!’ Yeah, he is like an alien.”
Xzibit has recently sat down on The Adam Corolla Show with Tammy Pettigrew, Adam and Chris where the legendary hip-hop artist talked about meeting and working with Eminem in the past.
“I come from battle rap scene. When I first started on the West Coast it was very small clicks of emcees and we all used to go and do these battles. Or we would go to The Wake Up Show with Tech and Sway. These were the only outlets. There was no internet. In New York, they had different things, Lyricist Lounge, they had mixtapes, they had vibrant scene.” said Xzibit.
The he continued: “So, Eminem was very famous for going and being a battle rapper. Even when he spelled his name M&M like candy, he was so talented back then and he was grooming himself. So, everybody was doing the same thing, grooming themselves and you heard of him because he was a white guy with that much skill, coming to the scene was pretty amazing. When you met him, his reputation preceded him. I met him through that first. It was not like ‘oh we gonna work together and do all this stuff later’, nah. We both came from same kinda place. Once he came for Rap Olympics, he was ready to throw a towel at that time, but he was giving out tapes and one of the tapes from that battle got to Dre and Jimmy. And then they called him and the rest is history.”
“From there, I got to Dre through different way. But we all ended up in the same camp. It was all for the same kinda push because we were a certain talents that we brought to the table with our rhymes. So, that’s kinda how we got together and moved on. But he had a crazy story as well so I’m glad I was in ‘8 Mile’. I’m glad I was able to work with him in the capacity that I have. Nothing but respect for the Marshall and the rest of the team.” Xzibit added.
