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50 Cent compares Eminem & 2Pac’s approach when writing lyrics about their mothers

In a recent interview with Brian J. Roberts, 50 Cent explained how he found himself in a number of legal situations over the years. That means legal fees, and when the rapper learned just how much he’s paid in legal fees since coming to fame with Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ in 2003, the number shocked him. “I spent over $23 million legal fees since I’ve had success in 2003. Over $23 million in legal fees. So when you say you successful or that you rich in a different way, that money was just written off as expenses of business. You in it and I’m going, ‘What?’ When I’m looking at it myself, ‘That’s how much you really spent on that?’ I was like, ‘Wow!’” said Fifty who also talked about many topics, including Eminem and 2Pac.

“I put two hip-hop artists right that are really profound, have been really prolific within our culture, that have very similar topics with different responses. Eminem’s mom, the drug usage was part of it, and he would do ‘I’m sorry mama, I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to make you cry but tonight I’m cleanin’ out my closet’ and then 2Pac’s mom, also has some drug usage involved, and he said ‘even though you was a crack fiend, you always was a black queen mama.’ And I think the tones of anger and the difference between in two of them as an artists are…Em’s anger is coming from things that where supposed to be right and Tupac’s statement is almost like a terms of endearment, because it’s like, we were always still all we had. I think the expectations of things going right from a white American perspective versus things accepting the idea of things not going right for African-American perspective, are what makes difference in tones in those records. It’s both the same scenario but different ways of expressing experience because of the difference in two artists.” said 50 Cent.

Then he continues: “I love Em. I don’t think people credit him for everything. I think the growth of our culture should be also a trophy for them. He had those Vanilla Ice situations, those guys that came were not respected and accepted and they were big f—ing artists. Me personally, my career is a fair reflection of my association to Em. Prior to my record coming out, the most solo black male artist sales was five million copies on Tupac’s All Eyez On Me, double CD. It was first time I seen something go diamond. And to have my first album sell 10 million records, if you discredit or disassociate the fact that I did it in association to Eminem who sold 23 million records on The Marshall Mathers LP, you are just a f—ing idiot. He authentically is ours. I love him to death. Ain’t nobody telling me s–t because he’s in tight seconds spot in my life for people who have done things for me who didn’t have to. And when I say this to him, he’s flattered by it. Behind my grandmother taking care of me and looking out for me when she didn’t have to, he’s the person that did that for me.”

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DaBaby says he can rap on Eminem’s level

DaBaby has recently sat down with Math Hoffa, Mr. Mecc, Sean Bigga and Grafh on the latest episode of My Expert Opinion where Cleveland, Ohio-born rapper said there is tow type of version of him, the Baby who makes mainstream music like “Rockstar” and the Baby who raps over the beats on Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole level.

“When you hear me freestyling, you be like ‘boy, this ni–a top five’ but when you hear the music I put out, I am in a music business, these people f–k with ‘Brand new Lamborghini, f–k a cop’ but that s–t ain’t nothing. But you can put this beat on and off, I go Eminem level on that beat. You gotta go get one of them to f–k with me. You gotta get Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole. It ain’t too many. I don’t disrespect nobody but boy, raise your hand! I’m like that! N—as know it too!” said DaBaby.

Earlier this year, during the interview with Variety, DaBaby was asked about his biggest influences, to which he named the likes of Eminem, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West. “Lil Wayne. Eminem. So many people, though. Three is not enough. I was definitely a big fan of Kanye, especially early on, so I would … give 50 Cent and Kanye West a tie… I was blessed enough to be able to see a lot of different people have their era, like even like a Nelly, and Ludacris, T.I. … so many people that just had their waves.”

Last year in his interview with KXNG Crooked, Eminem also praised Baby. “DaBaby is interesting to me. I never know where his rhymes gonna land and that s–t is so interesting to me cause he does it so well.”

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ATL Jacob talks how he managed Eminem & Future to use same beat that he produced

ATL Jacob has recently sat down with VLAD TV, where he talked about giving Eminem and Future the same beat. Future used the instrumental on his 2019 album “The Wizrd” on a song called “Talk S–t Like A Preacher” and Eminem on 2020’s “Music To Be Murdered By” song titled “Book Of Rhymes,” featuring DJ Premier.

“The song ‘Talk S–t Like A Preacher’ by Future, that’s the same beat as Eminem’s ‘Book Of Rhymes.’ I gave the beat to Future. Future was not feeling it. I thought he wasn’t, so Eminem randomly called me like, randomly, I didn’t even know he’d get my number. I sent him that beat. Dre was like ‘bro, Eminem loved this beat. We ready to sing it off as soon as possible.’ Em was willing to give me $30,000 for it. I was getting $10,000 from Future. So I was like, ‘cool, let’s set it up.'” – said ATL Jacob

Then he continues: “Then probably a week later, Future told me we gonna put this beat on the album. He let me hear it. I’m like ‘bro Eminem wants to use this.’ So it was like a choice between give it to Eminem for $30k or give it to brother Future for $10k. It was just loyalty so I gave it to Future. I let Eminem know like ‘Man, I didn’t eve know Future used that beat, he loved it and it’s going to be on his album. So we ended up still working it out even though Future dropped it.”

“It’s crazy cause Em is one of my favorite rappers. He’s hard… I though it was cap when they first called me, like someone pretending to be Eminem. Then I thought Travis Scott interview where he was like ‘T.I. just randomly called his number’ and they I thought s–t it ‘s probably real Eminem and might be one of those situations.” ATL added.

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Icewear Vezzo talks misunderstanding between Eminem & young Detroit rappers

Detroit rapper Icewear Vezzo has recently sat down with Charlamagne on Breakfast Club where he talked about signing with QC, connecting with Takeoff, DJ Drama and misunderstanding him and young Detroit rappers have with Eminem and Royce 5’9″.

“At the end of the day, it was misunderstanding. As a fan, I love Eminem music. I grew up listening to Eminem when I was shorty. I got real love for Royce. One thing about Royce is, he’s always show love to us, always supports us. He always shouted out. He does everything he can to help us out. He really do. I can’t take that away from Royce. But s**t, it is what it is. We don’t know Eminem. We don’t know hommie. I don’t know anybody that ever met him. Ever seen him.” said Icewear Vezzo.

Then he continues: “I think Royce and Em kinda get impression that we feel like homies owe us something. But it’s not that. Everything ain’t always about a favor or money. I think they taking it wrong way. We just saying, you are legend! you are GOAT. You are big! Bro, we are you! We want to see! Can we get knowledge?! Can we get some gang? Can we get some motherf**king motivation?! Anything. That’s what we all asking for. We are not speaking from the standpoint as like ‘bro you gotta sign us. You owe us some money.’ We are not saying that way and I believe Royce and Em may be taking it that way. So it is a big misunderstanding.”

“Yes he did a song with Big Sean, Dej Loaf and them. I got love for everybody. I f**k with every artist in Detroit. We just talking about Em and yeah I f**k with his music. But I don’t know him. Nobody knows. We just don’t know him. We ain’t saying to come outside. We ain’t saying to come in the middle of the hood. I can’t speak for everybody but I feel like that. Em’s an icon. I idolize him at one point and I do think he’s the greatest rapper of all time, at least one of them, and that’s never gonna change. He have done a lot for the community, for the city of Detroit. Ain’t nobody taking that none away. We just, musically, we got vibe right now. I know me and if I had wave that Em had, I’d embrace all you ni—s coming up. I’m already doing that and I ain’t nowhere in that type of position. But I do that. Because it’s a right thing to do. Because one conversation might keep a young ni–a from crashing up. That’s all it take. Just a little push. Little motivation. All it takes to say ‘Hey bro, I see you! Keep doing what you doing! You are doing a right thing!’ You know the type of inspiration you gotta be from people that want that from you. You are inspiring hommies! You really inspiring. Just say ‘Hey bro, keep doing’ and that’s it.”

At the end of Eminem conversation, Icewear Vezzo joked: “F–k what I said, I want a feature.’ You can check the interview below:

Vezzo talked about the same topic with No Jumper about a week ago. You can watch it below:

Westside Boogie reacts to pop music outperforming rap music & what he did on Eminem’s 50th birthday

Image: Westside Boogie & Eminem

According to Billboard, back in 2018, Nielsen Soundscan’s year-end music industry report confirmed that R&B/Hip-Hop was the most popular genre in the United States of America. Nine of the ten most consumed songs in the country were R&B/Hip-Hop songs, and as streaming became the dominant way to consume music, eight of the ten most streamed artists were rappers.

That report focused on 2017, but the period between 2015-2018 was a crescendo for the genre. Established artists like Eminem, Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne still had more in the tank; younger stars like Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj put their mark on the culture; and rising stars like Pop Smoke, Juice WRLD, XXXTENTACION and Cardi B were already scoring RIAA plaques. Everything was pointing up.

Looking at the hip-hop landscape today, you might get a different feeling. Rap is still enormously popular, but its growth is slowing. Luminate’s mid-year report revealed that Hip-Hop/R&B/ still has the largest overall market share of any genre in America with 27.6% — but that is a decline from last year’s 28.4%, even though it widened its lead at the top in terms of overall equivalent album units. The genre’s total on-demand streaming growth is up 6.2% in 2022, but that’s lower than the rate of the market overall, which is up 11.6%.

TMZ got Westside Boogie at LAX over the weekend, and asked his thoughts on the ongoing conversation about rap losing its dominance. The Shady Records rapper says he can actually relate to Billboard’s article. He says he has been listening to pop music closely and thinks those artists are putting more attention to detail in their music than rappers these days, especially Taylor Swift, whose new album is set to sell around 1.5 million copies in its first week of release.

“I was just talking with somebody yesterday, I was listening to a pop song and I told my manager how white people feel like they are paying more attention to the details of the songs right now. And I don’t think rappers understand that details still matter in that. People notice that they, subconsciously, they probably don’t even notice that they notice it, but that lazy music, we are losing because of it. So, rappers! Get it together! Stop being lazy.” said Westside Boogie.

Then he continues: “Its not only about lyrics. It’s beat selection. It’s telling your story. Because we are in a space where everybody rap good now. How you going to deliver your message, how you going to make it sound authentic. How you gonna make it sound different. If you tell your story, it automatically be unique. As far as sonically, it’s just about pushing yourself and pushing different limits. Don’t be complacent. Because when you are complacent, that’s when you get trashed.”

“I think the magic happens when artists do what he is supposed to do on a song and a producer doing what he’s supposed to do on a song. Cohesive moment creates the magic. When it’s lopsided, you just never know.” Boogie added.

Then the interviewer asked what he did on Eminem‘s 50th birthday and what Eminem’s legacy looks line in the eyes of young generation, on which Boogie replied: “I was just on tour. All I did was say happy birthday while I was on stage and I texted him, told him happy birthday and he said thank you. Shout out to Em. He turned 50. That s**t tripped me out. He really 50 years old… I got 13 years old son and my 13 year olds don’t necessary feel the impact the Eminem had on the world. I feel like that’s why newer artists not to let their legacy die. Especially if we take something from Eminem, life if other artists take a certain cases from Eminem, give him his credit! Because it’s EMINEM, S**T!”

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Mobb Deep’s Havoc reveals his reaction when he saw “Shook Ones” beat in Eminem’s 8 Mile movie

Legendary hip-hop duo, Mobb Deep’s Havoc, was recently interviewed by HipHopDX magazine where he talked about an iconic track “Shook One’s, Part II” being used in Eminem‘s 8 Mile movie’s rap battle scene against Papa Doc.

“I mean, I was really taken back because I didn’t even know that, if Eminem was a fan, you know what I mean? So to hear that and I found out he was a fan and then ching-ching sound [getting money] went off in my head…I bought this Fendi sweater [Laughs].” said Havoc.

“Shook Ones (Part II)” is being played in the opening scene of 8 Mile when main character B-Rabbit, portrayed by Eminem, is preparing for his battle. An instrumental version of the song is played as the beat for the final battle of the film as well. It also appears on the intro of the Season 2 premiere episode “Soul Brother #1” of the Marvel-Netflix TV Show Luke Cage, in which Luke Cage disrupts a Drug Operation that was peddling a drug named after him. We can also hear it in the 2005 video games Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories in the in-game radio station The Liberty Jam and in True Crime: New York City and in NBA 2K13 and NBA 2K18.

“Shook Ones (Part II)” is the lead single from Mobb Deep’s 1995 album called The Infamous and it is a sequel to 1994 promotional single “Shook Ones”, with similar lyrics, but less profanity. In 1997, the song was sampled by Mariah Carey in her single “The Roof (Back in Time)“. For its single remix, Mobb Deep recorded additional raps and also appeared in the music video made for the single.

The song is recognized as one of the greatest hip-hop songs of all time by music critics. It is also certified gold single in the United Kingdom and Denmark.

50 Cent talks about Eminem’s legacy & Kanye West’s latest actions

50 Cent has recently sat down with Ebro in the Morning for an enlightening conversation about many of his business dealings and projects, including Sire Spirits being exclusive with several sports teams that includes Houston Texans, Sacramento Kings, Astros, and Rockets through the G-Unit foundation. He also talked about living in Los Angeles and some of the latest news surrounding his podcasts and television shows.

He also discussed Nicki Minaj and Latto’s back and forth, Eminem‘s legacy, Kanye West’s latest actions, past beef with Fat Joe and Murder Inc. and much more.

“I think a part of Eminem’s legacy is the growth of our culture. People would not buy it if they didn’t see what they fit into it. When he comes and he’s there and he’s a legitimate artist because of his journey. When you look at 8 Mile, you are seeing black story with white lead. You see in poverty, you see him under circumstances. When you look at his friends, Proof, D12, and everybody’s there, he’s a real hip-hop guy.” said 50 Cent.

After that, he talked about Ye: “I think Kanye West is in dangerous area. I forgive him the things he said. There is nothing for me to say about it. I watched it take place and I just looked and I was like ‘yeah that’s him doing what he does. What Kanye would do. Even the original Trump support thing. Everybody navigates things differently. He’s offering a description of crazy but when you start getting in certain areas they are not gonna actually be compassionate for what’s going on with him. He’s not crazy and it’s not like he does not know what he’s saying. He knows exactly what he’s saying.”

As you know Kanye West has recently appeared on Drink Champs where he talked about George Floyd: “I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put out. One of the things that his two roommates said was they want a tall guy like me, and the day that he died, he said a prayer for eight minutes. They hit him with the fentanyl. If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”

You can watch the interview below. Kanye part starts at 35:21, Eminem part at 23:04.

Kxng Crooked & Joell Ortiz talk how Joe Budden & Eminem’s fall out affected “Glass House”

Kxng Crooked and Joell Ortiz have recently sat down with Math Hoffa, Mr. Mecc and Sean Bigga for the latest episode of My Expert Opinion where the crew talked about how Joe Budden and Eminem‘s fall out led “Glass House” album to be scrapped and how “I Will” track from Music To Be Murdered By came about.

“Em never came out and attacked Joe without, in his mind, a reason. The only time he started mentioning Joe was after Joe said his s**t was trash on his show. And that particular song on Music To Be Murdered By album (“I Will”), those verses are five years old and the way that song came about is when we were all in Detroit, recording some other s**t. Then me and him (Joell Ortiz) jumped on some s**t. And Em always liked it and it ended up putting on his album.” said Kxng Crooked.

Then he continues: “One of the reasons Glass House didn’t drop is that Joe wanted off the label. He didn’t want to do it so how you gonna drop an album on a label that you don’t want to have anything to do with? You have to be there to promote the album. You gotta be there to run around. Do videos and visuals. If you don’t want to be on a label, how gonna make it out? I’m not saying Joe single-handedly stopped the album coming out but it played a role.”

“If the album would have came out, it would have been pretty expensive. We had a Slaughterhouse of producers. We had Just Blaze. We had Justice League. We had Cardiak. We had AraabMuzik. We had !llmind. We had Q-Tip. We always wanted to put it out. I did several conference calls. The date would get moved.” Kxng Crooked added.

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Danny Brown talks getting inspired by Eminem, says it hurts him when some people discredit Em

Detroit’s Danny Brown has recently sat down FLAGRANT where he told some of his wildest stories, including an incident that happened while opening for Eminem at his one of the biggest shows. He also talked about getting inspired by Eminem and being hurt from people who try to discredit Slim Shady.

“When Eminem came out, it gave me hope. Because, I was like, ‘damn, my ni**a from Detroit made it!’ I changed my whole rap style after that. That style comes from Eminem. Everybody was like ‘that’s going to be a style of Detroit.’ I just literally studied and tried to rap like Eminem.” said Danny Brown.

Then he continues: “I feel bad how people try to treat Em now. I feel like this is the most purest of him being in hip-hop to be honest. He’s having fun. He is not having no pressure to make hit songs or to be big rapper like before he had all that s**t. He’s obviously making music to have fun and everybody trying to make him like meme and joke on him and s**t. That type of s**t would make me not want to make music. And the fact that he’s still making music like ‘f**k everybody’ is amazing but he probably is not an internet guy like we are so he probably don’t see none of this s**t but it kinda hurts my hart man because I’m like ‘Man, Eminem does not deserve that s**t.”

“I met Eminem few times. I played real bad show one time. I opened for him and at Wembley, my biggest show ever. It was an amazing show. 100,000 people! But one time I did too much f**king Adderall and I was just sad and s**t. It was me, Run The Jewels, Russ and Em. And I was just playing the show and the crowd was not really f**king with me. And I was like ‘f**k this show’ and I just threw the microphone into the crowd and walked off stage.” -Danny Brown added.

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Akon says he has 4 other songs with Eminem in vault, talks working with Dr. Dre on “DETOX” album

Akon has recently sat down with Bootleg Kev on his podcast.

The two talked about many topics, including working with Eminem on one of the biggest hits of ’00s, “Smack That,” and Dr. Dre‘s mysterious DETOX album.

“It’s interesting because every record that I put out, I actually produced, expect ‘Smack That.’ Eminem produced that record. Isn’t that crazy? He always have this small little sounds in the beat.” said Akon.

Then he continues: “When I went to visit Em in Detroit, he was like ‘which you wanna do?,’ I said ‘Em, I wanna do whatever you wanna do. I want to come into your world.’ He said ‘alright, I got some beats.’ I said ‘play me some tracks.’ He gave me phot of 30 tracks on it. And out of 30, I picked 5. And I recorded all 5 and the one that stood out was ‘Smack That.’ When he heard my concept t it, he said ‘yo, I’m jumping on this one.’ And I was like ‘if he jumps on this one this will be a single.’ I literally have all those other records. All those records are gonna drop in future.”

“I’ve done two records for Detox and they both came out. One was ‘Kush.’ And the other one was Dre and Snoop and I was in the chorus as well. Dre is such a perfectionist. I think he’s too perfect for himself. There was lots of fear to not being number one. I’m not speaking for him and I could be completely wrong but from outside looking in it felt like he put too much on himself to succeed and be successful. I personally believe he don’t need it. He has nothing to prove anybody. To me he’s the greatest producer out of the west coast and influencer when it comes to hip-hop and gangster music. No matter what he would have dropped. Everybody would have thirsted it up.” said Akon.

Rick Rubin compares creative process of Eminem & Jay-Z

Rick Rubin, who has worked with Eminem, Geto Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Public Enemy, The Cult, Danzig, Kanye West, The Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, and Johnny Cash to name a few, has recently sat down with Joe Rogan for his latest episode of Joe Rogan Experience podcast where the legendary record producer talked about the difference between writing processes of Eminem and Jay-Z.

Joe Rogan: The different ways of approaching comedy, it has got parallel with music right? There are some artists that just want riff, they want to figure it out on the fly. They wanna do it all almost off the top of their head and then there are artists that every single word is gone over and meticulously analyzed pieced together.

Rick Rubin: Yeah, there is no right and wrong way. You have to just find your way. Whatever works for you. I’ve worked with artists who do it completely different ways. You’ll se like, Eminem, he’s always writing in the book. Always writing all the time. And he has got notebooks writing. And I asked him if these were rhymes to use but he was like ‘No, no, no. It’s like 99% of what I write I never use.’ It’s just to stay engaged in the process of writing and finding new ways to write. So that, when I need it, it just comes. And then, Jay-Z doesn’t write anything down. He just listens to the beat, hums and then goes on the mic 20 minutes later and just says whole complicated verse. I don’t know how he can remember it. Much less have just written it and just be able to do it free. It’s crazy.

Rick Rubin: When me and Jay-Z were recording “99 Problems,” I played the beat for him. He likes the beat. Then he says ‘okay just keep playing it.’ Then he sits in the back of the control room on the couch and he starts humming. As I said, in 15-20 minutes, he jumps like ‘Okay I got it.’ And then he goes in with no paper, no writing, nothing and delivers the whole thing. He does it again and again. Words would be the same but the phrasing is different. Words are same but the feeling of it, or the rhythm of it changes when he does it again. And when he does it a few times, he’s like ‘okay, that one is good.’ It’s insane. I’ve never seen like this.

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Jim Florentine talks meeting & becoming friends with Eminem

Legendary stand-up comedian, actor, author and television personality, Jim Florentine, who best known for co-hosting That Metal Show on VH1 Classic and voicing several characters on Crank Yankers, including Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher, has recently sat down with Godfrey where he talked about hooking up with Eminem and developing great relationship with him.

“This was when he won the MTV Movie Awards for 8 Mile. That was like 2004. I remember I was sitting in my living room, watching the Movie Awards. We heard that Eminem was a fan though the great find. The season went through one season and we had s**ty ratings and we were talking if we waned to do second season or not and then we heard Eminem was a fan. And then I was like ‘wow cool.’ Then I was sitting in my apartment watching the award and I saw him doing the imitation of my show and I’m like ‘HOLY S**T.’ Next morning his manger called Comedy Central and got in touch. They were like’ Eminem wants to do that show. It’s the only show he watches. He watches it with his daughter and he wants to be a character.” said Jim Florentine.

He continues: “He wanted the calls with the guy that does Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher. Those are two characters that I did. So, like four days I was in Detroit in the studio doing prank calls. He was the f**king best. When he walked in and I saw him in the studio I was like ‘Holy s**t. There he is. Eminem.’ And I’m like ‘let’s just be calm, I’ve been around celebrities before. Cause I’m thinking if I piss this guy off, he’s gonna write whole album about it.”

“He comes in and goes like ‘I can’t believe I’m in the room with the guy who does the voice of Special Ed.’ He was like ‘How did you do that call. How did you know to go on this direction.’ He knew everything about Crank Yankers and we started doing calls. We did about 3-4 of them. It was unbelievable.”

“Then we did something at the MTV Music Awards. We did a thing where he brings Special Ed. He said on the stage I brought my friend with me and I popped up with the puppet. I’m under podium, doing the voice. I’m just keep bothering Eminem and Eminem beats up the Special Ed. Cause he won’t s**t the f**k up. He says he’s cured and he’s all happy and loves all the puppets but eventually he beat the s**t out of him.”

“So we did that and then I went dinner with him. Went to the club. And then he would prank call my phone. He did that Special Ed imitation. I know it was him but he would never say anything. It would come up private. I’m like ‘who is he’ but I knew it was him. I could not believe it was Eminem on my phone pranking me. I did more calls for his band, D12. We also did ‘Ass Like That’ video. I was in it.”

“The best thing was his manager Paul Rosenberg hires me to do stand-up at Eminem’s birthday party in Detroit. I was like ‘I don’t want you to pay for me just pay for my hotel room and flight. It was some dirty rock club. They had everybody up there freestyling. Biz Markie is there. Proof is there. Eminem’s up there. It was crazy there.”

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