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Conway tells how much input Eminem had on “God Don’t Make Mistakes,” freestyle over Drake’s “Do Not Disturb”

On the 147th episode of Bootleg Kev podcast, Conway The Machine talked about his upcoming Shady Records debut album, God Don’t Make Mistakes, his relationship with Kanye West and Dr. Dre and more. He also spits some bars over Drake’s “Do Not Disturb,” with Jae Skeese.

When Kev asked about how much input Eminem had on his Shady Records debut album, here is what Conway replied:

“None. I did get the feedback but it was, to keep one hundred, I went to Detroit. I was in Em’s studio. Em, Paul, Royce. And played him album from front to back and he f**ked with every record. And that’s when he jumped on “BANG” track and 50 Cent got on “City On The Map” joint. I played them and that was critique like ‘that s**t is amazing.'”

Elsewhere in the interview, the Buffalo emcee talks about the relationship with Kanye West and Dr. Dre, leaving the Griselda deal and more. You can watch the full interview and a freestyle after the jump below:

Dr. Dre says kneeling was Eminem’s own decision, talks minor changes NFL made to their Super Bowl show

Dr. Dre has recently joined TMZ journalists “TMZ Live” and, in his own words, he was still “buzzing” about what he, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar pulled off at the SoFi Stadium during Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime show.

The legendary producer says he went into rehearsals expecting the NFL to heavily censor almost all of the song, but was pleasantly surprised that they only made “minor changes,” among them, Kendrick’s reference to specific L.A. gangs on a song “M.A.A.D. City” where he kicks his verse with: “If Pirus and Crips all got along, they’d probably gun me down by the end of this song.”

“There were few things that we have to change but they were really minor things. Em taking a knee that was Em doing that on his own, there was no problem with that. The beginning of Kendrick’s set, they had a problem with that, so we had to take that out. No big deal.” said Dre.

You can watch the full interview below:

Mike Tyson says he really punch Eminem in the face in “Godzilla” video

Mike Tyson has recently sat down with DJ Whoo Kid on Shade 45 for Super Bowl special where the two briefly talked about Eminem.

“Eminem is just a beautiful humble person. I know in the past he has been through a lot in life but he overcame it he’s now as healthy as he can. I’m very grateful he was in my podcast.” says one of the greatest boxers of all time.

When Whoo Kid asked about the “Godzilla” video, here is what Tyson replied:

“Did I really punch him? Maybe a little bit but by accident. Not the real full. They told me to do it that way.”

You can listen to the interview and watch “Godzilla,” music video right after the jump below:

Eminem praises Beyoncé’s Super Bowl show, talks current relationship with Snoop Dogg & more

Eminem has recently sat down with Sway on Shade 45 to promote his Super Bowl Halftime show where he talked about relationship with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, his favorite Super Bowl performances, his plans in future and more!

On Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick is very top top tier lyricist. Not only for this generation but all time.

On Beyoncé

Beyoncé f**king destroyed the Super Bowl Halftime show.

On Snoop Dogg

Snoop is in every other commercial. You just can’t escape him. It’s great that he made himself to be this relevant to this day. It’s incredible. That’s crazy. Me and Snoop are good. We talked months ago about whole thing. We just set down and realized nobody wants a beef within their own camp. Snoop is Snoop man. I will say this about him too, he literally could be a stand up comedian. He’s still f**king funny. That thing he did with Animal Planet…Bro he’s like that constantly, when you are around him. It’s constant and never stops.

On Dr. Dre

My relationship with Dre is absolutely the same. I have not seen Dre for two years, I talk to him all the time but it’s like we could just pick up where we left off if we don’t see each other. It never stops. Our method is pretty much the same as it always been when we are in the studio together.

On his new album

I’m always working. I’m always working on something. And when I’m done working on it, we usually put it out. (If we told you it would not be too much of a surprise – Paul Rosenberg added)

Watch the interview below:

Eminem – Super Bowl exclusive interview with Sway on Shade 45

Eminem’s Super Bowl exclusive interview with Sway In The Morning airs on Shade 45 radio channel today at 3pm ET.

Sway has already shared few pieces of the interview as a teaser where Eminem talks about about how performing on live TV is nerve-wracking for him, how he feels about his Super Bowl Halftime Show co-star, Kendrick Lamar and how he felt when Dr. Dre first approached him with the Super Bowl Halftime Show idea.

Additionally, Eminem told Sway Calloway that he’s rooting for the Los Angeles Rams because of Matthew Stafford’s Detroit connection.

Full interview is premiering soon! You can livestream it below!

Nick Cannon shows love to Eminem, admits his goal was to get him on “Wild ‘N Out”

Back in 2020, in an interview with VladTV, Nick Cannon said he wanted to physically harm Eminem at one point when they were beefing in 2009.

Eminem responded to Nick in a verse for Fat Joe’s “Lord Above” song in which he raps: “I know me and Mariah didn’t end on a high note but that other dude’s whipped, that pu**y got him neutered/Tryna tell him his chicks a nut ‘fore he got his jewels clipped/Almost got my caboose kicked/Fool, quit, you not gon’ do s**t/I let her chop my balls off too before I lost to you, Nick (eunuch).”

Cannon fired back to Eminem with not one but three diss tracks: “The Invitation,” “Pray For Him” and “Canceled: The Invitation” but Eminem remained silent aside from two tweets, debunking Cannon’s fake bars.

In a recent interview with HipHopDX, Nick admitted he did all these to get Slim Shady on his “Wild ‘N Out” show.

“I was a little overzealous. I was a little heavy-handed. I’m going to say a couple of things. First of all, I love Eminem as an artist. Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP — those are some of my favorite albums. But I think there was a lot that went on there. One, the whole goal was to get him to come on Wild N’ Out and acknowledge it. So there was a mission to it because I was like, ‘Yo, that’d be the most amazing show ever.’ It was an invitation to come on the show. But also, a little bit, what was that, 2018 or something like that or whatever, I was playing the game. In 2008, I was really upset about what he had said about my wife at the time.”

“And I was legitimately hot and wanted to fight and all. I was a different guy. So I was mad. And then I think a lot of that started to get stirred up again where the line of, I got so much to say, but I had to know this is entertainment. And there’s a mission here. But at the end of the day, I ain’t going to stand for no disrespect either. So in hindsight, I probably would’ve been a little bit more strategic and let maybe one or two of them linger. But to me, I showed up with a cannon to a knife fight. And he started it [laughs]. I don’t say anything. But I was like, ‘I got time today, Marshall.’” – said Cannon.

You can check the interview on HipHopDX here.

U2’s Bono recalls losing out the Oscar to Eminem

Variety magazine has recently sat down with U2 singer Bono and his bandmate, the Edge, this week.

This year the legendary rock band came up with “Your Song Saved My Life,” tune for a climactic scene in “Sing 2” that is currently shortlisted in the Oscars’ best original song preliminary voting.

During the interview, the Edge and Bono talked about a variety of subjects, including: the subterfuge of sneaking serious themes into family-friendly animation and their previous Oscar nominations and losses.

Back in 2003, U2 was nominated at the Oscars for “The Hands That Built America” song from Gangs of New York but lost to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” from 8 Mile movie. They also lost in 2014 to Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopezs.

Interviewer: Looking ahead to the Oscars this year, the shortlist, it’s star-studded, and talent-studded. Looking at who you’re up against, is there anybody you’d the most embarrassed about beating, if you won?

Bono: Oh, no. We’d never be embarrassed about beating (anyone)! Although I will say, (losing to) Eminem (in 2002, when U2 was nominated for a song from “Gangs of New York”), I have to be honest, that song, “Lose Yourself,” we were sitting there — he wasn’t even there — and it’s really an extraordinary song. I still had a tiny bit of humble, and there was a part of me there that was going, “Mmm. This will be hard. To win against that could backfire.” But we lost to a children’s animation, I think, for “Ordinary Love” (in 2013, when “Let It Go” won). But it had that incredible psychedelic line in it, didn’t it? [When Elsa sings, “My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around.”] So we had to let that go. … Look, at this point, you just want your song to get a chance to be heard, and this is a great vehicle for it.

Bono also briefly talked about Eminem’s “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” song: “Opening up to questioning why you do things, and about how you grew up and why you ended up where you ended up and all of those kinds of questions, once I opened that door, I couldn’t close it. And there was a lot for me to look at. Was it Eminem who talked about tidying his room [laughs] — “Cleanin’ Out My Closet”? That’s just an amazing song. Yeah, it was a bit of tidying of the room.”

For the full interview, visit Variety here.

Bizarre recalls losing rap battle to Eminem, talks about D12, Big Proof & much more

Bizarre has recently done “Off The Porch” interview with Mikala Horne on Dirty Glove Bastard.

During the conversation Biz broke down the different miles of Detroit, his childhood growing up in 7 Mile, childhood story of getting hit in the face, jumping off the porch at the 18, how he has navigated throughout his life and learning how to move cautiously, thoughts on the new generation, started rapping in the fifth grade and it leading into his rap name, being influenced by Scarface and Redman, his mom making him rap at churches and auditioning, his experience with battle rapping, Eminem being judged off his race during battle rapping, Big Proof creating the group, the creative concept behind the shower caps, rules back in the day when it came to the industry, not having a lot of support when they first came out, Jay Electronica doing videography for D12, smoke sessions with Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg and more!

“Back in the days, it was like ‘white man can’t jump.’ That’s the best way I can describe. It was always like ‘man who is this white boy? but once Eminem opened his mouth and started rapping they were like ‘ohh, s**t, this white boy nice.’ So people who knew he was nice there was no doubt about it but we were always constantly going to new environments, so when we were going to new environment, I already kinda knew ‘alright there’s going to be some bulls**t’ and then when Em opened his mouth and before he even finished his verse, there was already believers, so yeah, there were lots of doubters cause Detroit is 90% black city. Lots of ni**as bet money cause they thought they gonna be able to beat Eminem in battle.” said the D12 emcee.

When interviewer asked about him battling Eminem, Bizarre responded: “I did battle Eminem before. Did I win? NAAAH, NAAH [Laughs] but I did not lose to a lot of people, I lost to him and I lost to Swifty McVay before.”

“There was a process of elimination when battling. It might have been 50 people in this battle so If I win, I just win the first round. I still got like five other rounds to go and then if I win the whole battle, then I can battle Eminem because he was the champion, he was just on the sidelines, waiting to see who gonna win out of this 50 people.” – Bizarre added.

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Cordae says Eminem asked him to redo his verse & be more lyrical on “Killer (Remix)”

Cordae has recently set down with Bootleg Kev to promote his latest album “From A Birds Eye View.” The two also took a deeper dive in the into and interlude tracks of his new project and how personal this piece of art really hit at home.

At one point during the interview, Cordae was asked about working process with Eminem:

“We had two hours conversation about life and hip-hop. He has always been showing me genuine love and support very early on and I appreciate all love and public support I get because I’m not signed to him, so he does not have to do that. I don’t feel entitled for anybody to show me any type of love so any genuine love and support I get publicly, I really appreciate that.”

“You know, I did my first verse for ‘Killer (Remix).’ I sent it over to Em and I did it more like Andre 3000, E-40 type of flow and then Eminem called and told me ‘Yo, I wanted you to be more lyrical. Do some rap-rap s**t on it. I’m like ‘alright cool, whatever’ so he had me redo my verse because at first I thought this record was not for rap-rap, it’s more like a vibe sort of thing and that’s why I gave that verse but he was like ‘I want you to attack it’ and I’m like ‘alright, cool, lets try that.’ And if Eminem asks you to redo the verse, you redo for sure.” – said Cordae.

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Cordae talks meeting Dr. Dre through Anderson. Paak & how collaboration with Eminem came about

Cordae has recently set down with Ebro in the Morning to have an open discussion on personal topics including his brother Simba who is currently incarcerated, yet featured on his album, and his discussions with Kim Kardashian, the rap scene in the DMV area, being in the tennis world due to his relationship with Naomi Osaka, his weight loss, and studying to be noted as one of the greats one day.

He also talked about his various relationships with the likes of Eminem, Dr. Dre, Nas, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Stevie Wonder and more.

“I met Dr. Dre three years ago. Shout out to big bro. I connected with Dre through Anderson. Paak. I was in the studio with Anderson. Paak and Dr. Dre walked in and joined. Anderson. Paak and Dre are always locked in studio. I was just talking and Dre was like ‘man I wanna hear how your music sounds like cause you look like crazy ni**a.’ And about a week or two later, he called me. He was like ‘yo, pull up to the studio.’ I think someone showed him my first LA Leakers freestyle and he was basically like ‘yo I rock with that freestyle, pull up in the studio, I wanna see what type of music you can make.’ I pulled up on them and we cooked. It was literally my 21st birthday and I had something completely different planned to do that day but I canceled everything to pull up big bro.” – said Cordae.

At one point of the interview, Peter Rosenberg asked Cordae how collaboration with Marshall on “Parables” remix from his new album From A Bird’s Eye View came about: “Eminem was just shouting me out in bunch of interviews, he was like ‘I rock with you bro.’ When I get a verse from Em, that was some cool s**t. That’s some fly s**t.” Cordae responded.

He continues: “He called me and we ended up talking for like an hour and a half, it was probably mid pandemic, we were just chopping about life, hip-hop, rap, everything for like literally two hours. And he was like ‘yo we gotta get some work in and get some music done’ and I sent them…And you know what? that was like June 2020 and I didn’t even send him a song until April 2021, I’m wild low-key. It’s been a year since we talked. I was like ‘let me just get this verse out bro’ and then I sent them ‘Parables’ and boom that’s how it came about.”

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Foolio includes Eminem in his list of top 5 rappers alive

Florida rapper Foolio, who was shot hundred times and survived with minor injuries couple of months ago, has recently chopped it up with DJ Akademiks on Off The Record podcast, where the young rapper named his list of top five rappers alive.

“Right now? I will say Polo G, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Drake…I was supposed to say Drake first. Hell yeah, I f**k with Drake. And Eminem. I f**k with Eminem.” said Foolio, who is referred as one of the most disrespectful rappers today in hip hop because of his notorious beefs with Kodak Black and NBA Youngboy.

Elsewhere in the interview, Jacksonville rapper talked about some of the trauma in his life coming up while trying to rap. He talks about how he was shot while getting off the bus because he was beefing with someone else who was killed the same day.

Listen to the interview below: