Tony Yayo has recently sat down with DJ VLAD for an interview where the two talked about many things, including Dr. Dre saying Eminem is the greatest rapper of all time.
“Eminem is in my top 5. I don’t give a f–k what anybody says. I love lyrics and he has lyrics. And I like numbers too. Numbers don’t lie. They say “I don’t listen Eminem in the car,” well, somebody do! He’s one of the GOATs.” said Tony Yayo.
Then he continued: “I agree to Dr. Dre saying Eminem is the best MC ever. Let’s go back to what Eminem and G-Unit did as a rap label. We had a dream team. In the hip-hop world, he’s the biggest artist in the worldwide.”
Tony Yayo has recently sat down with DJ VLAD where the two talked about many topics, including Dr. Umar saying Eminem can’t be one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white.
“I don’t agree with that and I f–k with Dr. Umar but I don’t have to agree with everything he says. I don’t agree with that. Eminem in my top 5 of MCs. And that’s not because I’m down with him and not because you got the “Free Yayo” shirt on. It don’t have nothing to do with that. I was an Eminem fan once I heard ‘Renegade.’ That was it for me. Once I heard him rhyme against Jay.” said Tony Yayo.
Then he continued: “Who had the better verse? I’mma say Em, for me. Math Hoffa is from Brooklyn and you know he’s going to side with Jay but that’s cool. Em always hold his own but then when I seen Em with 50, do shows with 50, and was hearing how he was coming. When I heard the footsteps for ‘Many Men.’ He got that from Poltergeist or something. Eminem is like — Nobody wanna battle that ni–a. He came out in Detroit and crowd was f–king ballistic.”
Tony Yayo did not stop there: “When you look at Eminem you gotta think about what he did. I went platinum. Buck went platinum. Game went platinum. 50 sold 10-20-30 million, Em sold 60 million, D12 f–king went multi-platinum. G-Unit’s “Beg For Mercy” sold 3 million. Then you look at Slaughterhouse, I don’t know what they sold but at that time numbers were different, they made shows, they did get kinda big off Eminem. Shout out to Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Royce 5’9″ and Crooked I, then you look at f–king Griselda, their brand is big right now. That’s all under Eminem umbrella.”
“When it comes to number one MCs in the top 5, you can’t say this rapper is bigger than this rapper when this rappers are doing arenas and these rappers are doing clubs. I can’t say I’m bigger than Eminem and 50 if I’m doing club runs. Which ain’t nothing wrong cause that’s what I’m doing. He’s selling out Detroit Lions stadium, who the f–k am I to say I’m better than this ni–a. You can feel like that cause every artist feel like they are superman when they put their suit on, no problem, I feel like that too, but all in all, there’s difference between club runs and stadium runs.” Yayo added.
G-Unit’s very own Tony Yayo steps into the spotlight on BET’s ‘Rate The Bars’.
Watch as Tony Yayo pulls no punches, brutally rating and roasting some of the hottest bars from your favorite rappers! Yayo rated bars from NORE, 50 Cent, Ice Cube, Larry June, Ice Spice, Eminem, Lil Baby, Young Thug, Lloyd Banks and himself.
Tony Yayo gave 5 out of 5 to Eminem’s bars from “Lose Yourself”: “As we move toward a new world order / A normal life is boring, but superstardom’s / Close to post-mortem, it only grows harder / Homie grows hotter, he blows, it’s all over / These hoes is all on him, coast-to-coast shows / He’s known as the Globetrotter, lonely roads / God only knows he’s grown farther from home, he’s no father.”
Yayo said: “I’mma give that a five cause I like that. I know who that is and I’mma give that five. Shout out to Eminem. Free Yayo. Always shouting him out cause he always…You know, at the Grammys, he wore my shirt when I was in jail. Him and 50 always had support so I always biged him up.”
In the latest episode of Drink Champs, Tony Yayo joins DJ EFN and N.O.R.E to share his unbelievable journey in the music industry. From his early days with 50 Cent and G-Unit to his experiences with iconic artists like Nas and Jay-Z, Tony Yayo provides an inside look into the challenges, triumphs, and controversies that shaped his career.
At one point of the interview, Yayo recalled how Eminem handled the altercation with Suge Knight: “It’s the s–t about the Suge. He lights the cigar and he’s trying to see what you gonna do. So, Eminem, 50 Cent, everybody outside, ni–a lights the cigar and I was bugging cause this is where I see Eminem was real. He was like ‘I DON’T GIVE A F–K, MAN!’ I swear, this is where I knew Eminem is the real ni–a. Fifty ni–as outside and he’s like ‘WHAT’S UP!’ and that ni–a Suge just walked away.” said Tony Yayo.
Then he continued: “That Mexican ni–as where kinda confused, like, they did not know what was going on. But the ni–as came outside. Eminem came outside one hundred percent. And Eminem was like ‘I DON’T GIVE A F–K, MAN! ‘I DON’T GIVE A F–K, MAN.’ Remember, it’s documented, Proof told Suge ‘you killed Tupac’ in the middle of the party. Them Detroit ni–as are kinda crazy bro. The Seven, Eight Mile ni–as have always been crazy.”
Later in the interview, Yayo also defended Eminem from people who are trying to discredit his GOAT status.
“The wildest s–t I know about Eminem is ‘Many Men,’ he knew the footsteps in ‘Many Men’ came from poltergeist. Eminem is the type of ni–a who stays in the studio. Eminem is the type of ni–a that has a diss record against you and you won’t even know. And he’s a humble guy. He’s just one of them ni–as who really care about the music.” Yayo.
Then he continued: “We came in the game with beef. We came beefing with The Source magazine. Benzino. So ni–as will say this about Eminem, that about Eminem. This motherf–ker white boy. Culture vulture. But he’s the ni–a that put the ni–as on. You never forget the ni–a who turned the lights on bro. No matter what color or what race he is. I love Eminem.”
“Ni–as be like ‘yo, we do not listen to Eminem in the street club. We don’t listen to Eminem in the car’ but you go to Spotify and he’d still be the number one ni–a in twenty years.” he added.
In the latest episode of Drink Champs, Tony Yayo joins N.O.R.E and DJ EFN to share his incredible journey in the music industry. From his early days with 50 Cent and G-Unit to his experiences with iconic artists like Jay-Z and Nas, Tony Yayo provides an inside look into the challenges, triumphs, and controversies that shaped his career.
At one point of the interview, he also talked about Eminem.
“The wildest s–t I know about Eminem is ‘Many Men,’ he knew the footsteps in ‘Many Men’ came from poltergeist. Eminem is the type of ni–a who stays in the studio. Eminem is the type of ni–a that has a diss record against you and you won’t even know. And he’s a humble guy. He’s just one of them ni–as who really care about the music.” said Tony Yayo
Then he continued: “We came in the game with beef. We came beefing with The Source magazine. Benzino. So ni–as will say this about Eminem, that about Eminem. This motherf–ker white boy. Culture vulture. But he’s the ni–a that put the ni–as on. You never forget the ni–a who turned the lights on bro. No matter what color or what race he is. I love Eminem.”
“Ni–as be like ‘yo, we do not listen to Eminem in the street club. We don’t listen to Eminem in the car’ but you go to Spotify and he’d still be the number one ni–a in twenty years.” he added.
“Eminem really never say nothing. Eminem is the type of ni–a that could watch you, he will make a diss record to destroy you and then just chill in the crib. Shout out to Eminem.” said Yayo.
Then he continues: “We were called House Ni–as for f–king with Eminem. The Source, they would take it to whole another level. That’s when the disrespect for me was like. Damn, what does color have to do with music. What does the color have to do with people. I don’t care what color or religion you are. We from New York, we grew up with all kinds of people. I don’t give a f–k what color you are. I don’t look at you as a culture vulture because you are white. That could be somebody else’s opinion. It’s not mine.”
“Melle Mel said something about Eminem. That’s his opinion. My thing is, Em and Fifty did more for me than anybody has ever done in my career. I’mma always shout out Eminem. Eminem would never be on no list if he was not f–king lyrical tyrant. If he was not f–king nice with it. No disrespect to Melle Mel, I know he’s a legend in the game but at the end of the day, Eminem is lyrical.” Tony Yayo added.
Tony Yayo has recently joined Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson and DJ Whoo Kid to discuss his early beginnings, growing up with 50 Cent, being in G-Unit, what it was like growing up and more. The South Jamaica, New York-born rapper also revealed that Eminem wearing “Free Yayo” shirt at the 2003 Grammy awards ceremony was one of the greatest moments in his career.
“That was my biggest moment in hip-hop. Shout out to me, for me.” Tony Yayo replied when Whoo Kid asked what it meant for him when Eminem wore that t-shirt.
Last year, during the interview with VLAD TV, Yayo talked vastly about the same topic: “Eminem has always helped me in my career. He’s on my first album. He wore a Free Yayo shirt at the Grammys. So, I’m always gonna show him respect and love and salute him.”
“Nobody every did anything in my career besides Eminem and 50 Cent. And I always say, him doing Free Yayo while I was in jail, I only had to do about two years and they kept my name alive. They started putting my name in the videos and Free Yayo shirt was selling. I’m always gonna salute him…Being attached to Eminem was the best deal, without Eminem and Dr. Dre we would not have that much of a success.”
You can watch Tony Yayo’s recent appearance on Mike Tyson Hotboxin’ below:
Tony Yayo has recently sat down with VLAD and chimed in on recent debate about who made a bigger impact in hip-hop, Eminem or Jay-Z. It all started when former NBA player Jamal Crawford visited Shaquille O’Neal on his The Big Podcast and drew the parallel to hip-hop to rank his top five NBA players of all time and used Eminem and JAY-Z’s impact as an example.
“In my top five, the dominance outweighs the number. You can not change the game and say this person has more points than me, he is better. It is beyond that. Jay-Z’s affect on hip-hop is bigger than any album sales Eminem will have. That is just how it goes.” Crawford said during the interview.
Jamal Crawford’s statement sparked lots of discussions in hip-hop social media and 50 Cent also weighed in. The Hip-Hop Wolf Instagram page posted Crawford’s interview and asked fans if they agree to him or not. Under the comment section, Fifty replied: “Ha, bulls–t.” with Sneezing Face emoji.
When VLAD asked Tony Yayo if he agrees 50 Cent or not, he replied: “For me, I would say I agree because he made the biggest impact on my career. So, for me, I look at Eminem as, any artist that sells 60 million records, that’s number one, that’s number two. But I could see why people put Jay-Z number one. Because this guy was around Biggie Smalls. He rhymed with Biggie back and forth. Filled out Arenas. Can’t take no accolades for Jay-Z or Eminem. I don’t know, when you look at these lists, to me it’s hard to really figure out who’s number one. Who is this. Who is that. As long as you are on the list, I guess it’s all good.”
You can watch Yayo’s recent interview on VLAD TV below:
Tony Yayo has recently sat down with VLAD TV where he talked about being in the studio with Kanye West, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre and Eminem.
“To be in the studio with Dr. Dre and Eminem, that was my dream. I remember Fif calling me, smoking, and Dre’s playing in the clubs. That dude is best producer in the world and I’m in the studio with him. And we New York ni–as so I’m like this is a dream come true. Smoking LA weed, never left the hood, Dre is playing beats and I’m like ‘that’s dream come true!’ That’s why I’m always so humble. I might not have as much cars, chains, b–ches as other rappers but it’s not about that. It’s about experience, man.” said Yayo.
Then he continues: “Then we were in the studio in Detroit. It’s called as a b–ch. We are out there with Eminem. That’s f–king crazy. That dude just sold 16 million records. We used to go in LA with Dre and then we used to go in Detroit to mess with Em. Shout out to Tracy, Paul Rosenberg they all treated us as family over there.”
At this point, VLAD asked what makes Eminem to differ from another rappers in the booth. On that, he replied:
“I think what Eminem makes him astronomical is, when we were doing “Many Men” he was doing the production, cause does a lot of production on a lot of stuff on Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, it was the footsteps in the shots and he was like footsteps came from poltergeist, it’s crazy… Just like NAS, he’s as lyrical as NAS and then a lot of people say ‘I don’t really hear him in the club,’ but nah, it’s not about that, ‘I don’t really hear him in car,’ nah, that’s not about that too! Right now Eminem can sell out the stadium with no problem. 62 million monthly listeners on Spotify! Big boy numbers!”
“What he did for me and what I see he did for 50 and Banks and G-Unit as a whole, D12, Obie Trice, everybody went platinum and gold! Getting co-signs from him we had the overseas connection cause it was not really just Interscope. Interscope was part of Jimmy Iovine but Eminem is a machine in his own. He might not come outside and relate to other s–t that people wanna see him but still bro, look what he did with Griselda. They are fire but that Eminem cosign, when you look at Joe Budden and Slaughterhouse, Eminem cosign is a different kind of cosign. G-Unit would never be no serial video video game, socks, shirts selling millions if not Eminem and Dr. Dre cosign.” – Tony Yayo added.
Tony Yayo has recently sat down with VLAD TV where he talked about Eminem and revealed that he and his hommies run down Benzino during his beef with Slim Shady.
“[Eminem just got inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame] shout out to Eminem. One of the greatest. Shout out to Eminem. Always loved Eminem. Big accomplishment to being one of the best emcees in the world. Shout out to Eminem. Give him his flowers while he’s still here.” said YaYo
Then he continues: “He has always helped me in my career. He’s on my first album. He wore a Free Yayo shirt at the Grammys. So, I’m always gonna show him respect and love and salute him as well as Dr. Dre and everybody who else built this legacy. As well as Jimmy Iovine too. Cause Jimmy Iovine was a genius. Eminem was a genius. Dr. Dre was a genius. And we all fell in line. That was the best deal ever.”
“I feel like Eminem always got hated on. From, you know, Benzino and Source Magazine was big at that time, they were calling us ‘house ni–as’ and all kind of s–t back then when we were signed to Eminem. Color never really meant nothing to me. I’m from New York. It’s a Melting Pot of a color. I went to grade school and my first two friends were Ralphie and Frank Harveen. I say it again he was an Italian. I never seen color. It was white, it was black, it was Indian, Jewish, Spanish, Haitian, Jamaican, Trinidadian, Guyanese… So, I never felt that way.”
“Nobody every did anything in my career besides Eminem and 50 Cent. And I always say, him doing Free Yayo while I was in jail, I only had to do about two years and they kept my name alive. They started putting my name in the videos and Free Yayo shirt was selling. I’m always gonna salute him…Being attached to Eminem was the best deal, without Eminem and Dr. Dre we would not have that much of a success. Jimmy Iovine, Interscope, Shady, Aftermath – it was a f–king movement that was just f–king unstoppable. And you’ve seen how Eminem singlehandedly took down The Source magazine cause Benzino was always just f–king mad. I don’t know why but he was just always mad.”
“I remember me and my hommies run down on Benzino in Miami. I think that was the year when Suge got shot. I was on my ignorant s–t. We ran down on Benzino and I’m like ‘yo, why you always put me on magazine talking like that’ and he was like ‘yo we will give you a pass, you want it?’ I was like ‘yeah, I want the pass!’ but at the end of the day that’s an old s–t. I don’t wanna go back and forth with the ni–as online. I don’t do that. But the beef between Benzino and Eminem, I don’t know what it was, he was always mad at Em. And I looked at Eminem as a dude that looking out for us. F–k what color he is. He can f–king spit bars, he got f–king platinum records, he’s humble as f–k, he don’t bother nobody. But once you say something about him or his daughter, it’s a rap, he gonna rip your f–king head off lyrically and that’s what he did with the Nails In The Coffin. Rip motherf–kers head off. That’s what he’s gonna do. Trust me, Eminem is a type of dude that got diss records for everybody, you never know, he probably got diss records for me. He’s one of them motherf–kers.” – said Tony Yayo
“Even though I would never disrespect him. But he’s one of the motherf–kers who eat, sleep, s–t hip-hop. One of the top emcees in the world bro. I don’t give a f–k what color he is. He did me a favor that he didn’t have to!” he added.
Tony Yayo has recently sat down with DJ VLAD for an interview where the two talked about the history of G-Unit.
At one point of the interview, Yayo talked about Eminem as well.
“Eminem is my top five emcees. He’s slept on. [At that time The Marshall Mathers LP had already sold like twenty million copies] but for me it was just one verse “Renegade” with him and Jay-Z. He shows his rapping capability that for the hood. Before I knew Eminem or anything, it was like “Renegade” made me a fan of Eminem and I always say that.” said Yayo.
You can watch the interview and listen to “Renegade” below:
About a week ago, Eminem received Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame nomination in the very first year of his eligibility which caused lots of debate on social media. Especially after Eminem hit No.1 in Rock Hall’s fan-voting poll.
Royce Da 5’9″ has just responded to the critique with a beautiful Instagram post: “Oh yea. It’s on… I know for a fact that LL Cool J went out of his way to help get my bro inducted…. His word and opinion is law in my world… Ni**as in them Clubhouse rooms ol say it was the “Powers that Be.” If y’all old ni**as believe that dumb s**t, tell them to make another one… A backpack battle rapper turned Icon slash producer slash movie star …. Never used the culture as a stepping stone to cross over into Rock…. Culture from head to toe… A1 since day one… You’ll never see this again in music… EVER… One of One… None to come…”
Busta Rhymes, Tony Yayo, Kuniva, Statik Selektah and Nasaan have responded to Royce’s message in comments. Check the screenshots below:
