Month: June 2023

Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP” Turns 23

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This year marks 23 years since the release of Eminem’s iconic album, The Marshall Mathers LP. The album was Eminem’s third studio album and was released on May 23, 2000, via Aftermath and Interscope. Dr. Dre executive produced the project, producing most of the album’s tracklist alongside Mel-Man, F.B.T., and Eminem himself. The Detroit icon is undoubtedly one of the most impactful hip hop artists ever. The Marshall Mathers LP featured artists including Dido, RBX, Sticky Fingaz, D12, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, and Nate Dogg. Eminem is held in high regard, widely considered among the greatest rappers ever. The Marshall Mathers LP is considered by many to be Eminem’s best album. It is one of hip hop’s most influential and definitive classics. We look back on the impact of The Marshall Mathers LP for its 23rd anniversary.

One Of Hip Hop’s Most Polarizing Albums

The Marshall Mathers LP brought listeners further into Eminem’s world that he created with The Slim Shady LP in 1999. The album builds on the lyrical content of The Slim Shady LP. He addresses relationships with his mother and ex-wife, drug use, and his place in hip hop, among other topics. Eminem provided a unique perspective that hip hop had not seen before, resulting in one of the genre’s most polarizing albums. The Marshall Mathers LP completely leaned into the controversial figure that Eminem had based the Slim Shady character around. 

The album’s lyrics were quite controversial, appalling listeners with violence, misogyny, and homophobia. The album led to further discourse over hip hop’s relationship with censorship and the effect of explicit lyrics on children. Songs like “Kill You,” “Who Knew,” “Criminal,” and “The Way I Am” were very contentious yet still very successful. Though the language was quite harsh and offended many, Eminem stunned listeners with his technical ability as a rapper, displaying some of the most impressive flows and complex rhyme schemes. The emotion and humor of the album were also highly compelling. He even stirred up controversy when dissing other white pop stars on the album, like Britney Spears and *NSYNC. 

The Marshall Mathers LP was critically acclaimed upon its release and has garnered even more praise in the years that followed. The album completely eclipsed The Slim Shady LP regarding quality, acclaim, and success. Despite its success, it was still widely condemned by religious and political organizations.

Eminem As A Cultural Icon

The shock value and the quality of the music on The Marshall Mathers LP cemented Eminem’s status as a rap superstar. He became one of the most prominent and recognizable artists at the time. The album won over both hip hop purists and casual fans outside of different age groups and demographics. The album’s broad reach sold over a million copies in its first week. The Marshall Mathers LP went No. 1 and spent multiple weeks at the top of the Billboard charts. It still remains one of the fastest-selling albums and best-selling albums of all time. The album took home the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in 2001. Eminem became a superstar and cultural phenomenon as a direct result of the success of The Marshall Mathers LP.

The Impact Of The Marshall Mathers LP

Twenty-three years later, Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP is still one of the most recognizable hip hop albums ever and contains some of hip hop’s most iconic songs. One of these legendary tracks is the captivating “Stan.” The single is about a troubled and obsessed fan who writes to him in an attempt to connect, which takes a surprising turn. “Stan” was its very own experience within the album and is one of Eminem’s most classic songs. It was impactful to the point where “Stan” is now a term in the dictionary. Moments like this song speak to the album’s legacy. The Marshall Mathers LP influenced many of hip hop’s future greats,  inspiring the likes of Odd Future, Logic, Kendrick Lamar, and many more. 

In 2013, Eminem released his 8th studio album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, 13 years after the original. The album included a sequel to “Stan,” titled “Bad Guy.” Though it had multiple hit singles, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was nowhere near its predecessor’s acclaim level. The Marshall Mathers LP remains Eminem’s biggest and highest-rated album. It is widely considered his best album, though one can argue that The Eminem Show and Recovery are better. The Marshall Mathers LP defined an era for hip hop and Eminem’s career—making him one of the biggest rappers ever. This album cemented Eminem’s GOAT status, and he has “always been chasing it” in terms of success and creativity.

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Moneybagg Yo Details Chyna Santana’s Death: “I Instantly Broke Down”

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Rapper Moneybagg Yo recently appeared on Angie Martinez’ IRL podcast, where he revealed the major impact the death of his child’s mother, Chyna Santana, had on him. Santana’s 2022 passing was revealed when a friend of hers posted, “I’m so sickkkk.” Her friend continued, “I’m heart hurting so bad dude. I was just [on the phone] with my sister. Why you had to do me like that!!!!!” Moneybagg Yo went on in the interview to share devastating details of how he discovered she had passed away, describing the situation as hard to believe.

“She was murdered. She was killed by somebody that she was with,” he began. “It was shocking. I was in Atlanta, recording, working on the tape and they just called me.” He continued, “I ain’t gonna get as deep as I can, but that’s the picture. I instantly broke down, I couldn’t believe it.” Moneybagg Yo describes how his initial reaction was to be upset with Santana. “I was more mad at her than anything, I was like, ‘How you let this happen? How you let your kids’ — and it was so crazy ’cause when I talked to my daughter, she was just telling me at the airport, ‘I told my mama not to go,’” he recalls.

Read More: Moneybagg Yo Reveals “Hard To Love” Tracklist Featuring Lil Durk, Future, & GloRilla

Moneybagg Yo Recalls His Daughter’s Reaction

“This is when I broke down,” the rapper revealed. “I was like, ‘Damn, what I’m finna say?’ So I ended up letting the steam out, cry baby. I call my daughter and I was just like, ‘What you doing? Where y’all at?’ And she said, ‘It happened?’ That’s exactly what she said,” he shares.

Moneybagg Yo continued, explaining, “Her mom was supposed to have been with her that night, but she never came back. She was like, ‘It happened?’…I just didn’t know how to tell [her]. I was like, ‘My mama finna come get y’all.’ That’s all I could say.” He claims, “It’s hard to talk about right now, but I’m a strong man. I’m dealing with it. I’m getting through it.”

Read More: Moneybagg Yo Says He “Hates Being Famous”

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Kim Kardashian Suggests Kanye West Has Hit Rock Bottom

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West split in 2022 after eight years of marriage. In the months of the break up, Kanye has gone full “mask off”, making a variety of anti-Semitic comments and destroying his business relationship with Adidas.

Episode 2 of The Kardashians Season 3 is now live on Hulu. Following on from the season premiere, a major piece of the episode is Kim’s handling of post-Kanye life. In this, Kim makes some eye-opening remarks. In particular, the episode highlights the effort that Kim has gone to shield her four children from their father’s behavior.

Kim Sounds Off About Kayne

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“I don’t want to be part of this narrative and it’s like when is this ever gonna end? Like it never will and I’m stuck with this for the rest of my life,” Kim tells her mother in Season 3 Episode 2. “I still feel the need to not talk about it and protect it from my kids and I always will feel that way, but God, if people knew,” she continues. “I just would never do that to my kids. It just is really crazy.” Kris, in full matriarch mode, nods sagely and replies “that’s the tragic part of the whole story.” Furthermore, Kim reveals just how far she’s going to stop her kids seeing the media coverage of their father. “She actually doesn’t know and that’s what’s so crazy,” Kim said, referring to her daughter North.

“When stuff is said, it’s a chain to my whole household. No TV, only Apple TV. I can’t risk an Access Hollywood or anything on the news coming up with their dad mentioned and they want to watch. I have to figure out a way to protect and so they still haven’t seen anything, but then I go into crisis mode.” She continued. “Sometimes I feel like if he were to hit rock bottom, that’s his journey that he needs to figure out on his own. I used to run around and call everyone behind his back, and be like, ‘It’s gonna be OK, it’s gonna be OK, don’t worry. Just give him another chance.’ I used to spend hours and hours and hours of my day to be the clean-up crew. I just don’t have that energy.”

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Eminem’s “The Eminem Show” Turns 22

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Eminem’s importance in the hip-hop scene is obvious. Whether taking public transport or pondering in the studio, the 8 Mile icon was always writing. Poetry was his life; the musical output just happened to be a means of expressing it. That dedicated mantra would morph into what has been one of the most significant hip-hop careers to date. From a rapping perspective, many argue that Eminem sits at the top of the hill. The 50-year-old is hip-hop’s hallmark poet, kickstarting his career with 1996’s Infinite. However, his crowning example of lyrical mastery may just be with The Eminem Show.

By the time The Eminem Show rolled around, the Detroit MC was at his creative peak. After dropping back-to-back releases in The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP, there was considerable pressure on the Hall of Fame storyteller. Fans wondered whether he could live up to the conceptual prowess of his past works. However, he brilliantly decided to forego expectations entirely on The Eminem Show. Rather than copy and paste the Slim Shady bravado or prevailing masculinity of his previous records, he went in the opposite direction on his fourth studio album. Even if the project subverted expectations, fans still fell in love with the project. The Eminem Show debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and quickly morphed into the best-selling album of 2022.

The Eminem Show Is Deeply Vulnerable

The braggadocios personality is Slim Shady is replaced with the stark reality of Marshall Mathers’ life on The Eminem Show. He’s vulnerable about his chaotic upbringing in “Cleaning Out My Closet,” which detailed his troubling childhood with his mother. “Hailie’s Song” reflects on his newfound experience as a father. This is someone who’s experiencing the growing pains of a life transition, expressed in a beautifully articulate manner. Before the project, Eminem was viewed by the public as a stoic and powerful figure. The Eminem Show dispelled this aura, peeling back on his deepest feelings of regret or despair in a timeless manner. The project’s resonance with his audience showed up in its numbers, with The Eminem Show‘s most vulnerable cuts being its most commercially successful.

Even more impressively, Eminem produced the vast majority of The Eminem Show. Fusing guitar melodies with intricate verses, the record blends his melting pot of childhood influences like never before. Growing up with Aerosmith or Queen blasting around the house, The Eminem Show is a sonically experimental merger between rock and hip-hop. In addition, Dr. Dre acted as oversight on The Eminem Show, working as an executive producer while directly supporting B-sides “Business,” “Say What You Say,” and “My Dad’s Gone Crazy.” Eminem even exposes his own privilege on “White America,” stating, “If they were brown, Shady’d lose, Shady sits on the shelf.”

Eminem Produced Most Of The Album

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While The Eminem Show doesn’t sound as sonically mind-bending today, its influence on 2000s hip-hop can’t be understated. The album’s success proved that Eminem was more than a lyricist; he pioneered different styles of rap, establishing that chart-topping success could have to do with more than repetitive bling-era beats. The album’s stripped-down nature was purposeful on the part of Eminem, with the rock production seamlessly blending with his rawness of emotion. In essence, The Eminem Show is the most Eminem album out. With little input from fellow producers worldwide, the listener has an hour to connect with his deepest doubts and gripes intimately.

However, the lo-fi drums and menacing snares wouldn’t even need to exist for The Eminem Show to be a classic album. The project is a storybook diary, a penultimate collection of the hidden corners of Eminem’s journal. In 2022, he told SPIN, “Eventually, I might need some drama in my life to inspire me. With The Marshall Mathers LP, everything that everybody was saying–I took that, and it was my ammo. And then when s**t died down a little bit, I had other turmoil in my personal life, so that was what I was able to dump out on The Eminem Show. Now, I just gotta wait for the next phase of my life. But something always seems to happen, man; something’s always gotta be f**king turbulent.” The grittiness of the album mirrored 8 Mile, a semiautobiographical film about Eminem’s rise. The film was released the same year as The Eminem Show.

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Scar Lip Thanks Cardi B, Boosie Badazz, And Shaquille O’Neal For Success

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In a recent interview, Scar Lip revealed how impactful other artists were in her career. She sat down with VladTV earlier this week, where she detailed her early career and credited her supporters. Scar Lip has gotten love from Cardi B, Boosie Badazz, Shaquille O’Neal, and more in recent months. The “This is New York” rapper also went on to discuss the process of channeling her adversity into her music, and learning how to “express [herself].”

“When Boosie reposted me, it felt like I had a shot,” she began. “That’s when motion started coming in. His push, [and] his co-sign, got me a lot of press…that shit helped my career a lot.” Scar Lip went on to explain how the support she received from Cardi B made her feel as though she had “made it out the hood.” Cardi shared a video of the young artist on her Instagram story earlier this month. “I couldn’t believe that..that post changed my life,” she told DJ Vlad, “I love her so much.” She continued, telling him, “She started from the bottom and raised her way to the top, [and] anybody that feels a way about that…you’re just weird. Everybody starts from the bottom. How could you not be inspired?”

Read More: Snoop Dogg & Scar Lip Show Us That “This Is Cali” On New Remix

Scar Lip Credits Her Supporters

Upon Cardi’s shoutout, she took to social media to share her excitement with fans. “Cardi B just posted me,” she tearfully explained. “She inspired me. She from The Bronx, bro. I’m from The Bronx. She showed us young girls we could make it and we could be something, bro. I can’t f***ing believe this shit. We did it.”

Scar Lip also shared that when NBA star Shaquille O’Neal sent her a supportive DM, she didn’t even think it was real. “It was like four in the morning, [and] something told me [to] check my phone. I look and see [that] Shaquille O’Neal text me. I said, ‘Is this a dream? Is this real?’ [and] I started jumping up and going crazy,” she explained. She says that it wasn’t until he sent her a “whole video” of himself that she believed it. O’Neal told the rapper, “yo keep spitting that hard shit,“ adding, “It’s time for you to take over New York.”

Read More: Swizz Beatz Thinks DMX Sent Scar Lip To Him

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[WATCH] Lil Durk Helps Homeless Fan Get Back on His Feet

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On Wednesday (May 31), Lil Durk live-streamed himself on Instagram visiting a homeless man in Los Angeles who went viral on TikTok last month for playing Durk’s “All My Life” video with J. Cole on a projector screen inside a sidewalk tent.

Looking to help out this man who has fallen on some hard times, Lil Durk rewarded the man with a hotel room for a month, a cell phone, gift cards, and an unspecified amount of cash.

“I want to do something real special. I got kindness in my heart, right?” Smurk said during his Instagram Live broadcast while driving around L.A. “So the homeless guy that was playing ‘All My Life’ in the tent, I found him and I’ma pull up on him. I got him a hotel room for him. You never know what people are going through. I’m finna walk up to him, let’s get it.”

While Durk did live stream, he gave the man some respect by asking him first if he was Ok being on camera. Durk then positioned him in the frame and asked him his name.  “Pedro,” the man replied.

Durk has made headlines recently with his streak of good deeds. In April, the 30-year-old partnered with Amazon Music to launch the Durk Banks Endowment Fund to help two lucky students attend Howard University in Washington, D.C.The two students were each given a $50,000 scholarship to the prestigious HBCU and were selected from 20 participants in Durk’s Neighborhood Heroes HBCU College & Career Readiness Cohort Program. He also announced he’d be donating $250,000 to Howard’s GRACE Grant, a program created to help students needing tuition assistance.

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Drake Thinks ‘Dave’ Is ‘One Of The More Important Shows Of Our Generation,’ According To ‘Dave’ Star Lil Dicky

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The running joke of Lil Dicky‘s semi-autobiographical FX comedy Dave is the character’s outsized ego — something that the real-life Dave Burd may have in common with his fictionalized counterpart. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter about the show’s recently aired season 3 finale, Dicky discusses the episode’s celebrity cameos, crediting one in particular with validating some of his massive sense of self-confidence. Warning: Spoilers ahead!

Among the guest stars who appear in the season’s final episode is Rachel McAdams, carrying over from a previous multi-episode storyline that sees Dave meeting his “dream girl” while the real-life woman with whom he’s developed a relationship slips away, Brad Pitt, who gives Dave advice about love and stardom before apparently being grievously injured by one of Dave’s oddball splurges, and Drake, who represents everything Dave wants to be (since the borderline delusional aspiring rap star hasn’t apparently paid much attention to Drake’s lyrics while “looking for love”).

According to Dicky, Drake was a fan of the show before appearing on it. As Dicky puts it, “Drake is like the top of the mountain top musically and as a rapper. I had met Drake and he pulled me aside and told me the show is one of the more important shows of our generation and I knew he was a fan.”

Hopefully, the Certified Lover Boy has some advice for the fictional Lil Dicky or I fear the show’s protagonist may never grow up and find the love he’s been looking for… Something Dicky says is contingent on him learning some self-love first. “Until you actually love yourself and remedy yourself of that void, how can you possibly take on the love of another person?” Yup, it’s a funny show — but it also makes you think.

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Ty Dolla $ign Drops Off Vibey New Song “Motion”

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Ty Dolla $ign is someone who has always made great music. Overall the r&b singer is someone who has made a living off of features. However, there is no doubt that he has also dropped some great solo work. Either way, it has been a while since we have heard the artist by himself. Consequently, fans are asking for new music. It isn’t always easy for fans to get it from Ty, but on occasion, he will certainly deliver.

Well, that is what happened today as he dropped off a new song called “Motion.” As you will immediately hear down below, this is a track that was made with the summer in mind. Overall, this is going to be a club banger, and we expect a lot of debauchery to take place with this song in the background. As for the sound itself, this is a great sonic aesthetic for Ty Dolla $ign, and we have no doubts that fans will agree.

Ty Dolla $ign Delivers A Summer Hit

Throughout the track we get some great keys, and some fantastic rhythm sections. As for the hook, Ty slides all over it delivering some of his best vocal work. This is a very catchy song, and it is one of those tracks that you just want to dance to. With the summer weather already here, there is no telling just how big of a hit this can become.

Overall, this is a song that is going to have a lot of people turning up at the club this summer. Only time will tell whether or not this means a new Ty Dolla $ign album is on the way. However, this new single could definitely be a potential indication. Let us know what you think of “Motion,” down in the comments section below. Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the music world.

Quotable Lyrics:

Something takes a hold now when we dancin’
Bodies ’round us caught up in the wave
Sometimes it’s like playin’ ’round with magic
But let it take you, let it take you all the way

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