In 1995, on Rosecrans Avenue in Compton, California, Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur filmed the original music video for their song “California Love,” which featured the two West Coast rap icons rolling up to the swap meet in shiny new Bentleys. Unbeknownst to anyone, there was an 8-year-old watching from the sidelines that…
Not all Jeopardy! failures are equal. While some are negligible—one’s use of “gangster” instead of “gangsta,” for example—others are positively Turd Fergusonian. Take, for example, sweet, sweet Julie’s blunder in the above clip, which finds her confusing rapper Eminem with rocker Jack White. Had the question—Which…
Once more into the Port-A-Potty-stocked breach, dear friends. For the 17th time in as many years, hordes of self-absorbed narcissists will descend upon Manchester, Tennessee, for a four-day weekend of music and debauchery—and the rest of us will pay good money to watch them perform.
Eminem’s excruciating new album Revival has earned the worst reviews of his career, which is saying something about an artist whose 2009 album Relapse was so bad he apologized it for the next year with a whole new album. Our own review damningly said that the new record “isn’t even interesting enough to warrant all of…
Right now, if you live in North America, you’re probably thinking warm thoughts in a desperate effort to ward off the cold. Music festivals, for example, usually take place in favorable (read: warm) conditions, so we might as well look ahead to the 2018 Governors Ball, the lineup for which has just been announced.
We’ve known for a while now that Beyoncé would be headlining this year’s Coachella, making up for having to ditch the massively popular musical festival last year in favor of, you know, giving birth. Now, it’s been revealed that two of Queen Bey’s recent collaborators, The Weeknd—who appeared on her 2016 magnum opus, …
Eminem is not very good at his job anymore, and he’s spent an inordinate amount of time in the last decade trying to convince himself and everybody else that he’s actually better than ever. It’s a big part of his narrative nowadays, and it gets boring fast: The haters are always hating him, and the criticism really…
“That’s what’s up.”
It requires some serious suspension of disbelief to buy that Eminem is an underdog at this point, considering that his last album is both quadruple platinum and the winner of the Best Rap Album Grammy. But saying, “Everybody hates me” and, more specifically, “Guess who’s back?” has served his career well so far, and…
Tiffany Haddish’s breakout year continues, with Saturday Night Live taking to Twitter to share the Girls Trip star and Carmichael Show alum’s upcoming hosting gig. Haddish will follow Larry David, whose hosting return was announced earlier this year, and hold things down on November 11. Taylor Swift presumably made it…
Last week, New Zealand awarded Eminem about $415,000 as part of his lawsuit against the country’s conservative National political party, which had used a suspiciously Eminem-esque song titled “Eminem-esque” in a campaign ad. Now, according to Page Six, a representative for Eminem has explained that he didn’t actually…
It’s been four years since Eminem released his last album, 2013's The Marshall Mathers LP 2. But the Detroit-based rapper has been making some noise lately, releasing an eye-and-ear-catching Trump-bashing cipher at the BET Hip-Hop Awards earlier this month, and even getting tangentially involved in the world of New…
Back in May, Eminem went to court with New Zealand’s conservative National political party over a campaign ad’s use of a suspiciously Eminem-esque song that was literally titled “Eminem-esque.” John Oliver talked about the case on his HBO show, highlighting how silly things got in court, but the fun had to end…
2004 may as well be ancient history. In that bygone era, Justin Timberlake blew our precious, old-fashioned minds by showing us a split second of Famous Nipple, Green Day had once again awoken from its ritual 10-year slumber, Facebook was a website you were actually excited to use, and Donald Trump, as an old Eminem…
Last night, Eminem unleashed a four-minute anti-Trump freestyle that has been roundly praised for voicing the frustrations of so many, while also explicitly calling for his fans to outright condemn the president. Eminem hasn’t done much of worth in the past, oh, 15 years, but this new political bent has already…
BET held its annual hip-hop awards show tonight, recognizing performers like Kendrick Lamar (“Album Of The Year,” for DAMN.) and Cardi B (“Single Of The Year,” but also “Hustler Of The Year” and “Best New Hip-Hop Artist,” and probably a few more before the night is out). The Awards aren’t over yet, but they’ve…
It’s the classic hip-hop success story: Up-from-the-streets rapper proves himself through hard-fought struggle for recognition, gets his big break, becomes wildly famous, struggles with addiction, gets clean, then has his back catalog of music become part of an IPO. The American dream!
Promising at long last to reveal the location of the pot of gold where he was born, Ed Sheeran has announced plans to move forward with a biopic of his life. In a new interview in Q, the guy who wrote that song at the end of The Desolation Of Smaug has said he’s currently in talks to make the film, and then…
Eminem’s hit 2000 track “Stan” told the story of a dangerously obsessed fan who takes some of Eminem’s more violent lyrics literally and decides to kill himself and his pregnant girlfriend when the rapper fails to respond to his letters fast enough—complete with an awful, tortured coda where Eminem finally writes back…
It’s the 15th anniversary of The Eminem Show, so Eminem is re-releasing the album on cassette for those that can’t resist collecting outdated modes of technology. As Pitchfork reports, the various packages went on sale on the rapper’s website last night. For varying amounts, fans can purchase the cassette, a t-shirt,…