Royce kicks a Das EFX flow on the song’s first verse, paying tribute to the fast-flowing twosome of the ’90s as well as the duo-days of Brand Nubian: “ Bumstickitty, bumstickitty, bum huh / I got that old rump-pum-pum-pum / A punk’ll jump up to get him a beat down / At least sound, I sound like these clowns, like he sound.” After Royce’s short verse, Q-Tip starts a hook that praises his generation: “ Man, here we go / I said the beat left in the land of criminals / My era, my era, my era so original / Uh-uh, I survived it and that’s a miracle.” This is before 5’9 picks up the ball and finishes the hook: “ ‘Cause I’m from Slaughterhouse, check yourself / Like Ice Cube said, ‘Before you wreck yourself’ / Like Wu-Tang said, ‘You should protect yourself’ /Īfter the song’s hook, Black Thought takes the reigns with a fiery verse.
On “Yah Yah,” Nickel, Tariq and Marshall take turns quoting their favorite rappers, lyrics, and callbacks, with Busta Rhymes’ “Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check” being the song’s source of inspiration.
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The two now have a song that solidifies their legendary statuses alongside each other, while also paying homage to Hip-Hop has a whole.īlack Thought Tells An Amazing Story About How Artists Used To Get J Dilla Beats (AFH TV Video) It arrived the same year that Em came back with Relapse, Mos dropped The Ecstatic, and The Roots were fresh off of Rising Down. Like many, that cypher featured Gang Starr’s DJ Premier behind the turntables. Perhaps most notably, Em, Tariq, and Mos Def (aka Yasiin Bey) shared a cypher at the 2009 BET Hip Hop Awards show (embedded below). The Roots have previously backed Eminem as a band for his 2003 Grammy performance of “Lose Yourself.” Eminem’s also performed “Won’t Back Down,” off of his 2010 album, Recovery, with The Roots, while Black Thought and Marshall joined together in 2009 to rap LL Cool J’s “Rock the Bells” in tribute to his honoring at VH1’s Hip-Hop Honor Awards. The two linking up for a single track together has been well over a decade in the making. But the most surprising standout album appearance may be by Black Thought himself, on the song “Yah Yah,” featuring Q-Tip, D12 member Denaun Porter, and Royce Da 5’9.Įver Hear When Rakim Went Back To “The Ghetto” With Black Thought (Audio) Today (January 17), however, Eminem’s new surprise-album, Music To Be Murdered By, released with a whopping 20 songs and boasts features by Q-Tip, Young M.A., the late Juice WRLD, and even a Joe Budden-less Slaughterhouse. Since that standout moment, both Em’ and Black Thought have continued on their separate pathways to success without recording a single track together, though they remain two truly legendary Rap contemporaries.
But Em went on to reveal to Rap Radar that the whole thing was rehearsed beforehand and after he stormed out, he "laughed uncontrollably for about three hours.After appearing alongside each other in a 2009 BET Award Cypher with Mos Def, Eminem, and The Roots’ frontman Black Thought have frequently been mentioned in the same conversation together as two of the best MCs of all time. It looked like the situation turned violent when Em's crew started wailing fists on Cohen and pushed the comedian away before Em stormed out angrily.
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20 Fighting with Sacha Baron Cohen at MTV AwardsĪt the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, under his Bruno character, Sacha Baron Cohen came flying over the audience on a harness, only to fall crotch first on Eminem's face. We are going to talk about some of the feuds in this list, but we are also going to talk about the times that Em went too far in these beefs and, in some instances, had to apologize. Em has practically had just as many feuds as he has hit records and awards. There is something about the lyrical venom that Em sprays on a regular basis that just attracts him into so many rivalries. Not just in the music industry, but also outside of the entertainment industry.
Much of Eminem's success can, of course, be attributed to his lyrical skill and the successful songs and albums he has had ever since the late 90s, but his success can also be attributed to how Eminem has held his own in several of his beefs. Many hip hop enthusiasts would argue for Eminem to be the best rapper in the game today, and maybe of all time.
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