The Rise of Shady Records
Welcome to the wonderful world of hip hop wordplay and epic grimy tunes, all under the umbrella of Shady Records.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of hip hop wordplay and epic grimy tunes, all under the umbrella of Shady Records.
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Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum lead the country finalists for the 2012 Billboard Music Awards.
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Royce da 5'9", Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Crooked I – are spread out on plush couches.
Read MoreOkay, here's the first batch of write-ups for songs and albums I really liked this year.
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Hip-hop and R&B had a big showing in 2011, with the genre controlling the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for about 12 non-consecutive weeks by 11 different artists.
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"Lighters" MC Royce Da 5′9″, one-half of chart-toppers Bad Meets Evil, wanted to get Rihanna's attention with his part on the Shady Records cypher at the BET Hip Hop Awards .
Read MoreYM might be the most profitable right now, but i think rap might have broken up into too many niches for anyone to claim they are running everything right now.
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Eminem, Florence and the Machine, and OK Go have also released new videos in recent days, and Lindsay Lohan stars in a new clip for rock band Miggs.
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Eminem's teaming up with smoother crooner Bruno Mars on the genuinely heartfelt "Lighters" might've sounded like an unusual collaboration at first (especially on an album called Hell: The Sequel ), but the single is being wholeheartedly embraced on the Pop and Rap charts, as well as the Hot 100.
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It's a mile-long walk between the festival's two main stages with 90,000 music lovers filling in the big gap.
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On 'Merry Go Round,' the fourth single from Royce da 5'9" s fifth solo album, 'Success Is Certain,' the Detroit-bred rapper gives a run-down of his storied, rapacious -- no pun intended -- past: In 2004, Royce released the solo effort, 'Death Is Certain.'
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Sam O' Grady was introduced to me as "knowing Capital Punishment by heart, the only girl I know into MOP, and a damn fine writer."
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Though the ticket read Osheaga , it could just as easily have been called the Eminem Show as a record 38,000 people packed Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau July 29 to watch Marshall Bruce Mathers III play only his third show of 2011, a 90-minute greatest hits set punctuated by a tribute to the late, great Nate Dogg. The first day of Osheaga kicked off in the late afternoon with the disappointing news of Kid Kudi 's cancellation -- a curse that has damned the festival in recent years with both the Beastie Boys (2009) and Deadmau5 (2010) cancelling at the 11th hour due to illness.
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The fictional character John Connor led an army in a revolutionary war against a regime of soulless machines.
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Eminem's 2010 album 'Recovery' has become the first album ever to sell more than one million digital sales.
Read MoreWords And Music, Volume 2 in 2004, gets there 11 years since her album debut Who Is Jill Scott? after The Light Of the Sun opened last week with 135,000 sales.
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We'll get to Jill Scott and Bon Iver in a minute, but first, let's coronate the latest TV hit-making monarch: NBC's The Voice , which drew 12.4 million viewers for last night's show.
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His joint album with Royce da 5'9" under the moniker Bad Meets Evil is currently the No. 1 album in the country.
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"It was always a goal of mine to hopefully retire my father someday," rapper Royce da 5'9" tells the BoomBox.
Read MoreApproaching 40, Eminem suggested on his last album, Recovery, that the world's most provocative rapper was entering a new maturer phase.
Read MoreHow nice that Eminem is following up a record called Recovery with a record about making amends.
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Exciting week for Hip Hop, as both Nas and J Cole dropped songs from their upcoming albums.
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Eminem and Royce da 5'9" haves teamed with Converse to create a limited edition version of the brand's classic All-Star model.
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Random Axe has arrived with straight "slap you in the face" hip hop and no gimmicks, choruses or stupid features.
Read MoreLet's go ahead and assume you're familiar with the name Eminem.
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Eminem has defended his defended the Lady Gaga diss on his new track, while at the same time speaking up for the pop singer.
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When the lineup for Bonnaroo 2011 was released back in February, some fans thought it skewed a little too far left of the festival's jammy roots.
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Eminem has slammed Justin Bieber and Katy Perry in new song 'A Kiss'.
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Bad Meets Evil -- the hip-hop collaboration featuring Eminem (Evil) and Royce da 5'9" (Bad) -- have a little fun with animation in their video for 'Fast Lane.' The song is the lead single off the duo's second EP, 'Hell: The Sequel,' due June 14 via Em's Shady Records.
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Bad Meets Evil have released 'Lighters,' a new song the duo of Eminem and Royce Da 5'9" recorded with pop star Bruno Mars. The downtempo track features empowered verses by both rappers, as well as an undeniable hook from Mars in which he sings: "This one's for you and me, living out our dreams / We're all right where we should be / Lift my arms out wide I open my eyes / And now all I wanna see / Is a sky full of lighters / A sky full of lighters."
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It's fair to say that things have changed since the Detroit rappers first collaborated on Eminem's Slim Shady LP in 1999; Eminem is now considered by many as the greatest rapper that ever lived, selling nearly 90 million records worldwide, whilst collecting 13 Grammy Awards along the way.
Read MorePucker up, Eminem fans: the Chrysler spokesman just dropped "A Kiss" with his Bad Meets Evil partner-in-rhyme Royce da 5′9″, and we are shocked — utterly shocked — that the "Die Hard" rapper has some unflattering things to say about one of his contemporaries on the tune.
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Rock stars usually see lighters in the audience, but on the new Bad Meets Evil track -- the rap duo consisting of Eminem and Slaughterhouse MC Royce da 5'9" -- they're up in the sky.
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"All these young kids, they ain't got no direction," opens Mike Epps in "I'm On Everything."
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Eminem is set to release his new EP on June 13, in collaboration with rapper Royce Da 5'9 under the name Bad Meets Evil. Listen to the first track from the EP, 'Fast Lane' , by clicking below.
Read MoreThe song features verses from both artists, showcasing their signature rap styles.
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Eminem will appear on the March cover of XXL magazine alongside Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse , to detail his decision to sign both acts to his Shady Records imprint.
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The Royce collabo, entitled "Living Proof", features a reunion of two guys who have a long history together (see: Bad Meets Evil).
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