Eminem and Royce Da 5'9" - Fast Lane

Official video from Bad Meets Evil, the collaboration between Eminem and Royce da 5'9". The album recently sprung a leak, but is well worth the purchase.

Dr. Dre - Die Hard ft. Eminem

Detox is coming. How many time's have we heard that? We get it. We're anxiously waiting.

Dr Dre - Die Hard from Adam Ross on Vimeo.

Royce Da 5'9 Feat. Eminem - Writer's Block

Holy shit! The flow and the beat are fire!

D12 - Kill Zone

Eminem - G.O.A.T. snippet

Dr Dre - I Need A Doctor ft. Eminem & Skylar Grey

Eminem, Rihanna, Dr. Dre and Skylar Grey - At the Grammys

Superbowl Ad Game Wrap Up

Superbowl XLV was a great game and, for once, the highlight was on the football and not the ridiculous ads that cost a fortune to air during the most coveted of time slots. That didn't stop the Mad Men from trying to get our attention though, and I decided to post a few of the ads that stood out during the game.

First off was Eminem's two commercials. One for Lipton Brisk and another for the Chrysler 200, emphasizing Detroit above the actual car. For someone who has had an enormous amount of commercial success, Eminem has steered clear of actual commercials. Though he is still a long way from appearing in the amount of commercials Dr. Dre has, we applaud Eminem for keeping it real in the spots.

Next up is a Best Buy ad featuring the omnipresent Justin Beiber and The Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne. Beiber, who is promoting a movie, is impossible to escape. He stood in for John Stewart on The Daily Show last week and was the featured musical guest on a painfully unfunny SNL. I suppose he's here to stay for a while, but it still makes me wince when I see him standing opposite of Ozzy Osbourne hocking cellphones for Best Buy. See the commercial below and check out the clip under that, where only a couple of months ago, Ozzy Osbourne asked "Who the fuck is Justin Beiber?"

The best ads during the game came came in the form of movie trailers from Marvel. They debuted the trailers for Captain America: First Avenger and Thor. Maybe I'm just a comic book geek, but both of these movies look stellar and and are definite first day must-sees. Oh, and there was also a trailer for Super 8, a movie written and directed by J. J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg. Not much was revealed except their involvement. Check em out below.

Eminem - Relapse to Recovery (mixtape)

In case you missed some of the new music Eminem has been putting out, download the new mixtape Relapse to Recovery. There's a reason why Eminem's music generated over 94 million music streams in 2010.

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More New Eminem

Here's another couple of new tracks by Eminem. The first features Jazmine Sullivan and is called Cocaine. The second is a bit old but it is a potential Detox track featuring Dr. Dre and Nas. Though Eminem drops a verse, it is more likely a guide track for Dre, considering the subject matter.

Eminem ft. Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Stat Quo & Cashis - Syllables

Though this song is fresh spankin' new, it sounds like is was made a few years ago but never released. Fortunately you can check it out below and download the song here. Maybe this is a sign that Detox is finally coming.

Bass Thumpin Thursdays - Fuck You

What's up Digital Readers? The theme of today is Fuck You. Not you personally, but a celebration of the phrase and all of it's uses. Cee-Lo Green recently made a splash with his new music video titled (you guessed it) Fuck You. Though the expletive-laden track is relatively new, a few venues refuse to play the song or the video, instead opting for the more radio friendly, heavily censored F You or the inoffensively titled Forget You. The video is actually one of the freshest I've seen in a while and if you don't enjoy it, Cee-Lo's got two words for you...

Next up is a song that kids today will be calling old school before you know it, but I can remember when it first dropped. Fresh in 1999, was Dr. Dre's second studio album 2001 and it's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since Dre has dropped that bomb on us. This album is the epitome of classic and, like The Chronic, I can listen to the disc from front to back without having to skip anything in the middle. Soon after, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit and Eminem embarked on The Up In Smoke Tour where they performed a bevy of West Coast G-Funk. Among the songs in the set list: a little ditty called Fuck You. Warning: This concert performance is NSFW.

Clearly not as gangster or demeaning as the first two, I've got to throw Lilly Allen in the mix. From her second album, It's Not Me, It's You, This British songbird's track is a soft and smooth way to say the two words of the day although it was originally known under it's working title of Guess Who's Batman.

Lastly, I'd like to present a song that I discovered long before 50 Cent hit it big. When Fiddy was just starting out, he inked a deal with Columbia records where he recorded two discs Power of the Dollar and Guess Who's Back. Although neither one was considered commercially successful, a copy of Guess Who's back landed on a young Marshall Mathers' desk and by the end of 2002, 50 Cent had been signed to Eminem's label with  a one million dollar deal. The rest, as they say, is history, but let's not forget the album that started it all. Track number 10 on the album: you already know what it is... Fuck You.

Re-Spun Sunday

Here's some classic tracks that were born-again through some creative mashups.  These are all part of the Matchstix.com Stanton Mashup Challenge, and I encourage you to support these DJs and vote for these tracks if you like them.


Frail Limb Purity - 
Rage Against the Machine, "Bulls on Parade" v. The Glitch Mob, "Drive it Like you Stole It"
Laying Bulls on Parade on top of Glitch Mob's deep electro-hip-hop gives the classic Rage song a whole new dark feel.



Top Flight - 
Missy Elliot, "Work It" v. Elvis, "A Little Less Conversation (JXL Remix)"
This remix works surprisingly well, both lyrically and musically.  Interesting choice of songs.



Bonez McCoy - 
Chemical Brothers, "Swoon (Boys Noize Remix)" v. Dr. Dre / Eminem, "Forgot About Dre"
A good mix of trance and hip-hop.  The Eminem break down about half way through the song is a good use of musical energy.



--tonotopik

Bass Thumpin' Thursdays

Hey Hey Kids. Welcome to another edition of Bass Thumpin' Thursdays. I'm Veroncia Corningstone, Tits McGee is on Vacation. Today, Let's kick things off with a song by Marcel Woods titled Everything accompanied by an original video by Sensation White. Videos like this are the reason we created Bass Thumpin' Thursdays, so we can show exhibit them to the world.

Marcel Woods - Everything

Next up is the music video for Eminem's Love the Way You Lie featuring Rihanna. Shit. This video was posted literally one week ago on YouTube and has garnered over 30 million views. 30 million WTF?! Anyway, this may have something to do with Eminem being one of the biggest and best selling recording artists of the last decade or maybe the collaboration with Rihanna, whom people seem to be infatuated with. My bet is the decision to feature Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan as an abusive couple probably nabbed a few million views from horny teenagers googling Megan Fox in hopes of finding some topless pics.

Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna

Thirdly, is Instamatic with a Kleptones Mad Groove (Instamatic video mashup). The 6th video from The Videotones is about television - an intentional theme running through nearing all the videos but here Instamatic takes The Kleptones 'Mad Groove' and merrily skips through 24 films, TV shows and music videos channel surfing as he goes, causing upset and destruction in his wake. Remember: don't watch the blipverts, or your eyes will go square. See if you can spot all the references.

Sources used include: Poltergeist, Requiem for a Dream, Steal This Film II, Stay Tuned, Network, Pleasantville, Truman Show, Filth and the Fury, Medium Cool, Max Headroom, Videodrome, They Live, Evidence by Godfrey Reggio, Daft Punk - Robot Rock, YMO - Live, Great Rock n' Roll Swindle, Zabriskie Point, Ringu, Times Square, Last Emperor, Koyaaniqatsi, Kraftwerk - Tour de France, Double 99 - Rip Groove video...

The Kleptones - Mad Groove (Instamatic video mashup)

Last up is the music video for Ice Cube's new single, I Rep That West. Ice Cube has been in the rap game for over two fucking decades and though kids today may know him better for his acting roles than his lyrical talent they need to check themselves. Ice has brought us classic after classic so without further dick-riding, I bring you the new video for the new single, I Rep That West. Stay classy San Diego.

Ice Cube - I Rep That West

Eminem & The Roots - Won't Back Down (Live On Jimmy Fallon)

Damn. Em killed it on stage with The Roots. Mr. Porter served back up vocals and The Alchemist added his pinch of flavor on the turntables. Eminem gave it 110% and looked completely out of breath at the end.

Eminem - Recovery Bonus Tracks

Though Eminem's Recovery is dropping tomorrow, it leaked in it's entiritey earlier this month, much to Em's chagrin. So what's a rapper to do? Release a couple of extra tracks to package along with the album. Check them out. One features Slaughterhouse and the other one has production by Dr. Dre.

Eminem ft. Slaughterhouse - Session One (prod. Just Blaze) Download Here

Eminem - Ridaz (prod. Dr. Dre) Download Here

New Stat Quo and Eminem

No sooner had I posted the previous entry, did I find a couple of new joints featuring Stat Quo and Eminem. The first, "Atlanta on Fire", is going to be featured on Stat Quo's upcoming album Statlanta and the second, "Classic Shit", seems to have been recorded when Stat was still Signed to Shady/ Aftermath, judging by Eminem's flow and Stat Quo's references. Check them out and let me know your opinion in the comments section.

Eminem (feat. Stat Quo) - Classic Shit - Download Here

Stat Quo (feat. Eminem) - Atlanta on Fire (prod. by Dr. Dre) - Download Here

Stat Quo and the Long Road to Statlanta

Hey there audiophiles. I took a week off for a vacation and I am back and well rested so let's jump right into it. Though Dr. Dre promised us a new single from Detox, "Under Pressure", would be dropping soon, nothing has yet to materialize aside from some instrumental clips and a whole lot of speculation. Now, I tried not to get my hopes up, because the Doc is notorious for building up hype and then scrapping projects, and it seems we will (still) have to wait and see if Detox ever come to light. This isn't the first time Dr. Dre has let me, and other hip-hop fans down with rumors of something great. I've already explored what happened with Rakim in another article, but another artist who's had his buzz fade quicker than a dying bee is Stat Quo.

Stat Quo was signed to a joint deal with Shady/ Aftermath Entertainment in 2003 and garnered a lot of hype, appearing as a guest artist to other musicians on the Shady/ Aftermath roster and releasing a few free mixtapes. Unhappy with the release status of his debut album, Statlanta, which had been repeatedly pushed back, Stat decided to leave Shady/ Aftermath in 2008 and ended up signing with Sha Money XL's newly founded record label, Dream Big Ventures in late 2009. Stat is set to finally release Statlanta to the masses on June 22, 2010 and the first single is called "Success (Back to U)". The able is still supposed to feature some production by Dr. Dre and appearances by Eminem, The Game, and Lauryn Hill Be sure to check out the videos below to hear his singles and why he left Shady/ Aftermath.

Stat Quo - Success (Back to U)

Stat Quo - Ghetto USA

Stat Quo Explains why he left Shady/ Aftermath

New Eminem - Not Afraid

Check out Eminem's new song Not Afraid. It is the first single from his upcoming album Recovery (formerly titled Relapse 2) set to drop on June 22. I'm a huge Eminem fan but Relapse to me was hit and miss. Eminem certainly showed that he was back in top lyrical form on Hello, Same Song and Dance, and Medicine Ball. Even more so on the Relapse: Refill re-release of the album, but I felt that the entire album could have been better had Em not peppered in some of the more ridiculous antics. Eminem acknowledges this himself with a line from his new song:

Let's be honest, that last Relapse CD was "ehhhh"
Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground
Relax, I ain't going back to that now

Anyway, Recovery sounds promising and I'll definitely be picking it up on Day 1. In the mean time, feel free to satisfy your sweet tooth with Eminem's new single and leave your opinion in the comments section.

Eminem - Not Afraid - Download Here