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Jay-Z and Alicia Keys gave New York City an official anthem with “Empire State of Mind,” and 15 years later, their ode to the Big Apple is certified diamond. The Recording Industry Association of America announced on Wednesday (July 24) that “Empire State of Mind” had gone diamond. It’s Jay’s second diamond plaque following Watch […]
The fallout from Drake’s feud with Kendrick Lamar hasn’t put a damper on his summer. According to his Honestly, Nevermind collaborator Gordo, the producer hasn’t seen Drake happier. Gordo, formerly known as Carnage, provided an update on the 6 God’s state of mind during a conversation with People in an interview published on Wednesday (July […]
Snoop Dogg is completing another side mission in life when he joins NBC as part of the coverage slated for the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics. While breakdancing is now an Olympic sport, rapping won’t be at the Olympic Games in Paris. However, if there were a team for rap at the Games, Snoop Dogg knows the three hip-hop legends he’d be taking with him to represent the United States.
“Definitely would take Eminem,” Snoop tells Billboard on a Wednesday morning (July 24) conference call from Paris. “Gotta have that global experience. I definitely would take Rakim. Old school. Then I would go grab a female. I’d go grab Queen Latifah. Just so that way, I got some royalty. Then, naturally, I gotta take Snoop Dogg. Come on, man. What are we talking about? I mean, dream team. Let’s go.”
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With Snoop joined by Rakim, Eminem and Queen Latifah, were rapping an actual Olympic sport, he’d be bringing quite the potent mix of rhyming icons with him as part of Team USA, with his picks boasting plenty of experience in the hip-hop realm.
It’s slated to be a very busy few weeks in France for Snoop Dogg once the Opening Ceremony kicks off the Olympic Games on Friday night (July 26). He’ll join NBC’s Mike Tirico as part of Primetime In Paris, which will provide wall-to-wall coverage of Olympic competitions, and will go behind the scenes with some of the world’s favorite athletes.
Snoop Dogg will also be serving as a torchbearer at the 2024 Summer Olympics. The Death Row alum is set to carry the lit-up torch through the streets of Saint-Denis in northern Paris.
“It says a lot about America as far as where we at in this world,” he said later in the call about having the torchbearer honor bestowed upon him. “I look at it as a prestigious honor. I would’ve never truly dreamed of something like this. I’ma be on my best behavior. I’ma be on my best athleticism. I’ll be able to breath slow, walk fast and have a smile on my face.”
Snoop continued, “I’m thinking back to Muhammad Ali and when Muhammad Ali was holding it. It was emotional for all of us to see the champ holding that torch and walking it up there. That’s what it feels like to me. My own version of it.”
The Opening Ceremony is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC and will be streaming on Peacock.
Eminem could tweak the lyric of one of his most famous hits to “Love the Way You Stream.” The American rapper has received a Brit Billion Award by the BPI, which represents the U.K.’s leading music companies. The award recognizes artists who have achieved more than one billion U.K. career streams – a mark that […]
There are plenty of songs you could pick to get pumped up for your one big moment. But if you only have one shot at an opportunity that comes once in a lifetime, there is only one that guarantees that you will own it and never let it go: Eminem‘s iconic Oscar-winning 2002 8 Mile […]
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On Monday, Snoop Dogg took to Instagram to share the sad news about the death of his older cousin, illustrator Darryl “Joe Cool” Daniel, the artist behind his Doggystyle album cover.
The post simply says “R.I.P. my big cuzn joe cool” along with a video Daniel took while hanging out at the studio with Snoop’s 2017 song “Promise You This” playing in the background.
Joe Cool, as cousins Snoop and Daz Dillinger called him, was instrumental in Snoop’s branding. Signing his work under the name Joe Cizzool, he illustrated the iconic artwork for the Long Beach rapper’s seminal debut album Doggystyle. Daniel was also responsible for the Gin and Juice single artwork, as well as the back of The Doggfather CD and the cover art for The Last Meal.
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Daz also paid tribute to his late cousin with a picture of him, Snoop and Joe Cool hanging out as well as a couple pics of Daniel highlighting his art.
The caption reads, “REST N PEACE DARYL JOE COOL DANIEL. MY BIGG CUZZN THIS REALLY HURTS WE GREW UP TOGETHER U WAS THERE FROM DAY ONE IM GONE REALLY REALLY MISS U BIGG CUZ.”
According to an interview with HipHopDX in 2013, Daniel said he was incarcerated and on drugs when his younger cousin asked him to do his album cover, but he didn’t believe Snoop was rapping with Dr. Dre at first. While he was doing a bid in California State Prison, he sent his sister a drawing of Snoop, and when his little cousin was visiting Daniel’s sister, Snoop hopped on the phone.
“He told me he was rapping with Dr. Dre,” Joe Cool told HipHopDX. “I told him, ‘That’s a goddamn lie. Blow that smoke up somebody else’s ass. Put my sister back on the phone, lyin’ ass n—a.’ He’s like, ‘I’m serious, man. I’m rapping with Dr. Dre.’ I’m like, ‘OK. All right.’ I said to my sister, ‘He rapping with N.W.A Dr. Dre?’ She said, ‘Yeah, he come out and get ’em.’ I said, ‘No sh–. Put him back on the phone.’ I said, ‘Give me 25 dollars.’ He said, ‘All right. I ain’t got no money right now, but I’ll send it to you… Joe, I’mma be the sh—, man.’”
Daniel started to believe his cousin when he played an early version of “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” over the phone; he then made good on his word and sent the money. “Then he sent me that $25, that’s when I believed him.”
He said Snoop pleaded with him to stop using drugs. “‘Get yourself off that sh–,’” Joe Cool says Snoop told him. “’I want you to do my album cover, man. I’m doing Dre’s album. Then my album gonna come out.’ He said, ‘Get your sh– together, Joe Cool.’”
That conversation changed both of their lives. “I didn’t think it would be iconic, man,” Daniel said of Doggystyle. “And then when it sold as many as it sold, and I seen my sh– up there, it just gave me…like damn. I can’t believe it. My artwork is out there, ’cause Snoop let it come. He gave me the opportunity, man. He got me a little bit of 15 minutes of fame up in the world. It’s been 20 years, man. He gave me that opportunity. Man, I love him for it.”
Rest in peace, Joe Cizzool.
They say good things come in threes, and The Weeknd is putting the finishing touches on his After Hours/Dawn FM trilogy. Abel posted the cinematic trailer previewing the intoxicating track on Tuesday (July 23), which is another signal the third chapter is on the way from the Canadian crooner. “When you gaze long enough into […]
Eminem has a massive week on Billboard’s charts (dated July 27) thanks to his new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce).
Released July 12 on Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records, the set debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 281,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in its opening week, according to Luminate. It arrives with the biggest week (by units) for a rap album in 2024.
The set becomes Eminem’s 11th career Billboard 200 No. 1, tying Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Ye (formerly Kanye West) for the fifth most, after The Beatles (19), Jay-Z (14), Taylor Swift (14) and Drake (13).
All 16 songs (excluding spoken-word skits) on the album concurrently land on the Billboard Hot 100, led by lead single “Houdini” at No. 10. Here’s a recap (all of which are debuts except where noted).
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Eminem on the July 27, 2024-dated Hot 100:
No. 10, “Houdini” (up from No. 18; peaked at No. 2 in June)
No. 19, “Habits,” with White Gold
No. 20, “Renaissance”
No. 21, “Fuel,” with JID
No. 24, “Tobey,” with Big Sean & BabyTron (up from No. 27; new high)
No. 25, “Brand New Dance”
No. 27, “Somebody Save Me,” with Jelly Roll
No. 30, “Evil”
No. 31, “Trouble”
No. 37, “Lucifer,” with Sly Pyper
No. 39, “Antichrist”
No. 45, “Guilty Conscience 2”
No. 56, “Temporary,” with Skylar Grey
No. 59, “Road Rage,” with Dem Jointz & Sly Pyper
No. 69, “Bad One,” with White Gold
No. 72, “Head Honcho,” with Ez Mil
“Somebody Save Me” notably reworks Jelly Roll’s “Save Me” (with Lainey Wilson), which ranked in the Hot 100’s top 40 earlier this year after reaching No. 19 last November. “Save Me” also topped the Country Airplay chart for two weeks in December.
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With 14 debuts, Eminem ups his career total from 98 to 112 Hot 100 entries. He becomes the 19th act to chart at least 100 songs dating to the survey’s 1958 inception and now has the 11th-most appearances.
Artists With the Most Hot 100 Hits:
333, Drake
264, Taylor Swift
207, Glee Cast
199, Future
186, Lil Wayne
157, Kanye West
148, Nicki Minaj
140, Lil Baby
117, Chris Brown
117, Travis Scott
112, Eminem
109, Elvis Presley (whose career launch predated the Hot 100’s start)
108, Lil Uzi Vert
106, Beyoncé
105, Jay-Z
105, Justin Bieber
104, YoungBoy Never Broke Again
103, 21 Savage
101, The Weeknd(as of July 27, 2024)
Of Eminem’s 112 Hot 100 entries, 63 have reached the top 40. That’s the eighth most, after Drake (205), Swift (165), Lil Wayne (88), Elvis Presley (81), Ye (78), Nicki Minaj (75) and Future (67).
Meanwhile, thanks to their featured appearances on The Death of Slim Shady, Sly Pyper, Dem Jointz and Ez Mil all score their first career Hot 100 visits.
Sly Pyper, who debuts via “Lucifer” and “Road Rage,” is a longtime songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who has also collaborated with Dr. Dre, The Game, Kendrick Lamar, Shaggy and Snoop Dogg in various roles. He previously worked on Eminem’s No. 1 albums Recovery (2010) and Music to Be Murdered By (2020).
Dem Jointz is likewise an established songwriter-producer who claims his first Hot 100 hit under an artist billing with “Road Rage.” Before this week, he logged seven songs on the chart as a credited producer: Eminem’s “Lock It Up,” featuring Anderson .Paak (No. 89 peak in 2020); Ye’s “Jail” (No. 10, 2021), “Believe What I Say” (No. 28, 2021), “Jail Pt. 2” (No. 63, 2021) and “New Again” (No. 68, 2021); Fivio Foreign’s “City of Gods,” featuring Ye and Alicia Keys (No. 46, 2022); and BTS’ “Run BTS” (No. 73, 2022). Dem Jointz has also collaborated with aespa, Dr. Dre, Janet Jackson, NCT 127 and Rihanna. Dem Jointz (real name: Dwayne Abernathy Jr.) shared the 2022 Grammy Award for best rap song for his contributions to Ye’s “Jail.”
Ez Mil also earns his first Hot 100 entry, thanks to his featured credit on “Head Honcho.” The rapper first reached Billboard’s charts in August 2023 with another Eminem collab: “Realest” reached No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart. The 25-year-old, from the Philippines, signed a joint venture deal with Shady Records, Aftermath and Interscope.
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