Rakim

[Hiphopdane]

Old quote but I just found it. Thought I would share:

”Eminem is nasty man, I don’t care what color he is. I don’t care about none of that nahmean? Real artists respect real artist’s man. Especially like a conscious artist that sits down and writes and hears another artist that sits down and does his writing…and he know…a brother nasty. Regardless, you can’t take nothing away from his thoughts and his pen, nahmean? Em is nasty man, I tell people to this day…if Em was black…he’d be the next Muhammad Ali man.”

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.3 ... eaks-on-em

Getting respect from the best lyricist ever outshines everything.

[Unscarred]

There is a video to, but im to lazy to search it

[77o77]

Mohammed Ali=Eminem lol

[MikeNUFC]

I love seeing legends give Em respect.

I remember 8 Ball (who I wouldnt consider a legend but y'know) giving Em great repsect

Southern rapper 8 Ball recently talked about Eminem being one of the best rappers in the game saying "Eminem, is like rapping plain old off the head and then his ideas and sh*t. He's definitely one of the cats at the top of the ['Rap Legend'] list; just his thought process. He still, off the top of the head, like dude can still rap about a cup on the table and make it sound interesting to a motherfucker you know what I'm sayin? And you know, he holdin' it down."

http://www.rapbasement.com/eminem/06090 ... d-boy.html

[Drucifer]

I love seeing legends give Em respect.

I remember 8 Ball (who I wouldnt consider a legend but y'know) giving Em great repsect

Southern rapper 8 Ball recently talked about Eminem being one of the best rappers in the game saying "Eminem, is like rapping plain old off the head and then his ideas and sh*t. He's definitely one of the cats at the top of the ['Rap Legend'] list; just his thought process. He still, off the top of the head, like dude can still rap about a cup on the table and make it sound interesting to a motherfucker you know what I'm sayin? And you know, he holdin' it down."

http://www.rapbasement.com/eminem/06090 ... d-boy.html

Cool shit man, I never read that comment from 8 Ball......

[EminemBase]

Yeah there's a video of some racist French fuck trying to discredit Em and Rakim tells him how it is. That "real recognize real" thing couldn't ring more true in this respect.

Rakim absolutely knows the deal with Eminem. People like to bash on him time to time and hop on opposing bandwagons. People also like to say if Em was black he wouldn't be half as popular. That assumption couldn't be less true. If Em was black he maybe wouldn't of sold as many or as fast but he would be MORE popular. His race would no longer be any sort of issue, so even more attention would be paid solely to his talent(s).

A lot of people like to pretend some are blinded by his skin colour but that's ridiculous. If that were true where the fuck is Vanilla Ice? Nobody is blinded into positivity by skin colour. People can't think Eminem SOUNDS incredible because he's white that's insane. However, people who have an issue with race can certainly go out of their way to discredit with more success.

[Drucifer]

Yeah there's a video of some racist French fuck trying to discredit Em and Rakim tells him how it is. That "real recognize real" thing couldn't ring more true in this respect.

Rakim absolutely knows the deal with Eminem. People like to bash on him time to time and hop on opposing bandwagons. People also like to say if Em was black he wouldn't be half as popular. That assumption couldn't be less true. If Em was black he maybe wouldn't of sold as many or as fast but he would be MORE popular. His race would no longer be any sort of issue, so even more attention would be paid solely to his talent(s).

A lot of people like to pretend some are blinded by his skin colour but that's ridiculous. If that were true where the fuck is Vanilla Ice? Nobody is blinded into positivity by skin colour. People can't think Eminem SOUNDS incredible because he's white that's insane. However, people who have an issue with race can certainly go out of their way to discredit with more success.

I seen that vid, I think the guy interviewing Ra was probably Haitian from the accent, he was getting all hot and bothered cause Ra wouldnt agree with him, lol, probably went home and cried when his hero told him how it is

[walend]

this is years old i think? maby 5 years old? was hot news on the site i think

[Emadyville]

I remember the quote, not who said it tho, thanks for the reminder

[Pllumi]

it's great how artists respect each other

[4D]

Always liked this interview, increased my respect for Rakim even more.

Video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kram ... -ass_music

[Ella]

this is what another legend had to say about Em..

DX: Let me ask you about this, since I mentioned Jay’s top five, when you gave your top five dead or alive list to AllHipHop.com last July you mentioned that, “Eminem sent me a few beats.” Are those beats gonna surface on The Habit?
Scarface: He did! I haven’t talked [in-person] to Eminem since that shit with 50 Cent [in 2003]. There was an album release, [Balls And My Word], that had a song [“Bitch Nigga”] - an album that came out that I was on some kinda way and it had a song that was going after [50 Cent]. Well the song was set up to make it look like I was going after 50. And then it had it set up to where it made it look like Bun was going after 50. When in all honesty I ain’t never met the man, you feel me? I ain’t got no problem with no-muthafuckin’-body.

DX: So did Eminem then just reach out to you, or did you have to like build with him first to squash all that?
Scarface: You know what? I haven’t even reached out to cuzz yet. I need to try to reach out to him. But, I know he going through his own thing.

DX: So he just sent you those beats out the blue, or somebody else sent ‘em to you?
Scarface: Nah, we talked a few times. We talked a few times over the phone. And he sent me some good fuckin’ beats - they somewhere at the house; they somewhere on a hard drive. But I didn’t get a chance to talk to him about it more in-depth.

DX: You gonna have Eminem put some verses to them beats?
Scarface: Hell nah! [Laughs] I’m not fin to go in there fuckin’ with that white boy, man. [Laughs]

DX: You’re not gonna make the “Renegade” mistake.
Scarface: Hell nah! What the fuck you mean, go in there fuckin’ with him, for what? [Laughs] But I guess that’s how I feel about – I guess that’s how a lot of rappers feel about this kid from out here named K-Rino.

DX: I heard you biggin’ him up again on Dopeman Music, on like one of the skits.
Scarface: Yeah like, you just don’t – It’s two people in music that you just don’t fuck with, there are two people in Rap that I just don’t fuck with: I’m not fuckin’ with Eminem, and I’m not fuckin’ with K-Rino. I invited K-Rino to do a verse on my album because a lot of people don’t wanna fuck with him, ‘cause he’s a dangerous muthafucka… I think he really took it light on me too.

[Devil'sAdvocate]

[4D]

this is what another legend had to say about Em..

DX: Let me ask you about this, since I mentioned Jay’s top five, when you gave your top five dead or alive list to AllHipHop.com last July you mentioned that, “Eminem sent me a few beats.” Are those beats gonna surface on The Habit?
Scarface: He did! I haven’t talked [in-person] to Eminem since that shit with 50 Cent [in 2003]. There was an album release, [Balls And My Word], that had a song [“Bitch *****”] - an album that came out that I was on some kinda way and it had a song that was going after [50 Cent]. Well the song was set up to make it look like I was going after 50. And then it had it set up to where it made it look like Bun was going after 50. When in all honesty I ain’t never met the man, you feel me? I ain’t got no problem with no-muthafuckin’-body.

DX: So did Eminem then just reach out to you, or did you have to like build with him first to squash all that?
Scarface: You know what? I haven’t even reached out to cuzz yet. I need to try to reach out to him. But, I know he going through his own thing.

DX: So he just sent you those beats out the blue, or somebody else sent ‘em to you?
Scarface: Nah, we talked a few times. We talked a few times over the phone. And he sent me some good fuckin’ beats - they somewhere at the house; they somewhere on a hard drive. But I didn’t get a chance to talk to him about it more in-depth.

DX: You gonna have Eminem put some verses to them beats?
Scarface: Hell nah! [Laughs] I’m not fin to go in there fuckin’ with that white boy, man. [Laughs]

DX: You’re not gonna make the “Renegade” mistake.
Scarface: Hell nah! What the fuck you mean, go in there fuckin’ with him, for what? [Laughs] But I guess that’s how I feel about – I guess that’s how a lot of rappers feel about this kid from out here named K-Rino.

DX: I heard you biggin’ him up again on Dopeman Music, on like one of the skits.
Scarface: Yeah like, you just don’t – It’s two people in music that you just don’t fuck with, there are two people in Rap that I just don’t fuck with: I’m not fuckin’ with Eminem, and I’m not fuckin’ with K-Rino. I invited K-Rino to do a verse on my album because a lot of people don’t wanna fuck with him, ‘cause he’s a dangerous muthafucka… I think he really took it light on me too.

Haha, that's cool. I know Nas feels the same, that's why there hasn't been an Eminem & Nas collab, wouldn't be wise to get murdered on his own shit now would it. Pity, that would be my dream collab.

[EminemBase]

That's nice what Scarface said about Em too.

Seems that when you really look at it, all the greats have the uptmost respect for Em and consider him one of if not thee best. He's just not mentioned that much, I can see why he made "25 to Life".

Would of been really interesting to see how Pac responded to Em and if they would of gotten along etc.