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Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby The Monster » Oct 16th, '13, 03:30

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Crooked I, a member of Shady Records' Slaughterhouse, recently spoke with HipHopDX about Eminem's new song, "Rap God," a selection set to be on Em's The Marshall Mathers LP 2.

"It was crazy," Crooked I said in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. "It's just always refreshing to hear a super mainstream artist with bars and skills because a lot of these mainstream dudes that's rapping out there is wack as fuck. So, here's somebody who has all the success and has achieved so much in the game and he still has bars to bar you out the game. It's real refreshing. He basically took the art of double-time rapping and displayed the many different ways you can do that. There's different cadences you can use when you're double-timing. He just displayed almost all of them on one song."

Crooked I Praises Eminem's Hip Hop Knowledge
On "Rap God," Eminem says he is a product of N.W.A., Rakim, Tupac Shakur and Lakim Shabazz.

During the interview, Crooked I also praised Eminem's knowledge of Hip Hop.

"Let's be clear," Crooked I said. "Eminem has a 360 degree knowledge of Hip Hop. Therefore, he can drop names like Lakim Shabazz. These new mothafuckas don't know who the fuck that is and it's no excuse because we have the Internet.

"You can go look up the Hip Hop pioneers," Crooked I continued. "If you're really into the culture, as an emcee, you can go find out what Big Daddy Kane was spittin', what Kool G Rap was spittin'. You can go to listen to the whole Illmatic [by Nas] front-to-back. You can go listen to [Jay Z's] Reasonable Doubt. There's no excuse. With Em, he has a 360 degree knowledge of the game...Eminem is displaying that he's a real Hip Hop emcee [on 'Rap God']. You can't take that away from him ever. That's what I love about that song."

Crooked I Responds To Those Saying "Rap God" Disses Kendrick Lamar
During the interview, Crooked I was asked what lines stood out most from the track.

"I know a lot of people are talking about, 'Why be a king when you can be a god?'" Crooked I said. "I know a lot of people feel like that was a jab at Kendrick. But, to me, that whole song stands out."

Crooked added that he does not think the line was aimed at Kendrick Lamar.

"Nah," Crooked I said. "Me knowing who Em is, every time I'm around Em, he has said nothing but good things about Kendrick and Kendrick's artform, so I wouldn't just think that all of a sudden he would just take a jab at him out of nowhere. That don't make sense, but I can't speak for Eminem. I don't know exactly what he was thinking when he said that, but as a listener, I didn't take it like he was saying that to Kendrick. There's been a lot of people in Hip Hop who've declared themselves kings. If that's the case, he's shooting at everybody."

Eminem's "Rap God" can be heard below.

Crooked I is set to be featured in tonight's airing of BET Hip Hop Awards. He participated in the Slaughterhouse cypher along with fellow groupmates Joell Ortiz, Royce Da 5'9 and Joe Budden.

Eminem signed Slaughterhouse to Shady Records for the group's 2012 effort, Welcome to Our House. Eminem produced several tracks on the project, including "Throw That" and "Asylum." Eminem also mixed several songs on the album. Additionally, Eminem was a co-producer on several selections and the executive producer of the group's project.

In 2011, Eminem performed alongside Slaughterhouse and Yelawolf as part of the BET Hop Hop Awards cypher. Their 2011 cypher can be viewed below.
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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby Raul » Oct 16th, '13, 03:33

Nice reading.
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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby speckzo » Oct 16th, '13, 03:37

That's dope, and Eminem was 100% not taking a jab at Kendrick wtf. He obviously respects him enough to be featured on his album and first single video. Plus I'm pretty sure when Eminem disses people he would straight up diss them. Maybe not new em, but this is the new old em.
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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby Slim Stanley » Oct 16th, '13, 05:09

Even if its taken as a diss oh well, thats just rap and people expect taht from Eminem.
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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby Kill You » Oct 16th, '13, 05:29

Who the fuck thinks he dissed Kendrick...? Lol.
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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby Shuttle Destroyer » Oct 16th, '13, 06:07

Nice read :y:
Revolutionary wrote:If anything, that would be a jab at Ye and Jay.
Even though Em is not about that, he'd mention you if he wanted to diss you, he's not scared of anyone.

This reminded me of: "They keep on saying the same old rappers are the best, Jay-Z and Kanye West
Maybe they're just trying to distract from the fact that I'm coming back" :flutter:

He's not afraid but he's also used subliminal disses throughout his career
This ain't the case, though
Kill You wrote:Who the fuck thinks he dissed Kendrick...? Lol.

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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby The Monster » Oct 16th, '13, 06:15

Kill You wrote:Who the fuck thinks he dissed Kendrick...? Lol.


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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby EminemBase » Oct 16th, '13, 10:32

Kendrick?... the track was made in 2011 first of all.

So unless Em can time travel, I think not by definition.
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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby EminemBase » Oct 16th, '13, 14:39

Revolutionary wrote:
EminemBase wrote:Kendrick?... the track was made in 2011 first of all.

So unless Em can time travel, I think not by definition.

Beat was made in November 2011, song was recorded sometime in 2012.


Ah okay cool. I like that a lot more.

It bothered me that there was potentially 2011 Em on MMLP2...

Hopefully it's all fresh. Where was it confirmed that it was recorded 2012?
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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby Whitefox » Oct 16th, '13, 14:40

EminemBase wrote:
Revolutionary wrote:
EminemBase wrote:Kendrick?... the track was made in 2011 first of all.

So unless Em can time travel, I think not by definition.

Beat was made in November 2011, song was recorded sometime in 2012.


Ah okay cool. I like that a lot more.

It bothered me that there was potentially 2011 Em on MMLP2...

Hopefully it's all fresh. Where was it confirmed that it was recorded 2012?


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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby EminemBase » Oct 16th, '13, 14:51

Whitefox wrote:The producer said it.


He said Em made it in 2011 though, no?

He actually said Em recorded it in 2012 and only the beat is from 2011?
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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby Raul » Oct 16th, '13, 18:22

EminemBase wrote:
Whitefox wrote:The producer said it.


He said Em made it in 2011 though, no?

He actually said Em recorded it in 2012 and only the beat is from 2011?


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Re: Crooked I Says 'Eminem's Prowess Shines On Rap God'

Postby Shuttle Destroyer » Oct 17th, '13, 06:46

EminemBase wrote:Kendrick?... the track was made in 2011 first of all.

So unless Em can time travel, I think not by definition.

He bought a ray gun from the future, so...
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