Eminem

Why We're Still Excited When Eminem Makes Music

We could have stopped caring years ago. Somewhere between Encore (2004) and Relapse (2009), our memory would've waned to the point where Em didn't really matter anymore. Yet, in 2013, it's been confirmed that a full-length album will be released post-Memorial Day along with some tour dates, and we'r ... More >>

A$AP Rocky and Danny Brown Have a Shot at Realizing Their Dreams -- with Kathy Griffin

A heartfelt collection of our favorite music stories of the week, as picked by Voice music writers, including a special Valentine's Day meeting between A$AP Rocky, Danny Brown and ... Kathy Griffin, perhaps best known to the two rappers as the old nurse from Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" video. He ... More >>

Hot 100 Roundup: Eric Church And Luke Bryan Milk It, Eminem Gets Silly, And More

It's almost September (it already is on the Hot 100, which is dated over a week ahead of time), and the labels are starting to roll out the medium-sized guns: Muse! The Script! Trey Songz! Slaughterhouse? The best stuff is older, though: The Chief Keef track is from a mixtape released in March, and ... More >>

50 Cent, Eminem, And Skrillex's Hordes Of Fans Swarm Austin On Day Three Of SXSW

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in this planet's many happenings, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. To break down the chaos, a few of Village ... More >>

If Adele Found A Solid Relationship...

​Her career would be over! WTF would she have to sing about? "I met the man of my dreams and he loves me right back"? Blech. Boring. That would go down the charts with a bullet. And here are some other potential career killers for top music stars:

Yelawolf's Gritty Performance

Brisk timekeeping on Bleecker Street

Eminem And Royce da 5'9" To Revive Bad Meets Evil

​Earlier this month, the Voice's Philip Mlynar took a look at the dilemma faced by Slaughterhouse, the all-star underground rap crew recently signed to Eminem's imprint, Shady Records. Balancing their credibility with the profit-making aims of a major label might be tricky in the current momen ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Throw Taylor Swift In A Well

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! Pay Rich Juzwiak what you owe him, Jay Leno. Twitpic by Dav ... More >>

Hear a Seven-Minute Sampler of Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday

Although one of the year's most highly anticipated rap records leaked two weeks early, there's another notable 2010 hip-hop record that's still a veritable mystery. Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday is out November 22, and though some have questions about its ultimate quality, its overall sound has been ha ... More >>

Live: Jay-Z And Eminem Bring Out Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Swizz Beatz, And Chris Martin (??!!) At Yankee Stadium

This actually happened Jay-Z/Eminem Yankee Stadium Monday, September 13 Better than: The shows in Detroit, I have to think. Sorry, Detroit. So let's start somewhere in the middle: Chris Martin! The dude from Coldplay! Seriously! Out he shuffles roughly halfway through Jay-Z's n ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Gathering of the Juggalos, Pavement's New York City, Jay-Z and Eminem in Detroit, Sonny Rollins, and More

Jay-Z and Eminem kick-start Detroit's recovery. Photo by Kevin Mazur.​In this week's Village Voice, Camille Dodero reports live from Insane Clown Posse's Gathering of the Juggalos, Michael D. Ayers compiles an oral history of Pavement's New York City, Tom Breihan heads to Detroit to see the fi ... More >>

Remembering Fat Beats, The Best Record Store In Underground Hip-Hop History

Gang Starr flanking Fat Beats owner Joseph Abajian, who unfortunately saw this coming​In 1997, Paul Rosenberg, the attorney of an aspiring rapper from Detroit calling himself Eminem, was walking along 6th Avenue in the West Village with ten copies of an independent 12-inch vinyl single titled ... More >>

Eminem's Recovery Is Out Today; Please Enjoy iTunes Bonus Track "Session One," Wherein Slaughterhouse Rise (?) To The Occasion

​As one of the sassier New York Times magazine q&a's in recent memory ("Do you regret having written so many songs that refer to women as 'bitches' and 'hos' who exist solely for your pleasure?") may have alerted you, Eminem, too, has a new record out this week. Let's all hope for the best. Ra ... More >>

Eminem's Recovery Leaks

And it seems we have at last the self-lacerating, clear-eyed therapy record Eminem's been promising since putting his career on hold back in 2005 in order to head off to rehab. On "Talkin 2 Myself," the rapper paints a portrait of a struggling Eminem in the booth, popping pills and contemplating d ... More >>

Jay-Z And Eminem Are Playing Yankee Stadium Together In September

Last night's Yankees-Tigers game was kinda dull, so good thing Eminem and Jay-Z were on hand to making just absolutely not at all awkward small talk with a couple bewildered white people as they announced a pair of co-headlining shows: September 2 at Comerica in Detroit, and, yes, September 13 at ... More >>

Eminem Can Still Rap, World. (So Can Black Thought.)

Every year, the BET Hip-Hop Awards--the 2009 edition of which aired last night--round up three or four different rapper cyphers, taped off-site and with somewhat counterintuitive gangs of MCs going in with what are ostensibly freestyles. Last year, Jadakiss, Fabolous, Juelz Santana, and Ace Hood t ... More >>

FOREVER THE SICKEST KID

Cage kicks off his tour with a record-release party in Brooklyn

Come On, The-Dream: Was "Obsessed" Really the Best Eminem Diss Song You Could Write for Mariah?

As you may recall, Eminem kicked off his press tour for Relapse by claiming that he had urinated on Mariah Carey, back when they were dating. She also makes a cameo or two on the actual album, in amongst the Kim Kardashian and Sarah Palin references. Her pint-sized husband, Nick Cannon, eventually ... More >>

Eminem's "Crack a Bottle" Video: Your Daily Reminder of the Boring Things That Go On In This Man's Head

One advantage to pop culture splintering into a million Twittered shards is that we no longer frequently experience moments when some sort of event--like, say, a grueling new Eminem album--takes over pretty much every available distribution channel and public space and then just loiters there for ... More >>

Today in Unfortunate Tim Pawlenty Metaphors: Just Like Eminem, Republicans Need to Regroup

The album sales of Relapse may tell a different story, but these days, it seems like it's only the Republicans who really care what Eminem gets up to--from Bill O'Reilly's "feminist" outrage about the porning of Sarah Palin in "We Made You" to the amusing news (via Hotline on Call) that, at Friday n ... More >>

Grizzly Bear Are Top Ten Material: Take That, Montgomery Gentry

The first week sales figures are in for Grizzly Bear, the scrappy, very well-exposed Brooklyn native sons whose Veckatimest seems to be the most all-around well-liked record of the year so far, certain critics at the Times notwithstanding. The band's sold 33,000 copies of their third studio album (n ... More >>

MTV Goes Back to the Eminem Gay Panic Well

Somehow it doesn't seem that likely that the MTV Movie Awards planning committee just happened to drop an in-character Sasha Baron Cohen (Bruno, coming soon!) balls-first onto an album-promoting, famously gay-hating Eminem, who, among other things, has only been one of the two or three most valuab ... More >>

Crime Pays Doesn't, Unless Your Name Happens to Be Eminem

Preliminary speculation says that Eminem's wildly uneven, mostly critically loathed, and excessively accented Relapse will sell somewhere in the vicinity of half a million copies between now and next Tuesday, smashing the sales of every other record released so far in 2009. Meanwhile, Cam'ron's Crim ... More >>

Eminem's Comeback Neither Shocks Nor Amuses

Eminem's Relapse Leaks

Being good upstanding internet citizens, we'll refrain from pointing you anywhere in particular, but know that Eminem's much anticipated and probably soon to be much loathed comeback LP, Relapse, has leaked. You will not be surprised to hear that celebrities and unrelentingly maddening accents featu ... More >>

Eminem Endorses Red Bull on New Song "For Old Time's Sake," Featuring Dr. Dre: "It's An Incredible Energy Drink," Says Rapper

I suppose that the excitement behind the promise of an Eminem comeback was the implication that the guy was coming back for a reason. He'd been in rehab in 2005. His best friend was shot and killed in 2006, the same year he remarried and then redivorced his wife. His daughter, whose baby talk and wi ... More >>

Eminem's "3 A.M." Leaks, and We Just Get Sadder and Sadder

What we're discovering as Eminem's long-awaited Relapse rolls out is that without threatening to rape and chop up his mom and wife, Marshall Mathers doesn't have a lot to say. This afternoon, "3 A.M." leaked, and it's another horror-core fantasy written from the perspective of a goofball serial kil ... More >>

On Asher Roth's "Silly Boy," or, the Newest Episode of the White Rapper Show

"I know your heart's broken, and that you miss me" Well, that didn't take long--behold, the first defensive, self-justifying, white rapper-on-white rapper beef of Asher Roth's career. In one corner: Copywrite, a no-account Ohio-born white guy who got kicked out of El-P's "supergroup" the Weatherman ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got into Fights!

Interview: Eminem's Mom Debbie Nelson on Her Son Marshall, Her New Book, Sending Slim Shady Holiday Checks

Five Magnificent Passages from My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem

This Week's Voice: Eminem's New Book, English Pop Divas, Role Models, Everycats in Achewood, and More

Eminem's Tragedy is Our Comedy in The Way I Am

Back in the closet with his new memoir

Everybutty Gitcha Dance On: Eminem's "I'm Having a Relapse"

Pint-Sized, Tea-Shunning Femme Mc Cleans Out Her Closet

Plan B: Rap as Spleen-Vent Expressionism

D12 Rapper Proof Murdered in Detroit This Morning

Slim Shady's Best-Of Set Lets Mass Market Work in His Favor

War Stories

50 and Eminem drip sweat and hit blood

The End of Eminem

Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.

Das Rongold

Reagan's funeral as a Wagnerian opera. Plus: Eminem as censor

Film

Caught on Tape

Eminem's racist rant says little that hasn't been said by black rappers before him

Letters

The Eminem Consensus

Why We Voted for Slim Shady

When I Reminisce

Hip-hop Movies Mythologize the Age of Innocence

Slim Swanee

Letters

The Eminem Shtick

What Makes a Bigot a Genius? Presiding Over Guilty Pleasures.

White American

Eminem Makes His Rock Move