Re: New XXL Magazine With Shady/Aftermath Interveiws:
New XXL magazine with shady/aftermath interviews:
Eve, Game, Busta and Dre on the cover...There is an article on all of them...
excerpt:
"XXL: What happened with rakim? Because, you know, people say that Dre has this thing where people get signed but it might take a minute for their record to come out.
Dre: "[Laughing] It's pretty much a person's work ethic, you know what I'm saying? If you take one step towards me I'ma take two towards you. Nobody's gonna get in that studio and work harder than me---at least that's my attitude. If you come in there and you're tryna do that you're gonna get an album done. If I feel like you're not giving 100 percent, I'ma back off of it and it's as simple as that. And that's not to take anything away from Rakim, because I'm still gonna work with Rakim---wherever he goes with his record."he also says this about Detox:
"I've decided within the last two weeks or so that I wasn't gonna do another album---so I totally cancelled out the idea of me doing the Detox album."
Joe Budden responds to Game:
"Me and Game is over with, he said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. I dare one of them *****s to say something back---Banks, 50, Buck, Yayo---any one of them on a record. Then I'ma start talking. No freestyles, no punch lines."
The Game responds to Budden:
"Joe Budden is a real coward but I already knew he wasn't that type of a guy; he ain't hard body or nothing but he took a shot at G-Unit on a DJ Clue mixtape..." also, "Joe Budden is a fruitcake. They know it and I know it---the world know it."
New D12 article....
excerpt:
Eminem on "Fight Music"'s success: "And i'll tell you, one of the things that really kinda f**ked up the momentum of the first D12 album is that after we put out "Purple Pills," 9/11 happened. We had just shot the video for "Fight Music," and wasn't nobody tryin' to hear "Fight Music" after 9/11 happened. MTV was like, 'No, we ain't playin' this video. We can't.' The whole world was in mourning, so "Fight Music" fell flat on its face, pretty much. If "Fight Music" would have took off, I think it would have brought more people to the album and made them listen and realize the caliber of the songs that's on there." also,
"XXL: So how do you guys feel about the new album?
Slim: With this album, we wanted to mix it up and just get heat from everywhere. Bizarre, Proof, everybody just started getting beat CDs from anybody. Like, Bizarre stays in Atlanta now, so he gets beat CDs from talent there and brings it back to us. Every record sounds different on this album. That, to me, is gonna show the growth of D12. Plus, when we do D12 albums, man, we just feel like it's a friendly competition thing to see who gets on the track and just rips."
"XXL: All right. Any final thoughts?
SWIFT: The album is ridiculous.
BIZARRE: The Detroit Pistons are gonna win the championship this year. They just got Rasheed Wallace.
PROOF: Rasheed Wallace, what's up with my twin brother?
KON ARTIS: Jill Scott is on our album too.
KUNIVA: No she's not.
KON ARTIS: Jill Scott, Usher and Mary J. Blige.
KUNIVA: We startin' our own rumors and nuts.
KON ARTIS [to Bizarre]: Hey, man, I called you today. What the f**k is up with your voicemail?!"
New Lloyd Banks advertisement...
called, "Hunger for More"...Dropping May 2004...
new D12 advertisement...
Credit to D12 Message Board