Rapper Eminem opened up the 2010 MTV VMAs Sunday night (Sept 12) at the Nokia Theater in L.A. Em pumped up the crowd with his hit single “Not Afraid” and later brought out R&B singer Rihanna to perform “Love The Way You Lie.” Eminem ended up taking home 2 moonmen last night in the “Best Hip-Hop Video” and “Best Male Video” categories for “Not Afraid.” [ READ MORE... ]
Eminem's Recovery Leaks Two Weeks Early, as the release date wasn't slated until June 22, 2010. That's good news for those of us who are big Eminem fans. Fan forums immediately blew up with reviews on the rapper's second album, loving the many different sounds Eminem comes up with. The opening track, "Cold Wind Blows," finds him taking aim at some of his favorite targets, viciously daring haters to take him on while dropping references to Elton John, Michael Vick and Mariah Carey. The leak comes less than a week after the online debut of [ READ MORE... ]
Eminem is back. Selling an impressive 608,000 copies in its first week, his latest album Relapse announced the rapper's comeback in a big way. And now, to further cement his return, Eminem will be hitting the MTV Movie Awards stage, for one of his first live-TV performances in years. Eminem had a top-secret, closed-door rehearsal at the Gibson Amphitheatre late Saturday night for Sunday's show, and MTV News' Sway caught up with the Detroit MC on his way in to the theater to talk about his recent success and what has surprised him lately. [ READ MORE... ]
Sir Elton John could feature on the new album by rapper Eminem- according to reports. The Independent newspaper says the pair were spotted together in a Detroit studio late last year and may have recorded together. A source told them: “He stayed half a week… No one realised the significance, though the Detroit Free Press did mention that Elton had been in town. “He and Em worked together before, when they did that duet at the Grammys, and had always said that they'd record something original together. Em has huge respect for Elto [ READ MORE... ]
Rapper Eminem will perform a duet with Barney the Purple Dinosaur at next year's Grammy Awards, recording industry sources revealed today. Producers of next year's telecast indicated that the rapper and the dinosaur would most likely join forces on Barney's hit song, "I Love You, You Love Me." Children's advocacy groups immediately blasted Eminem for agreeing to share the stage with the controversial dinosaur, whose odious, insipid songs are anathema to parents across the country, especially those who have to take long car trips with small c [ READ MORE... ]
Walk into a major bookstore these days and you'll probably see a TV playing clips from Wanted, which opens today. Nearby, you'll see a collection of Wanted, a six-issue comic book published in 2004. Wesley and Fox are played by James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie in the film version of Wanted, but in the comic (above), J.G. Jones drew them to resemble Eminem and Halle Berry. But what's in those pages is very different from what's on the screen. Both stories begin with a woman named Fox recruiting a cubicle jockey named Wesley Gibson to take [ READ MORE... ]
After all, Eminem isn’t getting fat on a Caribbean island like some of the reports have said. Rather, he's pranking LL Cool J with phone calls while the J is on a radio show. LL Cool J was a guest on Tony Touch’s Toca Tuesday show, a show on Eminem’s Sirius Satellite radio station, Shade 45, and a fan called in and identified himself as “Jason from Miami.” Jason went on to say that he was a die-hard Cool J fan and challenged the Deep Blue Sea star to a “Name That Tune” with J’s lyrics. “I don’t know if I’ll be [ READ MORE... ]
