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Eminem shakes things up in the music video for “Doomsday Pt. 2,” which finds the rap legend wreaking havoc while joined by a handful of today’s esteemed lyricists.
Directed by Cole Bennett, the visual captures the self-proclaimed “Rap God” roaming the halls of an office as various lighting fixtures collapse and break. Clad in a black button shirt, yellow tie, and black and yellow Jordan IV’s, Em takes a quick peek from behind the curtain before emerging back into the the clip’s end.
Additional cameos are made by a list of mentees and collaborators of the 8 Mile legend, including Big Sean, Swae Lee, JID, Cordae, Babytron, Denzel Curry and more. The “Doomsday 2” music video was released on Wednesday (March 13), coinciding with the annual 313 Day celebration in Em’s hometown of Detroit.
Released in January as part of Lyrical Lemonade‘s All Is Yellow album, “Doomsday Pt. 2” finds Slim Shady taking aim at longtime nemesis Benzino, as he pokes fun at the rapper and former magazine owner’s physical features.
“Now I got a riddle, one condition, you mustn’t laugh/ What is the opposite of Benzino? A giraffe/ Go at his neck/ how the f**k is that?/ How can I go at somethin’ he doesn’t have?/ Arm so short he can’t even touch his hands,” the 51-year-old raps.
He then highlights the Boston native’s recent string of financial woes, rhyming, “Sorry, I don’t mean (What?) to upset you, Ben’/ When I talk about all the debt you in” among other jabs. Eminem’s mention of Benzino prompted the lyricist to fire back with a pair of diss records, first responding with “Vulturious” before continuing to lash out at the Grammy Award winner on “Rap Elvis.”
However, during an appearance on Drink Champs in February, Benzino, who appeared to be intoxicated, claimed to no longer have any ill will towards Eminem. “I don’t have nothing against Eminem. He can rap but I care about us more,” the 58-year-old said.
“I don’t want to talk about it no more. [Coi Leray] came into the industry figuring ‘I gotta be cool with Eminem because everybody is against my dad.’ I don’t hate Eminem. I don’t know him to hate him. I don’t hate white people tired of this sh*t, man. It’s just too much. I don’t want to be the bad guy…Eminem ain’t no bad person. He belongs in Hip-Hop. It’s a big racist problem in America right now, and Eminem could probably stop half of it.”
Watch Benzino’s Drink Champs interview below.
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The Libertines have revealed that they’ve bought the bathtub that Jim Morrison died in for their Margate hotel, The Albion Rooms.
The band released their fourth album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ last Friday (April 5), marking their first full-length record in almost a decade. It is currently on course to hit Number One in the UK.
During a new interview with Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât talked about achieving their “dream” of opening their own Libertines hotel and studio space in 2020.
“We’ve also got the bathtub that Jim Morrison died in, which we’re going to be putting in one of the rooms,” Doherty explained at one point in the chat.
The frontman of The Doors passed away in Paris in 1971 aged 27. He was found dead in the bathtub of the apartment he was staying in, with the official cause of death being ruled as heart failure. Due to French law, however, no autopsy was carried out as no foul play was suspected at the time.
Doherty continued: “There’s a fellow who my wife’s cousin knows, and his cousin was basically the landlord. And he’s not interested in music, and even less interested in music mythology, and so he’s just been going on about this bathtub which people have been trying to buy off him.
He added: “And so I said to Carl – and obviously, Carl’s known me for years, knows I do have a tendency to exaggerate and… well, lie – but this one is the bang honest truth and it’s actually there.”
The revelation came after Barât explained that he had purchased another piece of rock memorabilia: Jimi Hendrix‘s coat. “Someone convinced me to buy it in an auction. It was going cheap,” the musician said.
“It was because there was about to be a movie come out and André 3000 was playing Jimi Hendrix [in 2013’s Jimi: All Is By My Side], and it was going to really revitalise the Hendrix estate and all of the sort of bric-a-brac…”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Barât explained: “We set up this hotel with grand ambitions and a lot of objectives of which we achieved.
“Now, personally, being very close to it and having to deal with a lot more of the runnings and whatnot, I think we’ve done that. And I think what we really need is a studio where the artists can stay there. We don’t have to shove them down the road.”
Barât gave NME a tour of The Albion Rooms in Margate when it first opened its doors. “The band live in three different countries, and the only thing that really binds us without something like this is tour schedules,” he said at the time.
“To have a place that’s our own HQ and that we all have equal ownership of and equal input in – that was the dream.” You can revisit the video tour and interview above.
The Libertines would go on to record ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ at The Albion Rooms.
Doherty told NME last October: “The other albums were basically written before we went in the studio. This time it was a case of people presenting really strong ideas, and then everyone else just tucking in, putting their bibs on, rolling up their sleeves and chewing the fat.
“There were so many times on this album where I thought I knew what the song was, and then it became completely different for the best.”
In a four-star review of ‘…Eastern Esplanade’, NME praised the band for “find[ing] their voice again”, adding: “For the first time in over 20 years, The Libertines feel like a band with a viable future.”
The Libertines recently added more shows to their 2024 UK and Ireland headline tour. Find any remaining tickets here.
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