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It took the very end of the show for Slim Shady to meet Iron Mike in a brief moment. Very cool.

Eminem did an interview with The Guardian‘s Anthony Bozza, the man who once wrote a bio of his life. He gets candid on a few topics and takes a piss during the interview.

Writer’s Block

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I could write rhymes. But I wasn’t able to write anything that was good and up to my standards. This went on for two, probably three years. It was the worst case of writer’s block. Going through that I felt like shit. Me, personally, if I don’t write all the time, if a couple of weeks go by and I’m not writing, I feel shitty. I need to write, just as little exercises to feel like I’m doing something.

No Tracklist Yet For Relapse 2

It was a relief for me to not worry about the beats and strictly focus on writing and what the hell I wanted to say. It took a lot of the stress off. But “Beautiful” is a different story. That song is the only one out of a whole batch of songs – probably three or four albums’ worth of material – that I recorded in the time I was gone. I did all of that when I wasn’t sober and that is literally the only song that’s on this record. I don’t know if any of the others are going to make it to Relapse II, which I plan to release later this year, because I haven’t picked out those songs yet.

The Disappointment of Encore

Honestly, I’m not really angry at anything right now. I’m OK with my life and what’s going on right now. This is not really an emotionally driven album. There are a couple of songs, “Beautiful” being one of them, that touch on where I am emotionally, but it goes there without getting too dark. The overall theme of the record is to have a centre. I feel like I lost that on my last albums. Encore is a good record but I don’t feel like it was a great record for me. It wasn’t quite up to what I feel like my personal standards are for myself. It wasn’t all that I’m capable of doing.

Noz pays tribute to one of the magazine issues that changed my life. I remember how ill I thought it was that they had the baby pictures inside. Wow. Queens still runs you niggas—ask Joseph Simmons. Ha!

Who the. Bluck. Want. What.

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Last night, Drakemania hit the Windy City and despite another cool, “Say You Will” freestyle in which Drake insisted he’s still unsigned and bigged up Nah Right’s Nation, a fuckin’ fight broke out that ended the show prematurely. Look at Lupe hold back Drizzy after the jump. So cute.

The future Bad Boy brings the second of three versions of his New York banger. This time around, you got Juelz Santana, Lloyd Banks, Diddy and Busta Rhymes passin’ the mic. And oh yeah, the woman on here (Lore’l) ain’t helpin’ the sad state of female rap.

Shout: Splash, who has all the versions currently available including instrumental. Make your own version! Ha.

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Confession: I like the first remix best with Ross’ “Dyn-o-mite” line. I’m a sucker for a Good Times reference. Peace Aqua.

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Janet’s boo is still jockin’ Jay-Z and has created the most bizarre supergroup in music history. I blame the man below for making me lose 5 minutes out of my precious life. Time to resurrect the memo: No more JD posts. No more music by the suckers.

B.Dot Edit: YN’s yellow bellied. This is dope!

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Look who’s really been gettin’ his social networkin’ on lately. Wyclef did a live concert from his studio for his 100k Facebook fans. Let’s see who’s gonna try to top this on Twitter. Ha!

From The Man Himself: Wyclef Jean’s Blog 

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Here’s a preview. More can be found here. I’ll be watching if the wife doesn’t make me take her to see Star Trek. 

Reminder: Icedotcom

I don’t know about you, but I miss mixtapes. The real mixtapes, that were really CDs! Ah. Life before Drama. Ha! No shots. Shout-out to my solider O and the Canal Street and LES connects. We put that work in. And I got the 66 CD binders to prove it.

Gotty woke up this morning and got his digitize on. Here’s all of the DJ Clue Grand Theft Audio mixtape series.

Props Again: The Smoking Section

Hey, hit me if you got a mixtape request I might have to get my fingernails dirty again. Piracy Forever! For Promotional Use Only! Ha!