Everybody in the streets and in the tweets might be too pre-occupied with Eminem vs. Nick Cannon right now to focus on anything else Slim Shady related. However, as the decade comes to an end it’s important to appreciate the best this crazy genre’s legends have given the fans. Not only has Em made a career of rapping his proverbial white ass off on his own tracks but the works of others as well.
From CD stores to preferred streaming services, seeing Eminem’s name pop up as a featured guest on a favorite artist’s album was enough to get even the most casual Hip Hop fan to jump for joy. He has never been one of those artists to simply phone-in a feature verse in attempts to secure an easy bag – in fact it could be argued that Em comes harder on his best guest verses than on the majority of his solo work (but that’s another article altogether).
Check out our list on Eminem’s 10 best guest verses and let us know in the comments which ones we missed!
10. Dr. Dre’s “What’s The Difference?”
Upon the release of The Good Doctor’s 2001 album, Eminem was steadily building buzz, notoriety and credibility in the Hip Hop space. His abrasive verse on “What’s The Difference” where he professes his love for Dre and hatred for his baby mama (again) managed to check all three boxes with his mean 16.
9. Nicki Minaj’s “Roman’s Revenge”
Despite the recent criticism surrounding Nicki Minaj’s legacy, there is no denying she has made some standout rap cuts and “Roman’s Revenge” is no exception. Her alter ego Roman Zolanski pops out for a crazily claustrophobic lyrical tirade while Em channels his Slim Shady persona for two snarling verses about dungeon dragons. Every gruesome aspect of Em’s lyrical Rolodex one could imagine comes eerily to life on this track.
8. Busta Rhymes’ “I’ll Hurt You (Remix)”
“I’ll Hurt You” is a picture-perfect canvas for Eminem to flex his lyrical dexterity. A rapid-fire violin beat courtesy of Scott Storch with a leadoff hit from Busta Rhymes would have had Em rabidly foaming at the mouth to get off a 16. Said 16-bar verse is executed to a tee as Em follows every single violin strum with a cascading rhyme about causing riots in the club with the Shady squad.
7. Lil Wayne’s “Drop The World”
Sure, Lil Wayne’s 2010 rock album Rebirth was noticeably weak. However, a sliver of saving grace comes from Em’s acoustic verse on “Drop the World.” Em uses a variety of different voices to match the variations in the beat. For the acoustic portion, he employs his mildly harmonized voice that is usually the calm before the rap storm. As the drums and bass kick back, Em then goes nuclear and raps with classic Slim Shady vigor.
6. Xzibit’s “Don’t Approach Me”
Before Xzibit was pimping rides, he was putting out above average rap music – even tracks tight enough that they warranted a feature from Slim Shady. “Don’t Approach Me” was a standout track from X’s Restless album that dealt with the fine art of avoiding unnecessary conflicts in the rap game. Em raps about all the drama he finds himself wrapped up in (some his own doing and some unsolicited) and what he’d willing to do to rid himself of pestering people. Whether it be “a parking lot dude,” Kim or the music business as a whole, Em is flagrantly chucking his middle fingers.
5. 50 Cent’s “Patiently Waiting”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsRUfh99ncA
50 Cent’s debut Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was chock-full of memorable Hip Hop moments and amongst them was Eminem’s verse on “Patiently Waiting.” It serves as, not necessarily as a torch-passing, but a serious Shady stamp of approval. What’s more intimidating than bars about spraying Uzis is when he describes the impact the Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit crew is about to have on the aught’s Hip Hop landscape: “Take some Big and some Pac and you mix ’em up in a pot/Sprinkle a little Big L on top, what the fuck do you got?/You got the realest and illest killers tied up in a knot/The juggernauts of this rap shit, like it or not.”
4.The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Dead Wrong”
Eminem had a lot of grizzly and gruesome verses but the crude crown jewel is his verse on Biggie’s “Dead Wrong.” The track appeared on Biggie’s first posthumous compilation album, Born Again, and doesn’t pull a single punch. The themes of menace and murder are felt down to the bone as Em raps “I just beat you to death/With weapons that eat through the flesh/And I never eat you unless the fuckin’ meat looks fresh.”
3. Dr. Dre’s “Forgot About Dre”
“Forgot About Dre” remains one of the most recognizable songs in the modern Hip Hop zeitgeist. Those iconic strings and the wah guitar plucks make it such a familiar beat to damn near everyone who has been to a party, club, wedding or literally any other place where popular music is played. Dre sets up the song with a very basic yet very Dre-esque verse while Eminem turns it completely on its head and brings listeners into one of his crazy fever-dream scenarios; filled with awkward eyes, barking dogs, a burnt-down house and a set of twin babies in a Mercedes-Benz.
2. Obie Trice’s “We All Die One Day”
Em performs best when he’s rapping over grimy, downright dirty beats alongside his Shady/Aftermath cohorts and Obie Trice’s “We All Die One Day” is the perfect canvas for Slim to get as dark as a cold Detroit night. Alongside 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks and Obie, Em mixes jokes, threats and mind-melting multi-syllabic rhymes to compliment the menacing posse cut. He even gets a good a shot in at Mariah Carey as he raps “I’m a psycho, Mariah ain’t got shit on me” but the best bars are easily “Shady Records, you better believe the hype is real/This is no joke, I don’t smoke/But I toke enough secondhand to make my fucking P.O. choke.”
1. JAY-Z’s “Renegade”
One of the oldest and most highly debated conversations in Hip Hop is whether or not Eminem bodied JAY-Z on “Renegade.” The track appeared on Jigga’s classic The Blueprint album which not only featured Eminem but was produced by him as well. While Nas’ “Ether” claims that Jay did in fact get “murdered on his own shit” by Slim Shady, there is a case to make for both MCs having the better performance. However, Eminem does thoroughly rip his venomous verses with conviction and disdain for his critics. Em has made a career off being transparent and self-aware but lines like “But I’m debated, disputed, hated and viewed in America as a motherfuckin’ drug addict, like you didn’t experiment?” are downright mindful in the most sinister way. Both of Em’s verses on this track are not only textbook rapping but also a perfect summation of Em’s controversial career.
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I’d put Caterpillar in there somewhere. Might be the best song he’s been on overall in the last few years.
I might not speak English well enough, but lemme tell ya something:
1) tracks where Em sets the whole song on fire while having only a chorus: “I can be” and “Drama setter”
2) Em having a verse or two as a guest:
“That’s all she wrote”, “Psycho”, “We Ain’t (he went NUTS on this one)”, “Who want it”, “Off the wall (not sure if he was as a guest there)”, “The Hills (Remix)”, “Best friend”, “Rainy days”.
Prolly a couple of decent features are missing
I’d replace I’ll Hurt You with What The Beat every day.
Medicine Man needs to be on this, absolutely ferocious on that track
No actual news so they just throw this congratulatory article to the God of trailer park trash.
I don’t know too many niggaz that actually believe Jay was better than Em on Renegade… And Jay fucking killed that track! But Em took that shit out of the stratosphere!
Should have included some of his underground collabos from pre-2000 like the one with The High & Mighty or Thirstin Howl or the Outsidaz. Nothing on this list is before MMLP, which is when he was at his best imo.
Em’s verse on renegade was done way prior to The Black Album. The track was originally for Royce, but when Jay called and wanted him on the album, that was all he could provide. Jay did his verse after hearing Em’s. Almost makes it worse. Check the original Renegades kids. He’s Royce, he’s the king of Detroit…..
The Blueprint ya mean
Way before the blueprint you mean
it was cause royce and em fell out during that time, royce got kicked off the label so it would’ve been a wasted track if jay never reached out
DMX – go to sleep??
The Lox – Welcome to D block???
It’s okay, I’ll wait for y’all to replace the Wayne and Nicki songs with those two…
Also, Lloyd Banks – Warrior part 2?
Cmonnnnn man
Obie Trice – Lady
Damn that’s already 4 songs that can replace some of this “top 10”.
Game’s first joint could be argued as well as Em’s other verse on fif’s album..
The best Eminem guest verse was on Madd Rapper’s album.
Replace Roman’s Revenge with Don’t Push Me
I’ll Hurt You (Remix) with Forever
Drop the World with Warrior 2
What about em on thirsten howl the 3rds track Watch this…. it’s a very old track and a bit obscure for anyone not into indie rap. But still great track.
That shit is so much darker than Dead Wrong which made the list for being dark.
Why do yall keep dropping these random Eminem editorials???
A lot of the writers on here are white eminem groupies.
They also know that he gets clicks. If your favorite unknown trap rapper isn’t getting articles, it cause he doesn’t get clicks. It’s basic 101.
If that was true, they wouldn’t have butchered this list. I know opinions are opinions, but if who ever wrote this article went through these comments and listened to the songs mentioned, 80% of this list would change.
Me or you might not like em or have him in a top 5… But he sells, sells more than anyone, attracts more business than anyone. lyrical and attracts more everything than anyone so yeah… If you blame them for Eminem articles, you just salty.
If em was black would we be talking like he’s the goat?
Definitely. Nobody in their right might will say Jayz wasn’t overshadowed in Renegade, and Jayz verse was fantastic. Jayz is top 5. When someone easily overshadows Jayz, it’s safe to say people are interested in skill, not skin color. I hate eminem personally, and think he’s been absolute trash for a decade now, but with that said, his classics and talent in the early 2000s was amazing, and definitely deserves him a spot in the most legendary hiphop artists.
You need to listen to Kamikaze. Fire! Plus all the features he’s done this year have been fire! Every single one. Rainy days, Homicide, Lord Above plenty more fire! Listen to Dre ft em medicine man Then come back and tell me he’s trash
I can’t stand any of those songs honestly, but hey, to each their own. The style and flow to me lack originality, and if eminem had rapped that way from the start, he wouldn’t be in the league he’s in. He’d be placed with rappers like G Eazy and Tech 9ine. And yes, Tech is very talented. But he isn’t a goat, and Eminem gets goat status from his classic albums, not his new.
tech’s not a goat? he’s been completely independent his entire career. no marketing machine just him getting to it. one of the most lyrical versatile mc’s out there and i’m really even a fan! tech is up there
No Favors, Homicide, Welcome to D Block, Drama Setter (chorus), There They Go, Say My Name, Caterpillar
Majesty > Romans Revenge
Does Off The Wall with Redman count?
Obie Trice – Richard (feat Eminem) how is this song not on the list??? He has one of his craziest verses on there! And although unofficial, J-Black – Hellbound (Feat Masta Ace & Eminem) to me, his illest verse ever written by anyone!
I”ll puke, eat it to freak you, battle, im too evil to speak to. The only key that I see to defeat you.” That shit is fire!!!
if Eminem didn’t try to be funny earlier on and rapped well, about something else that wasn’t trying to be funny, I would have a higher regard for him. he released that diss about president trump before or after he was elected not sure he wanted to scaremonger everyone. four years almost gone by and trump hasn’t done all that bad IMO. lets drink to four more. M.A.G.A..
Not doing that bad? He just got impeached. Fucking hell, Trump and Clinton supporters are a delusional bunch.
Impeached by a partisan chamber for non crimes, and guess what? This impeachment doesn’t have a single mention of Russian collusion or Robert Mueller investigation. Geeee, I wonder why! If u think impeachment is an indication of Trumps success, your being willfully ignorant. The house won’t even send the articles of impeachment to the Senate, because this is purely a political ploy, being used as leverage. It’s no different than the Mueller investigation. Just an action meant to obstruct Trump until the election, where he will easily wipe the floor with opposition, and pick up well over a million more votes than last time. U can pretend u have an idea of the way things will go, but I’ve been right for years straight, and Trump critics have been wrong, time after time.
Clinton got impeached… For lying to congress. Guess what happened? The senate acquitted him, because lying about sex wasn’t something they believed was very criminal. The.gueds what happened? Clinton’s approval rating exploded. He gained lots of support.
He rode the beat but his lyrics on I’ll Hurt You were terrible. There are loads of better choices. Calm Down was a way better Busta collab. Medicine Man, Best Friend, We Shine, Off The Wall were also better.
Terrible choices here. These were some good verses but Eminem has had better features; Dre ft Eminem Medicine man, Yella ft Em – Best Friend,
boogie ft em -Rainy days, Drake,Kanye,Wayne, Em – Forever , Royce ft em Caterpillar, Logic Ft Em Homicide, Fat Joe ft em – Lord Above, These are just a few I can think of which are better. There are plenty of verses where Em kills it
Yikes, you have that modern shitty eminem taste! No, more like Off The Wall, Stir Crazy, What The Beat…. His old school flow was other worldly!
Your choices are horrendous. U must listen to a lot of radio
Good lord these features that Addy’s listed are trash.! Second Jay, Off the Wall was insane.
I don’t know how you didn’t put, “All She Wrote” on the list and no one even mentioned. It’s one of his fastest and most lyrical tracks to this day.
Have to say it but in 2019, we were scared to see a “feat. Eminem” tag on any track. Especially for his Shady signings, his verses tanked on the Boogie and Griselda records. Dude is oblivious to the vibe of the song he’s on and just does him. Used to body rappers left and right, please hang it up now though ‘Em or respect the song you’re on smh.
Where’s Medicine Man?..
I wonder what Eminem looks like without all of that makeup
Makeup?? U kiddin me? He doesn’t even use makeup
When I saw this article I immediately played Renegade. Still surprised Forgot About Dre isn’t #1–but #3. Best Friend and Caterpillar should be on here.
Caterpillar sure, but best friend? Nah.
Thirstin howl ft eminem – watch deez
no mention of “Remember Me” ? weird.
Slaughterhouse–our house
#10 through #2 was suspenseful enough…
no mention of “Remember Me” ? weird