Eminem hasn’t forgotten about the comments Melle Mel made about him earlier this year, addressing them in a firestorm of deadly bars on Ez Mil‘s new track, “Realest.”
Due to be officially released on Friday (August 4), the track leaked a few hours early on Reddit — much to the delight of Slim Shady’s fanbase, as well as those wanting to hear what his new Shady/Aftermath/Interscope signee has cooked up.
“Hip Hop has been good to me, huh/ But when they say that I’m only Top 5 ’cause I’m white, why would I be stunned?” Eminem spits. “My skin color’s still working against me/ ‘Cause second, I should be, to none/ Bein’ white being why they put me at five (Nope)/ That’s why they can’t put me at one.”
Continuing to stare down his critics, he adds: “And that is the only retort, is I’m not played in the clubs/ Muthafucka, put a cork in it/ Only reason they still play your shit in the clubs is because you still perform in ’em/ I am a guest in this house, but I turned this bitch into a mansion.”
Then turning his attention to Melle Mel, Em raps: “Shoutout to Furious Five and Grandmaster Flash, but boy/ There’s someone who really is furious/ Stay out his path, his wrath avoid/ I’ll be the last to toy with a juice head whose brain is half destroyed, like a meteor hit it/ Now with Melle Mel, he lost his ass to ‘roids.”
UPDATE: Check out the full song below. “Allow me to introduce you to @ezekielmiller in the REALEST possible way!!!” Eminem said of the track on Instagram.
Eminem’s bars aimed at Melle Mel are in response to comments he made about the Detroit rapper back in March, claiming that his reverence in Hip Hop only existed because of his skin color.
“Obviously he’s a capable rapper,” Melle Mel told The Art of Dialogue. “If you was talking about sales, he’s sold more than everybody. If you were talking about rhyme style, okay he got a rhyme style. But he’s white. He’s white!
“So now if Eminem was another n-gga like all the rest of us, would he be Top 5 on that list when a n-gga that could rhyme just as good as him is 35? That had records and all that? He’s 35. He’s white.”
He continued: “And anybody could be as mad … They could feel how they wanna feel. If you don’t think that race plays a part in the equation of how great he is — I heard one of the dudes that’s down with him, Royce Da 6’9″ [mislabelling Royce Da 5’9″] or one of those – I heard he’s just as good as Eminem. Why he ain’t as big as Eminem? Because he’s Black! Ain’t none of that shit hard to figure out. Eminem gets a top spot because he’s white.”
In the same interview, Eminem caught another stray from Melle Mel while he was shading Kendrick Lamar.
“Nobody wants to rap like Kendrick Lamar. Nobody wants to rap like Eminem,” he said. “A lot of people wanted to rap, like ‘Pac and Biggie.”
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Thank you Eminem, you’ve been humble enough against people that are not even close to your GOAT status, now it’s time to fire back.
You own this house they used to own, it’s been 27 years now, still no one better than Eminem.
Just because you hate yourself don’t mean we do. ✊🏽
Eminem is what he said he is, not the owner l, but the renovator.
We not doing no more Elvis’ in this. Hip Hop is ours.
Shut your whining up.
Man, “hiphop is ours”. Not really, when a white guy is the top selling in EVERY nation as far as American hiphop artists go hahah. And FYI, I wouldn’t be very proud of “owning hiphop” at this point. It’s become pop junk. Can’t remember the last mainstream album I really liked… maybe gkmc or something from those years.
There simply is no more such thing as hip hop. It’s simply too mainstream. Too political, too racial, too much money involved and too many times we’ve SEEN that it’s all bulshid. Dogg pound break up, Pac selling out BIG for fame, Suge destroying Death Row, Wu Tang aaint been in the studio together for 20 years and talkin isht about each other, Nas is a drunk wifebeater, Tim Dog convicted for extorting women, ETC ETC ETC. I JUST DONT BELIEVE IT ANYMORE. FTW.
Wu-Tang made an album in 2014. Were you getting your information from? NAS is drunk? This dude is featured in a Sprite commercial running right now. Damn do some research
There’s something wrong when you are that old and everything is still black/white for you.
Although problems were and will always be around I feel like 20 or 30 years ago stuff was better in some ways. Racism overall didn’t get any less, it’s growing.
I don’t care what Melle said. You don’t make a diss track to someone of his status. He is a god of Hip-Hop. The Message verse is the greatest in Hip-Hop history.
He is wrong to bring race into it…but Em is wrong to respond immaturely. Melle Mel is bigger than a battle song.
Bro, who gives a f#ck. It’s just a song, no need to take it so personal. I bet you were upset when Em used to make fun of lindsay lohan lol
Not it isn’t! Come on. That was back in the days of “1,2 buckle my shoe” type rapping. Its a decent verse, but the greatest in hip hop history?! No way.
So are we not allowed to battle? I thought everyone talked about the good old days on this site?
@J Were you born this slow or were you in an accident or something?
This is rap. ANYBODY can get it. Especially when they fired the first shot.
I like Em but hes not allowed to say anything to Melle Mel. Guest in this house lines can be misinterpreted as racist when I know that wasnt his intention. Overall not a good look. There are dope white emcees, but they shouldnt even mention or talk about how white they are. There should be no mention of whiteness in hip hop. If youre white and you rap, just rap.
Lmao. Who cares? Why do u care if a white person talks about race or their skin color? Hiphop is owned by anyone. It’s art. Anyone can say and do whatever tf they want tom
It’s about coming into black music with a sense of respect.
Agreed…. Here’s the thing. Em came in with respect. Made his impact and started getting disrespected. At that point, you’re defending yourself. Melle Mel said he’d beat Em in a battle…So Em responded. It ain’t race. He addressed Game here too with that club line
“You’re a guest in our house but you turned it into a mansion?” So he’s saying hip hop wouldn’t be $&@? Without Eminem huh? I like Eminem, I do not like that line at all. I know all these new age house ni@@as will love it tho.
He’s basically explaining how Em popularized hiphop worldwide more than any artist in history, which is objectively true considering outside of USA album sales.
Ja rule, DMX, Lil Wayne, LUDa, Outkast, Kanye….. they had alot to do with that too… Em probaly put in a few windows… but let’s not go crazy
Always gotta answer hip hop 101. If you don’t youre finished
“Tears into”? He should’ve remained silent on Mel and unless Jamar said something new I don’t get why he mentions any of that. Average bars too
Once again a black man is allowed to be openly racist just say it melle your bitter af
Em has every right to punch Melle Mel in his reckless mouth on wax.
This song is so trash. Can Em accept the challenge and make a club song or at least a 16 bar verse without dissing someone that won’t diss game. Just diss game. Not melly mel legendary old ass. Not culture king nick cannon. Not r&b star mariah. Not magazine owner benzino. Not taking on 50s beef with ja. But actually diss the guy coming straight at you. Game said you cant penetrate the culture after all these years and he is right. Diss that man.
Clubs are wack, along with all music played in them
Yeah, Em had a hard time penetrating the culture that idolized Lil Uzi, DA Baby,, Kodak Black, and Drake lol. True to some extent, because guess what… em is white. Being white, he has different life experience to tell. Obviously not as many black people want to hear about a white man’s life, and more white people are interested to hear aboit a white man’s life instead of a black man’s. Idk why that should surprise anyone. Hell, Obama mostly appealed to black voters because he himself is black… well, brown. Then many realized he was no different than Bush or Clinton.
I liked Em style when he first came out. Buts I never liked the Ja rule dis. Ja was just as raw as Em but not a battle rapper, just making hits. The Game also make hits and he came at Em hard. Em has yet to do to Game what he tried to do to Ja. The Game proved he’s a Hall of Famer by still standing after G-Unit. If Em want Game to shut up. Then he needs to come shut him up. This song won’t do it.
Typical Eminem. He only “battles” those who cannot respond. He dissed Britney, Xtina, Destiny’s Child, N’Sync – so a lot of hardcore rappers as you see. He dissed Everlast in his blues days, a pop-punk singer called MGK and a very stupid rapper who committed career suicide with his 1st single named Canibus. Now he’s dissing an old man who is a forefather of the style. Is this what you call a beef history? Is this a rap god? Eminem has a bunch of good albums and good songs but overall he’s one of the most overrated artists ever. He’s Dr. Dre’s meme that went too far.
Exactly!
Except.. Em dissed the hell out of ja rule, he went at dialated, Cage, budden, suge (if dre didnt stop him) puffy, jd, snoop, royce got a jab, benzino, and came at game for the club banger comment on this one. So just stop. Not ems foult that rappers fear him in battles. He responded to everryone who called him out
You can say about EM what you want，but I also don’t see him being scared of battling real rappers. If there is something to say then more so that he involves too much in battles. By now I would just say f… it，there isn’t shot to proof anymore. And yeah..Iam not even the biggest fan of his stuff.
what about Ja Rule, Cannibus, Benzino? ya’ll clap infested dookie eaters love to leave that part out, and he wasn’t battling N sync and them, he was poking fun at the type of music they make, pop music.. where as he ACtually battled Ja Ben and Cannibus…..gobble another one up
Well, who do you expect Em to diss? JayZ? Nas? They like each others music, and respect each other as people, so why would Em diss them? Just like, why would they diss Em? They aren’t, and he isn’t. People generally don’t just diss people for no reason , especially if they have a load of respect for their musical work. But yeah, Em would diss boy bands which is funny, considering that Em has become a form of pop rap over the years.
He took a shot at the game in the song but you’re too ignorant to catch it
I wonder why he ain’t respond to game? He only responds to ppl. He know he can out rap.
I wonder why he ain’t respond to game? He only responds to ppl. He know he can out rap.
The line about “Only reason they still play your shit in the clubs is because you still perform in ’em” is directly at Game.
Those bars Em spittin’ before he turned on Melle was about The Game 🤣. Y’all forgot. Game the one that said nobody plays Em music in the clubs. That line “cause you still perform in ’em” is a low blow reference to Game supposedly was rumored to being a male stripper back in the day.
Those bars Em spittin’ before he turned on Melle was about The Game 🤣. Y’all forgot. Game the one that said nobody plays Em music in the clubs. That line “cause you still perform in ’em” is a low blow reference to Game supposedly was rumored to being a male stripper back in the day.
Those bars Em spittin’ before he turned on Melle was about The Game. Y’all forgot. Game the one that said nobody plays Em music in the clubs. That line “cause you still perform in ’em” is a low blow reference to Game supposedly was rumored to being a male stripper back in the day.
Those bars Em spittin’ before he turned on Melle was about The Game. Y’all forgot. Game the one that said nobody plays Em music in the clubs. That line “cause you still perform in ’em” is a low blow reference to Game supposedly was rumored to being a male stripper back in the day.
Those bars Em spittin’ before he turned on Melle was about The Game. Y’all forgot. Game the one that said nobody plays Em music in the clubs. That line “cause you still perform in ’em” is a low blow reference to Game supposedly was rumored to being a male stripper back in the day.
Those bars Em spittin’ before he turned on Melle was about The Game🤣. Y’all forgot. Game the one that said nobody plays Em music in the clubs. That line “cause you still perform in ’em” is a low blow reference to Game supposedly was rumored to being a male stripper back in the day.
Those bars Em spittin’ before he turned on Melle was about The Game🤣. Y’all forgot. Game the one that said nobody plays Em music in the clubs. That line “cause you still perform in ’em” is a low blow reference to Game supposedly was rumored to being a male stripper back in the day.
Sorry. No one is thnking about Game but you Dhalsim. You’re reaching.
Never was a rumor – his stage name was “Pinky” and he had a tongue ring
Some of the comments in here are hilariously delusional. Melle Mel isn’t some defenseless little flower child that needs to be protected. He’s a grown man running his mouth about another grown man. A rapper isn’t allowed to respond to another rapper talking smack? Seriously do some of you even understand hip hop? As for respect… That’s a two way street. Being respectful doesn’t mean you have to take disrespect.
Eminem can say what the f@#k he want! Fuck that niqqa up!
Yet another horrible Em song and beat. His music is unlistenable. He has all the skill in the word,, but puts out wack ass music. SMH
Yet another horrible Em song and beat. His music is unlistenable. He has all the skill in the word,, but puts out wack ass music. SMH
What`s funny about the juice line is that both Dr. Dre and 50 cent does roids.
So no article on the downfall of datpiff then smh
So no article on the downfall of datpiff then smh
really you sittin on 500 plus million minimum cash at hand and you goin at the man who dropped the message who if lucky dont have a mcmansion paid off I do wish a real OG would drop a no vasleine towards em but stans will blackball em gotta be 1 OG with enough money hard to diss a group of almost billionaires though haha cuz dre gotta get it too for cosigning but em got fif in his pocket
Being a roid head in your 60’s is crazy . That’s way past a midlife crisis
Lol broken glass everywhere, everytime I try to step I shit my underwear
Em is slick putting words together n rap battles but nobody bumps his shit to get pumped up at da gym or in da hood maybe at white peoples trailer parks n that’s no diss to him dudes in da hoods like him but ain’t crazy about him he’s just there real hood cats bump Mobb Deep ,MoP,NWA,2pac,Sean P,The Lox motherfuckers that bin thru hood shit in real life,,,,as for Melly Mel he’s right in some ways but as old as he is sometimes silence is better than ur opinion u gotta live n let live….
What are you talking about? Till I Collapse and Lose Yourself are two of the most popular gym songs ever and is frequently played in sports stadiums. I hate to break it to you but what gets played in your local slum isn’t a barometer for anything.
I like EM. He’s ok. Not my top 25, but he can rap. But rap about what?. His content & subject matters are horrible… Stan was awesome, loose ya self was awesome.. but a lot of his music just don’t appeal to me. It’s like fake anger and cool wordplay… that kinda means nothing overall. But Melly is a pioneer old ass hater… get him em… but the song was kinda corny
Eminem scared to respond to icp