Although Detroit legend Eminem has collaborated with a wide range of artists, there’s one collab in particular that never came to be.
According to Loudwire, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi passed on featuring Em on his debut solo album, Iommi.
While speaking at the Musicians Institute, Iommi reportedly revealed that Eminem expressed interest in being featured on the album, but at the time he was unaware of who the rapper was, and ultimately passed on a collab.
Released in 2000, Iommi was filled with guest appearances, including ones from the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and actor/musician Henry Rollins.
While Eminem was unable to shoot his shot on Iommi, he did do some dabbling in the world of rock. Back in 2001, Em linked with Marilyn Manson for a rock version of The Marshall Mathers LP track, “The Way I Am.”
The Motor City rapper has also sampled various rock songs on his records. “Going Through Changes,” which is featured on 2010’s Recovery, includes a sample of Black Sabbath’s “Changes.”
News of Tony Iommi’s collab curve comes as fans eagerly await the release of Eminem’s next studio album.
His loss. 17 years later and i still don’t know who he is so its pretty funny that he would act like he didn’t know who eminem was in 2000 when he was one of the most recognizable and controversial musicians on earth.
I don’t follow mainstream rap anymore, and I am always finding out about guys who have been popular for a year or more that I was unaware of. I just learned of XXXTentacion, and he’s apparently been famous for awhile now. It’s not really hard to believe that a rocker still knew very little about a popular rapper only one year after he had made his mainstream debut.
well hey at least he doesn’t have to regret doing a song with Em who 17 years later turn out to be a liberal cuck who has Hillary Clinton put words into his mouth
hahahaha sit.down.man.
Hahahaha you obviously never heard what Em said about Hillary. You should go sit down you trumptard millennial
“Hilary Clinton tried to slap me and call me a pervert/i ripped her fucking tonsils out and fed her sherbet” ?
Looney toon far right weirdos like you make it so easy for people in the middle to choose being a liberal.
im above the left right paradigm for it is but an artificial division to keep us fighting each other while (((those on top of the power pyramid))) keep oppressing us. we all share a common enemy.
You can say you are above being left or right, i know a lot of assholes just like you who love to say that, but in the end the narrative you are pushing is alt right nonsense.
Eminem loves the war machine controlling the U.S. military and sending them into wars just so they can make money. He loves the pharmaceutical industry lobbying members of Congress to help them make money and get as many people addicted to their poisons as possible (even though he used to be addicted to opioids). He loves the teachers unions subverting school choice initiatives that would make education far more efficient, so that they can keep their control over public schools even when the lack of competition drives the average GPA in inner cities down to 2.0. He loves the prison industrial complex. He loves the big banks lobbying Congress for stricter regulations that smaller banks can’t afford, forcing them into bankruptcy and giving the bigger banks a larger market share. He loves the government taking half of every dollar he makes at gunpoint, while simultaneously trying to take our guns (even though he used to be a gun enthusiast). He loves the media force feeding us false narratives to provoke hostility between different subgroups (Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, etc.), so they can divide and conquer us to keep us distracted while the government and large corporations continue doing evil stuff right under our noses. He loves the liberals actually talking about passing laws and using the power of the government to overturn the First Amendment and prohibit whatever they consider “hate speech” (which, if passed, would render all his first 5 albums illegal to own)But he HATES! TRUMP! What a brave hero Slim Shady is.
amen. feels good seeing im not alone. keep up the good work, dispense those beatiful red pills, lift the veil, expose the Shlomo behind the curtains. my fellow conscious, aware being.
also, he loves the taste of a black man’s penis. he sucks it while he cries apologising for being white.
Dude, no… He loves the military, hates war (see Mosh) The pill industry he used to love, but now has put behind him. He actually donates to schools and to underprivileged youths. Prison he has avoided at all cost even though he was in court a lot. Idk about the banks or where any evidence to support your claim is. He is a pro gun guy. Just thinks we should talk about it. Em makes no news at all except his own opinions which you are allowed to disagree with, just don’t listen to him if your not a fan. Oh and if nothing else he is a 1st amendment advocate to the fullest.. See the years 1999–2008
I know those aren’t his actual opinions, but by going against Trump, who is fighting the corporate and political establishments tooth and nail, he is essentially on their side. The things I listed are the symptoms of the special interest culture that Trump is battling in Washington. And I AM an Eminem fan, I idolized him for over half my life, but he basically spit in my face with that idiotic freestyle where he said FU to any of his fans who support Trump. I do, because I see that he is the good guy, it is the media who are the bad guys that try to paint him as a racist.
Black Sabbath R The Gods.
“While Eminem was unable to shoot his shot on lommi” bruh smh
Fuck Black Sabbath and fuck you too
I feel this is misleading, and a perfect example of how the media frames shit. So the guitarist of Black Sabbath didn’t want Eminem on his debut album in the year 2000…pretty much 1 year after Em blew up. If I was rock star and a new rapper had the balls to ask to be on my album I’d tell him fuck off too. This makes it seems like Em got denied a collab cuz of some crazy reason. Most prob thought it was becuz of his Trump diss. This is the most irrelevant story I’ve read today, and that’s pretty fuckin sad.
Em rich im sure he not losing any sleep over this crap
This article is click bait.
Turns out he wasn’t homophobic after all, it was just self-hatred. Thank god Em was able to “shoot his shot” on Dr. Dre though or else I don’t know where we’d be.
wow you guys on eminem’s payroll? I am a huge early black sabbath fan and commented that I was happy that Tony didn’t sully the Black Sabbath name by collaborating with a woman beating, homophobic, anti-arab, criminal like Eminem. Fuck eminem, fuck hhdx, today it was revealed that in mainstream news that it was the democrats who colluded with russia during the election…For those of us who listen to libertarian/republican/conservative talk radio or news, we already knew this… We knew about the uranium deal over a year ago and trump himself even knew the $9 million phony dossier was purchased by the DNC. All the accusations made by the democrats and mainstream media have essentially been proven untrue of the President and have turned out to be true of Hillary Clinton and the democratic nation party. Emailgate, Benghazi, Uranium, Haiti, Bosnia, Vince Foster, all the speeches, Bill, the list of crimes goes on and on, yet people can’t seem to understand why Trump is president…
1984 is real, Hiphopdx is deleting comments left and right to condition us to propaganda and allow only one safe space perspective. Why do you think the media is downplaying the clinton russia collusion?
Your a fucking idiot and your president is an embarrassment he dont give a shit about you or anyone else he claims to speak for how in the hell could you ever think a fucking imbecile man child with more money than brains could ever relate with common mans struggle the truth is your scared ….scared of changing tides scared of relinquishing some of your privilege all these politicians play us against each other and men like trump benefit while we suffer ….hes not on your side hes on his own …wake up neither Trump or any other blow hard piece of human excrement that may emerge from the sewage of our 1% …CAN NOT STOP PROGRESS …..Trump is a sociopath and has more than likely tried or has succeeded in fucking his own off spring ….so unless thats your sort of thing ….Trump is an awful human being and should not be heard should be hanged for treason