Eminem has earned some big pay days in his time as a rapper, but that doesn’t mean he won’t turn opportunities down like one presented to him for last year’s World Cup.
The rapper’s longtime friend and former Shady/Aftermath artist 50 Cent stopped by Big Boy’s Neighborhood this week to promote the second season of his hit TV show BMF.
During the interview, the G-Unit mogul explained how his performance at last year’s award-winning Super Bowl Halftime Show with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige led to him and Em being offered a lot of money to perform at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
“Because of the Super Bowl, I got an inquiry about the World Cup,” 50 Cent told Big Boy. “They had a budget of $9million for it. So they was gonna give — I would have took one, Big. Then the other eight would have been for Em.”
50 Cent added that if anyone was looking to do a “one-off” they’d probably do the “biggest live sporting event in the world.”
Once the offer came in, 50 called Eminem’s manager Paul Rosenberg to discuss it but was ultimately turned down — although it’s not completely clear whether news of the offer made its way to Em directly. “I called and spoke to Paul and everybody around him,” Fif explained. “They was like, ‘He’s not gonna do it.'”
While Em and his team might have turned down the World Cup, 50 said one opportunity they did jump at was to revamp the Detroit legend’s 8 Mile film and turn it into a TV series.
“I wanna bring — I’m gonna bring, 8 Mile to television,” he told Big Boy before confirming that the project is already “in motion.”
“It’s gonna be big,” he added. “I’m working. I ain’t got no duds. I’m batting 100 … I think it should be there for [Eminem’s] legacy because it’s important to me that they understand it.”
Elsewhere during the chat, the “In Da Club” hitmaker offered additional details about the new album he’s planning to release later this year, revealing that Dr. Dre will be contributing to the project.
“As soon as I [announced it], I got a text from [Eminem] that he had already spoke to Dre, and that Dre is in there and he got some crazy stuff for me to go hear,” he said.
“This is my process: I’ll go make something, what I can find, the best music that I can put my hands on. And when I feel real good about it, I bring it to put pressure on Dre to offer me something. ‘Cause he’ll have something… He’s always had something.”
Fuck the fifa, lives are more important than money
Marshall doesn’t need the money.
Money goes and money comes why not make money if you have that chance to make more question one🤪
Because who the fuk wants to go to Qatar…
Delores…all money ain’t good money.
Actually, compared to hip-hop kingpins, Eminem is on the lower end of the ladder. Which makes one wonder how much of his career was ghostwritten. He’s sitting about $10 million under Arianna Grande, despite being the bestselling artist from 2000-2020. So yeah. Not sure what happened there, but he’s actually not a Kingpin. Dre and Jay are doh. 😉
Only 5 billion people you moron.
The World Cup is literally the most watched sporting event on the planet. But a 50-year-old unmarried dude sitting around in his basement licking pictures of Dr. Dre probably wouldn’t know that. He was over there like “Pffft, I already did the Super Bowl. The World Cup got like 200 million viewer there couldn’t be an audience bigger than that!”
And the World Cup is over here like: FIVE BILLION
Eminem and any grown man in this world knows the inevitable fact if they need reminding of this they’re obviously lying to themselves when they know: soccer is gay! GACTS!!!!
Nah, americans are just too stupid to understand this beautiful game. That’s why you prefer boring overcommercial crap like amfoot and baseball. Lol
Only closeted homosexuals in America think that.
Super Bowl viewership: 200 million (To watch men grab each other’s ass and roll around together)
World Cup: 5 billion viewers worldwide. Almost the entire population of humanity watch this event.
I thought Em and 50 were closer than that lol. Crazy that 50 had to call Paul and Ems “team” and ask them and couldn’t just call or text Em directly.
I guess they text about personal stuff be 50 knows all of ems business shit goes thru paul
50 is a professional. All business goes througg the business channels. Regardless of friendsship and personal relations.
Well, Eminem is married to a Real Doll, and she might have gotten jealous if 50 called his number direct. You know how crazy it is being married to plastic when you’re 50 (50 years old, not 50 cent).
coulda got all the doe he snorted n popped back in 1 night oh well his life n $
Very impressive
Interesting
Soccer the most boring of all ball sports. So boring that even for 8 million, Eminem didnt wanna taint his brand. Even if Em is a liberal, he is still a proud American.
You clearly dont know shit about sports
Eminem’s brand is taint.
The World Cup has 5 billion viewers. Please compare to the most watched Super Bowl in history at 200 million viewers.
Are Americans really this stupid?
I’ll let Eminem answer that:
“My step daaaaaaaaaaddd, I’m a 50 year old man singin’ about my step daaaaaaaaaadddddd”
Same way GTA Turns emeinem offer down , when he asked to perform as the main character in GTA game.
And i think its stubid for him to turn this offer down because rappers know nothing about football .
That’s 8 times more money than his last album made.