Paul Rosenberg, who co-founded Shady Records with Eminem, says one of the label’s greatest moments came when they signed 50 Cent to the imprint.
“It was game-changing,” Rosenberg says in an interview with XXL. “We kind of knew what we had in 50, and when we brought him to [Dr.] Dre to see if he wanted to do it with us, Dre immediately got it as well. We all knew it was gonna be big and it was gonna be sort of a land shift in the culture because of what he was doing, but we didn’t know just how massive it was gonna be. But I’m not gonna sit here and tell you that we didn’t know that 50 was gonna be enormous from the beginning. I mean, look, that was huge for us, that was huge for 50, it was huge for XXL, frankly. It was massive all around, and it was one of the most exciting things we’ve ever done with the label.”
While 50 Cent left Shady Records earlier this year, Rosenberg says that the transition has been amicable.
“It was a very friendly and, frankly, supportive departure, where we told him, ‘Look, if you don’t feel like this is the place for you anymore, we feel like we want to support you in any way we can [so that you can] be able to do what you want to do.’ So behind the scenes, we were trying to make sure that the transition was going to be as comfortable for him as possible. And you know, Marshall and 50 continue to have a great relationship, and that’s not gonna change.”
Eminem and 50 Cent have gone through a lot of things together in their careers, including beef with others, such as Murder Inc. When Rosenberg looks back on this, he says it was “a hectic time.”
“There’s a lot of it that I look back and I don’t miss,” he says. “But it was also very exciting and it was part of the package. I mean, we knew when we were signing 50 that we weren’t signing a choir boy, so it wasn’t a huge surprise when things got a little bit hectic. We just didn’t know exactly how hectic it was gonna get and where it was gonna go. There was a lot of bad shit that happened that I really don’t look back that fondly on, but like I said, that went with the game at that time.”
Shady Records is gearing up to release SHADYV, a 15-year anniversary compilation double album.
RELATED: Eminem’s Shady Records To Release “SHADYXV” Double Album, Additional Details Announced
great so a freakin white man loving niggar was picked up by a bunch of white men and turned into a modern day black superhero that broken women like jada fire can aspire to and be intimidated by.
lmao jada fire
you laughing but she the one namedropping 50 in 2014 interviews about how she was so nervous to be in his presence and no guy ever does that to her.
just thank god it isnt spelled with a Y. all women named Jada seem to be damaged good sin some way. just look at all the crack and dick jada pinkett smoked before will smiths niceguy but twisted demon on the inside caught her in his lap
shady records made history
MMG made history in the streets, Shady made history in the burbs to pale faced white teens.
Yeah, MMG made history as the fakest crew and the crew that took the most Ls.
mmg made history in the d yo
expect 300 coments cuz eminem name popped
Start working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life.
This is what I do.
=====================
http://www.cashtot.com
=====================
#TennesseeTuesdays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2RIdn_V2aU
Please watch,comment,& share so I can win this contest,I need this $3,000 to buy my babies some pampers lol lbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-rC4MNWnDE
Watch,comment,& share so I can win this contest,I need this $3,000 to buy my babies some pampers lol lbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-rC4MNWnDE
What type of mic are u recording on? sounds like your recording straight off the built in mic
Maybe I’ll just read the XXl mag….this site sucks ballz
the mag sucks these days
That white Jew pimped the shit out of that Black boy and then told him to kick rocks when they replaced him with Cheif Keef.
uh what?
i think you meant jimmy iovene…wrong jew
Berg gets a piece of everything on Shady records, all of 50s albums were released on Shady.
chief keef is not on shady records just interscope
lemme guess… Bruthadee is feeling extra lonely and in need of some conversation today.
ANDRES RETARDIO FUCKING SUCKS DICK MAN
Andres Tardio here’s a tip. DO NOT type articles with your cell phone man smh
Lmao +1
Man ShadyXV is going to be dope. 1 album of the label’s greatest hits and 1 album of all new material, with Eminem, Slaughterhouse, Yelawolf, Bad Meets Evil as well as other special guests.
Eminem rarely features in songs, This is going to be dope. We will probably see an Eminem-Yelawolf collab and a Eminem-50 Cent too. Can’t wait for this shit to drop.
Hopefully collabing with other rappers, and label mates will make Eminem put his shit together and drop a couple fire verses and tracks, unlike the shitty pop songs with rihanna he seems to always be doing these days……….
Hopefully collabing with other rappers, and label mates will make Eminem put his shit together and drop a couple fire verses and tracks, unlike the shitty pop songs with rihanna he seems to always be doing these days.
Hopefully collabing with other rappers, and label mates will make Eminem put his shit together and drop a couple fire verses and tracks, unlike the shitty pop songs with rihanna he seems to always be doing these days…
jesus christ stfu with the “pop” shit already…Dido was a pop star on stan and everyones beloved mmlp….he did 3 fucking songs with rihanna in a 4 year span christ…other legendary emcess have “pop” hooks too on their tracks here and there nowadays…seems like people judge his last 2 albums just by the rihanna led singles LOL sucks ya missed out
y’all seem to have buried Relapse and Refill out of your memory
last 4 projects/3 full albums/last 5 years is more like it
MMLP had one pop hook, Recovery and MMLP2 had how many already? It’s not only that he has been more pop recently, but also a lot of his songs and some of his flows have been terrible. Hopefully this collab album will bring out the best of him.
Not saying all his new material is thrash, it’s just that the number of not so good songs in recent years have been pretty high compared to what it used to be.
Huge eminem fan but yeah, his old shit was better. I hated that monster song he did with rihanna. Beat was shit and the flow was off. Even the lyrics are just a retread of what he was rapping before.
this the same dude that put Action Bronson on, Paul Zuckerberg
Bronson is one of the best things happening in hip-hop in 2014.
untill he started fucking wth riff raff
Bird On A Wire is a dope ass song with Riff and Bronsolino but I agree Riff Raff is wack for the most part.
Lyrically, Bronson is wack as fuck, what ya’ll listenin to?
smh^^^
if you feel like Bronson is lyrically wack as fuck then you need to stop listening to jedi mind tricks and Aesop rock, take off your backpack, get up out of your parents basement, and get some pussy…
Start working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life.
This is what I do…
=====================
http://www.cashtot.com
=====================
that beef made em the rapper of that time
some of his best tracks were ja disses
even proofs mixtapes were better cuz of it
it formed shady records
Eminem, Paul Rosenberg are just culture vultures… nobody wants to hear about Hailey, Kim or dope fiend mommy.. this mf has made nothing but bullshit music… of course he has a couple of song but..if Dre,do the beats its hard to fuck up… Mf never had anything to rap about… that’s y he cant drop shit with substance…. Wayne, Nickki,Izggy and J… these mf been done. Best white rapper alive… maybe I will let white people argue that
U sound real jelly
Lol i hate people like you. Sending Hate to artists just cause they’re colour isn’t the same as yours. Okay, if you think his songs are bad, then move the fuck away, and listen to lil wayne or nicki minaj or shit. Dont Hate On Him Cause another colour rapper Blew apart the genre you guys made.
they need to sign a new flagship artist asap. if they dont sign new talent soon that label is gonna die when eminem retires. they need something new and different from all these drake and lil wayne wannabees.
you mean like Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse? They are both more talented and differnt than those dudes you mentioned.. They won’t ever be big tho because rap is a dieing genre in terms of popularity/sales, and Em will never sign people just to appeal to the masses, he’s a rapper and he has quality rappers signed to his label.
dont think he signed yelawolf cuz he wanted to
if yela wasint on interscope first he would have never seen shady
tart working at home with Google! Its by-far the best job Ive had. Last Thursday I got a brand new BMW since getting a check for $6474 this – 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was bringing home at least $77 per hour. I work through this link, go? to tech tab for work detail,,,,,,,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
http://WWW.FoX71com
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
50 always win
the reason why most of these posts are anonymous is because this is a platform for them to hate on slim the guy is talented and i am proud to say i am black and i like this white rapper when i hear his music i see no race just music, been a fan since infinite his style of music is the most creative i have ever heard since pac, nas, biggie, big L, rakim and jay -z. He is there with all the above mentioned if eminem was black nigga’s wouldn’t be hatin so much
I hear you brotha, true as fuck.
jesus christ stfu with the “pop” shit already…Dido was a pop star on stan and everyones beloved mmlp….he did 3 fucking songs with rihanna in a 4 year span christ…other legendary emcess have “pop” hooks too on their tracks here and there nowadays…seems like people judge his last 2 albums just by the rihanna led singles LOL sucks ya missed out
Dido was never in the studio with eminem. He sampled her chorus. And he never did songs with pop stars before. In fact, he dissed them so that makes him a sellout. Britney Spears is dissed yet rihanna is basically the black britney spears. Sounds likes some eminem stan is mad and caught feelings.
you mean like Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse? They are both more talented and differnt than those dudes you mentioned.. They won’t ever be big tho because rap is a dieing genre in terms of popularity/sales, and Em will never sign people just to appeal to the masses, he’s a rapper and he has quality rappers signed to his label.
They aren’t quality artists at all. The artists at OVO like partynextdoor and Majid Jordan, those are talented artists.
Please. Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse are quality artists. Partynextdoor and Majid Jordan are not quality artists and don’t have talent.