Westside Gunn has been locked into a distribution deal with Eminem’s Shady Records imprint since 2017. Still, the Buffalo-bred rap force seems annoyed by the lack of support from his famous label head.
On Sunday (October 25), Slim Shady threw up a tweet encouraging his 22.8 million followers to cop The Alchemist’s new album The Food Villain featuring Action Bronson and Big Body Bes. A Griselda fan took notice of the tweet and asked, “No post @westsidegunn’s album that’s in your own label? Lol wtf.” Westside replied with three laughing emojis followed by three “sssh” emojis, making it clear he’s wondering the same thing but can’t really talk about it.
The album in question is Westside’s latest offering Who Made The Sunshine, which arrived on October 2. The album was originally expected to drop on August 28 but was pushed back out of respect for DJ Shay who unexpectedly passed away that month.
Interestingly enough, the project featured production from Alchemist on four tracks alongside Beat Butcha and Daringer, Denzel “Conductor” Williams and Just Blaze. Guest appearances included Griselda crewmates Armani Ceasar, Benny the Butcher, Conway The Machine and Boldy James as well as Slick Rick, A.A. Rashid, Black Thought, Busta Rhymes, ElCamino, Estee Nack, Flee Lord, Jadakiss, Keisha Plum and Smoke DZA.
Westside has voiced his thoughts on Shady Records before. In June, Westside appeared to take a slight jab at the label via Twitter after learning about Griselda’s BET Awards nomination in the “Best Group” category, writing, “I wonder do @ShadyRecords know we’re nominated for a BET AWARD tonight.”
Did Westside Gunn Just Take A Shot At Eminem's Shady Records?
The 38-year-old rapper recently made his case to run Def Jam Recordings, despite claiming he’s “actually OVER qualified.” The legendary label’s president position has remained vacant since Eminem’s longtime manager Paul Rosenberg stepped down in February.
same shyt happened with slaughterhouse. budden been yellin dat. em is just not good at promoting artists on his label. good thing griselda aint waitin on him to move the needle, they out there gettin it by themeselves
Oh so the 16 mother fucking posts including a mini documentary on westside Shady Records put out is not promotion man miss me with ur bullshit
they would be where they’re are irregardless. the shady deal has done nothing for them. the first chance they get to leave they will. westside is seeing what joe budden was talmbout. em aligned with griselda to boost his own credibility but it’s clear he doesnt do much as a label head. his track record speaks for itself.
It’s amazing to u so call hip hop fans give Jay-Z the benefit of the doubt and forget the FUCK SHIT he did to other black artists. Let’s talk about Jay for a minute this dude destroyed Def Jam soon as he took over if u really are a hip hop fan u would know this. DMX ran New York but the city was not fucking with Jay like that so he got jealous and destroyed that mans career over that cuz DMX embarrassed him in that battle. Let’s talk about Joe Budden the person who destroyed him is no other than ur boy Jay ruined him to over what jealousy. What about Dip Set he destroyed them when they were running New York to over what jealousy. This man destroyed the greatest Hip Hop label of all time Jay has a lot in common with John Gotti soon as they got power they destroyed their organizations and they never recovered. Now let’s talk about Dame Dash jay fucked that black man over the most Rockafella was the shit until Jay destroyed it with the help of lyor Cohen. What about Jaz-O took his rap style than buried that black man when Em does shit like that let me know until that day comes let’s not big up Jay destructive ass. Jay-Z was jealous of other black artists so he destroyed them. Again the biggest hit for griselda has Eminem on it where is Jay-Z he manages them where is the fucking song with Jay-Z on it I’ll wait. Also Eminem’s greatest album is The Eminem Show some of Hip Hops hardest beats come off that album and it’s is all him Dre did help with that album. Dre doesn’t do promo for Snoop, Kendrick or Eminem cuz they are that dude. Slaughter House didn’t work out like Eminem wanted but some of their bigger songs came with singing with Shady Records but the reason it didn’t work out wasn’t over Eminem being jealous over them he’s not insecure let Jay has been since the 90’s true hip hop fans know this.
Em will offer his mouth and ass to any black rapper in the business. Wigga hop is dead.. throw old meth head on the trash pile what’s he belongs.. a 50 year old rapper??? That’s corny.. old grandpa just don’t want to give it up lol
Guy could be 80 and he’s still better then the young mumble rap fuckers of today,sounding like they got a dick in their mouths,..ask your mother she’ll tell you all about it my confused Lil son…
I don’t understand why Em is so reluctant to promote these guys… It’s not even just on social media, in his most recent interviews with Kxng Crooked or Wayne, the subject of Griselda gets brought up and Em just seems uncomfortable and quickly wants to change the subject, what’s the point in Shady Records, if Em isn’t going to promote the artists on the label?? He doesn’t even feature his artists on his own albums anymore like he would back in the day, shit is very confusing!
The more pertinent question is : y dumbasses sign to him ! Lmao they dumb as rocks n complain on social media in public ? Hahahahaha
Shady Records posted 16 fucking times about this dudes album that’s including a mini doc Shady Records did bruh what the fuck are u talking about my guy.
I remember the reception Bang got y’all hated Em being on that song now y’all want Em on songs with them really dude man y’all are so fucking bipolar it’s sad. Eminem produced The Eminem Show by himself he didn’t need Dre to make his greatest album. If u are that dude than u don’t need others help
Let’s talk about Jay for a minute this dude destroyed Def Jam soon as he took over he destroyed it. DMX ran New York the city was not fucking with Jay like that so he got jealous and destroyed that mans career cuz DMX embarrassed him in that battle. Let’s talk about Joe Budden Jay ruined him to over what jealousy. What about Dip Set he destroyed them to over what jealousy. This man destroyed the greatest Hip Hop label of all time Jay has a lot in common with John Gotti soon as they got power they destroyed their organizations and they never recovered. Now let’s talk about Dame Dash jay fucked that black man over the most Rockafella was the shit until Jay destroyed it with the help of lyor Cohen. What about Jay-O took his rap style than buried that black man when Em does shit like me know until that day comes let’s not big up Jay destructive ass.
Hey fucker, you said you didn’t need shady early on. Now you bitchin?
Point blank period, end of discussion. Glad to see at least one person who read this story doesn’t carry themselves like a hypocrite.
WSG king. Brr
AYO. AYO. AYO. BOOBOOBOO. DOOTDOOTDOOT. BRRRRRR.
Lol u crazy af funny
Em wasted Obie and Slaughterhouse now the same is happening to Boogey and Griselda
Let’s talk about Jay for a minute this dude destroyed Def Jam soon as he took over he destroyed it. DMX ran New York the city was not fucking with Jay like that so he got jealous and destroyed that mans career cuz DMX embarrassed him in that battle. Let’s talk about Joe Budden Jay ruined him to over what jealousy. What about Dip Set he destroyed them to over what jealousy. This man destroyed the greatest Hip Hop label of all time Jay has a lot in common with John Gotti soon as they got power they destroyed their organizations and they never recovered. Now let’s talk about Dame Dash jay fucked that black man over the most Rockafella was the shit until Jay destroyed it with the help of lyor Cohen. What about Jay-O took his rap style than buried that black man when Em does shit like me know until that day comes let’s not big up Jay destructive ass.
They weren’t as good as the Rap God, face it, Eminem in his own lane. You could out him in a group with Biggie, Pac, and Jay and I bet the last three split off cause they can’t be on his level. R.I.P Pac and Biggie, no disrespect.
Obie went 3 times plat, all his albums under em are plat. Wtf are you on about? If Obie squandered his profits with his alcoholic ass, that’s his problem. Eminem helped him get set, and obie fucked it all up.
I always said they didn’t need em he don’t care bout rapping no more he made his money gxfr got the right man behind them jigga he has more interested in them more than em and plus he’s more powerful than em billionaire vs millionaire type status
Shady Records made 16 fucking posts about his album including a mini documentary Westside needs to see maybe u ain’t as good as u think u are. Roc Nation ain’t posting shit about them while Em is. Conway’s biggest hit is cuz of Eminem being on it.
Let’s just call it for what it is. Whites looking out for whites.
Hey why not? Black people would go to the end of the earth to defend murderers, pedos, rapists, drug dealers as long as they are black and hate white people. White people are entitled to support their own as well. Or does that make them racist? Mr. I only support black people lol.
Defend drug dealers? Sure. But defend pedos and rapists? No black man or woman that I know defends that shit. Oh and don’t be a hypocrite and act like you guys don’t defend murderers, unless the victim is black, am I right, Brad?
No, you are wrong Malik.
What about R Kelly or Bill Cosby? Didnt blacks fought for them in the streets. FOH
Shady records made 16 posts about his album kid do ur research before u start bumping ur gums. Roc Nation reps them but jay ain’t post shit .
Maybe because these clowns take underhanded racist shots at him all the time?!?!? Why sign with him if you cant stand him cause hes white? Makes no sense. Then you expect him to give you a push? LoL that must be black privilege
You have to actually understand the concept of privilege before calling something “black privilege”…
They’ve nvr taken a racist shot at em. Saying things like shout out my album, isn’t racist.
Stop signing to these pink devils..they’re a bunch of cucks!
Ur a moron
YOU MAD PINK CHIMP??
What are they talking about, Shady Records made 16!!! posts about Westside Gunn’s album… 16!!, no other label in the world does more than 1 or 2…. entitled scum… Griselda still top of the world tho
Hahahahhaha alchemist 1. Actually talented and 2. They have relationship of decades and 3. Friends. Westside gunn u lil crybaby bitch hahahahah u signed he ur BOSS dumbass u his EmPLOYEE hahahahah weak ass lil baby. Thought I was big n tough n talented enough to run def jam lmmfao
Em tweeted his album on the THE DAY IT CAME OUT. This guy needs to get out of his ego, it’s obviously blocking his view.
Did he? Let’s go look.
I looked and Em posted his album on the day it came out. Not directly, but he retweeted it. Why Westside Gunn salty then?
If anything WSG doesn’t even have a big ego, it’s actually to hide his insecurities that he looks like a chipmunk, can’t rap, and has a girly ass voice. AYO. AYO. AYO. BOOBOOBOO. DOOTDOOTDOOT. BRRRRRR.
Because Eminem thinks his album is trash, just like everyone else who isn’t caught up in his hype. Even Em knows he’s the worst one in the group with his obnoxious ad-libs.
Pretty sure def jam are the ones who should be promoting, shady is just a district deal, not promo. Blame def jam
*Distribution
That shit sucked anyways. It’s annoying with the “Ayo” doo doo doo bullshit. Conway and Benny carry Griselda.
You’re an idiot take the great corleone name out of your wack ass comment. Eminem’s last albums have been trash maybe the kamikaze one was decent. Westside Gunn isn’t for everyone. I love em cuz of his old work and Westside Gunn has done nothing but contribute to the culture. This is simple tho, he’s not Eminem’s friend and alchemist is. No need for anyone to be sour pusses
So you’re just going to ignore all of Em’s Fire collab verses and music to be murdered by? That went BACK to number one the other day. Bitch please. Ain’t nobody believing that ignorant shit.
I can’t stand his voice. Benny the best from griselda
he made himself clear! by posting 6 emojis!
Joe Budden prophesied this would happen, he could have typed one more sentence and tied everything together, but some people (or their team don’t get it)
Em is a weirdo when it comes to his artists… Budden wasn’t lying! I used to say why doesn’t Em promote and collaborate with his artists more? You don’t have to like Griselda but chances are you don’t like them because you’re salty that they are the hottest in the game right now PERIOD! And I also noticed, it be the broke goofy ones that use fake/hacked Spotify accounts and YouTube to listen to their music… Contributing nothing to the culture but your bum ass opinion a if your comment means anything outside of this comment section. smh! Lmao
Em has always been a terrible label boss. Nothing has changed. 50 promoted himself. Em really had very little to do with his rise.
Except for giving him a platform no one else would and going on tour and rapping on stage with him even though nobody else would because they were scared someone would try to murder them over it. Yea he did nothing.
STOP LYING also Shady Records made 16 ducking posts about this dude including a mini documentary so miss me with ur bullshit
Em retweeted Shady Records tweet about Westside Gunn’s trash ass album on Oct. 2nd. Also, he and Alchemist go way back so it makes sense he would shout him out. Nobody fact checks and Westside Gunn is so garbage, I’m sure business wise he is the reason Griselda is what it is but musically he provides nothing of value (at least from what we can see).
-doesnt know music
Westside Gunn is so garbage. Worst of griselda and ruins everything he is on. Listen to any griselda song, and then listen to it without the westside verse and it becomes instantly better. Again, he provides value somewhere, like Tony Yayo who was easily the worst member of G-Unit. He isn’t there for no reason at all, but musically, he is trash and that’s undeniable. Maybe he has solid input behind the scenes but he can’t rap, his ad-libs are hella annoying and his voice and flow are terrible. Out of all their releases, he is the worst. If not for his features, there is nothing tolerable on his last album. Benny killed it on his, that one with smoke dza was ill too. Conway does his thing all the time. Westside is trash. Nuff said
I agree 100%, my guy. WSG is like the Birdman of Griselda, the head honcho of the label but is still ass on the mic and shouldn’t be anywhere near one. Let Conway, Benny and Armani bring the music.
Em gives these artists one of the biggest platforms on earth to make their mark. A grown man goes gets it. You signed to shady. Why wait for a tweet? I ain’t ever seen WSG praise em for anything so why would he expect it in return? He on hov’s dick FR.
And hov hasn’t done SHIT. Em has done way more and even gave Conway a verse. I’m sure he has more music with them otw too. No One bashes Jay-Z though bc he’s black, so it’s cool.
I wouldn’t call gunn garbage. He’s different with repetitive and annoying but catchy voice and ad libs. Conway rhyme words together you never really heard much of. Benny dope but sounds too familiar. Y’all really need to check out Paka YouTube channel. So many underground artist even more doper than griselda
See where pandering to black savages get you? Nowhere. No matter what white man does it’s never enough. So why try? Wake up whitey, stop pandering and covering already they hate you and every other ethnicity hates blacks too, just like you.
Westside is MORE than a rapper. He’s the mastermind behind this whole movement. That’s ALL you have to KNOW.
Ok WE get it YOU have found the CAPS LOCK key.
We know what the shhh emoji means. It’s not the Vla.dtv comment section here.
Ungrateful little loser. Wait till his 15 minutes are up and he can go AYOOO PRRRRR at the bus station for pennies.
Griselda defntly one of the hottest in the game right now.. frm a business perspective, surely Shady need to back them even more then they already have.. i think thats wat WSGs gripe is with them.. Em isnt really making look like he 100% behind them..
Yeah cuz they suck and disrespected Em by saying all his fans are wack. We don’t care about Griselda anyways. You dudes hella cocky and arrogant you shouldn’t need Em to promote your shit right?! FOH trash bags
So how come no one is talking about JayZ not promoting them AT ALL?! Foh with that ignorant shit. They don’t have a promo contract with shady records. Just a distribution contract. People are so dumb man.
Nothing to see here. Whole lotta nothing over a little tweet. This album was one of Griselda’s best DESPITE this guy and his annoying adlibs. The features carried the album.
Joe Budden told you that Shady Records was garbage promotion wise years ago. Not sure why anyone would be surprised
Alchemist can actually hit Eminem directly without no middle men. He been Eminems go to DJ for over a decade. Griselda gna have to call Paul and hope the tweet come through.
His beats are nice but this dude is painful to listen too
He sounds like a dying zebra, he sounds like elvis ass went he died on the toilet eating a burger
No wonder Eminem ignores this bitch