Red Bull EmSee is an invitation-only MC battle series designed to find the best freestyle rappers in the country - giving them a national platform to showcase their skills. Legendary rapper Bun B serves as a master of ceremonies on 2011's eight-city tour.

Winners from each qualifier advance to the Atlanta, GA finals in November where they will face off for the national title in front of a panel of industry heavyweights. The last MC with a mic-in-hand will earn a trip to Los Angeles to record at Red Bull Studio with a headlining producer of their choice. Good Luck!

“Recovery selling one million digital albums is an incredible achievement by an incredible artist. I have had the pleasure of working with Eminem throughout the course of his career, and I’m delighted to be a part of yet another milestone on his amazing journey.”

Says Paul Rosenberg:

“We are thrilled to congratulate Eminem on the history-making digital sales success of Recovery. Over the years we’ve made a concerted effort to engage Em’s online fan base so this achievement is especially rewarding. Eminem made an amazing album with Recovery and the fans responded in record numbers.”

During the summer of 1998, a then teen-aged Noah Callahan-Bever, Complex's future editor-in-chief, witnessed the creation of Eminem & Royce Da 5'9"'s underground classic Bad Meets Evil. Nearly 15 years later the trio sat back down to talk about the good old days and where BME goes from here.

Story & Photography by Noah Callahan-Bever (@N_C_B)

“Y'all play ‘Corners’ in New York?”

When he said it, I had no idea what Eminem was talking about. However, I figured it out pretty fucking fast when, immediately afterwards, he threw his forearm into my back, introducing my chest and face quite abruptly to, yes, the corner of the elevator. Never a spoilsport, my 19 year-old self quickly returned the favor, throwing Em into Royce, who was catching his balance having just ‘cornered’ Skam, the elevator’s fourth occupant. Straight out of the WWF playbook the two of them then dove back at me together and all three of us collapsed into the wall, sending the car swinging wildly and bouncing around the sides of the elevator shaft. Instantly an alarm rang and the elevator, now in between the 23rd and 24th floors of this Time Square Double Tree hotel, stopped abruptly.

Nearly 80,000 fans chanted “Shady! Shady! Shady!” in a thunderous roar for five minutes until hip hop’s angry king returned to the stage for a triumphant encore of “Lose Yourself,” capping the day rap took over Bonnaroo.
 

Saturday kicked off with Big Boi and Lil Wayne laying down early morning sets — inexplicably overlapping — shortly after Arcade Fire’s Friday night finale, and the takeover continued with Wiz Khalifa on the big stage during a hot afternoon set before Eminem destroyed his Bonnaroo debut.

These weren’t the first rappers at the four-day festival down on the farm in Tennessee. The event is known more for its granola-flavored ethos than its urban cool, but Jay-Z turned in one of the most memorable sets in the festival’s 10-year history in 2010 and expectations were high for Saturday’s takeover — the most concentrated collection of star MCs at Bonnaroo.

Big Boi mixed in his own songs with Outkast favorites. Lil Wayne played it naughty with the crowd and debuted tracks from his forthcoming album “Tha Carter IV,” rattling the port-a-potties with a thunderous bass well into the morning.

And Khalifa kept the crowd sky high by preaching the gospel of weed to a willing choir that included a man who wore a “Marijuana Cures Racism” T-shirt, dancers with flowers in their hair and joints in their hands, and girls in bikinis crowd surfing.

The day was full of odd juxtapositions. Khalifa dropped his hit “Black & Yellow” while just a few hundred yards away Mumford & Sons tore through a set of fiery folk rock as fans watched over a nearby fence and from atop ATMs. The sold-out crowd appeared to be evenly split among the two rising stars of their genres.

Later in the evening, a reunited Buffalo Springfield set up Eminem’s show with a fiery rendition of Neil Young’s “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World.” Fans rushed into the festival’s largest compound as Young’s echoing guitar died away, entering another world.
Eminem opened with “Won’t Back Down” and “3 a.m.” and never let up, featuring a mix of hits and new songs from his 2010 return to the top, “Recovery.” “It’s been a minute since I been to the South,” he shouted. “Did y’all miss us?” Eminem was in top form, fast and angry as he stalked the stage in long camouflage shorts and a black t-shirt. He thanked his fans for standing by him before launching into “Not Afraid.” Bonnaroo’s crowd may be a hippie enclave, but you wouldn’t have known it Saturday night as most fans rapped right along with Eminem, brightened the sky with lighters to the Slim Shady and Royce Da 5’9″`s “Lighters” and played along to a naughty call-and-response before “Love the Way You Lie.” (AP / Billboard)

1. Welcome 2 Hell
Produced by Havoc

2. Fastlane
Produced by Supa Dups

3. The Reunion
Produced by Sid Roams

4. Above the Law
Produced by Mr. Porter

5. I’m On Everything Feat. Mike Epps
Produced by Mr. Porter

6. A Kiss
Produced by Bangladesh

7. Lighters Feat. Bruno Mars
Produced by Eminem, The SmeeZingtons & Battle Roy

8. Take from Me
Produced by Mr. Porter

9. Loud Noises Feat. Slaughterhouse
Produced by Mr. Porter

Fowl who you can follow on twitter by the way, is a rapper from Michigan State University. He is known for his impressive ability to spit a free style across campus. After opening for artists such as Big Sean, Wale and many others he is now expanding his talent by releasing a whole bunch of free tracks through his twitter. Make sure you check him out and also follow him on twitter @soFOWL. Oh and here is his youtube page!

Check this link out too >> Eminem crowns Fowl as his Emcee

Eminem's fourth studio album The Eminem Show which was released on May 28th, 2002 is now officially certified Diamond by the RIAA, making it his first LP to cross the 10 million mark in the United States. This white guy never ceases to amaze.

Artist: Eminem, Title: The Eminem Show, Certification Date: 03/07/2011, Label: Interscope, Award Description: 10.00 x Multi Platinum, Format: Album, Category: Solo, Type: ST. (Hip Hop N More)

Nine previously unheard songs by the rapper have emerged on the internet via the Studioleaks website under the title Straight From The Vault.

The tracks are said to have been recorded in between Eminem's 2009 album Relapse and his 2010 record Recovery - sparking speculation the music was intended for Relapse 2, the sequel which was scrapped in favour of the Grammy Award-winning Recovery.

The EP features collaborations with D12 and Obie Trie and song titles include The Peoples Champ, Get Money and Going Crazy.

I'm happy Em didn't release Relapse 2! The tracks are way weaker than the tracks in Recovery and even Relapse or Relapse: Refill...

Eminem chooses the single “Spacebound” as the next single off his many times platinum album “Recovery“.

    Eminem films a music video for “Space Bound” which is the fourth single off his Recovery Album. Porn Star and crossover actress Sasha Gray also stars in this music video opposite Eminem. Joseph Kahn is the director. The video was shot over 3 long days and mostly nights in the Los Angeles area. The scenes being filmed in these photos were filmed at a road side Diner and Hotel in a rural area outside of LA where filming took place all night long and well into the next morning. Temperatures dropped below freezing overnight during the filming. Between the long hours and cold temperatures, tensions began to rise as the night became morning. Eminem filmed various performance and acting scenes inside the Diner and in a Hotel room next door. Sasha Gray was in almost every scene with Eminem. It appears that there is an intense storyline between the two happening in this video. Eminem had a big security team working for him on this shoot and a big effort was being made to not allow any photographs be taken. One resident of the hotel where the filming took place was seen being denied an autograph or photo with Eminem even though he was the only fan to ask.

While the rap star was the night's most-nominated artist, he lost out on Album, Song and Record of the Year.