![]() ![]() Hell, that’s more than even Justin Bieber sold. ![]() That’s more than Jay-Z sold last time out. In June, his seventh studio album Recovery sold 741,000 copies during its first week. And once again, he stands alone as the biggest rap star in the world. He is incredibly talented-only guys like Kobe Bryant and Roger Federer know what it’s like to be that damn good at something. His drug addiction to a myriad of prescription pills and alcohol nearly killed him. WORDS: THOMAS GOLIANOPOULOS II PHOTO: SCOTT COUNCILĮMINEM IS A 37-YEAR-OLD DAD who goes to work every day and has a fantasy football team. MARSHALL “ EMINEM” MATHERS IS CLEAN AND SOBER AND PUTTING SHATTERED PIECES OF HIS LIFE BACK TOGETHER AGAIN, ONE POTENT HIT AT A TIME It’s those kinds of things that have been happening, and it’s a wake-up call not just for the church, but it’s a wake-up call for the world.WITH HIS MIND RIGHT AND RHYMES TIGHT, HIP-HOP’S BIGGEST BLOCKBUSTER RAPPER ISN’T READY FOR WAR ANYMORE. We have never seen anything like this where a virus would come and sweep people away. We’re talking about people that are close to you, that they’re not even sick. That’s the thing that I think people are not getting because if there was ever a time that we really needed to wake up and see or smell the coffee, the time is now. The Bible, it forewarns us, as in those of us that are believers, those of us that are Christians, The Bible tells us that, “Beware of the times and the seasons, because you just don’t know when the Son of Man is coming.” The Son of Man may not come to crack the sky at this particular time, but He may come in the form of maybe death, where we leave here that way. On how the global pandemic is serving as a wake-up call: The only way that we could have a voice is what we’re doing and protesting until we have equality and justice. So now, it’s like we’re getting really crazy…We’re seeing it one right after the other. What makes us angry is that we look for some people in authority, in Washington, we’re looking for them to at least say something to help us, but they’re not doing it. Too much of this has been going on, and not another one shall we see with this police brutality. I must commend our Black sisters and brothers who are definitely doing this protest because protesting actually allows us to have a voice. On the protests against police brutality:Ĭhange is happening. And then my sisters came in and put the sauce on it. God’s keeping us in good health, and that we may prosper in the middle of it. I just began to pray, I said, “Lord, I need timely words for what we need now.” And thank God for what we need in this day and time of what’s happening, we certainly need a victory. Put some lyrics to it.” And the Lord just gave me that. And of course, we went in the studio… He did the music, he produced the music, and he said, “Mom, I’m sending over this track to you. Drew, I’m so proud of him, and the way he has just taken this mantle. On the creation of their “Victory” single:Īlong with my son J. And so, I believe that’s the reason why the world loves us like that. You just do you.” And that’s why I believe that the reason why the world really has taken onto us, because we have not compromised, we have not tried to do other things and then come back. And my mother has always told us that, “Don’t be up there trying to do that stuff. ![]() We respect every genre of music, but we have been told and we have been commissioned to stay what we love, stay what God has given us. And I really believe, and I think it’s because we have not compromised to be recognized. On the love they receive from artists making secular music: That just did our hearts so glad in knowing that people of their caliber followed us. And he expressed to us, “Look, I want y’all to do you.” And then he started pulling out the songs, like “Tried in the Fire.” I’m like, “What?!” He started pulling our songs. Working with Snoop, that was an incredible moment, to just have him to come on. So I appreciate every mother and grandmother that passed us down to their children or their grandchildren. That’s what really, really blesses us, is that the connection from their mothers, and their grandmothers. He us about his grandmother, how she played our music, and then that’s how he connected with us. He said, “Hey, this is Snoop Dogg.” I’m like, “This is who?” I was just so shocked, and then he started running down all of the songs that we forgot the lyrics on some of them, from back in the day that he grew up on. When we first got the phone call from him, I thought it was a prank call. On the time they spent working with Snoop Dogg: A post shared by VibeMagazine on at 4:03pm PDT
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