Mark Hicks Gives Flowers to Eminem for his Contributions to Hip-Hop.
Mark Hicks, the former manager of D12 and marketing consultant for Shady Records, recently sat down with Panda CHOP! News for a new interview. During the conversation, he discussed Eminem’s influence on hip-hop and some of the ways that the Detroit rapper continues to contribute to the culture.
“People don’t know 95% of what Eminem contributes to the culture. I’m dead serious. He does so much, but one of the things with Em and Paul Rosenberg, they do so much nice stuff for our community, but they don’t want to be acknowledged. That’s one of the things. I don’t know if it’s biblical, I think it’s little bit biblical, but they are great people,” he said.
“People be like ‘yo, fu-k Em.’ This new era of Detroit rappers, and some of them are very successful, they will diss Em. They will be like, ‘man, I won’t be like Em. He ain’t do nothing for the city. It’s the most dumbest sh-t you could ever say because he do so much and he brought down doors. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. We’ve been all around the world and he’s telling people ‘We know you got New York, we know you got LA, I know you are taking a look at Florida, but there is so much talented people in Detroit. Em has always been a flag bearer of Detroit and Michigan in general.”
“People on the same level as him, his contemporaries, they don’t really do sh-t. But you got Em, who does so much sh-t behind the scenes. Em cares about Michigan and it’s crazy to see 22-year-old rappers s–ting on Em. And then it comes to the point where just because Em didn’t give you million dollar deal he’s the enemy. What the fu-k sense does that make?”
Check out the full interview below.
