Murda Mook recalls “Total Slaughter” with Eminem not blowing up, blames battle rappers.
Back in 2014, Eminem and Dr Dre teamed up with Murda Mook and Loaded Lux for a rap battle show “Total Slaughter” which gave the best battle rappers to show their talent on the big stage. The judges for the show include the Slaughterhouse members, including KXNG Crooked and Joe Budden. In the premiere, Joe Budden also took part in the battle as he goes up against Hollow Da Don.
“Total Slaughter gives Shady Films, along with Slaughterhouse and WatchLOUD, the platform to elevate battle rap. We are very passionate and excited about battling and we see it as a sport that deserves the same level of organization and respect as any other competitive league,” said a statement released by Shady Records.
However, the show didn’t blow up as it ended after four episodes. Now Murda Mook, the veteran East-Coast MC, sat down with No Jumper for an interview, where he recalled the whole and blamed the battle rapper for the premature ending of the show.
“Em is so attuned to and respectful,” says Murda. “The Total Slaughter thing that we did in 2014, it was lit. We got a show, Dr. Dre, Eminem… We was out of here. Here’s where battle rappers fucked the game up. You know, when you’re just too proud that you just cut off every opportunity, not even knowing what you’re doing? That’s the pattern I’m trying to get to be going out of existence, out of the culture of battle rap, which is being so insulated that you die from being overheated. All we do is cut off every outlet, any bridge. We cut it off for maybe fear of being infiltrated. So we don’t let anything in, we don’t reach out. No olive branches.”
“Like, this platform is not battle rap oriented, right, so we go do something. All of the people that watch, all the millions of people watch you now and tap into battle rap. They’ll say, “We don’t want it. We don’t fuck with that. They wasn’t rocking with us before. We don’t want that”. They feel like everything is to steal battle rap. So they make other battle rappers not want to become successful. They f**ked us over. Eminem and Dr. Dre was fully invested in doing it. We had a television show on Fuse, they was invested in the battle rap culture. They were like, “Yo, this shit gotta go to the next level”. Eminem and Dr. Dre, Em and Dr. f**king Dre. The culture goes in, “Yo, what they doing? They’re coming in, they’re trying to make this into a spectacle.”
Murda Mook continues, “I blame the battle rappers. Then the leagues that banned against it. And then fans for being gullible enough cause they were f**king with it. Initially, all of a sudden they see battle rappers and leagues and then they were like: ‘you know what? you are right man. This ain’t right. We supposed to be here. We supposed to look like two ni**as arguing, two black hood street ni**as arguing with ni**as behind them, so when all the money really was supposed to come in, they were like ni**as arguing about it. They were like ‘we ain’t gonna get anything and these ni**as will get millions of dollars.’”
“The way they set it up for us, that sh*t was amazing. We were off to the races. With the look, the lead-up, everything! And Eminem and Dr. Dre were involved. They scared them away. What Em does, he doesn’t say “F**k them”. This is the kind of person Eminem is. He says, “Oh sh*t, my fault y’all. I don’t wanna smoke. I’m sorry. I’m coming to your show, I don’t want to disrespect nothing. My fault. Now I’mma fall back”. He felt bad, like he was f**king up some sh*t. So he just backed up. Like, “Damn, I don’t want to intervene”.”
Watch the interview below.
