Tech N9ne discusses Eminem & Machine Gun Kelly beef on “No Reason”.
Tech N9ne is currently working on his new album ‘N9na‘ but he took some time for an interview with HipHopDX. On the show, Tech N9ne talked on various topics including the recent Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly beef. Machine Gun Kelly first took some shots at the Detroit rapper on his collaboration with Tech “No Reason“, but Tech had no idea that MGK was going at Eminem.
Tech N9ne, the Missouri rapper, has spoken out about how his own song fueled Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly’s feud. On Tech N9ne’s song “No Reason,” Machine Gun Kelly gives a subtle nod to Eminem. The following stanza appears to be a direct reference to his rival’s song “Rap God” (aka Eminem):
“I pop cherries and pop stars, you popsicles is not hard
Popped in on the top charts out the cop car
To remind y’all you just rap, you’re not God
And I don’t care who got bars”
Tech N9ne spoke with presenter Marisa Mendez on the driving rage created by MGK. During the tour, they broke the Guiness World Record for the most gigs played in a single day. “I’m talking about like 99 shows in like 104 days or something like that,” he said. “Holy shizer. I’m telling you, the last couple of days we were so delirious, we were forgetting the words. My people who do the booking, they know we gotta have a break, especially how we do shows. We don’t just stand on stage grabbing our crotch, you know what I’m sizzling? We really out there cardio life.” He added, “All that 99 shows in 104 shows, we did it, me and MGK, never again. We proved it, we can do it … I’m sure it was recorded because nobody’s ever done that. The calibre of show we do, oh man, I was skin and bones after that tour.”
Later Tech N9ne walks away from the scene and claims he had no idea MGK was dissing Eminem on his single (sure, friend):
“I don’t have time to dabble in the bullsh-t but I get it now,” says Tech N9ne. “MGK called me the next day and was like, ‘Tech man, I’m sorry man. I would’ve given you the Rap Genius breakdown at the beginning to let you know.’ I was like, ‘Nah man, I just didn’t know that you was going at him like that. I didn’t think that you would do that. He was like like ‘you know, we’ve been going at it for a while over his daughter.’”
He then goes on to give a tangential viewpoint on MGK’s claimed Shade 45 prohibition, which appeared to be in full force. “It was a strange situation since I went to Rude Jude to promote my song before my album came out on March 2nd when I was making my rounds,” Tech explains. Shade 45 employs Rude Jude, as you may recall. “I went up to Jude and said, ‘This is my new single with MGK, it’s called ‘No Reason.’”
He also proceeds to talk about the alleged MGK’s Shade 45 ban. “It was a weird situation because when I was promoting my song, I went to Rude Jude (who works for Shade 45) on before my album came out on March 2nd when I was making my round,” explains Tech. “I went up to Jude and I was like,’This is my new single it’s called “No Reason” with MGK and one that’s called “Don’t Nobody Want None”. I wanna play both of them and then in between us talking he covered the mic and told me ‘I can’t play the MGK one,’ and I was like ‘oh okay’ and after we went to another break I asked him what’s up with Marshall and MGK and he said a long time [MGK] said something about his daughter and I was like, ‘Oh, I remember that. That’s still going?.’”
When asked what advice Em gave Kelly after he dropped “Not Alike,” he said, Nah, I said he’s gonna have to come back. I said ‘This is Hip Hop.’ This was when Em said the ‘submachine gun’ line and I guess Kelly already had [his response] ready. When he talked to me he was kind of apologetic, “My bad Tech. It was all in fun’ and I said, “Whatcha gonna do?” And he said, “I’ma say something.” I said, “You got to. This is Hip Hop.”
Tech also spoke about his upcoming album N9na” N9na is my next solo LP. It’s gonna come out sometime next year but we’re gonna drop songs in support of it for the remainder of this year. I’m still building it. I did Planet and went to my own planet on the last record. This time around I’m letting everybody know the creator even more, N9na.
In a new interview, Tech reflected on being embraced by his rap peers Eminem, Lil Wayne and more. “I am just a small town country boy straight from Kansas City,” he said.” So keep in mind I was always the weirdo to everybody with red hair and a painted face. I couldn’t believe when I started doing sh-t like Paid Dues and Rock The Bells that Raekwon would come up to me like ‘I love your sh-t.’ and KRS-1… When I got put into “The Anthem” and I ran into Eminem and he knew me and all these motherf–kers knew me, I felt like I was just an odd man out, Ni–a. I didn’t know those ni–as were paying attention all these years. I didn’t know T.I. was in jail and the white boys there were playing my sh-t and he got up on my music. I didn’t know that f–king Wayne was listening to “Questions” on the “Gang Related” soundtrack. They tell me all these sh-t how they found out. I thought I was just an outcast ni–a that ni–as don’t f–k with because I was on Rock N Roll sh-t, here and there. I was on Gangster sh-t… Rock ‘N Roll sh-t… Hip-Hop sh-t. Gospel sh-t. Opera sh-t. Everything.”
He continues, “It’s also a weird thing man that when people mention Eminem, they mention my name with it when it comes to lyrics man this is a weird thing because I just been doing me, I ain’t trying to sound like nobody… trying to do nothing like nobody. We rap fast but we don’t sound nothing like Bones, Twista… We don’t sound like Eminem. We sound like ourselves.”
In an interview, N9ne praised Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar for never asking a price for collaborations. “I have so many of them. I’ve done a big one with Roger Troutman, he came to Kansas City to do this for me,” said Tech. “I always wanted to work with Eminem, and I did a big one called “Speedom” with him and Krizz Kaliko, finally after ten years. On the metal side, I’ve done stuff with Corey Taylor of Slipknot. I wanted to work with Slipknot for over a decade and I finally got that done. Marsha Ambrosius from Floetry, I’ve always been a fan and I finally was able to get a song with her, produced by Kon-Artist. Mr. Porter. My friend on a higher-up would make it happen for me. I’ve got a song with Tupac. With all my idols like Ice Cube, Brother J from X Clan. Boyz II Men, I’ve got a weed song with Boyz II Men. Me and Snoop, me and E-40, me and Too Short. I mean It just goes on forever.”
“The thing that blows my mind that from all that, from Kendrick to Jay Rock to Eminem, from everyone I just named, I didn’t have to pay for none of these features. All out of respect and love. They don’t charge me. And then I contributed to Eminem’s “Southpaw” soundtrack.”
[Via HipHopDX]
