Tom MacDonald announces a new song “Dear Slim” over Eminem produced beat.
After all the hints in the past few days, Tom MacDonald has finally announced that his new song is titled “Dear Slim” which will be over an original Eminem-produced beat. A few days ago, he teased the upcoming music video with a trailer, which was inspired by Eminem’s Slim Shady look, wearing a Jason mask with a chainsaw. In the title, he wrote “NƎW VIDƎO FRIDAY“, featuring inverted E which was another hint that it will be something related to the Detroit Rapper.
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Tom MacDonald got the original Eminem beat through the Detroit Rapper’s first NFT Release recently, which featured an auction-based NFT called “Stan’s Revenge“. Tom MacDonald was the highest bidder to get the bundle with a whopping $100,000.
The 3-minute film pays homage to Eminem’s legendary “Stan” visuals from 2000, which were the catalyst for the stan craze. MacDonald may be seen sitting on top of a drenched and broken Monte Carlo, alluding to the catastrophe at the end of the original video, in which Stan drove his car off a bridge while inebriated.
The car in “Dear Slim” is the same one Stan drove off the bridge. Bought it from a junk yard, sanded/painted it. Got seaweed from the beach & covered the exterior. Filled it with water so its constantly leaking…like it was pulled from the bottom of the river where Stan left it. pic.twitter.com/LSRowjSqMS
— Tom MacDonald (@IAMTOMMACDONALD) May 16, 2021
He received some hate on social media for owning the Eminem beat, which he recently addressed through a short video. “Welcome to a very special edition of Tom MacDonald helps you not be mad and confused,” said Tom MacDonald. “Today I told the internet that I might be in possession of an original beat produced by Eminem. And it seems like a lot of you guys are really mad and really confused, so let me help you.
Explaining his decision to purchase the NFT, MacDonald wrote on Twitter: “’Dear Slim’ was probably the most expensive & creative Thank You in Hip-Hop history. “I cant even pretend to give a f**k if you don’t like it…I’m not humble enough to downplay how dope it was…and I’m not too cool to acknowledge the man who inspired me. S**k it.”
The song’s lyrics are solely devoted to Eminem. The Canadian rapper raps at one point: “People claim that you hate me, but Marshall, that can’t be right, dude, You’d have to hate yourself as well ’cause, Marshall, I’m you.”
According to Eminem’s website, the collection will include “exclusive instrumental tracks made by Slim Shady himself specifically for this release” as well as “a selection of Eminem-approved NFT memorabilia.” He is said to have made around £1.3 million from the event so far.
He released “Snowflakes” in June 2021, and it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at position 71. Blaire White, a political analyst, danced in the background of the music video. On the Billboard Hot 100, his song “Brainwashed,” which was published in August 2021, reached at position 89.
Eminem announced the beginning of ‘Shady Con’ in April, a digital event where fans could win an NFT collectable. Speaking about the collection, Eminem said: “I’ve been collecting since I was a kid, everything from comic books to baseball cards to toys, as well as every rap album on cassette I could get my hands on.”
“Not much has changed for me as an adult…I’ve attempted to re-create some of those collections from that time in my life, and I know I’m not alone. I wanted to give this drop the same vibe of, ‘Oh, man I gotta get just that one or maybe even the whole set!’ It’s been a lot of fun coming up with ideas from my own collecting passion.”
“If I got a beat from probably the greatest rapper of all time, you should be happy, not mad. If I got a beat from the man who literally inspired me to become a rapper, you should be happy, not mad, If as an Independent artist I invested 100,000 dollars into myself to further my independent career, you should be happy, not mad, If I got a beat from Eminem and made history as the first-ever independent artist to do that, you should be happy, not mad. And If I didn’t do any of that then you have nothing to worry about, shut the f**k up. So in closing this is all hypothetical, I am not confirming or denying anything, but I got a big surprise coming and more clues.”
Tom MacDonald first rose to prominence with the tracks “Politically Incorrect,” and “Whiteboy.” MacDonald’s new album, ‘If I Was Black,’ was released.
In March 2020, MacDonald released two singles, ‘I Don’t Care’ and ‘Coronavirus,’ both of which were major successes. T-shirts, hoodies, and other accessories such as stickers and prints are also available from MacDonald. When it comes to his music, he participates in many tours and performances, which earns him a substantial sum of money.
MacDonald has a surprisingly large fan base as an independent rapper. Since 2017, the 32-year-old has been releasing songs, with his most popular song to date is “Everybody Hates Me,” which has had over 23.6 million Spotify streams. He is a self-described independent artist who hails from Vancouver, Canada.
In a manner, “Dear Slim” is a non-canonical episode in the Stan narrative, with Tom informally playing Stan himself – if Stan had lived and become a renowned rapper. To cut a long tale short, Tom is basically telling Eminem that he is a role model for him. Em, while not knowing the vocalist personally, is someone who, in his opinion, helped him deal with being bullied as a youngster.
On YouTube, the song has already received one & half a million views. For an indie artist, that’s rather impressive. With this song, Tom MacDonald left an indelible impact. In addition, the music video is well-made.
LET ME CLEAR UP THIS WHOLE EMINEM THING… pic.twitter.com/M5I3pcbSjp
— Tom MacDonald (@IAMTOMMACDONALD) May 8, 2021
In a Facebook live stream, MacDonald talked about his favorite Eminem songs. “My favorite Eminem song? Jeez, what is my favorite Eminem song? It’s gotta be something old. It’s gotta be off of either ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’ or ‘The Eminem Show.’ Cause I kinda fell off after ‘The Eminem Show’, when Encore dropped. I listened to Encore but I was kinda like weirded out by the direction things were going in so Encore was definitely last Eminem album I listened to.”
In 2023, Hip-Hop turned 50 years old, and Eminem connected with New York Times to reflect on his legendary career. “‘Back then, you had to go off the top of the head. If you didn’t you’d get booed offstage. So I learned from watching Proof that you can freestyle, but just have a couple lines in the back of your head, a couple of punchlines you know you want to use, and then freestyle around that.
Coming up in the battle scene was the greatest thing to happen to me because I knew what lines were going to get a reaction from the crowd. That’s what I would focus on. So when I got signed with Dre, I was trying to translate that to record, to get that reaction. I would picture the listener sitting there and what lines they might react to. I just used that as a formula. Like, “How you gonna br–stfeed, Mom?/You ain’t got no ti-s.”
In the past two years, Tom MacDonald released four studio albums, which includes The Brave with Adam Calhoun, Renegade, The Revolution, and the most recently The Brave 2 with Adam Calhoun, which debuted at number 62 on the US Billboard 200.
