Westside Boogie doesn’t agree with Eminem’s advice for Live shows
Given that Westside Boogie has been a member of Eminem’s Shady Records label since 2017, they have exclusive access to him. He recently shared the live performance advice Slim Shady told him on Raquel Harper’s It’s Tricky podcast. Slim Shady’s guidance was drawn from his own performance history.
“Performance-wise, he told me stop stage-diving ’cause I can get sued,” he said. “That’s just a physical thing. He don’t like how I be jumping in the crowd ’cause he said I could get sued and how he got into fight for doing that. But I just like jumping into the crowd – it’s like my thing, you know what I’m saying? So I don’t know if that’s necessarily good advice, but that’s the advice he gave me.”
Westside Boogie claims that Em’s advice to quit crowd-surfing since there is a risk he may get sued was the finest piece of advice he has ever received. Great financial advice, maybe, but it’s clear from this footage that WB has mixed feelings about it.
He said further “Music advice, he talked to me about not taking everything personal from blogs, ’cause it’s hard for me because my music is so genuine to me. So not seeing good responses sometimes frustrates me ’cause I know how much I put into it, but I think that’s every artist. Plus, coming from a neighborhood where we can’t let nobody punk us, gotta stand up for ourselves, when somebody come for me crazy on the internet, it’s always hard to not reply.”
Eminem congratulated Westside Boogie on his recent album. Click here to know more.
In May 2020, Westside Boogie talked openly about his friendship with Eminem in an interview. “When we talk it’s regular, he’s like a regular person,” he explained. “But when he calls, somebody else calls first and then they’ll be like, ‘Marshall’s on the phone,’ and I feel like I’m about to talk to my teacher or something.
“What makes it great about him is he just lets me grow as an artist and let me do what I gotta do. If I need something from him I can always reach out. As far as my work I don’t really want other people influencing my ideas, I wanna get my own thoughts off, I don’t really involve too many people honestly.”
Watch the interview below:
Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy, Teezo Touchdown, Shelley FKA DRAM, and other artists are featured on Westside Boogie’s new album More Black Superheroes, which was released on June 17 via Shady Records. You can listen to the album below.
