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Detroit, MI – June 1, 2007– At a time when most chart toppers are focused on the fruits of fame, Detroit based rapper and producer Denaun Porter is strategizing on ways to help burgeoning artists break into the music business. On June 15, 2007, the multi-platinum selling artist will launch a website with the intent of providing a platform for rising stars to gain a competitive edge in today’s music industry.
His site, MrPorterBeats.com, is a portal for independent artists, songwriters, deejays and labels to gain access to top notch, original beats at affordable prices from one of the most respected music producers in the industry. These professional beats will be licensed for rates starting as low as $50. Whether for demo, mixtape or album purposes, users are provided a variety of options depending on intent of usage. Membership to the website is free and users are offered the opportunity to browse an “Exclusive Beats” section where they can purchase full ownership of Mr. Porter’s productions complete with pro-tools sessions.
According to Porter, “I’m always getting demos from people who want to work with me or just want feedback. Unfortunately a lot of their work is not good because the music lacks quality. I can’t work with everyone but this site provides opportunities for them to have a direct link to my production. This is a way for me to assist artists efficiently.”
Having produced chart toppers for several industry heavyweights ranging from 50 Cent to Snoop Dogg from Shakira to Burt Bacharach, Mr. Porter has been instrumental in selling millions of records world wide. He hopes this website will help open the door for a new wave of artists.
“If the music industry was driven by more innovative producers and visionaries, I believe there wouldn’t be drastic drops in sales. Many times when artists start out in their careers, they are very creative. A lot of times as they become successful their A&R, managers and/or label executives see dollar signs and don’t see the vision like the artist does. This site is a part of my contribution to the revolution of saving and fighting back for artistic control in a cynical, money driven industry.”
Mr. Porter joins the company of other key producers in sharing the desire to “give back” and provide opportunities for people to grow in their music careers. “I have a ton of beats in my arsenal for artists that want to be creative and don’t want to sound just like everyone else that’s out here,” shares Porter. “One of the biggest problems of the music industry today is that majority of the artists being pushed are carbon copies of each other. There’s no creativity. All the production sounds alike. It’s time for people to step outside the box and go beyond the norm. Many of the tracks on the site are different and creative. I’m looking forward to seeing what people do with them musically and the direction they take them.”
MrPorterBeats.Com is a strong statement proving that Mr. Porter is putting his beats where his heart is!
For more information, contact:
Sabrina Underwood
Earth Tones Enterprises
EarthTonesEnt@Yahoo.com

I really need to address to all of you guys, since I have had a lot of people spamming my mailbox and bothering me with unuseful questions.
First of all, I am very busy at the moment and I will barely have time to answer any regular mail. All over those years, I have always tried to answer people giving me some positive feedback, constructive criticism or who simply had some questions to ask about Em or anything hip hop.
However, I need to remind some of you that I also have a life , two kids and some daily obligations to face with. I am busy with my own life, so please don ‘t waste my time with questions whose answers you could find easily through search engines like google or yahoo…anyway if you do have some specific questions about Em, may I gently remind you that the Eminem blog has an archive that covers several years of research I have done on the artist and his music, so please, before you start emailing me, check out the archive.
I’d also like to point out that I don’t have answers to everything. Moreover, I don’t know Mr Mathers personally and I never claimed to. I don’t have answers for every little detail happening in his life…so please, don’t bother me with Em’s personal life…I have reported about some facts and probably will if the press talks about in some specific articles…but…my whole life doesn’t revolve around Em and his family. Em is somebody I do respect as an artist and as a person, but I have my own life to live.
Talking about my passion for the music, Em is not the only artist I am talking about as a music journalist. I have a huge passion for hip hop, whether it is old school, new school, underground or mainstream. I love hip hop as a WHOLE. Em is just a tiny part of that immense passion that makes me tick.
In conclusion, many elements keep my mind busy. I am fed up with people constantly bothering me, asking me if I know about Kesia Alvarez ‘ pregnancy, that they love Em to death, if I am related to Em or if I do have a contact address or a phone number to reach Mr Mathers. You guys are such a bore. Get a life!
As long as I will have some free time, I will always try to respond to my readers email. But I will definitely classify the mails mentioned above as spam.
To whom it may concern: please take my words into account, because I will simply put you on a block list.
Thank you for reading.
Sincerely,
Isa
Cpoyright©2007 by Isabelle Esling
All Rights Reserved

Check out Instrumentally Sick Productions. I will feature those guys on the Eminem blog asap!

Unlike an opinion that is so common to many comfortable middle class people, emceeing is not all about cursing. Little did you know if you wanted to summarize the art of rap to a few cusswords and angry attitudes. Although it is true you are more likely to find some F and N words that sound shocking to some sensitive ears in rap lyrics, it is a little bit simplistic to think that rap music is only about the cusswords.
The first thing that made me focus on emceeing is the subtle art of rhyme. Believe me, not anybody can rhyme in a rap song. While some mainstream rappers spread a false image of what rap music actually is all about and how it should sound, one should not forget that the real roots of rap music are to be sought in the ghetto, the place of an underground emcee’s every day struggle. The jungle, the rough struggle the dirt are part of many colorful descriptions of an emcee s vocal descriptions and it is actually part of an emcee s realistic lyrics.
While cursing has its part- whether it is due to the context or part of a diss, the main difficulty is to put your words together, make them rhyme and make sense while you rhyme, insert some compound syllables, some incisive punchline, destroy or ridicule your opponent, have a suble sense of rhythm and being capable of mixing some suitable instrumentals.
While some middle class ladies often affect to be shocked by the content of a diss, should I remind my readers that the rules from which rap music originated are the disses?
If you cannot stomach a diss as an emcee, you’d better not rap at all.
Being an emcee involves many qualities, such as being an excellent rhymer, a man or a woman of faith, a good musician and definitely a person who doesn t fear speaking up in front of a supportive or unsupportive audience.
A real emcee will transport you into his universe and communicate his passion to the world. That’s how you will recognize the real emcee from the untalented wannabe.
Copyright 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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known as one of Detroit s best producers, he also decided to produce his own beats…
have a look:

here is the website that goes with the logo!

We are all equal-at least in theory. It seems, however, that some offenders have it easier than some others.
In a society that claims to defend justice, democracy and equal human rights, it is kinda shocking to see people like Paris Hilton walk free from jail after three days with a $ 20 000 fine. It looks like there seem to be double justice standards, whether you are rich and famous, or not.
While considering the wisdom of the Latin proverb « Summa jus, summa injuria » ( too much justice can be a great injustice), we should also take into account that a crime is a crime, regardless of who committed it, and there should be no favor treatment as far as I am concerned.
Double standards already exist in terms of race. Many people in America happen to be judged more severely when carrying the wrong skin color.
When somebody is breaking the law, the same punishment should apply for the same type of crime.
If any celebrity commits a crime tomorrow, I see no logical reason why he/she should benefit more from the Court s clemency than the nobody from the street committing a similar crime.
Although some star struck people would dangerously take sides in favor of their lawbreaking idols, I do consider that we should IN NO WAY encourage such behaviors.
Money gives famous people the illusion that they are untouchable. Unfortunately, some judges way of ruling their Court cases will reinforce this illusion.
While it is true that the same justice should prevail for all of us as well as the sun shines for good and evil, poor and rich, we all know that some people have it real easy in front of the justice s eye.
But isn’t that notion of equality and justice the biggest illusion in this world?
Money will buy you the best lawyers. Money will allow child molesters and criminals to walk free from Court without the slightest remorse.
It is so much scandalous to see arrogant wealthy people escape from their sentence, because of their social status.
Shouldn’t millionaire Alberto Igaza judged as severely as a poor man (doing the same crazy thing) for murdering his 2 year old daughter?
Money is a useful tool that can buy you loads of things and even free you from jail and other very difficult situations, but I don’t think it will ever buy you happiness.
Talking about Alberto Igaza, who would be convinced, despite the numerous press reports describing his apparent happiness, that a man murdering his own two year old baby was totally content with his life?
You can always plead temporary craziness, stress and exceptional circumstances: a crime remains a crime and should deserve an exemplary punishment. No extra treatment, no special favor for the rich. One law, one justice and, preferably, the same non discriminatory law for all of us!
Copyright 2007© by Isabelle Esling
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Hip-hop superstar EMINEM has vowed not to press charges against an 18-year-old wannabe rapper who phoned him after stealing his number from his ex-wife Kim. Kyle Spratt was fired from his job at a bingo hall in Ontario, Canada after snatching Kim Mathers’ cellphone when she visited there last month (May07). He used the phone to get Eminem and rapper Obie Trice’s personal numbers. He then called the Slim Shady star – real name Marshall Mathers III – in a bid to get his demo heard. Spratt says, “I’m just really desperate to get my music heard. I’m not having a good life… and I feel that my music could really help me if I really made it. “He (Eminem) was a real asshole. He pretended it was wasn’t him, and he did a fake voice.” When Detroit Police called him, warning him to stop harassing the rapper, Spratt taped the conversation and sampled it on a new track he created, called Slim Shady is a Sellout, slamming Eminem. Police in Ontario then contacted Spratt, amid fears that he had threatened the Mathers’ that he would post pictures of their children on the internet – but when cops failed to find any such snaps the ex-couple agreed not to press charges. Spratt’s track has since been removed from the internet.

wannabe rap star in Windsor finally got some buzz — after stealing Kim Mathers’ phone, calling Eminem, bragging about it online, and then finding cops at his front door.
18-year-old Kyle Spratt admits he swiped Kim Mathers’ phone at Paradise Bingo in Windsor, and wrote down Eminem’s number before the phone was returned.
Spratt then called Eminem hoping the rapper would listen to his demo music. The conversation, which Spratt recorded, didn’t work out very well.
Upset that Eminem brushed him off and then police started calling, Spratt spun the recordings of the conversations into a rap song called “Slim Sellout” — which he posted online. And that’s when the trouble really started.
Below is a May 28 post from Spratt on the website TRSHADY.COM….
“i dissed eminem n i got him on tape and cop on tape … click lyrics to read them to SLIM SELLOUT .. www.myspace.com/kylespratt [[NOTE: song has been removed from site]]
“k if this aint news i dont know what the f*** is … long story short i havent posted anything bout this on here this past crazy month while all this has been happening cause i dont feel like having a bunch of net nerds attack me like ” yeah and im eminems uncle ” .. but straight the f*** up .. i stole kims phone from paradise bingo where i worked till she got me fired i called eminem and blah blah blah listen to my song ull hear the clips and understand the story … click LYRICS to read along
“P.S i see the irony in everyones only insult to me as an ” eminem wannabe ” and the fact that i now ripped him .. i dont care if he comes back i dont care if he hears it … but im almost positive he will … f*** eminem.”
Click here to see responses to post on trshady.com
Click here for latest coverage from the Windsor Star

Ray Benzino, known as the former co-owner of the Source magazine, recently stated about Eminem:
““I think if me and Eminem ever got together, it would not only be big for hip-hop, it would be big for society.We have a long way to go and I think he can be a very important voice to make that happen. If it was to ever happen, I’d be with it.” …
His sudden changes of heart towards a man he has spent nearly four years to fully hate seems to hide a masked jealousy and deep personal ambitions.
If we consider that the same man defined Marshall Mathers as a “creme de la creme emcee” in his unsigned hype article in 1999 suddenly went from the deepest admiration for the emcee s lyrical skills to a dark hatred, we could ask what his motivations actually are.
In 2003, Benzino s clear goal was to ruin Eminem s career, presenting him as a big racist in front of the public s eye and as a menace to the purity of hip hop, as a white member of the hip hop community. As if Eminem s whiteness really mattered in terms of talent.
It looks like the pitiful, second (or should I say third class) rapper, seems to act like a cameleon.
Not only is the man totally deprived of any real rapping talent, he is also very unhappy with other people s fame and success.
As Eminem sarcastically pointed it out in 2003, Benzino is not even gifted for bullying. His desperate discrimination campaign against Eminem fully defines him as a desperate attention freak.
Shady will definitely have the last laugh in this affair.
Copyright2007 by Isabelle Esling
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Ray Benzino reveals his true colors:
Former Source owner Benzino tells SOHH.com that he doesn’t have beef with anyone — not even longtime nemesis Eminem. “I think if me and Eminem ever got together, it would not only be big for hip-hop, it would be big for society,” Benzino said, explaining that he’d team up with Em in the name of race relations. “We have a long way to go and I think he can be a very important voice to make that happen. If it was to ever happen, I’d be with it.” …
This assertions certainly deserves a further comment lol