Apr 28, 2015 He's doing a trade off. In music, like in sports, pressure serves as the great divider that separates those that become etched in eternity from the ones that wind up as pop-culture footnotes. With every album cycle, Tech N9ne has come up with new ways to draw the mainstream to him. With “Hood Go Crazy,” the first single from his forthcoming Special Effects album, already proliferating airwaves, Tech once again upped the ante with "Speedom (WWC 3)," which features another Midwest legend, Eminem. It’s a collaboration he’s been dreaming about for years and according to Tech, Em made it even sweeter when it was time to pay the bill. “[Eminem] did the verse for nothing but a swap,” Tech told BET.com in an exclusive interview. “I was flabbergasted cause I know it costs so much to get Eminem and he’s worth every penny, and for him to say, ‘I just want a song from you for this,’ that made me feel really beautiful that he felt like that about my music,” he added. Tech and Slim Shady collaborated once before on Sway & King Tech’s “The Anthem” in 1999 with an all-star cast of rhymers, and though they haven’t spoken much since then, Tech says Em’s gesture was the ultimate form of flattery. “I haven’t spoken to this guy since early 2000s or something and it’s just wonderful how that worked out,” noted Tech. “The fact that he feels like my music is that good that he would wanna do that for me is incredible. For one, do the song for me and then say, ‘no no no no, I just want you to give me a song for this.’ I’m like ‘Yes!’ That feels so good man.” As a longtime fan of other genres, Tech has never shied away from experimenting sonically and according to him Special Effects is the pinnacle of versatility. "When you hear [the album], it’s such a roller-coaster ride, it’s unpredictable,” he exclaimed exuding more excitement with every collaboration he named. “We went to the hilt of metal with Slipknot, we went to the hilt of hip hop with Eminem, you know what I’m sizzlin’? And even EDM, we went to the hilt with Excision, the bonus track on the CD called 'Roadkill' we shot a video, we went to the hilt of trap music. The King of the South, T.I., is on a song with me and Zuse called 'On the Bible.' E-40 has a b-----r with me called 'No K,' of course you’ve heard what 'Hood Go Crazy' is doing right now it’s actually making the hood go crazy with 2 Chainz and B.o.B., Audio Push is on the album, Yo Gotti is on the album, Lil Wayne is on the album. This is crazy dude!” Tech, whose real name is Aaron Yates, has always chanelled his inner darkness through his songs, so it was only fitting after the recent passing of his mother that he save one collab to help him properly express those emotions. "We went and got the darkest individuals to do the darkest song possible on this album and the reason why is, I’ve always had the darkness because my mom being sick,” said Tech. “When she passed on June 6, to Lupus, it made me wanna do this song called 'Shroud.' I have a darkened shroud over me now since mom’s gone so we were gonna go to the pinnacle of darkness, which is Joseph Bishara, the composer for the music on movies like The Conjuring and Insidious. Me and my producer Seven got him, and them two got together and put together the craziest beat ever for me to get my feelings." Though he’s shared the mic with so many music legends throughout his illustrious career from Ice Cube to the Doors, Tech says the ideas are already flowing for the future. I still want to do something with Jay Zcause I sent him one on this [album], but he couldn’t do it at the time,” Tech revealed. “OutKast, if I could ever make that happen. There’s a lot of people I still wanna work with, Jonathan Davis (from Korn), Trent Reznor, Alanis Morissette, Lana Del Rey, Gary Clarke Jr., Collie Budz, I got so many ideas man.” http://www.bet.com/news/music/2015/04/28/tech-n9ne-says-another-collab-with-eminem-in-the-works.html
Apr 28, 2015 That's awesome! Looking forward to another collab between them Ooh gimme a Tech & Lana Del Rey collab!
Apr 28, 2015 Kinda a misleading title, nothing about it being on roots or roots even existing. It took Em and Tech almost 10 years to hook up for this track after Tech started pushing for it, so no reason to assume it'll happen quickly the next time. Imo it's not even a sure thing it happens at all. I'd love to hear another collaboration that isn't just them trying to rap as fast as possible though.
Apr 28, 2015 but the article implies that Tech N9ne is doing a "swap" of features with Eminem. Eminem will have a track (feat. Tech N9ne); one can then use logic to figure out that this then confirms a new "project" for the future. "Roots" is the working title for this album I believe.
Apr 28, 2015 Em requested a feature Similar to what happened with lil wayne getting on no love because of drop the world
Apr 29, 2015 We know the album probably won't be called roots but we just refer to a possible new album to that name... Well I do.
Apr 29, 2015 Its not happening one cuz tech went and talked about it. Jimmy won't let te song cone out now, watch. The reason tech didn't work with DMX was because e talked about it. He needs to learn to shut his mouth.
