New Music: Slaughterhouse x Cee-Lo - “My Life”

[Mathers]

People don;t understand that you NEED songs like this in order to get radio spins. That's just how it is. I have hope and faith that their album will have better beats and hooks. The lyrics in this are pretty dope though, at least they didn't dumb themselves down in that aspect.

Exactly.

[JamaicanPattlez]

People don;t understand that you NEED songs like this in order to get radio spins. That's just how it is. I have hope and faith that their album will have better beats and hooks. The lyrics in this are pretty dope though, at least they didn't dumb themselves down in that aspect.

No you DON'T.

Yes, you really do. What type of songs do you hear on the radio? Catchy ones. Rack City is a good example. Terrible, terrible song but it's a hit. This song is at least halfway decent. You never hear crazy lyrical tracks on rap radio over dark beats. You hear average lyricism over mainstream beats. Eminem might be able to get away with rapping about whatever he wants over whatever beat he wants because he's Eminem and he's so damn popular. (3AM comes to mind, not a radio song but got some spins). Unfortunately the same cannot be said about Slaughterhouse. Have you heard Hammer Dance once on the radio? You'd hear My Life much sooner than Hammer Dance, simply because it's more radio friendly. They realized this and dropped a radio oriented single. I don't entirely blame them. This isn't the SH we all know and love, but that's how things go when you have an upcoming album and you're trying to be on top. I don't know a single artist who DOESN'T wanna blow up and make money.

Really man, I'm with you. This might get radio spins but this isn't what I wanted to hear from SH. But you gotta face the cold hard facts. The radio doesn't care for lyricism, they care about a "hot beat and a catchy hook" as Eminem said on Syllables. I wanna hear darker shit on their album. As I said I feel confident that we'll get a good album from them with a lot of variety. I'm just being realistic here. I don't even listen to the radio so I don't care about that all that much, but I do want SH to blow up and become big. I really want that for them, they are extremely talented and deserve it. I think with Em behind them backing them up they can do it if they do it right. Dropping this single was the first step. I want great lyrics to be popular and cool again.

Actually my city's radio play Hammer Dance like crazy. I think it's because Winnipeg's Hip Hop station is the second or third most popular radio station in the city besides the regular mainstream radio with Katy Perry, Pitbull, Drake, Wayne, Rihanna and Adele.

But I agree with this. What teenage girl's gonna want to hear about four dudes tearing up bodies in an a vat of acid? Not many, that's why people for the most part hate Relapse and LOVE Recovery. Eminem's right on Syllables, all it really DOES take nowadays is a hot beat and a catchy hook. That's not to say "Dumb down your lyrics for stupid bitches to rap to", you could still be lyrical as fuck. It's just that in the mainstream, you have a difference audience you have to appease to, and that's why you have stuff like this.

[Devil'sAdvocate]

They all dumbed the pen,this is absolutely terrible,fuckin Eminem and joey rapped a total of 5 bars or something,i know he doesn't like this

Yeah Em fuckin' sold out on this track son! Did you hear how he dumbed down his verse?! He dumbed it down so damn much it wasn't on the track.

looooooooooool,you just mad,we all know Em told them to do catchy tracks.

[Trimss]

They all dumbed the pen,this is absolutely terrible,fuckin Eminem and joey rapped a total of 5 bars or something,i know he doesn't like this

Yeah Em fuckin' sold out on this track son! Did you hear how he dumbed down his verse?! He dumbed it down so damn much it wasn't on the track.

looooooooooool,you just mad,we all know Em told them to do catchy tracks.

Budden made a track with Weezy.

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Clip from their video:

[Manly Moose]

I like it. They needed a song like this. This isn't an underground album, they're dropping on interscope so yea you knew a mainstream sounding song was coming...flows are awesome though and I like the hook

But its purely bubblegum pop, something thats done with for good after around 15 minutes, not only that but it tastes bad. You say that to be on a mainstream label they need a song like this, but really thats kinda sad since it was not always like that. In fact its only been like that for the last 5 years at the most. Sure labels have usually asked for something marketable, but they would take what they were given and would be ok with an artist having relatively low sales, this sounds like it was forced upon Slaughterhouse since theres no way they would choose such a shitty beat and hook. I mean c'mon, the way you make commercial rap is to make it overly aggressive, not by teenybopping it on the head with a sledgehammer.

[djdixie]

The track reminds me of No Love

[ShAdYTiLIDie]

Damn Love this!

[Devil'sAdvocate]

Budden made a track with Weezy.

Not every weezy track is commercial,what are you trying to say,both will be rapping over a legit beat and thats for joe's album.

[deaneedog]

This is why I hate eminem getting involved on artists projects . Everyone seems to celebrate when he does...

[Almostlity]

No, he didn't.
And even if he did, he wouldn't have had them rapping over this beat or even get fuckin Cee-Lo on it.

And you know this how exactly?

Stop acting like you're part of the group lmao.

[Trimss]

Budden made a track with Weezy.

Not every weezy track is commercial,what are you trying to say,both will be rapping over a legit beat and thats for joe's album.

Lol yeah Lil Wayne is gonna spit hard fire. We all know Budden probably hates Wayne and his bubblegum rap crew. Come the fuck on.

And you know this how exactly?

Stop acting like you're part of the group lmao.

And how would anyone know Eminem told them to do it?

[Man1x]

Like it or not, she's done so much stuff with hip-hop artists. So she's like go-to hook singer. Only difference is that she's actually famous.

I still wouldn't consider her half Hip HopI can only think of 2/3 hooks she's done off the top of my head. I'm out of touch with the mainstream though I must admit.

She's not hip hop,she's a pop artists that does hooks with hip hop artists.

[deaneedog]

This is why I hate eminem getting involved on artists projects . Everyone seems to celebrate when he does...

You're fucking idiot.

The most commercial shit Em has done was to get Rihanna, and she's half hip-hop so it's not that big of a deal.
Royce was the one behind "Lighters", he called Bruno.
Yela had the album done long before he signed to Shady.

Stupidity at its finest.

yerokaybro umad just cuz your marshal fell the fuck off and what ever he touches turns into a commercial piece of shit. (expect relapse minus beautiful )

Denial at its finest.