Today, Talib Kweli‘s People’s Party featured an appearance from Everlast, a veteran of the game who has experimented with several different musical styles. While the conversation is wide-ranging, around the one hour and five-minute mark, Talib mentions Everlast’s short-lived beef with Eminem, which was ultimately squashed after a few diss tracks from both parties. Everlast chuckles at the thought. “We were the only guys that battled on Napster, honestly,” he reflects, before Talib points out that Everlast actually got a shout out from Eminem on Marshall Mathers LP 2.

 “It was never a stress factor,” admits Everlast. “The only time it became a stress factor is that I didn’t really expect, when we had our problem — it was purely personal, I felt slighted by him at our first official meeting, when I went to shake his hand and I got egged. Put what they’d call a subtweet in a Dilated Peoples song, which got them in trouble which really wasn’t fair cause they rode for me when asked about it. They were my boys, but they shouldn’t have even been involved in that.”
 

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He explains that Em actually noticed the diss, and he got a call from B-Real, who was at the time managed by Paul Rosenberg. “My brothers are managed by Em’s manager, and they were like ‘Em heard the record and he’s curious if you dissed him,'” remembers Everlast. “So he’s taken notice of me all of a sudden. [laughs] And my answer was ‘well, what if I say yeah?’ B-Real was like ‘you know he’s going to come at you.’ I was like, yeah whatever. Then I kind of forgot about it. He didn’t come back at me for a couple of weeks. And then he pulled out “Quitter.” 

Everlast claims that the diss itself wasn’t overtly scathing, but it caused an unexpected predicament. As Eminem was getting bigger in alternative markets. “What I didn’t count on –cause me and this dude weren’t even in the same worlds right now, so this is just fun to me — is when [Quitter] bled into the alternative stations. I don’t think they did it on purpose, but the alternative stations were having their summer festivals and Christmas shows and they would want Eminem to play that. I got the feeling quite a few times that I wasn’t invited cause they wanted Em to play…It was just the facts and the politics of the game, and us being mad at each other might have prevented him from playing.” 

He maintains that the beef was never truly serious, though he would have made one particular change pertaining to a lyric on the song that initially started it all. “I said something about Hailey’s comet, and I didn’t know his daughter’s name was Hailey,” says Everlast. “He got upset cause he thought I said something about his daughter, and I used that in the second diss — he was about to go to jail and I said I’d look in on your kid — I wouldn’t have done that. As a parent of two daughters, I wouldn’t have done that.” 

For more from Everlast, check out the full episode of Talib Kweli’s People’s Party below. 

Veteran actor and social commentator Michael Rapaport has a lot of opinions about everything, whether he’s beefing with Kodak Black, backtracking on his beef with Meek Mill, age-shaming Ariana Grande, blasting Drake’s singing on Scorpion, or just questioning Lil Xan’s overall upbringing — oh, and that’s just scratching the surface! However, his latest stance on a controversial subject while visiting Talib Kweli‘s People’s Party podcast on UPROXX might just have people on his side this time around.

Talib and co-host Jasmin Leigh discussed a handful of topics with Rapaport, including cancel culture, his A Tribe Called Quest film and that “ashy ankles” controversy with Kenya Moore amongst other things. Things really got interesting though when it came to the use of the N-word, which the Higher Learning star questioned Kweli on why he and other rappers, specifically past guest The Game, still use it at this point in history. “You’re known as a wordsmith,” Rapaport assured Kweli, continuing by adding, “but I’m like, ‘Why is Kwe—N,N,N,N,N—at this point?'” The conversation leads both Talib and Jasmin to break down why the word is used in black culture and how, simply, those who aren’t African American should be careful with how they introduce their opinions on the N-word conversation as to not be “harmful by mistake.” The conversation spans for a little over two hours, so it’s definitely worth watching to get a better context of the entire discussion.

Watch the full episode of Talib Kweli’s People’s Party interview with Michael Rapaport below, and let us know what you think about the topic down in the comments:

Every stand-up comedian has a horror story about a time they took to the stage and something awful occurred. Even those that we celebrate as some of the greatest comedians to ever touch the mic have sat down to share a moment that was the worst of their career, but most will say that don’t regret those moments because it helped shape them into the performers they are today.

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Anthony Anderson is known to bring in laughs with his roles, and when he was first getting his start in comedy, the actor said it was a bumpy road. Anthony caught up with The People’s Party with Talib Kweli and talked about the first time he ever tried his hand at stand-up comedy and it was cringe-worthy, to say the least.

“You can never have a good run of comedy when your name is Tasty Tony,” he said. “Tasty Tony the one and only, if there’s another, he’s a phony.” Everyone erupted in laughter. “Regency West, the Comedy Act Theater. All of the greats had gone through there. And everybody was like, ‘You funny, you should get onstage.’ I was like, ‘Okay.’ I never saw myself being a stand-up comic. I’m an actor and I just happen to be funny.”

So, Anthony decided to take a stab at stand-up. “I had my whole support team with me one day and too many people on the list before me. So I didn’t get called to do open mic. The next week, I went nobody could make it, but I was like, that’s cool I’m not doing it for them, I’m doing it for me. I got there extra early. The first two comics that got up ahead of me were horrible and I heckled them. And I was f*ckin’ hysterical as a heckler.”

Then, his name was called as the audience was still laughing at his heckling jokes. He was unsure if he should actually get up and tell jokes since he was being praised in the audience. Additionally, the room was filled with comedians, a few of which he heckled, so making his way to the stage was like a “dead man walking.”

As soon as he told his first joke, he immediately was targeted. He was pelted with insults so quickly and so harshly that he couldn’t get through any of his jokes. “Literally, 15 seconds, if that, they shut my mic off,” Anthony said. “They were saving me the embarrassment so they shut my mic off.” He tried to continue without the mic, but the venue shut the stage lights off, too. 

“So I’m just standing there in darkness as everybody is sh*tting on me, rightfully so,” Anthony admitted. “So, my first time touching a mic onstage, I was onstage maybe 20 seconds and I left.” Watch to him recall the hilarious—and heartbreaking—story below, and make sure to tune in for his full interview on Monday, January 6.