Three Rappers Got Asked About Eminem in Two Weeks, and Two of Them Named the Same Verse

Rapsody, Busta Rhymes and a battle rapper walked into three unrelated interviews. All three ended up on the same subject, and the verse that keeps surfacing is not one from an Eminem album.

None of these is a story on its own. Together they are a decent map of what other rappers actually reach for when Eminem's name comes up, which turns out to be remarkably consistent.

Rapsody sent him a record, and the clock beat her

Talking to Rob Markman about God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops, released August 21, 2026, Rapsody explained how features happen for her. "Most of the time I let the music tell me who's missing."

Then the exception.

Rapsody: "There's only one other rapper I sent music to. That was Lauryn Hill. And there was one record we sent to Eminem. I waited so late to send it. My deadline was really hard. I was like, I really want this album to come out in summer, so to get everything we needed, I was like, dang. But those are only two."

Two artists in her career have received an unsolicited Rapsody record. Lauryn Hill and Eminem. The song in question is "Abandoned Me," track ten, and the small detail that makes it land is who is already on it: Mr. Porter, who spent this same week talking about Eminem for four hours on somebody else's podcast.

Markman, hearing the miss, floats the obvious repair. "'Abandoned Me' remix, Eminem, Lauryn Hill? Who says no?" Rapsody laughs and gives the diplomatic answer: "Everything is in due time."

Set to start at 5:08. The feature story begins at 0:40; the favorite-verse answer runs 5:23 to 6:00.

Then Markman asks for a favorite song, and gets corrected.

Rapsody: "I don't have a favorite song. I got favorite verses. It's still like 'Renegade' and 'Dead Wrong.' I've been an Eminem fan forever. My brother put me on Eminem on his first album. There's one that I love, I just can't remember the name of it, but he talked about slapping somebody with a tampon. It's the funniest visual to me ever. It's hard to pick a favorite Em verse. He just kills everything."

The line she cannot place is from "Superman," off The Eminem Show: "Put anthrax on a Tampax and slap you till you can't stand."

A battle rapper had to make a video about it

On September 3, battle rapper Real Deal posted to Instagram to clean up a mess. He had said he prefers Jay-Z's verse on "Renegade," and his comments filled with people calling him a Shady hater.

Real Deal: "Not at all true. He's one of my favorite rappers ever and an absolute legend. Somebody said, what's your favorite Eminem verse? The answer has not changed for me in 26 years. Second verse on 'Amityville.' It might not lyrically be his best work, even though I think it's incredible, but combined with the aggression and how he knows when and when not to be syllabic."

"Amityville" is on The Marshall Mathers LP, 2000, with Bizarre. Twenty-six years is a long time to hold a position on a deep cut, and it is a more interesting pick than the ones people fight about.

Note the shape of the whole episode though. To defend himself against an Eminem-hater charge, he had to name an Eminem verse. That is the gravitational pull the other two clips also demonstrate.

Busta Rhymes says the songs exist

On episode 136 of the Whoo's House podcast, posted September 1, DJ Whoo Kid steered the conversation toward bootlegs he has been playing.

DJ Whoo Kid: "Usually the bootlegs I've been running up here is you and Em, man. You've told me before you have done other songs. We got to talk to Paul to get these songs out."

Busta does not correct him about the songs existing.

Busta Rhymes: "Em is definitely one of my favorite MCs to ever touch this microphone. And he's been that since day one, and he still continues to be that. So salute to M."

Whoo Kid closes with "Salute Paul. And let's get that song." Paul Rosenberg has managed Eminem since 1996 and has run point on what leaves the vault for just as long. Busta and Eminem have only a small handful of released collaborations, most prominently "Calm Down" in 2014 and "I'll Hurt You" in 2009. Whoo Kid is describing more than that.

Set to start at 17:40. The exchange closes the episode.

The verse that keeps winning

Two of the three named "Renegade," and the third's whole controversy was about it. Twenty-five years on, the Eminem verse his peers reach for first is still a guest spot on a Jay-Z album, on a song Nas built an entire diss around.

Rapsody's other pick, "Dead Wrong," is the same category: a posthumous Notorious B.I.G. record from 1999 that Eminem was added to. Neither is on an Eminem album. When other rappers rank him, they reach for the rooms he walked into as a guest.

Sources. Rapsody's quotes are from "Rapsody Wanted Eminem and Lauryn Hill Features For Her 'God Gotta Afro' Album," posted to Rob Markman's channel on September 3, 2026; the feature answer is at 0:40 and the verse answer at 5:23. God Gotta Afro and Gold Hoops was released August 21, 2026; "Abandoned Me" is track ten and credits Mr. Porter. Busta Rhymes' quotes are from "EP 136 Busta Rhymes" on the Whoo's House podcast, posted September 1, 2026, at 17:40 to 18:05. Real Deal's quotes are from his own Instagram video of September 3, 2026, as reported by Southpawers. Busta Rhymes and Eminem's best-known released collaborations are "Calm Down" (2014) and "I'll Hurt You" (2009); the unreleased material referenced is DJ Whoo Kid's claim, not a confirmed inventory, and Paul Rosenberg has not commented.