Remember The Name by Ed Sheeran (featuring Eminem & 50 Cent)

Album: No. 6 Collaborations Project (2019)

Charted: 57

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Ed Sheeran links up with Eminem and 50 Cent on this hip-hop track. Ed and Em's verses are about how they've come up from humble origins and their current standing in the music industry. The third verse features 50 flexing about his luxurious lifestyle.
Sheeran raps the first verse in which he recalls his "misfit" childhood.

Wanted to make it big, I wished it to existence
I never was a sick kid, always dismissed quick
Stick to singing, stop rappin' like it's Christmas

Sheeran had a stutter when he was younger. He has credited rapping along to Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP and 50's Get Rich or Die Tryin' for helping him get rid of his speech impediment.
Also during his verse, Sheeran confirms reports that he and his longtime girlfriend, Cherry Seaborn, got married. He does this by referring to her as his "wife."

Watch how the lyrics in the songs might get twisted
My wife wears red, but looks better without the lipstick

Speaking to Charlamagne Tha God, Sheeran said: "It was actually before me and Cherry got married and I knew that we'd be married by the point that the song came out. "(I thought), 'Someone's gonna hear that and be like, 'Oh, they're married!' I didn't know how that would be construed, but obviously it's already come out."
50 Cent's verse features an interpolation of OutKast's "So Fresh, So Clean."
Ed Sheeran has never collaborated with 50 Cent before. He previously worked with Eminem on the Detroit MC's 2017 track "River."

It was Eminem who first signed 50, so the pair have an extensive collaboration history. They last worked together on 50's 2012 single "My Life."
Speaking to Charlamagne Tha God, Sheeran suggested the trio came together thanks to "fate" after he was desperate to work with both rappers.

"I walked in Eminem's dressing room, and it's him and 50 Cent in there. I was like, this has to be meant to be! I think they were quite weird about it, because I was like 'do you believe in fate?' I did walk in, and I was like, 'I'm a great believer in things that are meant to be."
The song was produced by Max Martin, Shellback, and Fred. The three producers also helmed the No. 6 Collaborations Project's singles "I Don't Care" and "Beautiful People."
Ed Sheeran told BBC News he intended "Remember The Name" as an homage to the "cheekier songs" on early Eminem albums.

Comments: 1

AnonymousI never heard this song, but I swear he and Fort Minor had the same idea..

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