“Obie Trice, real name no gimmicks.” Those were the infamous six words Trice uttered at the beginning of Eminem’s celebrated "Without Me" music video. As dated as Osama Bin Laden dancing in a cave may now seem, people may have the same cognition about Obie. With a decade separating then-and-now and four years after Obie Trice left Shady Records, it’s been a half-decade since Em’s former labelmate dropped an album; almost an eternity in today’s Hip Hop media sphere.
With the long passage of time in the chronicles of music release, one thing has remained the same, the relationship between Obie Trice, Eminem and Interscope Records.
“Those are still my people over there at Interscope and Shady, that’s family for life,” Obie Trice said. “I talk to Em almost every week so we still friends, still business partners and nothing’s really changed.”
Ironically, the heydays of Obie Trice may have been his most vulnerable. Trice opened up, explaining that his youth may have affected his future music endeavors.
“I was young, fresh out the hood, jumped into this music thing,” he said. “It was a little overwhelming for me, I didn’t seize the moment when I should’ve so I had to move on and that’s just how things go.”
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