Eminem and Lil Wayne's New Video Tackles Bullying

The video for Eminem and Lil Wayne's Haddaway-samping "No Love" premiered last night on Vevo. The third music video off Recovery, which Weezy filmed prior to his prison sentence, continues the public service announcement-like tone from Eminem's previous clips like "Not Afraid" (suicide) and "Love the Way You Lie" (domestic abuse.) This time around, Eminem focuses on teen bullying, with a subplot featuring a small teen who's the target of harassment from his fellow classmates (he finally fights back during the last chorus). The video comes during a week in which multiple gay teens have committed suicide, thrusting the issue of bullying into the national conversation.

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"No Love" marks the third time that Wayne — whose I Am Not a Human Being dropped this week — and Eminem have co-starred in a music video ("Forever" and the Rebirth highlight "Drop the World" were the first two instances). The single, which comes on the heels of "Love the Way You Lie" topping the Hot 100, will hit radio on October 5th.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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