Lil Wayne, Eminem, Kanye West and Drake Team Up For "Forever"

In perhaps the biggest all-star hip-hop collaboration since "Swagga Like Us," Lil Wayne, Eminem, Kanye West and Drake have come together for a six-minute-plus track called "Forever." It took a giant name in sports to get these titans of rap together, though: the song will feature in an upcoming documentary about basketball star LeBron James called More Than a Game. "Forever" was produced by Drake's "Best I Ever Had" beatmaker Boi-1da. Nah Right hinted at the collaboration earlier in the week, and the song leaked yesterday. Take a listen above.

Drake gets top billing on the track, even though he's not quite in the same league as Eminem, Lil Wayne and Kanye West just yet (but a couple of platinum records could change that quickly). But one of the real surprises here is Lil Wayne, who has constantly professed on mixtapes that Kobe Bryant is the best basketball player alive ( Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake, however, remain firmly on Team LeBron). Still, Weezy has long expressed a desire to collaborate with Eminem, and "Forever" makes it happen.

Speaking of Eminem, the Relapse rapper saves the best verse for last on the track. Even though the song is destined for the soundtrack of a basketball film, Eminem is still in full-on serial killer mode like "Forever" was "3 AM," with Slim Shady rapping, "I'm Hannibal Lector so in case you're thinking about saving face, you ain't gonna have no face to save by the time I'm through with this place." All rappers involved bring their A-game to the track, but Em comes out the MVP.

According to MTV, these superpowers of rap will come together next month in New York to shoot a Hype Williams-directed video for the track. The More Than a Game soundtrack, out September 29th, will be executive produced by Polow Da Don and will also feature tracks by T.I., Mary J. Blige and Young Jeezy. "Forever" will reportedly officially be released to iTunes tomorrow, August 28th.

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“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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