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And looking back I kind of feel that we should have, just in terms of the amount of heat that we had behind the label at the time. So we reached out to Rude Jude, who we had been friends with from Detroit and thought he'd be great on radio. So that's really where it first came from; he was thinking to himself, Who can I get on this record that's really gonna be appropriate and you're really gonna be able to hear that pain and authenticity in their voice when they're singing that?

We've started rolling out the Yelawolf album, that's gonna continue this year, and Slaughterhouse is still working on their project. Born in Alabama and raised in Tennessee, he embarked on his career independently in 2005, releasing one extended play (EP) and four mixtapes until 2010. But we've never been about quantity, we've always been more about making sure that things are planned and that the quality is where it needs to be.

And she really fit the bill for that.

And everything's really developed since then.
Yeah, it's really developed since then; they really hit it off, they just sounded great together and obviously it worked so well that when we had the opportunity to do some more records, initially it was like, you know, we don't want to just repeat ourselves.

Gave Cipha Sounds his first morning show, gave Angela Yee her first on-air job ever, and then when they moved on to do what they're doing now, reached back out to our old friend Sway and gave him the opportunity to do mornings again with us. We were talking about how there was a time when things were really hot, when we were doing Summer Jam with 50 at Giants Stadium.

Looking back at that stuff isn't really fun. But that was also a high point, so I would call that a high and low at the same time.

You guys got pulled into a lot of beefs around that time, too. So we thought it would be a good time to go back and do a retrospective on the "greatest hits," quote unquote.

He left Shady when he left Interscope, right?
Yeah, so 50 is on G-Unit Records and he's got his own situation through Caroline, and he's no longer on Shady because our deal is with Interscope as well. So he's at a point right now... Guest shots came from Eminem, Kid Rock, Lil Jon, and Gangsta Boo, while names like Diplo, Jim Jonsin, and the J.U.S.T.I.C.E.

And we didn't want to continue to have a reputation where you could get signed and your record might never come out. So I was really proud that we executed that and put a few projects out in a short period of time.

Now with Shady XV, what was the idea behind putting together a compilation for the anniversary?
So one day we were sitting talking about what we're gonna do this year.

I mean, we knew when we were signing 50 that we weren't signing a choir boy, so it wasn't a huge surprise when things got a little bit hectic. And you know, Marshall and 50 continue to have a great relationship, and that's not gonna change.

Over the 15 years, what would you consider some of the highs and lows of Shady Records?
There was a time, right after 8 Mile—we put that soundtrack out on Shady—and then shortly after we put out 50's album [Get Rich Or Die Tryin'], where I felt like we could have really put out more projects and had a lot more success.

His signing to the label was announced in 2011, and by the end of the year his official debut, Radioactive, had landed.