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Eminem's Relapse Tracklist Confirmed
Tuesday,28th April 2009
01) Dr. West (Skit) 01:29
02) 3am 05:20
03) My Mom 05:20
04) Insane 03:01
05) Bagpipes From Baghdad 04:43
06) Hello 04:08
07) Tonya (Skit) 00:43
08) Same Song & Dance 04:08
09) We Made You 04:30
10) Medicine Ball 03:57
11) Paul (Skit) 00:19
12) Stay Wide Awake 05:20
13) Old Time’s Sake f. Dr. Dre 04:35
14) Must Be The Ganja 04:03
15) Mr. Mathers 00:42
16) Deja Vu 04:43
17) Beautiful 06:32
18) Crack A Bottle f. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent 04:58
19) Steve Berman (Skit) 01:29
20) Underground/Ken Kaniff 06:19
Tunes says "Old Time's Sake" May 5th and "Beautiful" May 12th.
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Eminem on VIBE's Second Annual Real Rap Issue Cover
Tuesday,28th April 2009
The Real Slim Shady stands up for VIBE's Second Annual Real Rap Issue, coming soon to a newsstand near you. Check back to VIBE.com daily for more exclusive looks at this historic cover story. And don't forget to visit numberonestan.com for your opportunity to have your freestyle seen by Eminem himself. Get excited!
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Eminem - 3 A.M. Leaked!
Thursday,23rd April 2009
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Eminem - "I'm with Angela Yee on Shade45 Thursday morning. Listen carefully."
Thursday,23rd April 2009
Eminem interview with Angela Yee on Shade 45 4-23-09
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Eminem's viral website launches to promote album
Thursday,23rd April 2009
Eminem has launched a new viral Website that Celebrity Rehab’s Dr. Drew Pinsky might endorse to accompany his upcoming Relapse. Embracing the Web like never before, Em first used his Twitter to post a picture of himself outside of some place called “Popsomp Hills.” A visit to the refurbished Eminem.com revealed another site, The-Relapse.com, which in turn redirected to PopsompHills.com, a page for a fictional rehab center that if you say it quickly is “Pop Some Pills.” Pills are an ongoing theme for Eminem on his comeback album, especially given Relapse’s cover art.
Boasting the slogan “We Remade You” — a riff on Relapse’s first single “We Made You” — Popsomp Hills is advertised as a real Bloomfield Hills, Michigan rehab center (the address on the site actually plugs into Google Maps) with a Swiss founder named “Dr. Balzac” in charge. The site also features some oft-repeated contact information: “Help is moments away. Call our 24-hour confidential information line at 313-486-5975 or send us a private email to info@PopsompHills.com.” Anyone presuming they might get to hear a new song by calling that number will be disappointed: it’s just a text-messaging list.
This whole thing has us reminiscing about that viral game that accompanied the release of Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero. But there’s much more weird stuff on the Popsomp Website: By clicking “Learn More,” you’re redirected to the Wikipedia page for “Hell,” the “Terms & Conditions” seem to be enablers (”Life is too short, party harder than ever. We can help”) and links to a multitude of actual rehab options. As Rock Daily reported yesterday, Eminem told fans that he’d appear on his Sirius XM radio station Shade45 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. this morning, and that they should “Listen carefully.” Check back later to see if the Slim Shady aired any new Relapse material.
http://popsomphills.com/Welcome.html
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Eminem.com Updateted!
Thursday,23rd April 2009
Eminem.com has been updated! Check it out now!
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Win a Trip to Detroit for Eminem's "Relapse" Release Party
Wednesday,22st April 2009
Enter for a Chance to See Eminem in Detroit on 5/19!
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Be sure to pick up the new Eminem CD, Relapse on 5/19!
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Eminem reveals "Relapse" cover art
Tuesday,21st April 2009
The sticker reads
"Mathers, Marshall - 8 Mile Road, Detroit MI
Take one tablet(s) one time(s) daily at 3am
Refills 5-19-09
Prescribed by Dr. Dre
QTY: 313
Counsel: Y
Eminem
250MG Capsules"
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Eminem to Appear Three Times on ‘Kimmel’
Tuesday,21st April 2009
Eminem to Appear Three Times on ‘Kimmel’
Eminem will make three appearances on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” next month, Rap-Up.com has learned.
The notoriously press-shy rapper will return to the late-night show three times in May—once on May 15, a second time on his album release day, May 19, and again on May 22. In addition to the Kimmel appearances, he will perform “We Made You” live at the MTV Movie Awards on May 31.
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Nate Mathers arrested for drunken driving
Thursday,16th April 2009
The brother of rapper Eminem has been arrested and charged with drunken driving in Michigan.
Nathan Mathers was arrested early Wednesday in the Detroit suburb of Macomb Township.
The 23-year-old from Clinton Township is charged with operating a vehicle while impaired, second offense. He was released on personal bond and will be back in district court in Shelby Township on May 7.
Police say Mathers failed to pull over for an ambulance and later failed sobriety tests. They say his blood-alcohol level was 0.16%, twice the 0.08% legal limit.
A message seeking comment was left today for defense attorney Cecil St. Pierre.
Nathan Mathers, who raps as Nathan Kane, is the brother of Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem.
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Eminem Speaks On Drugs, The Death Of Proof & Praises T.I. & Lil Wayne On New XXL Cover
Tuesday,14th April 2009
Get ready to enter the Em Zone. Back from a three-year hiatus, Eminem is set to grace two XXL covers for the magazine’s June issue on stands May 5, two weeks before Em’s fifth solo album, Relapse, hits stores May 19.
A special collector’s edition, the issue showcases Eminem posing as Marvel Comics’ notorious vigilante The Punisher. In addition to the cover story written by XXL Editor-in-Chief Datwon Thomas, the issue’s entire feature well is dedicated to Marshall Mathers and documents his illustrious career. The magazine also includes an exclusive collaboration between XXL, Shady and Marvel Comics: a special edition Punisher comic book entitled Eminem/Punisher: Kill You starring Eminem and created by Marvel Comics. Part 2 of the comic will be made available on www.marvel.com/eminem starting May 5.-Bruce Moses
Check below for choice quotes from the June cover story with Eminem and an exclusive first look of Slim Shady as The Punisher. And stay tuned for more Eminem with XXL.
On His Drug Addiction
“I wasn’t ready mentally. I wasn’t ready to give up the drugs. I didn’t really think I had a problem. Basically, I went in, and I came out. I relapsed, and I spent the next three years struggling with it. Also, at that time, I felt like I wanted to pull back, because my drug problem had got so bad. I felt like, Maybe if I take a break, maybe this will help. I started to get into the producer role more… I can still be out there with my music, like with the Re-Up album, but I don’t have to be in the spotlight the whole time.”
On Proof’s Death
“Everyone felt his loss, from his kids, to his wife, to everyone. But, for some reason, in hindsight, the way I felt was almost like it happened to just me… Maybe at the time I was a little bit selfish with it. I think it kind of hit me so hard. It just blindsided me. I just went into such a dark place that, with everything, the drugs, my thoughts, everything. And the more drugs I consumed, and it was all depressants I was taking, the more depressed I became, the more self-loathing I became… By the way, I’m just now at the point where I’m better talking about it. It took me so long to get out of that place where I couldn’t even speak about it without crying or wanting to cry… Proof was the anchor. He was everything to D12. And not just the group-for me, personally, he was everything.”
On T.I., Lil Wayne & Hip-Hop
“I stayed up on the music, and obviously I watch TV and saw what was going on. And without naming any names, it just felt like hip-hop was going downhill. And it seemed like kinda fast. You know, in them three years, it was like everybody just cares about the hook and the beat; nobody really cares about substance. But with this new T.I. album, with this new Lil Wayne album of recent, it seems like things are looking a lot better now. You can appreciate Lil Wayne using different words to rhyme and actually rhyming words that you know. Or T.I., where you hear shit and you’re like Whoa, ah, I wish I would have thought of that! You know what I mean? Or you hear all the compound-syllable rhyming and all that. It just seems like now the craft is getting cared about more.”
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Eminem & Dr Dre Skip Snoops Show
Monday,13th April 2009
Eminem and Dr Dre skipped out on Snoop Dogg's performance last week in Los Angeles after they were supposed to be his surprise guests for his "Our World Live" concert. Apparently Dr Dre's security people got into a car accident and the Doc decided not to go without his bodygaurds.
An insider told the New York Daily News that Eminem didn't want to show up without his producer saying "Since Dre couldn’t make the concert, Eminem didn’t want to perform either." All is well though, Dr Dre will make it up to big Snoop Dogg next month when he is set to take the stage at a private party with him.
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Eminem Confirmed to Perform at MTV’s Movie Awards on May 31st
Monday,13th April 2009
After making his MTV comeback last week with his celebrity-baiting “We Made You” music video, Eminem will return to the stage on May 31st. The rapper has just been named the first performer recruited for this year’s MTV Movie Awards, MTV News reports. The performance will come just 12 days after Em releases Relapse, his first of two new albums this year, on May 19th. SNL and the Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg will host the event, with more performers expected to be announced shortly.
MTV didn’t reveal what song Slim Shady will rap at the awards show, but it’s safe to assume it will be a new track — and considering Samberg’s fondness for hip-hop, it’s possible the two could pair up for some R-rated hilarity, too. “We Made You” will be a bit old by the time of the Awards, but Rock Daily is hoping Eminem performs that track because it will result in awkward cutaways to Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears and whoever else in the audience was lampooned by the rapper in his new video. Plus, MTV awards shows and Eminem are a combination that always generates memorable moments — who could forget when Triumph the Insult Comic Dog confronted the rapper at the 2002 VMAs, and when Em mocked Lohan as a faux-Triumph at the 2005 Movie Awards before performing “Ass Like That”?
The Awards will mark Em’s return to the stage as a performer, by the way. The rapper took the podium at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on April 4th to pay tribute to Run-DMC. But this will be the rapper’s first time performing live in quite a while.
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EXCLUSIVE: SPIT FOR EMINEM
Friday,10th April 2009
VIBE and Eminem are looking for the No. 1 Stan
VIBE LAUNCHES WORLDWIDE RAP STAR COMPETITION WITH EMINEM
“VIBE Verses Presents No. 1 Stan” Contest to Support the Award-Winning Hip Hop Icon as VIBE’s 2nd Annual Real Rap Issue Cover Star and Highly Anticipated New Album, Relapse.
VIBE, the definitive voice of urban culture, launches a new iteration of its VIBE Verses competition giving aspiring artists a global platform to showcase their skills for a chance to be personally crowned by Eminem as a finalist in the “VIBE Verses Presents No. 1 Stan” contest. Launched in May 2007, VIBE Verses is VIBE’s proprietary rap battle property which has attracted over 100,000 rappers and hip hop enthusiasts to date to create profiles in its online community.
VIBE is launching this worldwide rap star competition with Eminem to support the award winning hip hop icon as VIBE’s 2nd Annual Real Rap Issue
cover star and the highly anticipated release of his new album, Relapse (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope). Contest website is www.numberonestan.com.
“Battling is the way I came up, so it’s gonna be interesting to watch a rap battle unfold online,” states Eminem. “VIBE is taking it out of the clubs and street corners and putting it on the net. MCs better bring it, because I’m watching.”
In the contest’s first phase, all entrants will rhyme for 60 seconds over a specially selected instrumental track and submit video clips of their performance on numberonestan.com due by April 21, 2009. VIBE will send the Top 10 finalists (determined by VIBE.com user votes) a second instrumental track to rhyme over for 60 seconds, which will then be submitted to Eminem for careful review. His personal selection of the final two will be made by May 8, 2009. Arrangements will be made for the two finalists to be flown to a VIBE event where the winner will be crowned by audience response, presented with an engraved microphone certifying them as Eminem’s “No.1 Stan,” and featured in VIBE magazine and on VIBE.com.
VIBE’s June/July Real Rap issue featuring Eminem will hit newsstands everywhere on May 19, 2009.
ABOUT VIBE VERSES
Since VIBE Verses debuted in May 2007, more than 2,500 videos have been uploaded, generating more than 7 million page views. To date, more than 100,000 rappers and hip hop enthusiasts have created profiles in the VIBE Verses community.
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Bill O'Reilly Blasts Eminem for Mocking Sarah Palin in Video
Thursday,9th April 2009
Eminem has become hypocrite talk-show host Bill O'Reilly's new target after releasing his new single "We Made You" [watch here. On O'Reilly's television show he said "Few Americans take the vile rapper Eminem seriously," [watch here], continuing "He represents the lowest form of entertainment in this country and is a publicity hound to boot." [watch here]
Bill's main issue with Eminem is the lyric and video segment regarding Alaska Governor and former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in which Slim Shady raps "I'll invite Sarah Palin out to dinner, nail her/ Baby, say hello to my little friend."
Bill went on to call the Palin reference an "attack" and that Eminem was being "crude." [watch here] "It's so crude what he does," O'Reilly elaborated. "Kids see it, not adults." He also claimed that "no one over 25 listens to him" [watch here] Well.. Im 27 Bill.. take that. And by the way Bill, have you heard an Eminem 1st album single ever? Do you even know what Eminem does? Why don't you get that no one under 65 watches or listens to you. Do us a favor and die already.
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All Of Eminem's Targets & Their Responses from "We Made You"
Wednesday,8th April 2009
Eminem is back and he's up to his old tricks. In his new "We Made You" [watch here] video, Slim Shady takes aim at over 20 of the top celebrities [complete list here] and now some of Em's targets are responding to the new video. Jessica Simpson was first to reply (well a friend of hers) telling MSNBC "Of course Jess finds it annoying," the source is quoted as saying, "but it's not like she's the only one who was singled out."
Kim Kardashian was next, writing on her blog "I just saw Eminem's new video ... and he totally spoofs me. It was a total surprise to me, because I had no idea he was going to talk about me in the song, [but] I think this video is so funny," she wrote in the post. "I am a huge Eminem fan and find it flattering that he would rap about me. He's a bit harsh about some other celebrities, but you just have to let it go and have a sense of humor. Personally, I'm honored."
CELEBRITIES EMINEM ATTACKS IN "WE MADE YOU"
Alba, Jessica: Actress. Appears in a shower scene, à la "Psycho." Causes Em to "make a mess in [his] trousers." Repeatedly punches him in the face.
Aniston, Jennifer: Former "Friend," eternal bridesmaid. Makes a brief cameo as the latte-clutching girlfriend of singer John Mayer. Is apparently "in love" with Eminem.
Babbit, Raymond: Lead character in 1988's "Rain Man." For reasons clear to only him, Em spends a large portion of the "We Made You" video dressed as Babbit, an autistic savant with eidetic memory. Lands a 21 at a Vegas blackjack table, repeatedly hits, loses all of his (and 50 Cent's) money. Falls over.
DeGeneres, Ellen: Comedian and talk-show host. Em beams onto the set of her show, punches her wife, Portia de Rossi, in the leg. Propositions de Rossi, asking, "What's Ellen DeGeneres have that I don't? Are you telling me tenderness? Well, I can be as gentle and smooth as a gentleman."
Fielder-Civil, Blake: Skeevy on-again/off-again husband of Amy Winehouse. Appears in a jailhouse scene. Makes out with Winehouse in excruciating detail.
Kardashian, Kim: Celebutant of questionable talent who "is a man," according to Eminem. Goes on a dinner date with the rapper (who, for reasons never fully explained, is dressed like Disco Inferno), attacks him with her ample posterior. Is put in a wood-chipper at clip's end, à la "Fargo."
Lohan, Lindsay: "Actress"/ paparazzi fodder. Is picked up by the long-haul-trucker version of Eminem (along with former love interest Samantha Ronson), who advises her to end her relationship and "come back to seeing men/ Samantha's a 2, you're practically a 10." Perhaps she listened.
Mathers, Marshall: The real Slim Shady. No, really. Proving that he's not above poking fun at himself in his videos, Eminem includes a shot that harkens back to his mulleted past, when he wore pink "ALF" T-shirts and apparently loved birthday cake.
Mayer, John: Guitar-slinging troubadour/ celebrity-cruise enthusiast. Only makes a brief cameo in "We Made You," as a sensitive, porkpie-hat-wearing singer/songwriter. Impressive, if only because we don't think we've actually ever seen Mayer wear a porkpie hat.
Michaels, Bret: Em opens the clip dressed as the "Rock of Love" star, mocks his impressively arched eyebrows and bandanna-and-cowboy-hat predilection. Is later seen in bed with Sarah Palin, where he clears the room with his flatulence. Is finally revealed to be bald.
Palin, Sarah: Former Republican vice-presidential candidate. Is portrayed in the "We Made You" video by porn star Lisa Ann, who also starred as Palin in Hustler Video's astute political melodrama "Who's Nailin' Paylin?"
Presley, Elvis: Deceased rock legend. Em dons the same prison stripes Presley wore in the 1957 flick "Jailhouse Rock" and imitates his dance routine too. There's also a pretty apt Elvis-as-cultural-appropriator metaphor that applies here, but let's just move on.
Romo, Tony: Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Em puts on Romo's pads, thrusts his pelvis, rubs up on an actress portraying Jessica Simpson, tosses a hamburger for a touchdown. Unlike real-life Romo, he does not also choke during playoffs.
Ronson, Samantha: Celebrity DJ/ paparazzi fodder. Appears alongside Lohan in Eminem's truck, latter battles him on "Planet Womyn," while hundreds of lesbians cheer her on. Believe it or not, this is only about the third most insulting scene in the "We Made You" video.
Simpson, Jessica: Fallen pop star masquerading as country artist. A favorite Eminem target, this time around, she's portrayed as the cheeseburger-devouring, Daisy Duke-wearing, General Lee-washing girlfriend of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. This is actually fairly accurate.
Spears, Britney: Embattled pop star/ cultural icon. Another Em fave, in the "We Made You" video, Brit is seen pole-dancing and knocking out former flame Adnan Ghalib. Also, we're fairly certain she's played by a drag queen.
Spock: Half-Vulcan, half-human science officer of the USS Enterprise. Eminem adopts the Spock persona several times in the "We Made You" video, dispensing Vulcan nerve pinches and spying on Jessica Alba. If they gave out awards for "eyebrow acting," Em's turn here would definitely land him a nomination.
Winehouse, Amy: British singer/ train wreck. The beehived one receives a lot of attention in the "We Made You" clip, making out with Em and generally looking like a vampiric bit of roadkill. She may very well be the easiest target in the world, but, hey, even Eminem isn't above a layup or two.
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EMINEM MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE
Tuesday,7th April 2009
The all new video for Eminem's "We Made You" is finally here:
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Eminem "We Made You" MP3
Monday,6th April 2009
It leaked!!!
Click Here!
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Eminem, Dr Dre & 50 Cent Record Music In Vegas
Monday,6th April 2009
The three-headed-monster (better known as Eminem, Dr Dre and 50 Cent) were recently in Las Vegas to shoot the video for Eminem's upcoming "We Made You" single, but the trio weren't just there for a video shoot. The music monsters were also at the Palms recording studio laying down new tracks together.
While in Las Vegas for three weeks, the rap giants made their presence felt. "I think it’s the only time that we’ve had anybody in our studio where you could actually hear the sound through the walls," The Palms’ owner George Maloof said. "The room … is four rooms in one. It’s, like, impossible to hear through the walls – except for those guys."
Maloof, who also owns the Sacramento Kings basketball team, added "It was unbelievable,” continuing "They’re very focused and it just hit really hard." Maloof will even have an appearance in Em’s video for the first single from his upcoming album, "Relapse."
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Exclusive NEWS on Relapse. BISD, and Detox
Sunday,5th April 2009
Attention to all I'm sending this message to,
Before I give you this news, my source is inside news. I've done a lot of inside news before, before Get Rich or Die Tryin' released I leaked the Tracklist/Cover. If anybody remembers. I also was the first to leak Eminems "Just Lose It" single. I won't be leaking "We Made You" because Marshall is keeping it tight lock until Tuesday. But Tuesday it will leak. The reason I was the first to get more information about Marshalls/Eminems first single off Relapse, "We Made You", Relapse, 50 Cents Before I Self Destruct, & Dr. Dre's Detox is because me and John Trudeau (son of Garry Trudeau) know David Geffen (founder of Geffen Records). Me and John where on lunch with Dave and since me and John both have had our share of leakage (they tell us what to leak, what to put out), Dave asked if we'd give information out on The Games "The Red Album", and also people on Universal Music Group are needing to release information about Em/50/Dre. So I get to be the first to do it.
If you don't believe, I could care less. My name is Richard Dolli. I work for Geffen Records. Doesn't really matter to me.
("We Made You")
From my close, close, close sources, Eminem is releasing his first single off his long-awaited album Relapse which will drop May 19th, but it might actually get pushed up to May 12th, depending on how big We Made You is. We Made You is produced by non-other than Dr. Dre. The single (which I've heard a snippet to, kinda short), is very very similar to Eminem's number 1 hit "Without Me". The video is directed by Joseph Kahn who also directed Without Me, and worked with many artist like Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Blink 182, & Mariah Carey. The song will indeed have "celebrity bashing" like his other previous lead singles. But the BIG NEWS about this single is the artists he is taking aim at. I actually heard 2 artists names in the song, but I heard theres about 5 to 6 celebrities he's mocking or dissing. The 2 artists names that I actually heard were Chris Brown & Rihanna. He calls out Chris Brown, and calls Rihanna a "dumb bi***" for getting back with him. He also takes aim at Mariah Carey & Coldplay. All he says about Coldplay is "you know why your gay, you listen to Coldplay". But I also heard that he's calling out Lil Wayne. He says something like "I don't kiss men like Lil Wayne did", or something along those lines. There will also be a behind the scenes look on MTV2 on Tuesday at 9AM.
(Relapse News)
Eminem is releasing his long awaited Relapse album, on May 19th, possibly May 12th, like previous stated. The album is mostly produced by Dr. Dre, besides one or two songs ("When It Gets Ugly" with 50 Cent & "There It Is" with Akon). The album consists of 20 cuts. This is NOT THE ACTUAL TRACKLIST, ITS NOT IN ORDER THE ORDER, BUT THESE ARE THE SONGS. (mostly).
Not in specific order:
- Crack a Bottle [with Dr. Dre & 50 Cent] (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- We Made You (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- Norman Bates Hotel [with 50 Cent] (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- There It Is [with Akon] (Produced By Eminem)
- Doggy Style [with Snoop Dogg] (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- Detroits Finest [with Royce Da 5'9 & D12] (Produced By Dr. Dre & Eminem)
- Keys To The Hospital [with Dr. Dre] (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- I'll See You Again (Produced By Dr. Dre) *Proof Dedication*
- Extra Saucy (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- Guess Who's Back (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- Until I See My Death Bed (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- Circus Show [with Cashis] (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- On Top Of My Game (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- Frozen Tears (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- Black America (Producd By Dr. Dre)
- Pleasure (Produced By Dr. Dre)
- When It Gets Ugly [with 50 Cent] (Produced By Eminem)
There also might be a couple skits, plus Intro/Outro. The song When It Gets Ugly featuring 50 Cent, I believe is a Jayceon Taylor diss. Relapse 2 is aimed towards the end of the year, but it might have to be the beginning of next year. We will see.
(Before I Self Destruct news)
The news about Before I Self Destruct, is that it's a classic. The album have production from Dr. Dre (5-6 songs), Eminem (1-2 songs), Timbaland, J.R. Rotem, Scott Storch, Jake One, Ty Fyffe, Don Cannon, DJ Premier, Hi-Tek, Havoc, will.i.am, and POSSIBLY Kanye West (but unlikely). Features on the album include: Eminem, Dr. Dre, Nate Dogg, Swizz Beats, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Dave Young, and he has recently recorded a song titled "Guilty Behavior" featuring NASIR JONES himself. The song is Produced by Dr. Dre. After 50 Cent went back into the studio with Dr. Dre, Dre was producing a couple joints for Detox and had Nas on the songs. Dre called up Nas and asked him to be on 50's song, 50 first was first reluctant, but then talked to Nasir, and they both agreed. Nas flew out to LA and it was history after that.
(Detox news)
Detox has been put on hold, until 50 Cents album starts getting promotion. The album is suppose to be about 10-12 songs. I don't have every song, but I heard the titles of a group of songs, and got a list of features/production.
This is not in any specific order:
- The Day of Light [featuring Nas, Jay-Z, T.I., & Eminem] (dr. dre produced)
- Change [featuring Snoop Dogg, Bishop Lamont, & Blu] (dr. dre produced)
- What Did I Say [featuring Bishop Lamont] (dr. dre produced)
- Detox [featuring Bishop Lamont, Nas, & T.I.] (dr. dre produced)
- Innocent Criminal [featuring Knoc-turn'al, Warren G, GZA, & Raekwon] (dr. dre produced)
Guest appearences, or anybody that has recorded material for Detox consist of (and I got specific notice of this news): Eminem, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Bishop Lamont, The Game, Guvner, Knoc-turn'al, Lloyd Banks, Warren G, Nate Dogg, T.I., Nas, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Fergie, will.i.am, Dawuan Parker, Mary J. Blige, Rell, Devin The Dude, Linkin Park, RZA, GZA, Method Man, Redman, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Usher, Kanye West, Tony Yayo, Kurupt, Daz, Xzibit, Six-Two, Ms. Roq, Defari, Blu, King Tee, Kokane, Havoc, DJ Quik, Drake, Kardinal Offishall, Ice Cube, MC Ren, Beyonce, & the list goes on. Production consist of: Dr. Dre, Eminem, Boi-1da, Focus, Dewuan Parker, Hi-Tek, JR Rotem, Scott Storch, RZA, DJ Khalil, Mel-Man, Warren G, Kanye West, & more.
Plans for Detox release will depend on when Relapse & Before I Self Destruct actually release.
(The Games next album; The Red Album)
The Game has been working on his next album, titled, The Red Album. He's been working on it since the beginning of the year, while he's been on tour. Sources say he will have no featured guest. Not a single one. He's worked with producers of the likes of Kanye West, Just Blaze, DJ Khaled, J.R. Rotem, Jelly Roll, Cool & Dre, Nottz, Scott Storch, The Neptunes, DJ Khalil, will.i.am, Swizz Beats, & Hi-Tek. Since the beginning of the year he's recorded over 100 songs for his new album. The Red Album should hit stores in November. The first single "I'll Find You" Produced By Mr. West should release in the next couple months. He's planning on having 2-3 singles before the album actually releases.
(Quick notes)
- Bishop Lamont was not dropped from Aftermath Ent.
- Lloyd Banks next album, 'I Am Hip Hop', will be released towards the end of the year.
- Bishop Lamont will release The Reformation after Detox drops.
- First Relapse will release, Then Before I Self Destruct, then Relapse 2, then Detox, then The Reformation, then 'I Am Hip Hop', then Tony Yayo's 'Godfather Of The Ghetto'.
- Lloyd Banks is releasing a new mixtape in the next couple weeks, and it will have a Lil Wayne Diss .
- 50 Cents 'Lil Wayne Diss Track' is going to release soon, after Wayne dissed 50 Cent recently.
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D12 & Royce Da 5'9 "Eminem's Album Will Change the Game" [Video]
Sunday,5th April 2009
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Eminem Inducts Run-DMC Into Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame With Poetic Tribute
Sunday,5th April 2009
On the night when Run-DMC became only the second hip-hop act to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it was fitting that the group that blazed the trail between rock and rap in the 1980s was invited into the rarified club by a hip-hop icon of the modern era whose career is built on their bedrock: Eminem.
His sartorial style inspired by his heroes, from the black leather jacket, shirt and pants, to the black fedora tilted on his head, Eminem bounded onto the stage with a pimping swagger and crossed his arms in a Run-DMC style as he leaned into the microphone.
"Two turntables and a microphone, that's all it took to change the world," the reclusive Detroit MC began. "Three kings from Queens made rap music in the b-boy stance a global phenomenon," he said of the group's members, rappers Joseph "Reverend Run" Simmons and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, and late DJ Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell. (Head to the MTV Newsroom to read the e-mail JMJ's close friend Eric "Shake" James sent to MTV News while he witnessed the ceremony.)
After the first time he heard the group's "hard beats and bold rhymes," at age 11, Eminem recalled that "something about the big drums and the strong raps that grabbed hold of my ears and changed my life." Clearly humbled by the honor, Slim Shady's speech had a lyrical groove as he added, "Something fresh, something tough. Something dangerous. Something beautiful and something unique. Two turntables and a microphone," staring out at the crowd and rubbing his hands together as if savoring the treat of setting up his heroes for the glory they so richly deserve.
Recalling how their 1985 video for "King of Rock" had them crashing a fictional Rock and Roll Museum and being told they didn't belong in such a museum, Eminem said, "And 25 years later, man, here we are. They didn't take no for an answer, much the same way as they didn't give up when much of the world refused to recognize rap as real music. They were the first rock stars of rap. They were the first movie stars of rap. They were the first rap group played on MTV. ... They were the baddest of the bad, the coolest of the cool. Two turntables and a microphone."
Em talked about not knowing what he wanted to do in life while growing up in Detroit and then hearing Run-DMC and realizing "that you could write your own rules, which is something that still inspires me, as well as every rap other artist, constantly." And then the crowd finally caught on to the rhythm of Slim's callback refrain and repeated along with him, "Two turntables and a microphone."
"I remember being in ninth grade when Raising Hell came out," he recalled, and wryly added, "Two years later, I still remember being in ninth grade when Tougher Than Leather came out. I had skipped school, if you can believe that, to go buy Tougher Than Leather on cassette the day it came out. As soon as I heard 'Run's House,' man, it was pretty much a rap for me. Marshall Mathers became Eminem. It was the first time Run-DMC had changed my life, but it wouldn't be the last. Two turntables and a microphone."
Bringing the group's indelible career into the present, Em paid tribute to late DJ Mizell's mentorship of Slim's protégé, 50 Cent. "Jay shaped the way 50 wrote, the way he rapped and the way he thought," Em said of Fif, whose early works were overseen by Mizell. "Again, Run-DMC changed my life. Without them I wouldn't have met one of my closest friends."
Eminem closed by saying that the group's impact can be felt everywhere. Echoing one of the group's most famous couplets from "King of Rock," Em concluded, "There's three of them, and if you grew up on hip-hop like I did, they are the Beatles."
With their friends and family surrounding them onstage, Rev Run first thanked Mizell's mother for always allowing the young trio to practice at her home and never asking them to turn down the volume. He also thanked his brother, hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, who convinced the group to change their name from the Sure Shot Three and to mash rock with their rap.
Paying touching homage to his adoptive parents, DMC urged the crowd to give love to foster children. "If my birth mother never gave me up, my real mother would have never came and got me," he said, hitting on one of the topics that has become his abiding passion since the group broke up in 2002 following Jay's still unsolved murder. "There would be no Run-DMC; there would be no rap music the way it is today. ... But forget about all that celebrity stuff, y'all. This little boy, Darryl McDaniels, wouldn't be standing here tonight telling y'all that. The best thing y'all can do is give love to a kid, because that kid may grow up and be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame one day."
Mizell's mother, Connie Mizell, also reminisced lovingly about how her late son tore up every one of her turntables learning how to scratch, and she didn't mind. And how "the boys" would be tearing it up in the next room as she studied in the adjoining room, and she didn't mind. "Nothing happens before time," she said. "It wasn't time when Jason was living. It was time after he'd gone. Because you see the blessings is still going on. He is not forgotten."
The group did not perform at the ceremony, in keeping with their pledge not to play live again following Mizell's death.
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Eminem on a media blitz to promote upcoming album 'Relapse'
Sunday,5th April 2009
And just like that, Eminem is suddenly everywhere again.
The Detroit rapper was featured during CBS' pre-game coverage of the NCAA Final Four on Saturday, appearing in a pre-taped segment where he recited a spoken-word "Love Letter to Detroit." Saturday night, Eminem appeared live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cleveland, where he inducted legendary rap trio Run D.M.C. into the Hall of Fame. And on Tuesday, Eminem's new music video "We Made You" -- his first music video in more than two years -- premieres on MTV.
It's all part of the calculated promotional push for Eminem's "Relapse," Eminem's first new studio album since 2004's "Encore." The album is slated to be released May 19.
Up until now, the rapper has been largely silent concerning "Relapse's" release. The album was first announced in October, and coincided with the release of Eminem's memoir, "The Way I Am." But Em's promotion for the book was limited to a small, invite-only release party, and his press was limited to a scant few interviews.
His quiet hasn't hurt the public's appetite for new Eminem product, however. "Crack a Bottle," a single featuring Em, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, surfaced earlier this year and shot to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, after selling 418,000 downloads its first week. But Eminem didn't do anything to promote the single, and remained silent on its release.
Which is part of what made Saturday's double dip on the Final Four telecast and at the Hall of Fame so noteworthy. The Hall of Fame appearance -- Em's most high profile public appearance since the 2006 shooting death of his best friend, Deshaun "Proof" Holton -- was announced in late March, while the Final Four "Love Letter" to Em's hometown was announced by his record company only a few hours before it aired.
At the Hall of Fame, Eminem appeared in a black leather jacket and black fedora, the trademark look of Run D.M.C. He took the stage and crossed his arms across his body in a classic Run D.M.C.-style pose, and was greeted with a standing ovation by the largely music industry crowd.
Eminem inducted the rap pioneers with a heartfelt speech about their influence not only on music and culture, but on him as a young man. Its often-revisited theme was "two turntables and a microphone."
"I was only 11 years old when I first heard their hard beats and bold rhymes, and there was something about that -- the big drums and their strong raps -- that grabbed hold of my ears and changed my life," Eminem said. He called Run D.M.C.'s sound fresh, tough, dangerous, beautiful and unique, and said to those who grew up on hip-hop, "they are the Beatles." "For me personally, to be up here inducting them is one of the biggest honors of my career," he said.
Eminem's "We Made You" video, meanwhile, is slated to debut on MTV at 6 a.m. Tuesday, with repeats throughout the day on the cable channel. The clip reunites Eminem with his "Without Me" director Joseph Kahn, and is said to be a celeb-skewering bonanza along the lines of his previous clips "Without Me," "The Real Slim Shady" and "My Name Is."
"There's some celebrity bashing in it," Eminem recently told MTV. "It's not necessarily intentional bashing, it's not necessarily taking deliberate shots at people -- yes it is. What the (bleep) am I talking about?"
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EMINEM FEATURED IN CBS SPORTS’2009 NCAA FINAL FOUR SHOW
Saturday,3rd April 2009
THIS JUST IN…
…from CBS Sports
DETROIT NATIVE EMINEM FEATURED IN CBS SPORTS’2009 NCAA FINAL FOUR SHOW
CBS Sports’ 2009 NCAA® FinalFour® coverage live from Ford Field in Detroit on Saturday, April 4features Detroit native Eminem.
Grammy-award winingartist Eminem will be featured in a “Love Letter to Detroit” on CBS Sports’ FINALFOUR SHOW on Saturday (4:00-6:00 PM, ET)with Greg Gumbel, GregAnthony and Seth Davis live from Ford Field. The feature will focus onDetroit through the eyes of the people who inhabit the city. It looks at wherethe City came from – an area that once represented the heart of America’sindustry and urban growth, and what the City struggles to become again – anarea at the root of what this country is working to recover. The story shows thestrength of the people who live and work in Detroit, that give the City itstenacious reputation, bringing the spirit of the game to Detroit and theresilience of Detroit to the game.
CBS Sports culminates its 28th consecutive year as exclusive networkbroadcaster of the 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and FinalFour with live coverage of the national semi-final games and the NationalChampionship game from Ford Field. Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg, CBSSports’ lead college basketball announce team, call the games. Kellogg becomesonly the second analyst in CBS Sports’ history to call the Final Four andChampionship Games.
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Eminem Speaks on "We Made You"
Friday,3rd April 2009
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Exclusive Chat With Eminem: Countdown To ‘Relapse’ And ‘We Made You’
Friday,3rd April 2009
Major news! With Eminem’s sixth album, Relapse, around the corner (it’s due May 19), and the accompanying single, “We Made You,” just days from release, we nabbed a super-exclusive interview with the man who has become hip-hop’s most notorious living spitter.
We catch up with Em after a five-year hiatus from the spotlight — a hiatus during which he’s battled addiction, lost Kim to a second divorce and lost his best friend, DeShaun “Proof” Holton to gun violence. But Marshall Mathers is a survivor. We’ve known that from day one, when he broke out of the obscurity portrayed in 8 Mile to establish himself as a force to be reckoned with in the rap game. In other words, he’s seen too much in this life to let tragedy disrupt his flow.
In the clip below, that same force — now a flat-out legend — checks in from the set of “We Made You,” the Relapse single slated for an MTV premiere on Tuesday (April 7). From the comfort of a chair next to a console that looks like it could be part of the Star Trek set, what looks like a brown-haired (!!!) Em, minus the baby fat, fills us in on his choice to re-enlist the services of video director Joseph Kahn (Britney Spears, Chris Brown, 50 Cent, U2). Apparently the “Without Me” director is particularly attuned to the essence of Eminem, making him the perfect choice to guide Em out of hiatus and into a fresh video incarnation of his trademark sound.
Em also gets into the psychology of “We Made You,” revealing it to be a mind game designed to seduce every woman alive. Watch, love and get hyped for Eminem’s exclusive MTV video premiere of “We Made You” on Tuesday!
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MTV Scores Exclusive Premiere Of The New Eminem Video, 'We Made You'
Friday,3rd April 2009
EminemDebut Video From Eminem's Highly Anticipated Upcoming Album, Relapse, Will Premiere Simultaneously on MTV, MTV2, MTV.com, mtvU, MTV Jams, MTV Hits And MTV Tr3s
MTV is giving Eminem fans what they've been waiting for. On Tuesday, April 7th, MTV will be the exclusive outlet for the premiere of Slim Shady's "We Made You," the first video from his long-awaited upcoming album, Relapse. "We Made You" will premiere in AMTV beginning at 6:00am and continue to play every hour on the hour during our morning video block. Viewers can also catch the video as an all-day premiere on MTV2 during "Unleashed," MTV Jams, MTV Hits, mtvU, and MTV Tr3?s. In addition, MTV.com will be the exclusive online outlet to see the video for the first 24-hours after it premieres.
Eminem has sold more than 75,000,000 albums worldwide. His previous studio album, Encore, reached #1 and dominated the charts in late 2004. Certified quadruple platinum and spinning off four Top 40 Hot 100 hits, the Grammy-nominated disc has sold more than 11,000,000 copies around the globe. The #1, double platinum, 2005 greatest hits collection, Curtain Call: The Hits and #2, platinum, 2006 various artists compilation, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, followed. In October 2008, Eminem released "Eminem: The Way I Am", a book compiling thoughts, stories, and memorabilia from various points in his life. The book entered the New York Times Best-Seller list at #11. The "We Made You" single will be released to radio on Tuesday, April 7th. Relapse hits stores nationwide on Tuesday, May 19th.
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Lisa Ann Appearing in New Eminem Video
Thursday,26th March 2009
Adult star Lisa Ann isn’t close to being done with her time in the spotlight. The busty performer, feature dancer and talent agent shot a music video earlier this week with multi-platinum rapper Eminem.
Though he’s been out of the limelight in recent years, Eminem has been diligently planning his comeback album, “Relapse,” set for release on May 15.
Lisa Ann appears in the video for the album’s first single, “We Made You.”
“It was phenomenal,” Lisa Ann said of the music video shoot. “I can’t say too much, but I will say that the song is awesome and everyone is going to love it.”
Lisa Ann told XBIZ that she couldn’t divulge details about the shoot, but “I can just say this: the song is awesome, and so is [Eminem]. I can’t wait to see the finished product.”
The video was directed by Joseph Kahn, who also shot the video for Eminem’s “Without Me,” U2’s “Stuck in the Moment” and Britney Spears’ “Toxic.”
Also appearing in the music video are Eminem’s producer Dr. Dre and 50 Cent.
Riding a crest of popularity since she famously played Sarah Palin in Hustler Video’s “Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?” Lisa Ann brings her feature dance show to Déjà vu in Lansing, Mich. tomorrow through Saturday. The club is located at 1000 W. Jolly Rd. Call (517) 882-0237 for showtimes
“Things are almost getting out of control,” Lisa Ann said. “I spent a lot of years on the road and it was never like this. I hope the people of Lansing are prepared for this. It’s crazy.”
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Photos From Eminem's 'We Made You' Video Set Hits Web
Monday,23rd March 2009
Place your bets on Interscope's three-headed monster! Just about everyone in the music industry is expecting big things from Dr. Dre, Eminem and 50 Cent this year.
Interscope confirmed that the trio were in Las Vegas at the Palms Casino on Sunday filming the video for "We Made You," the first single from Em's Relapse album. A photo from the video set was posted on 50 Cent's Web site, ThisIs50.com. The flick features the trio sitting at a poker table. Em is sitting in the middle, sporting a gray suit, white shirt and his new dark-brown hair with a part in it. Dr. Dre is on Slim Shady's right and has the most poker chips. The Doc has on an identical outfit to Em, while 50 sticks out in a T-shirt and red-and-blue fitted cap.
According to RapRadar.com, "We Made You" was produced by Dr. Dre. While Fif is in the video, he isn't featured on the song. In a press release announcing the Relapse release date of May 19, Interscope said the video would hit airwaves April 7. That same press release also noted that Em would be coming out with a follow-up LP to Relapse later this year. In a recent interview with MTV News, 50 Cent said it was him who gave Em the idea to double up.
In the same interview, 50 had his own bit of news: He's dropping two albums this year as well. Both records will come on the heels of Eminem's releases. There has been no word from Dr. Dre on his anticipated Detox LP. Several songs apparently for the album leaked before Dre even got to lay his vocals on them. Those songs featured T.I. referencing lyrics for the production legend.
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Eminem to Induct Run-DMC at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Monday,23rd March 2009
On April 4, superstar Eminem will induct Hip-Hop icons Run-DMC into Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Eminem’s participation was announced via a press release from the ceremony’s organizers.
Although recognized as one of the biggest acts in Hip-Hop history, Run-DMC has also been acclaimed for fusing the culture with rock music.
Their 1985 album Kings of Rock earned them that unofficial moniker courtesy of the seminal title track, and “Can You Rock It Like This.”
The former earned the group regular video rotation on the then Hip-Hop reluctant MTV.
The clip showcased the rebellious trio wrecking a mock representation of a Rock and Roll museum, which visually emphasized their desire to destroy the genre barriers in popular music.
The following year, Run-DMC would further cement their music legacy courtesy of their classic collaboration with Aerosmith, “Walk This Way.”
The remake of Aerosmith’s 1975 original became Hip-Hop’s first Top 5 single, and laid the blueprint for future rock-rap hybrid acts in Faith No More, Korn, and Limp Bizkit.
Joining Eminem as presenters will be Jimmy Page, Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones, and soul legend Smokey Robinson.
The Detroit emcee is tentatively set to release his long-awaited sixth album, Relapse, on May 19.
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Eminem's Relapse Set For May Release
Thursday,5th March 2009
Does Eminem know how to make a comeback or does he know how to make a comeback? He's giving his patient fans more than what they bargained for. Interscope Records announced Thursday (March 5) that Slim Shady is dropping two albums this year, Relapse and Relapse 2.
The first LP has been slated for May 19, with a single and video premiering on radio and television airwaves on April 7. It sounds like this record will be in addition to "Crack a Bottle," which has already gone #1. The video for that hit should drop soon.
Relapse 2 doesn't have a release date yet, but in a statement, Em said that he's currently in the studio working on that project and it will come out in the second half of this year.
"A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year," Eminem said in the press release. "I was one of them. Then Dre and I went back in the studio in September for a few days, and that turned into six months. We were on such a roll; we wound up with a ton of new music produced by Dre. Putting out Relapse 2 will let everyone get all of the best stuff."
It's been more than four years since Em's last solo LP, Encore. Verses, let alone full songs, from the acclaimed star have been sparse. Last year, Em dropped a freestyle called "I'm Having a Relapse" while promoting his autobiography, "Eminem: The Way I Am." The rhymes were crisp and let everyone know he wasn't missing a step.
Besides re-emerging as an artist, the Detroit rap legend will have his hands full as an executive this year. 50 Cent told MTV News last week that he plans to put out his Before I Self Destruct album this summer on the heels of Relapse. 50 said he was waiting for Dr. Dre to finish up with Em so they could complete work on Self Destruct.
Interscope didn't clarify what the announcement of Relapse 2 might mean for the release of Dre's upcoming Detox. Several unfinished tracks from Dre's record have leaked over the past few weeks. A handful of the bootlegged songs feature T.I. referencing vocals for the Doc.
Eminem will have some stiff competition on May 19: That's the same day Lil Wayne releases his Rebirth rock album.
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50 Says Eminem's Album Is Coming Out First
Tuesday,25th February 2009
50 Cent visited the Howard Stern show today, appearing right after a porn star bit starting a convo about sex. 50 says he never has slept with a porn star but they help motivate the girls he is with. The G-Unit general says he doesn't date famous women, even though we know he dated Vivica Foxx. Howard Stern asks 50 Cent about a recent altercation on the "Righteous Kill" movie set saying he heard 50 knocked out someone after they were questioning 5th knowing his lines, but 50 says that story was not true, but he did go shoot guns with Robert De Niro.
After saying his album will come out in the summer, 50 said that Eminem's album is done so he will be coming out first. When it comes to his own album, "Before I Self Destruct," 50 says it's inspired by Britney Spears and the drama in her life after she became successful.
When the topic of Rihanna and Chris Brown came up, Stern asked 50 Cent if it's ever ok to hit a woman. 50 says "no, except my sons mom, she was just different." 50 says he didn't punch her in the face but he had to move her out of the way.
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Crack a Bottle Video Coming Soon
Monday,24th February 2009
Here is a still from the "Crack A Bottle" video which will be ready for the world within a couple of weeks. The video is directed by Syndrome and it's going to be bananas.
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Eminem's lawsuit against Universal goes to trial today
Monday,24th February 2009
Eminem is causing trouble again.
TheWrap has learned that a two-year-old lawsuit by the rapper is set to go to trial Tuesday and could impact a vast number of musical artists and the most popular form of music consumption -- the digital download over iTunes.
F.B.T. Productions, the rapper's publishing company, is going to court on Tuesday against Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music company.
A jury was seated Friday, with a star-studded witness list, starting with Jimmy Iovine, a founder of UMG and its distribution label, Interscope Records, and its subsidiary, Aftermath Entertainment, the lead defendant.
Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computers, Inc., is also scheduled to testify, by video. Eminem himself is not expected to appear.
Eminem has sued Universal over how much he is entitled to when UMG sells his music to third-party distributors -- including Apple’s iTunes and phone companies like Sprint and Nextel, which offer the music for ringtones.
At stake is potentially hundreds of millions of dollars for recording artists whose songs have gained unprecedented levels of distribution through digital downloads.
While digital royalties have become a growing source of conflict between artists and record companies in recent years as downloads have gained in popularity, the trial in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California represents the first legal test of the competing issues.
UMG represents a virtual who’s who of recording artists, including Akon, U2, Jay-Z and Kanye West. Aftermath was created by the rapper Dr. Dre, who brought Eminem into the fold more than 10 years ago.
“This is very significant case,” said Jay Cooper, an entertainment lawyer with vast experience in the music industry. “A lot of people are going to be watching very closely because there’s a lot of money involved.”
Click http://www.scribd.com/doc/12771296/Eminem-Court-Papers for the court document.
The key question for the court, Cooper said, is whether the jury will determine that the use of an artist’s music in a download deal is a licensing agreement or a distribution deal.
The difference in monetary gain for artists is potentially huge. Under traditional licensing agreements, which cover records and CDs, the artist splits royalties 50-50,with the record company. Extended to include digital downloads, that could mean as much as 35 cents for the artist for every iTunes purchase. Under a distribution arrangement, the artist might see less than 20 cents.
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Elton John to Appear on New Eminem Album?
Saturday,21st February 2009
We're expecting to see a lot of Eminem's old friends on his new album.
50 Cent, for instance, has been less-than-shy about his contributions, and Dr. Dre is producing the project. But a certain prone-to-sequins-someone from Eminem's past who we weren't expecting to see on Relapse could be making an appearance: Sir Elton John, who was spotted at the Ferndale, MI, studio where Relapse is being recorded.
"He stayed half a week," a witness said of John's visit to the studio. "No one realized the significance, though the Detroit Free Press did mention that Elton had been in town. The pair worked together before, doing a duet at the Grammys, and had always said that they'd record something original together."
That's right! Remember the media frenzy surrounding the pair's "Stan" duet in 2001? Those were the days.
"Em has huge respect for Elton, and the feeling is mutual," the source added. "Elton really gets his music. Anything they produce will be total dope: some of Em's biggest records have been collaborations with mainstream pop stars -- Dido on 'Stan', for example -- and they really don't come much bigger, or more mainstream, than the man with the red piano."
So, we guess that means there could be some "Circle of Life" sampling on Relapse when it eventually comes out -- which, according to Eminem's label, is still TBD. "We've been told nothing about this record, and I mean nothing," a source at Polydor said. "It's top secret. In terms of timing, the plan is to release it between new records from 50 Cent and Dre, who are both also signed to Interscope. Whenever it comes out, it will be huge."
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Eminem's 'Bottle' Breaks Digital Record
Wednesday,11th February 2009
The rap triumvirate of Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent will soar 78-1 on The Billboard Hot 100 to be posted tomorrow morning (Feb. 12) with "Crack a Bottle,” which sets a Nielsen SoundScan record for opening week download sales (418,000).
The first-week sum outpaces the prior mark of 335,000 downloads shifted by T.I. featuring Rihanna in the Oct. 18, 2008, issue. Among all weekly totals, "Bottle" ranks third behind Flo Rida's "Low" (467,000 on Jan, 12, 2008) and Lady GaGa's "Just Dance" (419,000 on Jan, 10, 2009).
"Bottle" is the second Hot 100 No. 1 for both Eminem and Dr. Dre. Slim Shady's only leader was 2002's "Lose Yourself," which spent 12 weeks at the summit, while Dre last led in 1996 as a featured artist on Blackstreet's "No Diggity." 50 Cent ups his No. 1 take to four, having last topped the list with "Candy Shop" (9 weeks in 2005).
The trio, each with highly anticipated albums on the way, previously collaborated on "Encore," which peaked at No. 25 on the Hot 100 in January 2005.
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Eminem: Two New Albums This Fall
Monday,9th February 2009
Rapper Eminem, who’s been off the season for a while, is coming back with a vengeance this fall.
I’m told he will release two new albums come September. They are tentatively titled “Relapse” and “Relapse 2.”
The first release should come after Labor Day, and the next one in later fall, maybe November.
A source working on the recordings told me, of course, that they were brilliant. “His poetry is like Edgar Allen Poe.”
The source also said that Eminem’s lyrics will “offend and insult some people.” No kidding, when haven’t they? On the other hand, Kim Mathers, his ex wife, is said not to be the focus of Eminem’s bile. That’s a good thing.
Talk of the new Eminem albums came at EMI Music’s big Grammy after party at SLS Hote, thrown in conjunction with Stand Up For a Cure, the cancer charity. Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Katy Perry, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, were just some of the celeb guests, as well as Sean Stewart (Rod’s son), Barbara Orbison (Roy’s widow), Donovan Leitch (the singer Donovan’s popular son), and comedian Chris Tucker.
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50 Cent Says Rick Ross Beef Will Only 'Get Worse'/"Crack A Bottle on BISD
Monday,9th February 2009
50 Cent Says Rick Ross Beef Will Only 'Get Worse'
Fif's latest weapon: transcripts from Ross' child support/ paternity case.
The second release date 50 Cent had chosen for Before I Self Destruct — February 3 — has come and gone. Fif said he doesn't have a new date for his album yet, but he's just about done and is mixing songs for the LP.
"Crack a Bottle," featuring Eminem and Dr. Dre (which has been blowing up, especially in California) will be on Self Destruct. 50 said there are plans to shoot an animated video for it, as well as a live-action clip for "I Get It In."
But the real headline hog for 50 has been his beef with Rick Ross. There's no stopping the runaway freight train that is the 50/Ross back-and-forth. After a few days in Venezuela, 50 Cent promised MTV News that he's going to turn the heat up on his new rivalry.
"It's interesting. It'll get worse," said 50, sitting with Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and DJ Whoo Kid.
Fif said he's purchased court transcripts from Rick Ross' child-support case. According to 50, the documents state that the Miami rapper's income is $200,000 a year and the jewelry he wears isn't real. 50 said Ross is lying in his raps or to the courts, and if that's the case, he's a "deadbeat dad."
"Because he was disrespectful, I found it in my heart to get the transcripts," 50 laughed.
Ross' attorney, Allan Zamren, released a statement Friday (February 6) about the court case. "Mr. Ross is currently involved in a child support/ paternity case with a woman who is claiming he is the father of a 3-year-old male child," the statement read. "There are statements being made alleging Mr. Ross is the father of this child but not taking care of the child financially or otherwise; that is absolutely not true. As a matter of fact and for the record, every month on or about the first of the month, Mr. Ross pays a substantial amount of money, in excess of state of Florida child-support guidelines to this child's mother for the support of the child."
Last week, 50 launched a salvo some called below-the-belt when he flew Tia Kemp, the woman involved in Ross' child support/ paternity case, to New York for an interview and shopping spree. Fif posted pictures of himself and Kemp all over ThisIs50.com. The Web site is also advertising a tell-all book by Kemp called "Tia's Diary: Deeper Than Rap," which is slated for March. "She was a really nice person," 50 told MTV News.
50 said he was shocked that Ross took back a truck he was letting her drive. Zamren also explained why Kemp no longer has the truck.
"A motion to return the motor vehicle that has been the subject on various Internet Web sites was provided to the mother prior to 2009 for various reasons, including but not limited to being charged for aggravated battery, battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor when the mother used the vehicle as a deadly weapon," Ross' attorney stated. "The mother failed to put the child in a car seat and purposely drove the vehicle into another while the young child was in the car."
On Thursday, a Web site called OfficerRicky.com was launched. The site features T-shirts for sale and several Photoshopped pictures of Rick Ross as a police officer. The G-Unit general has not taken responsibility for the site.
Ross released a video called "Gang Related" on Thursday, in which he pours out Formula 50 Vitamin Water, much like someone would do when they are paying homage to a dead homie.
"He depreciates the value of Dr. Dre's production," Ross told radio station 95.7 the Beat on Saturday. "He smears Dre's legacy. He hurts the anticipation of Detox by Dre giving this artist beats that can't rap.
"I don't get sidelined with monkey talk," he continued. "That's my response: a #1 hit."
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Elton John For Eminem Album?
Friday,6th February 2009
It’s claimed the wig haired star will appear on Relapse when it’s released this year…
Sir Elton John could feature on the new album by rapper Eminem- according to reports.
The Independent newspaper says the pair were spotted together in a Detroit studio late last year and may have recorded together.
A source told them: “He stayed half a week… No one realised the significance, though the Detroit Free Press did mention that Elton had been in town.
“He and Em worked together before, when they did that duet at the Grammys, and had always said that they'd record something original together. Em has huge respect for Elton, and the feeling is mutual.”
Elton John is a long time fan of Shady despite accusations of homophobia leveled at the rapper.
The unlikely friends performed Stan at the Grammys way back in 2001.
The witness told the paper: “Elton really gets his music. Anything they produce will be total dope.
“Some of Em's biggest records have been collaborations with mainstream pop stars – Dido on Stan, for example – and they really don't come much bigger, or more mainstream, than the man with the red piano."
50 Cent and Dr Dre are already confirmed to appear on Relapse when it’s released this Spring.
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50 Cent on Eminem: New Album Is Almost Done
Monday,20th January 2009
Guess who’s back, back again. Slim Shady, as he will be 'relapsing' to the radio airwaves and music charts, literally! Eminem is set to release his much-anticipated 6th album “Relapse,” and who better to give us the scoop then 50 Cent?
Hollyscoop caught up with 50 Cent at the Vitaminwater house in Park City Utah during the Sundance film festival this past weekend where he gave us the scoop on Eminem’s 6th studio album.
50 said: “His new album is almost actually done. I went to Detroit to mix my song “I Get It In” with Dr. Dre [and] Eminem is currently mixing his album right now.
"It won’t be more than maybe 2 weeks before they start trying to figure out when they will start scheduling the release of his actual project.”
So can we expect another collaboration with 50 on the album? “Of course! I will be all over the record, you kidding me? You think I won't take advantage of the opportunity for everybody to look at me and listen to me," he joked. "Yes I will!"
The title of the album “Relapse” is interesting, especially since Eminem had checked into rehab in August 2005 for his dependency on sleep medication. Many believed that he had retired from the music industry for good.
Eminem will have a lot of pressure on his shoulders with his new album release, especially since he has been on a musical hiatus since 2005. Nevertheless Eminem never seems to disappoint with his music and controversial lyrics.
Watch out Kanye West, the man who created controversy is making his way back on the map. Do we smell some Hip Hop rivalry the making? Guess we'll find out soon. But in the meanwhile, check out our exclusive one-on-one interview with 50 below...
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"Crack A Bottle" Hits The Charts!
Friday,16th January 2009
TIME AND A ‘BOTTLE’: After an absence of two years, Eminem returns to Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with “Crack a Bottle” (Shady/Aftermath), a new entry at No. 93. It’s the first song on this chart with Eminem as lead vocalist since “You Don’t Know” debuted and peaked at No. 87 the week of Dec. 16, 2006.
“Crack a Bottle” is Eminem’s 32nd title to reach this chart in just over 10 years. He made his first appearance on the R&B/Hip-Hop tally the week of Nov.7 1998 with “Just Don’t Give a F***.” During his decade of chart hits, the gap between “You Don’t Know” and “Crack a Bottle” is his longest hiatus; he had at least one new song debut every year from 1998 to 2006.
Eminem has only had one top 10 hit on this chart to date: “Lose Yourself,” from the “8 Mile” soundtrack, peaked at No. 4 the week of Dec. 21, 2002.
“Crack a Bottle” is credited to Eminem featuring Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. This is Dr. Dre’s first appearance on this chart since “Encore,” an Eminem song that featured the same exact billing in the closing months of 2004. It’s a different story for 50 Cent, who falls from No. 72 to off the chart this week with “Get Up,” a song that was on the list for 13 weeks.
If “Crack a Bottle” opens on The Billboard Hot 100 next week, it will be Eminem’s first appearance as lead vocalist in exactly two years. “You Don’t Know” spent its sixth and final week on the Hot 100 the week of Jan. 27, 2007.
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No Release Date Set For Eminem’s Relapse
Tuesday,13th January 2009
Reports that Eminem’s highly anticipated new album ‘Relapse’ is set to be released on March 2 are false, his rep told The Celebrity Truth on Monday (January 12).
According to numerous stories, online retailer Amazon had listed an official release date of the rapper’s first full studio album since 2004’s ‘Encore’.
The Celebrity Truth checked with Eminem’s label rep, Dennis Dennehy, who told us exclusively, “Nope there’s been no release date announced yet.”
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Aftermath's New Beginning: Can Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent return to the top?
Wednesday,7th January 2009
In December 1998, a typically over-the-top Busta Rhymes released his album Extinction Level Event, reinforcing Y2K hysteria with his claim, “there’s only one year left!” But in the months that followed, the world would witness an Aftermath of a different kind with the explosive success of Eminem’s debut Slim Shady LP and Dr. Dre’s comeback album Chronic 2001.
These two projects proved Em and Dre were a force to be reckoned with and turned Dre’s Aftermath label—founded following the implosion of Death Row Records—into a rap empire. But a decade after Busta’s final countdown, we head into a make-or-break year for the Aftermath family. 50 Cent, Eminem and Dr. Dre have dominated the rap industry over the last 5, 10 and 20 years respectively, but 2009 will be a defining moment in the careers of all three as they re-join forces to rebuild their once-omnipotent Shady/G-Unit/Aftermath coalition.
Now there really is just one year left—return to the top or hit rock bottom.
50 Cent
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson leads the charge with Before I Self Destruct, an album created despite his promise to retire from making solo records after first-week sales of his previous album Curtis fell short of Kanye West’s Graduation. The choice to disregard his self-imposed departure ensures this album will be held to a high standard of critique, much like Jay-Z’s work after returning from a short-lived retirement following The Black Album. So Fifty has rounded up the likes of Jigga, Bun B and Jadakiss for lyrical support and hired proven producers Swizz Beats, Timbaland and Scott Storch, the later helming lead single “Get Up.” Of course, one can expect appearances from Em and Dre, setting the stage for their own long-awaited albums and a very big year in hip-hop.
Highly-anticipated is an understatement when speaking on Marshall Mathers and Andre Young’s upcoming records, which are shrouded in secrecy by all parties involved. Dro, Shady Records’ Director of Promotions, stated simply, “Em and Dre are working more than every artist that’s coming out with an album next year, whether it be their first album or a classic hip-hop artist. Lyrical content will be back in this business, there won’t be too much Soulja Boy hits anymore.”
Eminem
These are bold words about the work ethic being put into Eminem’s Relapse album and welcome news to fans who’ve seen less and less of Em since 2004’s“Encore” and been fed media reports of an overweight recluse hidden away in his Michigan mansion. Addressing the hiatus, the Shady rep acknowledged Marshall had taken some much needed time to deal with his personal life. This meant stepping out of the spotlight to focus on fatherhood, as well as coping with the death of very close friend and fellow Detroit rapper Proof, who was shot in April 2006.
Marshall’s autobiography released earlier this year begins with a few pages on the impact of this loss. “I have never felt so much pain in my life. It’s a pain that is with me to this day—his death brought me to my knees. It was tough for me to even get out of bed, and I had days when I couldn’t walk, let alone write a rhyme.”
Although maintaining a lower profile, Slim Shady has not become irrelevant over the last few years, having contributed verses for a classic T.I. album and the monstrous Akon club-banger “Smack That.” Perhaps his biggest accomplishment during this “time off” was the release of The Re-Up a compilation showcasing emerging Shady Records talent, which sold just short of the double platinum sales mark in the last two years. In Vibe Magazine’s recent “Best Rapper Alive” tournament, the final four came down to Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Andre 3000 and Eminem. The results of this competition, as voted by 920, 000 readers, gave the title to Slim over the distant runner-up, Jay—further evidence that fans have not forgot about Em by any means.
Since the announcement of his return to the studio, demand to hear what’s in store for Relapse has been enormous. The leak of the unfinished song “Crack a Bottle” left Marshall “really heated.” He recently griped to Billboard “It wasn't close to finished, and it even has me doing guide vocals for Dre as a suggestion of how he could lay his verses down. It's like someone catches you peeping in your window before you got the Spider-Man costume all zipped up!” Although frustrating for the Shady team, the preview of the track provided reassurance that rap’s “Batman and Robin” are up to the same old tricks. It appears that Dre is providing the majority of the production for the record, however hip-hop heads are praying for the verity of DJ Premier’s claim that he’s contributed a track titled “Keys To The City.”
Marshall’s decision to get back in the lab has shifted priorities within the squad, with release dates moving around to bolster the release all three projects, culminating with Dr. Dre’s “Detox” which was once scheduled for an '08 release.
Dr. Dre
“I lost Dr. Dre to Eminem. Dre had to stop making his album to finish Eminem's album. Eminem hit a streak, and when a guy like Eminem gets on fire, you stop everything,” says Interscope co-founder Jimmy Iovine, addressing yet another delay in the release of an album that ahs long been considered rap’s Chinese Democracy.
"I’m just now—over the last couple of months—starting to feel that it's going to be right and it's something I can be proud of,” the father of G-Funk said last year, “and everybody is going to love it."
After four years of reformulation, Dre also has tremendous expectations to meet with this record. He has reportedly recorded hundreds of songs and the talk of contributors is a who’s who of legends, including confirmed guests Nas, Jay-Z and Lil’ Wayne. You can count on co-production from Dre’s partners-in-crime Mel Man and Dawaun Parker, as well as Aftermath affiliates Hi-Tek, Nottz and Jake One, who have all contributed to the project at one point in time and could see their worked featured on what is arguably the most anticipated rap record in history.
In their prime, both Eminem and Dr. Dre epitomized a rare balance of commercial digestibility and essential hip-hop with hard-hitting beats riding under thoughtful and impressive wordplay. Over the last few years, the dynamic duo have fallen back and given others an opportunity to reign supreme. In their absence, however, auto-tune, ringtones and instructional dance anthems have established a tyrannical dictatorship, inundating a genre once defined by its diversity and originality.
The approaching year is one of great importance as the Aftermath squad will have what may be their last chance to show and prove—either reclaiming domination or leaving room for rap’s next generation.
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Eminem's New Song, 'Crack A Bottle,' Hits The Web
Wednesday,7th January 2009
Code red! The three-headed monster is wide awake and ready to assault the world. Just hours after 50 Cent's new single, "I Get It In," touched down all over the Net on Tuesday (January 6), a new Eminem song surfaced. Well, it's not so new, to tell the truth.
Several weeks ago, an unfinished variation of the jam landed on mixtapes under the title "Number One." On Tuesday, the apparently final version debuted under the official title "Crack a Bottle" (the name Em revealed last month when lamenting the leak). The new incarnation features Dr. Dre and 50 Cent.
Eminem's lyrics are still the same. "So crack a bottle, let your body waddle/ Don't act just like a sloppy model, you just hit the lotto," Em raps on the chorus, after introducing himself like a ring announcer. "Uh-oh, uh-oh, bi---es, hoppin' in my Tahoe/ I got one riding shotgun, and not one of them got clothes."
"Andre the Giant," as Eminem refers to Dre, comes in second with the same verse we heard Slim Shady reference on the unfinished mixtape version: "They see that low-rider go by, they like, 'Oh my!'/ You ain't gotta tell me why ya sick, 'cause I know why/ I dip through in that six tre like, 'Sic 'em, Dre!'/ ... What else can I say, I love L.A. ... / I'll be damned, I just crashed my Benz/ Driving round with a smashed front end. Let's cash that one in."
50 Cent has the last verse, which he dedicates to balling "out of control" and intimidating other big Willies: "I'm the napalm, the don, I'm King Kong," Fif boasts. "Get rode on, wrapped up and ringed on/ I'm so calm, through Vietnam, ring the alarm ... / I stunt, I style, I flash the sh--."
A couple of weeks ago, Eminem told Billboard.com that he was disappointed about the song leaking, before it was ready.
"It wasn't close to finished, and it even has me doing guide vocals for Dre as a suggestion of how he could lay his verses down," he told the site. "It's like someone catches you peeping in your window before you got the Spider Man costume all zipped up! Nobody is supposed to see that. We are gonna finish it up, though, and get it out there how it's supposed to be."
Interscope Records hasn't released a statement about plans for the song, which will likely appear on Eminem's Relapse, one of the most-anticipated new albums of 2009.
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New Music From Eminem, Dr Dre, 50 Cent & D12
Tuesday,6th January 2009
Fans go years without any new Eminem, Dr Dre or 50 Cent music then a day like today comes and all of a sudden you have three all new songs to listen to. Leading today's new Shady/G-Unit/Aftermath music is the final version of "Crack A Bottle" that not only features Eminem and Dr Dre, but also 50 Cent.
50 Cent also released his song "I Get It In", the second single from his upcoming album "Before I Self Destruct," due out in the next few months.
Also hitting the net today is a new song from Eminem's group, D12. The new song "Fuhg Univesity (Fuuug U)" features D12 members Kuniva, Swifty McVay and Bizarre.
NEW SHADY / G-UNIT / AFTERMATH MUSIC
1) Eminem ft. Dr Dre, 50 Cent - Crack A Bottle - Listen HERE
2) 50 Cent - I Get It In - Listen HERE
3) D12 - Fuhg Univesity (Fuuug U) - Listen HERE
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50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct Track List
Tuesday,6th January 2009
More information is starting to leak about 50 Cent's highly anticipated upcoming album, Before I Self Destruct. A rumored track list, featuring guest appearances and production credits, hit the web today. OnSmash.com acquired the information for the album that could be 50 Cent's last effort on Interscope/Shady/Aftermath as the G-Unit General's contract is up after this album (not including a greatest hits effort).
The rumored track list shows Dr Dre producing four tracks (plus appearing on one), and Eminem producing one (along with guest appearing on another). Guests for the album are limited to G-Unit members, Eminem, Dr Dre, Nate Dogg and new rapper Dave Young.
More information is starting to leak about 50 Cent's highly anticipated upcoming album, Before I Self Destruct. A rumored track list, featuring guest appearances and production credits, hit the web today. OnSmash.com acquired the information for the album that could be 50 Cent's last effort on Interscope/Shady/Aftermath as the G-Unit General's contract is up after this album (not including a greatest hits effort).
The rumored track list shows Dr Dre producing four tracks (plus appearing on one), and Eminem producing one (along with guest appearing on another). Guests for the album are limited to G-Unit members, Eminem, Dr Dre, Nate Dogg and new rapper Dave Young.
50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct (rumored track list)
01. Intro
02. Came To Win (prod. by Red Spyda)
03. Get Up (prod. by Scott Storch)
04. Need Your Hate (prod. by Dr. Dre)
05. Here For A Reason f. Nate Dogg (prod. by Tha Bizness)
06. Good To Be A Gangsta (prod. by Ty Fyffe & Sha Money XL)
07. Don’t Mess With 50 (prod. by Don Cannon)
08. Trust In Me (prod. by J.R. Rotem)
09. Norman Bates Motel f. Eminem (prod. by Dr. Dre)
10. Bitch I’m Sorry (prod. by Needlz)
11. All For You (prod. by Hi-Tek)
12. No Time To Lose f. Swizz Beatz (prod. by The Individuals)
13. Lonely At The Top (prod. by Play-N-Skillz)
14. You Need Us f. Lloyd Banks & Tony Yayo (prod. by DJ Khalil)
15. Different Path f. Dave Young (prod. by Havoc)
16. I Get It In (prod. by Dr.Dre)
17. Somebody Forgive Me (prod. by Jake One)
18. My Reign (prod. by Eminem)
19. Ready For War f. Dr.Dre (prod. by Dr. Dre)
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Eminem - The Day Before Relapse - New MixTape
Friday,2nd January 2009
01.Crack a Bottle
02.Relapse
03.Who Want It (feat. Trick Trick)
04.Peep Show (feat. 50 Cent)
05.Touchdown (feat. T.I.)
06.Pistol Poppin (feat. Ca$his)
07.Christmas Ghost
08.There They Go (feat. Trick Trick, Big Herk, & Obie Trice)
09.We're Back (feat. Stat Quo, Bobby Creek, Obie Trice, Ca$his)
10.You Don't Know (feat. 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Ca$his)
11.The Re-up (feat. 50 Cent)
12.Jimmy Crack Corn (feat. 50 Cent)
13.Public Enemy #1
14.No Apologies
15.The Invasion
16.The Conspiracy (Invasion Part 2)
17.Invasion Pt. 3
18.My Nuts
19.Lightspeed Freestyle
20.Anger Management
21.Welcome to Detroit City (feat. Trick Trick)
22.Ricky Ticky Toc
23.I Can Be (feat. Helluva)
24.Get Up (50 Cent)
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Swizz Beatz Clears Up Stan Part 2 Rumors
Wednesday,24th December 2008
Swizz Beatz now says he never said he recorded a "Stan Part 2" as MTV previously reported. Eminem recently came forward to talk about his upcoming album "Relapse." In the interview he stated that he had never recorded with Swizz Beatz and there was no "Stan 2."
Swizz says he never said there was such a song to begine with. “That’s not the title of the song — that’s what I said the song felt like. We didn’t sit down and agree that this was the title… I’m not in the studio [with him]… Everything that we’re doing is over Pro-Tools," Swizz told Thats Hip Hop.
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Eminem: What I Learned
Thursday,18th December 2008
Eminem still lives and records in Detroit, Michigan. The title of his movie 8 Mile refers to the road that divides the city's poor and rich neighborhoods. He recently published an autobiographical book, The Way I Am.
Don't call it a comeback.
People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now. You can change your image and all that--you can change your fucking clothes, your underwear, your hair color, all that shit--but it's not going to mean you're a brand-new person.
You want to say, "I don't give a fuck what anybody says." Yeah, you do.
I'm sure people think I've vanished off the face of the earth.
I went for nine, ten years straight, without taking a break at all. I needed to rejuvenate.
I'm a T-shirt guy now. But wifebeaters won't go out of style, not as long as bitches keep mouthing off.
I like it when people talk shit. Because if people weren't talking shit, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?
There's obviously a limit to the things you want people to know, but I've pretty much put most of it out there. Maybe people don't know what kind of underwear I wear, what color.
Boxers. Pink.
It's fun to take a step back and hear other people do it, say shit I wish I would have thought of. I'm still a fan of rap.
When people buy a CD, you don't get to sit in the car with them and watch their faces and watch their jaws drop.
The guy behind the counter notices me, but I haven't put an album out in four years. "How you doing Marshall?" "What's up Em?" You pay for the gas, buy a bag of chips, and leave. But I put a record out, and that same person is going to be behind the counter with a camera and a piece of paper. "Can you sign this?"
It's not like I'm going to be a prick to everybody I meet. I keep it cool.
You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
I don't know where to go to meet a nice girl. If you've got any tips, clue me in.
The emotions in a song--the anger, aggression--have got to be legitimate.
When I'm in the studio with Dre, I don't have to worry about the beat. I can just go. That's the only thing I got to concentrate on. When I'm trying to produce a song myself, I'm thinking about the high hat. Is it loud enough? The snare drum. Is it clear enough? This piano in the chorus. Is it too loud? That can be time-consuming.
Within the last year, I started learning how to not be so angry about things, learning how to count my fucking blessings instead. By doing that, I've become a happier person, instead of all this self-loathing I was doing for a while.
The music, I wouldn't say it's gotten happier, but it's definitely more upbeat. I feel like myself again.
Don't get me wrong, the aggression will still be there.
I don't know if I've fully accepted Proof's death, but I think I've come to terms with it a little bit, knowing how to cope. There was a good two years that I was pretty down in the fucking dumps. I just lay in bed and stared at the fucking ceiling. One day, I didn't get up until 7:30 that night.
Not that I don't guide them at all, because sometimes I do, right from wrong. Hailie's twelve now, and she still thinks it's really bad to stick up your middle finger. I think I'm doing pretty good, with what my music is about and being able to raise little girls at the same time.
I would say I'm an excellent dad, not to toot my own horn. Toot.
If you don't overlook the fact of what you look like, then no one else will. I had a complex back then: If I get booed off stage, it's probably because I'm white. There comes a time when you gotta stop thinking like that and just be you.
I want to say I'd be a comic-book artist. That was my dream as a kid. I used to paint and draw. If I wouldn't have had rap, I would have strived to--the past tense of strive, is it stroved?--I would have stroven to do something like that. Who knows? Maybe I would have.
Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
Shit happens. Fucking happens to the best of us. Really does.
Interviewed by Brian Mockenhaupt, September 25, 2008
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50 Cent Talks Renegotiation With Record Label
Tuesday,16th December 2008
As his forthcoming studio LP "Before I Self Destruct" gets close to its release date in early February 2009, 50 Cent comes out with a statement claiming that he will be working on a renegotiation with Aftermath/Interscope Records. "My album requirements will actually be done, and it'll be time to renegotiate," he told MTV during an interview.
"So if things work out, I'll end up staying with Em [Eminem] and Aftermath/Interscope. If the negotiation doesn't go right, then I'll go elsewhere," 50 Cent said further. "It won't change our relationship, because Em's so rich it doesn't matter. That's why he'll just take off for two or three years, and you don't hear nothing or see nothing from him and then he comes back, because he can afford to do that."
50 Cent is scheduled to drop his fourth major studio album "Before I Self Destruct" in the U.S. stores on February 3, 2009. The album will include production team from Timbaland, Dr. Dre, Eminem and Swizz Beatz among others.
50 Cent talking about contract renegotiation with Aftermath/Interscope Records:
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Dr. Dre Raps On Leaked Remix Of Kardinal Offishall's 'Set It Off'
Tuesday,16th December 2008
For someone who has teased a new album for more than seven years, Dr. Dre sure hasn't released many verses to tide his fans over. The Doc's bars have been sparse, popping up on Timbaland's on "Bounce" for 2007's Shock Value and on Snoop's "Imagine" for The Blue Carpet Treatment in 2006.
A couple of weeks ago, DJs Big Mike and Neptune leaked an unfinished track called "Crack a Bottle," on which we heard Eminem referring to rhymes by Dr. Dre. But on Monday night, somebody got their paws on more new Doc music, and on this one, the hip-hop icon actually raps.
Dre appears on the remix of Kardinal Offishall's "Set It Off," featuring the Clipse, which premiered on DJ Skee's syndicated radio show on Monday. Skee said Dre recorded his rhymes for the song several months ago. After Interscope head Jimmy Iovine sent B-roll from the song's video, Dre couldn't contain his excitement, according to Skee, and he decided to lay down his own bars on the song. The new version of "Set It Off" was all set to be released, but the plans were derailed when Dre's Detox LP got pushed back to 2009. According to another source, Monday's leak was not supposed to happen.
On the song, Dre boasts that getting the short end of the stick, in any circumstance, is not an option for him. "I'm about to set it off," the legendary music man warns. "Think I'mma lose? Then bet it all."
Later, he speaks of his comeback and shoots down rumors that he was retiring. "I heard a lot of ni--as quittin', but I ain't done," Dre insists. "Ring the alarm/ I make it hotter than hell (hell, yeah!) ... / You clowns know who the crown belong to/ And I can set it off, if you want me to."
"Set It Off" is a single off of Offishall's latest LP, Not 4 Sale, which came out on September 9 via Akon's Konvict Music imprint. Offishall declined to comment for this story. According to Eminem and Interscope records, Dre's Detox is slated to be released sometime next year, after the release of 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct and Slim Shady's Relapse.
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Eminem Talks New Jordan Shoes
Friday,12th December 2008
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Eminem Talks New Album, release set for Spring
Friday,12th December 2008
Eminem has revealed details of his long-awaited new album, "Relapse," in an exclusive interview with Billboard, conducted via email. The set is due next spring from Shady/Interscope.
Eminem is working on "Relapse" with longtime collaborator Dr. Dre, who put his own album, "Detox," on the backburner to help bring the project to completion.
"Me and Dre are back in the lab like the old days, man," Eminem says. "Just him banging away on tracks and me getting that little spark that makes me write to it. I don't have chemistry like that with anyone else as far as producers go -- not even close. Dre will end up producing the majority of the tracks on Relapse.' We are up to our old mischievous ways ... let's just leave it at that."
A handful of songs intended for "Relapse" have leaked online, most recently "Crack a Bottle," leaving Eminem "really heated. It wasn't close to finished, and it even has me doing guide vocals for Dre as a suggestion of how he could lay his verses down. It's like someone catches you peeping in your window before you got the Spider Man costume all zipped up! Nobody is supposed to see that. We are gonna finish it up though and get it out there how it's supposed to be."
Eminem also responded to producer Swizz Beats' recent comment that he'd submitted a track for the project described as a sequel to the hit single "Stan," telling Billboard, "I haven't worked with Swizz on this album.
"There isn't a 'Stan 2,' and there won't be," he says. "Stan drove his car off a bridge and I'm not writing a song as Stan's ghost. That would just be really corny."
While working on "Relapse," Eminem was also writing his autobiography, "The Way I Am," with Sacha Jenkins. The book has received favorable reviews and has spent time in the top 20 of the New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list.
"For me, writing an album is an entirely different process from making this book," he says. "The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain -- let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it. With the book, the process was much more spread out, like, 'Let's get you together with Sacha for a few hours next week. Let's go thru these photos and artwork, etc.' The book was a lot more of a focus here-and-there thing as opposed to music, which totally consumes me every second."
Eminem goes into great detail in "The Way I Am" about how much he was impacted by the 2006 shooting death of fellow Detroit rapper Proof, who was one of his best friends.
"Opening the book with Proof's chapter was real important for me," Eminem says. "Everything from my past moving into my future is marked by his passing. It's sort of like life when Proof was with us, and life after -- a real dividing factor. He means more to me than a book chapter could describe, but I'm glad I was able to put him first, like he did for me so many times."
As for Shady Records' 2009 roster, Eminem says 50 Cent's delayed "Before I Self Destruct" will be out in February. "He's still working on it and getting back together with me and Dre next week to finish up," he says. "I have a couple of tracks on there with him. It's sick."
Afterward, Ca$his will release the follow-up to his 2007 "County Hound EP." Says Eminem, "People are going to be surprised what he is capable of. I produced a bunch of records on there as well."
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50 Cent: Eminem Is 'Like My Grandmother'
Monday,8th December 2008
What is Eminem up to?
Some photos from Santa Monica, California, surfaced online over the weekend in which Em is wearing all white and appears to be on some type of video set. Could it be for a clip from his forthcoming LP, Relapse?. His label has no comment as to where the pictures are from, but Em's good friend 50 Cent had plenty to say about his friend/collaborator.
While 50 was shooting his latest film, "Dead Man Running," in Europe, he took some time out to tell MTV UK that Eminem reminds him of his grandmother.
"It's always a pleasure working with Em for me," 50 said. "When I leave here, I'm actually going back to the States, to Detroit, to work with him again. You know, me and Em, we work really close together. He's like a relative to me. ... He's done something for me. He's like my grandmother. He's someone that provided an opportunity for me to take care of myself when I couldn't take care of myself. My grandma did it when I was a child, and then Em provided the opportunity for me as an adult."
So far, Em and Fif have recorded three songs for their respective LPs: Relapse and Before I Self Destruct.
On Friday, an unfinished Eminem and Dr. Dre track labeled "Number One" hit the Internet. The leaked song is going to be featured on Big Mike and Neptune's upcoming 4th Quarter Pressure Part 2. The track finds Em apparently referring to verses that Dr. Dre may rap in the finished version. According to a source close to the Shady/Aftermath camps, the record was never meant to make it off the cutting-room floor, and it's not currently scheduled to be on either Eminem's Relapse or Dr. Dre's Detox. We also found out that the official title for the record is "Breaking Bottles."
Both Relapse and Detox are due sometime in 2009. Before I Self Destruct is slated for February 4.
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Power 100 In LA Spoke to Dre concerning Number 1
Friday,5th December 2008
Dre spoke to power 100, They played number one then dre phone'd in. They asked about eminem and the album, dre had no comment, but said the song number is actually not titled number 1 someone made that up, and it was suppose to be a detox track that eminem worked on, and dre was not sure how em wanted the flow, so em rapped dre's verses and sent it to dre via email. Dre said seems like someone got onto his email and started sending this song out. Dre said within Interscope is his guess, and he is not gona use this song now becuz of its early release and that its not completed.
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New Eminem Song?
Thursday,4th December 2008
Just released is an Eminem song produced by Dr. Dre called "# 1" I seriously doubt this is something from Relapse. Sounds like it is something a DJ got a hold of to leak it. After listening to it, it sounds like a track Eminem wrote for Dr. Dre to be on Detox. You be the judge download here:
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New Eminem Song #1 produced by Dr. Dre
Thursday,4th December 2008
Track List:
1. Eminem - #1 (Prod By Dr Dre) (World Premiere)
2. Jay-Z - Brooklyn
3. Jadakiss - Pop Champagne
4. Styles P & Bucky - Come One Come All
5. Sheek Louch - Stop Frontin
6. Cassidy - Where’s Cass At
7. Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz - In This Club (Exclusive)
8. Lil Wayne - Snap (Excluisve)
9. Lil Wayne - The Supplier (Excluisve)
10. The Game Feat Fabulous - Where U From?? (Exclusive)
11. Max B - Where’s The Money?
12. Max B - D Rugs
13. Jim Jones - Bust Ya Windows
14. Keisha Cole & Lil Wayne - I Love You 2k8(Exclusive)
15. Chris Brown Feat Lil Wayne - Forever Remix
16. Ryan Leslie Feat Jadakiss - How Its Suppsoe To Be Remix
17. Jadakiss - Get Off Me
18. Jadakiss & Lil Wayne - Deathwish
19. Max B - Get Ya Gunz
20. Lil Wayne - Around The Way
21. Remo Da Rapstar - A Star Is Born
22. Tony Moxberg Feat Tre Williams - Game Keeps Calling Me
23. Mall G - 100 Days
24. Lil Wayne - Bullets & Gunz
25. Lil Wayne - Temerarures Rising
Big Mike is NOT playin this time time around! This is the second tape in a double release of Fourth Quarter Pressure. He starts it off with a brand new track from Eminem (produced by Dre!), then throws in 4 new Wayne tracks (like we don't already have enough!). Also a new Game and Fab. This tape can't drop soon enough!!
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Eminem At Undisclosed Video Set
Thursday,4th December 2008
One of the best parts of this business is the fact that you can never guess who might show up in your lens. For instance yesterday we caught this FABULOUS and EXCLUSIVE set of Marshall Bruce Mathers III, aka Eminem! We thought that he was still tucked away in Detroit, busily raising his daughters and working on his music and a possible sequel to his book. But no, he was here in Santa Monica, looking fairly svelte and well. Like everyone else, we’re dying for a new Eminem album.
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Eminem's New Album Relapse, Music Gossip
Saturday,29th November 2008
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Eminem's Relapse: Producer Swizz Beatz Talks About 'Stan, Part 2"
Tuesday,25th November 2008
Eminem mentioned during the "TRL" finale earlier this month that he's hard at work on his upcoming album Relapse — but he wasn't giving up many details.
However, when we caught up with one of his producers, Swizz Beatz, at the Black Ball, Keep a Child Alive's annual fundraiser, in New York earlier this month, he filled in a few blanks for us.
Swizz said he's worked on five songs with Eminem, including one featuring both Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. "I don't know the title yet, but it's classic," he said. "It's sounding big."
Another song Swizz worked on with Em is a track they're referring to as a "Stan Part 2." "You know how 'Stan' ... was the big [song]?" Swizz asked, referring to the obsessed-fan track which sampled Dido's "Thank You." "So I worked on part 2, and I think it was, like, totally genius."
Swizz said that while Eminem has apparently been away from the mic for a long time, he's in good form on Relapse. which, Em said on "TRL," will be out next year, in "probably January, February."
"It's different," Swizz said. "Different sound, different mindframe. He's clear. But it's the Eminem that you missed, that you loved, that you need, especially right now in the industry, going into '09. He's coming back to take the cake."
Swizz said that politically minded songs like "Mosh" are "not really" on the agenda as much as "a lot of personal stuff."
Asked whether that subject matter involved Eminem's rehab stint, the death of his close friend/ D12 member Proof, his second divorce from Kim Scott, or his mom's recent memoir, Swizz laughed and said, "I can't give it away!"
Making a key difference in Em's new mindset, however, is that he has "a lot of people supporting him this time," Swizz said. "I just think you can hear a new energy in him. And, you know, the producers, everyone's bringing forth their best on that level."
On "TRL," Eminem also mentioned that he'd "done probably a hundred songs in the last couple of years," and Swizz said that it's still being decided which tracks will make the final cut.
"How it works: They get a whole bunch of songs," the producer explained, "and it's not over until the budget is closed and the artwork is done. It's just an ongoing thing."
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Trick Trick speaking on Eminem and Relapse
Tuesday,25th November 2008
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"I Lost Dr.Dre To Eminem"-Jimmy Iovine
Monday,24th November 2008
Interscope head Jimmy Iovine has come forward to explain the delay of Dr. Dre's highly anticipated, upcoming album.
According to Billboard, the music mogul claimed the super producer's follow-up release to 1999's multi-platinum selling album The Chronic 2001 was originally prepped to drop in late 2008. However, the return of Eminem prompted Dre to alter his schedule.
"We only tried to put [Em] out this year to replace Dr. Dre, but we got into a quagmire," Iovine told Billboard. "Eminem was always coming next year. But what happened was, I lost Dr. Dre to Eminem."
Assuring there were no personal issues involved, the music exec said Em's surprising work ethic forced Dre to move his solo project into 2009.
"Dre had to stop making his album to finish Eminem's album," Iovine added. "Eminem hit a streak, and when a guy like Eminem gets on fire, you stop everything. That's how we lost Dre."
While not offering an exact date, Jimmy promised the producer would be on hand to finish Em's new release and complete his own at the start of next year.
"Dre's going back in in January," Iovine continued. "He'll be finished with Eminem by then, and he'll finish his album."
In related news, Em's forthcoming solo project, Relapse, was recently pushed back to next year due to the rapper's diligent work ethic.
"Eminem has been through a lot," an insider told the New York Post. "He is being a perfectionist and is completely obsessive-compulsive about this album."
Reps for the Shady Records label head later confirmed the album's delay and are estimating a release date in early 2009.
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Eminem's Tough Outer Shell Hides Sweet Interior
Thursday,20th November 2008
Believe it or not, Eminem has finally become a portrait in good taste.
The rapper has been unwrapped and immortalized in candy M&M's by artist Enrique Ramos, who transformed 8 pounds of candy (roughly a thousand sweet treats) into a portrait of Marshall Mathers. The Ripley's Believe It or Not! folks acquired the piece for one of their museums (or possibly one of their afternoon snacks).
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Mom says grief kept Eminem from the spotlight
Thursday,20th November 2008
Rapper Eminem [ tickets ]'s estranged mother thinks her son's forthcoming album "Relapse," his first since 2004's "Encore," is long overdue.
"He needs to shake the dust off and get out there," said Debbie Nelson, in an interview with LiveDaily about her book "My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem: Setting the Record Straight." "He can do anything."
Eminem recently told MTV that "Relapse" will hit stores in 2009. Nelson chalks up the wait between albums primarily to the April 2006 death of D12 member Proof in an after-hours club shooting.
"No one can set a time on grieving," she said. "You go through a lot of emotions. You're angry. You're sad. You blame yourself. It's a very hard thing to deal with. There's a little bit of shock. You can't believe it actually happened and it's actually true. It is hard."
Nelson touches on Proof's death in her book, in which she writes that, shortly after Proof died, she tried unsuccessfully to mend fences with Eminem, with whom she currently has no relationship.
"A mother knows when her son is in trouble," she writes in the book. "One night in August my maternal instincts got the better of me. I drove to Marshall's mansion in the hopes of seeing him. As I got out of the car, I was shaking but I knew that if we could sit down, just the two of us, for a proper chat, we could resolve our issues."
She was stopped by guards even before she reached the front door. She writes that since then, she has received calls from several people close to Eminem saying that he is "extremely depressed" and drinking. Nelson fears Eminem, known to her as Marshall Mathers, will end up like Elvis Presley.
"My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem" tells the story of a headstrong mother trying to raise two children in the wake of abusive relationships. Writing the book was cathartic for Nelson, who calls Michigan home. She says that the project is not about money; it's about setting the record straight with listeners who may see her as the "monster" portrayed in the Eminem song "Cleanin' Out My Closet."
"There hasn't been hardly any money made off it," Nelson told LiveDaily. "It was just to get my side out there and to let people know a little about me and who I am. I'm not this evil monster. I'm not a drug abuser. I'm not an alcoholic. I'm not a pothead. I'm just a loving, caring mother. I'm not perfect--not by any means--but there's nothing I wouldn't do for my kids or anybody else's children."
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Stat Quo Announces He's Officially Left Shady/Aftermath
Thursday,20th November 2008
Stat Quo Announces He's Officialy Left Shady/ Aftermath! (All That Time And No Album?. Ouch)
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50 Cent On The Cover Of Jan/Feb 2009 XXL
Wednesday,19th November 2008
50 Cent is on the cover of the new XXL Magazine. It's still Shady - Aftermath!
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Confirmed, Eminem's 'Relapse' Set Up for 2009 Release
Tuesday,18th November 2008
Eminem confirmed that his highly-anticipated album "Relapse" will not be dropped until 2009. "We're looking at first quarter next year [to release the album] which is probably, you know, January, February," he told Carson Daly from MTV.
During MTV's "Total Finale Live" on November 16 at New York's Times Square studios, the rapper also hinted he is "real close" to the final cut of the album. "Now we've just got to go through everything, pick the best ones and, you know, put it out," he stated.
Previously, a source told New York Post that it was Eminem's perfectionism which made his upcoming effort pushed back. "Eminem has been through a lot," the source stated. "He is being a perfectionist and is completely obsessive-compulsive about this album."
"Relapse" is Eminem's sixth major studio album. Dr. Dre and DJ Premier have been signed to handle the production process of the record. Meanwhile, 50 Cent and T.I. collaborate with the Detroit rapper on several songs off the installment.
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50 Cent's New Album, Before I Self Destruct, Pushed Back To 2009 Release
Friday,14th November 2008
Album is now due at 'the beginning of '09,' label says.
The fourth-quarter's hip-hop big bang has gotten less fiery.
Last week Jay-Z dismissed the notion that we would get The Blueprint 3 this year, and on Friday, a rep for Interscope Records confirmed that there won't be a new 50 Cent CD under anyone's Christmas tree this year: Before I Self Destruct has been pushed back until 2009.
There is no concrete release date as of yet, however the record label said in a press release Friday that the delay won't extend far into the year. "The beginning of '09" is their timetable.
50 has the single and video for "Get Up" out now, and the G-Unit bad man promised more before the album drops. He told Mixtape Monday of a Dr. Dre-helmed track he "stole" from Eminem during their recording session in Detroit a few months ago. 50 did note that Slim Shady did give him his blessing to use the record.
"I said, 'Let me see what [Dre did],' " 50 recalled with a smile while speaking on the video set of "Get Up." "Last time I recorded The Massacre album, I was in Orlando [Florida]. I went in the computer there. That's how I found 'I'm Supposed to Die Tonight.' It's interesting. With 'In Da Club,' D12 [who the beat was intended for], had the production started my career."
Besides Dre, Eminem appears on Before I Self Destruct as well.
"We created some music," he said of Slim Shady. "I went to Detroit recently. One song I really liked it and he liked it and he kept it for his album. I went back and made two more songs. We got 'Norman Bates Motel' out of that. It's exciting."
"Norman Bates Motel" is slated to appear on Before I Self Destruct. In addition to the music, 50 is producing a film also called "Before I Self Destruct" (check out the trailer here) and the Jam Master Jay documentary, "Two Turntables And A Microphone: The Life And Death Of Jam Master Jay."
Don't miss 50 Cent on "Total Finale Live" on Sunday, airing at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV!
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Rapper Eminem To Make Wrestlemania 25 Appearance?
Friday,14th November 2008
According to pwrestlingnews.com, rumors have been rampant all over the internet and backstage that rapper Eminem will be a special guest at WWE's Wrestlemania 25.
Now it is not certain or finalized yet, but it seems to be likely. He really wants to promote his upcoming album which he announced the title for ("Relapse") on Oct. 15 during an on-air launch party for his book, "The Way I Am" via Orion Books.
Eminem also introduced a new track, "I'm Having a Relapse." His album is scheduled to be released in 2009. The song was not very long, but it looks like Slim Shady is back. I heard the track and it is pretty good, but the entire CD has not been completed.
"I'm having a Relapse" is supposed to be the first track on the new CD. Now I like Eminem myself so it's alot better to see him than a former WWE guest Kevin Federline. I liked the fact he got F-Ued by John Cena. But I can't say it will happen to Eminem.
He may shot you, so you need to look out for that. But in all seriousness Eminem is rumored to be one of the special guests at Wrestlemania 25. He is a WWE fan, and has been seen at WWE events before, so he is no stranger to pro-wrestling.
With his new album coming out most likely around Wrestlemania, it would be a huge chance to get it out to the public eye. Wrestlemania is one of the most watched events, almost as much as the super bowl.
Considering that many of the WWE fans are not all American, and many are around the world, it would be no stretch to say it could be watched more than the Super Bowl. But of course I do not have anything to back that up.
But Slim Shady is back after a long absence from the music scene, and could be at Wrestlemanis 25. What do you think about it?
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Eminem's New Album Next Spring?
Tuesday,11th November 2008
EMINEM has reportedly suspended the release of his new album RELAPSE until as late as next spring (09).
The Stan hitmaker announced last month (15Oct08) that he was considering releasing his sixth LP before the end of the year (08).
The project will mark the first record the rapper has put out since his greatest hits compilation in 2005, when the 35-year-old laid down his mic to concentrate on producing.
Eminem has insisted he can't wait to "get back out there" as he promotes his best-selling autobiography The Way I Am, which hit shelves in October (08).
But a source tells the New York Post the record could now be put back until next year (09), adding: "There was never a release date set."
Another source says, "Eminem has been through a lot. He is being a perfectionist and is completely obsessive-compulsive about this album. There's a 50-50 chance it will be done by the end of this year - but most likely it'll be the first quarter of next year... It's great."
A spokesperson for the rapper has declined to comment.
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DJ Haze , DJ Capcom & Eminem - Before The Relapse
Monday,10th November 2008
New Eminem Mix-Tape is out now!
1. Eminem - I’m Having A R3lapse (New Shit!) (R3lapse Album Coming End Of 08!)
2 .Eminem - Demon Inside (Rare!)
3. Eminem - Todays Man (Rare!)
4. Eminem - Im Crazy (Rare!)
5. Emimem - Shinein (Rare!)
6. Eminem - Hell Freezes Over (Rare!)
7. Eminem - Afraid Of Blades (Rare!)
8. Eminem Ft. Royce Da 5′9 - Kool Kid Freestyle
9. Eminem - Off The Dome (Rare!)
10. Eminem - Fuck You Freestyle (Rare!)
11. Eminem - Got It Twisted
12. Eminem - Kay Slay (Rare!)
13. Eminem - 45 The Freestyle (Rare!)
14. Eminem - Radio Shows (Rare!)
15. Eminem - R&B Bitches (Rare!)
16. Eminem - My Name Is Freestyle (Rare!)
17. Eminem - Elction Time (Rare!)
18. Eminem - Drastic Change (Rare!)
19. Eminem - Fubba Cubba
20. Eminem - Hit It Up (Rare!)
21. Eminem - Hand Me An 8th
22. Eminem - Green And Gold
23. Eminem - Invasionist
24. Eminem - Crackers & Cheese (Very Rare! 1993!)
25. Eminem - Biterphobia (Very Rare! 1993!)
26. Eminem - Kim (Uncensored!) (Rare!)
27. Eminem Ft. Buggz & Proof - Desperados (Rare!)
28. Eminem Ft. D12 - Dumpin (Rare!)
29. Eminem Ft. Fred Durst - Turn Me Loose (Rare!)
30. Eminem Ft. Marlyn Manson - Way I Am (Rock-Mix)
31. Eminem - Touch It (Live-Mix)
32. Eminem - Whoo Kid (New Shit!!)
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50 Has To Go Through Em To Get Dre beats?
Monday,10th November 2008
There's a story doing the rounds today, in which 50 Cent brags about how he's got this amazing Dr Dre "produced" track on his new album, and how he had to break into Eminem's computer to steal it.
"I did a song produced by Dr. Dre," said 50. "I got the production from Detroit, because Dre was working with Em right before I got out there. I just missed him. I went through Em's computer and found what I needed. Yes, I did. I got me the record I needed. I was like, 'Wait till they hear this.' I wrote it; Em heard it. He was like, 'You gotta keep that for yourself. This is too crazy.' First, I think he was gonna take it from me, then he was like, 'He gotta use that for himself.' I think [Eminem's manager] Paul [Rosenberg] wanted him to take it."
Read between the lines - 50 can't get a sit down with Dre, so he has to resort to rifling through Em cast-offs folder. We never did hear how Dre really felt about that Game situation did we? And we haven't heard much 50/Dre action since that first album either. Big fat HMM.
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Eminem's Tragedy is Our Comedy in The Way I Am
Tuesday,4th November 2008
To enjoy the severely abridged version of The Way I Am, Eminem's new scrapbook/memoir, simply turn to page 122 and behold a lush, full-color, 14-photo collage of America's finest white rapper (sorry, Amy Poehler) giving the finger. Just as Tyra Banks claims to have 275 different ways to smile, Marshall Mathers has developed innumerable genres of bird-flipping: The Street Cred, the Fan Camaraderie, the High on Ecstasy, the Actual Anger, the Terminally Bored, the Badass Autopilot. This last one is most prevalent. Like Kid Rock, the guy employs this gesture so frequently that he now suffers from the Just Don't Give a Fuck Paradox, wherein you insist that you don't give a fuck so frequently and ostentatiously that it's clear you do, in fact, give quite a bit of a fuck. Methinks the alleged misogynist doth protest too much.
But projecting a contrite, sympathetic warmth is the ultimate purpose of this immaculately designed coffee-table book, as conceived by a distinguished gentleman once laid low by substances far stronger than coffee. It's not quite a confession, not quite an apology, not quite a recanting of the various uncouth things he's done and horrifying things he's said, but it frequently inches in that direction. And considering Eminem has been more or less silent for more than three years (dealing with a sleeping-pill addiction, at least), the tome's brew of defiance and redemption greases the skids for a potentially epic comeback, if a comeback is even necessary: In an elaborate, three-month-long, NCAA-style online tournament bracket, Vibe's readers recently crowned him Best Rapper Alive. Imagine how high he'd rate if he actually went back to rapping.
To whet your appetite, The Way I Am offers a snappy mix of promo photos, baby pictures, backstage Polaroids, vintage flyers, chicken-scratched lyric sheets, legal documents, and candid personal essays about fame, fatherhood, and regret, rendered in oft-enormous fonts. (It's not unlike Kurt Cobain's Journals, except this is voluntary, and Eminem is still alive.) The whole shebang can be easily consumed in its entirety over the course of a lazy, distracted afternoon, but it will make you actually kind of like the guy, and will send you back to his music, which will make you really miss the guy. I myself got hung up on 2001's "Kill You," particularly the verse that ends "Blood! Guts! Guns! Cuts! Knives! Lives! Wives! Nuns! Sluts!" Lil Wayne's funny, sure, but he's not menacing enough; T.I., vice versa. Only Slim Shady excels at both: We need him to stop grappling with his demons privately and go back to doing so publicly.
To wit, the book's second sentence is "I have never felt so much pain in my life," part of an extensive and truly heartbreaking tribute to best friend and D12 cohort Proof, who was shot dead outside a Detroit nightclub in April 2006. From a purely literary perspective, this, right at the onset, is The Way I Am's strongest moment, showcasing both Em's horrified and increasingly disoriented reaction to the news ("I wasn't making sense when I spoke, so everyone was trying to keep me off TV and away from the press") and harkening back to how Proof's guidance and public support was instrumental in a gawky teenage Marshall Mathers ever becoming a rapper in the first place ("I'm not going to sugarcoat it—he was my ghetto pass"). What's more, Proof's death—in a seedy nightclub along Detroit's infamously dangerous 8 Mile Road, the sort of place most famous rappers wouldn't be caught dead because, well, that's far too likely a possibility—serves to justify Eminem's three years of near-complete silence and total seclusion; the other topic this book addresses with complete command is the potentially lethal curse of fame. Thesis: "It's like, once you're famous, people feel like they can say anything to you. Like you aren't even real anymore."
Most fans won't need the somewhat meandering personal history lesson—stultifying poverty to stultifying celebrity, basically—that follows, but the visuals ensure you're never bored regardless. A glamorous shot of a deleted scene from the Oscar-crashing 8 Mile showing Eminem's character petting a horse is as wonderfully surreal as the scene itself was apparently ridiculous. What's odd is that his biggest, baddest public antagonists—his twice-over ex-wife, Kim, and allegedly lawsuit-happy mom, Debbie, barely rate passing mentions, but it's tough to write a literal open book when your entire career has served that purpose metaphorically; Em's problem is that we already know way too much about him. In a fittingly ludicrous touch, The Way I Am's biggest heartfelt apology comes when he discusses his attempted punchout of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the MTV Music Awards, a bizarre calamity he now puts down to paranoia and confusion. "I truly believe that if I were in that situation again, knowing the whole shtick with the puppet dog, I would have acted differently." Indeed.
If you really, truly can't live without more prurient mudslinging, by all means have a go at My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem, the recent straight-up memoir by, yes, the guy's mom, Debbie Nelson. The worst day of her life? The day Marshall married Kim (the first time). Her son's coming-of-age tale is famously bleak and brutal, but Debbie's own path is Dickensian in its absurdist awfulness, a walking nightmare of abusive soon-to-be-ex-husbands and personal catastrophes: She's violently carjacked, blindsided by a breast-cancer scare, and thunderstruck by the suicide of her brother all within 10 pages, with myriad vicious insults and cruel slights from Marshall himself sprinkled in between. Who's telling the truth, and who's the true villain of that endless familial brawl, is way, way beside the point by now; for the record, though, Debbie says the infamous $10 million defamation lawsuit she filed against her son was entirely her lawyer's idea, and she didn't even hear about it before Eminem himself did. She also counters the charge that she's lawsuit-happy by clarifying that she's only tried to sue her son (inadvertently), an elementary school that failed to intervene when he was viciously bullied as a kid, a hairdresser, and a dentist. (An earlier publisher has since sued Debbie for a cut of My Son Marshall's profits, and that's just about enough of that.)
The point is we need Eminem again, in all his volatility and vulnerability, and The Way I Am underscores why a comeback is both necessary and very, very dangerous. We were supposed to laugh when the first new song he leaked was titled "I'm Having a Relapse," but this is pitch-black comedy at best. Our gain is his loss, but it's a risk he's willing to let us take
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Stat Quo - No More Shady
Monday,3rd November 2008
There was a time when the mere mention of Eminem’s record label, Shady Records would make any MC not down with them shake in their tims. Besides the fact that the label was home to two of the highest selling rappers of all time in Eminem himself and 50 Cent, the rest of the label was also jam packed with additional talent like Obie Trice and D12. It was all but guaranteed that every release they put out would go on to sell at least a million copies.
Even the Shady Empire wasn’t immune to the sales slump that hit the music industry though. Add to that the departure of Eminem’s first protégé Obie Trice, 50 Cent’s decreasing sales, and talk of Dr. Dre’s Detox album with no release date in sight and it becomes evident that the once invincible label is in fact mortal.
Although the roster is talented and deep including Cashis and Bobby Creekwater, none have released albums. Keeping all this in mind, it’s no surprise that long time Shady soldier Stat Quo has finally picked up and left.
Signed to the label for five years and given a bunch of release dates Stat left the label without an album to his name. His album Statlanta was highly anticipated and rumored to be a masterpiece. Sixshot.Com’s ONG>Jon Michael recently caught up with Stat Quo to discuss his departure from Shady Records, his relationship with Eminem, and whether he thinks Detox will ever come out.
Sixshot.Com: So Stat the recent news is that you’re no longer with Shady Records.
Stat Quo: Yeah, I'm no longer down with Shady/Aftermath.
Sixshot.Com: How did the split go down man?
Stat Quo: I signed to Shady in late 2003 and other than being on the Re-Up album and some other projects I wasn't really seeing my career move at the rate that I wanted it to. I didn't see an end in sight in terms of a release date for my album. If you're not Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, or Eminem they're not really trying to put your album out and I can understand that with the music business being the way it is. It was just my time to go.
Sixshot.Com: Let me ask you, as far as your album goes would you say it was more so Jimmy Iovine holding it back or Eminem and Dre holding it back?
Stat Quo: I really don’t think it was a Jimmy thing but at the end it kind of was because Jimmy wanted an Eminem, 50 Cent, and Dr. Dre album. I was supposed to come out like three and a half years ago and from a business standpoint that would have been the best move because at the time they had the game on lock. They could have sold blank CD’s at that time. People would have just bought it off the name.
I think Dre is overly, like I think he had a certain apprehension because of things that may have happened with certain projects in the past so that’s why my album was taking so long. When it came time to choose a record we couldn’t mutually agree. A lot of time an artist will just drop the single to kind of force the hand of the label but we weren’t all on the same page so it would have been hard to get it to radio and all that. We wouldn’t have had that financial backing for it, you know what I’m sayin’?
Sixshot.Com: So who was it that was disagreeing about the first single?
Stat Quo: It was all of us, all of us that were involved in the project. Em and me had made a decision and then was like, “I don’t know” and once that gets thrown in there, you know what I mean? Dre liked a record that I did and thought it was the one but it didn’t do too well at radio and I was apprehensive. It was on The Re-Up but it didn’t really take off like it was supposed to.
Sixshot.Com: All right so let’s say your album came out three and a half years ago like it was supposed to, how do you think it would have done?
Stat Quo: Ah man it would have been incredible. I would have sold three or four million records. Shady was crazy back then. Everything was selling plus I had the right product. I had great music plus I’m from the south and the South was already doin’ it’s thing. On paper you couldn’t ask for a better situation but different circumstances fucked it up. Me as a businessman I never would have held my record because I knew it was hot and we had the game so on lock. When I signed, 50 had just came out. Even The Re-Up sold a few million worldwide and the movement wasn’t even as crazy as it was.
Sixshot.Com: How many release dates did you have?
Stat Quo: That’s like sayin’ how many kids Shawn Kemp got? (Laughs) How many kids he got? (Laughs) Release dates are irrelevant. Those shits are irrelevant. Those shits just come and go. They mean nothing. Let me tell the public something. An artist isn’t coming out unless they got a song that’s playing on the radio or they got a video that’s about to be in regular rotation, you know what I’m sayin’? Shit just isn’t like it was. Back in like 1992-1995 you could put out a song that wasn’t necessarily geared towards the club and it might work. It might not get a lot of play but the label will put it out just to see what it does. Now they need that song because they’re spending so much money on the album. By the time the song reaches the radio they already spent 5-7 million dollars on the album so you gotta sell crazy to make some money.
It’s all fucked up. Hip-hop was never meant for motherfuckers to be spending 5,6,7 million dollars on an album. Keep the costs low, make great music and then you don’t have to worry about trying to make a single that everybody is going to like so you could sell millions and millions of records. Everybody just wants to sell 12 million records their first time out. They want to hit the lottery instead of working. It’s like instead of having a job and making a million dollars throughout your whole life they want to make that million in one day. They don’t want to build up a career.
Everybody’s talking about Lil Wayne sold a million copies in his first week. Lil Wayne has been out forever. That man built up a career. I would rather sell two or three hundred thousand, maybe gold or whatever, do three or four albums and build up my fan base. I’ll be able to perform anytime and anywhere I want in the country. I would rather build up my fan base. There are people who love Lil Wayne seriously, you know what I mean? I like that path.
Sixshot.Com: You and Obie Trice are both gone and you two were major pieces to the puzzle. Do you think Shady Records is going to be the same?
Stat Quo: I mean I don’t know. The clock is definitely ticking. It’ll obviously be a little different because we’re not there. They got a talented roster though. You can’t deny that. The only way I see the artists on Shady/Aftermath coming out is if Eminem, 50, and Dre put out their albums. If they don’t then Bobby Creek and D12 can’t put out their albums. The stockholders need these records to come out.
They need these millions of dollars so there could be a Shady Records and an Aftermath or a G-Unit. In my opinion it’s just a case of why would I spend all of this money on a maybe when I could just do the sure thing? When Dre, 50, or Em put out an album you know they’re going to sell. They want the sure thing but that’s just my opinion. They could turn around tomorrow and put out everybody’s album but I doubt it.
Sixshot.Com: In your opinion, is Dre’s album ever going to come out?
Stat Quo: Um, maybe in 2010. I told him that one time before and he laughed at me. In my opinion I don’t think it’s coming out anytime soon. I want it to come out. I want him to put his record out. He works hard and makes so much great music. I think Dre and Em are just very important to hip-hop music. Rap is real 'single-driven' right now and that’s kinda changed the whole scope of rap music.
Not a lot of people are just putting out that real hip-hop, so if Em and Dre do then that helps hip-hop as a whole. It’s not just about oh I need to put out a Stat Quo album It’s about hip-hop overall. Eminem and Dre are really important to hip-hop. I know Em is going to put out an album I ain’t even worried about that. Dre I don’t know. I really don’t.
Sixshot.Com: So what about all the music that you recorded while you were over there?
Stat Quo: Jay, I think you already know what’s good with that. (Laughs)
Sixshot.Com: It’s coming out, isn’t it?
Stat Quo: You already know. (Laughs) I said it and that’s what’s gonna happen. It’s got nothing to do with money at all. It just has to do with all that work I did not being in vein. We’re talking about me being in the studio for two and three days in a row working hard and making great music. People have to hear that People want to hear that. I don’t know when. They’ll hear it when the time is right but I’m not gonna sit here and say that I’m not putting that music out.
Sixshot.Com: Has your relationship with Eminem been affected by this situation?
Stat Quo: I haven’t talked to Eminem in a while so I really don’t know. I haven’t talked to Dre or anybody over there for a while. When he was sick in the hospital I sent a get well soon type of deal over to his house but I really haven’t spoken to him. He’s good dude but who knows? It probably has affected the relationship.
Sixshot.Com: What was Eminem’s reaction when he found out you wanted out of your deal?
Stat Quo: It was a mutual thing and from their side it was like, “okay cool” At Interscope they want albums for 50 Cent, Dre, and Eminem and that’s what it is. There’s nothing to be upset about, you know what I mean? There’s nothing to be mad about. This is a business man. Those three albums make sure that Interscope can have those fancy offices and all those people can have jobs. They depend on Dre’s album. They depend on Eminem’s album. They depend on 50 Cent’s album. Do I have some personal animosity about not getting to put my album out? Yeah. But you gotta realize that this is a business. I can’t cry over no spilled milk. I’m not gonna sit over here and be mad at Eminem or whoever.
I’m not mad, I’m good. I thank them for everything they did for me. I think that’s some ho ass shit when somebody leaves a team and then talks shit about them. That’s not my style. I’m not on that shit. They gave me a chance and helped me out. Is there things I wanted them to do differently? Yeah, but there’s things they wanted me to do differently so it is what it is. I’m not gonna disrespect those gentleman because they did some shit for me, Paul Rosenberg, all of them. Those are good people at the end of the day and they’re just trying to make it themselves.
Sixshot.Com: So Stat be honest with me. What labels are approaching you?
Stat Quo: Ah man you might want to interview my attorney about that. I haven’t really thought about any of that yet. All I’m about right now is rap. I’m just making music and I’m putting out everything that I record. I just want people to hear my voice. I’m just waking up in the morning and recording. I really feel like a robot man. It’s just so automatic. You know when a fighter is in the best shape of their life? I feel like that man. All I do is rap about what I see and what’s going on around me. I don’t really get caught up in all that other shit. I’m good. My family is good. I got good friends. I’m good. It’s a recession outside but we makin’ due. I can’t complain. I ain’t really worried about all the other shit because talent always rises above everything.
Sixshot.Com: All right Stat so now that you’re off Shady Record what can we expect to see from you?
Stat Quo: Just get ready to see the grind and the grit. I’m putting music out every month. I just put out The South Got Somethin’ To Say. Thanks to everybody that checked it out and if you didn’t already then go get it. It’s not hosted by no DJ, no disrespect to the DJ’s. Ya’ll could take it off there and make your own mixtape; I don’t give a fuck man, however ya’ll wanna do it. I’m putting out 12, 13 joints every month. It’s easy man. Rapping is like having a conversation for me. You wanna be an MC right now? You wanna do this? You gotta be prolific man, that’s what it is. Big up to Sixshot.Com too. I appreciate you brother.
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Eminem Release Date Confusion
Wednesday,29th October 2008
Internet CD sites can’t decide when the Shady album is coming out…
There is increasing confusion about when Eminem will release his highly anticipated Relapse album after retail websites posted conflicting dates.
Amazon yesterday said the record would be out December 23 under their listing but then quickly removed it.
HMV and other websites meanwhile list December 1 as the release date.
Slim Shady’s record label have yet to reveal any details of his first studio album for four years but it is expected late this year or early in 2009.
Eminem recently told MTV Two’s Zane Lowe that Dr Dre had produced most of the new tracks.
The song I’m Having A Relapse leaked to the internet earlier this month though it is thought it will not appear on the LP.
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