Haze

Published: Friday - December 12, 2008
Words by Allen Starbury



The highly anticipated new album from Eminem isn't due until next spring, according to a new interview, but the rapper is hard at work.

While recently speaking with Billboard, the Detroit rapper spoke on his feelings about being back in the studio with Dr. Dre. He says he's just like old times.

"Me and Dre are back in the lab like the old days, man," Eminem told Billboard. "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 few tracks have since leaked online since the hype about the album started growing, and Em isn't happy about it. The most recent is one called "Crack A Bottle," an unfinished track with Em's voice in place of Dre's as a guide for the super producer to lay down his own vocals.

"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," the rapper said. "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."

Em even spoke on the rumored "Stan 2" track that producer Swizz Beatz recently talked about during an interview with MTV. According to Em, there's no truth to it. In fact, he said he hasn't worked with Swizzy on the album, and there is no "Stan 2" coming. Why? Because Stan is dead.

In addition to Relapse, Em was also been working on an autobiography, titled The Way I Am, with writer Sacha Jenkins. So far, the book has received good reviews, and has even landed in the New York Times' best-sellers list.

For those who haven't read the book yet, it opens with a chapter about his late friend-rapper Proof, who's death impacted the white rapper tremendously. Em says that chapter is the most important to him.

"Opening the book with Proof's chapter was real important for me," Eminem told Billboard. "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."

The book is in stores now.
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dimiketaylor

I cant wait until that drops...

Chopz504

oh well just like everybody else shyt getting pushed back

purefekt

cant wait for the relapse to drop