EMINEM & DRE ARE BACK IN THE LAB!

For those of you out there like me who've been missing Slim Shady please stand up. Eminem is the only Caucasian rap artist given honorable mention in the hip hop/rap music industry, He has worked alongside the biggest names in the industry, including rap mogul Tupac, Dr. Dre, T.I. Nas, Jay-Z, 50 cent, Snoop Dogg, and The Game. Not to mention, dubbed "The Best Rapper Alive" by Vibe Magazine. Talk about your bragger's rights! In my opinion, T.I. is the best rapper [alive] but Em has is own unique style to bring to the table. His diverse appeal and polarity in the rap game makes him iconic in his own right and a lyrical asset on any track. As a fan, I miss his cynical as Stewie lyrics, emotional, crack a mirror with words metaphors and rock star-esque energy!

Seasoned artists know better than to saturate the market. Even All-Stars have to sit the bench from time to time, allowing others some shine while they regroup; leaving fans to grow anxious for their return. However, this All-Star has been sitting the bench for quite some time. It's been four years since his last album (Encore) and some disgruntled fans are wondering w.t.f is up. In his defense, he has been raising little Haley (Miley Cyrus style), battling against drug addiction, and gritting his teeth thru his rocky road marriage with wife Kim. Furthermore, over the Christmas holiday Eminem was hospitalized due to complications from pneumonia. Fortunately, he has since been released from the Detroit hospital and is reportedly doing just fine!

From source Gil Kaufman of Blogburger.com, "Of course, Em was never completely out of the loop. In the midst of any previous drama he managed to drop a few jewels, including a cameo appearance on T.I vs T.I.P (Touchdown - Track 12 ), a recent freestyle, “I’m Having a Relapse” dropped in October and last week a song called “Crack a Bottle,” which is believed to have been produced by Dre, was being advertised on DJs Big Mike and Neptune’s 4th Quarter Pressure Part 2 mixtape. "Me and Dre are back in the lab like the old days, man,” Eminem reportedly said in an e-mail to 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." There isn't a release date for the long awaited LP but Em confirmed that Dre pushed back his own long overdue album (Detox) to help him with his album! As far as Relapse Em goes on to say, “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 Billboard. “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.”

You ain't gotta lie to kick it...

Reportedly, rapper/producer Swizz Beats apparently lied to MTV about collaborating with Em on a song Swizz referred to as Stan Part2 (supposedly about a kid who drove his car off a cliff). Our boy Em confirmed that there is no such collaboration and dismissed the alleged project; calling it corny. What Em has been doing is working on his newly released and best-selling autobiography “The Way I Am” — written with journalist Sacha Jenkins while recording the Relapse album. In addition to the delayed Dre album, another record that was pushed back is 50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct,. This project is getting back on track, according to Em, and slated for release February 4, 2009. Eminem also, has a couple of tracks on it and in his words, "It’s sick.” Hmm, sounds juicy! So, we've caught up Eminem and much to our satisfaction he's still very much in the rap game and will not be going anywhere, anytime soon! Hey, I'll be the first head in line when his new album drops. See ya at Sam Goody, lol.