Eminem New Album Relapse

Eminem Talks New Album, Book

During an exclusive interview with Billboard, Eminem has revealed some new details on his highly anticipated new album "Relapse," which is due out next spring via Shady/Interscope.

"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."

The rapper said the early leak of songs intended for the album, most recent of which being "Crack a Bottle," have left him feeling "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 took time to dispel the rumours leaked by producer Swizz Beats about the pair working on a sequel to Eminem’s smash single "Stan."

"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."

Check out the full interview over at Billboard where Eminem discusses his upcoming book and releases from fellow Shady Records artists.

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