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50 Cent bored with hip-hop

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Collaborations, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap

50 Cent‘s interest in hip-hop is “dwindling away”. Fiddy - real name Curtis Jackson - says people’s quest for money is starting to undermine the genre and he can barely recognize the reasons why he got involved anymore. He said:  “I think people are so conscious of the numbers they’re not being creative anymore.” Despite his disillusionment with the genre, the rapper - who has other ventures away from music, including fashion and movies - is looking forward to releasing his Before I Self Destruct album later this year, which boasts a number of collaborations.

He added to Billboard magazine: “When Wisin and Yandel sent the actual concept, I listened to it and the melodies completely fit me. It could be a song that I could do apart from them. So we’re meeting on a ground that is completely comfortable for both of us. My duet with , for example - there is more compromise for me there. The content is similar to what you can see from 50 Cent, but the actual rap, style and cadence is different. But when I go into the song with Wisin and Yandel I didn’t even have to make those cadence changes.

“When these guys finish mixing I’ll finish making the decisions. People look at my projects as if it’s only 50, but it’s really 50 Cent up to Dr Dre and Eminem standards.”


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Download Eminem’s Old Time’s Sake

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Collaborations, Leaks, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap, Free Music Downloads

Eminem Dr. Dre Old Times Sake

Want even more early love? Hit up the Read link below for a download of Old Time’s Sake, featuring Eminem and Dr. Dre, also produced by Dre himself. The subject matter? Blazing up one more time, for old time’s sake. This is the kind of track we’ve been waiting to hear in this whole Eminem comeback thing. Give it a listen and let us know what you think in the comments.

By the way, we first announced the download on the Albumista Twitter page, so be sure to follow us there!

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Eminem’s Relapse Album Art is kinda hot

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Release Dates, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap

Eminem Relapse Album Cover

We are looking forward to ‘s album as much as the next guy, and May 15 is just over three weeks away, so the wait is almost over. In the meantime, though, we figured we’d give you a look at the Relapse album art, which you can find above. See what they did there? The album is called Relapse. So they made his face out of a bunch of pills! And the tag on the left says that it was “Prescribed by Dr. Dre.” Yeah, that is kinda hot.


Eminem Breaks Digital Sales Records

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Collaborations, The Charts, Hip-Hop & Rap

50 Cent, Eminem and Dr. Dre

Kelly Clarkson may have just had the biggest leap on Billboard’s Hot 100, but Eminem is breaking records of his own.

“Crack the Bottle,” Marshall Mather’s collaboration with 50 Cent and Dr. Dre, just scored the most digital downloads during a song’s debut week. The single was purchased 418,000 times, approximately 180,000 times more than Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You.”

Only Flo Rida’s “Low” (467,000) and Lady GaGa’s “Just Dance” (419,000) have done better than “Bottle.”

“Lose Yourself” was ‘s only other song to reach the top of the Hot 100. That song spent 12 weeks at #1 after its 2002 release.

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Dre and Slim Shady Together for a Relapse

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Collaborations, Reunions, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap

EminemEminem and Dr. Dre will be reunited again on Relapse, the album which will mark ’s return to the rap scene.

The real Slim Shady recently spilled to Billboard magazine. “Me and Dre are back in the lab like the old days,” he explained. “Just him banging away on tracks and me getting that little spark that makes me write to it.”

The Dre-Shady partnership has worked very successfully on past albums. According to reports, Dre even suspended work on his own album, Detox, to work on Relapse.

“I don’t have chemistry like that with anyone else as far as producers go - not even close,” Eminem said of the partnership. “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.”

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Eminem back with Relapse

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Rumors, Videos, Hip-Hop & Rap


It’s been years since we heard from rap superstar Eminem, but just as quickly as he disappeared from the scene four years ago, talk of his return is taking over at the water cooler of hip hop. His last original album was Encore (iTunes), back in 2004. A year later he released a greatest hits album, Curtain Call, with no new material on it. Then in 2006 he led a project called The Re-Up, but again, his lyrical contributions were sparse. Just when we were about to write off Slim Shady, we got word that he was going to be dropping an album by the end of the year. We figured that was near impossible, so we didn’t report on it. Then, out of nowhere, everywhere we turned we were reading quotes from Eminem himself, saying he has been back in the studio, and is aiming at getting his album, Relapse, out the door before the end of 2008. That means sometime in the next 9 weeks or so.

A taster track, “I’m Having a Relapse”, has already been leaked to the Internet, and is featured in the video above. Do be aware that there is some offensive language in the track. Rumor has it that Dr. Dre is producing most of the album (which likely explains the delay in his album, Detox,) and if that is the case, then we can likely expect a return to the roots of The Slim Shady LP (iTunes) and The Marshall Mathers LP (iTunes), both runaway hits. 50 Cent is also reportedly working with Eminem on the album as well. Hopefully, we’ll find out if Em is truly back again before Christmas.


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