At the end of last month, Eminem took to Twitter to tease fans by telling them that something huge was coming their way. Since he had announced a sequel to his best-selling “Relapse,” called “Relapse 2,” and had already postponed it a couple of times, it was believed that this would be his next project. As it turns out, Em is coming out with a brand new album. After releasing the chart-topping “Relapse,” the rapper said he would come out with a sequel to it because, to put it simply, he had more songs that fit on a single album, therefore the need for a follow-up. As the months went by, Eminem either kept quiet about the album or would postpone it. In a statement on his official website, Em announces plans for a sequel have been scrapped, while a new album drops this summer. “The much-anticipated new album from Eminem, Recovery (Aftermath / Interscope), will be released June 22, 2010, it was announced today by Interscope Records. On Recovery, his seventh major label studio album, Eminem has reached out to an exciting list of first-time collaborators, including DJ Khalil, Just Blaze, Jim Jonsin and Boi-1da, among others,” says the statement. Only after this is the shelving of “Relapse 2” announced, with Eminem himself explaining how this came to happen. “I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year,” the rapper says, pointing out the obvious for fans. “But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title,” Eminem adds. Further details on the new material have not been released but, since the release date is practically around the corner, fans should probably expect a new single to drop any day now – and perhaps a video as well. Keep an eye on this space for when that happens.
