While we won’t get the chance to see Marshall Mathers play the pugilist underdog in a boxing movie, there will apparently be a reasonable consolation prize for anybody who doesn’t have quite enough Slim Shady in their lives.
Eminem called into Hip-Hop Squares host Peter Rosenberg’s show on New York City radio station Hot 97 this morning primarily to announce that Slaughterhouse, his label’s crown jewel, will be playing the annual Summer Jam festival in New Jersey.
But he had another tidbit of information for Rosenberg. Once the Slaughterhouse album is complete, Em plans on committing himself to a new solo album. “There’s a couple of things I’ve been working on,” he told Rosenberg. “I’m starting to toy.”
We last heard from Eminem in the summer of 2011 when he dropped Hell: The Sequel, a collaboration with fellow Detroit rapper Royce 5’9″ under the moniker Bad Meets Evil. The last time he dropped a solo album was in 2010, when the massively successful Recovery hit store shelves and produced a pair of chart-topping hits in “Not Afraid” and “Love the Way You Lie.” It was a fruitful time creatively for Shady; Recovery came only a year after Relapse, his first album in half a decade and a return to the darker side of his musical persona.
Slaughterhouse—consisting of Royce, Joe Budden, Crooked I, and Joell Ortiz—will drop their second album Welcome To Our House next month. That gives Em the rest of the summer to work on his solo album, which means that it’s entirely possible it could see the light of day before 2012 is out (though you should probably bet on 2013).
Are you excited about the prospect of new Eminem music? What producers and guest artists should Slim Shady work with? Spit some game in the comments.
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