I know you’re on the edge of your seat right now. For safety sake, please move back a little bit. The new buzz around Eminem’s new album is that Dr. Dre is producing damn near the whole album. There, take a sigh of relief. Ahhh….
Em said: “Obviously his beats are insane but aside from that I can rap, I can write and not worry about what the beat has to sound like and how loud a snare drum is. All those things are taken care of for me. I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.”
That’s a concession right there, Ladies and Gentlemen. By relinquishing the reins of production to Dre, who is only 2nd to DJ Premier as the G.P.O.A.T. (in my terribly biased opinion, of course), Em pretty much affirms what we’ve been saying for years — that he really needs to stick to rap. Thanks, Slim. I am now officially looking forward to Relapse.