Eminem, who is set to release The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Tuesday (November 5), is also slated to appear on the cover of Complex’s December-January issue. 

Complex has created two covers for the issue. One features Eminem in a throwback edition, with a design that calls back to 1992. Another cover features an updated design. The updated cover features the words “Time For Some Action.” On the retro version, the line reads “Time 4 Sum Aksion!” 

In the cover story, titled “Back Issues,” Eminem talks about his upcoming release and compares it to the original.

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“On the first Marshall Mathers LP there were some personal things that I addressed and on this record there are some chapters that I wanted to close,” Eminem says in the article. “This isn’t Recovery, where I was coming off some personal tragedies. I’m not coming off of a drug overdose. It’s more about going back to the basics of hip-hop and some fundamentals in that sense.”

During the interview, Eminem also talks about how person his lyrics have been.

“A lot of my career I put a lot of my life out there,” he says. “It was personal shit I would put out there and didn’t really give a fuck. Sometimes I think back and I’m like, ‘Damn, was I doing the right thing? How much of myself do I wanna put out there?’ In one aspect you want your fans to feel like they know you and connect with you. But then you’re like, ‘Man I got nothing to myself no more.’ I don’t want to give away how personal this shit is going to get.” 

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The magazine’s covers can be viewed below.

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