As Eminem gears up to release Curtain Call 2, it’s been revealed that the upcoming greatest hits album will include a previously unreleased collaboration with 50 Cent.
Due to arrive on August 5, the compilation is compiled of music from all of Em’s projects from 2009’s Relapse forward, including side projects, guest appearances, film soundtrack songs and selections from his solo albums.
It will also feature three new tracks. The first two, “From Tha D 2 LBC” featuring Snoop Dogg and “The King & I” with CeeLo Green, have already been released. The third looks like it’s a collaboration with 50 Cent from 2009.
On retailer Target’s website, the 2LP vinyl version of Curtain Call 2 features a sticker that says the album includes a collaboration with 50 called “Is This Love (’09).” Some reports are claiming the track is produced by Dr. Dre.
In addition to the standard release of Curtain Call 2, a limited edition box set and autographed vinyl will be available on Eminem’s official website.
Em’s new greatest hits album is a sequel to 2005’s Curtain Call: The Hits. The collection brought together Slim Shady’s biggest tracks of his career up until that point — including “My Name Is,” “Stan,” “Without Me” and “Lose Yourself”. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, shifting around 441,000 copies in just two days.
As of March 21, 2021, the album had spent a full decade (520 weeks) on the chart, making it the first Hip Hop record in history to do so.
Not only breaking Hip Hop records, it’s now the sixth longest-running album in Billboard 200 history, coming in behind Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (958 weeks), Bob Marley And The Wailers’ Legend (669), Journey’s Greatest Hits (659), Metallica’s The Black Album (598) and Guns N’ Roses’ Greatest Hits (520).
Curtain Call re-entered the Billboard 200 in October 202, having remained in the chart for nine and a half years (496 weeks) after its initial release. It was already the longest-running rap album in Billboard history, hitting 350 weeks back in August 2017. The record has sold over 7 million copies in the US to date.
Meanwhile, Snoop Dogg recently admitted that Eminem “challenged” him on their “From The D 2 To The LBC” collaboration.
During an interview to promote the record, Eminem gave Snoop his flowers telling him that he “killed it,” to which Snoop replied: “You challenge me Marshall. You put me back in my karate school days, where I used to be a young MC and, you know, loved the challenge of having to try new styles and new cadences.”
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“The rap game is supposed to be challenging; it’s supposed to make you dig in your bag,” he continued. “‘Cause I’ve heard you on other songs with other rappers and you tend to show out, so I wanted to make sure I was going to represent.” Eminem agreed, telling him: “You showed out.”
Finally one of the collaborations is going to be released. Because many times 50 and Em went to the studio and said they had a song that will be on an upcoming album, it did not make the cut. I remember 50 saying they made a song called champions. When 50 releases his final album, I hope there will be a new song with Em on it. Such long lasting friendships are pretty rare in the rap game, where everybody has a huge ego. Look what happened to Kanye and Jay. But these two just have nothing but mutual respect for each other.
Yea I remember 50 saying they have a hand full of unreleased music they done together and that it could be an EP. But that was when 50 and interscope was on their last leg.
Them two would break the internet if they released a album like that. Everyone and their mother would buy that.
It will never come out
50 can’t even get an album out these days.
I cannot even blame 50 for not putting out an album. He filled stadiums in Europe recently. People all over the globe love the hits from his first three albums, the GRODT soundtrack and the G-Unit material. He probably knows that there is not a huge audience for a new album. So he just goes on tour with his old songs and gets payed.
Eminem is the goat
Drake I’d the GOAT actually. Eminem can’t make a claim if he’s been producing wack pop music
Drake literally just dropped a dance album with no rap on it tf are you talking about
Drake is a hiphop/R&B artist. Certified Lover Boy was Drake’s hiphop side and never-ending was his R&B project
Did you just say Drake is the goat because em makes pop music. Lmfao ??. Drake don’t write his music for one and he is the definition of pop music. Em makes hip hop music. Know your facts before you come at him goof.
Eminem’s songs with rihanna were literally pop.
having pink, Beyonce and Rihanna on an album and saying its not pop is straight up delusional.
10 years on the billboard chart, dam people can hate all they want but this man made music so relatable and gripping it was selling enough for 10 year straight. What a achievement ?
Because that was the last time eminem released a dope album. He fell off so hard afterwards people buy curtain calls for nostalgia.
You haters make zero sense. If you listen to the snoop feature or mtbmb or gospel with dre and say that is a wack em then you clearly don’t know hip hop. He is still killing it and y’all just jealous or mad that the white boy is still on top of the game. Something is off with people being biased before they even listen. Biased af. You ? know zip about hip hop
Those songs were still pop. He’s fallen off while drake keeps rising
lol seriously? Stans are just brainwashed, clinging to an aging once great rapper. can you remember one dope punchline he’s spit in the past decade? I
“Never thought about how much my race and nationality meant. But based on how I ascended. See how plain it was now, they want me to jetm But no one really gave a fuck about my descent, ’til I took off.
YES! That verse is one of rap’s finest in last decade, seems like nobody noticed it tho (Dre’s Compton album)
Crack A Bottle was the worst song I ever heard
There’s definitely some strange choices on the tracklist. It’s a greatest hits compilation so I’m not going to judge it for the chart releases but he could have chose far better album only cuts. Farewell and Crack a Bottle are just flat out terrible and the rest of them weren’t even the stronger cuts from their respective albums. A few that would have been better placed off the top of my head would have been The Ringer, I Will (MTBMB/Kamikaze era), Chloraceptic Remix, Framed, Believe (Revival era), Groundhog Day, Don’t Front (MMLP2 era), On Fire, Talkin’ 2 Myself, Beautiful, Deja Vu (Recovery/Relapse). Em still smashes it on a technical level but it seems he can’t edit a tracklist to save his life.
Noticed after that Beautiful is on there. My mistake.
eminems ‘Greatest Hits’ post curtain call is an oxymoron. nothing like listening to a double cd filled with corny punchlines (anyone remember “im up like my feet in a recliner” cringe) and a bunch of pop singers. Old eminem spinning in his grave
Fifty percent of it’s 50 Cent The other 50 percent of it’s whose color it is. LOOK OUT 4 RELASPE 2 & DETOX
The tracklist for this thing is horrific. 2 CDs worth of mostly garbage.