DX News Bits: Distant Relatives, Relapse 2

    DX recently released the entire tour schedule for Nas and Damian Marley, who will be dropping their much-anticipated collaboration Distant Relatives on May 18. For their performance on May 31, they will be co-headlining the 24th annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA alongside Raphael Saadiq.

    While the full artist line-up has yet to be released, tickets for the event are now on sale to the general public. For more information, visit here. Previous performers at the JazzReggae Festival include De La Soul, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lupe Fiasco.

    In other news, producer Just Blaze recently spoke on his work with Eminem for his Relapse 2 album.

    “He’s really back spitting. The wordplay is crazy, the metaphors are crazy. He’s really back on his game. He had his ups, he had his downs, he’s back way, way, way up,” he told MTV.

    Comparing it to Em’s strong career catalog, Just Blaze added, “This is definitely going to be up there with the best of his albums, for sure, for sure. The fact that he’s branched out working with a lot of different people now, collaborating in a lot of different ways that he never has before, I think he’s going to surprise a lot of people.”

    36 thoughts on “DX News Bits: Distant Relatives, Relapse 2

      1. dude, that king mathers title has been thrown around before relapse 1, eminem said he wouldnt title an album that.

    1. Slaughterhouse and Relpase 2 2010 could be a big year for Shady/Aftermath. R.I.P. Wackness

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    3. WTF!? it’s saturday and no-sign of Detox…this is some bullsh!t! I at least hope relapse 2 gets better hype and a single coming soon. i have high expectatons on this

    4. Distant Relatives and Reflection Eternal droppin in the same week…. wack rappers run for the hills!!!!
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      I hope this is true about Eminem too, cuz he really has disappointed in recent years. Anyone know when Big Boi drops?

      comin from a young dude, I say the now 30-40 year old rappers could still lyrically murder these new rappers

    5. I bet you when the album drops it will have a diffrent name then relapse 2……… If he’s taking the material in a completely diffrent directuion then it wouldnt be a real sequel anyway

      1. I’ve been thinking the same thing. I think they’re just marketing it as Relapse 2 right now, because it’s easy for stans to follow.

        Marshall said it himself, it’s going to be more like The MM LP, and so I hope respectfully, he moves on from The Relapse title. It wouldn’t fit well sequence like you said, and he’s never really made any kind of theme trilogies throughout his career anyway — so why start now of this Relapse thing.

        Honestly, I don’t even like the Relapse title for this last LP. It was more Slim Shady than anything else.

    6. Wonder how it will be for Nas and Damian to perform together. A way different vibe than recording. Interesting.

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    7. they need to drop a song from relapse 2 already. fuck the hold up marshall. that album is gonna be monumental and everyone knows it. distant relatives potential through the roof. reflection eternal gonna be fire. this been a hell of a year for hip hop already.

    8. We just need to give up on detox yall. Detox was suppose to drop in 04′ what year is this? I know he had disturbances with the whole the game vs g-unit and the death of his son. But damn does it take that long to make an album. Really? Rakim even dropped his long awaited album it was a dud but he still dropped it. Just stop being so perfect with the shit and just drop it. Dre’s loosing respect from the consumers.

      1. YOU THINK DRE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE CONSUMERS? HE’S DID HIS THING ALREADY…THATS WHY HES TAKING SO LONG TO PUT IT OUT…HE DOESNT CARE IF ANYONE BUYS IT…HES DOING IT PERFECTLY FOR HIS OWN HAPPINESS AND SATISFACTION.

    9. I didn’t pick up Em last one i might not get this one either, Distant Relatives will be a must have.

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    12. Looking forward to Distant Relatives. And Relapse 2. Interesting to hear that tldbit from Just Blaze. Guess it looks like Em got a beat or two from him?

      Eminem spittin’ to a Just Blaze beat should be heat.

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