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by Jumbo | February 5th, 2010
Off the heels of his Grammy performance of “Forever” with Eminem, Lil Wayne, Drake and Travis Barker, XXLMag.com had the chance to chop it up with The Alchemist about Shady’s highly anticipated new disc, Relapse 2.
While the disc does not have a release date as of press time, ALC says Em is hard at work in the studio with DJ Khalil. The West Coast beatsmith has had a big year, producing standout joints for Drake (“Fear”), Clipse (“Kinda Like a Big Deal”) and Slaughterhouse (“Cuckoo”). “Khalil — who I think is like the best producer right now to me — he had been sending records to Em for a while that wasn’t like, they weren’t like clicking in,” Alchemist told XXL. “Em knew he was dope but they haven’t found the right one. And I think they found a couple joints now… the joints they have are crazy. I can’t say 100 percent [that he made the album], but I have heard at least two joints Khalil did and they’re fuckin’ stupid.”
Alchemist, who serves as the Detroit lyricist’s tour DJ, revealed that he has yet to score a beat on Em’s project. “I’m starting to be around Em and the camp more, especially finishing these albums. Factor in Em’s sober now, it’s like that’s my man, we chop it up a lot more now…it’s like little by little I’m figuring out what I have to do to create a sound that would be Alchemist/Eminem. I didn’t get it yet.”
One person that Eminem has been working a lot with is Just Blaze. Al gave XXL insight into their chemistry: “He clicked with Em,” he said. “It was really amazing, too. They really vibed and made some music, beyond like Just just sending him beats, it was nothing like that… I think it’s a perfect meshing of the two… If you could imagine what they could bring to the table at this point, it’s pretty close and maybe a little more.”
In fact, in ALC’s opinion, the whole album is a level above the first Relapse. “He’s doing things lyrically on this album that he hasn’t done before,” he shared. “The punchline game is really back.”
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I loved relapse and after hearing what he has done with forever and drop the world, i love how he is evolving again. I thought relapse was his 2nd best album next to the mmlp, but i would like to hear some more emotionaly driven songs, some shit u can just sit back and get lost in
All the lads wat??? hahahaha
@ruairi
what the fuck u tryin to say bitch ??? U sayin’ dat Relapse isn’t good. Relapse is the best album since the MNM show. and all the tracks r fukin hot.
N what the fuck do u know about real hip hop??
And u sayin only those tracks r ”worth keeping”?!?! Bitch u need to stop talkin’ trash.
Yeah this shit sounds real good! To be honest i ent even listening to Relapse nomore. Only tracks worth keeping off that were deja vu, beautiful. and underground. I want him to go back to making Hip-Hop. Rap about real shit. Go back to being Eminem and slim Shady in one album not just all slim crazy. Cant wait for this shit.
i want DJ Premier to produce sumthin’ on R2 cuz that shit wud be really dope. i read somewhere that Em and preemo already worked on a track called Keys to the city, where’s that shit?
finally atleast some fucking info on R2. give us a fuckin release date!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!
can’t wait. Lot of ppl didn’t pay attention 2 Relapse 1′s lyrics cuz they were crazy as fuck but the difference is they sayin R2 gonna b more hip hop n less horror rap type then maybe ppl will finally STFU n admit he is the BEST RAPPER ALIVE period. No one else on his level doinwut hes doin’, jay-z is washed up point blank, Nas has b M.I.A., not doin the 90′s nas we like.
Em kill this rap shit, drop shit like u did on drop the world & forever n u have a classic.
Eminem tell us the rappers that will be on the album, not only producers!!! Take also the best rappers in the album and please talk to nas and make a track -_-
@ llll and you didnt mention Eminem on the producers’ list! R2 gonna be fire…
ps. Beautiful should have won Best Solo performance instead of jayz’ DOA… anyway nice knews!
AND PEOPLE SAY THIS IS MIGHT BE HIS POP SHIT…I MEAN SERIOUSLY…ALC, DRE, BLAZE, KON, AND NOW KHALIL….WHICH ONE OF THEM HAS MADE A POP BEAT NONE!!!HAHA YEAH THIS IS GETTIN ME HYPED..AND HE CLEARLY WANT IT TO BE HIS BEST WORK…I MEAN HE DIDN’T RECORD WITH ALC YET, AND ALC IS WITH HIM 24/7….WHEN THE SOUND IS RIGHT HE’S PUTTING IT OUT…WHICH IS MAY-JUNE!!
let me see he got Just Blaze,Alchemist,Dre,Khalil…he needs beet from Premier and RZA and he got all the best prod in the world in one album…he gotta holla at RZA ASAP…
IM FEELIN MARSHALL MATHERS LP DAYS COMIN IN!!!!!!! just hearin that his punchline game is bac is makin me go fukkin crazie. i cant wait to c the dopeness he’s wrote for this album. THIS JUST HYPED ME UP FOR A SINGLE AGIN!!!! AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH need sumthin to listen to to get a taste of this album!!!! jesus. ppl are so gonna call him the Best Rapper Alive agin. I CAN FEEL IT!
RELAPSE 2=REAL COMEBACK!!!!!!!!! woo!
damn..caryz cant wait for this fucking CD!