14 DAY TRIAL // When Eminem announced his comeback album, “Relapse,” almost a year ago, he said that it would be accompanied at a later time by a second studio material not surprisingly called “Relapse 2.” The date for the second release was altered a couple of times until nothing else was heard of it – until just a short while ago, when the rapper emerged on Twitter, Rolling Stone informs.
Details of the second album were pretty much kept under wraps, but Eminem would occasionally hint at the follow-up while promoting “Relapse.” Then, he suddenly went silent, which prompted many to believe a second material would not be arriving in stores anytime soon and that he was just using that project (which most likely did not even exist) as a means to promote the first one.
“Just over a year ago, Eminem revealed his comeback plans with the announcement of two albums set for 2009, Relapse and Relapse 2. While Slim Shady delivered on Relapse, its follow-up was postponed from the second half of ‘09 to TBA 2010 to make way for his Relapse: Refill reissue late last year. However, Eminem made a rare appearance on Twitter yesterday to give fans a message – ‘Don’t worry. Some big news is coming. Soon’ – perhaps hinting that there may finally be some movement on the Relapse 2 front,” Rolling Stone writes.
“A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year. I was one of them. Then Dre and I went back in the studio in September for a few days, and that turned into six months. We were on such a roll; we wound up with a ton of new music produced by Dre. Putting out Relapse 2 will let everyone get all of the best stuff,” Eminem said in an interview of a year ago cited by the same music publication.
Though critics initially rubbished “Relapse,” saying it begged the question of whether Eminem shouldn’t have retired, fans were positively psyched about his comeback. The album went on to reach record sales in its first weeks of release, bringing faint hope to industry people that traditional sales of albums still had a chance.