Eminem Announces New Single and Album

Dropping in November
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 06:17:47 AM PDT
By Josh Grossberg
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Guess who's back?
Eminem used Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards to unveil the street
date for his next album along with its title.
The follow up to 2010's Recovery will hit stores on Nov. 5 and be called
MMLP2--as in Marshall Mathers LP 2. The set is a sequel to 2000's
critically acclaimed The Marshall Mathers LP, which spawned such
megahits as "The Real Slim Shady," "The Way I Am," and "Stan" and
went on to become the rap superstar's biggest-selling effort, with 27
million copies sold worldwide.
Eminem announced the news in a commercial for Beats by Dre, the hugely
popular headphone line launched by his mentor and longtime collaborator,
Dr. Dre, who coproduced MMLP2 with Rick Rubin. He also hyped the release
on his Twitter feed here and here and premiered a snippet of the first
single, "Berserk," in the ad as well.
Slim Shady got the PR machine rolling last week when he dropped another
of the album's anthems, "Survivor," in a trailer for Activision's first-
person shooter video game Call of Duty: Ghosts, which is due out on the
same day MMLP2 arrives.
At the same time, Eminem also took the opportunity to join Instagram,
posting a pic of his computer screen with a shot of the 40-year-old hip-
hopster holding up both middle fingers and flipping the bird with a link to
his website.