Mega-selling rapper Eminem will release not one, but two new albums later this year.

Relapse, the artist’s first LP in four years, is due from Interscope/Aftermath/Shady on May 19. The album’s first single, “Crack the Bottle,” is currently at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. Em promises a second album, Relapse 2, is promised before the end of the year.

“A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year,” said Eminem in a statement to Billboard on Thursday. “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.”

Related posts:

1. Eminem Speaks On Drugs, The Death Of Proof & Praises T.I. & Lil Wayne Get ready to enter the Em Zone. Back from...
2. Eminem Westwood Freestyles / MTV Movie Awards Film Eminem is hungry again. Eminem was on Westwood free...
3. 50 Cent Reacts To Jay-Z’s No. 1 Forbes Spot, “Call Me ‘One’ Next Year” 50 Cent has shared his reaction to falling three...
4. Lil Wayne GQ Magazine February 2009 Interview GQ’s February 2009 issue features a Q&A chat with...
5. Eminem “3am” Single This is the Eminem I like spittin that raw.....