It looks like Eminem and his crew are going all-out for the 15th anniversary of Shady Records. They've already been promoting a two-CD compilation, Shady XV, which hits retailers Nov. 24. Now it sounds like the rest of the tracks they couldn't fit on Shady XV will be included on a massive mixtape featuring 66 songs.
"You guys gave me 130 records," DJ Whoo Kid said on RapRadar, speaking about Shady's co-founder, Paul Rosenberg. "Physically, you can't fit all of them on 80-minute CDs, so we had to do a double disc."
The project, which has yet to be titled, will run a whopping three hours. As MTV News notes, it sounds like the mixtape will be all old stuff.
"Just as a fan, you go back and you listen to some of the posse records, and the freestyles, and the remixes, crazy shit," Rosenberg said. "I forgot about all that stuff. And going back and listening to it, it brings back memories. So we did a two-CD thing.
"We figured since there's so many people that are gonna be saying, 'Ah, why didn't this song make it [on the album]? Why didn't that song make it?' We'll just do something to please everybody."
Some artists to look out for include Em, Yelawolf, Slaughterhouse and 50 Cent. Rosenberg did not reveal a tracklist, but he did revisit "I Get Money (Remix)" and Slim Shady's version of "Wanksta."
An alleged snippet of Shady XV surfaced recently, and Em raps about Iggy Azalea and a rape whistle on the Bad Meets Evil track "Vegas." He also dropped a line about punching Lana Del Rey in the face like "Ray Rice" last week.
Check out the interview below:
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