Eminem talks to Billboard.com about concerts, new music, acting and more...

Less than a week before the start of his Home and Home tour series with Jay-Z, Eminem is staying tight-lipped about his plans for the stadium shows, which commence Sept. 2-3 at Detroit's Comerica Park before switching to New York's Yankee Stadium on Sept. 13-14. "I don't want to get into it too much," Eminem tells Billboard.com. "I don't want to give anything away. But...I think it'll be good. He does, however, allow that his song selection "will probably be all over the place" rather than concentrating on "Recovery," his double-platinum latest...

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Eminem's Recovery: What Is The Secret Of Its Success?

Eminem is dominating the charts like it's 2000 all over again, when his second album, The Marshall Mathers LP, spent eight weeks at the top spot on Billboard's top 200 and went on to sell 9 million copies in the United States alone. His latest LP, Recovery, isn't as big of a blockbuster just yet, but in the current music-industry climate, it's killing. The album has spent seven non-consecutive weeks at #1, the first hip-hop act to do so since Outkast's double-LP Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in late 2003/ early 2004. A lot of Eminem's chart success...

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Will Anyone Ever Unseat Eminem From The Top Of The Billboard Chart?

As you probably know by now, Eminem's Recovery continues to dominate the Billboard albums chart, having notched the biggest debut in nearly two years, then spent seven of the next nine weeks at #1 (including this week), and sold more than 2.2 million copies to date (which makes it the second-best selling album released this year).So yeah, it's been a pretty good year for Mr. Mathers. So much so that folks are even starting to talk about Recovery in the same way they spoke about "Inception" or "Avatar," unstoppable blockbusters that grab the public's...

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Eminem and Elton John's Grammys Collaboration Is Most Surprising Duet

Eminem's bizarre 2001 Grammy Awards collaboration with Elton John has topped a new list of the Most Surprising Duets in musical history. The odd couple beat Aerosmith and Run DMC, who teamed up for a rap-rock rendition of "Walk This Way" in 1986, and Dusty Springfield's 1987 chart smash with the Pet Shop Boys ("What Have I Done to Deserve This") on Entertainment Weekly's new list. Also making the top 10: Bing Crosby and David Bowie's "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy Christmas" collaboration, Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue's "Where the Wild Roses...

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Eminem's Recovery Goes Over 2x Platinum

Eminem's new "Recovery" album has continued to be the number one selling album, with a total of over 2,100,000 (1 million is a platinum status) copies sold in the United States alone already. "Recovery" is the first album since Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed A Dream" to claim six straight weeks at the number one spot, with eight consecutive weeks of selling at least 100,000 copies. In related news, Eminem also has the number one spot on the Digital Songs chart, as his "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna) moved up a spot with another 254,000...

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Eminem Talks Retirement, 'Rapping At 50'

After more than a decade in the business, Eminem remains a hip-hop heavyweight, one who can still sell records as if it were the pre-Internet era. So it's hard to imagine what the music scene would be like if he wasn't around. Aside from remembering his "8 Mile" co-star Brittany Murphy in Vibe's 15th-anniversary "Juice" issue, Em also opens up about his inevitable retirement from the rap game. "Honestly, I don't know how much longer I have in this game," the 37-year-old MC told Vibe. "I'm always going to love hip-hop. But how much longer am I going...

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Eminem Ends Issues With Mariah Carey

Eminem recently spoke on his past issues with singer Mariah Carey and why, despite mentioning her on his last album, she no longer will be a target of his. Em says at this point he no longer has anything to say about her. "You know what? I got to be honest. I really don't want to talk about her anymore only just because it's kind of like the last thing I said about her was on 'Cold Wind Blows.' I made the comment, ['Take a look at Mariah next time I inspire you to write a song.'], I don't want to keep beating a dead horse. I'm not even going...

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Eminem's 'Love The Way You Lie' Warns Of The Cycle Of Abuse

In Eminem's controversial new video "Love the Way You Lie," love and violence intertwine seamlessly. One moment, a couple sleeps in each other's arms, the next, they're violently fighting, tossing bed sheets. Later, they kiss passionately, pressed up against the same wall the man has just punctured with his fist. All the while, Rihanna croons the chorus which includes the line, "That's all right because I like the way it hurts." But is it really all right? Less than 24 hours after MTV debuted the video for Eminem's chart-topping single about the...

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Eminem and dre on cover of vibe magazine

Eminem was asked some questions like-THE BEST EMINEM DISS TRACK ACCORDING TO EM: What was the best thing someone said about you? Was there ever a hot Eminem diss?Um, no. [Laughs.] Nah, I’m kidding. Shit, there was a couple of lines Everlast said like, “You ain’t running up on me with no empty gun.” I know that there is a lot of shit that I would have said about me. ON BRITTANY...

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