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Eminem back with new greatest hits offering, Curtain Call 2-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
It comes after 2005’s Curtain Call: The Hits.
The rapper is back with a follow up to his 2005 hits anthology (Picture: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
Eminem has announced a new greatest hits collection, Curtain Call 2, featuring a brand new track.
The 49-year-old rap legend is following up 2005’s Curtain Call: The Hits nearly two decades later with a new retrospective of his works from 2009’s Relapse onwards, which includes chart-topping Rihanna duets Love the Way You Lie and The Monster.
Details of the previously unreleased track will be ‘revealed in the coming weeks’, and the full album will drop on August 5.
The Lose Yourself hitmaker’s contribution to Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic, The King and I with CeeLo Green, which was produced by his long-time collaborator Dr Dre, is included in the compilation.
The hip-hop icon, who brought down the house as part of this year’s Super Bowl line-up, recently admitted he has found it therapeutic to rap about his mental health and addiction battles.
When it was mentioned he uses music to explore his ‘luggage’ on the Sway in the Morning show on Sirius XM Radio in June, Eminem replied: ‘Well, I think that’s one of the great things about rap music is that, you know, you could put so much of your life in it.
Eminem raps about his own struggles in his songs (Picture: ABC via Getty Images)
‘I was just trying to figure out how to expand on that and I kinda got lost.’
The father-of-three has battled addictions to prescription drugs and was hours from dying when he was hospitalised in 2007 after an overdose.
He has compared himself to the troubled Elvis Presley on The King and I.
He has contributed track The King and I to the soundtrack of the new Elvis biopic (Picture: Warner Bros/Alamy)
It sees Eminem rap: ‘I’m about to explain to you all the parallels between Elvis and me / It seems obvious: one, he’s pale as me / Second, we both been hailed as kings / He used to rock the Jailhouse, and I used to rock The Shelter.’
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He adds: ‘I stole black music, yeah, true, perhaps used it / As a tool to combat school kids / Kids came back on some bathroom sh*t / Now I call a hater a bidet / ’Cause they mad that they can’t do sh*t.’
Meanwhile, the multi-Grammy Award winner, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, is set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside the likes of Dolly Parton – who initially turned down the honour – Eurythmics and Duran Duran later this year.
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