“Making Relapse, I was still working the drugs out of my system, so there was a lot of…just jokey sh*t.  It was a lot of punchline-y, funny, shock value-kind of going back to The Slim Shady LP.”

Many fans may have been heavily disheartened when the news dropped that Relapse 2 was placed on hold until 2010 and would have to suffice with Relapse: Refill which would be a re-release of the May album with 7 additional tracks.

Seeming to be at his top form as of late, many were ready for the onslaught that was left from the ending track “Underground” to see how it would translate onto the sequel.

Recording has clearly become a cleansing process for the rapper as listeners can go through the album and sense the tone change through subsequent tracks  and shift from the Shady of old to a reinvented Eminem.

Promising a more emotionally driven album, the rapper recently spoke with Complex Magazine and elaborated on what caused such an abrupt change with the “sequel."

“Well, when I finished Relapse, I had a whole album of material that didn't make it that I wasn't ready to throw way, so that was going to be Releapse 2. But then I got with Dre in Hawaii and started recording more, and now the new material has knocked out all the old songs.”

Referring to songs such as “My Mom," “Must Be The Ganja” and even the lead single, “We Made You," Mathers stated that the songs were fine by him, but now he looks to step away from the comedic relief and giving more depth that was established back in 2002.

“Now I'm going for songs instead of one-liners.  I don't want to make sh*t that you hear once and then the joke's over.  I want to make records that you could play a hundred times, a thousand times.”

Even with Grammy Award winning albums like The Marshall Mathers LP, which has been helmed as his best work to date, the rapper adds that he still hasn't crafted that classic album.

“Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album.  I've had ones that touch on this, and others touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant.  I don't know if I'll ever make it but I'm certainly trying every day.”

Adding that he is focused more now than he's ever been, the wait for Relapse 2 should be worth it for a man that only looks to outdo himself with a career that has never been in question in regards to his ability.

Ditching the bleached blonde hair, the rapper is a reminder of his character in 8 Mile and is only a further validation of the hunger that still exists for an MC that had already claimed the crown.

“If Proof was alive, he's be dying inside.  You ain't no Hip-Hop messiah, you a b*tch cause you dissed Mariah.  Sh*t like that, supposed to be private.”

"Pop Killer"

It looks like old wounds heal slow as Canibus has set his sights back on Eminem to release another diss track at the Detroit native.

Rumored to be titled “Pop Killer," the rapper, alongside another rapper known as DZK, digs up the past beef as he goes in on Mr. Mathers.

“I'ma fry you on behalf of Mariah and Michael, put you back on dem drugs, make you suicidal.  You can't shut the record down, n*gga it's viral.”

For those that don't know the history, beef between the two reportedly started back in 1998 before Shady was even signed.  Em states that he was approached by Canibus and Wyclef Jean and was asked if he wrote the lyrics to LL Cool J's diss track “The Ripper Strikes Back” which he denied, but added that Bus was rude with him.

Bus later tried to apologize for the incident by showing up at the Warped Tour in 1999 and asked him to rap along with him on the track “Phuck U," but Shady turned it down, allegedly because he felt the track was a diss to Cool J.

Shots were allegedly fired initially on The Slim Shady LP and escalated once Canibus did his own version of “Stan” from The Marshall Mathers LP where he saved the life of the title character.  The two continued to spar with each other up to 2002.

“He's a devil in a red dress on MTV.  He signed more Black people than a basketball team.  What you tryna say subconsciously, you can't ride the beat like me.  Consciously, you know I'll rock you to sleep.  Slim Shady, you a coward cause you scared to rap with me.  The only Black man you respect is 50.  And the greatest rapper of all time was dead right and dead wrong, you shouldn't even have been on that song.”

Artists such as Royce Da 5'9” have started to weigh in on the attempt by the rapper to wage war once again.

RT@dopeboySHAKE: ‘I'll be brief and let me just keep sh*t simple, can-a-b*tch don't want no beef with slim?  Noooo'

Wherever the random diss came from, only Bis knows, but Em is one with quite the track record with battle rap.  “Warning” shows that he isn't afraid to throw a woman under the bus and his relentless references to his former wife Kim shows that he knows no bounds and can see no boundaries.

Engaging countless battles in his career ranging from Everlast to Cage to Ja Rule to Jermaine Dupri, the white rapper has earned his stripes in the battlefield.  Good luck.

“I remember the first time we met, I ain't even like you.  Walking around my video set like you was in high school.  It must excite you seeing Black people being tribal.  That's why Dr. Dre signed you.”