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BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

Eminem to release EP with rapper Royce da 5'9"

DETROIT – Eminem and Royce da 5'9" are back recording together more than a decade after the Detroit rappers first joined forces.

The pair, who met at a concert in their home city in 1997 and worked together under the name Bad Meets Evil, announced Monday that they're coming out with an EP of new material in June.

One of the songs they recorded in the late 1990s, called "Bad Meets Evil," appeared on Eminem's major label debut, "The Slim Shady LP."

According to a news release distributed Monday by Interscope Records, the rappers pursued solo careers after their initial work together and became embroiled in a feud.

In the years since, Eminem's career has reached superstar levels with tens of millions of records sold and Grammy and Academy Award wins. Royce da 5'9" also has seen success, but on a much smaller scale, with three of his albums charting in the R&B/hip-hop category.

The two mended fences, however, following the shooting death of their mutual friend and fellow rapper Proof in 2006.

"Royce and I started hanging out again and inevitably that led us back into the studio," Eminem said in a statement. "At first we were just seeing where it went without any real goal in mind, but the songs started to come together crazy, so here we are."

Royce da 5'9" said he was "excited to see this project come to fruition considering the long lapse in time between when we worked before and now."

The new material will be released June 14 on Shady/Interscope Records. Mr. Porter, who is a member of Eminem's rap group D12, was a producer on the EP.

Interscope said its title will be unveiled "soon."

And, for the record, Royce da 5'9" is the Bad half of the duo, and Eminem is the Evil.


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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

Nice! I love the "Nuttin to Do/Scary Movies" single. I'll definitely check this out.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

I never thought I would ever see the day that this would happen. Royce is my favorite rapper and I'm a fan of Em was well. VERY excited.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

Eminem Announces Bad Meets Evil EP Title: 'Hell: The Sequel'

First thing this morning (May 3), Eminem took to Twitter to announce Bad Meets Evil's upcoming EP title: "Hell: The Sequel."

"Hell: The Sequel" is Bad Meet Evil's (Eminem as Evil and Royce da 5'9" as Bad) second EP and will be dropping this summer, June 14.

Eminem and Royce dropped their first project as Bad Meets Evil titled, "Nuttin' to Do" in 1999. They're reconnecting more than ten years later and hitting the lab with producers such as Havoc, DJ Khalil, Bangladesh and D-12's Mr. Porter for "Hell: The Sequel."


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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

Eminem, Royce Da 5’9″ Explain Dr. Dre’s EP Absence

With no production credits from the good doctor on the upcoming Bad Meets Evil EP, rap fans have been wondering whether Eminem and Royce Da 5’9″ forgot about Dre. Not exactly. During Wednesday’s (May 18) “RapFix Live,” Slim Shady explained Dre’s absence on their upcoming joint project, titled Hell: The Sequel.

“I think Dre is, like, really cracking down on getting Detox finished, so I think he’s more so focused on that,” Em says of the producer who discovered him. Still, it wasn’t like Eminem or Royce reached out to the Doc either. “I really didn’t say anything to Dre till kinda like the last minute. We didn’t really say anything to anybody about what was going on because we weren’t sure what was going to happen with it,” Slim explained to Sway. “It wasn’t like I said, ‘Yo, Dre, can we get a beat for this project that we’re workin’ on?’ Because it wasn’t really necessarily a project yet.”

Hell: The Sequel does feature production work from Mobb Deep’s Havoc, Sid Roams, Bangladesh, Denaun Porter, DJ Khalil and Supa Dups, who produced the project’s first single, “Fast Lane.” Still, there was no real science to selecting the beatmakers who’ll appear on the EP, which is dropping June 14. “We didn’t reach out to any producers, because we were just cuttin’ random,” Royce said. “And we didn’t actually know that we were workin’ on a project.”

Eminem elaborated on how the duo went about securing music for the record. “It was more so that we were getting beat CDs from the label — from Shady and some of the A&Rs there were sending us beat CDs from various producers — and we would hear beats like, ‘That one’s crazy.’ ”


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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

I'm giddy.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

Looking forward to this album....
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

2 new songs
and as one would expect with anything rap, both tracks contain a lot of swearing (and there's minor controversy over one of the disses in the first track
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11



Standard Edition Tracks:
01.) Welcome 2 Hell [Prod. by Havoc]
02.) Fast Lane [Prod. by Eminem & Supa Dups]
03.) The Reunion [Prod. by Sid Roams]
04.) Above The Law [Prod. by Mr. Porter]
05.) I'm On Everything feat. Mike Epps [Prod. by Mr. Porter]
06.) A Kiss [Prod. by Bangladesh]
07.) Lighters feat. Bruno Mars [Prod. by Eminem, The Smeezingtons & Battle Roy]
08.) Take From Me [Prod. by Mr. Porter]
09.) Loud Noises feat. Slaughterhouse [Prod. by Mr. Porter]


Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:
10.) Living Proof [Prod. by Mr. Porter]
11.) Echo feat. Liz Rodriguez [Prod. by DJ Khalil]
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

This leaked over the weekend. It was on rapidshare, not sure anywhere else.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

Originally Posted by Jacoby Ellsbury
This leaked over the weekend. It was on rapidshare, not sure anywhere else.
It's on mediafire also and I think piratebay
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

So has anyone heard the full album yet?

The online leaks I've seen are all password protected.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

I don't listen to too much rap but I'm digging this album.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

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So has anyone heard the full album yet?

The online leaks I've seen are all password protected.
I have the album and listened to the full album. In my opinion this album should have been better and seems to be rushed. I would rate it a C. If this album came out 10 years ago I think it would have been an A. The success of this album means more for Royce since he is the lesser known of the duo. I think the Slaughterhouse (Royce, Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, and Crooked I) album that came out last year was better than this album.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

It's not bad, seems like more faster rhyming from eminem than usual. Like the way he rhymes on Drake's "forever" song.

Im giving it at least a B so far. They are just rhyming, ripping up the track. Not the usual gimmicky stuff from em. Royce is very good too and holds his own along with em. I have a few of Royce's older cd's but I haven't followed his career as closely.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

Originally Posted by acubfaninmd
I have the album and listened to the full album. In my opinion this album should have been better and seems to be rushed. I would rate it a C. If this album came out 10 years ago I think it would have been an A.
I agree with this. Something also seems to be missing.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

All the reviews on Amazon have been slobbing the knob of this one but I'm still skeptical.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

Originally Posted by dsa_shea
All the reviews on Amazon have been slobbing the knob of this one but I'm still skeptical.
The album is not THAT good. Not to say that it sucks or anything because it's actually pretty solid, the first 4 tracks are really excellent but I felt it lost a little bit of momentum towards the end and I'm not a big fan of the track and latest single feat Bruno Mars. I guess I'd give it 3 stars out of 5 personally but it's sounding like it just might be a tad over hyped.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

I listen to a very limited amount of rap but I picked this up yesterday (mostly for the involvement of Eminem) and I think it's pretty good for the most part. Lighters is a great song if you ask me.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

It's way better than Recovery...

The first half of the ep is really good, then goes down a bit.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

No way is this EP better than Recovery.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

I agree. I think "Recovery" is one of the best things Eminem has released in his career.

This EP is pretty good though.
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Re: BAD MEETS EVIL (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"): "EP" -6/14/11

Yeah this EP is good but not even in Recovery's league to be honest. Recovery was one of the top albums of last year in my opinion.

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