During a commercial break of yesterdays MTV’s Video Music Award Beats by Dre released a commercial announcing the title of Eminem’s new album and its release date. In the 16 second commercial the acronyms ‘MMLP2′ was shown with a release date of November 5th. Eminem’s publicist later confirmed the album title to be The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
The commercial also announced that Dr. Dre and Rick Rubin will be the executive producers of Eminem’s eighth studio album.
In the background of the commerical was a snippet of Eminem’s first single off The Marshall Mathers LP 2 entitled “Berzerk” which will be released Tuesday, August 27th on midnight.
The Marshall Mathers LP which was released in 2000 later went on to achieve Diamond (10 million copies sold) status. The album sold 10,598,000 copies in the US and more than 21 million copies worldwide. So if Eminem plans on doing a sequel to this album, he has to come correct and not bring shame to his original work.