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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bad Meets Evil teaming in the late '90s of underground Detroit MC's Eminem and Royce da 5'9" became a rap legend of unfulfilled promise. Now, a decade after they last recorded together, Eminem and Royce da 5'9" have revived their Bad Meets Evil project, today officially announcing that an EP on Shady/Interscope Records will be released June 14th.

"Royce and I started hanging out again and inevitably that led us back into the studio," said Eminem. "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."

Added Royce, "I'm excited to see this project come to fruition considering the long lapse in time between when we worked before and now. We had a blast doing it and we just hope everyone enjoys it while we're working on the 'Monster' that will be the Slaughterhouse album. #TeamShady."

The two first met in 1997 at a concert in Detroit and soon formed Bad Meets Evil (Royce as Bad and Eminem as Evil). But they released just a few recordings, including the song "Bad Meets Evil" on Eminem's major label debut, The Slim Shady LP and a heralded independent Bad Meets Evil 12" featuring the now underground classic, "Scary Movies." The pair went their separate ways in their solo careers only to be separated by a reluctant feud, thus making it the last time they would be heard together for several years. Sadness over the tragic shooting death of mutual friend Proof in 2006 led to mended fences with Eminem's group D12, which prompted an eventual reconciliation between the two rappers. Eminem and Royce were finally once again on speaking terms after Royce was featured on D12's 2008 mixtape Return Of The Dozen and later went on tour with the group.

Since then, Royce has continued his acclaimed solo career (three of his four officially released albums, most recently 2009's Street Hop, have cracked the Top 40 R&B/Hip-hop chart). With rap stalwarts Joe Budden, Crooked I and Joell Ortiz, he has also formed Slaughterhouse, recently signed to Eminem's Shady Records. In addition, Slaughterhouse contributed a bonus track to the digital deluxe edition of Eminem's blockbuster 2010 Recovery album.

The bulk of the EP's production was helmed by longtime collaborator and D12 member, Mr. Porter (a/k/a Kon Artis) and also features contributions from Mobb Deep's Havoc, DJ Khalil and Bangladesh among others.

The EP's title and new music will be unveiled soon. Check http://www.shadyrecords.com for details in the coming weeks, and follow Shady Records on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/shadyrecords (@shadyrecords).


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Just thinking this could come out the same time Jay-Z and Kanye's...... :D

-hopes it's better than recovery-

It's about a decade late but I have high hopes for it! i think this could be the sessions for his new album too... (he's on D12's new mixtape aswell and they got a new member).

Also Space Bound videos is earning the name "Detox of music videos" :laugh2:

won't be hard ha2

Challenge Accepted

surely posting challenge accepted means its a poor song, because your accepting the challenge that he's created something worse than Recovery?

**** off and worship that mess! I already said Recovery wasn't a patch on the old Eminem, new era....I'm just glad the accent is finally leaving him...:laugh:

Eminem Marshall Mathers
At midnight I'm announcing the EP title.
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It's called Hell: The Sequel

inb4eoin

I stayed up until 4.45 last nght and couldnt stay up any longer.....

I stayed up until 4.45 last nght and couldnt stay up any longer.....

Also Bruno Mars is on the EP

..................wot

Yeah TRSF are saying he's reorded for it.... :/

ive always defended eminem for ''selling out''
but fooking hell:joker:

might be true might not, gonna go check now actually.

"Slaughterhouse and Bruno Mars... Bong RT @Matt_Agosta: @TheRealRoyce59 yo we gettin any features on that ep with slim?," he tweeted Friday (April 29) night. (Royce Da 5'9's Twitter)

A round of applause is in order for Bad Meets Evil, the reunited duo of Eminem and Royce da 5'9. This week, their first single "Fast Lane" debuted at No. 32 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

The track sold 84,000 downloads upon its release last week. It's the first offering from their upcoming "Hell: The Sequel" EP, which will be released on June 14.

For Royce, it's his first return to the charts since the single "Hip Hop," from "Death is Certain," appeared in 2004. Incidentally, Royce is releasing the sequel to "Death is Certain," "Success is Certain," on July 26.

Bad Meets Evil is not the only Detroit act making moves on the charts: Big Sean's "My Last" with Chris Brown finally bounded into the top 10 of Billboard's R&B chart and is the No. 1 song on the magazine's Heatseekers chart.

They will never make anything as sick as this. Should've let sleeping dogs lie

True but Royce needs all the promo/help he can get and now that he's on Shady Records its a given to just make the EP, plus it was planned a decade ago so I think Eminem wanted to finish it.

When did they make friends again?

About a year ago

Here's the album artwork:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...dMeetsEvil.jpg

Music Video tomorrow :D

Royce has piled on the pounds lol

The single isn't that bad though