Eminem, 50 Cent, Trick Daddy & Others To Be Featured On XXL Hip Hop Compilation! Hip-hop magazine XXL highlights selected album tracks and singles from the past two years on its first compilation, XXL Raps Volume 1. Due Nov. 15, the 18-track set will be released through Razor & Tie Entertainment, marking the New York-based company's first joint album release with a magazine. Although the featured tracks are not necessarily chart-topping hits, the artist line-up includes Eminem, 50 Cent,...

Eminem Sued By Victims Of Anger Management Tour Bus Crash! A truck driver whose rig was involved in a seven-vehicle accident last month — including the Anger Management 3 tour bus carrying Eminem's DJ, Alchemist, and his latest protégé, Stat Quo — filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Detroit rapper, seeking unspecified damages for injuries, medical expenses and lost wages. The suit, which also names the driver of the bus, Charlie Dilligard, and tour bus company Entertainment Coaches of ...

Eminem Released From Rehab! Roughly two months after checking himself into Detroit's Brighton Hospital for an addiction to sleep medication, Eminem has been released and is ready to hit the studio. Sources say Slim Shady spent three weeks in the rehabilitation center and spent an additional three weeks in the hospital's outpatient program, completing his treatment in late September. Em opted to go the rehab after six weeks on the Anger Management 3 tour. Word is the rapper constantly...

Slim Shady's Phattest, Brightest Compiled For Eminem Hits LP He's sold more than 65 million albums worldwide, won Grammys and an Oscar, and has a string of chart-topping singles that stretches from Detroit to Dubai, but Eminem's never had a greatest-hits record. Until now. On December 6, Em will release Curtain Call, which will also include "at least two all-new, previously unavailable, so-fresh-from-the-studio-we-aren't-even-giving-you-the-song-title songs," according to a brief (yet e...

Eminem Prepares For His "Curtain Call" After dropping four solo albums in six years, Eminem is scheduled to release Curtain Call, a compilation of his greatest hits, this December. Aftermath/Interscope reps say the track listing has yet to be completed, but is slated to feature at least two new songs in addition past hits like "My Name Is," "Stan," "The Way I Am" and "Lose Yourself." Em has been working on Curtain Call since early summer, possibly prior to canceling the last dates ...

Eminem Dials Up Ringtones Lawsuit Eminem's publishing companies recently filed a lawsuit in hopes to stop his songs from being used as mobile phone ringtones. In the suit filed in Detroit's U.S. District Court yesterday, Michigan-based Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated are requesting a court order to forbid five companies from selling Slim Shady song ringtones via the internet. Em's legal team also revealed that it plans to take legal action against karaoke companies that sell...

Eminem Calls Ring-Tone Companies To Court Eminem's lawyers sent a message on Tuesday to ring-tone companies who want Em's number: "Just Lose It." Attorneys representing the rapper's publishing companies, Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Detroit in an attempt to stop five companies from selling Eminem ring tones on the Internet, according to The Associated Press. Cellus USA, FanMobile, Nextones.com, MyPhoneFiles and MatrixM are named in ...

50 Cent, Eminem & Mariah Nominated For American Music Awards Mariah Carey, 50 Cent and Eminem lead the nominations for the 33rd annual American Music Awards scheduled to take place this November in Los Angeles. Carey topped all nominees with four nods, including Favorite Pop and Soul album and Favorite Female Artist in the Pop and Soul categories. Meanwhile, 50 earned nods for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist, favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist and Favorite Hip-Hop album. Slim Shady and Bl...

Eminem Drops $200,000 For Katrina Victims Eminem recently joined the impressive list of charitable celebrities by donating $200,000 to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Slim reportedly was touched by MTV's telethon this past Saturday and called Mississippi emcee, David Banner, to donate $200,000. The Detroit lyricist then donated the money to the American Red Cross on behalf of his record label, Shady Records. Em hasn't been the only one digging in his wallet to support Hurricane Katri...

50 Says He's No 'Super Actor' — And Tells Em He's Not A Sucker MIAMI — If you ever go out to brunch with 50 Cent, you might want to consider eating breakfast first. But hey, when you're responsible for more than half of the black music coming out of Interscope Records; have a new book and upcoming movie to push; clothes and sneakers to peddle; and a performance at the VMAs in about nine hours, you're bound to be a little late. And that's not even mentioning that you're ex-boo Vivica A. Fox...

Eminem & Shade Collabo w/XXL for Special Radio Issue Eminem's Shade 45 radio channel and XXL Magazine have teamed up to release a special edition issue dubbed XXL Presents Shade 45. The one-time issue focuses on Eminem and his Sirius Satellite radio channel, Shade 45. Em graces the cover alongside Shady Records artists, Stat Quo and Obie Trice. In the cover story, Slim speaks on the emcees that have influenced his rap style and the new generation of rhyme slingers. "I took from all...

Eminem Hospitalized For Sleep-Medication Dependency Two days after Eminem abruptly canceled his European tour, citing exhaustion and unspecified "other medical issues," his spokesperson revealed that the rapper has been hospitalized for a sleep-medication dependency. The 32-year-old MC's label issued a statement confirming that he is receiving treatment. "Marshall Mathers, a.k.a. Eminem, is in the hospital under doctors' care," Interscope Records said in the statement. "He's being t...

Eminem Cancels European Tour Due To Exhaustion Citing exhaustion complicated by other medical issues, Eminem has canceled his European tour dates. The shows are not expected to be rescheduled, according to a statement released by his record label late Tuesday (August 16). Eminem was due to headline the European leg of the Anger Management 3 tour, which begins September 1 in Hamburg, Germany, and wraps up September 17 in Meath, Ireland. The rapper's spokesperson had no more in...

Eminem For Mayor, Supports Detroit's Very Own Controversial Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick has been endorsed in his bid for re-election by controversial Detroit emcee, Eminem. Last Friday, in front of 42,000-plus fans during the Detroit stop of the Anger Management 3 Tour, hometown hero Eminem gave a shout-out to Kwame Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick, also in attendance at Comerica Park, heard Slim Shady's urges for the crowd to "make some noise for the mayor, the Hip-Hop mayor." Earlier i...

Ford Breaks Ups w/ Eminem Over Foul Language Word is Ford Motor Co. just ended a partnership with Eminem due to a vulgar title and lyrics featured on one of Slim's recently released singles. Though the cut's title hasn't been named, reports are referring to a three-word title. Slim recently dropped Encore's fourth single, "Ass Like That." In the cut, Em shares his admiration for the posteriors of female celebrities like teeny bopper Hilary Duff and Jessica Simpson. According to the...