News: Eminem Sets Record Straight, Talks About The Re-Up

"So much wrong information has gotten out," Em says. "It's time to set the record straight."

Rumors have it Em was preparing a mixtape, but he announced yesterday that Shady Records was working on a compilation, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, that will hit stores December 5, a project which began as a mixtape.

"What happened is that the material was so good and the tracks were getting produced like a regular album," he says. "Instead of putting it out there rough and unfinished, I thought we should add some other new tracks, make it a real album, and put it in record stores to give these new artists a real boost."

The new artists he mentions are the next wave of Shady signees. While Shady stalwarts like Obie Trice and D-12 appear on The Re-Up, the intention of the compilation is to give attention to new artists Stat Quo, Ca$his and Bobby Creekwater.

The compilation's first single, "You Don't Know," clearly hopes to use established stars to bring attention to a new artist, featuring Em, 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Ca$his.

Em also warned reports that The Re-Up would be a tribute to D-12's Proof and any tracklistings on the Internet are false. Many of those tracklistings feature unreleased material from Proof, who was killed recently.

"The D-12 album and those unreleased songs with Proof are coming," Em says. "But The Re-Up is about these new artists and these new songs. It isn't fair to them or to the memory of Proof to mix them up."