Eminem Presents: The Re-Up

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Eminem Presents The Re-Up is the compilation album from rapper Eminem. The album first began as a street mixtape project -- an underground, unofficial CD with raw production values--designed to help launch new Shady Records artists Stat Quo, Ca$his, and Bobby Creekwater. A handful of tracks were produced by The Alchemist, who also compiled the album in true mixtape fashion.

Each of the tracks makes its official CD debut on Eminem Presents The Re-Up, though Obie Trice's Cry Now (Remix), produced by LT Moe, was recently released on mixtapes and to radio. The first single and video was "You Don't Know" from Eminem, 50 Cent, Ca$his and Lloyd Banks. With Eminem, Ca$his, and 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks from G-Unit, the rap illustrates the unity of the two organizations.

The Re-Up also gave acclaimed hip-hop producer The Alchemist a chance to work with Shady's new regime. After joining forces on-stage as Eminem's DJ on last year's Anger Management Tour 3, Alchemist and Eminem began collaborating in the studio. This new album features the results of this anticipated collaboration with new tracks produced by The Alchemist featuring Stat Quo, Ca$his, Bobby Creekwater and Obie Trice. Eminem is known to have sold over 80 million records with the release of the album.

Among the album's other recordings are No Apologies from Eminem; Talkin' All That from Ca$his; There He Is from Bobby Creekwater; Murder from Bizarre and Kuniva (both of D12); and The Smack That (Remix) with Akon.

Stat Quo, hailing from Atlanta, was signed to a joint deal between Shady Records and Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment after Eminem and Dre heard him on the Underground Atlanta mixtape series. Creekwater, also from Atlanta, was inked after Eminem heard his work on demos and in the studio with The Alchemist. Ca$his, a Chicago native transplanted in his youth to Orange County, California, was a member of West Coast underground favorites The Renegadez.

Rampant misinformation about Eminem Presents The Re-Up included many false internet track listings and that the mixtape would be a tribute to D12's Proof, the recently slain rapper and close friend of Eminem. "The D12 album and those unreleased songs with Proof are coming," said Eminem. "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."

Eminem revealed in a Shade 45 interview that he drew the cover over a 3 month period.

Charting

U.S. Billboard 200
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15
Position	2
Sales Per Week	309,804
Total	309,804