by Lost Myself » Nov 4th, '13, 22:35
I feel like we've seen enough of BME, if a Shady group album was made Em and Royce could do some tracks together. And that would be dope, I'd love to see some Aftermath guys on there too (Dre, Snoop, Kendrick). At the same time, I want Eminem himself, if he does have another album in him, to concentrate on his next record so the Shady album doesn't cause another 3 and a half year gap like H:TS and the his work on the Slaughterhouse album caused between Recovery and MMLP2.
I don't want another sequel, especially because I don't think he has it in him to create a worthy sequel to TES like he did with MMLP. I know this because his style of rapping doesn't really allow it anymore and because he's already tried making a sequel to TES, it's called Encore and look at how that turned out.
And if his career is truly approaching its end, I want a proper "bow out" album. If MMLP2 was really his last record that's gonna suck because even though he tied up loose ends in his story, he never really made it clear that it was his final record. I feel like after such a career his discography deserves to have an album dedicated to saying goodbye to the game. And after two records made just to say he was back in the game and here to say, a retirement after his next one would just feel wrong, especially since it looks like MMLP2 will be considered one of his better albums.
If his next album isn't his last, then who knows? With MMLP2, he ended a "chapter." Now that he's no longer signed to Interscope he's free to literally do whatever he wants with his music. I saw this idea on here a while ago: It's perfectly reasonable to expect him to release old songs he's made throughout his career that, for whatever reason, weren't released in a solo record or at all (freestyles, stuff Interscope rejected, he wrote a bunch of shit between Encore and Relapse that never surfaced, mixed tape songs such as Difficult, etc.). It probably wouldn't happen until he retired, but it still could happen eventually.