The Re-Up

Eminem Presents: The Re-Up is a hip hop compilation album performed by various artists, designed to help launch new Shady Records artists Stat Quo, Cashis and Bobby Creekwater. The album first began as a street mixtape project; an underground, unofficial CD with raw production values. "But what happened is that the material was so good and the tracks were getting produced like a regular album", Eminem said: "Instead of putting it out there rough ... more

Eminem Presents: The Re-Up is a hip hop compilation album performed by various artists, designed to help launch new Shady Records artists Stat Quo, Cashis and Bobby Creekwater. The album first began as a street mixtape project; an underground, unofficial CD with raw production values. "But what happened is that the material was so good and the tracks were getting produced like a regular album", Eminem said: "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 the record stores to give these new artists a real boost". The album was executive-produced by Eminem, who also produced the majority of the songs. A handful of tracks were produced by The Alchemist, who also compiled the album in true mixtape fashion. Each of the tracks were new songs which debuted on the album, though Stat Quo's "Billion Bucks", produced by LT Moe and Obie Trice's "Cry Now" (Remix), produced by SickNotes, were recently released... less