Eminem about his new album

Eminem’s Recovery Leaks Two Weeks Early, as the release date wasn’t slated until June 22, 2010. That’s good news for those of us who are big Eminem fans.

Fan forums immediately blew up with reviews on the rapper’s second album, loving the many different sounds Eminem comes up with. The opening track, “Cold Wind Blows,” finds him taking aim at some of his favorite targets, viciously daring haters to take him on while dropping references to Elton John, Michael Vick and Mariah Carey.

The leak comes less than a week after the online debut of the second song from the album, an unexpected collaboration with Pink called “Won’t Back Down.” Eminem is found kicking it with the usual verbal jabs, taking on everyone and everything as only he can do.

“Listen, garden tool, Don’t make me introduce you to my power tool,” Em raps. “You know the f—ing drill, How you douche bags feel? Knowing you’re disposable, Summer’s Eve, Massengill.”

That line makes me laugh out loud.

On his surprising collaboration with the singer Pink on the album: “When I did the song that I did with Pink, I laid my parts first and kind of heard her on the record and felt that she would smash this record,” Eminem said.

“You can sound the alarm, you can call out your guards/ You can fence in your yard, you can pull all the cards/ But I won’t back down, I won’t back down,” Pink sings.

The video for “Not Afraid,” the album’s first single that has been racing up the charts, premiered on Sunday. In the dark clip directed by Richard Lee, the rapper stands on the ledge of a roof, slowly edging closer to the edge as he raps about coming out of a perilous time in his life.

He’s able to pull back from the abyss and takes a walk through the streets of Newark ending up in a hall of mirrors where’s he’s forced to confront his reflection.

It’s all good. An early release will only boost sales. Eminem’s music is still as good as ever.

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