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Eminem to make final bow as solo artist-report

DETROIT (Reuters) - Rap superstar Eminem plans to make his last solo performance in Ireland in September, the Detroit Free Press, his hometown newspaper, said on Friday.

Citing sources close to the 33-year-old rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, the daily also said his current album "Encore" would probably be his last as he moves to full-time work as a record producer.

The final solo appearance of Mathers, the best-selling hip-hop artist ever, would be at a concert in Dublin, Ireland, on Sept. 17, the Free Press said.

The newspaper quoted his manager, Paul Rosenberg, as saying no official decision had been made about the future of the Grammy and Oscar-winning artist who has recorded three top-10 albums.

But Rosenberg said Mathers' current multi-platinum album was "certainly the cap on this part of his career."

Mathers' spokesman at Interscope Records in Los Angeles could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Free Press said the rapper, who has sold more than $1 billion worth of records, has grown weary of the media spotlight and may be musically spent.

"Marshall feels he's said everything he can say as Eminem," one insider was quoted as saying. "The idea that he intended this ("Encore") to be his last record is something that everyone on the inside circle has known for a while."

Another source said "Encore," which was released last year, had been an especially difficult record for the artist to make. "Marshall really struggles to write for himself now, to speak through the voice of Eminem," the source said.

"He knows as well as anybody that there comes a point where you risk beating this thing to death."

The cover shot on "Encore" shows Mathers taking a bow, and its closing song is entitled "Curtains Down."

In the album's liner notes, and in his current concert tour, Mathers has also played up the figurative death of Eminem.

"This is how you go out with a bang, baby," Mathers says in one video," after pulling the trigger of a pistol that misfires on himself.

― donut ferry (donut), Saturday, 16 July 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

He's fat now.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 16 July 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

"Mathers, the best-selling hip-hop artist ever"

nope, he's still about 10 million behind 2Pac.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

He'll have to die to catch up now.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

I certainly wouldn't mind some posthumous B-sides and rarities comps

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if there'll be the same clamoring for every little guest verse he puts out now like with post-retirement Jay-Z. maybe people will actually buy the next D12 album!

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't paying attention at the time, but doesn't the "Encore" title alone serve to announce this?

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

But now who will make hip-hop safe for white middle-aged rock critics who want to feel hip?

― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

^ shaaadup rooks zzz

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

its an interesting idea, the idea that personae can be worked past.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 16 July 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

I find it hard to care about this, seeing as I've pretty much loathed everything he's put out since that godawful nonsense he "sang" to his daughter.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

his first singer-songwriter album is gonna be so intense

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Oooh an album of "Mockingbird"

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 16 July 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I'd be more than happy if he'd just make goofy d12 albums for the rest of his life

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 16 July 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

i think he'll start writing musicals

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

haha he should form a supergroup with pink!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 16 July 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Eminem, Pink, John Cena & Keith Flynt - The Blue Eyed Souls

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 16 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he'll come out.

― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 16 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

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― donut ferry (donut), Saturday, 16 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

(see?.. so he won't get sued by Reich, he'll leave out one word... *looks the other way and whistles*)

― donut ferry (donut), Saturday, 16 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Cute

― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 16 July 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

"He's [Eminem] still the most interesting, entertaining and talented figure in rap"

Oh, really? The author of this article, like most of Em's fans, is probably not a real big fan of hip hop.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Saturday, 16 July 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

He's going to be hosting a children's show in the next five years. (Think "Pryor's Place.")

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 18 July 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

He wants to settle down and be a farmer!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Sterling otm!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

Kevin I'm damned if I know whether y'r talking out your ass, but since I haven't yet heard a better album this decade than Marshall Mathers it isn't an unreasonable statement to me.

― plebian plebs (plebian), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

that concert is actually outside Dublin.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

I mean Eminem is clearly a pop artist but is obviously also a rapper and hip hopper. Me, I love hip hop and find his records, generally, extraordinary.

― plebian plebs (plebian), Monday, 18 July 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

So, has he cancelled the European tour because he can't be arsed, or is he frightened there might be some scary terrorists over here?

I was taking my son to the Milton Keynes gig. He's majorly gutted, Eminem was his first big musical hero. I'm more pissed off cos I wanted to see Fiddy.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

"He's [Eminem] still the most interesting, entertaining and talented figure in rap"
Oh, really? The author of this article, like most of Em's fans, is probably not a real big fan of hip hop.

-- kevin says relax (cockstar1...), July 16th, 2005 3:41 PM.

Dude, who do all the "real big fans of hip hop" like? MF Doom? El-P?

Sigh.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

(I know, I know, a month later, but it was bugging me.)

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Why Kanye West, of course!

...Right, Kanye?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Emerson Lake and Palmer?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

I bet he emerges as Willa Ford again...

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Why Kanye West, of course!

...Right, Kanye?

WORD LIFE.

That most definitely is your boy...

Kanye

― Kanye West (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he'll change his name to a symbol.

Victor died, you know.

― Viz (Viz), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

wouldn't it be great if that really was kanye posting here, entering the ILM ranks of indie-rock celeb posters like Momus, Drew, and Dan Bunnybrain

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

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