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 DETROIT NATIVE EMINEM FEATURED IN CBS SPORTS’2009 NCAA FINAL FOUR SHOW

 CBS Sports’ 2009 NCAA® FinalFour® coverage live from Ford Field in Detroit on Saturday, April 4features Detroit native Eminem.

 Grammy-award winingartist Eminem will be featured in a “Love Letter to Detroit” on CBS Sports’ FINALFOUR SHOW on Saturday (4:00-6:00 PM, ET)with Greg Gumbel, GregAnthony and Seth Davis live from Ford Field. The feature will focus onDetroit through the eyes of the people who inhabit the city. It looks at wherethe City came from – an area that once represented the heart of America’sindustry and urban growth, and what the City struggles to become again – anarea at the root of what this country is working to recover. The story shows thestrength of the people who live and work in Detroit, that give the City itstenacious reputation, bringing the spirit of the game to Detroit and theresilience of Detroit to the game.

 CBSSports culminates its 28^th consecutive year as exclusive networkbroadcaster of the 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and FinalFour with live coverage of the national semi-final games and the NationalChampionship game from Ford Field. Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg, CBSSports’ lead college basketball announce team, call the games. Kellogg becomesonly the second analyst in CBS Sports’ history to call the Final Four andChampionship Games.

SLIM SHADY IS BACK!! EMINEM’S ‘RELAPSE’ SET FOR RELEASE MAY 19^TH; FOLLOW-UP, ‘RELAPSE2’, COMING BEFORE END OF THE YEAR

 SANTA MONICA, CA - March 5, 2009 – Eminem, the biggestselling music artist of the decade, officially announced the street date of hiseagerly awaited new album; his first original studio album in over fouryears.  Relapse (Interscope/ Aftermath/Shady) will bereleased on May 19, 2009.  The first single from the album and itsaccompanying video will see a simultaneous release on April 7^th.   

Anticipation for Relapsehas been building since the fall, when Eminem first announced the album titleand debuted the freestyle, “I’m Having A Relapse,” during an interview on hisShade 45 satellite radio station.  Last month, the release of “Crack ABottle” from Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent brought that anticipation to ahead.  The track soared to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Eminem’s second #1after 2002’s “Lose Yourself”) and set a Nielsen SoundScan record for openingweek download sales (418,000).  The recording ranked third in the historyof all weekly download sales.  “Crack A Bottle” will be included as analbum track on Relapse. 

With the announcement of the release date for Relapse also comes confirmation ofsomething that had been rumored in recent weeks: Eminem is already working on afollow-up album, Relapse 2, that fanscan expect in the second half of 2009. "A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year," saidEminem. "I was one of them. Then Dre and I went back in the studio inSeptember for a few days, and that turned into six months. We were on such a roll;we wound up with a ton of new music produced by Dre.  Putting out Relapse 2 will let everyone get all ofthe best stuff."  

Eminem has sold more than 75,000,000 albums worldwide. His previous studio album, Encore,reached #1 and dominated the charts in late 2004.  Certified quadrupleplatinum and spinning off four Top 40 Hot 100 hits, the Grammy-nominated dischas sold more than 11,000,000 copies around the globe.  The #1, doubleplatinum, 2005 greatest hits collection, CurtainCall: The Hits and #2, platinum, 2006 various artists compilation, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, followed. InOctober 2008, Eminem released "Eminem: The Way I Am", a bookcompiling thoughts, stories, and memorabilia from various points in his life.The book entered the New York Times Best-Seller list at #11.

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"...Four years ago, Eminem, one of the best-selling rappers in history, released his last album of original material, “Encore,” and then essentially disappeared. The years since have been pockmarked with personal struggles. He entered rehab in 2005 for a dependency on sleep medication. In 2006 he remarried, and then redivorced, his ex-wife, Kim Scott, the subject of many of his most vitriolic songs. And that same year his closest friend, the rapper Proof, was killed in a shooting at a Detroit nightclub.

In his new book, “The Way I Am,” Eminem hopes to set the record straight. “I’m really just a normal guy. You can ask my neighbors,” he writes in the book. “I ride a bike. I walk the dog. I mow my lawn. I’m out there every Sunday, talking to myself, buck naked, mowing the lawn with a chain saw.”..."

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Click HERE to read more about Eminem's upcoming memoir in today's issue of the New York Times!

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“RAP CITY TOP 25 COUNTDOWN”

BEGINNING @ 1:00pm, Saturday 12/9

“YOU DON’T KNOW”

Plus Appearances By

THE SHADY RECORDS CAMP

MTV

“TRL”

3:30pm

&

BET

“106 & PARK”

6:00pm

and Tomorrow at 11:00am

"Sucker Free" on MTV

Shady Records & G-Unit Takeover
Tuesday, 11/7 @ 7pm on MTV

Featuring the Premiere of "You Don't Know"
The new video from Eminem & 50 Cent with Lloyd Banks and Ca$his

Also featuring videos and interviews with the Shady and G-Unit rosters.

Available 12.05.06 on "Eminem Presents The Re-Up"

Eminem has teamed up with Nike to create a limited edition run of the company's Air Max series shoe. The effort will go towards raising money for the lyricist's Marshall Mathers Foundation and ninemillion.org. Eminem will design limited-edition uppers of eight different shoes in the series, from the Air Max '87 to Air Max 360. Sixty-four pairs of shoes will be produced before being numbered and autographed by the rapper and auctioned off over a four-week period at Nike stores worldwide and on eBay, beginning Aug. 31. "We're always looking for new ways to try to raise money and awareness for the foundation, so when Nike approached us we jumped at the chance," Eminem said. "Who wouldn't want to design their own line of Nikes? And to do it for charity makes it that much better."