Sitting down for a Christmas Day interview alongside his manager Paul Rosenberg on his Shade 45 radio station, Em was unusually candid about the prospect of a joint project.

Asked about the potential for a joint album, Eminem replied “That would be great. We just gotta stop bullshitting and do it. I would never say it’s not possible.”

Rosenberg then added: “I would love to hear it, so whenever you guys are ready, we’re putting it out.”

 

It’s not the first time Em has floated the idea of doing a full-length project with his one time Shady Records signee who has only released one album since departing the label a decade ago.

Speaking to DJ Whoo Kid earlier this year, he said: “I’m trying to get him to make a new album so bad. We need another 50 album like really bad. 50’s on a roll right now. He’s been on a roll since the tour.

“I told him whatever the fuck he needs from me, I’m here. That shit’d be crazy, though — an album with me and him.”

Though an album is still a pipe dream, Em and 50 recently hooked up on Snoop Dogg‘s latest album, Missionary, with the legendary duo providing guest verses on “Gunz N Smoke” which was produced by Dr. Dre.

The track also served as something of an homage to The Notorious B.I.G. with several references to the late rapper running throughout the song.

50 also adopts the Bad Boy MC’s cadence and spits: “Red dot ya, I got ya / B.I.G. time, who shot ya?” — just as Dre drops in a heavy-bottomed bassline that harks back to “Hypnotize.”

Snoop repurposes Big’s “you should too, if you knew” lyric from “Notorious Thugs” in his verse, while a sample of his “gunsmoke!” line from the posthumous Eminem collaboration “Dead Wrong” rings throughout.

Carrying the collab across the finish line, Eminem delivers a typically intricate and technical verse that finds him reflecting on his chaotic upbringing, past propensity for violence and maturity into middle-aged mellowness.