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Eminem is teasing a collaborative album with his longtime friend and collaborator, 50 Cent. The pair have worked together many times over the past two decades, but we’re yet to see a whole project with them.

During an interview on Christmas Day, Em was asked about the possibility of a whole project between the two hip-hop giants. “That would be great,” he said on Shade 45. “We just gotta stop bullshitting and do it. I would never say it’s not possible.” His manager, Paul Rosenberg, added, “I would love to hear it, so whenever you guys are ready, we’re putting it out.”

Em discovered 50 following the release of his 2002 mixtape Guess Who’s Back? and signed him to Shady Records through Dr Dre’s Aftermath label. The pair have combined for classic tracks such as ‘Patiently Waiting’ from 2003’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and ‘Never Enough’ from 2004’s Encore. Most recently, they reunited on ‘Gunz N Smoke’ from Snoop Dogg and Dre’s new album Missionary.

This isn’t the first time Eminem has spoken about a joint album between him and 50. During a chat with DJ Whoo Kid in January, 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.”

Eminem called 50 “one of the best friends I’ve ever known” during a performance in Detroit in 2023. On the flip side, 50 has compared Em’s importance to him to that of his own grandmother.

“What helped me not have a big head at any point, was I had Eminem around,” he told XXL. “So when I’m doing 13 million records on my first album, I have the Marshall Mathers LP to look at that’s doing 23 million records. Em, I put him next to my grandmother and I’ma tell you why. He was always a place where I could go and just talk to him, and know that he has my best interest at heart.”

He added, “I would gather whatever I felt like was dope and then I’d come and just press play and I’d watch him. If I didn’t get no response out of him, I would really scrap the record. I wouldn’t use it if he didn’t respond to it and hear the record like it mean something, I’m like ‘Nah, I’m not using that shit.”