EMINEM'S follow-up to The Marshall Mathers LP is due out later this year.

The album might be with fans sooner than they believed as producer Dr Dre recently told US magazine Entertainment Weekly that he's "going to finish up his project soon".

Dre also says the album, to be called The Eminem Show, will be quite different from its predecessors. And, he reveals: "It's a lot more serious this time.

"There's not as much playful stuff on it. It's crazy. It's him being him."

As well as The Eminem Show, we can expect another album from the rapper as he's working on the soundtrack to his debut film 8 Mile.