Eminem has seen the top of the mountain, and at this point, he’s happy to let someone else take his perch. Despite a mega-platinum run earlier in the decade that saw him rising to the pinnacle of rap superstardom, the MC told BBC Radio over the weekend that he’s had it with fame.

“I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to oversaturate,” he said, adding that he made his upcoming record, Relapse, mainly as a means of reminding people that he can still bring it. “That’s probably what I take pride in most. … But, at the end of the day, it’s kind of catch-22. I love the attention, but I don’t like too much of it. … There’s no desire to be that big again. Whatever happens, I’ll take it, but that’s definitely not what I’ll be recording the songs for.”

Em has been on hiatus since 2005 and hasn’t released a new album since 2004’s Encore. After such a wait, scaling back on the hype for this album will be hard, especially since, according to his BBC Radio interview, his main collaborator on Relapse is none other than original mentor Dr. Dre.

“For the last five months I’ve been working pretty much straight with Dre,” he said. “There’s going to be a lot of material, more so than I’ve had on an album with him producing before.” Though Dre has worked on all of Eminem’s albums since his 1997 debut, the production legend took on a bigger load on Relapse because Em said he didn’t want to have to worry about producing this time around.

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