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.

Guess who’s back?

Some four years after the release of his last full studio album, 2004’s Encore, Eminem confirmed Wednesday night that his new LP will be called Relapse. Em made the announcement during a launch party for his new autobiography, “The Way I Am,” and previewed a track from the effort, titled “I’m Having a Relapse,” which kicks off with the familiar lyric “Guess whose back?,” before he launches into his trademark flow.

While rumors have suggested the disc would be dubbed King Mathers, among other titles, the reclusive Eminem put those rumors to rest Wednesday in an interview with Angea Yee from the rapper’s Sirius Satellite channel, Shade 45.

“There are a lot of fake album titles floating out there — a lot of bullsh– titles,” he told Yee. “The real title of my album that’s coming out is called Relapse.”

What’s T.I’ s reaction to having the #1 and #2 songs in the country? Well, it’s not what you might expect.

“I was very disturbed and exhilarated at the same time,” the King of the South said with a snicker in his hotel room Tuesday afternoon. “It’s never nice to be knocked from #1, but it makes it feel better when you’re knocked from #1 by your own song. … Nah, I was joking. For real, it was cool. I didn’t even know. Somebody told me in conversation. I was like, ‘Oh yeah? Cool.’ That’s how I felt. Time to move on to the next one.”

By now, every true Britney Spears fan knows that the singer has teamed up with MTV for a documentary — tentatively titled “For The Record” and airing November 30 — about her comeback and the recent hardships that led up to it. But that’s not all!

It turns out the video for Womanizer, the first single from he forthcoming album Circus, was a little too hot for ABC, which premiered the clip on “20/20″ on Friday night (October 10). Well, it’s not too hot for us! We have the full, uncensored clip for your viewing pleasure.

The biggest difference between the two clips? Well, in two words: more nudity.

You’re welcome! 

A few days ago, 50 told Blender Magazine that he was still in Detroit working on Self Destruct with Eminem. He said they had at least one song called “Norman Bates Motel” completed.

“Dre sent over a bunch of beats, and we’re just going through them all, picking out who wants what,” 50 told the mag. “We already finished one joint and just started vocals on another. It’s gonna blow you away, I guarantee.” 

Here’s his new track, Get Up. 

The unlikely stars of Ice Cube’s new video are the grieving relatives of a 17-year-old high school football star who was shot to death outside his home.

The song “Why Me?” speaks out against senseless violence and gun crime devastating communities. Cube says Jamiel Shaw Jr.’s family is a powerful illustration of the pain that lingers after a murder.

“It just was a tragic, tragic story of why,” Cube says. “Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere.”

Shaw had been on track for a college sports scholarship when he was gunned down in March a few yards from his house in a working-class neighborhood south of downtown Los Angeles, California. His mother was serving in the Army in Iraq at the time.

Pedro Espinoza, an illegal immigrant and suspected gang member who had been released from jail a day earlier on weapons charges, has pleaded not guilty to murder.

Prosecutors say Espinoza drove to Shaw’s neighborhood and shot him after asking him about his gang affiliation. Police have said Shaw was never in a gang.

The rap video begins with the tightly framed, sorrow-filled faces of Shaw’s parents and aunt. His father recounts a final conversation with his son.

“To drive this home, it was only right to use real family and not use a bunch of actors,” Cube says.

His video features photographs of dozens of other crime victims blowing from a tree, then across the sand in the desert. It also depicts a young man in a football jersey being gunned down on a street. As he lays dying, he asks, “Why me homie, why me?”

Espinoza’s early release from jail led the Shaws to call for the passage of “Jamiel’s Law,” which would push Los Angeles police to crack down on illegal immigrant gang members.

Cube says the video is not meant as an endorsement of the move.

“It ain’t really a commentary on that,” he says. “You’ve got a person being killed by a person he don’t know for a reason he don’t know … Who cares if it was an immigrant or if it was a taxpaying citizen?”

For the Shaws, appearing in the video was a chance to further their petition drive to qualify the proposed law for the November ballot.

“Every time I start watching it, I start crying,” Jamiel Shaw Sr. says. “At the same time, I feel good that we are getting the word out.”

Kanye West’s long-rumored HBO show doesn’t seem like it will be getting off the ground anytime soon. Writer and producer Larry Charles, who was affiliated with the project, recently told Comingsoon.net that, for now, HBO seems to have curbed its enthusiasm about it.

“It was really good, but … I think it was too hard-core for HBO. Also, HBO’s management shifted. HBO doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to black shows, and I felt like that may have had something to do with it also,” he told the site. “I don’t see a lot of shows about that experience at all. This was very entertaining and we showed it to a lot of people. People gave it a very good response, and it seems to be on the shelf right now. The management has shifted at HBO so we’re waiting to see.”

Charles did say that the show is roughly Kanye’s version of Larry David’s show, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” an idea that Kanye thought up himself. “What Kanye West said to me the first time, he said, ‘I’m the black Larry David.’ That’s the first thing he said to me. So it’s like a Kanye-and-’Curb’ show, it’s kind of improvised about the situations and stuff.