The album began as a street mixtape project;an underground,unofficial CD with raw production values. "But what happened is that the material was so good and the tracks were getting produced like a regular album",Eminem said:"Instead of putting it out there rough and unfinished,I thought we should add some other new tracks,make it a real album,and put it in the record stores to give these new artists a real boost".[3]
Rampant misinformation about Eminem Presents:The Re-Up included many false internet track listings and the claim that the mixtape would be a tribute to the late Proof of D12. "The D12 album and those unreleased songs with Proof are coming",said Eminem,"but The Re-Up is about these new artists and these new songs. It isn't fair to them or to the memory of Proof to mix them up".[4]
The Re-Up's cover art was drawn by Eminem,[5] and depicts the featured artists except for Akon and Nate Dogg,the only two artists that are not signed to Shady,Aftermath or G-Unit.[citation needed]
Critical response to Eminem Presents:The Re-Up was mixed. At Metacritic,which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics,the album has received an average score of 50,based on the 13 reviews.
Commercial performance
Eminem Presents:The Re-Up debuted at number 2 on US Billboard 200 chart,selling about 309,000 copies in its first week.[16] In its second week,the album fell to number 13 in the Billboard 200,selling 151,000 copies.[17] As of March 16,2007,the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),for selling of one million copies in the United States.[18] As of January 2016,worldwide sales are at 2,051,000.[19]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
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