In its second week, the album fell to number 13 in the Billboard 200, selling 151,000 copies. 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.Įminem Presents: The Re-Up debuted at number 2 on US Billboard 200 chart, selling about 309,000 copies in its first week. Reception Professional ratings Aggregate scoresĬritical response to Eminem Presents: The Re-Up was mixed. The Re-Up's cover art was drawn by Eminem personally, and depicts the featured artists except for Akon and Nate Dogg, the only two artists that are not signed to Shady/Aftermath. It isn't fair to them or to the memory of Proof to mix them up'. '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. 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. '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'. The album began as a street mixtape project an underground, unofficial CD with raw production values.

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