Interscope head honcho Jimmy Iovine gave an interesting interview to Billboard explaining the delay behind all those 4th albums we were promised (50, Eminem, Dre, etc). He made an interesting point which I absolutely agree with: “Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.”

As for Eminem’s album being pushed back:

” I’ll tell you about Eminem. We only tried to put him out this year to replace Dr. Dre, but we got into a quagmire. Eminem was always coming next year. But what happened was, I lost Dr. Dre to Eminem. Dre had to stop making his album to finish Eminem’s album. Eminem hit a streak, and when a guy like Eminem gets on fire, you stop everything. That’s how we lost Dre.”

The moral of the story? Eminem is more important than Dr. Dre.