The success of the horrendously lazy Eminem/Dr. Dre/50 Cent single "Crack a Bottle" has been making the radio a whole lot less listenable in recent weeks, but it looks like it'll have at least one potentially great side-effect: Eminem's album now has a release date!On May 19, Relapse, the first Eminem album since 2004's puzzlingly awful Encore, will finally be out on Interscope/Aftermath/Shady. And according to a new press release, Relapse won't be the only new Eminem album out this year. Before 2010, Em also plans to release Relapse 2. Given how many times Em's pushed back the first Relapse, I'd be shocked if we actually see Relapse 2 anytime soon, but that's what the man says, anyway. (When we last reported on Relapse, Em was saying it would be out by the end of 2008, so take that into account.) In that press release, Em explains: "A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year. I was one of them. Then Dre and I went back in the studio in September for a few days, and that turned into six months. We were on such a roll; we wound up with a ton of new music produced by Dre. Putting out Relapse 2 will let everyone get all of the best stuff." It's been a long, long time since we've heard about either Em or Dre being on any sort of roll, so this is definitely good news. Also "Crack a Bottle" is apparently not the album's official first single, since the press release claims that the first single and video from Relapse will be out on April 7. The total garbageness of "Crack a Bottle" aside, Em remains one of the greatest rappers on the face of the earth when he actually gives enough of a shit. "I'm Having a Relapse", a satellite radio freestyle that Em dropped last fall, is dementedly great in a 1999 sort of way, and that has my hopes up. In any case, it's just good to see Eminem out in the world again. Since that last album, Em's been dodging all sorts of retirement and drug-addiction rumors, and the world has been worse off without him.