Eminem knows how to market a new album. For his last few albums, it the strategy was to set the release date, leak them early, and then run a publicity campaign announcing that they would be released early.

Well, that was 5 years ago. Now he has social networking.

In 2009, the Elvis of Rap is bypassing radio and putting up songs, one at a time, online.

The well-placed strategic leak is the new airplay.

Note how Eminem very smartly doesn’t release all the songs at once. Note how they are never released in the same way. For example, on the weekend he sneaked ‘3AM’ onto the market through YouTube. The leak for today’s song ‘Old Times Sake’ comes via gigya.

The song will be on the next Eminem album ‘Relapse’ which is less than two weeks away.

Have a listen to ‘Old Times Sake’ in the embedded video.

Ludacris gets electrocuted by Electrik Red on the remix to the R&B quartet’s raunchy “We F U.” You may want to put on your headphones while listening to this X-rated song.

Electrik Red f/ Ludacris & The-Dream – “We F U (Remix)”

This is looking to be a hot documentary on sampling! Peep the trailer…