Eminem is making his “Relapse” a double: not only did the best selling rapper reveal the release date for his highly-anticipated return to the rap game, but he announced that the follow-up will drop in 2009 too.

“Relpase,” Eminem’s first full album of new material in four years, is due from Interscope/Aftermath/Shady on May 19. The album’s first single, “Crack the Bottle,” is currently at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second album, “Relapse 2,” is promised before the end of the year. “A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year,” said Eminem in a statement. “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.”

Los Angeles County prosecutors charged R&B singer Chris Brown with two felonies on Thursday, including assault and making criminal threats.

Check out photos of Rihanna and boyfriend Chris Brown before the alleged assault.
Brown was arrested last month after he allegedly beat up his girlfriend, pop star Rihanna, in Hancock Park following a pre-Grammy Awards party.
In the case handled by the District Attorney’s Family Violence Division, Brown, 19 was charged with one count each of “assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury” and “making criminal threats.”

Accoring to a statement from the DA’s office, the victim is identified only as Robyn F. Rihanna’s full name is Rihanna Robyn Fenty.

Brown is scheduled to appear for arraignment at 3:30 p.m. in Los Angeles. He has been free on $50,000 bail since his arrest on Feb. 8 by Los Angeles police.

There’s no doubt this is going to get a whole lot worse before it starts to get better. The whole ‘back together’ thing sure throws an interesting spanner in the works.