Eminem To Bow Out As An Emcee; Planning To Produce Full-Time?

Eminem is reportedly hanging up his mic very soon. According to various reports, the emcee's latest album -- Encore -- will more than likely be his last, as he plans to take up producing and running his label full-time.

His final performance will be in Dublin, Ireland, on Sept. 17, the Detroit Free Press said.

Paul Rosenberg, who is Em's longtime manager, told the paper that there was no official decision made as of yet, but said Encore was "certainly the cap on this part of his career" and that decision to retire was held off by the retirement of fellow Hip-Hop superstar, Jay-Z.

"He didn't want to seem like one of those guys who's playing a trick on his fans, or playing with their heads," Rosenberg told the Detroit Free Press. "It's part of the same struggle he goes through in his music -- 'How much of my inner thinking should I be putting out there?'"

According to the paper, Eminem (real name: Marshal Mathers) has grown weary of being in the limelight and feels like he has accomplished everything he can as a rapper.

"Marshall feels he's said everything he can say as Eminem," one insider was quoted as saying. "The idea that he intended this (Encore) to be his last record is something that everyone on the inside circle has known for a while."

His final track on Encore was "Curtains Down," which may have been an early hint to fans of the rapper's plan. Also in the liner notes, and in his current concert tour, Mathers has played up the figurative death of Eminem.

"This is how you go out with a bang, baby," Mathers says in one video," after pulling the trigger of a pistol that misfires on himself.

Interscope Records reps were unavailable for comment at press time.

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