Supposedly, last year’s Encore was scheduled to be Slim’s last release as he readies to focus on production rather than rap. However, Em addressed the retirement rumors during his Anger Management 3 set at Washington’s White River Amphitheatre. “How many of you all read the tabloids? Cause there’s some shit goin’ around that I’m retiring,” Em told the crowd.

Slim then noted that the article next to the retirement story was a piece about the moon “to blow up today.” He then added, “I’m retiring? then I guess the moon just blew up” before mooning the crowd. Em added that if he ever retired and decided to come back his new stage name would be “Rain Man.”

Meanwhile, his publicist, Dennis Dennehy, says there’s no truth to reports from MTV this week claiming Emimen had indeed denied retiring.

“Basically MTV made an inference. The statement is that ‘Encore’ is the close of the first chapter of Eminem’s career. Beyond that, no decisions have been made.”