Eminem debuts new track, Survival, in trailer for the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts

Rapper is 'big part' of video game and plans to release Survival on his forthcoming album

'Coming soon' … no word whether past collaborator Rihanna will appear on Eminem's new album, expected this autumn. Photograph: Kevin Mazur / EM / WireImage
Our first taste of Eminem's new record has appeared in a commercial for a video game. Survival, taken from the rapper's upcoming eighth album, made its debut yesterday in the trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts. Although Survival will not be released as a single, it will appear on Eminem's follow-up to Recovery, Billboard reported.

Across a snarled hook by Liz Rodrigues (and lots of video game gunshots), Eminem raps that he "came up rough / came to ruffle feathers", calling this his "last chance to make this whole stadium erupt". Then again, Marshall Mathers is pretty clear he has no plans to retire (again): "If I don't do this music shit I lose my shit," he spits in the full version of the track. "It's all I know how to do ... I don't own no diploma for school, I quit! So there's nothing for me to fall back on."

Eminem has remained characteristically quiet about his first solo album in three years. He has not announced a concept, a title, a release date, or any of his collaborators. At a surprise appearance last year, in New York, he didn't perform any new material. But according to comments by Shady Records president Paul Rosenberg, the record is due this autumn; and yesterday's press release said the lead single is "coming soon".
"The [new] song's about fighting back and it seems like it fits Ghosts perfectly," Eminem said in yesterday's video statement. "I'm gonna be a big part of the [Call of Duty] game. My new song's in it, got a video dropping for it soon too."
Released in June 2010, Recovery was another massive hit for Detroit's best-known MC, selling more than 10m copies worldwide. It was the top album of the year in the United States, helped by Love the Way You Lie, a team up with Rihanna that became Eminem's bestselling single of all time. Subsequently, Eminem reunited with his former partner Royce da 5'9" under the name Bad Meets Evil, reaching No7 on the UK album charts.