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As producer and confidant Luis Resto later recalled, "He just started making weird, funny records... almost like he was trying to sabotage the album because he was so upset about the leak."
By early 2004, he had completed what he believed was his masterpiece. The original tracklist was locked, mastered, and even pressed onto promotional CDs. Then, disaster struck. In the spring of 2004, several songs intended for the original Encore leaked onto peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa and LimeWire. In the pre-streaming era, a leak two months before release was a death sentence. Eminem was reportedly furious and heartbroken. He explained in later interviews (notably with XXL and Rolling Stone ) that he felt "violated." eminem encore original tracklist
For fans, the "original Encore tracklist" is more than a set of songs. It is a parallel universe—a timeline where the leak never happened, where the sleeping pills didn't win, and where Eminem ended his classic run with a fourth consecutive masterpiece. Instead, we got a fascinating, flawed, and deeply human artifact of an artist in crisis. As producer and confidant Luis Resto later recalled,
His label, Interscope, faced a brutal choice: release the compromised album or pivot. Eminem chose to pivot. He famously said he went "back to the drawing board"—but the drawing board was a haze of pills. In a matter of weeks, he recorded a batch of new, sillier songs to replace the leaked ones. Then, disaster struck
| # | Song Title | Source | |---|---|---| | 1 | We As Americans | Encore (Deluxe) | | 2 | Love You More | Encore (Deluxe) | | 3 | Yellow Brick Road | Encore (Standard) | | 4 | Like Toy Soldiers | Encore (Standard) | | 5 | Mosh | Encore (Standard) | | 6 | Mockingbird | Encore (Standard) | | 7 | Spend Some Time | Encore (Standard) | | 8 | Never Enough | Encore (Standard) | | 9 | Bully | Encore (Deluxe) | | 10 | One Shot 2 Shot | Encore (Standard) | | 11 | Encore / Curtains Down | Encore (Standard) |
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