Eminem has caused Dr Dres Detox album release date to be put back even further.

Interscope label boss Jimmy Iovine has revealed that the long-delayed Detox record will not come out this year because of the producers protégé.

He said: "We got into a quagmire- Eminem was always coming next year. But what happened was I lost Dr Dre to Eminem.

Dre had to stop making his album to finish Eminem's album. Eminem hit a streak, and when a guy like Eminem gets on fire, you stop everything. That's how we lost Dre."

Eminem's album Relapse- his first for four years- will be out in early 2009.

Fans of Dr Dre are still waiting on a release date for Detox. The rapper and producer's last album 2001 was (confusingly) released in 1999.