Sticks and stones may break their bones, but names will only encourage them.

Eminem and Marilyn Manson, arguably pop music's most controversial artists, have recorded a rock version of the rapper's "The Way I Am" from last year's The Marshall Mathers LP. The pair were in the studio earlier this year, according to an Interscope Records spokesperson, but no release date has been set.

Eminem's song, which makes no apologies for the outspoken MC's shockingly violent persona, namechecks Manson as another infamous scapegoat for society's problems.