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Drake Grabs Eminem & Dr Dre For Debut Album

Universal Music, who has a deal with Cash Money/Young Money to distribute their music, recently previewed a part of Drake's upcoming "Thank Me Later" debut album. The preview shows that the album will feature production from Kanye West, Timbaland and other top producers plus the write up shows that Drake has snagged Dr Dre and Eminem for his album.



According to the report, a track ("Fireworks") features a hook from Kings of Leon while another Kanye West-produced track on the album that features some history. It was made by Kanye for Beyonce, but Drake really wanted it so he wrote her a handwritten letter asking if he could use it which Beyonce read thought it was sweet and e-mailed him to give her permission. The Jay-Z/Drake track has a Jay-Z verse which Drake claims it is the greatest verse Jay's ever done. According to other reports, this Saturday Drake will be in L.A. doing a track with Dr. Dre and Eminem.


Lloyd Passes On Cash & Young Money

After he teamed up with Young Money for their recent "Bed Rock" single, singer Lloyd decided NOT to sign with Lil Wayne's Young Money or even Birdman's Cash Money, rather the hit singer has inked with Interscope Records. "Baby and Wayne were definitely the first people to reach out to me. I talked to them about a deal. That's who I thought I'd end up with in my heart," Lloyd explained. "The problem is that Young Money/ Cash Money is exclusive to Universal/ Motown. As you and I know, that's where I did my last two albums. I wasn't excited about going back. I tried to do a Young Money/ Cash Money deal through another distributor, but it couldn't be done. At the end of the day, I'm still family, though."



Lloyd says that doesn't mean he will not be doing collabs with his "family" (Lil Wayne, Cash Money slash Young Money). "I don't feel the need to rush to release an album. It'll be out later this year. I got a couple of title options, but I'm not 100 percent sure yet," he explained. "I love the way Interscope gets down. I love the way Jimmy [Iovine, label head] gets down. I've always had a good working relationship with Polow [da Don, producer]. Having that creative partner is something I wanted to have, since the very beginning, to have that one creative partner. Mike [Jackson] had it with Quincy [Jones], Janet [Jackson] had it with Jimmy [Jam] and Terry [Lewis]. Justin has it with Timbaland. I feel that me and Polow have something special. I'm really looking forward to that. I also admire Jimmy [Iovine] as a producer. He loves producers. He's got Will.I.Am, Dr. Dre, Polow, the Neptunes, Timbaland. That's what he does. I'm looking forward to it."


T-Pain Says Lil Waynes Jail Time Delayes T-Wayne

The long-awaited duet album between T-Pain and Lil Wayne ("T-Wayne") will have to wait a little longer. T-Pain recently said that Weezy's one-year jail sentence will push the album back till 2011. Pain also says that he does not want to put the album out whiel Lil Wayne's "Rebirth" album is currently availble.



"The T-Wayne album, we're actually gonna wait until he gets out," Pain said in an interview. "He has so much going on. He has Rebirth out right now. I don't wanna interrupt that. We just gonna wait until he gets out to really get in on that. We recorded a bunch of songs. But, right now, it's time for him and his personal sh--. We definitely got an album's worth of material, but it's only an album's worth. It's nothing to pick from. We just got an album. We can put out whatever we feel like and say, 'Hey, this is T-Wayne's album,' or we can actually try to make it good. Like we're actually trying to make an album and say, 'This is the good T-Wayne album.' Rather than just record 12 songs and say, 'Here you go, mutha----as! I know you want it. You gonna buy it anyway, just 'cause you think it's good.'"


Stat Quo Works With Dr Dre On Detox

Stat Quo recently talked about working with Dr Dre on his long-awaited "Detox" album. "It's definitely gonna come out," Stat said. "I always said it was gonna come out in 2010 light years ago. I also at one point thought it would never come out. Being around Dre and the energy that's being created, all I can say is that it's incredible. It's totally left-field from what's going on — I really appreciate what he's doing as an artist. Even though from the outside looking in, if I'm other people, I'll be like, 'What's taking him so long?' But it's gonna be worth every second, every hour, every minute. Every week, every year we waited for the album."






"The songs I've heard since I've been around are all really special," he continued. "It's so important to hip-hop that this record comes. It's our saving grace. A lot of the radio stations are going rhythmic and going away from certain types of urban music. You can only go to contemporary station to get certain soul-type music. The whole platform is changing. An album like his can bring a boost to the music that's going on."


"When it was time to put a record out, the powers that be [at Interscope] that keeps the lights on at the company was like, 'We need either a 50 Cent or a Dr. Dre or an Eminem record," Stat tells. "So I had to make the decision: 'OK, it's time to leave.' We parted on good terms. Initially when I first left, I was upset because I wanted to put my album out under that umbrella. At the end of the day, my relationships with Dre and Em is still intact and it's all good."