When asked about his upcoming Black album, Jay-Z has said, "I'm trying to get a song on there with Prince, then I'm good," Hov disclosed of his plans for his next and supposedly last LP, The Black Album (see "Jay-Z Taking It 'Way Back To The Roots' On New Album"). "I [worked with] Michael Jackson [before], I got that one done. So for Prince to be the last one, I'mma be good."

Jay, who resumes the Rock the Mic Tour with 50 Cent on Wednesday (July 2), says that he's just four songs into The Black Album and he'll be recording on the road. Of the four tracks in the can, he says he's not sure how many of those will make the album, but he's positive that a cut he did with producer Rick Rubin will be featured.

"I wanna make it a prequel to Reasonable Doubt, I want it to feel like that," Jay, seated next to Memphis Bleek, continued to explain. "It's gonna be 12 songs with 12 of the producers I respect. One from Timbaland, one from [Dr.] Dre, one from the Neptunes, one from Eminem."

Besides the possibility of having Prince appear, Jay said his Rock the Mic co-headliner, 50 Cent, may also pop up on the record.

Jigga smiled about The Black Album being his last LP after saying that he was 99 percent sure it would be his swan song. "Nobody believes me, huh?" he said.

While one career ends, another one could very well commence, because Jay says he's taking his act to Hollywood.

"I didn't come into the rap game just to be a rapper, I came to be a CEO. I didn't want to go into the movie business just to be an actor, I want to write scripts, produce, direct. Whatever house I mess with, they gotta give me a little house. I can shoot the 'New Jack City,' I can shoot it for real."
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According to HipHopSite.com, while DJ Kayslay has been a staunch advocate of Nas over the years, even going so far as to break the imposed guidelines (not playing his material) set forth by Hot 97 after Nas' Summer Jam meltdown last year, there relationship has rapidly plummeted since Kay Slay released his major-label debut, The Streetsweeper Vol.1, due to Nas being a no-show at the video shoot for the LP's lead single "Too Much For Me" which also featured Amerie, Foxy Brown and Baby. Nas claims a beef with Columbia over the Bravehearts LP (exec's rejected the LP because they felt Nas did not appear enough to make it a marketable LP) resulted in his absence, others claim it had to do with Foxy Brown's inclusion on the record. Another theory is that the inclusion of Loon on the remix (replacing Nas) also led to the fray, as Nas' boo Kelis apperance apparently wasn't cleared for Loon's "How You Want That". Whatever the case maybe, Kay Slay has not taken the slight lightly and will be dropping two new mixtapes in the coming weeks, one of which will be dedicated to dissing his rival, DJ Clue , and the other dedicated to dissing Nas that will be entitled Death Of The Fake Prophet; which will include a previously recorded Nas diss track from Sauce Money w/ Jay-Z, and more disses from Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Cormega, MC Shan, Cam'ron, Noreaga, and 50 Cent. Funny thing is, while Nas is acquiring a 2Pac length list of enemies, like Pac, it's in turn making him more popular than ever. And he didn't even have to tie a bandana around his head!!
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KRS injunction has forced Koch records to remove his latest album, KRStyles, KRS and Koch have agreed to release a new version of the LP under the appropriate title KRStyle , which better suite "his intended vision." Including the previously excluded "J.M.J Tribute" , 3 new tracks, and mixes of all of the material, Koch reportedly used tracks which were not only not mixed properly, but unfinished.

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MC Lyte, Chuck D, Busta Rhymes, Phife Dawg, and Aerosmith have recorded a track entitled Let's Get Loud and shoot a video, which will debut as the opener for ESPN's yearly ESPY awards.

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O.B.D's Roc-A-Fella debut while be joint venture with 1/2 being produced by RZA and the other half produced by the Neptunes, Just Blaze, and Kanye West. The album is expected to be done and released by Christmas.