Beanie Sigel recently confirmed to Hot 97's DJ Absolut that he is still on Rocafella Records and is currently working on his fourth solo album for the label titled The Solution.

Discounting earlier reports that he had left Rocafella, the Philly bred lyricist discussed about his anticipated return and fired warning shots to rappers throwing jabs at Jay-Z.

"I'm working on the album in New York, back home in Baseline Studios doing it," Sigel divulged. "I'm the Solution, I'm hear to clear it up, put things back in proper perspective. You can expect that at Rocafella, I'm coming. I took a little vacation to just chill, just to watch things, see what's going on. A lot of people are getting besides themselves."

When asked to reveal what "people," Sigel replied: "We ain't gonna get into all that. I know what the streets wanna know but I ain't dry snitching. I ain't gonna do that. I ain't gonna wake up the dead. When the album drop, I'mma wake 'em up. They gotta pay for this one."

Sigel would then reveal that he will be working with Just Blaze and Jay-Z on the album. He refused to give further details about the project and signed off with words of warning to Hov's rivals.

"I ain't getting into all that right now, it's too early," Beans explained. "I gotta tap up a couple of people. Like I said, a lot of people are getting besides themselves. I guess they ain't know where the Broadstreet Bully stood at. I hear a lot of shots being popped at Big Homey; I'm here to do what I do. Hit man for hire, here I come."

"That was cute though," he continued. What they were doing was cute. Don't get scared now, here I come."

source: sohh
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T.I. is currently putting the finishing touches on his fifth solo album, T.I. vs. T.I.P., which is set for release later this year.

"There's not nobody out there doing what I do as well as I do it," T.I. explained to Billboard magazine about the album's title. "So I see myself as worthy competition for myself."

"I'm working with everybody who I have an opportunity to work with," he told MTV. "Timbaland, I'm working with Danja [Handz] today. Scott Storch, Mannie Fresh, Wyclef. He came through with some real worldly music and great vocals. Nelly, Lil Wayne, R. Kelly. We reached out to Ciara, gonna see what she says. Akon did his thing for me."

"I'm anticipating going in with Eminem," T.I. said. "Eminem, we got a real hot concept that we spoke over the phone. It's gonna be on some real creative shit.?"

He also said that he'll be working with Justin Timberlake again and try to recreate the magic that "My Love" made.

The album's first single, which has yet to be announced, will be issued to radio by early April.

In related news, the Atlanta bred rapper will be co-starring alongside Denzel Washington in the crime drama American Gangster. Set to open in theaters in November, the movie centers on a 1970s drug kingpin (played by Washington) who brings heroin into Harlem, NY by sneaking it into the coffins of American soldiers coming home from Vietnam. T.I. plays Washington's nephew.

T.I. vs. T.I.P will hit stores on July 3 via Grand Hustle/Atlantic Records.

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Legendary competitors, KRS-One and Marley Marl, are teaming up for a project Hip-Hop Lives, due May 22nd on Koch.

Longtime hip-hop fans know that the Juice Crew / BDP beef of the 80's was one hip-hop most infamous early squabbles, (see MC Shan's "The Bridge" and Boogie Down Productions "The Bridge is Over" for a history lesson) but now, long after the dust has settled, the two living legends are recording an album together. Of course, all of this stems from the recent Hip-Hop Is Dead movement, begun by Nas, and the two hope to show that hip-hop most certainly lives on in 2007. The first single will be "Kill A Rapper", which deals with many unsolved mysteries behind asassinated hip-hop legends.
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Rakim that he will be releasing his new album, The Seventh Seal, on 07/07/07 (a Saturday).

The album will be released independently on his own label, Ra Records, however it is still unclear if he has picked a bigger distributor to help get it on to store shelves (and make that July 7, 2007 street date). Rakim has been tight lipped about the material that will be included on the album, but a few details - which could change - have been floating around. The first single is apparently "It's Nothing", which was performed on a VH1 special, a couple of weeks back.

As far as guests go, it has been rumored that Nas will appear, but it's not definite.

"Hopefully we'll get a chance to get it in and do something special in the studio man. If it ain't special I'm not gonna try to do it," Rakim told About.Com in 2006. "If it's just a beat and he spits 16 and I spit 16 then I ain't gonna do it. But, if it's something that makes sense and it's special, then we'll do it."

Other speculation centers around whether or not the album will include tracks that Rakim recorded for the vaulted Aftermath release, Oh My God. Rumor has it that Dre allowed Rakim to keep any material that was recorded for the cancelled release, after he left the label.

source: hiphopsite.com