Queen Latifah Enlists Dr. Dre For Upcoming Rap Disc

According to Rolling Stone, the rapper-turned-actress has been putting the finishing touches on her latest untitled effort. Admitting she received a majority of help from Dre and rap legend LL Cool J, Latifah zoomed in for who’s on board for the album.

She credits Dre for his song writing abilities on the album.

Ludacris wrote a record for me.”

While no official title has been chosen, she did confess to playing with a few different names including “The L Word.”

“Since people want to play games, I like to jab back sometimes just for fun,” she added. “But I’m like, ‘Nah, that’s too much energy wasted.’”

Following-up her 2007 jazz-based album Trav’lin Light, the female rap icon will be returning to her hip-hop roots as she addresses a range of topics dealing with people’s actions and decisions in life. Latifah confessed that’s she doesn’t even know who else is involved with the project.

“I did all my parts and then I went on vacation,” she explained. “So they put people on it while I was gone and they’ve been waiting to talk to me to surprise me. I’m actually supposed to talk to them and find out who the hell is on that damn album. I’m sure there is no one on there I don’t like.”

The untitled album is currently scheduled to drop winter 2008 on Motown Records.

In related news, Latifah will be featured in the upcoming film The Secret Life of Bees alongside cast members Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson. Based on the 2002 best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, the story takes place in South Carolina around 1964 as a young girl is haunted by the thoughts of her late mother.
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