A new Eminem song produced by Dr. Dre: That’s what DJs Big Mike and Neptune are advertising on their joint mixtape, 4th Quarter Pressure Part 2.

Labeled “Number One” on the mixtape, Em introduces himself as Slim Shady and starts singing the hook over a beat that has a big snare and medium-paced, flowing bass.

“So crack a bottle, let your body waddle/ Don’t act just like a sloppy model, you just hit the lotto,” Em raps melodically. “Uh-oh, uh-oh, b—-es, hoppin’ in my Tahoe/ I got one riding shotgun, and not one of them got clothes.”

Outkast will release three separate albums in 2009- according to one half of the hip hop legends.

Big Boi told us that his record will be out early next year- with an Andre 3000 album and proper Outkast record due later.

He said: “Me and ‘Dre were on the conference call (recently). He’s working on his album; my album is done. We’re gonna wait until the top of the year — January or February — to put it out.”

“Then ‘Dre is gonna come hit y’all, and [then] we’re gonna do the Outkast album. So y’all gonna get three records from the ‘Kast next year.”

“There’s no comparison in us as artists,” 50 told MTV recently. “We’re almost the yin and yang, it’s almost the opposite. It’s almost taboo for you to make a love record from a Hip Hop perspective. That was actually reserved for LL Cool J and ‘I Need Love’ and ‘I Can Love You Better.’ He was the only Hip Hop artist that actually did that prior to what I see coming from Kanye, and for him to make an entire love album. Like it’s pretty much based on love and Auto-Tunes, 808’s and heartbreak. I can’t wait to see what this does.”

Last year, Fif and Ye faced off in a record sales show down with 50 promising to retire if he lost. Obviously not a man of his word in this instance, 50 is set to release his next album Before I Self Destruct on December 9.

Conflicting reports are coming in about the release date for Eminem’s Relapse. While some media outlets are reporting the album is due out on December 23, others are saying the release date for the rapper’s new LP is still listed as “TBA.”

According to Amazon, the highly anticipated album will be available for purchase on December 23. Recent reports are suggesting that not only is there still no release date for the project, but that the name of the project has not been confirmed either.

“I’m always working. I’m always in the studio. It feels good right now, the energy of the label,” Em said of the new work in a previous interview. “I was going through some personal things with 50. We had some court dates, some drug problems and so on. But we are both coming out of those personal things, it feels good.”

Four Hip-Hop moguls will release their new albums before the year ends, including Eminem, Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre.

“It’s exciting times and, of course, there’s massive expectation surrounding this new record,” a source told the site. “But the fans need not worry about its quality. Most of the music’s being mastered at the moment. There’s a real belief the album will go stellar.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Caroline Kennedy appeared together Wednesday afternoon for the kickoff of the “Shop for Public Schools” fundraiser that will benefit New York City area schools.

“Shop for Public Schools,” which began in 2004, started when a collection of retailers approached Kennedy, who is the vice-chair of The Fund for Public Schools, asking how they could help. The Fund for Public Schools has raised over $230 million for New York public schools since its inception in 2002.

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The hip-hop artist was seen at the Marlies Dekkers’ runway show Sunday night getting some inspiration for his own lingerie line.

“You may have heard that I might be launching a lingerie line for men and woman,” he told Women Wear Daily. “Comfort and intimacy is very important.”

Usher features some of his intimate designs in his new music video for his song “Trading Places.”

Jay-Z will throw his heavy weight around and lend support to the Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama. With the support and encouragement of Jay, hopefully this will get more young people to vote.

Jay will be giving two free concerts this weekend to back Obama in the cities of Detroit on Saturday (October 4) followed by another free performance in Miami on Saturday (October 5). The tickets for each of these concerts will be given out at the local Obama campaign offices in those cities.

Just last week, Obama, who admitted a fondness for Jay-Z and Kanye West, expressed his support for Hip-Hop during an interview with MTV Host/Hip-Hop personality Sway, following a presidential rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. He also praised the entrepreneurial mind state that rappers often possess.

“In the past, musicians oftentimes were commodities.” Obama told MTV News. “They were just shuffled around…they did well, but they didn’t have the vision to say, ‘I’m going to build a business. I’m going to build my own studio. I’m going to create my own production operations.’ I think they’re a lot more sophisticated than in the past, and that is a wonderful thing.”

Janet Jackson has been rushed to hospital after falling ill just hours before she was due to perform a concert in Montreal.The singer, 42, is currently being monitored by doctors, according to W&W Public Relations.

Jackson hopes to reschedule her show, which was due to take place last night. Last Friday, she cancelled a concert in Detroit because of “production constraints”.