Queen Latifah Returns To Her Rap Roots, Gets Help From Dr. Dre & LL Cool J

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Queen Latifah Returns To Her Rap Roots, Gets Help From Dr. Dre & LL Cool J
Posted: 9/12/2008 12:44:51 PM by Jaymo

Queen Latifah recently revealed that she is returning to her rap roots by releasing an all-rap album in December.

Latifah divulged to Rolling Stone that the album will feature collaborations with LL Cool J, Ludacris and Dr. Dre. Missy Elliot and Swizz Beatz will also be contributing to the album.

“Dre helped me write some stuff. He wrote some stuff with me and Ludacris wrote a record for me,” Latifah revealed. “Lyrically it covers a range of topics. A lot of love on there. People, dealing with people, how people do all kinds of things.”

Latifah hasn't released an all-rap album in ten years. She released two all-singing albums during her hiatus from rap and has been heavily involved in film.

Latifah joked that she almost titled her upcoming album The L Word in response to the lesbian rumors that have dogged her over the years.

“L was gonna stand for love though or La,” Latifah said. “Since people want to play games, I like to jab back sometimes just for fun, but I’m like, ‘Nah, that’s too much energy wasted.”

Latifah has not decided on a title for her upcoming album.

In related Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. news, Latifah will be sharing the big screen with Alicia Keys in an upcoming film titled The Secret Life of Bees. The flick opens on October 17th.

Source: sixshot

[eazye]

cool, I love a large portion of her rap music.she has some amazing material

[Mackin]

^^Yeah She's pretty Dope!1
But not sure she'll fit into todays rap/hip Hop scene, you know?
but let's see what ensues!

[eazye]

^^yup, I agree.And I what's with getting Dre and Luda to write for her?SHe didn't ned any help with the writing back in the days.Well, at least to my knowledge she didn't

anyways, can't say I don't anticipate to see how this turns out

[NillerTheKid]

^^yup, I agree.And I what's with getting Dre and Luda to write for her?SHe didn't ned any help with the writing back in the days.Well, at least to my knowledge she didn't

anyways, can't say I don't anticipate to see how this turns out

Why get Dre to write?

[D-Stress]

good news.
dre as a lyricist?

[Aftershock]

Dre writing these days??? LOLLLL

[Crockett]

she had good tracks on black reign
good production meaningfull lyrics

[Nat Turner-reincarnated]

about time......because she was sellin out like no other......shits getting ridiculous 


how you go from this:

to this:


but anyway

this is good news though......

[Black Excellence]

dope.

[.:TimeLock:.]

about time......because she was sellin out like no other......shits getting ridiculous 


how you go from this:

to this:


but anyway

this is good news though......

lol good point

she started off right and moved on to other shit now she's coming back home. let's welcome back the prodigal daughter

[J Bananas]

Hell yeah.

[Crockett]

Hell yeah.

nice sade pic

that woman is beautiful

[Booz]

Getting help from Dre? You mean D.O.C?
Well anyways, will be interesting to hear what she got.

[k-dogg]

It seem that most of the veterans just can't give hip hop up totally...Even the successful ones like Latifah, LL, Jay-Z...As far as Dre writing, what Dre does better than most is come up with concepts and ideas...I remember reading that Dre left Snoop at his house while he went to work out and gave snoop the ideas Deep Cover...Dre I guess realizes that he is not a writer but he comes up with dope ideas to write about. In the same Queen Latifah interview, she gave Dre props for his writing but I'm sure she was talking about his ideas and concepts.