From Streetcred:

“According to Amazon.com, Eminem’s new studio album “Relapse” will be in stores December 23rd.The news is contrary to earlier reports that the album, Eminem’s first in four years, wouldn’t be released until sometime in 2009.”

EDIT: meanwhile, on twitter, Elliot Wilson said that’s a bold-faced lie. Lol.

Meanwhile, from Mixtape Monday:

“It doesn’t look like Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 is coming out this year. There still hasn’t been a video for “Jockin’ Jay-Z (Dope Boy Fresh).” Matter of fact, there hasn’t been a word about the album in weeks, except that Hov is working on it.

The only confirmed information is that Jay and Kanye West have done a bunch of tracks together, and the early talk was that Kanye would be the only producer on the album. That is looking more unlikely now.

And, of course, 50 has voiced his opinion of Kanye’s upcoming “new direction.”