Mr. Hudson: Rihanna's Album To Be Special

I’d love to work with Rihanna. I’m gonna have to chuck a couple of beats at her and see what she thinks. “I don’t get the impression she’s in any sort of rush to make a record and stick it out. I think she wants to make something that’s going to be really important and talked about. I think it’s going to be a really special album.”

Rihanna's album will surely be an interesting one and as we know Rihanna it will be mad successful too.

MGMT, Drake, Mr. Hudson, Rihanna & Kid Cudi on The Blueprint 3

"Blueprint 3" has taken longer to record than any of Jay-Z's previous albums. The rapper says he finished the project in November, then held it back as he negotiated with Def Jam. "The time gave me a chance to step back, touch it, step back, touch it, rework it. Then I had to keep motivating myself because of the current state of music. My album is a single album, but it's part of a collective -- the collectiveness of hip-hop," he says.

So Jay-Z took his time, and let his hair grow out -- as he usually does when he's in the studio -- and came back with collaborations with producers Kanye West, No I.D. and Timbaland, as well as musician contributions from MGMT, Drake, Mr. Hudson, Rihanna and Kid Cudi. (As of now, there are no collaborations with Beyonce, although he doesn't rule out the possibility.)

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The Blueprint 3 is definitely one of the albums that I anticipate most this year. Now with these confirmed collabos you can tell Jay is not jokin with his third part of the Blueprint series. I'm especially looking forward to hearing what Mr. Hudson, Rihanna (no Beyoncé related comment here needed!) and Kid Cudi bring to the album.