latifah has a rap album ready to go..

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DENVER - Queen Latifah is getting a little jazzier.

Five albums and 15 years after her hard-hitting hip-hop debut “All Hail the Queen,” Queen Latifah is poised to release the jazz-obsessed “The Dana Owens Album” in which she sings standards.

“This is definitely not a one-shot deal,” the singer, whose real name is Dana Owens, told The Denver Post in Sunday’s editions. “Hopefully, with the success of it, I’ll be in it till I’m dead. I’ve always looked at singing as something I can do forever. I don’t know if I can rap forever. I don’t know that I can stay as hot as the hottest girl in the game.”

It was her experience in the 1998 feature film “Living Out Loud,” co-starring alongside Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito, that led to her new album. She played nightclub singer Liz Bailey and sang a couple of jazz standards.

“The Dana Owens Album” is released this week.

The new album, where she tackles songs by Al Green and The Mamas & the Papas, is something of a departure for an artist whose last record was “Order in the Court,” one of 1998’s better efforts at combining R&B and hip-hop.

[b]But she said she has a fully formed and finished hip-hop album in her back pocket just waiting for the right label. [/b]“I figured I’d drop this album first,” she said. Still, her long-term plans are obvious. “Don’t be surprised if I’m 65 and playing Vegas.”

[JumpinJack AJ]

Thank GOD!!! I can't wait 4 her 4 her 2 drop that Hip-Hop. I've heard 2 trax off the other album and it's the last thing i want from her.

[WildWildWillennium]

Yeah!! Great newz. Just a matter of time now. Thanx!

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[quote]Queen Latifah's New Album Won't Be Rap
Posted on Wednesday, July 21 @ 20:39:50 PDT by MusicMan


Queen Latifah is teaming up with CoverGirl and Atlantic Records to release a new charity cd; CG Vibes: Music That Gives Back. She revealed she's got a new album out later this year, but it's not rap, but an eclectic album. She would like to work with Jay-Z though. Watch a report including an interview with the rapper/actress from WB11.[/quote]



if she collabed with jay-z it would be hot!

[willsmithfan1]

Thanks for letting us know

[trexican]

Newsweek paints it much differently, as if she has given up rap, saying "call her anything but a rapper"-trex

[JumpinJack AJ]

I just cant' bring myself 2 buy this album...but as a long time Latifah fan, i'll have 2 get it sometime. It would feel right putting it in my Hip-Hop CD section...but how am i gonna seperate it from her other albums...that's like getting a divorce and making the kids live in different houses. :roll: When i find it real cheap online, i'll get it.

TAXI comes out this week...i can't wait 2 see that. I hate Jimmy Fallen, but if anyone can make one of his movies barable, it would be her.

I waz just looking at the album (again) 2nite. My friends were like "what r u lookin' at" and i'm like "Queen Latifah's new album...i can't get it tho'...it's some weird Jazz/Soul/Pop cover album." None of them knew it came out. One of them is a Hip-Hop fan, and the other 2 are Top 40 fans so she's not really reaching anyone with this album at all.