Kanye West Working Away On 808's & Heartbreak

Kanye West has been busy working on his new album, 808's and Heartbreak for some time now. He's revealed that his album is set to be released before year's end and he has even released the first single, "Love Lockdown" [click to listen]. Now, he's blogging about this and the alleged release date showdown that he may re create with 50 Cent.

"I just woke up from a quick studio nap," he wrote in his blog this week. "I've been workin' on 808s and Heartbreak about 16 hours a day and [I] passed out for a little bit ... I'm in Hawaii but I'm still on New York time so I wake up mad early, do some business, blog, jog for an hour, play ball, eat and then hit the stu [sic] by noon. While approving the final cut for the 'Love Lockdown' vid, I marvel at the fact that it was written less than three weeks ago."

Later, Kanye added that he's excited about his album coming together and he even sent a shout out to Fif.

"I'm very excited about the everything ... I guarantee this will be 50's favorite album of mine. This will be gangster's album of the year."

As it stands, the West and cent albums are not scheduled to be released on the same date. Instead, they are currently a week apart, but that could easily change. If the two emcees chose to battle it out on the same release date, it could be done soon. More on this as it develops.