Kanye West To Produce Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 Album

Kanye West will now produce Jay-Z's next album 'Blueprint 3', after it was claimed he would share production duties with Timbaland.

DJ Mick Boogie revealed the news, writing on his blog: "Kanye will indeed be producing most, if not all, of the album."

"Remember back in the day when an artist would do a whole album with one producer for cohesiveness?" Boogie added. "Think classic or with Primo... and fast forward it to 2008."

Timbaland was said to be in the running for the job, which Jay-Z later played down - saying Timba had gotten a little ahead of himself.

'Blueprint 3' should be released in December and will include the song 'Jockin', which he recently performed live - watch a video of that here.