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Eve Aligns With Swizz Beatz Label

By Hillary Crosley, N.Y.
Publication: Billboard
Date: Monday, April 10 2006
Rapper Eve has aligned with producer Swizz Beatz's Full Surface imprint, which previously fell under the J Records umbrella but is now a part of Interscope. She remains affiliated to Dr. Dre's Aftermath label, having split with Ruff Ryders after the 2002 release of "Eve-olution."

That set debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No. 6 on The Billboard 200. It has sold 629,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

"I'm doing all the work," Swizz Beatz tells Billboard.com. "[The album] should be out in the fourth quarter [of 2006]." A post on Aftermath's Web site last summer said both Dr. Dre and Scott Storch would be contributing to the production on the as-yet-untitled set.

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