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After months of product placement with his Beats By Dre headphone line and spots in ads by Dr. Pepper and HP, it looks as though Dr. Dre's Detox album may be getting its first single this week.

According to the Twitter account of E! News' Michael Yo, the legendary producer will be hooking up with one of Hip Hop's premier artists for his first single: "Look for it this week New Jay Z and Dr Dre!!!" tweeted Yo.

Michael Yo later added that Interscope Records was "buzzing" about the as-of-now unnamed song. According to YouHeardThatNew.com, the track has been described as "up-tempo," and is indeed intended as Detox's first single.

More on this as it develops.

According to an executive at Capital Records, they have signed one of the hottest free-agents in the hip hop industry, G-Unit leader, 50 Cent. During a recent interview, Capital/EMI Vice President of Urban Promotions Craig Davis said that 50 Cent had signed a deal with the record label. "Now I'm over at Capitol Records and got a great roster over at Capitol," Davis said in an interview. "[We] got Snoop Dogg over there, got Anita Baker over there, Al Green over there, got LeToya Luckett over there, got Bobby Valentino over there. A really, really great roster there, Raekwon [too.] We just signed a 50 Cent deal over there....50 thought he needed to get out of the Interscope machine, he wanted to do a new change so he got his release from there, we were in negotiations with him and the deal just got signed very recently. And now we got 50 Cent on the label, I think we'll probably have Lloyd Banks cut in his first cut and then 50's gonna come out later on."