50 Cent eyes Eminem collaboration

50 Cent wants to release an album with Eminem, it has been revealed.

The 'Candy Shop' rapper would release an LP with the 'Lose Yourself' star "in a heartbeat" - but only if they each wrote half the LP and merged the singles intermittently onto the CD, rather than singing and writing together.

He said: "Unless we was doing something where half of it was his and half of it was mine. And conceptually, maybe if he came up with the first six songs and I built the last six songs and we just featured on each other's records, you know what I'd mean? We'd do that in a heartbeat."

However, the 34-year-old hip hop star says their already-hectic work schedules might stop them from collaborating.

He explained: "I'd love to. We haven't seriously discussed making an album together, because we would have to sit collectively and create each song."

Earlier this year, 50 Cent - real name Curtis James Jackson III - said he was thrilled with his friend's return to the music scene and praised Eminem for his comeback LP 'Relapse'.

He said: "It's great. I think you should expect it to go up. I think that the first single 'We Made You' was one of his better records lyrically.

"Obviously, he felt the same way."