Eve Hooks Up With Dre : Rolling Stone

Rapper, designer and actress Eve is set to return to the studio in March to begin recording the follow-up to 2002's Eve-Olution, due in mid-summer.

Making the rounds at the Golden Globes parties in Los Angeles last week, Eve confirmed she'll be reuniting with Dr. Dre on the forthcoming album, who is on board as co-executive producer. "I am back on Dre's label," says Eve, whose contract with Dre's Aftermath expired in the mid-Nineties before she actually recorded her debut album. (Let There Be Eve was released in 1999 through DMX's Ruff Ryders.) For 2005, she says, Dre's "the captain of the ship."

With Dre producing only a few songs, there's room for some other talent. Among those she plans to work with are longtime collaborator Swiss Beatz (Busta Rhymes, Lil' Kim) and Rich Harrison (Destiny's Child, Mary J. Blige), who the twenty-six-year-old calls "an up-and-comer."

But at the top of the wish list is the other Dre. "I would love to get to work with Dre from OutKast," she says of the Grammy-winning hip-hop duo's Andre 3000. "I just want to have fun on this album."

In the meantime, Eve is busy with production on the second season of her self-titled UPN sitcom, about the dating pitfalls of a fashion designer and her friends.