*A date and price for a new Kanye West album entitled "808's & Heartbreak" surfaced yesterday on Amazon.com and Target.com, all but confirming earlier reports that his new album is definitely due by year's end.
According to presale information on the two retails sites, the album has a price of $13.98 and a release date of Dec. 16. Def Jam, meanwhile, has neither confirmed nor denied the information.
Kanye's album will reportedly include his new song "Love Lockdown," which he performed at MTV's Video Music Awards on Sunday, and again Tuesday night at New York's Knitting Factory.
Besides working on his next LP, West has been producing Jay-Z's "Blueprint 3" — which the pair premiered a track from at Kanye's Madison Square Garden show last month — and he appears on upcoming LPs by T-Pain ("Thr33 Ringz"), DJ Khaled ("We Global") and T.I. ("Paper Trail").