Rapper Grabs A-List Help For Album
12:00PM ET July 8, 2010
Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff
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New Orleans rapper Mystikal is looking to hit the ground running now that he's been released from prison. He is already looking to hit the studio with some big name artists and producers. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes will both be featured and producers Pharrell Williams and Mannie Fresh are among the men handling the boards.

"Everything is lined up for me, it's amazing,” Mystikal told MTV News. “I didn't throw pity parties for myself [while in prison]. I knew I was too blessed to be stressed and I knew I was gonna get through it. I'm still on Jive. I still have an obligation to fulfill with them guys. We gonna do it in a major way." Pharrell produced some of Mystikal's biggest hits, including the smash "Shake It Fast," and the rapper is especially excited to be re-teaming with Williams. "I just talked to him the other day," said Mystikal. "He says he got an armored-tank beat for me. I can't wait to hear what that sounds like."

Mystikal performed at VH1's Hip Hop Honors and last weekend's Essence Music Festival in an attempt to re-introduce himself to the masses. He served six years for a sexual battery and extortion charge.