Wendy Williams Releasing Hip-Hop Album

Radio personality Wendy Williams has assembled some of her favorite Hip-Hop and R&B artists to present Wendy Williams Brings the Heat Vol. 1, featuring the likes of Jadakiss, Juelz Santana, Jim Jones, Black Rob, and M.O.P. "I’m a lover of music, and getting the opportunity to put out this CD has helped me express the […]

Radio personality Wendy Williams

has assembled some of her favorite Hip-Hop and R&B artists to present Wendy

Williams Brings the Heat Vol. 1, featuring the likes of Jadakiss, Juelz Santana,

Jim Jones, Black Rob, and M.O.P.

"I’m a lover of music, and getting the opportunity to put out this CD has

helped me express the full range of my love of R&B and hip-hop," Williams

said in a statement. "This album is another outlet to talk to my fans. With

my books, my radio shows, television — this is an aspect of media that I really

hadn’t thought of before."

Exclusive tracks include "Man Up" by Amerie featuring Nas, "Everytime,"

a collaboration between Jaheim and Jadakiss, and Black Rob’s "Warrior."

Williams has been a radio jock at New York ‘s Hot 97, Philly’s Power 99, and currently

New York’s WBLS.

The New Jersey native’s previous forays outside radio included several specials

on VH1 and a tell-all biography about her rise to fame and personal affairs.

Wendy Williams Brings the Heat Vol . 1 is scheduled for release on June

28 through Virgin Records. The album was executive-produced by Kevin ‘PPG’ Hunter.