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While millions

of fans are not complaining about today’s (Oct. 6) leak of Jay-Z’s single "Show Me What You Got" his label, Def Jam is taking the breach seriously and may pursue legal

action against the individual responsible for the leak.While

no one knows who the culprit behind the leak is, sources told AllHipHop.com that

Def Jam has launched an internal investigation, fearing that the rapper’s forthcoming

comeback album Kingdom Come may be leaked in its entirety. "The

FBI may do an investigation into this," an anonymous source told AllHipHop.com.

"Everything has been under lock and key, so we have no idea how the single

was leaked.""Show

Me," which samples a saxophone loop originally used on Public Enemy’s "Show

Em Whatcha Got" from the group’s 1988 Def Jam album It Takes a Nation

of Millions to Hold Us Back, hit the Internet today and quickly went into

rotation on radio stations around the United States.The

single, which was produced by Just Blaze, gained immediate and repeated airplay

on stations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

"I played it six times in a row at 6:00 pm today," Atlanta DJ Greg Street

told AllHipHop.com. Street, who airs on Atlanta’s V103 Monday through Thursday

in the 6-10pm slot, said the feedback has been tremendous. "It

was so crazy [Island/Def Jam Music Group CEO] LA Reid & [Def Jam A&R]

Shakir Stewart called into V-103′s hotline," Street said.Jay-Z

himself was told of the leak during a performance at the Accra International Conference

Center in Ghana, Africa. Unauthorized

full length albums from The Roots, Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco have all found their

way to the Internet prior to hitting stores. Lupe

Fiasco’s Food & Liquor was pushed back several times, after the original

version was leaked and bootlegged months before the album’s completion.Jay-Z’s

Kingdom Come will reportedly hits stores Nov. 21. The album features production

by Just Blaze, Kanye West, Pharrell, Timberland and others.