50 Cent wants to release an album with Eminem, it has been revealed.

The 'Candy Shop' rapper would release an LP with the 'Lose Yourself' star "in a heartbeat" - but only if they each wrote half the LP and merged the singles intermittently onto the CD, rather than singing and writing together.

He said: "Unless we was doing something where half of it was his and half of it was mine. And conceptually, maybe if he came up with the first six songs and I built the last six songs and we just featured on each other's records, you know what I'd mean? We'd do that in a heartbeat."

However, the 34-year-old hip hop star says their already-hectic work schedules might stop them from collaborating.

He explained: "I'd love to. We haven't seriously discussed making an album together, because we would have to sit collectively and create each song."

Earlier this year, 50 Cent - real name Curtis James Jackson III - said he was thrilled with his friend's return to the music scene and praised Eminem for his comeback LP 'Relapse'.

He said: "It's great. I think you should expect it to go up. I think that the first single 'We Made You' was one of his better records lyrically.

"Obviously, he felt the same way."