Bouncing back after the lackluster response to his 2009 album Jealous Ones Still Envy 2, Joey Crack is back to bring back his gritty side with the upcoming project The Darkside: Volume 1 set to drop later within the year.

The New York native already unveiled some of what is in store by teaming up with Young Jeezy for the street single “Slow Down (Ha Ha)”.

"Slow Down (Ha Ha)"

Coming back harder than ever, Joe was able to catch up with Jenny Boom Boom and give more details in regards to his new album.

"We coming with that album, The Dark Side this summer. Early June, whatever the case may be. The album is crazy -- I got this crazy joint with me and Trey Songz and we got me and [R. Kelly] after that. They hard, they hard. Basically, I don't want to say what they are on the radio but they hustler anthems...we gotta a couple more announcements to make, you gonna see the movie unfold...We're making probably the biggest move you can make in hip-hop. It's gonna be splashing news in the next two weeks...It's a movie...”

Promising magic with Trey Songz already, the rapper seems reinvigorated and ready for the next round as he has added that once people hear the album and its content, they will never want to hear Fat Joe any other way.

Well, let's just let the records speak for themselves and see what the end result is.  Wonder how many Lil Wayne features will come up this time around.

“After that, I won't offer any mixtape material.”

Before Lil Wayne was setting new heights with his mixtape hustle and Gucci Mane was popping up on any and every mixtape, 50 Cent and G-Unit were known as the pioneers to the mixtape circuit and can take full responsibility for revolutionizing it and making it so essential for an artist to have before making the mainstream leap.

Unleashing mixtapes such as Guess Who's Back and 50 Cent Is The Future were the initials staples that brought the attention of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson to the likes of Eminem and Dr. Dre who felt it best to align themselves with such an aggressive, yet potential, rising star.

He has continued his run along with his cohorts on countless DJ Whoo Kid mixtapes and he most recently built anticipation for his fourth album with War Angel and Forever King.

All good things, however, must come to an end, as Jackson has stated that his career in the mixtape game is coming to an end with the release of his next.

Speaking with VIBE, the rapper states that the work was already in the process way before the actual album was done.

“The next mixtape was already, portions of it were already records before the release of Before I Self Destruct, but I didn't want to release so close to the actual album where people would make comparisons between the material cause their both up to standard.”

As many feel as though his aggressive content is obsolete, there are still fans out there that want to hear that gritty, gun-toting rapper from Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and prior to his mainstream career.

Some people just like to hear tales of violence.

“I feel like my core that really enjoys the aggressive content might  enjoy the mixtape and try to compare it to what I did, performance wise, on the actual record.  I know, hands down, the album is better, but I just didn't want to put it out there at that point.”

Having such a long run, it only makes sense that he sheds away the past as he moves on with his career.  Already thinking outside of music, Jackson has placed his focus on films, whether he be acting or penning scripts, so it is apparent that his career is leaps from being strictly based on music.

If this upcoming, yet to be titled mixtape, is the last that fans hear from 50 Cent, hopefully the rapper can leave fans with a literal bang as the curtains close.