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According to Rap-up.com, Ciara’s 3rd studio effort, Fantasy Ride, has been pushed back to December ’08. But according to a label source: don’t expect the CD to be released this year. For reasons that I can’t go into right now, Fantasy Ride may end up being shelved until early ’09.

[hidepost]You already know about Chris Brown turning down Ciara’s request to do a feature on the CD [This happened after the BET Awards]. But I’m hearing Rihanna also declined to do a feature with CiCi as did other top-tier stars who don’t want to work with the volatile singer in the studio.

In fact, the only artists who agreed to work with CiCi are Akon, Lil Jon, Polow Da Don, Ludacris, Rodney Jerkins and T-Pain, who is on Ciara’s first single. (Source)[/hidepost]