what he needs or should do is completely different to what i think he WILL do. you know he's just gonna put those same bullshyt songs out, the same song with Rihanna like you said, the same old yelling triple time off beat flow.
i've said it a lot of times on here, but he SHOULD drop all the bullshyt and do a straight up Hip Hop album. make it a double album, one disc is just all him spitting over beats like Premo, Dre, Marco Polo, Exile, Alchemist, etc the other disc should have features with all his idols & legends. Kane, Treach, Redman, G Rap, Ice-T, LL, all the dudes he's always talking about in speeches.