After his Grammy Awards performance on Sunday, MTV News caught up with, Blink 182 drummer, Travis Barker and threw him through a gauntlet of questions mostly directed towards the bands much-anticipated upcoming album. The word on the street has been that the album was going to release in 2011, while others have heard that it will be coming out sooner. But according to Barker the band has to finish their own side-projects before they start working on the next Blink album.

“We’re about to start working on it. I’m gonna try to wrap up my album and, uh, Tom has his band, he’s wrapping up that album, and then we’ll start working on a Blink record.”

It has been nearly 7 years since the band’s last album was released in 2003, and it will be interesting to see what kind of sound they bring to the table nearly a decade later. Judging by Sunday’s performance with Lil’ Wayne, Eminem, and Drake, I think it’s safe to say that Barker still has the sound that can keep up with the music of today.

All in all, it seems as if we’ll have to play the waiting game until we find out.

Check out the full interview here.

Although he just released his first album in 5 years, rapper Eminem has already moved on to his next album, Relapse 2. This  album would be the follow up to his latest album, Relapse, which saw its debut on May 19 of this year. What can you expect from the aftermath of the first Relapse? “The overall basis of the record is going to be more emotionally driven”, the rapper said in an interview with Billboard, “but I went back to making songs with feeling in them”. The lyrical genius said that the first Relapse installment consisted of  “rapid-fire punch lines” and “spitting”, both of which he felt the needed to get out of his system. The Relapse 2, which is rumored to release in late 2009, is in its final stage before officially being ready to release according to the rap mogul, “It’s pretty much finished as far as recording. All that’s left to do is mix.”

To top things off, it is said that one of the tracks on the album will be a “rap face-off” between Eminem and his protégé 50 Cent. “We’ve kind of done it on other records, but not like to the extent on this one”.

Apparently Mr. Mathers doesn’t want to spend any time in 2009 being sober…