Kevin: Britney Won’t Sing On New Album

Kevin Federline is ready to make a name for himself. And it appears he is set on doing it without the help of his wife — at least on his new album.

Kevin is also ready for a backlash over his brand-new role as white-boy rapper.

But it already can’t get worse, the dancer and husband of pop star Britney Spears told Newsweek for its issue on newsstands Monday.

“They’ve already said so much s*** about me it can’t get worse. ‘He hates his children, he treats his wife like dirt, he gets high all day,’” he said, quoting his critics. “If I was that bad, you think anyone, let alone Britney, would put up with it?”

He has released his single “PopoZao” on his Web site. It got 2 million hits in eight days, he said, which proves there’s interest.

“If my album has even half that attention, watch out,” Kevin added.

He plans to release his debut album by this spring, but without featuring his wife on the album, said Federline, 27.

“We have collaborated,” he said. “But I’m not going to put the songs on this album because it’s like, ‘Respect me first; then I’ll show you what I’ve done with my wife.’”

Kevin also seems less bothered by most of the public scrutiny on him or Britney than he does when the paparazzi focus on his son Sean Preston.

 ”The day we came home from the hospital, we had 40 cars behind us, and there were another 50 lining the side of the Pacific Coast Highway, all trying to get a shot inside the front window,” he told Newsweek. “It felt like they put a ransom on my child. OK, they didn’t take my child, but they did put a price tag on his head.”

Though he still manages to get out once in a while with the wife, Kevin says it’s not like it used to be.

“Everybody crowds around. I don’t have the freedom to run out on the dance floor. When my wife’s there, she doesn’t care. She’ll run out there and she’ll be, like, ‘Come on!’ But it’s a display now. It’s like, ugh, give me a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and let me think about it,” Kevin said.