During Friday night’s P.O.S. concert in Los Angeles’ The Troubador, one person stood out in the crowd. As Dessa, Grieves & Budo and P.O.S. performed, Evidence stood in appreciation, without taking the stage. It isn’t an unlikely sighting with two of the three acts on the bill presently representing Rhymesayers Entertainment. After all, Ev is prepping the release of his own RSE release, which has been one of the most talked about albums this year.

He stopped for a second to let HipHopDX know about that album, Cats & Dogs, a project he first spoke to us about last year. The disc, which has had fans anticipating anxiously, will get a considerate amount of “lead time,” he said. This is something RSE has requested in order to build up to the project’s release. This echoes Ev’s recent statements on Formspring.

“Rhymesayers likes a bigger lead time than most labels, which I think is a great thing. It’s about having an album I can tour for years [versus] meeting a second, third or forth quarter for rushed reasons. I am putting the finishing touches on it all this month and the top of next. I’m not over thinking this one…just making honest music as I have my last two solo releases. I have upped my skills over the last years due to being inspired by a lot of my peers. I feel you will hear my growth with Cats & Dogs. Expect early to late Summer release,” he stated.

Recently, fans got a taste of what’s to come when DJ Premier dropped “To Be Continued ” on his radio show. Fans can expect more new music from Mr. Slow Flow soon, as he noted via Twitter.

“Leaking ‘Outtamymind’ soon. Ev feat @MURS and …. ? I’m Indy! Can do whatever I want,” he added, leaving fans to guess who the third artist might be.

Cats & Dogs is Ev’s follow up to 2007’s The Weatherman LP and 2008’s The Layover EP.