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     *Last week, the world witnessed how easy it is for Web sites to swipe pictures of the most guarded baby on the planet (Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt) from media outlets that paid millions of dollars for exclusive rights. If this is possible, music artists hoping to keep their mp3 or wav files from being leaked onto the Internet should just give up right now.  

      Tyrese Gibson’s forthcoming album “Alter Ego,” a dual disc with R&B songs on one CD and rap joints on the other, is making its way around cyberspace as we speak, thanks to an employee in his company, the singer recently told EUR’s Lee Bailey.

      “Right now, we’re trying to get down to the bottom of who did this,” said Tyrese “They like to say that it ain’t really a big deal, but I think it’s a big deal because I got a new company and you kinda just wanna know you can trust people with your private files.”

      As previously reported, the album features collaborations with such artists as Snoop Dogg, Paul Wall, Chingy, Guerilla Black, Kurupt and the Game, his co-star in the upcoming film “Waist Deep.”

      “His record wasn’t leaked, fortunately,” Tyrese says of Game’s contribution to the album. “It’s called ‘Ghetto Days.’ That one is still going on the album. But right now, I’ve just shut down. I’ve put pass codes all over my computers, and I’m about to add some cameras in my studios now because I can’t trust nobody.”     

      The artist is decidedly more upbeat about his role in “Waist Deep,” a thriller arriving in theaters June 23. The film stars Tyrese as O2, an ex-con who tries to leave the street life behind to do right by his son. But when the boy is kidnapped by a gangster named Meat (rapper The Game), O2 falls back into his old lifestyle to get him back.

      You can HEAR what Tyrese had to say about the theft HERE.