Kevin Federline believes that the upside to all the bad press he's received is that Things can't get any worse!!

"'He hates his children, he treats his wife like dirt, he gets high all day,'" says Federline, quoting his critics. "If I was that bad, you think anyone, let alone Britney, would put up with it?"

The 27-year-old dancer says in a new interview with Newsweek that he knows that he will get more bad press over his new role as white-boy rapper.

"Sure, there'll be initial shock and awe," he tells the magazine about his upcoming debut album, which he plans to release this spring. "But they've already said so much s--- about me, it can't get worse."

Even though his single, "PopoZão" was panned by critics, he got 2 million hits in eight days after releasing it on his Web site. Federline says that he's proved that there's interest in his songs: "If my album has even half that attention, watch out." (Nope, I think people just wanted to hear how bad it was!!)


The album will not feature his pop-star wife. "We have collaborated," he says. "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.'"


Hmmmmm - respect KFed, nope can't see that happening for a while.