It seems "Boys" member Nick Carter has hired the Firm for his own purposes: a solo album to be released in August, coming just a month before the Backstreet Boys plan to release their next album, according to PageSix.com.

Carter told the London Sun, "I'm really psyched [for the solo project] and want to do something different by myself," PageSix.com reports.

When Hollywood.com contacted the Firm, it neither confirmed nor denied the Backstreet Boys are no longer with the company or that Nick Carter hired the company for a solo album.

Not new to controversy, the boy band's A.J. McLean's bout with depression and alcoholism caused the group to postpone their Black & Blue tour in 2001.

In 1998, the "Boys" fired and sued their original manager, Lou Pearlman, who conceptualized the band.