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50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct Album Thread (NOVEMBER 16th) (Digital Release: November 9th)
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Real dope song but it has the same sample as "This Is Family" from the Fabolous CD
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Does anyone else think its possible that Fif is POSSIBLY takin a shot at Fab by takin the beat???
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I KNEW this !+%% was too familiar.
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So by now you're aware that the 50 Cent of today isn't the 50 Cent of 2003. Or is he? The "aggressive content" is stillthere, the issues with other rappers are still there, and the hunger to get rich or die tryin' is definitely still there. But while there's athe-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same feel to it all, there are notable differences between Curtis Jacksons past and present.
He just did a New York reunion show at Governor's Island where he embraced Jadakiss (whom he's had problems with in the past), he hasn't flownoff the handle about his placement on the MTV list like he two yearsago-and yesterday, as we sat down with 50 Cent in his unfinished new office, his answers to our questions seemed more methodical than ever. While he preps torelease his oft-delayed album Before I Self Destruct on November 23, we spoke to 50 about possible tension with Dre, Fat Joe'sfirst-week sales, pulling a gun on Diddy,and how he really feels about Jay-Z's "no one is scared of 50 Cent" comment. Yup, some things will never change…
Interview By Joe La Puma
Complex: Okay, as far as the the new album, we've heard a radio-friendly single with Ne-Yo, but you also have gritty tracks like "Flight187″….
50 Cent: "Flight 187″ is a bonus track, it's not on the album. I started the project, and I wrote exactly what I wanted on it, and then I thoughtout the actual singles at the very end. The album changed, because there was a time period around December of last year, that I was ready to put my record outand I was a little anxious. I usually release on schedule; it's usually a two-year cycle for me before I release a record. In December, I put out the"Get Up" record, and then Interscope had a transition, like the entire music business did. So the majority of the delays of this project have beenreadjustments to what's actually going on, not [because] the material wasn't up to par or completed. There's been a transition that we experiencein technology-for instance, right now we're talking to Complex.com instead of Complex magazine. That right there shows you that things are totally changingaround. Instead of fighting things, I embrace them.
Complex: Are there any other guest appearances on the album?
50 Cent: R.Kelly, that's also a bonus cut. I kept this album shorter. I kept it down to 16 songs, so people could continuously play these songs and fallin love with them. I'd rather jump in the car from Banks' house to Manhattan listening to my entire album. Listen to the entire record and then on ourway back, listen again. I was getting that a lot when I was talking about the War Angel LP, creating content that directly impacts the actualenvironment-I wrote that for them. Most artists' first album is like that because they don't think "world music." They think "let memake the coolest thing here, right now." And the influences and their surroundings make them write something that reflects their experience.
Complex: Right…
50 Cent: If you looked at Ready to Die, Reasonable Doubt, Illmatic, those artists would probably tell you that that record waswritten for their neighborhood. Those are the records that they are working to live up to and can't quite match because they got big. ReasonableDoubt wasn't even a gold record. It went gold after the other albums were successful. Illmatic too. Imagine 50 Cent now with a goldrecord. It just doesn't work. Those artists no longer can create the aggressive content, because they shifted their lives to where they can't createfrom a genuine space.
Complex: So that's the big difference between you and those artists?
50: The way I responded to the financial stability, it comeswith being successful as an artist. My interests reflect on the struggle and how far I've came, versus indulging in how great it is where I'm at now. Alot of these artists write "I'm rich," the coolest *!!% about being rich, "I'm at the clearport, I'm doing this, I'm doingthat." They aspire to write about luxury and to excite an audience and the demographic that comes from where they come from, saying "I want to belike him." I write material that makes [the listener] feel like he's like me. The guys on the corner can relate to 50 Cent in a different way becausethey knows that I've had the same experience and I'll be inspiring to them.
Complex: People said that Blueprint 3 came off very braggadocious, just like you alluded to-Jay bragging about the stuff hehas.
50: But that's a career trait. That's a style. The choice that he's made as an artist. He's done that his entire career. He felt he couldshift trends with the thingshe's actually saying. I mean, it's cool, it's an option to write that when you're that successful. I just feel like writing imperfectioninstead of creating a superhero is interesting. I'll write the things they're not willing to say because they think it affects their "coolfactor" to the point where they feel like it puts them in the box. They're limited to what they can say and do. I don't give a $@*+. I can say anddo what I want. So I write those defective characters.
Complex: So you had the big "50 Fest" show in New York recently, where you reunited with a lot of artists. Seems like that was a big stepfor you. Is that part of the maturation process?
50 Cent: Well, for me the New York show was an opportunity. It was actually branched revenue for Thisis50.com. And at the same time, an opportunity for meto work with artists and have them seen in the same light. There's no middle ground in hip-hop. It's either you're rocking arenas or you'regetting top dollar, getting money out a nightclub. Youcan't really get more than that $75,000 threshold, that's really it in the nightclub circuit.
Complex: You originally had problems with Jadakiss because he did a song with Ja Rule. How would you feel if, after this concert, he went out anddid a song with someone like Rick Ross?
50 Cent: You know what? Check this out. I have an issue with anyone who's trying to keep someone who I deem my enemy in a good position. Where I'mfrom, if you have an issue with one guy and someone keeps standing next to them, just hit him too. Just kill him too. It's just the way I use my gut. I usemy moral compass to tell me when to go in on somebody. I dealt with that, it doesn't make sense for me to continue to beat that dead horse. When the artistthat I intended to destroy has completely been destroyed, why would I be bothering him? I could tell you as soon as I wrote "Piggy Bank" what wasgoing to happen.
Complex: How so?
50 Cent: I knew Fat Joe's pride would bring him out first, even if he wasn't in the position to win. And he would go and go and go because he hasthe tough-guy aura. He's tougher in his head than he is in reality, as far as his Don Cartagena *!!% is concerned. It feels great because everybody'spaying attention to them and talking on the radio about them. Mind you, while they're going out and doing all of this talking, I'm just chilling.I'll send them out like they're a rap fan so they can market me. So everywhere they go, nobody cares about your record or what you're doing. Thenumber one question is "So what's up with you and 50?" They're not smart enough to come up with a new disrespectful way to talk to me becauseI've heard everything you could @+%%%@! think of. Then I move away because I'm competing with another artist, and the spotlight moves with me becauseI'm actually creating the material and generating the interest. So when I move to do that, you're in darkness…to the point where you drop your albumsales to 8,000 copies.
Complex: Were you surprised that Fat Joe only sold that many his first week?
50 Cent: Well, I have 8,000 friends. So that's extremely low.
Complex: It's very low…
50 Cent: Watch this. Want a prediction from me? I'll tell you what a psychic told me. Triple Cs is next. And then Rick Ross is going to follow thatfailure. Def Jam dumped a whole lot of marketing dollars into trying combat me with Rick Ross. More money than they should have. What his numbers were versuswhat Jadakiss did, didn't make financial sense. So the nextgo-around, they're going to give him his fair share instead that extra piece of pie. Then you're going to see where he really is.
Complex: You told people not to hold their breath about a collaboration with The Game. Are there still real issues with him?
50 Cent: I really don't know Game. I worked with the kid for six days. I have bigger issues with the actual system, the company, people who work in it.Initially, people would be like, "Yo, we know you wrote the @+%%%@! records! You think we give a $@*+ about that?" Game built this thing on the WestCoast, they desperately needed him to come out-they didn't have anybody since Snoop. That's what made it a good business opportunity to begin with. ButI had to make sacrifices in order to have Dre put the record out, the same way they waited eight years for Dre to put his album out.
Complex: Is there tension between you and Dre?
50 Cent: There's no tension. There will never be a beef between 50 Cent and Dre. And it's not based on 50 and Dre's relationship, it's basedon Eminem and Dre's relationship. My relationship with Em is what Em's relationship is to Dre. If I was to say something disrespectful to Dre, it wouldeffect Em and I value that relationship too much. So I won't say anything, I'll never say anything negative about Dre.
Complex: Does it bother you that it can take Dre so long to mix your records?
50 Cent: Oh no, that's just him as a producer. He takes his time. He loses interest in *!!%. I don't care how great you are. He's great, but heloses interest in himself at points. So the making of the record at this point is motivation. He'll tell you himself that that's what he feels.
Complex: How do you feel about him working with Game?
50: I don't care. It's better that you shut up sometimes than for you to actually express your judgments when you're close to home.
Complex: Shifting gears, in your VH1 Behind The Music episode, there was a part that talked about Diddy taking a meeting with you, and himgetting shook because you brought a gun to the office…
50 Cent: This is what happened. Jennifer Lopez told Puffy that I was a great writer because Corey Rooney signed me to Columbia Records. Jennifer had beenexposed to my material, so she told Puff she thinks I'm somebody he should work with. I came down to write and I was in there writing a couple of jointsand Puff left the actual room. There was rustling and rambling at the door and *!!% like that. I jumped up-when you get hurt as bad as I got hurt, either yourfear consumes you or you become insensitive. So I jumped up and figured "as you come through the door, I'll shoot your %%% down right there in thedoor." The paranoia heightens your senses. You start to see every little detail, every little thing. You don't want to miss anything and have it turnout there's someone shooting you again. When I heard the rambling outside, I jumped up, I had a Mac-10 on me. Pulled the joint out and Puff came in andlooked, said, "Oh *!!%, I can't do this."As a matter fact, it was Shyne and Wolf, wrestling outside. Puff was going through that actual case whenhe called me in to write and I'm in his office with a Mac-10. He was like, "I can't do that." After the fact, I looked at it and was like,That's a legitimate call.
Complex: How do you feel about MTV's Hottest MCs list?
50 Cent: Well, I try to figure out what they're looking at and what their criteria is. They pick trying to be aware of the art form. For you to leaveoff the highest selling rap album of the year in your Top 10, I don't know what the $@*+ your criteria is. That's Em's project. If you don'thave a rap record sell more copies, how could you miss that rap record? It's just people's personal preference. $@*+ if MTV does a Top 10, everybodyhas their own Top 10. As long as you're on the list, you're straight.
Complex: A lot of people felt that Eminem should've been on the list, just off of the strength of his verse on "Forever." You said afew weeks ago that Em didn't even know who was going to be on that record…
50 Cent: He didn't know everyone who was on the record. And it was remixed, they remixed his vocals. When I make records with Em, Dre mixes my vocals inthe beat, then sends the beat, and Em sends his vocals until it sounds the way he wants it. Then we wrap it up. So he did his verse on the actual song, theymoved it around, put other people on and he didn't even mix his vocals back yet.
Complex: He didn't like that?
50 Cent: Well he doesn't like not being able to hear himself the way he wants to hear himself. So those are somebody else's ears saying "thissounds like good Eminem" instead of Em's.
Complex: Someone who made the list who has actually been through some real street *!!% like you have is Gucci Mane-how do you feel about hisplacement at #6?
50 Cent: I understand Gucci Mane has something that the other artists don't have, and that's authenticity. Because he's had the experience,they'll glorify it. Think about how many times I've been asked, "How does it feel to be shot?" That's their personal interest, theiramazement in the situation. I don't ask people, "Ask me how did it feel to be shot. Could you ask me what I was thinking when I was shot?" If itwas up to me, it would've never happened. I see where they see significance in the content, based on them knowing that the backdrop of a story has sometruth to it. These are the things other artists completely lack. Like Rick Ross is exactly the opposite of a Gucci Mane. I'll listen to Gucci Mane despitewhat his cadence choices are. As opposed to listening to a Rick Ross, who is talented rapper but is lying. I just don't want to hear rappers rapping lies.I don't want to hear that *!!%.
Complex: Getting back to Jay-Z, who ended up #1 on the list. Much has been made of his recent comment saying "no one is afraid of 50 Cent." Regardless,it seems like the general public agrees that Kanye wouldn't have pulled that stunt if you were on stage instead of Taylor Swift…
50 Cent: He wouldn't. You can't convince the public, you can't convince Kanye to say he would've did that. If I was there and he did that tome we would have had an altercation. Right there. It's clear. He [Kanye] would have avoided that, just being intelligent. The interviewer who asked [Jay-Z]about the Kanye situation made him feel like a punk. His presentation is really simple and you can't have both. You can't be gangster Jay from Marcyand be the good guy Jay-Z on Oprah. You just can't. They don't let you in. That's Mr. Knowles, he just got that pass. There ain't any ticketsto an inauguration ball with +!@%$%. If you're from the hood, you have that element or that aura around you, there's no tickets for you. It's"safe" people there. This is why those things are happening. This is why he has to convince the person that he's talking to he's not afraidof anyone.
He just did a New York reunion show at Governor's Island where he embraced Jadakiss (whom he's had problems with in the past), he hasn't flownoff the handle about his placement on the MTV list like he two yearsago-and yesterday, as we sat down with 50 Cent in his unfinished new office, his answers to our questions seemed more methodical than ever. While he preps torelease his oft-delayed album Before I Self Destruct on November 23, we spoke to 50 about possible tension with Dre, Fat Joe'sfirst-week sales, pulling a gun on Diddy,and how he really feels about Jay-Z's "no one is scared of 50 Cent" comment. Yup, some things will never change…
Interview By Joe La Puma
Complex: Okay, as far as the the new album, we've heard a radio-friendly single with Ne-Yo, but you also have gritty tracks like "Flight187″….
50 Cent: "Flight 187″ is a bonus track, it's not on the album. I started the project, and I wrote exactly what I wanted on it, and then I thoughtout the actual singles at the very end. The album changed, because there was a time period around December of last year, that I was ready to put my record outand I was a little anxious. I usually release on schedule; it's usually a two-year cycle for me before I release a record. In December, I put out the"Get Up" record, and then Interscope had a transition, like the entire music business did. So the majority of the delays of this project have beenreadjustments to what's actually going on, not [because] the material wasn't up to par or completed. There's been a transition that we experiencein technology-for instance, right now we're talking to Complex.com instead of Complex magazine. That right there shows you that things are totally changingaround. Instead of fighting things, I embrace them.
Complex: Are there any other guest appearances on the album?
50 Cent: R.Kelly, that's also a bonus cut. I kept this album shorter. I kept it down to 16 songs, so people could continuously play these songs and fallin love with them. I'd rather jump in the car from Banks' house to Manhattan listening to my entire album. Listen to the entire record and then on ourway back, listen again. I was getting that a lot when I was talking about the War Angel LP, creating content that directly impacts the actualenvironment-I wrote that for them. Most artists' first album is like that because they don't think "world music." They think "let memake the coolest thing here, right now." And the influences and their surroundings make them write something that reflects their experience.
Complex: Right…
50 Cent: If you looked at Ready to Die, Reasonable Doubt, Illmatic, those artists would probably tell you that that record waswritten for their neighborhood. Those are the records that they are working to live up to and can't quite match because they got big. ReasonableDoubt wasn't even a gold record. It went gold after the other albums were successful. Illmatic too. Imagine 50 Cent now with a goldrecord. It just doesn't work. Those artists no longer can create the aggressive content, because they shifted their lives to where they can't createfrom a genuine space.
Complex: So that's the big difference between you and those artists?
50: The way I responded to the financial stability, it comeswith being successful as an artist. My interests reflect on the struggle and how far I've came, versus indulging in how great it is where I'm at now. Alot of these artists write "I'm rich," the coolest *!!% about being rich, "I'm at the clearport, I'm doing this, I'm doingthat." They aspire to write about luxury and to excite an audience and the demographic that comes from where they come from, saying "I want to belike him." I write material that makes [the listener] feel like he's like me. The guys on the corner can relate to 50 Cent in a different way becausethey knows that I've had the same experience and I'll be inspiring to them.
Complex: People said that Blueprint 3 came off very braggadocious, just like you alluded to-Jay bragging about the stuff hehas.
50: But that's a career trait. That's a style. The choice that he's made as an artist. He's done that his entire career. He felt he couldshift trends with the thingshe's actually saying. I mean, it's cool, it's an option to write that when you're that successful. I just feel like writing imperfectioninstead of creating a superhero is interesting. I'll write the things they're not willing to say because they think it affects their "coolfactor" to the point where they feel like it puts them in the box. They're limited to what they can say and do. I don't give a $@*+. I can say anddo what I want. So I write those defective characters.
Complex: So you had the big "50 Fest" show in New York recently, where you reunited with a lot of artists. Seems like that was a big stepfor you. Is that part of the maturation process?
50 Cent: Well, for me the New York show was an opportunity. It was actually branched revenue for Thisis50.com. And at the same time, an opportunity for meto work with artists and have them seen in the same light. There's no middle ground in hip-hop. It's either you're rocking arenas or you'regetting top dollar, getting money out a nightclub. Youcan't really get more than that $75,000 threshold, that's really it in the nightclub circuit.
Complex: You originally had problems with Jadakiss because he did a song with Ja Rule. How would you feel if, after this concert, he went out anddid a song with someone like Rick Ross?
50 Cent: You know what? Check this out. I have an issue with anyone who's trying to keep someone who I deem my enemy in a good position. Where I'mfrom, if you have an issue with one guy and someone keeps standing next to them, just hit him too. Just kill him too. It's just the way I use my gut. I usemy moral compass to tell me when to go in on somebody. I dealt with that, it doesn't make sense for me to continue to beat that dead horse. When the artistthat I intended to destroy has completely been destroyed, why would I be bothering him? I could tell you as soon as I wrote "Piggy Bank" what wasgoing to happen.
Complex: How so?
50 Cent: I knew Fat Joe's pride would bring him out first, even if he wasn't in the position to win. And he would go and go and go because he hasthe tough-guy aura. He's tougher in his head than he is in reality, as far as his Don Cartagena *!!% is concerned. It feels great because everybody'spaying attention to them and talking on the radio about them. Mind you, while they're going out and doing all of this talking, I'm just chilling.I'll send them out like they're a rap fan so they can market me. So everywhere they go, nobody cares about your record or what you're doing. Thenumber one question is "So what's up with you and 50?" They're not smart enough to come up with a new disrespectful way to talk to me becauseI've heard everything you could @+%%%@! think of. Then I move away because I'm competing with another artist, and the spotlight moves with me becauseI'm actually creating the material and generating the interest. So when I move to do that, you're in darkness…to the point where you drop your albumsales to 8,000 copies.
Complex: Were you surprised that Fat Joe only sold that many his first week?
50 Cent: Well, I have 8,000 friends. So that's extremely low.
Complex: It's very low…
50 Cent: Watch this. Want a prediction from me? I'll tell you what a psychic told me. Triple Cs is next. And then Rick Ross is going to follow thatfailure. Def Jam dumped a whole lot of marketing dollars into trying combat me with Rick Ross. More money than they should have. What his numbers were versuswhat Jadakiss did, didn't make financial sense. So the nextgo-around, they're going to give him his fair share instead that extra piece of pie. Then you're going to see where he really is.
Complex: You told people not to hold their breath about a collaboration with The Game. Are there still real issues with him?
50 Cent: I really don't know Game. I worked with the kid for six days. I have bigger issues with the actual system, the company, people who work in it.Initially, people would be like, "Yo, we know you wrote the @+%%%@! records! You think we give a $@*+ about that?" Game built this thing on the WestCoast, they desperately needed him to come out-they didn't have anybody since Snoop. That's what made it a good business opportunity to begin with. ButI had to make sacrifices in order to have Dre put the record out, the same way they waited eight years for Dre to put his album out.
Complex: Is there tension between you and Dre?
50 Cent: There's no tension. There will never be a beef between 50 Cent and Dre. And it's not based on 50 and Dre's relationship, it's basedon Eminem and Dre's relationship. My relationship with Em is what Em's relationship is to Dre. If I was to say something disrespectful to Dre, it wouldeffect Em and I value that relationship too much. So I won't say anything, I'll never say anything negative about Dre.
Complex: Does it bother you that it can take Dre so long to mix your records?
50 Cent: Oh no, that's just him as a producer. He takes his time. He loses interest in *!!%. I don't care how great you are. He's great, but heloses interest in himself at points. So the making of the record at this point is motivation. He'll tell you himself that that's what he feels.
Complex: How do you feel about him working with Game?
50: I don't care. It's better that you shut up sometimes than for you to actually express your judgments when you're close to home.
Complex: Shifting gears, in your VH1 Behind The Music episode, there was a part that talked about Diddy taking a meeting with you, and himgetting shook because you brought a gun to the office…
50 Cent: This is what happened. Jennifer Lopez told Puffy that I was a great writer because Corey Rooney signed me to Columbia Records. Jennifer had beenexposed to my material, so she told Puff she thinks I'm somebody he should work with. I came down to write and I was in there writing a couple of jointsand Puff left the actual room. There was rustling and rambling at the door and *!!% like that. I jumped up-when you get hurt as bad as I got hurt, either yourfear consumes you or you become insensitive. So I jumped up and figured "as you come through the door, I'll shoot your %%% down right there in thedoor." The paranoia heightens your senses. You start to see every little detail, every little thing. You don't want to miss anything and have it turnout there's someone shooting you again. When I heard the rambling outside, I jumped up, I had a Mac-10 on me. Pulled the joint out and Puff came in andlooked, said, "Oh *!!%, I can't do this."As a matter fact, it was Shyne and Wolf, wrestling outside. Puff was going through that actual case whenhe called me in to write and I'm in his office with a Mac-10. He was like, "I can't do that." After the fact, I looked at it and was like,That's a legitimate call.
Complex: How do you feel about MTV's Hottest MCs list?
50 Cent: Well, I try to figure out what they're looking at and what their criteria is. They pick trying to be aware of the art form. For you to leaveoff the highest selling rap album of the year in your Top 10, I don't know what the $@*+ your criteria is. That's Em's project. If you don'thave a rap record sell more copies, how could you miss that rap record? It's just people's personal preference. $@*+ if MTV does a Top 10, everybodyhas their own Top 10. As long as you're on the list, you're straight.
Complex: A lot of people felt that Eminem should've been on the list, just off of the strength of his verse on "Forever." You said afew weeks ago that Em didn't even know who was going to be on that record…
50 Cent: He didn't know everyone who was on the record. And it was remixed, they remixed his vocals. When I make records with Em, Dre mixes my vocals inthe beat, then sends the beat, and Em sends his vocals until it sounds the way he wants it. Then we wrap it up. So he did his verse on the actual song, theymoved it around, put other people on and he didn't even mix his vocals back yet.
Complex: He didn't like that?
50 Cent: Well he doesn't like not being able to hear himself the way he wants to hear himself. So those are somebody else's ears saying "thissounds like good Eminem" instead of Em's.
Complex: Someone who made the list who has actually been through some real street *!!% like you have is Gucci Mane-how do you feel about hisplacement at #6?
50 Cent: I understand Gucci Mane has something that the other artists don't have, and that's authenticity. Because he's had the experience,they'll glorify it. Think about how many times I've been asked, "How does it feel to be shot?" That's their personal interest, theiramazement in the situation. I don't ask people, "Ask me how did it feel to be shot. Could you ask me what I was thinking when I was shot?" If itwas up to me, it would've never happened. I see where they see significance in the content, based on them knowing that the backdrop of a story has sometruth to it. These are the things other artists completely lack. Like Rick Ross is exactly the opposite of a Gucci Mane. I'll listen to Gucci Mane despitewhat his cadence choices are. As opposed to listening to a Rick Ross, who is talented rapper but is lying. I just don't want to hear rappers rapping lies.I don't want to hear that *!!%.
Complex: Getting back to Jay-Z, who ended up #1 on the list. Much has been made of his recent comment saying "no one is afraid of 50 Cent." Regardless,it seems like the general public agrees that Kanye wouldn't have pulled that stunt if you were on stage instead of Taylor Swift…
50 Cent: He wouldn't. You can't convince the public, you can't convince Kanye to say he would've did that. If I was there and he did that tome we would have had an altercation. Right there. It's clear. He [Kanye] would have avoided that, just being intelligent. The interviewer who asked [Jay-Z]about the Kanye situation made him feel like a punk. His presentation is really simple and you can't have both. You can't be gangster Jay from Marcyand be the good guy Jay-Z on Oprah. You just can't. They don't let you in. That's Mr. Knowles, he just got that pass. There ain't any ticketsto an inauguration ball with +!@%$%. If you're from the hood, you have that element or that aura around you, there's no tickets for you. It's"safe" people there. This is why those things are happening. This is why he has to convince the person that he's talking to he's not afraidof anyone.
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Complex: How do you feel about him working with Game?
50: I don't care. It's better that you shut up sometimes than for you to actually express your judgments when you're close to home.
...50 biting his tongue....whaaaaa???
50: I don't care. It's better that you shut up sometimes than for you to actually express your judgments when you're close to home.
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Pretty good interview. I always enjoy reading 50's inteviews
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best interviews. kotex.
interesting.. it's dre, em, then fif in pecking order.
'Mr. Knowles' is awesome. i guarantee jay won't say a word.
before i self destruct will not got platinum in a month. quote me.
interesting.. it's dre, em, then fif in pecking order.
'Mr. Knowles' is awesome. i guarantee jay won't say a word.
before i self destruct will not got platinum in a month. quote me.
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That was a really good interview from fif and that Crime Wave track is piff
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I'm actually looking forward to this
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Im actually lookin forward to this album...
Crime Wave
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That interview was a good read.
Crime Wave
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50 can put out 4-6 throwaway singles that didnt catch attention before his album and then come with some banger like this Crime Wave
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Good interview, album will be copped
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50 fans is ur dude really gonna go forward with that baby by me track?!?...im hoping this dude pulls a I get money type track out before he releases thisalbum...im indifferent to him failing or not but...I wouldnt mind having another GRODT tho....50 need to go on a field trip to every region in the nation andlet people tell him what kinda music he need to make cuz he doesnt get the picture yet
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Complex: Were you surprised that Fat Joe only sold that many his first week?
50 Cent: Well, I have 8,000 friends. So that's extremely low..
*swan dives off empire state building*
50 Cent: Well, I have 8,000 friends. So that's extremely low..
*swan dives off empire state building*
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I came in here to post the same exact thing.
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Crime Wave!!!!
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Not a bad track. Getting excited for this album...feels awkward.
