50 Cent claims he will still self destruct.Just wait for that in 2008. For now, he is ready to release Curtis. Recently, when speaking of the new album, which is set to be released in late June, he said it was a lot like a Batman movie.
“You ever seen ‘Batman Begins?” he asked MTV. “This album is like that for me as an artist — some of the content on the record is prior to Get Rich or Die Tryin’. For the people I played it for — Eminem, Dr. Dre, journalists — they feel like the record falls somewhere between Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and The Massacre because of [its] content. That’s why I titled the album Curtis, because it was prior to the world knowing me as 50 Cent.”
He’s also enlisted help for the new LP.
“I left no stones unturned…I went in the studio with pretty much everybody who I thought would provide a new creative direction for me. I worked with Kanye West, Pharrell, got music from Swizz Beatz, Will.I.Am. I wanted to see everybody, to see if they could give me something different to something I have already created. A lot of the material was good, [and] a lot of it will be shifted onto my record. I recorded the album again.”
With all this talk, many felt this album would take the place of Before I Self Destruct, which is an album that he was working on before. Well, it is still coming out.
“What happened was, I recorded 18 tracks with the concept Before I Self Destruct and I moved them to the side and started again…It’s kinda what happened to me with The Massacre; I recorded 13 tracks [for] The Massacre and put them aside. I started over; six of those 13 records ended up on Game’s album. This time I put these records to the side and started a new album. Expect to see me June 26 with Curtis and in February with Before I Self Destruct.”