DJ Whoo Kid caught up with 50 Cent earlier this week to discuss the release of his latest mixtape The Big 10. During the interview, Fif explained that he approached the project in more of an album frame of mind than that of a mixtape. He said that each song is a wholly original piece of work, and that he’d eventually like to buy the rights to them for future use in his films.
“This tape [The Big 10], it’s not like the mixtapes [of today] anymore; it’s like a LP,” he explained. “Like War Angel 
…it was music that I could have cleared everything on it. This tape [The Big 10] is the same. I’m gonna buy up all the [rights to the] tracks, because I don’t want them to just be out there, and I’ll probably use them them, place them in different films and such.”
Fiddy also discussed his decade-old debut mixtape 50 Cent Is The Future and how the project came to revolutionize Hip Hop. He said that prior to dropping the project, most mixtapes were actual mixes of a variety of artists done by a DJ. Yet according to Fif, an encounter with a bootlegger selling 50 a mixtape of his own material prompted him to produce his own mixtape instead of relying on a DJ.
“Before 50 Cent Is The Future existed, what they call a mixtape now didn’t exist. A mixtape prior to that was sending sixteen bars over to [a DJ] for [his] tape,” he explained. “At that point, [with] 50 Cent Is The Future, what happened was…I saw a bootlegger, an African dude was at the corner [selling mixtapes]. When I went there, I said, ‘What you got?’ He said, ‘Look, I got new…see? 50 Cent.’ He was selling it to me based on me, but I didn’t have any photographs any pictures or anything out there, so I said, ‘I’m gonna make my own tape.'”
Check out the full interview below.
WORST ALBUMS OF 2011
10)GAY Z AND MS WEST FUCKING UP THE THRONE
9)THE GAME THE D.U.D ALBUM
8)YELLOWISH RADIO-INACTIVE
7)TYLER THE FAG BLABING
6)WHACK MILLER WHITE BOY PARK
5)WIZ KHALIFA TRICKING PAPER
4)DRAKE TAKE CARE HOMO
3)GUCCI MANE AND WAKA FUCK BOYZ
2)LIL WAYNE GAY MONEY 4
1)J COLE BORING WORLD
IM SURE THERES MORE BUT THIS IS MOST OF THEM 2011 WAS A BAD YEAR FOR ALBUMS I HOPE 2012 IS BETTER
… you put way too much thought in that. embaressing.
I kinda feel bad for dude he put so much energy into this shit. smh go read a book fam
Go bak to Hillybilly land u Hick.
ALL 3 OF YOU ARE THE SAME PERSON I CAN TELL BY THE TIME YOU MAKE THE POSTS SO WHO IS TROLLING
@TEXAS
u bitch u. u bitch nigga very childish.
go home and study music what u have listened.
DONT say anything until u really kno , mothafuccin’ son
your right all that shit was trash. probably the shitist year for hip hop ever. not a classic in the bunch. music is dead.
Haha, so fucking cynical. Don’t agree with most of it but it made me laugh.
I actually agree with 95% of that list minus watch the throne..It could have been better though..
yeah he hit us with a album on the low i see what you doing fif
war angel was way better.. this shit is a mixtape at its best
THE BIG 10 IS BETTER THAN THE NEW JEEZY ALBUM PEOPLE JUST DON’T KNOW SOME REAL GOOD HIP HOP ANY MORE
THE BIG 10!! IS THA SHIT!! ALL YA’LL HATERS ADVISED TO CHEW A DICK!!
im so surprised dat gorilla nicca still alive in this rap game
dat homo mofo nicca betta retire and get his mothafuccin’ monkey son
I think you are a white wankster talking tough. Get the fck outta here…
koolie your a cunt
gotta say i feel bad for 50 cent.
he seems delusional to the fact he’s played out. he’s not doing anything new and he’s not performing at the level he used to.
huge 50 cent fan. but seeing his confidence in this tape, and then hearing it, not good. for one his ear for production is all over the place. at times the beats he picks sound dated, others, just flat out wack.
the song concepts used to be tight. the hooks were hitting. the flow was there. everything seems taped together and slapped up. the energy is low.
50 used to sound so hungry, he rapped with so much heart. sounds like he’s going through the motions. i miss old 50 but the man is paid and he’s still making music cuz he loves it can’t hate that. just wish he could find himself artistically.
i agree i couldnt have put it better myself. but one thing that drake said that actually made him sound like a genius is that nobody really falls off, we just move on from a timeframe which made them seem so great and we related to it more…its like, 50 isnt even in my top 10 favorite rappers, but get rich or die tryin in my favorite album of all time, kind of crazy and might not make sence to people but thats just what it is, theres better rappers than him, but to me there could never be a better album, because that was the best time of my life and the album matched my life perfectly and it all fit together just right
G-G-G-UUUUNIIT! I liked the tape. Im rollin hard with the unit. I wish theyd bring back the clothes, the t- shirt is the best quality i ever had. washed that 1,000 times, it says built to last, no joke.