After releasing his latest mixtape, 50 Cent explained the meaning behind 5. In an interview with MTV, the Queens emcee said he feels good about releasing this free tape for his fans before his actual fifth album Street King Immortal. He also shared that he feels he now has “full support” from Interscope.
“What I’m releasing right now is a part of me wanting music out during the middle of the summer,” he said. “I had a plan for myself: I wanted to have the new record come out during my birthday.”
He also added that he doesn’t need any support from his label for this release.
“I don’t really need label support for this project,” he noted. “It’s about the actual music, and I don’t think people buy what record label you’re on; I think they buy music or buy into the actual artist themselves.”
While he may not need label support for this project, he also shared more about Interscope. Fif added that he now feels he has “full support” from his label.
“They’re in full support of me now. We cleared up audit issues. That’s always an issue, when you get to the final album or the final requirement you end up going through the books with everything that you’ve done,” he explained. “Once those things are resolved, everyone is ready to get back to work, and that’s where we’re at.”
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looking good for the album…can’t wait
too bad no gives a shit and the last time you were even mentioned on mainstream music sites was 2007. take the l you washed up rat.
But you clicked on the link and commented. Someone is a fan.
Yeah, right. 50 will do solid numbers as always…believe that.
Good, he needs it…
shut the fuck up you attention whore. your career is over.
and to you shut the fuck up you attention whore. your career NEVER STARTED!
50 cent has been on the TOP TEN RICHEST rappers list for TEN YEARS…
…TOP THAT HATERS!
Diddy & Jay-Z…
they also have been in the game for like another 10 yrs….
“I don’t think people buy what record label you’re on”
Best believe they know though.
Game is on his last album with Interscope as well
I bet when Jimmy Iovine gets rid of these 2 finally he’s gonna go, get drunk and party like its his 21st birthday all over again
Could you imagine putting up with them 2 Bipolar egomaniacs for a fuckin decade??….. No amount of money would be worth it
i have a filling after both of those 2 finish there last albums for Interscope thats when u see a g unit reunion cuz then there free agents they can bargain for a big as deal and up front money n be signed to a slave deal
I don’t like 50’s music as much as I used to. But he still makes solid music. Some rappers these days like MGK, A$AP Rocky, Future, Wacka Flacka, Action Bronson and others are just painful to listen to. If anyone here hates on 50, you are obligated to hate those other rappers I mentioned. If you don’t have those other rappers, then you are jealous of 50’s wealth or offended by his homophobic comments.
Action Bronson dont belong on that list, he’s dope
Neither does ASAP Rocky. This guy must be 15 lisening to music from the 90’s.
Please, A$AP Rocky and Action Bronson both suck. Neither artist has a fanbase becuase they put out terrible music. Do you hear either one of these two on Hot 97 or Power 105? Do you see them on the iTunes or Amazon charts? Where are they on billboard. My fav artists are way more successful than these two clowns. Anyone who like either Action Bronson or A$AP Rocky loves mediocrity.
how can you compare fif’s music to MGK’s at all MGK is high energy rap fif is slow and particulate
lol by u saying hot 97 im guessing u listen to drake wayne and nikki right?
people dont like 50 because they know his real unlike their fav rapper 50 lived the life he talks about and has made more money in such a short amount of time than anyone else and they dont like that
But lets keep it real for a minute now…50 Cent didn’t make 20% from his music, he got lucky when Coca Cola purchased Vitamin Water. He owned 10% of that company and got lucky, so stop acting like he made better moves in music business than Puff Daddy, Master P and Jay Z. Keep it real, lil homey.
Maybe
Or it could just be that his music sucks and he’s an asshole
No way to know for sure I guess
Curtis made the majority of his income from that Vitamin Water deal. His actual label, that he owned (G Unit Records), only sold between 5-6 million albums worldwide to date.
ONLY???
HOW MANY RAPPER’S LABELS SOLD MORE???
come on game sold 5milliom buck sold a milli 2 time g unit sold 2 milli on there first records banks sold 2milli get rich or die trying soundtrack sold a milli come on dude and dont forget the clothing line.
FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS
FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.
IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CREDITT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.
MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!
Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!
coca cola makes a lot more off vitamin water than what they gave 50.
DIE NIGGA DIE!!
And when his album tanks he’ll be bitching about Interscope again.
smh….looks like 50 signed that 360 deal….since 03 50 was making more than 50 mill a year, interscope was cool with it because they were making a shit load of money because records were selling back then now that they are at a all time low they see 50 getting money and there like “wheres my cut?” and 50s like “that wasnt in the contract”….lol…
LOL @ U
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360 deals have been made by traditional record companies, as in Robbie Williams’s pioneering deal with EMI in 2002. They have also been made between artists and promoters, as with Live Nation’s 2007 deal with Madonna and 2008 deal with Jay-Z
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WHAT SAY U NOW
THE GREAT BUSINESSMAN JAY-Z SIGNED A 360 DEAL
THE CLOSE 2 A BILLIE RAPPER HAS THE MAN IN HIS POCKETS JUST AS MUCH AS THE NEXT RAPPER GUY
1st he said he doesn’t need their support,now he feels like he has their full support? In Lil Jon’s voice=O KKAAYY!
Either he gave in to them or they gave into him. Either way album better be good or Interscope may meet its end.
WOW
WHAT IS UR IQ?
LAUGHTERHOUSE WILL $AVE INTER$COPE… RIGHT? RIGHT?!!
hahaha they have a better chance than you would in your sorry little life… RIGHT? yes Right!
Nigga stop crying, Interscope finally realized nobody wants to buy your shit, that’s why they treay you like some bitch ass trash.
Wrong!!! Fuckhead!!!
The nigga just bent over and agreed to Jimmy the jew’s slave deal.
Fifty had to oblige…
Every other label > Interscope tbh
Fuck this trash. Tupac is rolling in his grave right now.
Interscope owns almost every label…
AYE MORON
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP IS THE BIGGEST LABEL
& THEY OWN INTERSCOPE
KNO WHAT U TALKIN ABOUT BEFORE U SPEAK
had a spark when you started and now your just garbage. Im truely starting to believe get rich or die tryin was ghost written how do you go from making one of the best rap albums to producing nothing but garbage. and dont tell me the massacre was hot because it sold 10 mill. it sold 10 mill cause 10 million people baught his first cd. curtis sold 1 mill because 10 million people bought the massacre.
GHOST WRITTEN?
LMAO
NAW B REAL WIT YO’SELF
U FELL 4 ALL THE HYPE
NOW THE SMOKE & MIRRORS DISAPPEARED U SEE HIM 4 WHAT HE IS A NORMAL RAPPER
& Y U AIN’T NAMED THEM MIXTAPES B4 GRODT?
U JUMPED ON THE BANDWAGON WHEN MTV DID HUH
THE LIFE STORY, THE AFTERMATH/SHADY CONNECT, THE MURDER INC DRAMA, INDUSTRY BEEFS & A COUPLE OF GOOD SONGS SOLD THEM COPIES
TAKE AWAY THE HYPE & NOW U C REALITY
I CAN LISTEN TO HIS MUSIC PAST & PRESENT W/O ALL THE OTHER BULLSH!T & B COOL WITH IT
CAN U?
B REAL WITH YO’SELF
I FORGOT 2 ADD
WAR ANGEL, FOREVER KING & BIG 10 ARE DAMN GOOD MIXTAPES
I was obviously joking bout the ghost writer thing. I was a 50 cent fan since how to rob and was thrilled when he signed to shady. Obviously the first few mixtapes were good. But his albums now a days are just like his mixtapes 2 hot songs the rest filler. Big 10- intro,shootouts,filler.
“50 lived the life he talks about and has made more money in such a short amount of time than anyone else and they dont like that”
Lived the life? He sold a few drugs and got shot. That describes 99% of the ghetto. Second, 50 doesn’t have more money than Jay or Diddy. Those dudes are brands. Fif was a name on the marque. Big difference.
99% wow
guess rick ross is in that 1%
Diddy had a hand in Biggie being killed, and your gonna name drop him in a positive light?
You are retarded, 50 came out in 03 and all those other dudes have been around since the early 90’s. 50 is way ahead of diddy and jay.
“Diddy had a hand in Biggie being killed”
WHAT? You know that for FACT!? you should tell somebody instead of just uselessly posting it on some blog…
“I bet when Jimmy Iovine gets rid of these 2 finally he’s gonna go, get drunk and party like its his 21st birthday all over again”
Then the next morning he bangs his head into the wall trying to find replacements. They’ll get these guys off the books eventually, but then what?
As I said in the original post I made, No amount of money would be worth putting up with them
And, for the record, Jimmy & Dre probably make more money selling their headphones nowadays then they would on music, people actually pay money for those headphones unlike the music they listen to in them
While Dr.Dre did make a lot of money off those headphone they will stop using Dre’s name and they will no longer be called Beats by Dre. The company is in the process of cutting all ties with Dr.Dre, well that’s what I read anyways.
yeah, because everything you read is fact…
1) This guys whores himself for any media coverage.
2) Appears to a a bit disloyal to those who helped build his brand.
3) Has a semi-homophobic relationship with Mayweather.
4) Has dissed EVERY major rapper since 2002.
5) His music has never lived up to the expectations Get Rich set.
6) And just appears to be an angry, bitter, jerk of a man.
I say all of that to say this….WHO. THE. FUCK. CARES. ABOUT. THIS. DUDES. FORTHCOMING. ALBUM?……..wait for it…….NOT A SOUL.
And you tune into everything he does so what does that say about you?
He’s right though I lost total respect for 50 after he dissed Ice Cube
Just you taking the time to do that shows you care, you shouldnt even have clicked on the article
…lol….@”angry, jerk of a man”…
What angers me the most is that 50 thinks he still makes great music.
What angers me is trolls who hate on the man, but feel the need to leave a comment on everything he does.
Jason you’re a troll. I swear you are a 50 Cent stalker. Stop following this man around to hate. Sit back and learn a thing a two from the man. He’s worth more than your whole family combined for 6 generations!
Y’all fail to realize this: THIS NIGGA SUCKS NOW he doesn’t make good music since 2005 that’s 10 years ago y’all can’t even recognize he’s lame as fuck. swag
Do you ever get bored repeating yourself on this website literally all the time? I get why people troll but what I don’t get are the kids like you making a non-paying full-time job out of it. You should briefly explain exactly what the point is.
I have no life, I’m 13 years old and shit. swag
when it comes to putting out good publicity this dude fucks up. if 50 only has 50 in 5 years i wouldnt be half suprised
He has support now because he’s next in line when before he was not a priority for Interscope like he may have been years ago. I’m pretty sure his freakout and feud with his label over the year was precisely because he wasn’t getting the priority attention and push like he received before, and took it as Interscope brushing him aside and screwing him over when it probably wasn’t the case at all. He still sells records but the industry is changed, new popular artists with buzz are especially their focus since they usually make the most money, and this is his last album on his contract with his buzz faded long ago. It’s an obligation for them to do produce his last album and obligations don’t get first-in-line priority.
Interscope is a corporate label with a CEO, executive board, and investors whose concern is the bottom line, and last I had heard, 50’s last few album sales didn’t make huge impacts like his first couple when he was on fire. They have to write checks all over the place to produce a 50 Cent album, and since they’re not expecting a big payoff for his last album on his 5-album contract, along with the fact they have a release schedule and other artists receiving priority to get their records pushed out first, he has to wait in line when it’s his turn.
It’s his turn now, good for him, and maybe or maybe not he’ll renew his contract. His album will come out, hopefully it’s good and he goes a better way than the last few that did nothing new or special, and he can finally stop having a reason to complain to the media believing his loud whining will encourage Interscope to treat him like it’s 2003 and he’s the hottest artist in the world.
i agree 100% makes sense
i hope he doesn’t say ”fuck jimmy” or something along that line next week. 50 is smarter and all but these days he sounds and acts more bipolar than game.
It’s because he is more bi-polar than Game
FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS
FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.
IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CREDITT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.
MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!
Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!M
“99% wow”
More like 99.9
“guess rick ross is in that 1%”
At least he had a legitimate job before turning into a rapper. Yeah, it makes for alot of jokes, but would you be more impressed if Ross had really killed people, and sold drugs to kids?
What, like he says he does in his rhymes?
50 just stop rapping, your music sucks shit. He’ll pull some stunt when his album drops to sell albums. Go back to NY & stay there. The West Coast is bored with your antics!!