I had my first interview with 50 Cent earlier this week. At Engine Room studios in NYC, we spoke on his upcoming 10-Year anniversary mixtape, The Big 10. To commemorate his first tape 50 Cent Is The Future, 50’s new mixtape will include 10 new songs with original production and the first listen to his new subdivision of G-Unit, Ryder Gang. He signed a new female artist and rapper Kidd Kidd to the imprint.

“I think that when people hear the tape, they’ll be surprised. It’ll hold ‘em over until my album comes out,” Fif adds with a confident smile. “I did over a Bobby Womack joint. But it’s further back then just doing someone else’s record that just came out. I see that so often from new artists–they follow the trend of what I did in that time period so often that it’s been exhausted. It’s a traffic jam in that area at this point.” (via VIBE)

The Big 10 will be released this Friday at 12pm exclusively on Thisis50.com and Datpiff.com.

More from 50 and his interview with the Wall Street Journal after the jump…