Fri 16 Oct 2009
Is there anyone for 50 Cent to fight Nov 23rd? Or will he be forced to pummel Justin Timberlake** ; )
Posted by Miss Info under Hmmm? , New Music , Quotes , Relationships and Family[39] Comments
So…is this November mega-release date the dramatic climax of 2009? In 2007 it was the 50 Cent vs Kanye sales battle, and in 2008….hmm, I don’t remember a climax, I think we were all just too freaked out about the economic collapse. But now, it seems that on Nov.23, “Super Monday,” there will be new releases from 50 Cent, Rihanna (“the wait is ova”), Lady Gaga (the Kanye flat-leaver), Timbaland, Baby, and Jay Sean. Meanwhile, “Super Tuesday” Nov. 24, will launch new albums from Justin Timberlake** and Britney Spears. Yikes.
Well, ever the businessman, 50 cent reacted to the mass release date in an interview with the Canadian Press:
“I guess I should be devastated that I’m up against Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears?…This is a great competition: you mean to tell me I get the chance to go into a battle against pop singers?… I don’t see myself in competition with artists that aren’t even in the same genre…Could you find a rapper for me to compete with please? Now I gotta fight Justin? I’m gonna fight him and kick his ass!”
UPDATE:**It seemed odd that Justin would suddenly drop an album without any promo on a single, not buzz, nada. So reader Ian thinks maybe the Canadian reporter got Timberlake and Timbaland mixed up…misleading Fif into the above reaction. Very possible!
Lol…Fif has a point, there is nobody to play the foil for him. No good vs evil, no underdog/overdog. But I also thought this quote was interesting. 50 is asked his Kanye and Jay-Z commentary.
“Well, I don’t say lemme talk about these other guys for no reason. If they come up in conversation based on something they’ve said about me, then we’ll discuss it. But I have no interest in talking about them, like they’re not friends of mine. They involved in the same business and are part of the same culture, I’m aware of them, but I can care less about ’em.
“Your friends are people you call for no reason. … I don’t call these people. You know, ’cause we write music and we do some of the same things for a living, people make comparisons and they act like we actually have relationships when we don’t know each other.
“All I know is their work.”
October 16th, 2009 at 3:49 am
Justin Timberlake has a new CD coming out next month? Shouldn’t there be a single and media blitz going on right now?
October 16th, 2009 at 3:54 am
I’ll have a album battle with 50! If he don’t sign me! That’d be HOT! Id give him a run for his money….or at least try my best!
October 16th, 2009 at 3:58 am
thats exactly what I was thinking. Isn’t JT a big enough cash cow for Jive to warrant a real roll out? Seems odd.
October 16th, 2009 at 4:19 am
Jt dropping next month? Wow, Miss info it really is odd fact with no single. Jt droppin without a single, I bet he would still sell more than Fat Joe (8000k).
October 16th, 2009 at 4:52 am
JT doesn’t have an album coming out in Nov.
I think someone got Timbaland and Timberlake mixed up. It has happened before.
Justin is Jive’s biggest cash cow, no way in hell he can have an album coming out without the world knowing about it for at least a half year prior.
October 16th, 2009 at 5:07 am
ohhh…..so they asked Fif about it, and he reacted. Ok, lemme fix that. Thanks for the sharp eye. I’m sleepy.
October 16th, 2009 at 7:22 am
roc affiliates keep dropping the same day as 50 affiliates
black album>>>>> beg for mercy
late registration>>>>>> thoughts of a predicate felon
graduation >>>>>curtis
we all know the out come
October 16th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Sorry fif great business man, but his rap suck lately he prob going 2 do a good number but not nearly what he use 2 doin, that’s how his sales been lately. He always 2 focus on who he can start with in a rap 2 gain attention then actual good rap record. Is it me or is that gimmick gettin old as hell?
October 16th, 2009 at 8:54 am
when is interscope going to promo bisd? is jimmy just that much at odds with 50? since curtis interscope has put no promo or marketing into him.
October 16th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Would be nice to get a solid 50 cent album with no extra “competition” talk. Just quality music presented to the public and able to stand on its own regardless of what others are doing.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:31 am
50’s album aint dropping in November man unless the single picks up but i cant see that happening.
i didnt know JT is dropping an album this year.he should do a joint with Andy Samberg something really catchy and offensive.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Info i need to see Rza on Colbert last night…please?
October 16th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I think Rihanna will win for some reason. Britney is a greatest hits CD.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
50 can’t sell albums without beef. BISD is about to be a bigger dud than Curtis.THis album was supposed to come in 2008. He’s released 5 first singles lol
RIP Curtis “Interscope” Jackson 2003 -2007.
Kanye killed him.
Good music always wins over gimmicks.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
50 will do impressive numbers regardless of who he goes up against. He has some good material and always has.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
GRODT >>>>>> ROC
October 16th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
It’s a good thing JT doesn’t have an album coming out, he would sell circles around Curtis.
That said, a Britney Spears “greatest hits” album could still trump Curtis and I wouldn’t be shocked if Rihanna and he post very comparable numbers.
October 16th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Is it just me or does this dude contradict himself every time he does and interview:
“I have no interest in talking about them”
Really 50? Because I could of swore you went out of your way to talk about how the Lady Gaga/Kanye tour was the “gay tour” in your last interview with Angie Martinez. Not to mention your completely resent shot at Fat Joe.
October 16th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
It’s just 8k. The ‘k’ means ‘thousand’.
October 16th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Did you really compare Tony Yayo to Kanye? I wouldn’t compare Bow Wow to Tony Yayo. Yayo is garbage. And the Black Album is from a solo artist, and Beg for Mercy was a group effort. It’s an unfair comparison. And for future reference, Kanye sold more domestically, 50 cent sold more worldwide. If the World chose to buy 50’s cd rather than Kanye’s then that’s saying alot.
October 16th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
The Fat Joe thing caught me off guard. It was completely random. Especially since it was around the same time he was trying to be on his peace let’s bring NY back together type shit.
October 16th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
..They asked him about that so how did he contradict himself stupid?He doesnt like fat joe so why not kick him while hes down…AGAIN!!..all the people who hate fifth damn sure take time to go in any thread about him…so keep doing ya thing fifth and that BISD will still go platinum no matter what..just like jays album did slowly
October 16th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Get off 50’s dick.
Black album dropped the same day as beg for mercy and sold more (So please shut up).
Graduation dropped the same day as yayo’s project and went #1 (shut up).
Graduation did outsell Curtis (So shut the fuck up!!!)
Numbers don’t lie!!!
October 16th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Co-sign!
October 16th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
this guy’s being caught in his contradictions…and no one is stupid enough except his stans to keep listening to the crap he be sayin’ lately.
“I can care less about them” really??? Why did you mentioned Hov in flight?? why would you even speak on fat joe numbers if you have no interest in him?? cmon son!
October 16th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Why’s he shittin’ on Justin? didn’t they do a song together?
October 17th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Info. please don’t take this the wrong way, but your blog has gone from a site I visit religiously everyday to get insight on hip hop news from your perspective… to a “talking points memo” sponsored by 50cent’s blog, ‘thisis50.com’ that I wonder why I still click on. I know you have a new found relationship with thisis50.com and as lucrative as it may or may not be, please try to remember that there are miss info fans that have been there from day one who actually care about what miss info truly cares about and blogs about. I apologize ahead of time if I’m out of line for bringing this up, but I have read less and less these days about you and what you think about shit, and more and more about 50 and what’s going on with him… I probably sound like a hater, but im not, just miss the old blog content. If you search your very old blog entries, youll see my name and my comments, cuz I am a huge fan.
October 17th, 2009 at 4:39 am
really? too much 50? I’m surprised, because honestly, compared to when he was doing alot of controversial interviews, and the rick ross/young buck debate periods, I think the coverage of Fif has gone waaay down. I totally appreciate your input and your support, even if its less enthusiastic now. But I still definitely post random musings about TV, food, etc. I can understand if you think I don’t post my own activities as much, I think I need to work on that….but if your primary complaint is too much 50, then I might have to disagree.
I appreciate the input tho….I gotta warn you, I think with his album dropping in Nov, there may be more 50 content that I find interesting. In general, he’s a pretty compelling love-or-hate-or-both character in hip hop. But that too shall pass, just like there was tons of Raekwon/Ghost content leading up to their release. And Cam’s release, etc.
October 17th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I am just not feeling 50 Cent the way I used too, I mean I remember having GRODT repeat mode til my friends were sick of it, same with the Massacre, Curtis had a few but wasn’t classic to me, and so far off of before I self destruct…”Baby By Me” I mean it may be charting well but that doesn’t make me want to rush to the store on Nov 23rd, I mean he talks his sexual babble over a different hook so many times its just not appealing anymore
maybe he do need to go back to the grind or fall on his face again to come up with somethin new, maybe needs to be less visible disappear for a couple of years, then come back. I predict 250k first week, and with other heavy weights coming that week not sure he’ll even take the #1 spot
October 17th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
C/S!!!!! Damn Anti-50 Stans
October 17th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
While I think the specific artist coverage fluctuates in respect to upcoming albums and projects. I will agree that I too visit this site consistently for Miss Info’s spin and take on things more so then just the hip hop info.
October 17th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I didnt know platinum in a month was slow…
50 will go platinum, in a about 6 months though…
SMH
October 17th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Dry, Numbers don’t lie but you’re lying.
Beg For Mercy sold 3 million in U.S. and 6 Million worldwide.
What did Black Album sold? 3mil. Worlwide is unknown cuase it’s so low. Relax
Uh, need I remind you that BP3 only sold 14k out the U.S. on it’s first week?
You apparently don’t know what you’re saying: Graduation dropped same day as Yayo, according to you. SMH
Curtis outsold Graduation. Worldwide sale for Curtis surpassed Graduation.
Tell me, did Escobar only count his cocaine sales in Columbia or everything out the country counted and made him rich?
Sit down baby boy.
October 17th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
I’m telling you for some reason I am starting to think that some artist are paying 50 off for the diss. I mean think about it if 50 didn’t do that video and fake PR release about going to the hospital after listening to Joe’s album would we even know his album was out. Or better yet when he put Joe’s artwork(diss form) all over this is 50 .com (which I might add is to dam expensive) for free to “Diss” him. I smell back door deals aka cash for airtime. Just a thought!
October 17th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
You forgot about the hospital videos.
October 17th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
you know whats funny about fat joe wasn’t he the one talkin about ” why is everybody so mad at the south for switch your style up switch to south paw” and wasn’t he the one everybody was sayin that he was the only ny rapper getting play outside of the tri-state area, damn what happen fat man the southern style aint workin for you! asshole!
October 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
“They asked him about that”
Maybe you should go back and listen to that interview again. No one asked 50 anything, Angie Martinez was promoting that Hot97 was giving away tickets to the Kanye/GaGa tour after coming back from a song…..then 50 shouted out(unprovoked)…THE GAY TOUR. She did not ask him to comment on it she was just reading the promo for the station. It wasn’t till after he said that did Angie ask him to elaborate.
October 18th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Info he didn’t even mention Rhi so why is her name in the post? I dint think he sees her as his competition.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:01 am
I think FIFTY is in for a cold hard reality check come November. He could be looking at a NELLY sized drop off in terms of record sales. He has had zero buzz related to music, but has become that character in Jay-Z’s ‘ALREADY HOME’ – “…only time they excitin is when they mentioning Shawn…” Only the most stalwart FIFTY fan can be happy with his output over the last year & a half. Like that Sheek Louch line, I just don’t hear it in your rhymes no more FIF. Perhaps you could move back to South Jamaica for a year or so; rent out the old Jam Master Jay studio, and start the album making process over.