50 Cent showed up at the New Moon premiere on Monday for what seems like absolutely no reason, but after seeing his unusually chipper Tonight Show appearance we think we see where he’s going. MORE »
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No. 31: 50 Cent, “Amusement Park”
“Shorty, you ain’t gotta take your panties off… just move ‘em to the side.” Never let it be said that Curtis Jackson isn’t a romantic! MORE »
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Oh Awesome, I Got Twitter-Spammed By 50 Cent
From my direct-messages inbox this morning, a look at the hazards of following musicians who are willing to go to any lengths to sell their new projects. I guess I should be flattered that he thinks I have the juice to assist in his virality, but mostly I’m just irritated that he didn’t, you know, make the message personal. What happened to the love, Curtis? [@50cent / Twitter] MORE »
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Universal Music Group Really Hoping That People Will Want To Buy Albums This Holiday Season
So apparently that cryptic message about Nov. 23 left on Rihanna’s Web site last night was not about anything egg-related, despite its use of “ova”; instead, it was meant to be a signal that the Barbadian singer’s still-untitled fourth studio album will come out on that day. That’s the Monday before Thanksgiving, and the Monday before the holiday-shopping season kicks in. And to celebrate, Universal Music Group is apparently readying six big-name releases for that day! The list of “Super Monday” albums, via Rap-Up: MORE »
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Tracking The Ever-Shifting Priorities Of MTV Networks’ Standards And Practices Department
Over the weekend, 50 Cent appeared on Vh1’s Top 20 countdown—yes, it is focused on music videos!—and while introducing the No. 6 video of the week, Green Day’s “21 Guns,” Curtis said to host Jim Shearer, “Man, I’d love to be able to have a song called ‘21 Guns’ on VH1.” This isn’t the first time that 50 has (rightly) noted the odd discrepancies in MTV Networks’ lyric-bleeping thresholds, but it is a good moment to maybe do a rundown of what MTV and its matrix of sister networks have censored lately? (Hey, the lousy economy is resulting in all those channels playing more music videos!) A few noticeable omissions and non-omissions from recent tracks after the jump—feel free to add your own! MORE »
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50 Cent Tries To Play The Part Of “The Sensitive One”
The Kanye West/Taylor Swift/Beyonce kerfuffle from Sunday night’s Video Music Awards is theratening to take over the entire work week, with the outspoken MC yesterday calling the blonde country singer to apologize after she appeared on the morning yakfest The View and people still looking for the damn thing on YouTube. (All this post-publicity, it should be said, isn’t really helping dampen my cynicism about the whole thing.) Who better to bring up the rear on a big old manufactured media event than 50 “Curtis Jackson” Cent, who in flusher times two years ago tried to hold his own against Kanye sales-wise and failed—and who yesterday appeared on Canadian music channel MuchMusic to defend Swift’s honor? MORE »
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Can The Former Lead Guitarist Of Korn Bring 50 Cent To Jesus?
Here is a quote from former KoRn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, he of the books about his post-KoRN conversion to Christianity and the tours with other religiously nu-metallic artists like Flyleaf, talking about how during a speed-fueled Bible binge one day, he passed a note to 50 Cent—via their mutual jeweler???—about being saved by Jesus: MORE »
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50 Cent Gets Lost
50 Cent has a new mixtape coming out! It is not timed to the release of his eternally in turnaround Before I Self-Destruct, because that would mean that the record was actually being released. No, this mixtape is synergistically attached to The 50th Law, the business tome that Curtis is co-writing with The 48 Laws Of Power scribe Robert Greene. (It comes out Tuesday, and it will apparently contain boardroom lessons derived from “intimate stories from 50 Cent’s life on the streets.”) “Flight 187″ is the first “single” from the mix, titled The 50th Law of Power, and it has a low-budget yet high-crazy video in which 50 violates FAA regulations by smoking crack on board, gets all fed up by other people watching Jay-Z on the in-flight entertainment, and brags about how much money he’s making. All in a day’s work, right? Clip after the jump. MORE »
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Five Upcoming Album Titles That Should Be Seriously Rethought
Titling an album is tough, especially in the era of people being averse to giving a hoot about new music. How do you sum up your artistic intentions in a few words that will look good on a five-inch-square piece of cardboard jammed into a big-box retailer’s rackspace? Unfortunately, some artists have been tripped up by the process so badly that we had to step in and gently tell them that they may not be rocking such a great look, word-wise. After the jump, five examples of really bad album titles that are on the way to a music retailer near you. (NB: Mew’s No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away gets a pass today, because their set at the Pitchfork Music Festival last night was absolute bliss.) MORE »
