50 Cent: I'll quit if outsold by West

08/10/2007 8:56 PM, AP


50 Cent believes his new album will outsell Kanye West's upcoming disc, and he's betting his solo career on it. Both 50 Cent and West have albums due out Sept. 11. 50 Cent, who has sold better than West, has been riled by forecasts that sales of West's "Graduation" could rival those for his "Curtis" CD.

"Let's raise the stakes," the 31-year-old rapper told hip-hop Web site SOHH.com in an interview posted Friday. "If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I'll no longer write music. I'll write music and work with my other artists, but I won't put out anymore solo albums."

An e-mail sent to West's publicist wasn't immediately returned Friday.

50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson, has been publicly disparaging of West before. In 2005, he suggested the 29-year-old rapper's popularity was only possible because of 50's own success.

But they recently collaborated in the studio. Their work, though, isn't scheduled to appear on either new album.

50 Cent's last full-length solo album, "The Massacre," was the best-selling disc of 2005 and sold more than 1.14 million copies in its first week of release. The same year, West's "Late Registration

I said this before, 50 needs to shut up. His ego is even bigger than Kanye's!

This is why I don't like hip-hop. Most of these rappers think they are the best in the world and nobody else comes close. Can't we all get along?

Yeah, this dude is definately over.

Lmao, bye 50!

bye

LIke we needed another reason to buy Kanye's CD.

These guys shouldnt battle like this

^lol, without these "beefs", most mainstream hiphop artists would be dead, careerwise

Yeah, already posted but they merged it with the other 50 vs Kanye thread.
Edit by Orange: Yes, since it seems it is a popular topic among Music threads. Plus, it is not even on the second page! The link for 50 Cent vs. Kanye West thread.

50 just needs a good reason to leave.
i hope kanye beats him.

^ he would promise

and then he'll take it back, because it's a greedy jerk like Alejandro Sanz(in case you didn't know, it's an artist who promised to stop singing if 1 million persons requested it in a poll or somethin' like that, and then he took it back...) but well, i hope his ego kills him, he deserve it...

LMAO! I know. 50 Cent probably has more fillers on his album than the freaking Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. His singles are gold, but his other songs are like "WTF"? Like with the Massacre. I listen to most of the songs now and I'm like "What was I THINKING"

Kanye samples a lot, be he does them good, and builds them off of other songs. Like with Surreal Life, or should I say True Love or should I say Flavor of Love ot should I say Flavor of Love II or should I say I Love New York or should I say Charm School

Bye 50 Cent

To me, 50 cent really hasn't been relevant since "In Da Club." Although, I did like "Disco Inferno," and "P.I.M.P." Okay, he hasn't been relevant, to me, since "Disco Inferno."

I understand 50's frustrations. To be outsold by such a worthless "artist" like Kanye must be painful.

Kanye won't beat him..

please, tell me you are being sarcastic here!