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50 Reaches Visitation Settlement, Young Buck Goes For A Million With New Album

24 Oct, 2008 Comments are off

Reaches Visitation Settlement

New York rapper 50 Cent will soon be seeing better family days. After months of battling it out with his estranged baby mother, the two have finally reached a settlement over visitation rights yesterday in a Long Island courtroom.

According to the New York Post, the settlement allows Fif to see his 11-year-old son with ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins one weekend a month, one month over the summer, and on certain holidays.

“I’m happy it’s actually done with,” said Fif who’s due back in court this January to battle it out with the mother of his son once again over a $50 Million civil suit she filed against him earlier this year.

Young Buck Goes For A Million With New Album

In a bit of unrelated news, former G-Unit soldier Young Buck is getting ready to reemerge after a stint in rehab. And according to the rapper, he’s ready to get back to work, aiming to sell over a million record with his forthcoming LP titled, “The Rehab.”

“The name of my record is The Rehab,” he told MTV News in Atlanta. “Straight up, that’s where I been at.”

Buck says he’s aiming to sell a million records during the first week of the album’s release in January or February.

“Regardless of whatever you may hear, whatever dealing with Buck, what you see is what you get. Honestly, to be real, 50 [Cent] made the statement to the world that ‘Buck is no longer a part of G-Unit, but he’s still an artist on the label,’ so whenever I guess he gets over his situation and figures out his album, I guess we’ll come to terms and figure out a release date on my album. Until then, I ain’t stoppin’. That’s why I’m going so hard with the mixtapes. I’m everywhere. Hopefully, we’ll get a release on my album in January or February.”

50 Cent talks Detox

7 Aug, 2008 2 Comments

Perhaps a sign of things to come, more and more artists are speaking about their role in Dr. Dre’s alleged upcoming album, Detox. Possibly the most anticipated album in Hip Hop history, the latest artist to speak on the long-awaited album, which is to be released in November or December, is none other than 50 Cent.

“I recorded material with Dr. Dre for the Detox,” said 50 to MTV News. “It’s great. I want it back. I want the records back,” joked Fif.

50 did indicate, however, that he wants leftover material Dre has. “He has the music. It’s right there in the computer. I stop by [his studio] every time and get something that adds something significant to my project each time [I’m about to put a record out]. And I spend three or four days there. To me, he’s the best producer in the game.
“When I walk in the studio, I record the first [beat] that comes on regardless if I think it’s a hit record or not,” 50 continued. “We get in work mode, get comfortable and go through the material that’s in the computer. Dre always has hit records. Sometimes, artists that need producers, they need someone to create a direction for them musically. I need the jewels he’s just got laying around. He don’t gotta tell me what to do with it. All he has to do is say, ‘Track six.’ Or, ‘Go to track eight.’ He’ll have hits playing there. You just have to get in and get them.”

It’s 50’s guess - just as it is anyone else’s - as to when Dre will finally deem the album ready for release. “Hopefully he’ll get it done and put it out,” he said. “I’m waiting for the Detox. All I can say is, Dr. Dre is the best producer in my eyes. Just the consistency over the years. … He knows what he wants. He’s such a perfectionist that it becomes difficult for him to put it out.”

50 Cent Disagrees With Eminem, Fires Warning Shots At Rick Ross

16 Apr, 2008 1 Comment

50 Cent can admit when he is totally wrong and his gambles don’t pay off. For most of last year, he took the advice of Interscope Records and fell back from the mixtape circuit because the label had advised him that it was taking away from his official record sales. That was right around the time DJ Drama and Don Cannon were having issues with the RIAA.

But 50 has made up for lost time in the past six months, releasing three mixtapes since last fall.

“They think I’m crazy,” 50 told us last week in his Connecticut mansion, chuckling about what Eminem and Shady Records tell him about giving away so much material for free. “Sometimes [Em] misses why I put it out. He goes, ‘Why did you put it out?’ But I can’t be as hot as I’m gonna be if I don’t play around. I gotta spar before I go fight the champ. That’s my concept of it. If I don’t go out and make material and lock in, I’m not gonna make the best possible material for the next [official] project.”

Fif — who has been working on a new freestyle with Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo over the beat of Snoop Dogg’s “Neva Have 2 Worry” — obviously hasn’t been slowed down by any of his recent issues with his hip-hop peers. Lately he and Fat Joe have been going back and forth in interviews, songs and Photoshopped pictures on the Web.

“The Hip-Hop Weekly [a fake cover] came out, and it was a thing with [Benzino] supposed to be [sleeping] with Fat Joe’s wife,” 50 said. “I didn’t make that. I didn’t have anyone [Photoshop] that. Why would you do that? I work for Hip-Hop Weekly? They’ll know that there are issues between me and Joe, so when he approaches them, they’ll say, ‘Nah, it must be 50. You know how 50 is.’ But I didn’t care, ’cause I don’t like Joe neither. It doesn’t matter to me that they did it, but it didn’t come from me.”

But several days ago, 50 did hold a mock funeral for Joe online. In the video, he started to cry, saying the SoundScan returns of Joe’s The Elephant in the Room killed him. He also warned Joe’s friend Rick Ross not to align himself too tightly with the Terror Squad general.

“Rick Ross is doing good,” 50 elaborated. “I also complimented him that he had the #1 album. I said, ‘Just don’t stand too close to this fat piece of …’ I’m saying that because of what [Joe’s] trying to do. He runs to Miami and hangs out with them like he’s running Miami? Does Fat Joe run Miami? I don’t think Fat Joe runs Miami. I think people from Miami would be upset you’re even questioning that. The fact he can influence DJ Khaled on the radio, does that mean Fat Joe runs Miami? … I don’t care if [Khaled] ever plays my records. He’s not important enough to what I’m doing for it to matter. Not to say Miami doesn’t count. He doesn’t count for it to matter to me.”

The G-Unit album, tentatively titled Shoot to Kill, is slated for this summer, while Fif’s next solo LP, Before I Self Destruct, is coming toward the end of this year.

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50 Cent: “Young Buck Is No Longer In G-Unit”

16 Apr, 2008 2 Comments

50 Cent has made it clear about the status of Young Buck, one of his artists who has had a shaky relationship with the company for several months. 50 Cent revealed today that the Tennessee rapper was no longer in G-Unit the group, but would still record for the label.

“You can look at it and see that’s Game [former G-Unit rapper] all the way. I was giving him a chance, giving him the benefit of the doubt [to remain with the group]. You can take this as an official notice right here – pretty much you can say: Young Buck is no longer in the group G-Unit, but signed to G-Unit [Records] as a solo artist,” 50 Cent told DJ Envy, a co-host on the Hot 97 Morning Show with Miss Jones.

Most recently, Young Buck revealed that he had not collected any royalty income as an artist on G-Unit Records, a subsidiary of Interscope. Those reports were quickly dispelled by Sha Money XL, manager of Young Buck, who said the rapper was “waving the G-Unit flag strong.”

“There has been a new rumor going around that 50 Cent has not paid Young Buck any royalties,” Sha Money XL told AllHipHop.com. “I, as Buck’s manager and as former President of G-Unit Records, want to make it clear: that is false. Young Buck has cleared over $10 million dollars working under 50 Cent’s and my guidance.”

Young Buck, born David Darnell Brown, was expected to appear on Shoot to Kill, the follow up to G-Unit’s 2003 debut album titled Beg For Mercy.

Young Buck once was to lead the charge for 50 Cent’s G-Unit Sout imprint. Instead, the rapper started Cashville Records and signed rap vet C-Bo and The Outlawz, who were a part of Tupac’s inner circle of emcees.

But has also started David Brown clothing to supplement his rap offerings.

50 Cent and The Game initially parted ways, because the Compton upstart wouldn’t assume beefs with Nas and Fat Joe that the rest of G-Unit had declared.

Judge Sides With 50 Cent, Allows Rapper To Evict His Baby’s Mother..

8 Apr, 2008 1 Comment

A judge yesterday (April 4) accepted 50 Cent’s request to evict Shaniqua Tompkins, his ex-girlfriend and mother to his ten year old son Marquis, from his Long Island, New York home.

As reported earlier, 50 and Tompkins were embroiled in a bitter legal battle over child support payments last year.

50 was initially ordered to pay $25,000 a month in child support to Tompkins but a judge would cut it down to $6,700 this year on condition that Tompkins used the money to find a new residence.

According to The New York Post, 50 told the judge Thursday that he wanted Tompkins evicted from the house because she has not attempted to find a new residence and is taking advantage of the fact he pays all the bills for the Long Island home.

“To have her living there with her boyfriend and several other people is inappropriate,” 50 said. “She’s in the house with people I’m not responsible to pay housing for.”

“She doesn’t want to work. She doesn’t want to do anything,” he added. “She has a sense of entitlement over me because she was around before I had success.”

The judge sided with 50 to evict Tompkins from the Long Island house and gave Tompkins until the end of the school year to move.

In retaliation, Tompkins filed a breach of contract lawsuit against the G-Unit honcho yesterday claiming that the rapper promised to buy her the house.

Benzino Recalls Past Relationship W/ 50 Cent, Denies Fat Joe Photoshop Rumors..

8 Apr, 2008 No Comment

Hip-Hop Weekly publisher Raymond “Benzino” Scott is back to set the record straight. In an exclusive with SOHH the former Source owner reveals an interesting experience he shared with rival 50 Cent back in 2000 and also addresses recent allegations made by Fif regarding certain photoshopped images.

In an interview with MTV last week, 50 (born Curtis Jackson) rejected rumors that the altered images that appeared on the fake Hip-Hop Weekly cover of Benzino with Fat Joe’s wife, was his doing. Instead Fif blamed Zino and HHW, implying the publication printed the altered image to stir controversy between the rival rappers.

Insulted that 50 would insinuate Hip-Hop Weekly would publish such an image, Benzino phoned in to SOHH to clear the air.

“50 is real cunning at what he does,” Benzino told SOHH. “I’m not into photoshopping. What him and Joe got going on- is between him and Joe. I don’t have nothing to do with that. I think [50] just wanted to answer that, just to see if there was a division between me and Joe, which there isn’t.”

On March 24, 2000, outside of New York’s defunct recording studio Hit Factory, the heated rivalry between Murder Inc. and a then up and coming 50 Cent, took a turn for the worse when an altercation ensued between Ja Rule’s and 50’s camps, resulting in Fif being stabbed by Ramel “Black Child” Gill, a rapper affiliated with the Inc.

Three males, including Fif were treated for stab wounds at Roosevelt hospital.

Today, it is still unclear on what exactly transpired that night, as both camps have released conflicting accounts, but Zino revealed to SOHH that after the brawl, he aided Mr. Jackson and made sure the embattled rapper arrived at the hospital safely.

“The first-time I met 50 was when the situation at the Hit Factory had happened with him and Murder Inc,” Benzino recalled. “I was with the Made Men and we were recording at Sony studios which was a couple of buildings down. One of the guys from the group, Mr. Jesus, had bought 50 in. At that time he came down and said [50] wanted to meet me or whatever, so he came in the lounge and showed us he got stabbed.

At the time, Benzino only knew of Fif through his producers Tone and Poke. According to Benzino, a wounded 50 stepped into the studio to meet and greet him, but once he saw the rapper was hurt, he secured a vehicle for 50 to take.

“We had a car service when I was with the Source at the time,” he explained, “and I called [50] a car and sent him on his way. Everything was good. We haven’t spoken to each other since, with the whole Source and Eminem thing. I guess it was really impossible for the communication to take place.”

According to Benzino, he and 50 shared a mutual respect for one another. The two actually spoke about collaborating on a track.

“I saw him in Puerto Rico,” Zino recalled. “I guess that was the time he just signed with Eminem. [50] came over and gave me a hug and said ‘what up.’ We started talking about doing a track together through Sha Money. [But] once the Eminem thing took place, all of that fell apart.”

Today, Benzino looks to keep the nonsense in the past, but he believes the damage, which ensued between him and Em, may have forever sealed any future reconciliation.

“I’m a keep it 100, there’s so much damage and so much bullsh*t as far as his side of the fence and my side of the fence, I don’t see that happening,” Benzino explains. “[But] I’m not one of these *ssholes. I’m always for the bigger picture.”

50 Cent Helps LL Cool J Recover From ‘Weak’ Album

27 Nov, 2007 No Comment

“This record, I’m just pulling out my sword, dipping it in some melted vinyl, pulling it out and cutting everything in sight. Crazy!”

With talk like that, LL Cool J will have to deliver one of the most magnificent records of his career when Exit 13 finally drops next year.

“It’s an incredible feeling” said Cool J, who proclaims this is the best album he’s done in almost a decade. “And you know what? I have to give 50 props for that. If a guy calls you on the phone and says, ‘You know what? Your last record was kinda slow and this was a little weak.’ It was like, ‘Yo, I just thought the record was slow, man, don’t mess my LL up.’ It’s great. One of the most important things in making records, you can’t think you know everything in music. I’m humble. I’m confident, but I’m humble.

“I don’t mind having a conversation with a guy who seems to have his finger on the pulse and having a conversation with him and talking with him and seeing if he can push me a little bit and get my mojo back,” he added. “I didn’t feel I fell off, but I felt I was a little bit out of touch with the things I should be thinking about. I needed to get a little more focused and close to my people and closer to the street.

“It’s more honest,” he continued. “We haven’t worked together for months now, but [50] helped me set the fun. I got loose, I’ve been really just in the lab, but he helped me set the tone. I had fun getting loose again. It was competitive, ’cause we made records together, records that may or may not make the album. All types of hidden records. He pushed me. Now my vertical is back and I can dunk on all of them. I’mma dunk on them so crazy.”

Mixtape Monday heard some of the records recently. There’s “Champion,” which he boastfully describes as being “the apex of eroticism.” He says the title is like “putting the pedal to the metal and escaping the nonsense and drama and going 100 miles an hour on the highway at night looking at the white lines as they blend together. It’s vicious.” On “Rock the Pole” he’s being taken to the brink by a dancer.

“New York Gangsters” is the first song leaked off the LP. L plans to shoot a video for it soon. In it, he speaks about his aspirations as a shorty to be a drug dealer, but being swayed in a different direction.

“I never chose to talk about that because it just didn’t strike me as something to talk about,” he explained. “To be honest with you, the guys I grew up with in that life, we’re quiet. Maybe they got caught and got famous later, but when it came to being around that type of society, it wasn’t something to talk about. … Now it’s a way to flip it and say, ‘Yes, I hung out with them, and yes, I even wanted to be involved,’ but ultimately my man went to jail, and him going to jail allowed me to continue to pursue my music more relentlessly and make a decision to really focus on my music and career. It is possible to make a decision to not be in the life of dope pushin’. You can escape that life, take the same energy they use and apply it to something positive. This record is a great reminder of that fact.

“Me, personally, I get sick of all the elitist stuff that goes on,” he continued of the album’s subject matter. “For me, although I’ve done it from time to time, I think we’re getting to the place where [some rappers feel] if I don’t say I’m better than you or richer than you then I’m not supposed to say nothing. I don’t think I have to look down on all my hip-hop fans. I would never see Mick Jagger onstage talking about, ‘I’m fabulously wealthy. More money, immediately.’ I think it’s time to connect with people on a more realistic level. People are blue-collar. Everybody is not rich. People get tired of you telling them you’re better than them. Overall, it’s too much now. Enough with the frontin’ and flossing — just make a hot record.” …

50 Cent Reveals All, New album “Before i self destruct”

16 Nov, 2007 No Comment

Curtis tells MTV about mentor Eminem, collaborating with Kanye West and reveals all about his next album…

50 Cent has spoken to MTV Base News while on tour in the UK and revealed all about life as the most controversial rapper on the planet.

Covering everything from his battle with Kanye West earlier this year to the sound of his new album Before I Self Destruct, we gave Curtis a good grilling.

“The tour is great I’m really enjoying myself,” he said while at the 02 Arena. “I’ve had to make some minor changes because I’ve been using a live band in parts… it’s a really different show to anything I’ve done before- There’s a lot more showmanship.”

When talking about playing concerts across the globe 50 turned to his mentor Eminem and revealed why Shady rarely tours:

“I’ve toured more than him because he has Hailey and he likes to physically be at the house,” he told MTV Base News. “A lot of people don’t know the reason behind him touring less- but Hailey would but boxes in front of the door thinking this would stop him going.”

“He (Eminem) would fly back on a private plane after the show so he could drive her to school in the morning so for him the tour was exhausting.”

50 Cent also told us about what could be his final studio album Before I Self Destruct. Rumour has it he’s collaborated with Kanye West on the album, so we had to ask…

“This album is more aggressive and darker- I’ll produce something that hands down will be the best record of that time period. There’s no duet with me and Kanye,” he said. “There was a track that I created and Kanye produced but it’s not made it to the album.”

And when asked about double standards with swearing on records Fiddy said: “Matter a fact my next single I’m going the start it ‘It’s Britney Bitch.’”

SEE THIS INTERVIEW ON THE LICK THIS SUNDAY AT 7PM ON MTV BASE.

MTV ‘Cribs’ To Air Full Episode With 50 Cent

15 Nov, 2007 No Comment

MTV ‘Cribs” will air a full episode featuring 50 Cent and his Connecticut mansion November 29th at 10:30 p.m.

50 gives the ultimate tour to his 19-bedroom mansion, the surrounding grounds and enlists G-Unit to help with the hosting duties. Viewers can simultaneously log onto MTV.com for in-depth, one-of-a-kind online footage of 50 as he takes site visitors into unseen rooms and gives info on some of his favorite items in the house.

Fans can tune-in to MTV2 for an encore airing of the special episode airing December 2nd at 3p.m.

Episode highlights include a movie theater with a database of over 3,000 movie titles; a custom Gucci billiards room with suede, Gucci-print wallpaper and a Gucci pool table; indoor and outdoor pools; an ATV track; an elevator between floors; a club with custom DJ booth and strip club.

Once owned by boxing legend Mike Tyson, 50’s estate sits on 17.6-acres of Connecticut land, has 19 bedrooms and 35 bathrooms.

50 Cent Finally Platinum

28 Oct, 2007 No Comment

50 Cent is finally platinum after 6 weeks in stores, his Curtis LP has finally cracked the 1,000,000 units sold mark! Of course, since the RIAA awards plaques for albums shipped rather than sold, he already has a plaque, but at least now he can look at it with some actual sense of accomplishment.

(In case you’re wondering, to-date sales of Kanye’s Graduation are currently at 1,534,190, and he’s still in the Top 10 on Billboard. Curtis however, has sunk all the way to #21 with a total of 1,025,460)

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50 Cent Disagrees With Eminem, Fires Warning Shots At Rick Ross

50 Cent: “Young Buck Is No Longer In G-Unit”

Judge Sides With 50 Cent, Allows Rapper To Evict His Baby’s Mother..

Benzino Recalls Past Relationship W/ 50 Cent, Denies Fat Joe Photoshop Rumors..

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MTV ‘Cribs’ To Air Full Episode With 50 Cent

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