“A bankruptcy judge’s decision to switch Nashville rapper Young Buck’s case from a reorganization to a liquidation is frustrating the platinum rapper’s attempts to sign with Cash Money Records and end a contract dispute that has stifled his career since 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

What? You thought 50 Cent was too hood to rock over a KC & The Sunshine Band sample? Psh. You already know that’s the way Curtis likes it, and exactly why he did it anyways. Because, as we all know, the G-Unit chief doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks. But, he does care about money and women, which is exactly what him and Yayo can be found indulging in for their new video to “I Just Wanna,” Read the rest of this entry »

Give or take a few months, it was about this time a decade ago a movement was brewing in Hip-Hop that effectively changed the way we hear music, embrace music and perceive success. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson changed the scope of rap music in the 2000′s in ways both beneficial to the genre and detrimental all at once. Read the rest of this entry »

50 recently announced his next mixtape, The Big 10, which commemorates 10 year anniversary of his game-changing 50 Cent Is The Future mixtape. “Stop Crying” heralds in the new release and draws its chorus from the Notorious one. Read the rest of this entry »

50 Cent releases the sequel to the intro track on his first album, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. Unfortunately, GRODT released in 2003 and a world of change has happened in the interim. Read the rest of this entry »

Full disclosure: I hate 50 Cent. His crab in a barrel road to success, relentless attention whoring and baiting, and ruthless business practices have worked my nerves for the last half a decade. It’s because of 50 that so many people use SoundScan numbers as a barometer for an album’s quality. If 50 never made an album again, continued to make sh*tty straight-to-DVD flicks and fell off the face of the Hip-Hop world forever, I wouldn’t shed a tear. However, today, I find myself siding with Curtis. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re hindered by a certain problem that can’t seem to be shaken, wait it out. More than likely, 50 Cent will be there to solve it before you know. Yes, instead of limiting himself to simply helping Hot Rod, the rap mogul is now trying to solve all the world’s headaches and taking on a prominent issue among the youth – bullying – by penning a new novel. Read the rest of this entry »

By the sound of “The Enforcer,” 50 Cent got rich and stopped trying. Read the rest of this entry »

Young, disrespectful, vibrant and immune to any rules the establishment set forth before them, one could make the argument the early 2000′s G-Unit and 1992′s Bébé’s Kids were one in the same. Read the rest of this entry »

Whether you love or hate Tony Yayo, he’s giving everybody plenty of reason to pay attention to him as the apparent designated driver of G-Unit for now. Taking it back to the days of “So Seductive,” Yayo and Fif are poppin’ bottles in the club, joined by their newly appointed labelmates Shawty Lo and Kidd Kidd. Banks, where you at my G? Read the rest of this entry »

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The 10 Real Reasons Why We’ll Never Seen Another 50 Cent Album [TWV] Read the rest of this entry »

50′s back and forth bickering with Interscope goes public again as he took to Twitter to announce he won’t be dropping his new album but will be dropping a track today at 2PM, Read the rest of this entry »

G-Unit 2K11 is a far cry from the gaudy roster 50 Cent brandished in 2004, but for now, they’re content with visibility being their voice of promotion. Tony Yayo is leading the charge on a down-south inspired 808 joint, which is fitting seeing that their latest signees were born with the dialect. Read the rest of this entry »

Doesn’t this version of Curtis seem like such an afterthought? Not necessarily because “he used to sound more authentic” or anything, either. Strictly because this guy has done frikkin’ everything in the eleven years since Power Of The Dollar was supposed to be released. Read the rest of this entry »

In science, waves are generated largely by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon. In Hip-Hop’s case, if Max B.’s wave is to ever rise again, 50 Cent and a gravitational pull of $4M may be the reason why. Read the rest of this entry »