50 Cent Decides to hold off on new album

By: Yves Erwin Salomon

50 Cent was planning to release his third album this summer, but the rapper has decided against it after talking with Shady Records head Eminem. 50 Cent told MTV.com, "Em didn't agree with me. My motivation wasn't really right. I get a little frustrated from time to time and I got so much material that I make that isn't being heard that I was like, 'Yo, I just wanna release an album again.'And he was like, 'Nah, you gotta wait.'I don't care about none of that (timing), I just want the record to go out, but it just makes better sense to take our time and re-create the new album."

Unfortunately, pushing the album back means 50 Cent will probably trash all of the new material that he has now. The rapper explained, "By the time the summer passes, the music that I planned to release will be dated to me and I'll have so many new ideas that I wanna write something else. I don't ever receive the credit I'm supposed to receive for my music. I receive all the checks I'm supposed to receive, I just don't receive all the trophies. But I'm cool with it. I just look at it like I should continue to dominate with it more. I'll get lifetime-achievement awards, (as) opposed to best-new-artist awards, so it's cool."

Although 50 Cent will not be releasing a new album, there's plenty of new music coming from the G-Unit, including Mobb Deep's new album Blood Money, which drops in April. The Mobb Deep project will be followed by new albums by Lloyd Banks and Young Buck.

50 Cent explained that rap music needs the G-Unit because the genre is currently stuck in a creative rut. He said, "A lot of the music that comes out of the South is kind of simplified, and I think it's kinda 'cause they just wanna have a good time. They don't wanna think about what (they) just said... They really didn't make sense, but they made sense in a way, and they just wanna hear something while they're actually partying, and it works for them. But when they don't take the time to make it the highest quality possible, it hurts the actual hip-hop (genre). People wanna make music they can get away with, as opposed to the best possible music they can make."