A big piece focused on 50 Cent’s achievements in 20 years since the “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” release reveals that Fifty is working on a new album with Dr. Dre and new joints with Eminem.
The GRODT 20th anniversary put Fifty in the spotlight, and from whatever angle you can see — he is doing great. Billboard commissioned a special feature to celebrate the occasion, which recapped Fif’s previous victories, both in the music industry and on TV, and talked about his upcoming plans.
Apparently, informs the magazine, “he is now working on a studio album with Dr. Dre, Eminem has sent him new songs to collaborate on, and Nas has tapped him for a feature on his forthcoming King’s Disease 4. And after a string of one-off shows and a subsequent international run last year, 50 is also planning to tour domestically for the first time in 13 years”.
Fifty dropped a couple of solid hints about releasing new music in 2023, however, another confirmation gives us even more reassurance.
The article is accompanied by a short video from behind the scenes of the interview and a photoshoot, in which 50 Cent is talking about Dr. Dre and Eminem.
I learned more from watching them than from talking to them. Dre’s success is also connected to his relationships. ‘Cause I would make music, I don’t care if I wrote a song that sounded like it belonged in King James’s version of the Bible and Jesus Christ anointed the music. Jimmy [Iovin] would listen to the record and go, “This is great, this is great! Just go across the street, to Dre”. And what it would do is the material that I had, that was really exciting, I would play it and Dre would get excited and then he would give me the hottest thing that he had at that point. ‘Cause, you don’t want to be on the record and just be a Dre beat on that album. You want it to be the best record every time he’s making a record.
Say anything you think could be compatible to Eminem. You know, he sold over like 90 million records. There’s no nobody that you can point at and say that it’s equivalent. He’s the bridge, culturally, for hip hop to lose its colour, for everybody to feel like they want to participate and be part of it. No Eminem — no Rolls Royces and Ferraris for these artists that you see. What I’m saying, they won’t be able to earn the same amount of money off the projects that they have going on because it wouldn’t be that many consumers of it. So, when they would look and go, “Oh, why he sell more records than the rest of us? Oh, ‘cause his white…” You know what I’m saying? What’s the difference between the projects and the trailer park? That ain’t much difference, bro. This is why culturally it makes sense that it gets into the same things. And when you’re authentic and you’ve actually come on that journey that way, bro, you could get whoever you think is the best, put them in the room. When I’m doing 13 million records, “The Marshall Mathers LP” is doing 23 million records. So I’m always clear that there’s room for growth.
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