50 Cent Speaks Out On Battle With Kanye, Still Says He Could Win
Posted by Ashish on 09.14.2007
Fiddy begins making excuses...
50 Cent appeared on New York's Hot 97 yesterday and started up damage control on the data that has his new album, Curtis, being outsold by Kanye West's Graduate, by over 100,000 copies.
"[The sales] can't be considered [any one way] anyway because it's just a few days out," he says. "I guess [the music industry] would consider me to be a hip-hop favorite because of my sales history, and people like to root for the underdog."
50 vowed to retire from making solo records if Kanye's album sold more copies than his.
"The [fans that aren't supporting me now] are the same people that supported me in the past," says 50 Cent. "The impression I gave them was so strong that they have different standards for me. When my music comes out, if it was someone else's record, it would be a hit because it spun 3,500 times. But they're looking for the hottest music out at the time from 50 Cent, so if it's not that, then they show me resistance until I deliver. I've only been in the music business for four years and I'm already receiving some backlash. That's amazing, isn't it?"
50 also complained at how he has been treated recently on BET's "106 And Park" and the MTV VMAs, claiming that he was left in the dark on "106" about what was going on and was given much less TV time than Kanye on the VMAs.
"Every time I do a show, the plans change," he offers. "Now, either I'm going to know exactly what I'm doing on the show or I'm not going to go. Usually if you have a TV show and you do two songs, it's not optional for you to do two records, and another one off your album. If I knew I could've brought a special guest, I would've brought Eminem ... but that [show] is not what I needed."
"As far as the VMAs were concerned, Kanye received the upper hand. I ain't going to front," he continues. "He had four looks -- his song "Stronger," his new record "Good Life," he had a performance with Soulja Boy, "Crank Dat," and then he came out with me. So I feel like Def Jam is doing a better job of promoting the CD than Interscope. Interscope is just relying on my base and the actual music. I was on the VMAs for one minute and 20 seconds. I should've just stayed home."
