50 Cent Admits He’s A Sellout
Rap star 50 Cent opened up in a new interview to the Confidenti@l revealing that he wants to work with Justin Timberlake again and even boasts that he’s been “selling out” all along.
50 Cent admitted while hyping his new album, Animal Ambition, which explores the ups and downs of prosperity, saying:
“Everything I did on my first album was considered a sellout — taboo.”
Fiddy reveals his new plan is to release a new song every Tuesday until his fifth studio project hits stores on June 3. Fif also makes no apologies for making commercial-friendly music.
He adds:
“Music sells everything but music.”
“Think about it. Whether it’s old music or new music, music sells the car, music sells the horror movie …”
Fitty expects the new LP to be blasted by critics, saying:
“When you win for the first time, it’s like ‘boom’ — it’s confirmation that it’s possible to be successful from nothing, and everyone loves that because it’s confirmation for everyone that they can be successful too.”
“But when you win repeatedly, the artistic community goes, ‘Goddamnit, if you don’t get out of the way how am I going to have a chance to win?’ So they go ‘[The new album] is cool, but it wasn’t as good as when he first came out.’ ”
In regards to 50 Cent’s friends and G-Unit coharts, he explains that he’s also grown accustomed to friends thinking he owes them something.
“People develop that sense of entitlement.”
“They think ‘you could’ve bought me a house or two cars and it would’ve meant nothing to you.’ Then you don’t [hear about it] until you get into a heated argument 10 years into your success. Some people don’t even know what they want until they see someone else with it.”
He explains why he wants to work with JT again, recalling:
“That wasn’t work…I think after half an hour we had a song.”
50 Cent weighs in on Eminem leaving music and then coming back:
“He goes away, completely reboots his music entirely, then comes back and still has support of the system.”
