50 CENT VS. KANYE WEST
August 13, 2007 Is there a new hip-hop feud brewing?
Rapper 50 Cent believes his new album will outsell Kanye West's upcoming disc, and he's betting his solo career on it. Both 50 Cent and West have albums due out Sept. 11. 50 Cent has outsold West in the past, but the singer has been irritated by forecasts that sales of West's upcoming "Graduation" could rival those for his "Curtis" CD.
"Let's raise the stakes," the 31-year-old rapper told hip-hop website SOHH.com in an interview posted Friday. "If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I'll no longer write music. I'll write music and work with my other artists, but I won't put out anymore solo albums."
50 Cent has weighed in on West before; in 2005, he suggested West's popularity was only possible thanks to 50's own success.
The two recently collaborated in the studio, but their work isn't scheduled to appear on either new album.
50 Cent's last full-length solo album, "The Massacre," was the best-selling disc of 2005 and sold more than 1.14 million copies in its first week of release. The same year, West's "Late Registration" opened by selling more than 860,000 copies in its first week.
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