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50 Cent Reveals His Plan To Bring Back Hard-Core Hip-Hop
50 Cent has a mission: to make sure hard-core rap music thrives. Fif is about to hit us with his War Angel LP. The G-Unit dropped the first record, "Redrum (Murder)" — real soulful, real hard. According to Fif, this is going to be the mixtape ... er, street album of his career. The project is available for free download via 50's Web site. As always, keep checking for us at Mixtape.MTV.com.
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Street Album: War Angel LP
Headliner: 50 Cent
Essential Info: Polow Da Don and Timbaland were so excited about the project, they almost gave Fif tracks. But production from those two will more than likely pop up on Before I Self Destruct, due in September. The G-Unit General is warming the scene up before summer officially hits, dropping his new mixtape before the official product.
If you're curious about the title, know that it's not about a beef with one person in particular — this war angel is fed up with the watered-down music in hip-hop right now. It's not what he adored growing up as a fan.
"What I fell in love with initially ain't even in the mutha----in' art form anymore. It's cool because there's an opportunity for me to become [that] to a whole new generation ... because of their age group, they're not aware of it.
"Now I gotta shift the energy," 50 added. "I gotta make them follow me. After they follow me, they'll be able to make real hip-hop records and make them successful. I have to have a successful project with really good hip-hop music to make these people go, 'OK, we can make [a real hip-hop album].' I have to be successful to make the record companies go, 'We can support this guy that wrote a rap album' instead of feeling like 'We need him to go on this record with Ne-Yo or Dream. Get somebody on there to do the hook.' That's the concept of what they feel they can present to the public and that's not what the f--- I was going on when I started."
50 is debuting the entire mixtape Tuesday (June 16) on Hot 97 with Funkmaster Flex then posting it on his Web site that night for free download. The Queens MC is also hiring new video directors — a different one for each clip — to come up with visuals for the mixtape.
"When I start writing music to my core, I'm talking about the way I came up, the way I was raised," he explained. "That's easy to me. Tell me to make a commercial pop record, a commercial hit record and that's more difficult to me than to create concepts that people are excited about where I'm from."
After War Angel, 50 says to look for Sincerely Southside, on which he'll be rapping over some '90s R&B hits, as well as a full G-Unit mixtape prior to the release of Before I Self Destruct.
"I write at a rapid pace," he said. "I have binges. There's points I'll be in the studio ... I've met moments when I'm there and unmotivated by production. Just there and unexcited about the whole sh--. Then there's times when every beat that comes on, I have an idea."
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Permalink Reply by Yung Razzy, SOC. |Gorilla Brow| on -
He's trying to revive gangsta rap once more, Ain't he?
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Permalink Reply by LEGEND/endangeredspecies on -
Thats deff a good look gangsta rap is almost flatlined someone has to revive it.
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Permalink Reply by Mr _Steal_Yo_Hoe on -
Sounds like 50 getting back to the core of his music that made fans like him in the first place. It seems that he know's what direction to go in now and admitted that making Pop Hits isn't one of his best things to do, which is good to his core fans. Looking forward to "War Angel" tonight...
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Permalink Reply by dopeboy [mr killuminati ] on -
damn player i love the sound of this big ups on this thread 50 that dude
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Permalink Reply by PLAYBOYDHDTV on -
You know what i thought Buck would be workin with him last night i didnt know it was true tho he a sucka broke ass niggas love officer Ricky its a shame why do they like that guy, thats why i didnt downlload bucks mixtape
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Permalink Reply by Ant on -
he wont be able to bring gangsta rap much but he at least gonna earn some respect from it and hopefully get some others doing it....
and fif if you tryna bring gangsta rap back put ICE CUBE on your album lol..
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ever since they were talkin bout each other in those interviews i been wanting that s*** to happen..
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Permalink Reply by Albania MOB on -
stfu i am kinda rich was raised in the bx wut should i start drinkin tea and listenin to classical music now smh he can styill be who he is and what made him u f***** just cuz u from the suburbs and dont know s*** bout s*** gtfoh and go back to rockj music u b****
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Permalink Reply by Ace *Major Pain* on -
lol dude every rapper that writes about gangsta s*** are sitting in mansions. So Lil wayne, Game, even tony yayo etc. are all what you call studio gangstas
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