50 Cent Goes Berserk In Interscope Offices; Threatens To Leave Label
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Hot 97 DJ Miss Info has been reporting that 50 Cent completely lost his mind in the offices of Interscope Records yesterday, after learning the video and song for "Follow My Lead" featuring Robin Thick leaked onto the internet. The video was not supposed to be released until October, after his new song "Ayo Technology" had time to breathe. 50 was reportedly screaming at executives, ripped a 70 inch plasma TV off the wall, and threw his blackberry through a glass window onto the street.
"he yelled you’re fucking everything up, youre messing up my look, my album, so you know what, I’m on fuckin vacation now. Fuck you and Fuck Interscope", says Miss Info.
50 until we hear otherwise, 50 has basically said he isn't promoting the record anymore when it's scheduled for release in exactly one month. What makes it even more interesting is he told Sohh.com that he'd retire if he didn't sell more records than Kanye West.
""Put it like this," 50 told SOHH. "Let's raise the stakes. 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 any more solo albums."
50 indicated disappointment in Interscope Records and believes they're leaking songs off his album which are doing more harm and good, "So I go back in and create something different," he continued. "So when I came back with 'I Get Money,' I was actually upset that 'Ayo Technology' leaked. It kind of cut into 'I Get Money' a little bit. I knew for a fact the record was leaked from Interscope. Because the first two records, 'Straight to the Bank' and 'Amusement Park,' weren't playing at the station that played 'Ayo Technology' first. So that's an indication to me that they delivered it to Top 40 and crossover [radio formats] ahead of ... They sent it to [New York radio station] Z-100 before they sent it to Hot 97. I was like, 'Yo, that's not a regular leak, B.' I was like, '[My promotion strategy] is necessary because this is speaking to my base, my core audience."
Here's the video that caused all the problems, Interscope has been removing it on every site it's posted on."SOHH":http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/12276"MTV":http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1566812/20070810/50_cent.jhtml?rsspartner=rssBloglines"Miss Info":http://missinfo.tv/?p=223
"he yelled you’re fucking everything up, youre messing up my look, my album, so you know what, I’m on fuckin vacation now. Fuck you and Fuck Interscope", says Miss Info.
50 until we hear otherwise, 50 has basically said he isn't promoting the record anymore when it's scheduled for release in exactly one month. What makes it even more interesting is he told Sohh.com that he'd retire if he didn't sell more records than Kanye West.
""Put it like this," 50 told SOHH. "Let's raise the stakes. 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 any more solo albums."
50 indicated disappointment in Interscope Records and believes they're leaking songs off his album which are doing more harm and good, "So I go back in and create something different," he continued. "So when I came back with 'I Get Money,' I was actually upset that 'Ayo Technology' leaked. It kind of cut into 'I Get Money' a little bit. I knew for a fact the record was leaked from Interscope. Because the first two records, 'Straight to the Bank' and 'Amusement Park,' weren't playing at the station that played 'Ayo Technology' first. So that's an indication to me that they delivered it to Top 40 and crossover [radio formats] ahead of ... They sent it to [New York radio station] Z-100 before they sent it to Hot 97. I was like, 'Yo, that's not a regular leak, B.' I was like, '[My promotion strategy] is necessary because this is speaking to my base, my core audience."
Here's the video that caused all the problems, Interscope has been removing it on every site it's posted on."SOHH":http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/12276"MTV":http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1566812/20070810/50_cent.jhtml?rsspartner=rssBloglines"Miss Info":http://missinfo.tv/?p=223
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