Don't hold your breath waiting for 50 Cent to retire.
Sure, the trash-talking MC may have uttered what seemed like famous last words, vowing to hang up his mike if Kanye West's "Graduation" outsells 50's third album, "Curtis," in their first week of release. Now, just two days after both CDs went on sale -- and a month after his challenge began generating an inescapable din of promotional hype -- Nielsen SoundScan has tallied the albums' early returns, putting West on pace to best 50 by about 125,000 copies by Tuesday.
But a closer reading of 50's original invitation to throw down, taken with comments the Queens, N.Y.-born rapper made to The Times just before "Curtis" was released, makes it clear that even if the sum of all of 50 Cent's fears were to materialize, rap fans -- and haters -- haven't likely heard the last from hip-hop's most diss-prone MC.
Since August, media scrutiny has focused on only one part of the commitment 50 made on the hip-hop website SOHH.com: "If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on Sept. 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."
Source: www.latimes.com
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