50 Cent has long been talking about the release of his fifth album, which used to be called Black Magic. In May of 2010, he told reporters that he was inspired by how club music had made the shift from hip-hop beats to more dance music and that his new album was going to be a combination of those two styles of music. He said, "I went to a nightclub afterparty. It's a little different music going on before I got there. They play your music when you come. But the music they played before they started playing a lot of what I created was more uptempo, more dance. I wanted to make a song like that..." But then in November of the same year, he announced that after recording 20 songs to reflect the aforementioned "whole different album concept," he put them aside and decided his next release would be called Detox and promised that it would be the "2011 GET RICH OR DIE TRYING." But the hardships were still far from over.
This past June, 50 announced on Twitter that he and his record label, Interscope Records, disagreed on the best way to unleash the album and that executives had decided to postpone its release until a common ground was reached. He said "Ok I tried to be cool with my record company. I went to the meeting to talk to everyone and sh*t feels like there [sic] moving in slow motion. I'm sorry to announce I will not be releasing a new album this year if we don't get on the same page. I would rather not launch my album with out a plan the whole system is executing. I don't know why they play me when they know how I get."
Problems have continued all the way through Wednesday, and 50 announced on Twitter that he had chosen to raise the stakes and put pressure on Interscope to come up with a plan for Detox by threatening to leak Dr. Dre's single off the album. He said, "Man I'm not releasing an album. I can't believe Interscope is this f*cked up right now. I apologize to all my fans. I love Dre but I"m putting his next single Psycho out tomorrow at 2:00. You're gonna love it. It's a big song. I just don't think it deserves a great setup since they can't seem to get it right when it comes to me."
It doesn't really make sense that in order to promote his new album (that the record company won't release), 50's plan is to pick a song on it that he suggests is the least likely to result in listeners' enjoyment and release it. It doesn't appear that 50 actually followed through with his threat, which almost would have been the smarter choice because now he's nothing more than on the verge of looking like a has-been who's begging for a comeback.
Sources: EW, MTV, HipHopDX, HipHopD, RapBasement