50 Cent and his G-Unit are planning a return to record store shelves. Recently, Fif and Lloyd Banks opened up about plans for new albums and took time to air out some issues with Southern rappers.

Mobb Deep is steadily preparing their Blood Money release for late April. Although the official release date is April 11, Fif says the album may get pushed back a few weeks for sample clearance purposes.

Releases from Banks and Buck will follow the Mobb.

Lloyd Banks took the time to speak to MTV about his issue with what he feels is a current Southern rap trend.

"A lot of the music that comes out of the South is kind of simplified and I think it's kinda 'cause they just wanna have a good time," he said. "They don't wanna think about what [they] just said. ... They really didn't make sense, but they made sense in a way and they just wanna hear something while they're actually partying and it works for them. But when they don't take the time to make it the highest quality possible, it hurts the actual hip-hop [genre]. People wanna make music they can get away with as opposed to the best possible music they can make.

"They'll lower the grade of music," he added. "It changes the range you can go and then it causes confusion amongst artists that don't have their own direction at that point and they all start making music that is similar. Like if the record comes out and it's a hit and it's the simplest thing on the planet, all of a sudden the new artists start writing records that are similar to that hit. Their motivation is to have a project that's successful and that will allow them to move out of the financial situations that they're in when you're in the 'hood or in the ghetto. They make it sound like the record that they hear playin' on the radio as opposed to just creating their own lane."

Some Southern emcees may have something to say about that. DX will keep you up to the minute on any further information that develops with this story.

Source: MTV