Though the group has already saturated the market in 2008 with mixtapes, 50 Cent wants to remind listeners that G-Unit isn’t out of the business of studio albums.
This week, he invited MTV to his Connecticut mansion to preview tracks from the group’s sophomore disc, tentatively titled Lock and Load.
“I created monsters,”50 said about his groupmates. “Frankensteins. I got three of them. It’s like creatively they got strong opinions on things they like. I think their solo careers changed what our collaborations were in the beginning. If you look at the beginning of the mixtapes, I was creating the hooks.”
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Lock and Load would be the follow-up to an already-busy 2008 for G-Unit, after already releasing two mixtapes, Return of the Bodysnatchers v.1 and Elephant In The Sand, over the past couple months. DJ Drama has also confirmed that he was working with 50 on a G-UnitGangsta Grillz mixtape [click here].
But the new stream of content can be attested to 50’s disappointment with the sales of last year’s Curtis.
“It was a blockbuster that I lit, and it didn’t explode. I felt like it should have went a lot further than the results I received,” he told MTV. “Publicly, I feel that 50 Cent fans don’t believe it was a dud. It did have ‘I Get Money,’ it did have ‘Ayo Technology,’ ‘I’ll Still Kill,’ ‘Follow My Lead’ with Robin Thicke. These records were hit records, but the timing they came out was wrong. If the first record you heard off Curtis was ‘I Get Money,’ it would have shifted more millions in sales.”
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The interview also has 50 talking about his loss of interest in the democratic primary, the content of his web site ThisIs50.com, his reputation amongst the general public, and his upcoming Blood In The Sand videogame.
