50 Cent may not be best known for having a humble attitude. Recently, he added to his reputation as a confident emcee by telling MTV that his forthcoming album Before I Self Destruct was nearly flawless [click here].
“I feel like my album is as close to perfect as it’s gonna get,” he told MTV. “I’m reaching the point to where if I have to continue to write it, I’ll be overkilling it.”
While he has previously worked with Timbaland, he added that it’s definitely interesting to collab with him. In explaining Timbo’s methods, he said Tim would sometimes go in the booth and mumble a melody to which 50 had to rhyme to. This presented an interesting change for his writing process.
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“I could put lyrics to any melody. I can write a Rap song, I can write an R&B song, I can write whatever type of song. If you put a note on it where I can hear it, man, I can write that. We did that, and that’s how I came up with that new cadence for ‘Ayo Technology.’ We did that a couple of times while we was on there working [on Before I Self Destruct]. It’s fun that way to have him participate with me…Even if you ain’t got the words. You’re up there, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.’ Tim will be like, ‘I can’t believe that. He was able to make everything I just made a noise into a real cadence.’ I seen him take pens or pencils into a cup and put it into a shaker. I’m sure nobody else has shaker sounds like that. … I seen some interesting things from Timbaland.”
Aside from Tim’s “interesting” production techniques, 50 also worked with Polow Da Don.
Expect new mixtapes “Sincerely Southside 2” and a G-Unit tape with Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks.
