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50 Cent Mocks Kanye West, Sets Up Another Album-Release Showdown
LL Cool J, Flava Flav join G-Unit onstage during Upstate New York show.
By Shaheem Reid and Rahman Dukes
50 Cent
Photo: Jeffrey Ufberg/ WireImage
ALBANY, New York — On Saturday night, 50 Cent took a page out of Kanye West’s book and told the crowd at his concert he would be debuting a brand-new song from his upcoming album — not via mixtape, not via radio, not via blog, but via live concert performance.
“What I want everybody to do right now is take your cell phones out, get your cameras out,” Fif urged the spectators. “Tonight, Albany, New York, I’m gonna give y’all an exclusive. I’mma perform my first single off my new album, Before I Self Destruct.”
Then, the bass-heavy beat from Kanye West’s new song, “Love Lockdown,” came thundering through the speakers. Was this a miscue by DJ Whoo Kid? bewildered fans in the crowd wondered. Nope! G-Unit knew exactly what they were doing: 50 began singing the song — “I’m not loving you …” — clearly mocking Mr. West.
“That’s what y’all are left with,” Fif said, after covering the first verse. He was making reference to the much-ballyhooed SoundScan battle between himself and Kanye just over a year ago, where the two MCs both released albums on September 11. 50 was soundly thumped in the battle: More than 300,000 more fans favored Ye’s Graduation over the Queens native’s Curtis.
“I’ll forgive y’all for that one,” 50 said.
It seems a Kanye/ 50 second round could very well be on the horizon. 50 said Before I Self Destruct is coming out on December 9, and West’s 808s & Heartbreak is reportedly slated for a December 16 release date. But we all know how easily in-store dates can change, and even if the releases remain a week apart, it’s going to be intriguing.
On Saturday night, 50 fed a rabid audience with more than 20 songs from his catalog, rocking the stage for close to two hours.
G-Unit — featuring Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo — started their set with “Rider Pt. 2″ wearing military jackets, and the focus on the group’s latest LP, T.O.S.: Terminate on Sight, continued with records such as “Straight Outta Southside.”
Although the album was considered a commercial flop, the crowd was very familiar with the material and rapped along. Later, 50 took it back with “Candy Shop” and the hard-hitting “I Get Money”; the greenback anthem shook the arena to its foundations.
More hits followed with “P.I.M.P.” (50 brought out a white fedora for that one) and “Gunz Come Out.” The Unit’s attention then steered towards the underground with mixtape cuts like the boldly titled “I F—ed Your Girl.”
“Now, I been here before, but this is Tony’s first time,” 50 began explained to the crowd. “I want y’all to help him out.”
Yayo said, “I want my man to rock with me” — and then pulled Flavor Flav, of all people, from the crowd. Whoo Kid dropped “So Seductive” and Flav and Yayo began doing Flav’s signature dance — it was a classic momement.
Surprisingly, that was Flav’s second show-stealing moment of the night. LL Cool J — who surprised the crowd with an unannounced, multi-song set earlier in the night, as he did in New York in July — said at one point that he needed two guys and five girls onstage with him. While most of them appeared to be random fans, one of the guys ended up being Flav.
“You — money, right there,” L said to his friend of more than two decades before the reveal. “Come onstage!” Flav and company all danced to Cool J’s “Around the Way Girl.”
LL’s set combined his timeless hits with cuts from his new LP, Exit 13. During his latest single, “Baby,” he handed out roses to the women in the crowd.
However, one person in the venue was not feeling so festive. Keyshia Cole stunned the crowd by walking offstage just two songs into her set, barking at the soundman just before she left.
Ne-Yo performed a set just after Cole left the stage. The singer/ songwriter tore things down with tracks from his own albums, including the just-released Year of the Gentleman, — but when he started to play some of the monsters he’s written for others, like Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable,” Jennifer Hudson’s “Spotlight” and Rihanna’s “Take a Bow,” the crowd went insane.
Two of the advertised performers for the night were no-shows: Young Jeezy (whose named had dropped off the bill days before the show) and Plies. The latter MC is slated to perform with 50 and the Unit at Baltimore’s 1st Mariner Arena on Friday.
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Kanye West Might Beat Felony Charge In Paparazzi Incident
Los Angeles city councilmen asking airport to look into public safety.
By Gil Kaufman
Kanye West
Photo: Dominique Charriau/ WireImage
Kanye West might beat the felony rap from his encounter with the paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport last week. Thanks to a quirk of California law, West might get off because when he and his road manager, Don Crowley, wrestled with two paparazzi and smashed the men’s cameras on Thursday, West only managed to get a fistful of one shooter’s lighting rig, which was only worth $100, TMZ reports.
Meanwhile, Crowley had his hands on the camera, which is worth more than $1,400, as well as a video camera belonging to TMZ reportedly valued at $7,000. California law states that someone who criminally damages property worth more than $400 can be prosecuted for felony vandalism. TMZ speculated that the charges for West could be lowered to a misdemeanor, while Crowley might still face felony counts.
In related news, two Los Angeles city councilmen filed a motion asking officials at LAX to look into how they deal with celebrities and the paparazzi. The Los Angeles Times reports that the motion, filed on Friday, asks LAX to think about how to “preserve public safety” at times when “high-profile passengers” are forced to deal with the increasing number of photographers who stake out the airport in the hopes of catching stars in transit.
The night before the West incident, airport security was called when a swarm of paparazzi descended on new mom Jamie Lynn Spears. The group of photographers was so big that six airport police officers were brought in to deal with the situation. An investigation was also launched on Thursday over whether the officers acted improperly when they helped Spears avoid the photographers by leaving through a restricted area.
On Friday, after posting $20,000 bail and being released from jail, West blogged about the incident, saying, “We back in the lab!!! I’m cool with the paparazzi. This guy wasn’t cool. I gotta work now.” West was reportedly in Hawaii the next day working on his upcoming album, 808’s and Heartbreak, which is set to be released on December 16.
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‘Migrate‘ is the fourth single by Mariah Carey from her eleventh studio album, E=MC².
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