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Rapper Gucci Mane was sentenced to 12 months in jail on Thursday for violating his probation. Back n 2005, the entertainer pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to a year in jail last September since he failed to complete his court-mandated 600 hours of community service. Gucci ended up serving for 6 months. The rapper worked hard on his music after he got released and even took his career to the next level. After gaining huge popularity in the underground scene, Gucci had just started to appear in more mainstream music in songs by Mario, Omarion, Mariah Carey and 50 Cent. He even has a new single featuring Usher called ‘Spotlight’. Now, he’s going to have to put his career on hold again for jail time.

I guess the second coming of the rap show down between 50 Cent and Kanye West won’t be going down after all. Kanye is pushing up the release of his new album from December to November. The rapper recently released a statement on his blog saying “I CHANGED MY ALBUM (release) TO NOVEMBER SOMETHING CAUSE I FINISHED THE ALBUM AND I FELT LIKE IT.. I WANT YALL TO HEAR IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.” No one stands in Kanye’s way, unless of course he was scared that 50 was going to win this time around. I wonder if 50 is going to change his release date too.

Rap star 50 Cent said that if he didn’t beat Kanye West in terms of record sales when their new releases came head to head, he would retire. Well, Kanye beat him and there’s still no retirement announcement from 50.

It seems that 50 found a way around his retirement saying to Gatecrasher that his album “was No. 1 internationally the week it came out. It was the No. 1 European album!” Apart from teaching us how to go back on our word, 50 also teaches us a good geography lesson.

But if you want to get technical, he does have a point. He did beat Kanye to the top spot on the album and singles chart in Europe.

Rapper 50 Cent has recently shot the music video for his upcoming single entitled “I’ll Still Kill” with R&B singer Akon.
Looks OK.

50 Cent has canceled two major international music events, citing “unforeseen and unanticipated” circumstances. The rapper – who vowed to retire if rival Kanye West beat him in the album charts, last week – has pulled out of performing at the MOBOs and the Vodafone Live Music Awards in London. Well Kanye West has already beaten him in the latest UK charts and that’s why he cannot bare the pain of having to eat him own words and has now become a subject of public mockery that’s for sure and he knows it well that there are good chances that if he appears at the awards ceremony and other place so soon after getting beaten the media and paparazzi would all be asking him the one question he cannot answer – ‘will you be retiring now’. This question could drive him mad and he doesn’t have the guts to retire or do anything remotely close to retiring. We all know he is a a**ho*e with a big out that knows to praise himself and nothing else.

Kanye West may be beating 50 Cent in the music polls when it comes to pre-orders but that doesn’t mean Kanye can be declared the winner in their rivalry. Proof of that would be the list that Forbes just came out with – the list of the Hip Hop Cash Kings.

Jay-Z, who took in $36 million in 2006, is on top. But what’s interesting with the list is that 50 comes in at #2 with $32 million while Kanye is at #8 wth only $17 million. Doi.

The rest of the top 10 is as follows:
#3 Diddy – $28 million
#4 Timbaland – $21 million
#5 Dr. Dre – $20 million
#6 Eminem – $18 million
#7 Snoop Dogg – $17 million
#9 Pharrell Williams – $17 million
#10 Scott Storch – $17 million

Kanye West’s rival 50 Cent recently lost his cool this week. He was reportedly furious at the fact that a new video of his was leaked to the web. What’s worse? He thinks that the leak was an inside job at Interscope.

The video ‘Follow My Lead’ was intended to drop in October and it features a collaboration with Robin Thicke.

When 50 found out about the leak, he freaked out and supposedly told Interscope execs that he refused to do promo work for his new album and then went on a destructive rampage. He has now refused to contact anyone from the label and Interscope is now doing damage control while rescheduling 50’s public appearances.

Yep, he’s going to retire.

A new 50 Cent video has recently leaked out on youtube. The song is titled “Follow My Lead” featuring Robin Thicke and is confirmed to be 50’s next single. Apparently, this wasn’t supposed to come out until October but someone in 50’s crew leaked it. His new album “Curtis” is due for release on September 11th.
Unfortunately this video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Universal Music Group.

Rap rivals Kanye West and 50 Cent will go head to head on September 11th when their albums are released simultaneously. Last month, West decided to release his third album Graduation early, on August 21st, to avoid a sales war with 50 Cent’s new disc Curtis. After originally planning to release Curtis in June, 50 Cent delayed the album until September 4th, then last week it was postponed again until September 11th. And now West has decided to release Graduation on the same day, according to a representative from his record label Def Jam. Where’s the love, what about the fans that love 50&kanye? Did they stop and think that all there fans are not rich? And they cannot afford to buy 2 albums at the same time, there is enough money to go around, they just need to spread it out a lil bit! Please don’t put us in that position to have to choose between the 2, it is not fair!