50 Cent’s new CD to arrive early
Like the last two albums by his mentor Eminem and his own 2003 debut, the new collection by rapper 50 Cent will be released earlier than planned in response to widespread bootlegging. “The Massacre,” which is expected to be a commercial blockbuster, will now come out on Thursday instead of the scheduled March 8.
The rapper’s debut, “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” has sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. and was the biggest-selling album of 2003. Its first-week figure of 872,000 is a record for a major-label debut, even though it had just four days in stores when the weekly tally was determined.
In other 50 Cent news, the rapper will take over the Saturday programming on Shade 45, a hip-hop channel produced by Eminem and Sirius Satellite Radio.
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Richard Cromelin
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