50 Cent’s ‘Before I Self Destruct’ Drops After Eminem’s ‘Relapse’

Initially scheduled for release in December 2008, then pushed back to March this year, 50 Cent’s much expected “Before I Self Destruct” album is now seeing another delay, this time indefinitely. The album will not be released until Eminem’s highly anticipated “Relapse” is out, the rapper tells The Associated Press, and that’s a promise he’s bent on keeping, he assures fans.

While Fiddy does not go into many details as to why he wants his album to come only after Eminem’s, it is believed that it’s the best way he and his team could think of to avoid major competition. At the moment, Eminem’s first single off the album, “Crack a Bottle,” is ruling over the charts internationally, so it’s likely that Fiddy too wants a slice of that pie, it is being said. The worst part of this is, though, that fans will have to wait indefinitely for “Before I Self Destruct.”

“Right now I’m on a train, and the Em-choo-choo-car goes first. I think people forgot that I’m actually Eminem’s artist because I’ve had so much success on my own and moved away from it.” the 32-year-old rapper tells the AP. “Because Dre is mixing Em’s album, Em will be completed entirely before we get a chance to finish up the pieces that me and Dre did together [for my album].” 50 Cent adds. However, not a long while back, the same rapper was explaining that work on his album was almost done, it has been pointed out.

As it happens, Eminem’s album has no release date yet, which means fans of Fiddy will have to wait some more until they get one too. Nevertheless, once the waiting is over, the rapper promises, what they will get will certainly be worth the while, as “Before I Self Destruct” sees him and Dr. Dre back in the studio working some magic, as he puts it.

“[That’s] what happens when I actually work with Dr. Dre. I make great music away from him, but organically something happens when we’re in the same room, and it’s like his influence in different ways and we just make hit music together. ‘In Da Club,’ my biggest record to date, was me and Dre. We have a great relationship so there’s no reason for us to not go back in and make more.” 50 Cent shares about his collaboration with the rap icon.