Kanye West and 50 Cent square off for another chart showdown
Posted on September 20th, 2008 by Hot Momma 
It’s on again! A new rap chart battle between Kanye West and 50 Cent will likely happen this December as both will release new albums. West won the last showdown when his album Graduation outsold 50’s Curtis last year (Sep07), after both records were released on the same day. Supposedly 50 said before the last album showdown: “If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on Sept. 11, I’ll no longer write music. I’ll write music and work with my other artists, but I won’t put out any more solo albums.”
And now the rappers are set for another pre-Christmas showdown, with Interscope record bosses confirming 50’s new album, Before I Self Destruct, will hit stores on December 9, (08) – a week before the release of West’s 808’s & Heartbreak.
Both rappers are warming up for the showdown. At a show in Albany, New York, 50 jokingly performed a bit of West’s recent single, “Love Lockdown,” while G-Unit member Tony Yayo pretended to smash a camera, referring to West’s arrest after a confrontation with paparazzi in Los Angeles last week.
West has already taken to his blog posting on Friday in good humor: “I guarantee this (808’s & Heartbreak) will be 50’s favorite album of mine. This will be gangster’s album of the year.”
It’s still possible that one of the record labels might blink and change the release dates but somehow with so much pride on the line we doubt it.
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