50 Cent was a guest on “Ebro in the Morning” on Wednesday (October 19). In the interview, the rapper said he’s gotten to a point where he no longer needs to release albums to connect with his fans.
If Curtis Jackson, as the rapper is called, only releases a handful of singles and they are just as well received as an album, then he is just as happy as, for example, with his cult album GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’. He also says, “We’re starting to get to a level where Prince was. He could say, ‘Yo, I’m playing a show tonight’ and it sold out.”
50 Cent explains his changed approach to releasing new music because those who used to listen to his music in college or while they were “having an adult experience” are now at a completely different point in their lives. “The people are now 43 years old. The drink they would otherwise have drunk in the club they now drink at home. They met the person they are with somewhere else, not at a party. Because now their kids are doing it.” He continues, “When you put a song on a TV show, listen and watch [die Zuschauer] him so often that they buy him.”
Over time, 50 Cent has released more and more non-music video or audio content. The first three episodes of the Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord podcast were released on October 19. There, 50 Cent talks to the journalist Charlie Webster about the twins Jay and Peter Flores, who, as informants, overthrew the drug lord El Chapo.