Mar 31, 2008 • 1 min read

50 Cent admits disappointment over last album

50 Cent has said he is disappointed with the reception of his album Curtis, which lost a chart battle with Kanye West, and blamed his label's marketing.

50 Cent has admitted he is a little disappointed at how the release of his last album 'Curtis' went. As you'll remember, the hip hopper foolishly got into a chart battle with Kanye West by releasing his album on the same day. It was a chart battle which, despite him threatening to quit music if he didn't win, he promptly lost.

Admitting that he thought his album was much better than the critical and sales response it received, Fiddy told MTV: "It was a blockbuster that I lit, and it didn't explode. I felt like it should have went a lot further than the results I received. I feel that 50 Cent fans don't believe it was a dud. It did have 'I Get Money', it did have 'Ayo Technology', 'I'll Still Kill', 'Follow My Lead' with Robin Thicke. These records were hit records, but the timing they came out was wrong".

Although he resisted the temptation of allocating blame for his album not turning out quite the way he'd hoped, he did say that he thought his label could have marketed the release better and, had they done so, they would have had "millions more in sales". Which is sort of allocating blame, I suppose.

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