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Fiddy on strike over label feud
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 28 July 2011
50 Cent has told his fans he’s basically on strike following disagreements with his label, Universal’s Interscope. The exact nature of his squabble with Interscope chiefs isn’t clear, though it possibly stems from a run in back in May when Fiddy accused the major imprint of “moving in slow motion”.
Having said his fifth studio album was 80% complete at the start of the year, he’s now taken to Twitter to tell fans not to expect that record any time soon. He tweeted yesterday: “Man I’m not releasing an album… I can’t believe Interscope is this fucked up right now. I apologize to all my fans. I will work with other artists on their projects but I will not put out another album. They dropped the ball with me one time too many… they can’t seem to get it right when it comes to me”.
So there you go. One of the ‘other artists’ Fiddy has been working with recently is Dr Dre, and the rapper subsequently indicated via the Tweet machine that he might post his latest collaboration with his mentor on the net this week, possibly in violation of Interscope’s wishes, though it’s not entirely clear if the posting of that track would actually constitute a leak, and anyway, it hasn’t happened as yet.
