50 Cent talks about working with Eminem on “My Life” and “Champions.”

American rapper 50 cent’s sixth studio album ‘Street King Immortal’ is

set to be released on Late December 2014, through G-Unit Records,

Caroline Records and Capitol Records.

Producers include 50 Cent (exec.), Dr. Dre, Eminem, Alex da Kid,

Bangladesh, Boi-1da, Cardiak, DJ Felli Fel, Drumma Boy, Frank Dukes,

Hit-Boy, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Jake One, Jim Jonsin, Just Blaze,

and Symbolyc One.

Initially reported to be released during the summer of 2011, the release

date of Street King Immortal has since been revised on several occasions,

largely due to disagreements between 50 Cent and Interscope over the

release and promotion of the album, which led to the album’s brief

cancellation. Later Interscope announced that the album would be in stores

on November 13, 2012.[2] 50 Cent did an interview, while he was in France

promoting his headphones of his own company SMS Audio, confirming the album

was pushed back to February 26, 2013. After a year of informational

silence about the album, a new release date was officially announced as

September 16, 2014.

50 Cent confirmed in an interview with Digital Spy that the first single

from Street King Immortal would be “New Day” featuring Alicia Keys as well

as Dr. Dre who also produced it.Mixed by Eminem, it was released on

July 27, 2012, on Hot 97 with DJ Camilo and then later on Thisis50 and was

made available for purchase at iTunes on July 30, 2012. The song first

charted on the week of August 6, 2012 debuting at #79 on the Billboard Hot 100,

and the video was set to be shot in the first week of September. However,

it was cancelled due to the death of his manager, Chris Lighty.In a video

uploaded via his YouTube account, 50 Cent also talked about the origins of

the song, first meant to be This Life Won’t Last Forever which featured Ester

Dean on the hook.”New Day” samples an eight-second-long spoken-word introduction,

indicative of and related to the content of the subsequent music. It an excerpt

taken from the highly-acclaimed 1993 gangster film, A Bronx Tale. The speaker’s

voice is that of Robert De Niro, who in the film, plays the role of Lorenzo

Anello. After scrapping the song, 50 Cent revealed that it was released first

due to Alicia Keys’ solo version being leaked.[68]

The album’s second official single, “My Life”, features fellow rapper Eminem

and American singer Adam Levine and production by Symbolyc One.50 Cent announced

it in an interview with the radio station Channel 4 FM, with host Chris Birks.

He said that he wants to top his most-successful single to the date, In da Club,

before retiring. 50 Cent also talked about his performance at the Atelier

festival in Dubai, which he will be performing songs from his recent projects,

such as The Big 10, The Lost Tape and 5 (Murder by Numbers).On October 17, 2012,

the name of it was revealed during an interview while 50 Cent was in France.

He also revealed that the beat of it was recording material from Dr. Dre’s long

awaited album Detox. Before releasing “My Life”, 50 Cent shot a video for it

with Eminem and American music video director Rich Lee in Corktown Historic

District, Detroit. 50 Cent affiliated boxer Andre Dirrell made a cameo appearance

in it.The single was released on November 26, 2012, and performed on the same

day on The Voice. The song has since entered the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100.

On December 20, 2012, 50 Cent released a teaser video previewing another song

of his album, featuring Snoop Dogg, Young Jeezy and produced by Soul Professa.

The song called “Major Distribution”, was released later that day with DJ Enuff

on American radio station Hot 97.The music video was shot featuring cameo

appearances by 50 Cent and G-Unit affiliates along with, [Snoop Dogg, Kurupt,

Daz Dillinger, Young Jeezy, members of CTE World and directed by Eif Rivera. On

December 20, 2012 50 released a teaser for the video. G-Unit flaunts Maybach

Music Group rapper Gunplay’s MMG Chain that was taken from him at a brawl

backstage at the 2012 BET Hip Hop Awards.The official music video was released

on January 22, 2013, on 50 Cent’s VEVO channel.It entered the UK R&B Chart

at number 32 on February 10, 2013. The song was released as a promotional single

to iTunes on February 5, 2013.

After revealing a feature from Kendrick Lamar on his fifth album, 50 Cent

released a preview video of the song called “We Up” via his YouTube channel.

The song originally also featured G-Unit rapper Kidd Kidd and this version was

released on February 15, 2013. However, it was later revealed that he was

removed from the final version, leaving only 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar on it

This version of the song was released as the third official single on March 25, 2013.

The official music video was shot in Los Angeles, and was also released on

March 25, 2013.Two months after its release, the song was added to Rhythmic

contemporary radio, on May 28, 2013.

On June 4, 2014, 50 Cent confirmed in an interview that all previous singles

released on Interscope that were intended for the album, including “My Life,”

“New Day” and “We Up,” were scrapped, but that the album will still feature Eminem.

50 Cent’s ‘Street King Immortal’ releasing on Late December,2014.