A Florida woman says 50 unlawfully distributed a video of her during one of his Ross disses.
By Gil Kaufman

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A Florida woman prominently featured in a homemade sex tape posted online by 50 Cent last year as part of his feud with Rick Ross has sued 50 (born Curtis Jackson) in New York City, claiming he unlawfully distributed the video over the Internet.

According to The Associated Press, Lastonia Leviston filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan, claiming unauthorized use of her name or image and emotional distress caused by the public release of a video she made with an unidentified man in 2008. In the tape, Leviston is seen showing off a tattoo on her chest with the initials "RR," seemingly in reference to Ross, and 50 is heard providing exaggerated voice-over narration to the action in his wigged "Pimpin' Curly" persona.

In the lawsuit, Leviston claims the rapper posted the video on ThisIs50.com last year, blurring out the face of the man in the tape but not hers, and that 50 edited himself into the video.

The New York Daily News reported that Leviston claims she asked the man in the tape, Maurice Murray, to destroy it. He agreed, but then allegedly either gave or sold it to 50. In addition to airing on 50's site, the video made it onto YouTube and other video-sharing sites and has been seen millions of times, the suit claims. Leviston also claims that 50 spoke about the video on a radio program and referred to her as a "call girl" in it.

A spokesperson for 50 could not be reached for comment at press time.

The release of the video was part of a long-running beef between 50 and Ross, which featured a number of dis-heavy mixtape songs, mocking animated videos and a clip in which 50 appeared with Tia Kemp, the mother of Ross' son, who mocked her former partner.

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'It's a serious, serious thing,' Yayo says of the devastation.
By Shaheem Reid

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DJ Whoo Kid didn't sound like himself. No jokes, no laughter — he was confused and worried about his family in Haiti.

"It feels f---ed up," Whoo Kid said bluntly from his home in Hawaii. "Why Haiti? I don't want that to happen to any country, but Haiti — that country is already f---ed up. They always say black people can survive being poor. A true Haitian can survive anything, but I don't even know if they can survive that. You might as well throw a nuclear bomb there. I don't know. It's really bad. I'm so confused as to what to do. I feel guilty that I'm in my home while people are over there dying."

Whoo Kid landed in Hawaii on Tuesday and received a flood of texts and tweets upon arrival, all informing him of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti. The grim reality really set in when his friend and fellow countryman Wyclef Jean called.

"I'm sure Wyclef is against the wall," Whoo Kid said about his friend, who has already helped raise http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/50_cent/rss/highlights_full.jhtml million for relief efforts. "There's so much sh-- for him to do. He's probably stressed the hell out. You can't prepare for no sh-- like this.

"Wyclef called me and told me he'd seen a baby's head decapitated," Whoo Kid continued. "He'd never seen nothing like that before. He might have nightmares behind that. That's something you see in World War II."

"It's a serious, serious thing," proud Haitian and G-Unit member Tony Yayo said. "It's confusing, man. It shows you how life is — Haiti lost everything in 30 seconds. In 30 seconds, no warning. It's, like, the country is poor already, and now a natural disaster hits it. They need more than help. It's crazy, man — they was left with nothing. It's a poor country already. It's no telling what's gonna hit next."

Whoo Kid's cousin and producer of many of the G-Unit's hits, Sha Money XL, also expressed his grief and concern.

"It's crazy because my mother had a nightmare the night before," Sha Money said. "We was together when we heard the news. I was happy I was with my family. Soon as it went on CNN live, we've been tuned in ever since, picking up the phone trying to call families. We got in touch with one [family member] — one of the houses collapsed. The rest we can't get in touch with. It's really, really bad. Of course you shed a tear and you feel it."

"I spoke to Sha, Yayo — a lot of Haitians I know in the industry," Whoo Kid added. "We all have the same problem where we just don't know where our families are. People are missing. People have died. I talked to a lot of my friends where their family members are outta here — the whole family gone. Wow."

50 Cent's personal DJ said he'd rather not know if he's lost anyone to the earthquake.

"I don't wanna get confirmations of my family members dying," he said. "So I'd rather just get the limbo situation and just wait and pray. I feel sorry for all the people out there. It's a tragic situation. Haiti has been messed up for the last 10 years. America has never really helped Haiti — 80 percent of Haiti's poor. So you put an earthquake on top of that, what do you call it? What do you do? It seems so hopeless. It's gonna take months to get back to some type of normality."

All three men are fully committed to being a part of sustained relief efforts — they're sending money and clothes, and Yayo is working on a song he hopes to include other Haitian artists on, such as Wyclef and Haitian Fresh. The song would be sold through iTunes and all the profits would go to help Haiti.

"The most important thing is the things we do in the next few days," Sha Money urged. "There's lives that's about to be lost that need to pulled out. It's about getting funds as much as we can right now. People know where to donate between the Red Cross and Wyclef's organization — that's all we could do for now. We gotta get those people out now. Then after that, it's gonna be an ongoing thing. When a concert can happen a month from now, that's gonna be about the rebuild. We need people that's going out there to help pull them out the rubble and machines and send food and clothing so they can live. That's more important than a concert we're gonna have to put on a month down the line. I know 50's in tune, Yayo — we gonna get together and do what we gotta do. This is what we're here for."

"Everybody need to give a dollar," Whoo Kid pleaded. "Can you imagine if the whole U.S. gives a dollar? It would be taken care of immediately. It's so tragic to see human beings be in that situation and suffer."

Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Join George Clooney and Wyclef Jean for MTV's "Hope for Haiti" telethon, airing commercial-free Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET.

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In the Before I Self Destruct track, Fif takes shots at the Game and Young Buck.
By Jayson Rodriguez

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Is it a warning shot? 50 Cent announced in an overseas interview Monday (December 28) that there will soon be "a visual" for his track "So Disrespectful."

The track, produced by Tha Bizness, is from the rapper's Before I Self-Destruct album and features some choice lines directed at friends-turned-foes, including the mother of his son and former G-Unit cohorts the Game and Young Buck.

"Come on, Game, you'll never be my equal/ Your homies shoot dogs, my homies shoot people," 50 raps on the song. "See, me, I'm what you never gonna be/ I'm in that tax bracket you're never gonna see."

"There will be a visual for it," 50 told Dutch outlet Big FM. "The record is working by itself, that one. It just plays with no assistance from the record company, because people like it and personally enjoy it. I wrote that record about people I had issues with that were pretty cool, but at some point, I felt like they crossed me. So I wrote those different things, and it came out good. People enjoy it."

In an interview with MTV News earlier this year, Game appeared open to reconciling, even going as far as to publicly apologize to 50. But the G-Unit boss didn't seem to accept Game's pleas, despite Dr. Dre having patched things up with his Compton protégé.

"You shouldn't really hold your breath," 50 said about collaborating with Game again. "If Dre decides to work with him, that's Dre's prerogative — his album, he can do what he wants. He's Dre."

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By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes

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On Monday, Mixtape Daily crowned Drake's So Far Gone the best mixtape of 2009, but there were plenty of others that excited fans from 'hood to 'hood — plenty of mixtapes that were so popular the street couldn't contain them and they made their way into the 'burbs and even onto TV stations like ESPN. So without further ado — and in no order of preference — here's our list of the rest of the best mixtapes of 2009.

The Hottest Mixtapes Of 2009

50 Cent: Forever King
DJ Collaborator: Whoo Kid
Necessary Notes: Who uses a Jackson 5 beat as the soundscape to rap about one of his one of his neighbors pumping crack cocaine down the block? 50 Cent! Who uses Jeff Redd's dance-floor-friendly '90s R&B classic instrumental "You Called & Told Me" to rap about eluding a D.A.'s charges and engaging in shoot-outs? None other than 50 Cent. You get the picture. Fif did indeed leave his beloved rugged drums and indignant basslines behind to smooth it out on the R&B tip, but the content was "harsh" just the same. The G-Unit General mostly dug into the crates for '90s R&B instrumentals for his beat-jacking here.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Michael Jackson Freestyle," "Funny How Time Flies," "If U Leaving Then Leave"

50 Cent: War Angel LP
DJ Collaborators: N/A
Necessary Notes: Another classic for the street catalog! 50 Cent crafted a devilishly gangsta unofficial album as his protest to all the bubblelicious hip-hop he said he'd been hearing. "Redrum" hit New York radio as did "OK, You're Right," which wound up on Before I Self Destruct. Its video is one of the tightest of '09.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Redrum," "C.R.E.A.M. 2009." "OK, You're Right"

Lloyd Banks: 4-30-09: Happy Birthday Volume Four
DJ Collaborator: Whoo Kid
Necessary Notes: Gravelly voice? Check! Punchlines? Check! Banks celebrated his birthday by giving back to the streets with a double mixtape. Fans were treated not only to the Boy Wonder's raw spit, but went beyond the G-Unit and reached out to the likes of Jay Rock, Uncle Murda, and even showcased a guest spot he did for Red Café. Our biggest gripe with Banks is that he still hasn't dropped Volume Five.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "My Way or Nothing" (featuring Uncle Murda), "Have It All," "Don't Come Around"

The Clipse: The Road to Till the Casket Drops
DJ Collaborator: N/A
Necessary Notes: We loved the Re-Up Gang's series of mixtapes, but nothing can compare to listening to the best two-man group in the game molest their peers' tracks with assured proclamations and commentary on real-life, underworld experiences. In this prequel to Til the Casket Drops, their successes are boastful, their losses are explained as heartbreaking but life-changing lessons ... and they still maintain they can out-rap everybody!

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Intro," "Big Dreams," "Feds Taking Pictures"

J.Cole: The Warm Up
DJ Collaborators: N/A
Necessary Notes: "Pardon the interruption/ A proper introduction is necessary/ When your sh-- is legendary." J. Cole may not have reached legendary status just yet, but the kid out of "Fayette-nam" (Fayetteville, North Carolina) certainly possesses the lyricism and hunger of some of the great ones. Although The Warm Up may have been the first time many people ever heard of theJay-Z co-signed J.Cole, it's actually the follow-up to his relatively unknown 2007 mixtape with DJ On Point, The Come Up. Whether or not The Warm Up is the first you've heard of J. Cole, we can almost guarantee it won't be the last.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Grown Simba," "Lights Please," "Dollar and a Dream II"

Gucci Mane: Cold War series
DJ Collaborators: Holiday, Drama and Scream
Necessary Notes: He had the nation yelling "Burr!" Gucci made the boldest moves on the mixtape circuit this year, being the first to release three tapes simultaneously on one day — a Saturday, at that. So what if his hotly anticipated album, The State Vs. Radric Davis, was less than two months from being released? So what if he had just put out the Burrrprint mixtape a week prior? Gucci Mane LaFlare had a lot to say, and the streets always stopped to hear him out.

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Can't-Miss Tracks: "In My Business" (featuring Drake and Sean Garrett), "6," "Street Cred"

Gucci Mane: Writing's on the Wall
DJ Collaborators: DJ Holiday
Necessary Notes: This was the controversial return of Gucci Mane. There were hundreds of Gucci songs floating around in 2009, but this was the first full street opus sanctioned this year. His fans couldn't download the tape fast enough, the hard copies were essential for any vehicle in the South. This is where Gucci's flight started its takeoff, especially with the debut of his hit, "Wasted."

Can't Miss Tracks: "Girls Kissing Girls" (featuring Nicki Minaj), "She Gotta Friend" (featuring Juelz Santana), "Wasted" (featuring Plies)

Jadakiss: Kiss My Ass: The Champ Is Here, Part 2
DJ Collaborator: Green Lantern
Necessary Notes: The tape was the set-up for Jada's Last Kiss LP. Lyrically, Jada was lethal as ever, swinging his battle axe in the booth like a Yonkers He-man. Once again, The Black Babe Ruth proved he can terrorize the rap scene whenever he decides to get active.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Child Abuse." "The People" (featuring Styles P), "Letter to B.I.G. (Green Mix)"

R. Kelly: The Demo Tape
DJ Collaborators: Drama and Scream
Necessary Notes: Oh, the disappointment — not in the quality of this mixtape, but we were hoping to catch a couple of tracks like "Club to a Bedroom" and "Disrespect My Shorty" on Kell's Untitled LP. It definitely was a great look to have a music legend as big as R. Kelly acknowledge the streets, freestyling over a plethora hip-hop tracks and even giving away original material for free. The Demo Tape was the Pied Piper's first-ever mixtape, and a warm-up for his LP.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Club to a Bedroom," "Disrespect My Shorty," "Birthday Sex" (remix)

Kid Cudi: Dat Kid From Cleveland
DJ Collaborator: DJ E-V
Necessary Notes: "This kinda how it is when you're livin' young and fast/ Management is playing loud, b---hes dancin,' shakin' ass." Kid Cudi only released one mixtape, 2008's A Kid Named Cudi, but he built so much buzz off of that tape that fans wanted more. Cleveland's own DJ E-V answered the call. He collected various Cudder tracks floating around in the ether that didn't make the first mixtape to hold fans off until the album, Man on the Moon.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Rollin' " (featuring Jackie Chain), "Switchin' Lanes" "She Came Along" (featuring Sharam)

Lil Wayne: No Ceilings
DJ Collaborator: N/A
Necessary Notes: If not for the undeniable impact of So Far Gone (which Wayne was all over), No Ceilings would easily have been the mixtape of the year. Stylistically he was a Sasquatch, stomping the competition to bone gristle and standing high atop the remains. With his raps, the "Mixtape Weezy" gave the most quotables on one body of work this year, plus Wayne gave an inadvertent peek into the future when he rapped "Tiger Woods on these hoes..." on "Swag Surfin' " ...

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Throw It In the Bag" (remix), "Banned From TV" "No Ceilings"

Lupe Fiasco: Enemy of the State: A Love Story
DJ Collaborators: N/A
Necessary Notes: "Stay outta the sun's way, like you drinking blood" — that one line says it all. Lupe Fiasco is fueled by a quest to be known as the Hottest MC in the Game. Lu may be taking awhile to craft his upcoming album The L.A.S.E.R.S. Manifesto, but his talent doesn't take hiatus. Enemy of the State was released on Thanksgiving Day, and obviously Lu was hungry. He jacks beats from everyone from Lil Wayne to Slaughterhouse — and even Radiohead's "Natonal Anthem" — and measures up to each and every one of them. Although the tape is less than 30 minutes long, we're discovering a new punchline everyday.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "The National Anthem," "Angels" (remix), "All the Way Turnt Up"

Nicki Minaj: Beam Me Up Scotty
DJ Collaborator: Holiday
Necessary Notes: Nicki is a superstar in the making — and for her rhymes and her charisma, not just for her looks, which have had the fellas on the blogs swooning all year. Nick's tape was an essential item for the iPod this year, proving that she is the leading candidate to resurrect the female rap scene. Minaj sang, she rapped, she talked dirty on the tape — and the promoters recognized her growing popularity (helped by her spot with the Young Money crew on Lil Wayne's America's Most Wanted Tour), keeping her booking agent's phone ringing.
Can't Miss Tracks: "I Get Crazy" (featuring Lil Wayne), "Kill Da DJ"

Nipsey Hussle: Bullets Ain't Got No Name series
DJ Collaborator: Skee, Reflex, Whoo Kid and The Empire
Necessary Notes: The consensus on the streets is that Nipsey Hussle is going to lock things down in 2010. We've been waiting quite some time for a new West Coast superstar, and Snoop Dogg's favorite new artist seems destined to follow in the Chuck Taylor footprints of Snoop and Game. Nips' series rang bells from East to West, and his flow was undeniable.

Can't Miss Tracks: "Speak My Language," "Rap Music"

Snoop Dogg: I Wanna Rock
DJ Collaborators: Whoo Kid, Scream and Skee
Necessary Notes: "The older I get, the better I'm made/ The bolder I get, the older I age/ So I'mma be here for a long muthaf---in' time." Snoop is telling the truth, 100 percent. The veteran's mixtape was so cold, we feel it's almost as dope as his new LP, Malice N Wonderland. The title track from the mixtape and premier cut from his album has to be one this year's hardest party records.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Blasten" "I Wanna Rock" "World of a Gangsta"

Triple C's: White Sand
DJ Collaborators: N/A
Necessary Notes: The album Custom Cars & Cycles didn't connect on the SoundScan charts, but Rick Ross and his gang kept their love affair with the streets on full throttle. This mixtape not only showcased all of Ross' young guns, but it was declaration that despite the acclaim and big sales for Ross' Deeper Than Rap, he's devoted to staying hungry and keeping his bars crisp.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Thug Battlefield" (featuring Jadakiss), "Southside (featuring Lil Wayne), "Where Dey Do Dat At"

Tony Yayo: Swine Flu series
DJ Collaborators: Whoo Kid
Necessary Notes: With no album since 2005, Tony Yayo knows that mixtapes keep him alive. Like Lloyd Banks and 50 Cent, Yayo the Talk of New York stood ten toes down on the asphalt, waving the G-Unit flag with multiple solo releases, none making more noise than his morbidly titled Swine Flu 1 and 2. No radio play? No problem. Yayo mastered the art of the viral video this year, using visuals to promote his tapes like they were actual LPs.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Cadillac" (featuring Lil' Boosie), "Stay Strapped," Goin' In"

Yo Gotti: Cocaine Muzik series
DJ Collaborators: Drama and Scream
Necessary Notes: Gotti was moving independently, but his presence in the streets just felt like he had a machine behind him — especially in the Southern markets. This is a name you're going to be talking about next year as an artist to watch: He's building up to have a Gucci Mane-like pop in 2010. While the title of his mixtapes would lead you to believe that the subject matter is dense, Yo showed his reached with the women by giving them props on "5 Star" — that mixtape song turned into a hit single

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Shoot Off," "5 Star," "Newspaper on the Floor"

Young Dro: R.I.P.
DJ Collaborator: Don Cannon
Necessary Notes: "How many different flows y'all gonna make me have?/ How many different hoes y'all gonna make me grab?/ How many different 44's y'all gonna make me blast?/ Who be the freshest in them clothes?/ Y'all gonna make me ask?!" Minus the last one, these are all legitimate questions. While the title of his mixtape may seem boastful, confidence is never lacking in a man rocking an all-white suit! Dro does back his declaration by killing each track with wit and flow.

Can't-Miss Tracks: "Y'all Funny" "I Don't Know Y'all" "Ric Flair"

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Clip was inspired by the relationship drama in Martin Lawrence's 'A Thin Line Between Love and Hate.'
By Shaheem Reid

50 Cent
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Hey, if he can get on the same stage with his D-Block rivals, 50 Cent can share the screen with former love interest Vivica A. Fox. The actress appears in 50's new video for "Do You Think About Me." In the clip, a distraught, crying Fox might literally blow up the spot if you mess with her emotions.

In the video, Fox walks in a restaurant and sees Fif with his new girl, actress Tamala Jones. Vivica's character goes into a tizzy, slashing tires, stabbing voodoo dolls of the G-Unit General and, at the end, bringing C-4 to his door. Throughout the video, we also see real photos of the two when they were together as a couple, including during the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.

50 said the treatment for the video was inspired by watching Martin Lawrence in "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate."

"I actually wanna write a sorta 'Thin Line Between Love and Hate' — a piece that kind of has that energy that the film with Martin Lawrence had to it," Fif said. "You know, of course they were happy in the beginning. [Then] she only sees what she wants. She was so angry, she could hurt him."

Last month, 50 also told MTV News that the song was written after analyzing past relationships.

"So many people are gonna identify with it," Fif told us about the single, his favorite on the album. "The 55 percent of people that have been married and divorced are gonna identify with it.

"I was writing about the difference of how it felt when it was only about money, once it got down to me dealing with the child-support situation," he continued. "The friendship we had was forgotten. I believe people invest in each other, and it's never even when you're in a relationship. One person is loving harder than the other. When the expectations aren't being met, they kinda resent the other party. A lot of times they don't go from being boyfriend and girlfriend or to getting engaged or being married back to being friends. They kinda gotta part ways from each other because one still has feelings and one is ready to move on."

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'Susan Boyle is hot right now,' Fif tells England's Daily Mirror of the "Britain's Got Talent" runner-up.
By Gil Kaufman

50 Cent
Photo: MTV News

Generally, when someone breaks out of the box and becomes a chart champion, 50 Cent has looked for a way to start beef with that person and grab headlines for himself. But the rapper appears to have no interest in going toe-to-toe with I Dreamed a Dream juggernaut Susan Boyle, so instead he reportedly told England's Daily Mirror that he wants to hook up with the "Britain's Got Talent" runner-up and make some magic.

"Susan Boyle is hot right now," 50 told the paper's gossip column, "3am," about the Scottish singer, whose debut has already sold more than 3.3 million copies in its first two weeks. It is on its way to setting records for a solo female debut in the U.S. and snatching the first-week sales crown from Fif's consigliere, Eminem.

"I got to get her on a track, for real. We'd make a hit," added the rapper, who has caused head-scratching in the past by palling around with kitschy cabaret superstar Bette Midler. "Everyone is talking about her. ... She's got an amazing voice, and together we'd get everyone dancing. I'm always looking to do something new, and she's cool, so I'll ask somebody to let her know," said 50, who returned to his grittier, street-anthem roots on the just-released Before I Self-Destruct, which fell to #19 during its second week while Boyle notched a massive 701,000-copy debut.

"I'd love to take her clubbing, show her around my world," he said of the shy church volunteer, who has struggled at times with her sudden worldwide fame and who covers the Monkees and "Silent Night" on her debut album. "She'd have a great time."

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Rapper says online leak caused sales dip.
By Gil Kaufman

50 Cent
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For a man who has talked big about sales figures for much of his career, 50 Cent seems to have had a change of heart when it comes to his latest, Before I Self Destruct. The rapper's fourth solo album had the lowest opening week of his career, bowing at #5 on 160,000 sales, trailing his next-smallest debut, 2007's Curtis, by more than 500,000 copies.

Self Destruct did leak weeks before its release, causing a one-week push-up for the physical release and an even earlier release for the album's digital incarnation. And 50 doesn't appear to be sweating the sales dip.

"For myself, I'm asking myself, 'What did you expect, bro? Your fans got it when it was available, at the first available opportunity,' " he said in an interview on DJ Green Lantern's Sirius Satellite radio show earlier this week, before the numbers were official. "For me this album is a prequel — it's full circle. When the energy around a project is the way this is, you can't really feel like it's a failure. Like, I look at the numbers and am like, 'What is this?' I've already assessed that the album has been out a month before its actual release period [due to an online leak, and the album's early digital release due to the leak]. So when you got that, you go, 'Well, what did you actually expect?' "

In July of 2008, 50 predicted that Self Destruct, then slated for a late 2008 release, would sell 1 million copies in its first week.

He has recently been in the midst of a publicity blitz that has included a rash of promotional appearances and attempts to start one of his traditional pre-release beefs with a major rap figure, in this case Jay-Z. Considering that his 2003 debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin' sold 872,000 and nabbed the #1 spot in its first week and the 2005 sequel, The Massacre smashed the charts with 1.5 million in sales for a second consecutive top debut, in a season filled with major releases from the likes of Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert, Rihanna, Lil Wayne, Susan Boyle and Beyoncé, Self Destruct faces a tough market.

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Do You Think About Me?

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: Aftermath, Shady, Interscope
• Director: Chris Robinson

Have a Party [*]

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: G-Unit/Interscope
• Director: Benny Boom
• Album: Blood Money [Clean]

Baby By Me

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: Aftermath, Shady, Interscope
• Director: Chris Robinson
• Album: Baby by Me

OK, You're Right

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: Interscope Records, Aftermath, Shady
• Director: 50 Cent, Broadway
• Album: Before I Self Destruct

Hate It or Love It

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: Aftermath/G Unit/Interscope
• Director: The Saline Project
• Album: The Documentary [Clean]

Mujeres In The Club

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: Machete Music
• Director: Jessy Terrero
• Album: Mujeres in the Club

Get Up

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: UMG/ Interscope Records

Still Will

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: Interscope/G-Unit/Aftermath Entertainment/Shady Records

Ayo Technology (Feat. Justin Timberlake)

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records
• Director: Joseph Kahn
• Album: Curtis

I Get Money

• Artist: 50 Cent
• Label: Aftermath
• Director: 50 Cent / Broadway
• Album: Curtis