I like this album...it's got some hot tracks....my favs are Outta Control & Piggy Bank

The feud with The Game is over already? Sheesh. That didn't last very long.

From cnn.com

50 Cent, The Game end feud

NEW YORK (AP) -- Perhaps selling 1.1 million copies of his new album in four days has softened the heart of 50 Cent. Or maybe he has so many feuds going, he can afford to let one go.

On Wednesday, 50 Cent and The Game publicly squashed a bitter feud that had erupted into gunfire last week after 50 kicked Game out of his G-Unit clique for disloyalty.

The two platinum-selling gangsta rappers didn't exactly kiss and make up. When they emerged before a media throng at Harlem's famed Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, both looked as if they'd been shoved into apologies by a stern mother.

But they did shake hands, albeit at the end of the press conference, after speaking about contrition and the need for peace.

50 noted that Wednesday was the anniversary of the unsolved murder of Biggie Smalls in 1997, the culmination of a rap war between Biggie and Tupac Shakur that pitted East Coast against West.

"We're here today to show that people can rise above the most difficult circumstances and together we can put negativity behind us," said 50, a native New Yorker. "A lot of people don't want to see it happen, but we're responding to the two most important groups, our family and our fans."

"I just want to apologize on behalf of myself and 50," said Game, who's from the Los Angeles suburb of Compton. "I'm almost ashamed to have participated in the things that happened in the last couple of weeks."

50 presented an oversized check for $150,000 to the Boys Choir of Harlem. Game donated $103,500. It was not clear why Game chose that amount or whether he had been reinstated in G-Unit; no questions were taken at the press conference. The Game also made a contribution to the Compton schools music program.

Is the truce sincere?

"Of course it was genuine," said hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, who was at the event. "They stood on stage together."

At the very least, it was a remarkable concession for rappers who routinely brag about killing their enemies.

"It is the first time we've seen 50 publicly take a step back" from a battle, said Elliott Wilson, editor in chief of the hip-hop magazine XXL.

In a statement earlier Wednesday, 50 Cent said: "I'm launching a new foundation, the G-Unity Foundation, Inc., to help people overcome obstacles and make a chance for the better in their lives ... to help them overcome their situations. I realized that if I'm going to be effective at that, I have to overcome some of my own. Game and I need to set an example in the community."

50 Cent has always set an example -- usually as an unapologetic criminal gleefully wreaking havoc on other rappers. He almost single-handedly dismantled the multi-platinum career of Ja Rule by relentlessly targeting him in songs, magazines and his 2003 debut, the eight-million selling "Get Rich or Die Tryin'."

Last week 50 released his sophomore CD, "The Massacre," which including a song attacking rappers like Fat Joe, Nas and Jadakiss for making a record with Ja Rule. But his beef with Game was unusual because it involved a member of his own camp.

As 50 was on the radio announcing the expulsion of Game from G-Unit -- apparently because Game wouldn't turn his back on some of 50s many enemies -- Game's crew rolled up to the station. Guns were fired outside the building and a member of Game's posse was wounded. No one has been arrested in the shooting.

Game is a protege of superproducer Dr. Dre, who put Eminem on the map, who in turn made 50 Cent a superstar. They're all on the same parent label, Interscope Records.

Those relationships probably played a hand in Wednesday's reconciliation.

"It's pressure for 50 to look at it from a business perspective and not a personal perspective," Elliott said. "I think the press conference was forced by the mainstream media's reaction to the incident. They don't benefit on a business level to be associated with violence."

Could the whole thing have been a publicity stunt for two rappers with albums in stores now?

Elliott doesn't buy it. "There really was a beef. I think there was a genuine conflict that 50 felt The Game was unappreciative of all the work he did on his album ... and Game is feeling like, 'I'm my own man now."'

But the two have apparently decided that they have more to lose going against each other.

"I think (50) will continue to beef with other artists," Elliott said. "But to beef with your own artist and someone who you're in business with, it doesn't help you."

I love it Great follow up in my view you get in to the album after you've listened the 2nd time round

I thought I was going to hate this CD based on what I read here and had heard from friends who bought the CD. But I've actualy been giving it quite a bit of play lately and I'm diggin it despite the obvious filler towards the end of the CD.

The Hate It or Love It Remix is probaly my favorite track on the whole CD...same with The Game CD too.

Hmmm. I was flipping through and caught some Fitty cent promo on Mtv where they were putting on a party at his house or something. God, from what it seems, 50 can't form a complete sentence. Mostly grunts and uggs. Is his album much different? Probably not.

Good lordy, the state of music these days...

He pulled in 50 million last year. I guess he is doing ok with his grunts.

Unbelievable moron. The fact that he goes on and on about his sales is so pathetic. God, I wish he would go away.

Remember, 50, Hammer sold that much too.

50 cent's already a rap legend

Rap Legend?? There's such a thing? Is that like Big Foot or Nessie?

Yay, I'm sure that 50 Cent will end up on the walls of the Rap Legend Museum, cos he's so vital to the history of rap.. LOL

I like some of his singles, but I don't see his career having any longevity to it. He's highly over-rated, full of himself, and riding on the coat-tails of being involved with Eminem, who, on the other hand, WILL have a lasting career. I still can't get over 50 making a TOTAL ASS of himself at the Grammys last year when he lost to Evanescence for Best New Artist. His entire "the world owes me something" attitude just sucks!

jpdude have you ever heard any of his mixtape stuff? i agree his commercial stuff is hit or miss but his mixtapes are like real albums. thery are all hits. name any other rapper that can constantly put out good mixtapes every single month. has anybody heard his very first cd Power of the dollar? or Guess whos back? now does are real classics. check out some of his suff here www.mixunit.com.

I saw some of that All Eyes thing on MTV and he strikes me as an incredibly unintelligent person with so sense of perspective or reality. His "thoughts" on the disses in his music were no more developed than asking a playschooler why he thinks all the toys belong to him.

The man will be (Is) a legend because of hes first album (Selling wise) plus as neo said he can't stop putting out banging tunes

I can't stand the "Bitch get in my riiiide" song -- the album isn't quite a throwaway but it's not that good. Put it on at a party if you don't want the music to be distracting.