PICTURES OF 50 CENT & G-UNIT @ HUGENOTTENHALLE, NEU-ISENBURG

The new issue of ‘Respect‘ magazine which covers 50 Cent will be available on March 9th at Barnes and Noble and Borders. It’s a magazine that pays tribute to the Hip-Hop culture.

Check out all the tour dates here.

Straight from the Grammy Awards: Eminem, Drake, Lil Wayne and Travis Barker

What a great performance! Eminem won the following categories:

Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group
Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent – “Crack A Bottle” [WINNER]
Beastie Boys & Nas – “Too Many Rappers”
Fabolous & Jay-Z – “Money Goes, Honey Stay”
Kid Cudi, Kanye West & Common – “Make Her Say”
Kanye West & Young Jeezy – “Amazing”

Best Rap Album
Eminem – Relapse [WINNER]
Common – Universal Mind Control
Flo Rida – R.O.O.T.S.
Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Q-Tip – The Renaissance

Yay, don’t miss the crew at the Grammys today, 8PM ET/PT.

Check back for a high quality video from the performance.

Adding to the giant list of celebrities in attendance at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, 50 Cent, Chace Crawford and Emma Roberts attended the premiere of “Twelve” on Friday night, January 29.

Credit: J. Ramos

Eminem and his daughter Hailie went to Dallas this weekend for some football. Here’s a picture of Eminem from the Cowboys and Chargers game last night.

On Relapse 2:

So the sequel won’t reflect your reaction to the first one and its reception?
Eminem: Well, when I finished Relapse, I had a whole album of material that didn’t make it that I wasn’t ready to throw away, so that was going to be Relapse 2. But then I got with Dre in Hawaii and started recording more, and now the new material has knocked out all the old songs. But yeah, the new material is definitely different. Making Relapse, I was still working the drugs out of my system, so there was a lot of…just jokey shit. It was a lot of punchline-y, funny, shock value—kind of going back to The Slim Shady LP. And that was cool, but I’ve kind of flipped the page. Now I’m going for songs instead of one-liners. I don’t want to make shit that you hear once and then the joke’s over; I want to make records that you could play a hundred times, a thousand times.

On “Forever“:

Speaking of being on your game, who had the second-best verse on “Forever”?
Eminem: Who had the second-best verse? [Laughs.] I don’t know, I like everybody’s verses—but I like Drake’s verse a lot. I wouldn’t say I had the best verse; everybody approached the beat different. Kanye was crazy, too, and Wayne. I just saw the beat differently than anybody else did; for some reason, I felt like the beat was a double-time beat, so I rapped faster.

On Sobriety:

So you’re stone-sober these days?
Eminem: Yeah, it’ll be 18 months on the 20th [of October]. I realized I can’t touch anything, and that’s why I’m clean right now and why I’m going to stay clean. My brain just doesn’t know when to shut off. When I do something I have to do it all the way—that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That’s how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

On MTV’s Hottest MC’s List:

In case someone wants to put money on it. [Laughs.] Speaking of 50, he’s been venting about his placement on MTV’s “Hottest MCs” list. You were excluded.

Eminem: You know, when I heard that the other day, I didn’t really think too much of it. My only comment was, “That’s some peoples’ opinion.” It’s their opinion, and opinions can’t be wrong. As long as I’m comfortable with what I’m doing and I’m comfortable in my zone, then that’s that.

You can read the full interview here.