“I left no stones unturned,” he explained. “I went in the studio with pretty much everybody who I thought would provide a new creative direction for me. I worked with Kanye West, Pharrell, got music from Swizz Beatz, Will.I.Am. I wanted to see everybody, to see if they could give me something different to something I have already created. A lot of the material was good, [and] a lot of it will be shifted onto my record. I recorded the album again.”

Curtis — which is due June 26 and also features Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige, Robin Thicke and many more guests — should not be confused with another record 50 has coming called Before I Self Destruct. Late last year, he announced that the follow-up to The Massacre would in fact be the Self Destruct project, but that album is currently on hold until 2008.

news on 50, Rick Ross, Young Joc, etc… Link

Gansta rapper 50 Cent often wears a large diamond covered platinum cross around his neck, a wardrobe accessory that a large Christian group demands he remove.

“50 Cent is no Christian, and if you listen to his lyrics it becomes clear that he is more of a Satanist than anything” explains Mark Dice of The Resistance, a nationwide Christian organization focused on preserving Christian values in the media.

“He is defaming the cross and committing blasphemy by wearing it while he raps about killing people for no reason because he’s a big bad ‘gangster.’ I think a large diamond studded platinum satanic pentagram would be a little more fitting for him” Dice concludes.

The cross if featured prominently on his album cover Get Rich or Die Trying, and can often be seen in photos of the rapper and adorned during concert performances.

“Its appalling for anyone to say they believe in God and then wear a huge Christian cross while rapping about murdering people for fun” explains Dice.

Those who live by the sword, die by the sword as the rap community has learned by the tragedies of Tupac Shakur, Biggy Smalls, and most recently Eminem’s best friend and fellow D12 member Proof, who was shot in the head during a scuffle at a bar in Detroit on April 11, 2006.

The Resistance is no stranger to MTV’s icons. In 2005 they made headlines around the world for demanding MTV pull Jessica Simpson’s video These Boots are Made for Walking, and calling the Simpson a “singing stripper.” The group has also recently been in the news for urging Duke University to change the name of their sports teams from the Blue Devils to something not offensive to the Christian community.

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Damn he did some name dropping, uh oh. Watch out for the album Curtis this summer. More Info On Album

50 Cent Talks Timberlake Collab, Star-Studded New LP Curtis

Superstar Rapper’s Third Album Includes Production From Dr. Dre, Eminem and
Timbaland; Guests Include Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Justin Timberlake, Akon
and More

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 23 /PRNewswire/ — On Curtis, his third
major label album, rapper 50 Cent gives no quarter. As hard and brutally
honest, yet musical and entertaining, as his first two albums — each of
them #1 Pop, #1 R&B/Hip-hop and at least seven times platinum — 50 Cent
(aka Curtis Jackson) tells it like it is on Curtis and makes the resulting
controversy pay as he heads “Straight to the Bank,” the title of the
album’s first street track.
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On a side note, there is now a Ban50.com. Lol they got a timeline on his, “confrontations.”