50 Cent To Remake The Movie "Purple Rain"?

"50 Cent Making “Before I Self-Destruct” Movie to Accompany Album’s December Release
9/23/08, 1:37 pm EST

50 Cent’s life is like a movie, so it makes sense that he’s writing one. The rapper is working on a feature film, Before I Self-Destruct, which is based on his album of the same name. “It’s not Purple Rain,” 50 says of the flick, which he also directed and produced. “But it was inspired by the actual music.” (His album is due out December 9th; 50 plans to release the movie simultaneously.)

The film — which isn’t autobiographical — aims to show the complexities of what 50 refers to as “urban life” in a new way: “When [movies] portray certain lifestyles they don’t show cause and effect,” he says. “But I showed characters under pressure in scenarios where they felt like there were no other options, even though there were.” He adds, “There are always options. People just usually start to see them while being incarcerated — for not seeing them in the first place.”

As for a soundtrack, tracks from Before I Self-Destruct the album will be missing from the movie. “Then Interscope would automatically have the rights to it, when they had absolutely no ownership of the actual material,” says 50, who penned a separate score for the film and recruited unsigned artists to record vocals. But that doesn’t mean the tunes are sub-par. “I kept the music up to standards,” says 50. “I worked with it until it was right.”

Story Courtesy Of: Rollingstone.Com


CHRIS LIVE AKA SHAKER SAYS: Ok! So, obviously the title of this post was a joke, right? Right. Moving right along, while Mr. Jackson was quietly and unceremoniously dropped from the marketing of the just released Al Pacino/Robert DeNiro film flop that is "Righteous Kill", I will assume that he was working on his upcoming album and the elaborate screenplay this sort-of-but-not-really bio pic. Ummmmmmmm, didn't he already cover this ground with the movie "Get Rich Or Die Trying"? Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I get it - an artist like 50 Cent who delivers such compelling music needs to make yet another film that will describe this new complex content to the masses ... lol.  Message To 50 Cent: Spare yourself the embarrassment @ the box office and some serious marketing dollars and release this movie straight to DVD and/or as purchase bonus with your next album.   

Look, I fuxs with 50 Cent, but he needs to cut the crap and, as I've said numerous times before on this very blog, just get back to making great music. 50 Cent has still got "it" as an artist, but he needs to trust himself and that capacity as an artist instead of relying on his traditional publicity intitiatives (rap beef, weak movie, more rap beef) which have clearly worn thin with the public. Take it back to that real Southside "Thicker Than Water shit my nigga. Holla @ ya boy in BK!