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Craig Davis, the VP of Urban Promotions at Capitol/EMI recently did an interview with Pyramid West in which he claims to have signed 50 Cent/The G-Unit crew. His quotes are below.
“Now I’m over at Capitol Records….we just signed a 50 Cent deal over there.”
“50 thought he needed to get out of the Interscope machine….he wanted to do a new change. So he got his release from there. We’re in negotiations with him. The deal just got signed very recently, and we have 50 Cent on the label. I think Lloyd Banks is going to be the first cut and 50’s is going to come out after.”
Now I was going to write a whole article on how this deal sounds like another step backwards for 50, when he really needs to make some moves forward, but just a second ago Miss Info came out saying:
- Wow, Craig Davis! This is big news! Except….that it’s not true.
When I asked an insider if 50 Cent was now on Capitol/EMI….the answer was: “Hell no.”Well, damn *GucciMane voice*
Now we all know that Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo are indie right now, but as far as the big guy is concerned, he’s still fully in contract with Shady/Aftermath/Interscope, and still has a greatest hits album to release. But even beyond that…sources say he was not in talks to sign to Capitol himself.
As she just stated Banks & Yayo are independent, so Craig could really be talking about signing the G-Unit imprint, and not 50 himself. If so this still seems like kind of a bum deal. In a day and age when the majors are proving to be more and more useless, why are you going to bring you imprint to EMI of all places? Last time I check EMI is in severe debt, like hundreds of millions, and is about to be owned by a bank. Plus what was the last rapper that EMI gave a good look to? I would say Raekwon, but he really put out Only Built For Cuban Linx 2 himself, and they simply distributed it. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens before I dedicate anymore of my time writing about it. I do know that 50 needs to do something.
