50 Cent To Release Before I Self Destruct On November 16

After album leaked, Fif announces he'll release the much-delayed LP a week early. By Shaheem Reid 50 Cent's <i>Before I Self Destruct</i> Photo: Interscope No more delays. 50 Cent is actually releasing Before I Self Destruct LP earlier than expected. After the LP leaked last week, Fif called into satellite radio station Shade 45's "The Gomez Brothers" show on Saturday to announce that instead of November 23, he'd drop the album on November 16. "I feel good that it was leaked in its entirety, in sequence, so people can hear my vision," said 50, whose "Baby by Me" video premiered on Monday. "Instead of pieces, where I would be like, 'Damn, I spent my time sequencing.' "I'm pushing the record up, so the album release date is the 16th," he added. "I'm expecting [the album] to do good because of the response that I've heard on the Web. It's obvious they didn't expect me to write the actual things I wrote on the album. I don't know why. They're ... (link)