Jay Z v. G Unit

Jiggaman pulls another "the streets couldn't wait" publicity stunt, moving "Black Friday" up to November 14th, rather than the original date of Nov. 28th, says the usually reliable HipHopSite.

-- JoB (jobwi...), November 5th, 2003.

and now, a day later, 50 Cent has decided to push up the G Unit's release date to Nov. 14th as well, citing leaking as well (despite the fact that I haven't heard anything about Beg For Mercy leaking, while the Black Album spread like wildfire in the space of a day), and made some comment about how they have to satisfy demand for the album to come out sooner because he's the "hottest rapper", etc., which you pretty much can read between the lines here.

50 is clearly an asshole, I mean, that's kind of what his whole persona's based on, but he must be an idiot too. does he really think people are more eager to hear new Young Buck verses than the Black Album?

Sounds like Jigga to me.

what G-Unit have is one great single whose harpsichord construction elevates its standard-issue bleary gangsta-threats to another level, fascinatingly cod-fascist, a chilling manifesto for a New Order which has very little to do with hip-hop at all, and other songs which sound a lot like "Stunt 101" but don't actually sound interesting, and therefore expose G-Unit's dependence on cliches and bored mumbles (albeit extremely commercially lucrative ones, at least for the moment). hardly comparable.