The big Sept. 11 battle between 50 Cent and Kanye West found the G-Unit impresario on the losing end with 691,000 copies sold to West’s 957,000. Now 50 apparently has a new target–former N’Sync member Lance Bass. The two traded jokes while doing publicity for their new books. The latest effort from 50 is an illustrated memoir co-written by Complex Editor-in-Chief Noah Callahan-Bever, entitled 50×50: 50 Cent in His Own Words. The book is described as a personal scrapbook and has details which range from baby pictures to the now-infamous account of how he survived nine gunshots at point-blank range.
“[Lance] doesn’t stand a chance”50 told New York Daily News reporter Ben Widdicombe. “With me, everything’s a competition, so I bet you [by] the end of next week, I’ll be moving more copies than him. This is the same competition–this is Kanye West and 50 Cent all over again.” For his part, Bass joked, “50’s going down, that’s all I have to say.”
On a much less ambiguous note, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is set to star in The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights. As the title suggests, Foxx will portray Prentice Earl Sanders, an early 1970’s-era detective who helped solve a series of hate crimes and serial killings in San Francisco. The film is based on actual events from the biography of the same name. Production and filming have yet to start, so no release date is available, but Foxx will also share credits as a producer along with Brad Pitt.
