50 Cent is headed for retirement!

Kanye West’s album “Graduation” is outselling 50 Cent’s “Curtis.” According to Billboard, first week scans based on early store sales reports have “Graduation” selling 575,000-700,000 copies while “Curtis” is being projected in the 500,000-600,000 range.

FIDDY, YOU’RE FIRED!

But!!!!!!!! It could get worse for 50 Cent as he may come in THIRD this week. Country artist Kenny Chesney and his Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates album is selling in the range of 400,000-550,000 copies.

That would totally suck for Fiddy.

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Kanye West and 50 Cent are battling it out on Rolling Stone’s next cover. The big showdown happens in less than a week when their albums drop on the same date, September 11th. Here’s an excerpt of “Who Will Be The King Of Hip-Hop?”:

“My first album was the highest-selling LP of 2003,” 50 Cent says, pointing to the fact that 2003’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ moved more than 800,000 copies in the four days after it dropped. He goes on to note that his follow-up, The Massacre, was the second-highest-selling album of 2005. “That album sold something like 1.14 million in four days. Jay-Z’s last album sold something like 1.6 total. Kanye works for Jay-Z. Kanye is a worker bee. He’s never been able to generate a fraction of the interest that I have.”

Spokane, Washington :: Curtis James Jackson III, aka 50 Cent, and newcomer Ginger Ewing rehearse a scene this past Sunday during filming of the movie Home of the Brave, where 50 Cent, 30, plays a troubled veteran having difficulty readjusting to civilian life.  After the jump is actor Irwin Winkler, director of the film Home of the Brave discussing a scene with 50 Cent.

Ouarzazate, Morocco :: Here are the first pictures from the set of  Irwin Winkler’s Home Of The Brave, the first military drama to address the war in Iraq. 30-year-old rapper/actor 50 Cent was quoted saying, "My character is 22 years old. The film is showing the effects of war. That’s what’s exciting to me about it, because it is totally relevant to what’s going on right now. It shows not just what happens to a person after killing, but what happens when there is a lot of death around you. How your spirit changes. I am not supportive of the war, but I am definitely supportive of the soldiers. A lot of people go to Iraq while they were just trying to get a college education." Home Of The Brave (Release Date :: TBD 2007) also co-stars Jessica Biel (not looking so hot in short hair, pictured after the jump), Samuel L. Jackson and Christian Ricci.  More pictures in the gallery!

UPDATE :: Apologies, images removed!