50 Cent on Kanye's 'Yeezus' Album: "It Sounds Weird To Me"

50 Cent has been stirring up the hip-hop scene lately, releasing an array of music videos just days apart from each other and continuing to build steam for the release of his Animal Ambition album. Now, he’s linked up with MTV UK to discuss one of 2013’s biggest releases, Yeezus by Kanye West, and it appears he’s not impressed. Admitting that Kanye is a talented force in the music industry, he compares Yeezus to Kanye’s previous projects – namely College Dropout - and states that he is still playing Kanye’s old material such as “Flashing Lights” but is yet to connect with his newer material on the same level, partially because it sounds too “scrambled” to feel like hip-hop.

He’s obviously a talent within our culture and is one of the driving forces of it, but some of that s**t is weird to me … That last record, to be honest, I’m not playing it right now. I still play Flashing Lights, Gold Digger and that whole [College Dropout] project. But some of the new stuff is so creative and feels like he’s trying to create a whole new sound…

It sounds scrambled… radio is going to play dance music, EDM – you got a lot of stuff happening in music culture that’s influencing a lot of R&B music to that tempo. It doesn’t feel like Hip-Hop to me, it feels like a fusion of something else, like a weird combination of dance music sounds and stuff…

It’s just him being an artist, you don’t have to agree with everything an artist does. Like, I don’t have a favourite artist, I have a favourite moment from artists. Like with Drake, there’s songs he came out with and the timing was perfect for the record…

According to a recent interview with Yeezus producer, Evian Christ, Kanye never intended to maintain a classic hip-hop sound with his latest music. In fact, he apparently intended to do the exact opposite, as Kanye’s only creative blueprint when working with producers is “Don’t make a rap beat. Anything but a rap beat.”