His first album sold a lot, because it was damn good...he'll never live up to it. Plus his name was attached to Eminem and Dr. Dre. His second album is pretty bad, but probably sold a lot, because people figured his first was so good that it must be good as well. I heard a few good songs on the new one, but that's it. And hell no, I didn't buy it. I honestly don't know anyone personally who will...it makes me wonder how he even sold that much.

By the way, it's 781,000 to 603,000 right now...but it isn't over until Sunday night. I'm not the biggest Kanye fan, but I'd like to see him take it by a lot, because he actually produced every song himself, rather than taking other peoples beats and throwing shitty lyrics on them. Kanye put in way more work, so I feel he should be rewarded. Even though album sales don't really mean shit...it's something he cares about I guess.

Also, 50 already said that his next album is due in March '08 and he's 80% done with it [even has a Kanye track on it]. What he said about 'quitting' had to do with marketing. If you don't want to listen to the music, simply don't. Not hard to do.