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Curtis? Curtis?

Has Kanye West’s Graduation ended 50 Cent’s solo career? The BBC reports that Fiddy has postponed his European tour, and has cancelled appearances at the Mobo Awards and Vodafone Live Music Awards in London this week, as well as an MTV show in Germany next week. The moves make it easier to imagine that the rapper will make good on his a promise to retire from solo work.

In the build up to last Tuesday’s simultaneous release of West’s Graduation and his own new album, Curtis, Fiddy vowed that if West’s album outsold his own, he’d hang up the mic. While the rapper backed off his statements in an interview with Billboard last week, reports project that Graduation will outsell Curtis 781,000 to 603,000, respectively, in the U.S. this week.

It would be a big accomplishment for West indeed if he manages to vanquish a fellow rapper and make flipping out at the MTV awards a hallowed tradition all in the same week. See, kids, what you can do with a diploma?

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