50 Cent recently sat down with MTV to discuss his upcoming “Before I Self Destruct” album, promising his fourth solo project would not only be harder than his previous albums, but a prequel to his first “Get Rich Or Die Tryin” album. “Not particularly this song, but the entire project,” 50 said referring to “Baby By Me” that features Ne-Yo.

50 continues “I meant for it to be a little harder and what I fell in love with about hip-hop and within hip-hop,” 50 explained about his upcoming project. “I accomplished it. Before I Self Destruct is absolutely harder than Get Rich or Die Tryin’ or other projects in between. The Massacre had some real aggressive content on it, but there were other things I wanted to do, like ‘Ryder Music,’ ‘Baltimore Love Thing,’ ‘Build You Up,’ featuring Jamie Foxx. This project, I kept all of those things out of it. I just made it what I wanted it to be. This album is my album right now. It’s like the prequel to Get Rich — the things I missed on that project.”