50 Cent Promises to Reinvent the Hip-hop Wheel on New Album

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“Since record buyers made it clear that 50 Cent is no longer the most relevant artist in hip-hop, he’s decided to recreate the entire genre according to his needs. In an interview with Rolling Stone, 50 Cent that his new album would challenge what is thought of as hip-hop:

Other rappers can take what I’ve done for the last five years and do their version of it and be successful with momentum. Meanwhile, I have to reinvent the wheel. I’m not really listening to anyone else’s record. Now I’m in another space where I gotta make what I’m excited about…

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Usually, the phrase “reinvent the wheel” is an idiomatic statement suggesting that there is no need to re-create something that is otherwise functioning perfectly.  According to Wikipedia:

“As it is not considered to have operational flaws, an attempt to reinvent it would be pointless and add no value to the object, and would be a waste of time, diverting the investigator’s resources from possibly more worthy goals which his or her skills could advance more substantially.”

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