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New Rihanna album drops November 23.

Thisis50 released the offical album cover to 50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct which now has an offical release date for November 17, 2009. Deluxe copies of Before I Self Destruct will be available to pre-order on iTunes with exclusive bonus tracks later October.

According to Billboard, Thank Me Later Drakes first major release was recently pushed from a fall release to early 2010. One of the album’s producers, Harlem-based Omen, says the Toronto MC is ready to release the first single, “Shut It Down” featuring The-Dream, in the coming weeks with a video directed by Hype Williams.

The song came about when Omen teamed up with Drake’s longtime musical collaborator, 40, and together they came up with the production. “I was working on some drum patterns and 40 had the melody going. 40 is very skilled and has a crazy ear for obscure sounds and chords,” says Omen. “It took us the whole night to come up with the track, but we finished it and played it for Drake the next day, who already had the song’s concept.”

The idea for the track, which Omen describes as a “Prince-like, powerful song,” is about “empowering females. Drake said he had a song idea called ‘Shut It Down’ aimed at club-going females. When they go out and they get dressed up and put their makeup on and get their hair done, they have the capacity to shut the club down,” Omen recalls.

The-Dream eventually got on the track; as of now, he has a verse and appears on the last two choruses and on the bridge.

So far Drakes release of his mixtape So Far So Gone has sold over 100k copies since its 2 week reign on Billboard charts.

Since this video was directed by Hype Williams, I was expecting more. But check the video for yourself, Forever the leading single to More Than a Game soundtrack which hit stores September 29.

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