{"id":561135,"date":"2026-07-27T01:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561135\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T01:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:50:18","slug":"a-50-cent-collab-and-a-ringtone-album-afi-share-terrible-advice-from-record-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561135\/","title":{"rendered":"A 50 Cent collab and a ringtone album \u2013 AFI share terrible advice from record label"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFI<\/a>\u00a0frontman\u00a0Davey Havok has shared the terrible advice he received from his major label, including\u00a0suggestions of\u00a0a\u00a050 Cent<\/a>\u00a0collab and\u00a0a\u00a0ringtone\u00a0album.<\/p>\n

The musician looked back on the difficult period surrounding the creation of the band\u2019s seventh album \u2018Decemberunderground\u2019 in 2006 in a new interview with\u00a0Metal Hammer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AFI had\u00a0signed to\u00a0DreamWorks Records before the\u00a0company\u2019s\u00a0music division was absorbed by Interscope, leaving the band under the umbrella of the label run by Jimmy Iovine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe writing of \u2018Decemberunderground\u2019 was a miserable period,\u201d Havok said. \u201cOur A&R guy was hellbent on trying to get Jimmy Iovine \u2013 who had expressly claimed in the press that rock is dead \u2013 to pay attention to AFI, and so it was suggested that we collab with Jimmy\u2019s great love at the time, which was 50 Cent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have nothing against 50 Cent, but what does that even mean?!\u201d\u00a0he\u00a0added.<\/p>\n

Havok went on to reveal that an even more unusual suggestion arrived, in keeping with the trend at the\u00a0time for\u00a0downloadable mobile phone ringtones.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven worse than this was the era when ringtones were the new technology craze,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI love this man and I still see him once a month at the least, but this motherfucker says to me, \u2018What if you were to be the first band to write a ringtone album?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Although songs from \u2018Decemberunderground\u2019 were eventually released as ringtones, AFI never made a full album designed for the format and did not collaborate with 50 Cent.<\/p>\n

Released in June 2006, \u2018Decemberunderground\u2019 became the band\u2019s first album to top the US Billboard 200 and included the singles \u2018Miss Murder\u2019 and \u2018Love Like Winter\u2019. In\u00a0a\u00a0review at the time<\/a>,\u00a0NME\u00a0praised the album\u2019s \u201ccrunching call to arms\u201d and described \u2018Miss Murder\u2019 as \u201csublime\u201d.<\/p>\n

AFI released their 12th and latest studio album, \u2018Silver Bleeds The Black Sun\u2026\u2019, in October last year, and they are due to return to the UK next month for a run of headline dates and festival appearances.<\/p>\n

The band will\u00a0join Deftones, Interpol and others at All Points East\u2019s Outbreak event<\/a>\u00a0in London\u2019s Victoria Park on August 23.<\/p>\n

They will also appear alongside acts including\u00a0The Neighbourhood<\/a>,\u00a0Converge<\/a>,\u00a0Jehnny Beth\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Lip Critic<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a02026 edition of Deftones\u2019 D\u00eda De Los Deftones festival<\/a>\u00a0in San Diego in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFI\u00a0frontman\u00a0Davey Havok has shared the terrible advice he received from his major label, including\u00a0suggestions of\u00a0a\u00a050 Cent\u00a0collab and\u00a0a\u00a0ringtone\u00a0album. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,56726],"class_list":["post-561135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-punk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}