the retirement was timed so lovely too.
he was at the end of his tether with Dame and Biggs letting Dipset, who were the hottest crew in the city have a run of the place, even dissing him while they are on his label, Beans was a mess and in jail, State Prop couldn't get on with each other, 50 Cent by the time this album came out was a worldwide phenomenon that was shooting at everybody in his path (even Cam'ron but Sha made him take the verse off...allegedly) and he just secured Beyonce.
with the album and Fade To Black he made everybody give him his flowers while he was still here
jetted off to run around with Beyonce then came back took the corporate job, his prized artist he took from the grasp of Dame and Biggs was becoming the biggest musician in the world outside of his wife, squashed the beef with his rival, that same rival ended up on Def Jam so you know how that looked and then came out from retirement.
a shame his roll out of him coming out of retirement wasn't as well executed as his retirement but
