In 2005, The Massacre was ranked as the number one album of the year on the Billboard 200. It has sold over eleven million copies worldwide. In February 2020, The Massacre was certified six times platinum for combined sales and album-equivalent units of at least six million copies in the United States. This is the second largest opening week for a hip hop album, behind Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), which sold 1.76 million copies in its first week. With a release in the middle of the sales week, The Massacre sold 1.15 million copies in its first four days of release, becoming the sixth-largest opening week for an album at the time since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. In comparison, the album is not as heavily censored as his previous album Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003). The album cover also removes guns in the background behind the rapper, being replaced by motifs and a gradient background. The opening intro removes the shooting sequence, and is cut down to 20 seconds. The track 'Gunz Come Out' has inconsistency in the editing, and contains some profanity. The censored version of the album censors out most profanity, violence, and all drug content. After the album was bootlegged, Interscope decided to announce the album's official March 3 release date after the second planned release date was March 7, 2005. 50 and the Game later entered into a truce six days after The Massacre was released, but their animosity later reiterated after Game made fun of G-Unit at Hot 97's annual Summer Jam, where he first launched the G-Unot phrase, later turning to a boycott. Paul Rosenberg of Shady and Jimmy Iovine of Interscope worried that the album would underperform due to the negativity of the Hot 97 shooting. After 50 released Game from his G-Unit Records imprint on live radio February 21, 2005, a shootout occurred. Originally, a certainty of songs that were originally intended to be included on the album were later known to be ' Hate It or Love It', ' Higher', ' How We Do', 'Church for Thugs' and 'Special', causing a majority of The Massacre to be reworked. Likewise, this was one of the few factors as to why a dispute between the two began. However, it was postponed for the following month, and the album title was shortened to simply The Massacre, due to the release of The Game's The Documentary.

Valentine's Day Massacre (titled after the 1929 North Side, Chicago murder spree of its gang) and was arranged to be released on February 15, 2005. The original title for the album was revealed as The St. ( March 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

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