10 years ago Kanye ended 50 cent music career

[SirBiatch]

I still haven't listened to The Life of Pablo and besides Blood on the Leaves I don't fukk with Yeezus. I don't consider MBDTF a classic. So yeah, your Ye Stan crutch goes out the window with that one. I do appreciate you taking the time to poll the entire hip hop listening public to confirm nobody else really thinks this, doe

But you quoted me out the blue to wrongfully assert that Graduation is on the same level of GRODT. That's definitely out of the stan playbook.

It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. You ask your average hip hop head, and not some suburban casual, and they'll tell you GRODT > Graduation. Hip hop in general will always side with stuff that's more street in sound. You really think "Flashing Lights" and "Good Life" hit the hip hop community as hard as "In Da Club" and "Many Men?" Cmon. Why even bother playing dumb

 

[Barack Dracobama]

chicago was proud

 

[Barack Dracobama]

But you quoted me out the blue to wrongfully assert that Graduation is on the same level of GRODT. That's definitely out of the stan playbook.

It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. You ask your average hip hop head, and not some suburban casual, and they'll tell you GRODT > Graduation. Hip hop in general will always side with stuff that's more street in sound. You really think "Flashing Lights" and "Good Life" hit the hip hop community as hard as "In Da Club" and "Many Men?" Cmon. Why even bother playing dumb

you fukkin hate kanye, so much

 

[e001]

Ye didn't do shyt

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

50 cent was already on his way out before this. the "battle" boosted his sales actually.

he had already fell off & sold out long before this. most of his core audience was already gone.

 

[Da King]

The fake beef only helped :flabbynfif: as he was already one foot in the grave at that point

 

[GetRichOrDieTryin]

Joe budden already talked about this plan to end 50

 

[Insensitive]

In retrospect Kanye didn't "end 50 cent's music career".
50 Cent ended 50 Cent or rather Gangsta Rap reached a climax
last decade filled with cliche's where mediocrity was pushed in pursuit of profit.
The reality is music and the careers therein are subject to entropy much like
anything else so Gangsta rap had nowhere to go but down.


50 Cent is the personification of an interesting period in Black Popular Music.

 

[JayBaldacci]

Get Rich didn't go diamond domestically.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

In retrospect Kanye didn't "end 50 cent's music career".
50 Cent ended 50 Cent or rather Gangsta Rap reached a climax
last decade filled with cliche's where mediocrity was pushed in pursuit of profit.
The reality is music and the careers therein are subject to entropy much like
anything else so Gangsta rap had nowhere to go but down.

50 Cent is the personification of an interesting period in Black Popular Music.

what exactly is gangsta rap?

if its street rap that youre referring to, 50 cent had already fell out of favor in the streets years beforehand when he dropped the massacre, followed by a string of more lackluster g-unit releases.

I don't know why people try to paint 50 cent as the representative for everything street. the only reason he was still relevant in '07 was because of the suburbs & interscope.

 

[StretfordRed]

Love this

 

[Insensitive]

what exactly is gangsta rap?

if its street rap that youre referring to, 50 cent had already fell out of favor in the streets years beforehand when he dropped the massacre, followed by a string of more lackluster g-unit releases.

I don't know why people try to paint 50 cent as the representative for everything street. the only reason he was still relevant in '07 was because of the suburbs & interscope.

50 cent for all intents and purposes is
a gangsta rapper. Whether or not the streets messed with his brand of gangsta rap near the end of his career doesn't change that IMO.

And he's used as the personification of the "Street/Gangsta" rapper because he represents the heights it would reach and inevitable crash it would endure.

He was right there when it reached astronomical heights of commercial success
and was there when it began to ultimately fade into irrelevance (on a mainstream level at least).

 

[re'up]

50 was stagnant and fumbling before this, that whole summer 2007 was 50 trying to find his footing in a changing market. However, you only saw cracks and flaws, no one had the foresight, I believe, to say he was "over", from a fan perspective at least.

I remember the flopped singles, the push backs, the leaks, 50 going off the deep end and into a rage when the Robin Thicke video leaked throwing a tv out of a window, and rampaging through Interscope offices, for a horrilble video that for some reason had Dustin Hoffman in it

50 was def. the favored one, but I could see the shift, and even buying both albums, and hearing "Curtis", I knew it was mostly trash, aside from maybe 5 tracks. But, a movement and moment like 50 and G-Unit doesn't just die overnight, esp. with the marketing, 50's mixtpes, the singles, the videos, it was in 2008 when it was truly dying, and that G-Unit album was the final nail. But, even then, it was gradual and gradual, gasps of air and denial from the extreme fans, until they were finally all washed up 2009/2010.

 

[muzikfrk75]

Before the album's release date Kanye had dropped

Can't Tell Me Nothing
Stronger
Good Life

Game, set, match.

 

[High quality poster]

Before the album's release date Kanye had dropped

Can't Tell Me Nothing
Stronger
Good Life

Game, set, match.

50 never had a chance.

Had I get money and ayo technology dropped before those failed singles he prolly woulda won tho. Those flops really hurt him.

And you know Jay was ready to end that nikka


There was no way 50 was winning while beefing with his own label, meanwhile Kanye had unlimited backing plus better music.

shyt was some Vince Screwing Stone Cold shyt