50 Cent Explores Alternate Outcome To 2007 Sales Battle With Kanye West

[Street Knowledge]

50 Cent and Kanye West famously battled it out for the top spot on the Billboard 200 back in September 2007 when his Curtisalbum faced off against Ye’s Graduation.

Ye comfortably won the contest by a margin of 266k sales, but in a new conversation with Billboard published on Tuesday (October 22), 50 insisted he could have come out on top in the long-run if he was really trying to be the winner.

“We made the highest sales week for Hip Hop culture, doing that and being competitive,” he said. “People that were participating as fans were buying more than one copy of it, because of the competitive side of it. When you look at it… we had to stand together to face off, but we never had an issue.

“That was his ‘break’ album that broke him in. If I was trying to combat that, I would’ve went on tour with him. I would’ve had all of the material with the albums that worked ahead of [Graduation] to draw from, while he had that one record.”

50 Cent Explores Alternate Outcome To 2007 Sales Battle With Kanye West

50 Cent and Kanye West famously competed for the No. 1 position on the Billboard 200 in 2007 when 50's 'Curtis' album went head-to-head with Ye's 'Graduation.'

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[Da_Eggman]

Never here to defend Ye but his “break” album

 

[dakidbanks]

Naw they both were 3 albums in at that point

I see how he’s tryna spin it where GRODT was his breakthrough and Kanye breakthrough wasn’t until Graduation but the reality is the public perception was that Kanye was getting better with every album and 50 was the opposite even though I think massacre was slept on

He’s trying to say if they went on tour together, he would’ve been viewed as the bigger closing act

 

[avon barksdale]

Curtis that was one of his worst albums

 

[dakidbanks]

Curtis that was one of his worst albums

Too many pop act features from that time period

 

[Yecht]

We ready to admit that 50 cent is one of the biggest excuse making fakkits of all time?

 

[letti cook]

 

[SpacelySprockets]

or or or you couldve just dropped a better album instead of getting creatively complacent and phoning it in thinking your grodt hype was gonna continue to carry u

also kanye had 2 platinum albums before graduation, it wouldnt have been marketed as a heavyweight sales battle if he wasnt already broken in

 

[TheNig]

He's the most honest human being about everybody and everything except his career.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

West already made 2 classic albums

G Unit was on the decline and 50 changed the name of his album after a Cam’ron diss record.

If anything 50 used Kanye to boost his own album sales.

 

[DontEemTry]

West already made 2 classic albums

G Unit was on the decline and 50 changed the name of his album after a Cam’ron diss record.

If anything 50 used Kanye to boost his own album sales.

Cam damn near more influential to 50 than Em and Dre. Cam responsible for this nikkas album title, his new teeth AND deaded them G-Unit brassieres.

 

[Cuban Pete]

Curtis just wasnt a good album tho, it has great tracks like Movin On Up but its definitely his weakest album imo, cause BISD and the other joints he went in a different direction muscially. Curtis was still tryna sell

 

[Wild self]

We ready to admit that 50 cent is one of the biggest excuse making fakkits of all time?

Jadakiss was right.

"Took ya 9 shots to be rich!"

Kanye legitimately changed how the black youth of Gen Y to go to college and the basic outlook of life beyond the streets. He, and even Jim Jones, deaded baggy clothes altogether. Kanye at that point was the savior of Hip Hop and leading it to the new era, while 50 was the last of the old guard of the Crack Era. Jay Z moved on, people like DMX was almost forgotten by then, superthug NY mixtape rappers been faded away. Curtis set himself for failure with 4 out of those 6 singles off that album being duds and ruining his album budget.

 

[DontEemTry]

Jadakiss was right.

"Took ya 9 shots to be rich!"

Kanye legitimately changed how the black youth of Gen Y to go to college and the basic outlook of life beyond the streets. He, and even Jim Jones, deaded baggy clothes altogether. Kanye at that point was the savior of Hip Hop and leading it to the new era, while 50 was the last of the old guard of the Crack Era. Jay Z moved on, people like DMX was almost forgotten by then, superthug NY mixtape rappers been faded away. Curtis set himself for failure with 4 out of those 6 singles off that album being duds and ruining his album budget.

How???

 

[Wild self]

How???

Check the college enrollment rates for black kids from 2004 to 2013.