50 Cent Explores Alternate Outcome To 2007 Sales Battle With Kanye West
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If 50’s nothing else he’s a pragmatist…how couldn’t he know that firmly stating “It’s impossible for Kanye West to sell more records than 50 Cent. If he does I will retire, it’s not going to happen” is just gonna make people who don’t even like/know Kanye go buy his album…and/or purposely not buy yours? Just to prove you wrong. There’s no way he didn’t know that. Maybe he figured that even that wouldn’t be enough? 
. It was a win/win for Kanye West…that’s not 50’s style lol, he got paid heavy by someone to partake in this for Kanye.
. It was a win/win for Kanye West…that’s not 50’s style lol, he got paid heavy by someone to partake in this for Kanye.If 50’s nothing else he’s a pragmatist…how couldn’t he know that firmly stating “It’s impossible for Kanye West to sell more records than 50 Cent. If he does I will retire, it’s not going to happen” is just gonna make people who don’t even like/know Kanye go buy his album…and/or purposely not buy yours? Just to prove you wrong. There’s no way he didn’t know that. Maybe he figured that even that wouldn’t be enough?
I think he knew that, but participating in that battle probably got him more numbers than he would've gotten without the battle. 50 was running on fumes and "I Get Money" and "AYO Technology" got him a solid release date. His singles were flopping before that. The album kept getting pushed back and even went through multiple album titles.
True…but if he really felt like he was running on fumes like that I doubt he would have been making the extreme proclamations that he was making lol. “I’ll retire if he sells more, it’s not possible” type shhit…you’re just setting yourself up to look stupid and wrong, lol. Unless, of course, he wanted to actually retire…why he didn’t,
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“He keeps it real though”
True…but if he really felt like he was running on fumes like that I doubt he would have been making the extreme proclamations that he was making lol. “I’ll retire if he sells more, it’s not possible” type shhit…you’re just setting yourself up to look stupid and wrong, lol. Unless, of course, he wanted to actually retire…why he didn’t,
Those extremae proclamations was part of the hype. It gets his fan base to come out if they don't want him to retire. He said the same thing about Massacre that if he sold 1 record less than GRODT with Massacre, it was a wrap. It sold like 4-5 million less. 50 was still rapping.
Im gonna be quiet
