Booth old heads, was yall aware of 50 Cent existence before "Wanksta" came out?

[Slim]

On the West, I don’t think many people knew.

I only knew cause the SOHH/AHH heads put me onto the mixtapes he was killin.

 

[FreshAIG]

Hell yeah

He had a very good buzz when he dropped How to Rob

Then after he got shot and came back with Guess Who's Back is when he started bubbling again

But everyone knew who he was

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

Since "In Too Deep" soundtrack "How to Rob" and this joint which might have been the first song I played in a whip

 

[avon barksdale]

In too deep is one of my favorite movies and this video was on the DVD I bought back in the day

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I think every hip hop head at the time who were at least 18 years old in 1999 knew who 50 cent was. How to Row put him on the map and it was featured on one of the biggest hip hop soundtracks of the year in In Too Deep. Plus he was on Onxy's Shut em Down album. He wasn't some unknown rapper that just popped up out of nowhere in 2003. He had everyone from Wutang, Jay Z, Big Pun, Ja Rule(for obvious reasons), and Sticky Fingaz dissing him. he was known. I have 2 copies the Power of the Dollar promo vinyl. After he was shot and recovering, the album was shelved.

 

[Rivoli]

Yup.. I used to buy bootleg CDs on Canal Street (big up to my African bootlegger; he got everything early, lol ), and he was killing the mixtape scene...

Unless you were there, people would never truly understand how big 50 Cent was at the street level in New York.

It is crazy to watch him transition to that to being an internet influencer and movie mogul

 

[FTBS]

He literally created trolling to create a buzz. He was known before then but those were the days where you had to be put on to be known like that. You couldnt just stream or go to his IG. Pretty sure everybody knew who he was once Em signed him/shouted him out though.

 

[Antdrewjosh]

Yeah mixtape 50 was a problem