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The "music completely sucks" thing comes down to opinion. Lets be honest you fall in to a rare breed of 2013 die hard 50 fan. Like dude above said most people with your ggggggg unit passion died out 5 years ago. You saying the music doesnt suck pales little in comparison to the fact that 5 singles and 3 struggle tapes werent able to make any interest for the rest of us to get an album date. When 50 destroyd ja and fat joe they still had a few die hard stans too saying their music was dope. It is what it is.
sorry for the long post
I do agree that he really fukked up with the singles from Street King Immortal, and honestly none of them have been that good. But I feel inclined to reserve judgement without hearing a full album - especially since singles generally don't tell you how the album as a whole will be. I personally don't put a lot of stock into those mixtapes either, and I don't expect them to be album quality or even that great necessarily. I mean he put out Forever King and that was nothing special, but then he put out BISD which went in a different direction and was actually good imo. From my perspective, his last legit album, BISD, was pretty solid overall - so I look to that more than the free thrown together mixtapes when saying he still puts out good music.
I think 50's biggest mistakes have been trying to force pop type songs for radio play, along with The Massacre.
Pop radio hits are not his strong suit, and they're not why people liked him in the first place. Baby By Me and Do You Think About Me were horrible songs to try to grab attention to BISD, and were completely different from the majority of the album. Those just aren't the type songs that people want to hear from him, and he doesn't do them well either.
In regards to The Massacre - he really shot himself in the foot with this album. At the time people were expecting another GRODT with music that goes hard, instead he puts out an album with mostly chilled/laidback, 21 questions / p.i.m.p type songs throughout. I think this caught a lot of people off guard and they didn't really want to fukk with it at the time (myself included). Plus Candy Shop was just straight up stupid. In retrospect it's a pretty decent album, but only if that's the kind of music you're in the mood to listen to.
I think if 50 would've stuck to more of the GRODT blueprint (What Up Gangsta, Patiently Waiting, Many Men type tracks), and gone with more actual club sounding tracks (like In Da Club, How We Do) as his singles, and kept the girly/pop songs to a bare minimum, things would have been much different for him. Before I Self Destruct was the type of album people were expecting following GRODT - an album with hard street bangers. If BISD came out following GRODT (and had less girly/pop songs at the end, and better singles), and if he stuck to what worked, I think his career could have gone in a much different/better direction and people would still fukk with him.
Curtis was a straight garbage album so I didn't see any reason to mention that lol.
status for him.
is 50 not a millionare hundreds of times over who doesn't have tax issues?...how did he fall off?
