In 2015 50 had 3 platinum singles, 3 platinum singles in 2016, 2 platinum in 2017 and he's already got 2 platinum singles already in 2018 what has Ja Rule done of late?
I'm arguing that 50's run began to decline in 2005 and what I think the causes for that was, in response, you make an irrelevant rebuttal that 50 as an artist is more relevant than Ja today.
That is called moving the goal post. Also, why do you keep pushing Ja comparisons into the convo. Ja said 50's only good album was GRODT, I didn't see anything from him about who is more relevant today.
Btw, can you cite me these singles you speak of?
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You act like Ja Rule is still relevant.
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Actually, I never even suggested anything of the sort. You literally just made that up because you had no real response for the points I was actually making.
The Massacre sold more that GRODT so your argument was already flawed there.
No, the Massacre didn't. Secondly, how can I be flawed in recognizing the sells of the Massacre when I conceded in my post that the Massacre sold amazingly. What exactly do you think is meant when someone says that an album sold amazingly? That it sold bad?
Your opinion is in the minority as well as Jadakiss or whatever mediocre emcee you wanna throw out there.
If nobody sided with Jadakiss, Fat Joe, or Nas when 50 attacked them then why was The Game able to score so much support when he publicly expressed he wouldn't jump into 50's random beefs?
The fact is worldwide The Massacre did commercially better which is why other than Snoop, 2Pac, Eminem and Biggie, 50 Cent is the most popular. His music is and was well received.
No one argued that the Massacre didn't do commercially well. Again, I literally say in my post that The Massacre sold amazingly well. Stop obstructing by acting like I ignored that fact.
And as far as received goes, the evidence imo strongly suggest that everything he did after the Massacre, and the Massacre itself, wasn't all that *well* received. With the Massacre(
and Banks and Bucks first albums), I believe majority of the sales were generated from the hype produced by GRODT rather than the quality of the record itself.
I think this is highly likely to be the case because if you look at the numbers, something wild like 90-80% of the people who bought the Massacre didn't buy Curtis, and it would've probably been higher if 50 didn't use Kanye as a promotional tool. Now you could argue that this says nothing and that the decrease in sells could be explained by times changing, illegal downloading of music, and street rap running its course, however, I disagree with all of those explanations. I think you can see a declining trend starting in the wake of The Massacre with Tony Ya Yo's Album and the GRODT soundtrack.
Put it like this, Buck, Game, and Banks easily go plat, Yayo flops, the only thing of note is that Yayo's joint dropped in 2005, after the Massacre. With that said, the Massacre damn near pushes 10 million, however, in the same year, GRODT soundtrack, which arguably had stronger singles than the Massacre, only moves a quarter of that(
which is still large but its a substantial decrease nonetheless). in point, something happened here, not 07, but 05.
And the trend continued into 2006 with Banks&Bucks sequels doing substantial worse sells-wise. My thought experiment is this: how is it that the Massacre is so loved and critically well-received when everything that followed right after it did worse than the 50&g-unit projects that came before it? And that the follow up album, Curtis, barely retained a fraction of those so called fans that just LOVED the Massacre? I think the best rational explanation that fits with the facts I mention is that the Massacre sold on brand hype way more than actual quality, and after nikkas heard it and realized it was trash, a good chunk of listeners decide to stop buying any further 50 projects.
