OFFICIAL "Animal Ambition" Sales: FLOP! Sells 47k first week...91k after 6 weeks

[b_roll_ya]

This is a cool article. The best part, and most important part, is about how he isolates himself while making music. That in effect is the entire problem. It's not so much that he's blackballed. But when the producer of your music doesn't even know the song came out THATS WHEN YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.

But this part of the article is complete trash:



1: hits these days aren't made out of purely narrative songs....
2: 50 is the only rapper that we know who actually had legit clout on his own. Everything in his music has been a piece of himself. These other rappers come off artistic cause they are flat out fantasizing in their raps.

This is such a dumb point to make. We have an entire 50 quotes thread that shows you how crazy this nikka really is.

What rapper is rapping "about" things? Kanye and J.Cole are the only popular rappers who make their story the central focus of their rhymes.



This is again is so dumb. The nikka just spit in a rhyme "I got a call that Yay smacked a kid, Jimmie got jail for life, I said go smack him again." Lol that is literally touching on the life and thoughts angle.

50 doesn't rap about smoking weed or make weed songs....he loses a huge demographic there
50 doesn't make drill music
50 doesn't make trap music
50 doesn't make atl club music
50 doesn't make music for the west coast...in other words his career is not attached to mustard

50's sound is not made for 2014. It's as simple as that. You know how we laugh and say French Montana might as well be a southern rapper? You know how we laughed when ASAP Mob came out on some Texas shyt but they were from Harlem? It's because *drumroll* that's the sound that attracts the largest audience. But look at what happened when GUnit stole Drakes 0-100. Same type of lyrics that they've been spitting. Different type of response.

50 became victor in 2004 by being the Anti-Ja & Anti-Dipset. It's as simple as that.

Kanye became the victor by being the Anti-50/gangster rapper.

People wanted an Anti-Wayne/T pain. Jay launched his comeback pretending to be that.

People wanted an Anti-Drake. The love for Kendrick post Swimming Pools is that.

This ascension to #1 in rap has nothing to do with spitting life, thoughts or career. It has everything to do with being the Anti-*enter wave*

i read the first couple lines and knew u was a dikkrider

its hella artist who get beats from nikkaz and dont use em to years later

cash money do it all the time
go back and make a better post

 

[hustlemania]

This is a cool article. The best part, and most important part, is about how he isolates himself while making music. That in effect is the entire problem. It's not so much that he's blackballed. But when the producer of your music doesn't even know the song came out THATS WHEN YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.

hold on.. what..

 

[tru_m.a.c]

i read the first couple lines and knew u was a dikkrider

its hella artist who get beats from nikkaz and dont use em to years later

cash money do it all the time
go back and make a better post

ur dumb

ur so fukkn dumb

my point wasn't that ppl don't do that....my point was that producers shouldn't be SURPRISED about their music coming out

 

[NV-ME]

flow old. beats average. never was a lyricist. got on late, so he's really old in the rap cycle of life. offended almost everyone established, then never aligned himself with young talent.

i could go on and on, but the skinny is this flop was a decade in the making.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

hold on.. what..

my point is why the fukk is 50 putting out music that his own producers don't even know about? how you expect the fans to be excited about your shyt/know about your shyt but you don't even have a good working relationship with the people that help make your music

 

[b_roll_ya]

ur dumb

ur so fukkn dumb

my point wasn't that ppl don't do that....my point was that producers shouldn't be SURPRISED about their music coming out

right
wat a good way to switch it up

 

[tru_m.a.c]

right
wat a good way to switch it up

nikka ain't nobody switch up shyt...fukk outta here

 

[THE 101]

I'm only seeing this now.

Can I just say.....

 

[Canada Goose]

Whats Ja Rule opinion on these first week numbers?

 

[Jerz-2]

hold on.. what..

From the article linked in this thread:

In XXL’s recent “Making Of” feature on Animal Ambition, producer after producer expresses polite surprise that their track got picked at all.

“The beat I had given to 50 was made around 2008; I had completely forgotten about it.” says Charli Brown Beatz (“Don’t Worry ’Bout It”).

“I wasn’t in the studio with him when he recorded ‘Hold On,’” says Frank Dukes. “It was a surprise to me, when I heard it eight or nine months ago.”

“I didn’t get to meet him,” admits Shamtrax (“Pilot”). “Normally the way I work with people, I’m in the studio with them or I get a chance to sit in at least during the mix portion or whatever, but in this situation I didn’t get to meet 50 at all.”

 

[hustlemania]

From the article linked in this thread:

yooooooooooo..

“The beat I had given to 50 was made around 2008; I had completely forgotten about it.” says Charli Brown Beatz (“Don’t Worry ’Bout It”).

 

[Jerz-2]

yooooooooooo..

I wonder if dude gave that beat to anybody ELSE, since it had been so long.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

I dont even know what to say brehs. These are Dipset Christmas album numbers. With more promotion than Thriller Its like the harder he pushed the less it was going to sell.

 

[hustlemania]

I wonder if dude gave that beat to anybody ELSE, since it had been so long.

he forgot Curtis even existed..

 

[N.J.stan]

yooooooooooo..

fif thinkin he can roll back the hands of time?


especially in a genre that eats its elders like no other?!


dude fuked up on that one