The time 50 Cent had the world in the palm of his hands

[Swahili P'Bitek]

As a Pac stan I can't say its even close. Only other rapper that came close was Eminem if you factor in cacs and how those two were household names in mainstream media. If were only talking black folks than Pac was about equally yoked,but its doubtful he got the universal love 50 did for obvious reasons. And Eminem didn't either among black people,but you still had the curiosity element among nikkas even if they weren't the biggest Eminem fan. At least when he first came out that is. But 50 fell off so hard and so fast it ain't even funny. And I knew his music wouldn't age well even back then

I remember turning on that nikka by the second album when he kept starting shyt with all the rappers I liked. Or they were starting with him however you wanna say.#WeStandWithBudden

Yeah he did fall off terribly, but at the time he was huge. You're more likely to find young pac fans now than 50 fans, but at the actual time when he burst onto the scene, he came with a force like none other. Lil wayne came with a force too though not quite as huge, but stayed consistent for a longer period and influenced so many rappers that younger kids who have no business knowing him, do know him. The same can't be saod of 50, by the late 2000s, nobody knew where he'd gone and the musical landscape had changed so much he just couldn't keep up. 50's peak was something you had to experience to see his influence, whereas Pac's music and Lil Wayne's influence are what keep them on people's mouths.

 

[a murda]

so is it cool to fukk with 50 / G-Unit again?

i remember after the Ye / 50 thing and that wack ass Ayo Technology song people weren't fukking with 50 like that (his music at least). G-Unit was considered music for nikkas that still rock NBA jeans

now that early 2000's nostalgia kicking in. Not to mention 50 is damn near Black Thought compared to these new nikkas. Hip-hop needs a new 50 Cent type dude real bad. A villain who will come in and clown all this goofy shyt goin on.

 

[JLova]

People didn't get "tired" of Ja... They just followed the bandwagon and hopped on the latest trend. 2002 he was still pumping out hits. 2003 was just 50's year.

The women liked Ja cuz he was doing those tracks with JLo and Ashanti. He was literally an R&B singer....never fukked with that whole Murder Inc shyt and used to hate that shyt in the club. I was never a big 50 fan but he locked shyt down and was just "different" at the time.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

It's crazy how mfs turned on him so quickly by 2007. Even though he fell off I still appreciated the dope joints he did put out, even though we never got a whole album full of em like before.

Don't matter, because 50 a boss today. He ain't broke like everybody else.

 

[Carlton Banks]

Don't matter, because 50 a boss today. He ain't broke like everybody else.

100

 

[karim]

It's crazy how mfs turned on him so quickly by 2007. Even though he fell off I still appreciated the dope joints he did put out, even though we never got a whole album full of em like before.

He felt himself too much and started shytting on jimmy iovine and dre. That's when he lost that interscope marketing push and ultimately got shelved into irrelevancy It started im 2005 with 50 sabotaging interscopes marketing plan for the game and releasing his own headphones in a stupid competition with beats by dre was the final nail in the coffin. Had he played his position like eminem did, instead of pretending he was running interscope, he wouldn't have had the same fall off.

 

[Carlton Banks]

He felt himself too much and started shytting on jimmy iovine and dre. That's when he lost that interscope marketing push and ultimately got shelved into irrelevancy It started im 2005 with 50 sabotaging interscopes marketing plan for the game and releasing his own headphones in a stupid competition with beats by dre was the final nail in the coffin. Had he played his position like eminem did, instead of pretending he was running interscope, he wouldn't have had the same fall off.

There was multiple factors involved in 50's downfall. That was definitely a major one

 

[King]

What

Every track on a Get Rich still hits.

Timeless music only comes once in a lifetime

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

I remember when this cover came out and thinking this nikka a cheat code. Like at that time he coulda just breathed on something and it woulda went platinum.

There is no universality in hip hop anymore. I don’t think people understand what it was like being on a random city block and Every. Single. Car. Is playing his shyt.

 

[DPresidential]

It's crazy how mfs turned on him so quickly by 2007. Even though he fell off I still appreciated the dope joints he did put out, even though we never got a whole album full of em like before.

He fukked up when he didn't Release I Get Money as the first single off the second album.

That shyt SAS a certified banger /club joint.

He released it mid through the album.

I don't know why but that always bothered me.

 

[old pig]

I downloaded the album and still almost felt compelled to go out and buy it…it sincerely felt like “EVERYONE” was buying it

 

[Cape Town JHB]

Massacre could've easily been his best album, but the first half of the album is Eminem's garbage production and bubble gum filler tracks. The 2nd half of Massacre is the best production I've heard in mainstream Hip Hop since Chronic 2001.









But the filler tracks were atrocious.
Apparently it's coz he gave so much heat to Game for documentary.

2006 had some awful tracks and 2007 Lil Wayne and that corny style rap got popular after Lollipop and the new generation kicked in and it was a wrap for us "old heads"

 

[Soundwave]

Damn y’all nikkas young as fukk in here… in 03 I was just starting my new career lmaoo

I graduated college in 2003 and dudes in here talking about they were 5 when GRODT came out

Spoiler

 

[Biscayne]

I think 50 had the highest peak as a rapper that I’ve witnessed. He was undeniable at one point. Son had the world in a chokehold. Little kids in Kosovo would go to war for him

In one summer 50 Cent had all boys on the planet aged 11-17 denouncing JaRule and Murder Inc. It was incredible to witness. I was amongst those boys. Man I was a 50/Gunit Stan.

 

[Biscayne]

I've never seen in real time an artist explode like how he did, even people in some rural areas where I'm from knew him or of him and this was way before the internet, even more amazing, older people who did not know what hip hop was knew him too. This was when dancehall and reggae and local music had a big chokehold on us and he crushed everything just like that.

Other than him, Pac was the other mythical figure to a lot of people but I wasn't present to witness what it was like.

Older ppl knew who he was because of how controversial his music was. Mainstream artist weren’t really making mainstream street anthems like that back in 2001-2003(maybe Dipset being an exception). 50 cents rise to fame came with a lot of controversy because of how aggressive his music was relative to how hip hop had been trending since the shiny suit era began in 1997. It was like 1997-2002 hip hop(on the mainstream level) was going bubblegum. Part of 50s popularity to young boys, was just how aggressive he was in the mainstream. Even his album cover was controversial for that time. Bullet hole on e cover, “Get Rich Or Die Trying”. Many Men music video was so violent it couldn’t even be aired on MTV for more than a day before it had to be pulled. Gunit got into a brawl at the source awards. 50 was dissing every NY rapper he had beef with. 50 was threatening ppl. He’d walk around with a bulletproof vest. He’d talk about how he got shot 9 times. His concerts were controversial because he’d do violent skits on stage. The kids loved it, and gravitated towards that image he was putting out, but the parents got wind of all of this and his controversial nature put him on the “concerned Karen’s” radar. It was quite amazing to witness.

50 singlehandedly brought back gangsta rap at one point it seemed.

Even my parent knew who 50 was.