Am I missing something? Is 50 Cent still relevant in the rap game?

[Still FloW]

Wait... are dudes REALLY that pressed that you can be a 50 fan in 2014... like you really go to bed heated cause someone out in the world likes dudes music ?

you nikkas need help... Been a fan since 03, I see nothing wrong with his music, most are ehh at times.. but i enjoy a majority, i dont listen to radio, I find the music that ''I'' like... emphasis on ''I'' cause it seems A LOT of you are infactuated with ''buzzing'' and a bunch of nonsense that doesnt equate into quality..

you telling me majority of so called buzzing artists on the charts will last the next 10 years

be heated and cry like a hoe cause someone else likes music that you don't....

*plays BISD*


deeeeeeeeeeeez nikkas aint strong enoughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

#SMSAudio

 

[Born2BKing]

but... YOU made this thread.. so by your point you must be a CAC ? foooh fakkit....

Be a G Unit stan in 2014 brehs

 

[Cole Cash]

50 cent for me represents the last of the era where the MC's credbility went along with his lyricism and story telling. While he didint live every tale in his song, he experienced quite a bit, judging from the recent jimmy henchman case, imagine if some of these other rappers who play up straight ducktales and minor gun charges, 50 had real hitters trying to KILL HIM.

Songs like the mechanic, many men, and his new joint the funeral really represent a category of hip hop that is in short supply. Narrative. 50s lyricism is basic but he can tell a story, unlike the rest of you who seem to love this basic "YEA nikka. BRICKS nikka. MONEY nikka. BUGATTI nikka. DEATH nikka. AYE AYE AYE. YEA nikka"

some of us still enjoy a good narrative. think about this for a second, most of your favorite rappers have 900 free tapes out consisting of nothing but casio basic beat garbage and trash lyrics, yet 50s albums still get referenced and quoted to this day, speaks volumes of his impact. I hated the unit sometimes in their prime, but they represented something that is gone now in hip hop, a sense of masculinity, no simping, and being a real nikka.

we never questioned if 50 was gay and we never seen him calling other men bae/baby and sharing cups. thus i cosign 50 just for not being a fukking fakkit.

 

[DetroitEWarren]

50 cent for me represents the last of the era where the MC's credbility went along with his lyricism and story telling. While he didint live every tale in his song, he experienced quite a bit, judging from the recent jimmy henchman case, imagine if some of these other rappers who play up straight ducktales and minor gun charges, 50 had real hitters trying to KILL HIM.

Songs like the mechanic, many men, and his new joint the funeral really represent a category of hip hop that is in short supply. Narrative. 50s lyricism is basic but he can tell a story, unlike the rest of you who seem to love this basic "YEA nikka. BRICKS nikka. MONEY nikka. BUGATTI nikka. DEATH nikka. AYE AYE AYE. YEA nikka"

some of us still enjoy a good narrative. think about this for a second, most of your favorite rappers have 900 free tapes out consisting of nothing but casio basic beat garbage and trash lyrics, yet 50s albums still get referenced and quoted to this day, speaks volumes of his impact. I hated the unit sometimes in their prime, but they represented something that is gone now in hip hop, a sense of masculinity, no simping, and being a real nikka.

we never questioned if 50 was gay and we never seen him calling other men bae/baby and sharing cups. thus i cosign 50 just for not being a fukking fakkit.

Top 5 post in this thread. This is basically the opinion of most 50 fans. Sure you got the internet dikkriders who a nikka like me will ignore, but most 50 fans realise how good he was/is with his stregnths, and the fact that its no longer a strong point in hip hop overall.

I'd bet any nikka this, with it still being a craving for tht type of music, if a talented dude followed 50's formula and style I bet anything he would blow up, especially if the lifestyle added up (it makes the music better, it makes emotion show more). However, Nipsey has some similarities, but he is too laid back with it. We need another wild reckless nikka. Not even for that reason, it just makes the music a lot better to me.

 

[Still FloW]

Be a G Unit stan in 2014 brehs

And ? it affects your life how ?

act like a fakkit over strangers on the internets music preferences brehhs

 

[DetroitEWarren]

And ? it affects your life how ?

act like a fakkit over strangers on the internets music preferences brehhs

shyt like that easily exposes the nikkas that do nothing outside of the internet lmao. shyt is sad as fukk to an extent, these nikkas take message board popularity serious on some everyday life shyt . I love my life, I love being a known person with shyt to do everyday. Life has to suck to some of these dudes smh

 

[Born2BKing]

50 stans getting emotional in this hoe.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Of course you can be a 50 fan in 2014 just don't claim he is relevant.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

Yea I see what you mean. I didn't start listening to rap until 2000/2001 area. The first album I heard by Em was TES.

I was 15-16 when TES dropped. When it comes to Em I lived through it all. I remember when the mmlp LEAK was makin it's rounds. And mind you this was before muthafukkas was really leakin like that. I mean at this point in time if you were somewhat computer savvy you could burn a mix CD for a muthafukka and still charge him 5 dollars. Cause yea the technology was there but muthafukkas wasn't really hip to it yet, at least not on a major scale.

But shyt man I remember when the MMLP was about to drop, that fukkin LEAK had the earth shakin. I know a lot of nikkas here will try and downplay the importance of it but let me dead that shyt right now. I'm white. I'm from new york. I went to high school with plenty of black people. I could tell you first hand it wasn't just white people goin crazy for that album. Yea yea it just got big cause he's white... whatever. I don't care if the corny cacs were feelin it, a lot you nikkas was feelin it too. And I remember cause y'all was the ones askin me to borrow my discman in the middle of class.

But when TES came out, I gotta say man it kinda did shut shyt down for awhile. I know some people to this day aren't fans of his production but I gotta disagree. He might not be good at makin a sound for other nikkas to fukk with but when it comes to himself he knows what works for him. That album was fukkin incredible to me. I know it didn't have the same culural impact as MMLP did but at the very least I thought it was good enough to be mentioned in the same breath as it. Like yea if I had to pick one album that defines Em it's MMLP but I'm only sayin that out of courtesy. Realistically it's like 50/50 for me.

For me personally though BISD did have that kind of effect on me, at least to some extent. I had that album in heavy rotation when it first came out. And I still love that album as I've expressed on here, even if it does have some weak cuts. First time bumping Death to My Enemies and Stretch in the car

Yea I remember feelin a few joints off BISD. But man after that first initial play through it got harder and harder not to abuse the skip button. After like 2 weeks you gotta ask yourself are these 2-3 tracks really worth sifting through all this bullshyt? Were they THAT good? And the answer is no. There were no Get Rich type quality cuts on that album. I bet you there were at least 10 tracks off Get Rich that nikkas would rather hear than the one track they thought was the best off BISD.

I haven't listened to that album in awhile but if I had to choose some favorites I'd say Crime Wave definitely I used to bump that shyt HARD. That beat was fukkin concrete. Death To My Enemies too that shyt was raw as fukk.

But you could tell that wasn't 50's best just look at the album. "Before I Self Destruct". The nikka knew he was on his way down. He knew shyt was comin to an end. How could you put out your best music comin from that place of mind. It didn't come from a place of joy. It came from a place of desperation. There was a lot of PRESSURE bein put on him wit that album. Remember the first few singles didn't really pop like AT ALL. That shyt was gettin pushed back to the moon if y'all remember. That never happened wit 50 before. No matter how good it was it was never gonna be considered 50's best cause the smell was already in the air.

But maybe you don't remember it like I do. Maybe you got a different point of view. I don't know you said you fukked wit it kinda heavy. So maybe it was able to win you over in a way it did not with me.

 

[Meta4tony]

Can't help it that I have good taste
While everyone else on here lets the majority decide what they should like.


Plus how is a track like this


Any different at all to this?


How is this


any different than this?


This


vs this


This


vs this

he needs better production, his rapping never changed