Crazy how hood this nikka 50 was before he blew up

[3rdWorld]

I never cared or bought into 50 cents whole tough guy image..

 

[Cuban Pete]

I never cared or bought into 50 cents whole tough guy image..

Idk I dont view him as fake or a p*ssy by any means but hes a lot more calculated than he lets on. He likes conflict but on his terms, he's not the gun toting hot head he was marketed as in the beginning of his career

 

[Brosef]

Power of the Dollar is a classic, I used to like it more than GRODT

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

My whole perspective with 50 cent and g unit changed when I was working with an affiliates sister in the. Bronx and this girl would always talk about 50 and g unit ties and etc and then one day she collapse on floor and is crying from a phone call and gives me the phone and its a detective and the first thing he says is 50 cent/g unit shyt and that they think this was a hit. Immediately hung up the phone and tried to console this woman who just lost her brother.

Had me going through g unit lyrics and most of the street shyt they talking is legitimate. Thought it was mostly entertainment but they were really going thru a beef and folks cribs were getting shot up and dudes were getting murdered behind the shyt

I was around during that time. It was definitely real. That murda inc beef can NEVER die. Too many lives was lost on both sides. You never hear about the shyt that goes on with the 18th member of the entourage, but believe he get busy

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I was wit you until this point ..them nikkas in Chicago are gangsters..yea you are right that gangsters are organized like the mob but they are also people that live that life and hit licks and get bodies...most them nikkas in Chicago, La and NY actually belong to a gang set so to say they aren't gangsters is ...I think this new generation of G's are stupid and there is no organization which makes it something you can't respect but they still g's

You mad at the answers but they are right. Look at the 1930s mob like Luciano and Capone and such. There was a respectable nature of it all. The suits, the hush hush nature, the sit down meetings, the small talk, the big bags….. to the point people today, who were seen as worthless to these same mobsters, still look up to them today.

Now skip to the 90/00s. Same thing. These dudes rapped like kingpins. Modern day gangsters. Flying in key, meeting with the Italians, running big ass crews, owning entire cities or at least boroughs, bodies being caught in the most elaborate of details, dope cars, fly women, fashion…


Ok now skip to today. These new nikkas don’t TALK like that. They went from kingpin rap to everyday criminal rap. You catching bodies but it sounds like you a bum nikka killing bum nikkas. Or gang gang killing gangs. Or you just a dope head doing accident murders. But it don’t sound the same, look the same on video, or feel the same when you see it. Yes it might be TRUE. But true don’t make good music.

That good old, over the top, gangster shyt. That Pusha T talk when he said “My rap idols were like superheroes on the mic. These new nikkas just sound like regular shooters.”

That’s what people are trying to say. You wanted to be the old gangsters. Nobody wanna be these new nikkas beyond the money

 

[Yaboysix]

I was a HUGE 50 fan, how did i not see this?!

"nikka was a professional leg shooter"


nikka a comedian.

 

[Uchiha God]

I’m asking about the self-righteousness of it. Telling on yourself on IG is dumb. I’m asking why do people here get on a soapbox about how this demonic drill music of today needs to be shunned, censored, banned or whatever and how anyone who makes it or listens to it is a c00n, etc.

And the same people used to gawk at 50’s gangsta (I never did) and make threads gossiping about which rappers were the “realest”?

Perspectives don’t stay the same. People grow/change. The stuff you were fascinated by as a kid often times becomes stupid in your eyes as you grow older.

other times is people just being hypocrites and taking stances based on who/what they like.

 

[3rdWorld]

Idk I dont view him as fake or a p*ssy by any means but hes a lot more calculated than he lets on. He likes conflict but on his terms, he's not the gun toting hot head he was marketed as in the beginning of his career

His rap beefs let us know how he faired in his street beefs..

He went after supposedly weak targets or those with too much to lose, but avoided those willing to take it there.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

I'll never understand why rappers and fans glorify a horrible criminal lifestyle set up by the government to land you dead or in jail. I grew up in the hood and ain't nothing special about gun violence, selling drugs, killing people or moving weight. Hip Hop was originally established as an alternative from the street life. That's why most 80's NYC rap is about having fun, rocking stages and mics and other lighthearted subjects. And when old school NY rappers rapped about the streets, it wasn't glamorous or glorifying street life (i.e. "The Message"). And ironically, Melle Mel said you literally weren't allowed to rap about street shyt as a rapper in the mid 80's in NYC because real street nikkas wouldn't allow it.

The hood only excite folks not from there. And it's sad that the standard definition of being "hood", because of the white controlled music industry, equated with being a drug dealer, violent thug nikka who will hurt you or kill you for petty disrespect. Being "hood" to me is caring about your community and being active there helping the youth, being proud of being where you're from without being a whitewashed sellout c00n.

And back in the late 80's and 90's, rap started to touch on more gangster topics and go in depth of the criminal activities going in the hood as a cry for help to show the world of the conditions in the ghetto that no one really analyzed or paid much attention to... Not to glorify it as some kind of street credibility olympics. Y'all praise so called street nikkas that rap about killing and shyt, but are squares by that definition in your own life because you are IT nerds working 9-5 who have never even been popped for an assault charge as a juvenile let alone moved work or whatever the fukk you worship as being "real". Could it be that rap is enterntainment? Hip Hop fans are retarded.

I believe that most rap fans since at least the 2000's are white because of threads like this. After all, 50 fully crossed over with white America after being signed by Eminem. I never thought of 50 as a "better" rapper because of his street background or whatever. We have no shortage of respected rappers who did street shyt where I'm from in Northern Cali. I always thought 50 was a pretty mediocre artist to be honest. He was propped up by his supposed street credibility. The music produced in the G Unit run in the mid 2000's aged poorly. He doesn't have a classic like Cuban Linx or Reasonable Doubt. But then again, most rappers that debuted in the 2000's don't have a 90's level classic album.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

50s story and come up is pretty crazy when you think about it. There will probably be another rapper like 50 Cent.

Probably won’t

 

[Music Fiend]

Why do rappers of 50 generation and before get props for being real Gs here, but everybody turns into Rev. Calvin Butts when it comes to drill era rappers many of whom are even “realer” (realer criminals)?

Cosign. 50 got a chance to turn his shyt around and thats why. Its only glanourized once you make it out.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

You mad at the answers but they are right. Look at the 1930s mob like Luciano and Capone and such. There was a respectable nature of it all. The suits, the hush hush nature, the sit down meetings, the small talk, the big bags….. to the point people today, who were seen as worthless to these same mobsters, still look up to them today.

Now skip to the 90/00s. Same thing. These dudes rapped like kingpins. Modern day gangsters. Flying in key, meeting with the Italians, running big ass crews, owning entire cities or at least boroughs, bodies being caught in the most elaborate of details, dope cars, fly women, fashion…


Ok now skip to today. These new nikkas don’t TALK like that. They went from kingpin rap to everyday criminal rap. You catching bodies but it sounds like you a bum nikka killing bum nikkas. Or gang gang killing gangs. Or you just a dope head doing accident murders. But it don’t sound the same, look the same on video, or feel the same when you see it. Yes it might be TRUE. But true don’t make good music.

That good old, over the top, gangster shyt. That Pusha T talk when he said “My rap idols were like superheroes on the mic. These new nikkas just sound like regular shooters.”

That’s what people are trying to say. You wanted to be the old gangsters. Nobody wanna be these new nikkas beyond the money

Yeah a lot of these drill rappers today are the dusty bum ass shooters and their dusty ass friends the old school rappers used to write fiction raps about...8th-10th grade dropouts from broken homes, whole family into crime, in jail, dead or abandoned them.

Dude to social media, they can become like at least local celebrities and get a lot of views and followers though.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I'll never understand why rappers and fans glorify a horrible criminal lifestyle set up by the government to land you dead or in jail. I grew up in the hood and ain't nothing special about gun violence, selling drugs, killing people or moving weight. Hip Hop was originally established as an alternative from the street life. That's why most 80's NYC rap is about having fun, rocking stages and mics and other lighthearted subjects. And when old school NY rappers rapped about the streets, it wasn't glamorous or glorifying street life (i.e. "The Message"). And ironically, Melle Mel said you literally weren't allowed to rap about street shyt as a rapper in the mid 80's in NYC because real street nikkas wouldn't allow it.

The hood only excite folks not from there. And it's sad that the standard definition of being "hood", because of the white controlled music industry, equated with being a drug dealer, violent thug nikka who will hurt you or kill you for petty disrespect. Being "hood" to me is caring about your community and being active there helping the youth, being proud of being where you're from without being a whitewashed sellout c00n.

And back in the late 80's and 90's, rap started to touch on more gangster topics and go in depth of the criminal activities going in the hood as a cry for help to show the world of the conditions in the ghetto that no one really analyzed or paid much attention to... Not to glorify it as some kind of street credibility olympics. Y'all praise so called street nikkas that rap about killing and shyt, but are squares by that definition in your own life because you are IT nerds working 9-5 who have never even been popped for an assault charge as a juvenile let alone moved work or whatever the fukk you worship as being "real". Could it be that rap is enterntainment? Hip Hop fans are retarded.

I believe that most rap fans since at least the 2000's are white because of threads like this. After all, 50 fully crossed over with white America after being signed by Eminem. I never thought of 50 as a "better" rapper because of his street background or whatever. We have no shortage of respected rappers who did street shyt where I'm from in Northern Cali. I always thought 50 was a pretty mediocre artist to be honest. He was propped up by his supposed street credibility. The music produced in the G Unit run in the mid 2000's aged poorly. He doesn't have a classic like Cuban Linx or Reasonable Doubt. But then again, most rappers that debuted in the 2000's don't have a 90's level classic album.

This makes sense but it doesn't... The rappers in the 90s WERE FROM THE HOOD. Wu, Jay, Nas, Biggie, Pac, Pun, Joe... How far you wanna go? DMX, NWA, Geto Boys, No Limit, etc etc etc... All the dudes who was blowing up and selling records, was from the grimiest hoods, usually was ex-felons, and was being propped up by who?? The rest of their hood, until they could spread it to other hoods.

The LAST people to get the music was the people in the burbs. And they were the ones shielding it from their kids and trying their hardest to get it shut down. The parties and shows were in the hood. Everything about the music that was "equated with being a drug dealer, violent thug nikka who will hurt you or kill you for petty disrespect" was coming directly from the hood and influencing outside people. They were the ones being shut out by the labels and had to make their way independent before the labels came back for them. And who were they selling to? The hood.

The hood is who changed the definition of what was cool and what was hood. They were literally screaming who was more hood while spitting the lyrics you talking about. I'd say NOW it became that. Where you got rappers who are from the burbs, never put in work, but rap about hood shyt. That's the white music industry saying "any black man can do this" Back then, like you said, you had to actually be about that or nikkas would test you. But let's not act like the thought of being "hood" didn't originate in the hood.

 

[Big Mountain Hélà]

I still laugh over that story of 50 uppin the pole on diddy in his office had Diddy on some