Let's re-visit 50 Cent's 2007 Smack DVD interview
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igottabaldhead
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when i watch these videos, it's painfully clear to me that from 2007 onwards, 50 was 100% blacklisted by the industry, on all levels. (Labels all the way to radios)
I dont know if it had to do with Interscope, or maybe another artist pulling strings, but he, just like Dame Dash, is FAR FAR FAR too real for them to handle.
Imagine any artists out today talking like this on the breakfast club? No, everyone is fake friends. That whole era of hiphop is done and gone. The pop execs have moved in, non-black cultured influences all over the scene.
50 always my favorite. Extremely intelligent and genuine artist.
I dont know if it had to do with Interscope, or maybe another artist pulling strings, but he, just like Dame Dash, is FAR FAR FAR too real for them to handle.
Imagine any artists out today talking like this on the breakfast club? No, everyone is fake friends. That whole era of hiphop is done and gone. The pop execs have moved in, non-black cultured influences all over the scene.
50 always my favorite. Extremely intelligent and genuine artist.
SpacelySprockets
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50 has a lot of interviews from 2007-08 that are filled with gems
those were the last times he did interviews without saying actual space competitive nature aggressive content harsh realities
those were the last times he did interviews without saying actual space competitive nature aggressive content harsh realities
He's in complete denial about lil wayne's rise50 has a lot of interviews from 2007-08 that are filled with gems
those were the last times he did interviews without saying actual space competitive nature aggressive content harsh realities
Talmbout what was the first single off his last album (fireman)
Completely missing the point, his freestyles were street hits by then
AJaRuleStan
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Honestly, he just sounds resentful due to knowing his career is on the back burner which is sad seeing how he just debuted a few years prior to this interview being conducted, but when the music is trash, its trash.
SpacelySprockets
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SpacelySprockets
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like when ja debuted in 99 and was put on the backburner by 02 then outta here by 03
AJaRuleStan
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I know you're baiting and will probably respond with a shytpost but I just want to point out that you're wrong on the year, and if you think about it, your post says more about Fif than Ja when you factor in the circumstances behind Ja's downfall then compare it to Fif's.like when ja debuted in 99 and was put on the backburner by 02 then outta here by 03
In other words; 50's career was cut short just like Ja but without any of the external causes, which means, his music was so awful that the damage it did to his career was on par with a person who was despised by the culture, actually black balled by the industry, and who had his label shut down by the feds. And to top it all off, 50, at his height, was significantly bigger than Ja in the mainstream and in the "streets".
The fact that one can even draw a relation between 50's career trajectory and Ja is one hell of a strike against 50, not Ja.
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But banks finna come back
Nikkas can publicly enjoy ja rule music on some ironic shyt but not 5
who tf bump in da club 21 questions maybe
Massacre singles aged like milk
Nikkas fell off so hard they were giddy at the idea of touring with dipset and d block who combined didn't have 10% of g unit's successI know you're baiting and will probably respond with a shytpost but I just want to point out that you're wrong on the year, and if you think about it, your post says more about Fif than Ja when you factor in circumstances behind Ja's downfall then compare it to Fif's.
In other words; 50's career was cut short just like Ja but without any of the external causes, which means, his music was so awful that the damage it did to his career was on par with a person who was despised by the culture, actually black balled by the industry, and who had his label shut down by the feds. And to top it all off, 50, at his height, was significantly bigger than Ja in the mainstream and in the "streets".
The fact that one can even draw a relation between 50's career trajectory and Ja is one hell of a strike against 50, not Ja.