On This Day 16 Years Ago: 50 Cent vs. Kanye West 'Clash of the Titans' Takeover on 106 & Park Aired
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Canada Goose
Pooping on your head :umad:
Can't tell me nothing only went as high as 41 on billboard 
Felt like an bigger song back then. Straight to the bank charted higher but felt like an flop at the time.
Anyway, the better album won. I was an huge 50 stan from 03 - 05 but by 07 his super goon shoot em up bang bang music had gotten stale by 07, I was rooting for Ye..
Felt like an bigger song back then. Straight to the bank charted higher but felt like an flop at the time.Anyway, the better album won. I was an huge 50 stan from 03 - 05 but by 07 his super goon shoot em up bang bang music had gotten stale by 07, I was rooting for Ye..
Kanye was at his prime, and had way too many hits on that album. (and most likely Def Jam bought 200k or so as the rumor was)
Fans had 50 fatigue by 2007, and "I Get Money" was a dope song, but wasnt a smash hit.
Fans had 50 fatigue by 2007, and "I Get Money" was a dope song, but wasnt a smash hit.
Metal Face
Superstar
show us the worldwide sales 
Devil Plisken…CMS
Veteran
Remains Kanye’s best work
His influence on music would become obvious in the years to follow
His influence on music would become obvious in the years to follow
Goat era
BlackMafia
Superstar
Classic album, but this is where Kanye really started to veer off the tracks. He was always arrogant and egotistical, but this is where he really took it there. It didn't matter because at this point, he'd reached the upper echelon of superstardom.
I be forgetting this is the reason why 50 snipes at Jay.
Jay pretty much ruined his career
Jay pretty much ruined his career
Iverson_64
Superstar
I'm from Queens and I remember buying Curtis at first and only growing to appreciate Graduation a year later.
The comparison between the albums was always lopsided because Kanye basically put out the most mainstream/GP friendly album in his entire career while 50 put out a mid album that was very derivative and inconsistent. By all accounts, 50 was destined to lose and the fact that he sold as much as he did is a testament to how strong his pull and star power was in 07 even after he started to fall off.
I will say this though. In NYC, "I Get Money" was playing in people's whips more than any hit song off Graduation including CTMN.
The comparison between the albums was always lopsided because Kanye basically put out the most mainstream/GP friendly album in his entire career while 50 put out a mid album that was very derivative and inconsistent. By all accounts, 50 was destined to lose and the fact that he sold as much as he did is a testament to how strong his pull and star power was in 07 even after he started to fall off.
I will say this though. In NYC, "I Get Money" was playing in people's whips more than any hit song off Graduation including CTMN.
Been playing Graduation for a few days, here and there, classic to me, and what I needed for continued inspiration around that time in 2007
what stands out to me, is his humility, or at least as it relates to Kanye. It's a personal album, stripped of a lot of grandiosity, both in the production and themes. Less self righteous. Even the sound is minimalist, toned down. He's reflective on Big Brother, maybe not entirely self aware, but it's there.
Where he started to sound like he was losing it a little, was ironically, one of his better moments during that time, Jeezy Put On,
and then 808's And Heartbreak, which he was a lot more self involved, bitter, self righteous, unhappy.
letti cook
Superstar
yeah, 50 was PISSED when Jay came out and did Encore on 106 with Kanye
they came back from break and he was like "I could've brought out Eminem if we doing that
" (but really it was 
)funny shyt is, Jay and Diddy did the Get Money remix....its like that shyt never happened. He hates their guts.