He had plenty of quotables/potent shots, jokes ect.
But he ain't end his career with those, nobody ends careers with lyrics. Nor can you blame it all on "The Machine"...50 himself even said the dominos were already set up for Ja, he just tipped the first one over.
So long story short the interscope machine merged with the hype killed him ?
He was singing in the rain like Mary Poppins, he ran his formula into the ground with the commercial/pop angle and couldn't reverse it when it was time to be a tough guy. Putting it all on "the machine" is some scapegoat shyt and ignoring the missteps and inevetable fall off that was on the way with or without 50 cent.
Same thing happened to 50/Ross....none of that shyt Ross said was dope. If we just going off of who had better/ more direct disses I'd say 50 had the better records...but his formula was COOKED. He was no longer the underdog and Kayne had shifted the game from big budget gangsta rap to this...emo p*ssy foot shyt that we have now.
It was already over for him just like it was for Ja...it just so happens that the downfall coincided with someone else's momentum.
Fif got some of the best choruses and I guess thats techincally quoatable but on some one on one rap lyrical shyt did fif end ja ?
I think you are under the false impression that lyrics/quotables from battles are what end careers, that's not the case.
Even if you examine the LL vs. Canibus battle where you could actually argue that one line ended Bis, you take a closer look and you'll see that it was only effective as it was because he was already falling way below his expectations.