Where did 50 go wrong (the 48 laws of power)

[KillSpray]

Where did 50 go wrong that he can't even get a release date these days??

50 always referenced the 48 laws of power, and you can see some of those principles clearly in his moves, where did he go wrong?? How do you go from a million in a week to not even being able to get a release date??

 

[atlbound]

He broke two main rules:

Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
-He talks too much


Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
-Burned too many bridges

 

[KillSpray]

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
-Burned too many bridges

Yeah I thought of this one. He did too many favors for his friends at his own expense for sure. I also thought he squandered the opportunity to work with a competant enemy when the Game started trying to extend the olive branch. At that time period that would have been mutually beneficial to them both, and would have defnitely created headlines and hype given how venemous their dispute was. Music could have been dope too.

 

[L. Deezy]

He broke two main rules:

Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
-He talks too much


Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
-Burned too many bridges

good points breh.. good fukkin points

 

[NvrCMyNut]

Law 25...Reinvent yourself

 

[KillSpray]

Another one I thought of: he used the strategy of constantly involving himself in conflict, and when he destroyed Ja Rule's life the strategy worked to perfection. But then I think he misapplied the principle by not choosing his enemies correctly. The great thing about ending Ja's career was that by going at Ja, he was able to more strongly define himself. Ja was a studio gangster, 50 was the real deal. By obliterating Ja Rule and Irv Gotti, he established and defined his identity.

When he went at Jay, Fat Joe, and The Lox it didn't make as much sense. Those are street credible guys. By going at them it doesn't help define who he is. That's when he just started to seem like a publicity stunt type dude. It actually served to hurt his credibility. It fukked him up in the long run, because by the time he found the perfect target in Rick Ross, the ultimate CB4 studio mafioso, his credibility had already been shot, and his beef seemed contrived.

That leads me to the the next point, he stopped picking opponents that he could handly defeat. His ego went out of control. When he challenged Kanye to the sales battle, he was already losing steam, while Kanye was on his way to legendary. It was a stupid fight to pick and he got embarassed, further damaging his credibility.

 

[blackzeus]

He did nothing wrong, we living in a b*tchazz generation. You can be a cop rappin' about moving kilos through South America or be part of the B-team wearing leopard print pants People can't relate to real sh*t anymore

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

Another one I thought of: he used the strategy of constantly involving himself in conflict, and when he destroyed Ja Rule's life the strategy worked to perfection. But then I think he misapplied the principle by not choosing his enemies correctly. The great thing about ending Ja's career was that by going at Ja, he was able to more strongly define himself. Ja was a studio gangster, 50 was the real deal. By obliterating Ja Rule and Irv Gotti, he established and defined his identity.

When he went at Jay, Fat Joe, and The Lox it didn't make as much sense. Those are street credible guys. By going at them it doesn't help define who he is. That's when he just started to seem like a publicity stunt type dude. It actually served to hurt his credibility. It fukked him up in the long run, because by the time he found the perfect target in Rick Ross, the ultimate CB4 studio mafioso, his credibility had already been shot, and his beef seemed contrived.

That leads me to the the next point, he stopped picking opponents that he could handly defeat. His ego went out of control. When he challenged Kanye to the sales battle, he was already losing steam, while Kanye was on his way to legendary. It was a stupid fight to pick and he got embarassed, further damaging his credibility.

A+ posting

 

[eastside313]

Dude went wrong when he did that XXL interview talkin bout building g unit into a distributor so he wouldn't need interscope no more. The Powers that be don't like that type talk.

 

[KG1]

Just joking lol

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

He did nothing wrong, we living in a b*tchazz generation. You can be a cop rappin' about moving kilos through South America or be part of the B-team wearing leopard print pants People can't relate to real sh*t anymore

Hilarious g-unit stan excuse #9726 "50 Cent is too hard for this generation"

 

[RTF]

Didn't reinvent himself.

 

[cleanface coney]

50 still the same nikka

i just think he was supposed to hit another level but he was too focused on this rap shyt

Dude went wrong when he did that XXL interview talkin bout building g unit into a distributor so he wouldn't need interscope no more. The Powers that be don't like that type talk.

damn he said that?

 

[NvrCMyNut]

Another one I thought of: he used the strategy of constantly involving himself in conflict, and when he destroyed Ja Rule's life the strategy worked to perfection. But then I think he misapplied the principle by not choosing his enemies correctly. The great thing about ending Ja's career was that by going at Ja, he was able to more strongly define himself. Ja was a studio gangster, 50 was the real deal. By obliterating Ja Rule and Irv Gotti, he established and defined his identity.

When he went at Jay, Fat Joe, and The Lox it didn't make as much sense. Those are street credible guys. By going at them it doesn't help define who he is. That's when he just started to seem like a publicity stunt type dude. It actually served to hurt his credibility. It fukked him up in the long run, because by the time he found the perfect target in Rick Ross, the ultimate CB4 studio mafioso, his credibility had already been shot, and his beef seemed contrived.

That leads me to the the next point, he stopped picking opponents that he could handly defeat. His ego went out of control. When he challenged Kanye to the sales battle, he was already losing steam, while Kanye was on his way to legendary. It was a stupid fight to pick and he got embarassed, further damaging his credibility.

You give 50 too much power, the streets had already turned on 50 & he was gettin the backlash hate with or without going at fat joe or jada. I salute 50 for calling out nikkas who were talking greezy under their breathe in the piggy bank video as opposed to ducking & hiding like Jay-z & i don't think they hurt him much. The lox being studio gangstas didn't matter because they had hood love & could rap circles around 50. For all of Fat Joe's 'street cred' the only time they ran across each other was the VMA's where Fat Joe took the L...But you couldn't tell the 50 haters that at the time, apparently 50 was hiding behind 100 federal agents, Pimp C called the . Hell the nikka that did the most damage was Game, he capitilized the most off the 50 hate & dude is the defintion of a rap nikka, launching a stop snitchin campaign while running around with a KNOWN federal snitch as his manager and he still had the streets support That's how much nikkas hated 50 shyt was unprecedented.


Bottom line is 50 was falling off musically & the following generation was moving away from gangsta no matter if 50 followed all 48 laws or not.

 

[OH SOHH TRILL]

y'all are overthinking things. in hip-hop, everyone gets a 4-5 years run on the top, then its over. Jay and Eminem have thus far been the only exceptions.