Why did people stop liking 50 Cent?

[Stealth]

he dissed one or multiple of most peoples favorite boyhood idol rappers. that is why most dont fukk with him. its certainly not the quality of music, cause that hasnt diminished.

also, 2014 rap fan enjoys fukkboy trash like Wayne, Drake, etc. and if you dont trend hop towards the garbage like that (Jay-Z, TI), then you dont stay relevant/popular.

 

[Real]

After he exposed himself as a hypocrite after the whole Ja rule beef.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

• Keeping it real went wrong. He built himself a rep for trash talk, which the media is always gonna exploit everytime you decide to do an interview, by putting the battery in your back. This set the stage for him alienating himself from alot of the industry. NaS is the one artist I can think of who barely survived that à la the power 105 rant where he went at nelly, nore and cam'ron, and even then those cats still don't fukk with him. NaS survived by having quality music, but he burned alotta bridges with that which is why he seems like a lone wolf in the industry. 50 did that X 1,000,000. Must be a queens thing the more I think about it...
  
• The intelligent 50 in interviews clashed with the image he built. People love a rough and tumble underdog but you can't portray a brash street nikka and then be in interviews with Forbes giving knowledge, unless you reintroduce yourself. He couldn't do that cause that would've tamed his image and with all the beefing he did there would've been blood in the water...
  
• The corporate machine abandoned him. It does that eventually to all artists. Like a hoe being played to the left cause she's old and the pimp found a new chick on the block. If he probably would've been bottom bytch status but went at Jimmy Iovine and started calling himself curtis interscope jackson.

So you alienate your peers, your fans, and the label, what do you have left? Lastly,

• His music is motivated by $$, not art. It's formulaic and the longer you spend with an artists flaws like that become clearer...

 

[3rdWorld]

Technically he is limited, his range and creativity are small. He has a voice that doesnt even sound like a NY dude, has a southern twang to his voice. Hes just not a good rapper, but got extremely lucky.

 

[DarkmanX]

I get the flow thing but everyone you mentioned outside of Ye dissed 50 first. What was he meant to do?

false

 

[Pop123]

chris lighty and sha money begged him to pull back and let the people miss him for a year or so, 50 never complied. he applied the "rap game is like the crack game" concept too much, in the drug game you can't fall back because thats when you make room for new nikkas to take your clientele while you on vacay mode, i'm sure that was his take on entertainment, bad decision. couple the overexposure with the fact that damn near every verse sounds the same and is about the same shyt and there you go, it got stale, thats all it was.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Lol older artists from other genres aren't any more relevant to the youth than older artists in rap. No 18 year old is buying a damn Barbara Streisand album. Stop it

It's just that their fanbase stayed with them for their entire careers. The U2 fans that was rocking with them in 1987 are still rocking with them today. The guy who bought ASAP Rockys album, is he gonna cop an album from him 10 years from now? What about going to a show?

 

[VBM]

Dre disappeared...same thing happening to Em

 

[Bumrush Bros.]

The quality of his music declined terribly. Specifically for me after I purchased the Massacre I said im never gonna buy another 50 album. I felt ripped off by that album and I havent checked for him since. Same thing happened with Raekwon and Redman too. Immobilarity was the last dollar Rae ever got from me because of the trash quality and Docs Da Name was it for Red. I mean even when Ghost dialed in a mediocre album it was filled with a few gems. These albums just straight up sucked

 

[Bawon Samedi]

IMO his beef with Game is when people really hated him.

 

[Denzel_Saucegton]

I still listen to 50 myself, mixtapes and all. I kinda like his "bullying" nature because seems like you gotta show toughness for people to like you in a way. Then again I was a super G-unit stan in hs had the shirt, pants, socks, shoes,hats and even earrings from the Chinese store. People literally used to call me G-unit at school and put me on news every damm day. I had a dude wanna jump on me in the barbershop back when game came out with the beef with yuk mouth

 

[mortuus est]

50 never fell off imo, other people just got popular, its not a bad thing, have you guys ataully went back to the years you didnt listen to 50? loads of good songs that could of been bigger

 

[backbreaker65]

People making all these insane statements, and only a few really hit on it. It's not about being a bully, like come the fukk on who are these pussies talking about bullying. Run DMC vs Whodini, Kool Moe Dee vs LLCOOLJ are New York artist that beef with each other as well as a host of others? did they kill NY Rap? Sensitive I hate a nikka will put all the negative on a guy they don't like. Or, trying to make rap out to be this tongue twisting foregin go into the alps in order to get the glow. Music even when you watch Ken Burns "JAZZ" had aficionados trying to figure out how a certain big band lost it's fan based, when a new one came along. Most artist only get a short window and that's why you hear strike while the iron is hot. People move on and some artist lose steam.

50 Cent had a window, the same as DMX and both took advantage of it. NWA, Ice Cube and even Snoop had a window. This shyt is cyclical.

 

[Wacky D]

you dudes think rappers are supposed to stay popular forever. i guess this is a product of the new secret society era where rappers stay on top, even if theres no demand for their music.

to answer the question:
1.) his music fell off drastically after GRODT
2.) 50 was no spring chicken. the vast majority of his quality work is underground, and he was underground for years.
3.) the blatant sellout music he was putting out chased away alot of his genuine fans, and left him in the same predicament as jarule. and the non-sellout stuff wasnt of high enough quality for people to stick around.
4.) again. he had his run. ITS OVER. thats how the game goes. or how its supposed to go.
5.) he pissed off too many people in the industry, including his own handlers. otherwise, he would still be around putting out terrible music while still being shoved down our throats. just like jay-z, kanye, tip, wayne, etc.

 

[Wacky D]

He was popular up until he lost the first week sales battle to Ye, after that, popularity wise, he slowly became

he was already before that.

the "battle" with kanye was just a sales ploy.

He's a c*nt. He went from underdog to bully. People hate stuff like that. He didn't spread any love at all.
When G-Unit was popping he put them on an island and separated them from the rest of NY. Then when they weren't popping anymore they're jumping on other artist tracks and getting guest features.

he was always a bully.

youre right about the 2nd part tho. how they started doing collabs when they fell off.

They never liked him in the first place. They liked Eminem, liked Dre, liked the movement, liked hearing the singles on the radio, liked how he bullied people or hated Ja Rule.

50 cent made shady/aftermath relevant in the urban market.