Why did people stop liking 50 Cent?

[blackzeus]

Did they get tired of the same subject matter?

Was he overexposed when GRODT came out?

Did the public see his "entrepreneur" image, like this for example:
and say: "he's not relatable or a man of the people, so we can't rock with him anymore?"

What do you think is the reason?

El verdadero mero mero nunca fue a hacer una pregunta tan estupida. Look up circular reasoning breh, pronto

 

[ndthentherewasx]

They built you up only to bring you down

Then they ask what happened ?

Glad he still getting that money, real money at that

That bestfriend shyt with Olivia and Ayo Technology was trash, that's where I quit em

I get money beat was tho

 

[blackzeus]

dissed the lox, who probably the most hood loved group in hip hop history

got exposed musically by kanye in 07

rick ross beef showed how pathetic he was

done

Don't know 'bout dat whodie The Hot Boyz had the hoods on lock

 

[Wild self]

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.

The mentality is why the mixtape game over saturated and why people usually don't buy albums anymore. Master P was the first to use that logic, but Fif abused it and made music into a chore, not an event anymore. Only a handful of artists use albums as events and landmarks in their careers anymore.

 

[Wild self]

yep, GRODT is the worst classic ever. i dont like a single song on that album. im surprised u like 4. only songs i think i can hang with are High All The TIme, musically its a great song. Many Men. what else? its just a dumbed down gangsta album. the cats u mentioned, cube, scarface, pac all had deeper shyt going on than just killing dudes.

Cats really think that Fif is on the level of Cube, Scarface, or Z-Ro

He dodges socially conscious topics like the Matrix

You think that Fif can make a song like "Black Korea" or "Us" or "True to the Game?"

 

[Fellatio]

They turned 05/06. The third album had been pushed back 7 months if you find the article. IMO it was all over by then. Kanye would of had nothing for 50 in his prime... he was just so consistent it was scary. IMO he didn't need to waste hook after hook on tapes for 100 000 people. He didn't decline lyrically THAT much, but in beat selection and hooks he went from about a 10 to a 5. That and the game beef, the lox beef, the nas beef, the stupid flop of a movie and the shifting of mainstream interest in hiphop. I heard the interviews in 06/07 he knew it was coming, he was SHOOK. You know what else... Dre wouldn't go double platinum beyond 05 either. Its sad that actors films can flop and it never gets brought up... but we miss out on albums because of fear of the soundscan.

 

[Wild self]

They turned 05/06. The third album had been pushed back 7 months if you find the article. IMO it was all over by then. Kanye would of had nothing for 50 in his prime... he was just so consistent it was scary. IMO he didn't need to waste hook after hook on tapes for 100 000 people. He didn't decline lyrically THAT much, but in beat selection and hooks he went from about a 10 to a 5. That and the game beef, the lox beef, the nas beef, the stupid flop of a movie and the shifting of mainstream interest in hiphop. I heard the interviews in 06/07 he knew it was coming, he was SHOOK. You know what else... Dre wouldn't go double platinum beyond 05 either. Its sad that actors films can flop and it never gets brought up... but we miss out on albums because of fear of the soundscan.

Fif's third album was called "Before I self Destruct" as an omen for his mainstream career coming to an end. Then Cam came out with "Curtis" .

Then Fif changed his album to "Curtis" for quick promo indirectly by Cam, and dropped 5 pop singles early 2007. None of them caught on. Then Summer 2007 came and Kanye stormed the charts with his single and gained even more momentum than his previous 2 albums. When people started raving for Ye and none for Fif, I knew his excuses couldn't be covered up by Interscope anymore.

Fif, from his under performing "Curtis" to the beefs that he keeps getting publicly embarrassed on, just @ the fact that people wanted to break away from 20 years of gangsta rap domination and more on light hearted Kanye shyt. That what broke him down more than anything.

 

[The Don]

After his 3rd CD is when I stopped liking him.....all he did on that CD was say I'm rich in 1000 different ways On his first 2 albums he still was talking about something....and the beef tactics got stale....everytime he was about to come out with a CD he'd start beefing with somebody like

 

[duckbutta]

In the early 2000's white america wanted their black rapper to be an oversized tattoo having bully thug with no regard for anything...

So Eminem, Dre, and Iovine packaged them 50 cent...let's give him some hot beats, some catchy songs, and make sure we let everyone know that he got shot 5 times...7 times...er...9 times...yeah 9 is a good number...

And the mid 2000's white america wanted their black rapper to be "socially conscious" and to "have swag" and to rap about "real life shyt"...they wanted to relate to their rapper, not be entertained by it...white america could be entertained by 50 cent and his antics, but they could never relate to it...he's a big bad black guy who is a gangster and got shot 7 times...er...11 times...they are some suburban kids who biggest worry is if they are getting the new xbox...

Enter Kanye West...talks about everything in life that is superficial...while trying to put a "conscious" spin on such superficial things...while also boasting how he in fact loves all these superficial things...the exact type of rapper white america wanted at the time...

Bonus points for Wayne...who sucked up all the white fans who couldn't get with Kanye's living the good life while pretending to care about the bad life antics...but could definitely get into a guy who was always drunk and high and saying just the most random thing...if you take away the talent...Wayne is easily this generations Jimmy Hendrix...down to a tee to the way he dresses, the drugs, the liquor, the lifestyle, the women...except for you know Jimmy had some real fukking talent...But Wayne is just like Jimmy in the sense that white people loved his lifestyle just as much as his music...Wayne the artist stayed on top years after his music became somehow even more shytty than it was originally but since he was so over the top white america loved him anyway

So yeah...after that their is no one left to support woodface...

B-b-b-but the streets fukk with 50...

The streets don't buy albums though...and that's what you need to be relevant in music...

 

[Pimp]

Jimmy Iovine said indirectly that he kept trying to make a bigger record than in the club which made them all start to sound the same.. If you guys think camron could hurt 50 in any way you are simply retarded.

 

[MouseTeeth]

I'm a Stan for life

Queens all day

 

[duckbutta]

He was too hood for the mainstream to keep messing with him especially when you got Em, Kanye and Weezy all much more likeable being hot during the majority of his prime...after his strong arm marketing plan got boring the hood already hated him for murdering NY hip hop amongst other things...he's set for life financially so i doubt he cares...

The funny thing about this is that Curtis actually does care...

Despite all the money the dude really won't be happy until he is 'on top" again...

He been had the money for awhile now...he got the money off the GRODT album...off the first vitamin water deal...

And he spent YEARS trying to make hot singles...he got every fukking popular pop star over a 3 year span to do a song with him...

This dude said repeatedly you would never see g unit back together...they had to be their own man...he wouldn't make any money off a g unit reunion cause yayo and banks are lazy and he would have to do all the work blah blah blah...

And now he so desperate he even doing that...doing the exact same thing he said he wouldn't do

Pretty ironic that a guy who is not very talented musically has put a ton of resources into trying to make another chart topping album...while a guy like Jay Z who is very talented as making music doesn't try at all and would rather just do a deal with samsung and tell everybody he already sold a million records

 

[GulfCoastGhost]

Did they get tired of the same subject matter?

Was he overexposed when GRODT came out?

Did the public see his "entrepreneur" image, like this for example:
and say: "he's not relatable or a man of the people, so we can't rock with him anymore?"

What do you think is the reason?

no, he became popular, and people don't like popular people

they like people like game, with zero skill and still a loser 10 years later

 

[The Ruler 09]

Wack music and arrogance.

 

[The Ruler 09]

If he had been more like the image in this video and in his music I'd be supporting him a hell of a lot more.