Why did people stop liking 50 Cent?

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His biggest song was popular because white grandmas played the clean version at their grandkids birthday parties. It even had a Kidz Bop cover.
 
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A combination of things.

First of all, he didn't drop anything else close to the caliber of GRODT afterwards. He had some nice joints but nothing on that level. So when you have to live up to that project, people will say you "fell off". Secondly, the times changing and becoming more feminine. When people started dressing like herbs in 07-08 he was still rocking baggy tees, jorts, and fitted caps. Third, you have oversaturation. In the span of 03 to 05 you had Fifty with GRODT, the G-Unit album, The Game album, The massacre, the GRODT movie, etc. He was everywhere too much. Fourth, you had a lot of "Real hip hop heads" back then. A lot more than now. People in the core hip hop community didn't appreciate 50's not-so-great lyricism and mainstream style of rapping. For some reason people love that shyt now but back then they didn't let it fly.
Don't forget the two 50 cent video games too...

He oversaturated himself like a motherfukker./
 

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He is the last gangsta rap crossover megastar....the intrigued died off because of a myriad of things

  • Most rappers have a 5year streak
  • Too successful (Dude was freaking Midas)
  • Kanye West giving birth to the new school
  • Beefing while on top instead of forming strategic alliances
and a gazillion other things. Say what you will but it's not like he didn't cement his place in hiphop. If you had to construct the ultimate macho rapstar = 50 cent.



His body literally ate lead and he still came back.:deseanha:

We'll never see anything like this again...EVER :gotdamnbreh:
 

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I think the start of the end was the beef with Game. Game to 50 was like 50 to Ja. Game presented himself as a hardcore gangsta who never smiled, whilst 50 was putting out all those songs with RnB hooks. So I think that was the start of the end of 50 being taken seriously on his 'Back Down' style. The other aspect I think was just 50's style. He was never much of a lyricist, his talents were as a song writer - making a catchy hook etc. It was more pop-rap than hip hop. When you've got someone like Dre on the team closely watching your song selection, giving you beats (Dre and Em exec produced his first two albums), it's very different when you start trying to take care of it all yourself - and he started falling off album 3. Album 2 wasn't as hot as the first one, but he still had buzz going. The problem was as everyone else said, oversaturation. 50 thought if he put out music all day everyday, people would come to expect high quality from him, when really he just got played out. A lot of it just became indistinguishable from other music, and when you've sold 15-20 million albums, you assume you know what you're doing and don't need to listen to other people as much, and get surrounded by yes men around for the success rather than honest and critical ears.
 

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Fiddy aight

- classic album
- impeccable hook game (none of that shouting shyt, nikka was doing melodic hooks better than half those r&b and pop stars from his era)
- witty personality which is rare in hip hop, everyone on some serious boring shyt, fiddy charismatic af

He fell off, but everyone does, nothing will ever tarnish his legacy tho :ld:
 
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