Would you agree that 50 Cent started the downfall of hip-hop?

[jadillac]

And I'm talking about when he went mainstream, not underground 50.

Sure, Ja Rule doing a song/video set in a carnival to Grease was not a good look, and ppl(myself included) were getting tired of him at that point and the singing on every hook. But hey, he was selling records....

So when 50 came along and dissed Ja as a fake, since everybody was tired of Ja at that point, everybody jumped on 50's bandwagon, like "yeah Ja Rule!!!". 50 was going around dissing everybody and ppl thought 50 was gonna bring "real" rap music back to the forefront. People thought he was gonna bring that level of realness that 2Pac seemed to carry, and him being shot up before played into that. Fat Joe, Nas, Jada.....all those dudes were making good music back then.....but when 50 started dissin them, alot of ppl stopped rockin with their music too.

But the problem is 50 then didn't deliver musically, himself. GRODT was a good album, not a classic IMO.....and the G-Unit album was really good....maybe a classic....but then what? The Massacre wasn't all that, and 50 was singing on hooks like he was previously criticizing Ja for doing.

So now, you killed off damn near every other rapper from NY(except for Jay) and now you yourself aren't really good enough to be able to carry the genre on your back........which ultimately left a spot open and in walked stuff like "snap music"


I will give him credit though for squashing his chilidish beefs and working with Fat Joe and Jada now, b/c ultimately that's what it's gonna take to bring hip-hop, especially NY rap back to being important. I still think 50 is dope at times, but he's not "best in the game" dope to be able to carry the genre.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

some might say Diddy but all that gangsta shyt in general hurt the black community as a whole.

 

[Freedman]

I never met a person that listened to 50 cent music besides what came on the radio so Nah.

 

[Banned Account12]

he tried to utilize that fake beef wwf shyt to his advantage and it backfired

im shocked nobody popped his ass after all that shyt talking

 

[jadillac]

he tried to utilize that fake beef wwf shyt to his advantage and it backfired

im shocked nobody popped his ass after all that shyt talking

I dont think it backfired, I mean look at how many albums it helped him sell early on.....it just didn't sustain his career because he's not an elite rapper like Jay or Nas, or even a Kanye. But In 02-03, damn near EVERYBODY was listening to 50. He was the antithesis of what Ja had turned into, so he had everybody behind him.

 

[director_of_bands]

yeah that diddy ft. mase 'can't nobody hold me down' started the downfall...diddy was never supposed to be rapping...he was excellent at ad libbing but that's where it was supposed to stop...diddy made other non-rappers feel comfortable getting booth and here we are today where hip hop is pretty much dead

 

[Average Coli Poster]

The most damaging thing that 50 brought to the game was the whole talk and notion of

RECORD SALES = Quality

 

[Foxmulder]

I don't think he started the downfall of rap but fukk him.He has female tendencies.

He might've hurt NY rap for a minute though.

 

[Foxmulder]

The most damaging thing that 50 brought to the game was the whole talk and notion of

RECORD SALES = Quality

Real talk.Had nikkas bringing up soundscan in every conversation.Him and Banks were reading soundscan results on the radio one time.Now look at them nikkas

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

 

[VanVanCity]

Diddy was demonic to rap

 

[King Poetic]

That shiny suit shyt put hip-hop on life support and young money close the casket

 

[BangerzAOTY]

anyone born after 1992 should not be allowed to post in this section.

 

[aj41510]

Diddy, or Master P with them old corny ass album covers with wack ass graphics and horrible ass lyrics. I would know, I grew up on Master P when he lived in Richmond, Ca back in the mid 90's with all them
West Coast Bad Boyz albums. That right there was the start of rappers thinking they were big time drug dealers, but really only petty hustlers with lame bars. I listen to that stuff now and ask myself what I was thinking listening to that shyt back then....

 

[aj41510]

And them old 50 cent/g-unit mixtapes were fukkin fire....the mixtapes before he blew up. That was good music. Can you find shyt like that today? Doubt it....