50 Cent ...
 

Yo ya'll need to stop hatin on this nigga. I agree he may not be the best lyrically but the boy is a genius.

The songs he makes he dosent even need fuckin lyrics! Cuz his hooks and flow is so damn catchy that it dosent even matter.

The boy is just smart and i aint gonna allow all this hatin on my nigga. I dont wanna have to slap nobody ...

^been awhile since i seen you..its virtue/introspect/decree...sup fam....

Dont really remember you ... but whatup

Your method makes sense...for TRL-addicted white girls. Why do I personally hate on him? For the reasons you just stated - he's not lyrical, and the only reason he's popular is because he's got catchy beats and hooks. There's no substance to it, and that's why he gets looked down upon.

First off whatup 9th! it been a while. did u ever get your win from that old battle?
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Aiight, and you're right, lyrically he sucks. But MUSIC isnt all about lyrics.And if you only like lyricists then i can see why you would dislike 50,but not hate on em,feel me?

Im not saying he's a good rapper and everyone should like him just cuz of beats and hooks,but theres another side to the buisness other than comming up with incredible lyrics. Theres a side that if you're music can just make a club or a party feel you, then you're good. Thats where 50 comes in

So trying to compare him to emcees like Nas, Jay and Em he would be labeled trash. But he's playing a whole different role,and thats what people aint understanding.

We both have a point. But ultimately, it's all in the perception of the listener.

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Win from old battle? I got the accidental no-show removed, if that's what you meant. But hey, if you wanna give me the win from the other battle that'd be cool, lol. :)

Shit nevermind,i thought u was supposed to get a win.

word.. 50.. Is dope on a Chours.. Right up there with Nate Dog..

meh, he's still wack.. but he's aight w/ Chorus songs only

Hip Hop was originally created to get away from the violence drugs and guns that were popular in the 80s...

what does 50 cent rhyme about?...yup

now i know in this new age real lyricists still rhyme about violence or whatever because its what their old neighrbohood is like i still do it but i add real shit in it i dont say somethin like "mah old neighborhoods rough dawg yea...g'd up...run that shit ggggggunit"<unimaginably gay...and thats what gunit is all about...but like I was sayin if you wanna rhyme about your hood thats ok but if your gonna do that...add some wordplay in it or bring some true lyrical shit...I dont like when 50 does it cuz he just plain sucks with his rhymes...and hes getting respected like hes the best rapper ever and hes not...thats why i hate him

he sucks...if the radio wants to play him then fine...but give real emcees a chance instead of playing him 24/7...its bullshit, guys wack...and I will laugh when he gets killed

in the end i hate him because hes getting props from EVERYONE as if hes the best rapper (I cant call him an emcee cuz he isnt one)...and 90% of my school hasnt heard anything from KRS-One, Rakim, Canibus, Chino XL, etc...they all ride 50s dick and its New York...somethin is terribly wrong when people cant tell the difference between real hip hop... and some mainstream fag who makes money off rich white suburban kids tryin to be thug

peace

What compose!

But listen,you would Hate somebody just cuz he's respected? lol. So if you dont feel im the best nigga on this lil site and niggas start sayin i am,you will hate me too?

You will probably disagree with them,but that dosent give u a reason just to hate someone.

lol... everyone hates, dont they?

^Nah I dont hate him cuz hes respected...(to automatik)

but seriously look at 50 cent compared to someone like Canibus, people would actually say 50 is better lyrically in my school no joke and it pisses me off when that happens.

and by the way its Final idk if you remember me lol aint seen you in a while tho wadup

but its not like im hating him cuz other people like him...hes just mad fake too

disses ja cuz he sings but meanwhile he sings in his chorus's now?...shits ridiculous and people arent seeing it...only a few

Thats just people who dont know music/lyrics period. You shouldnt be associating wit those people anyway ... there bad influences

Yea werd...thats why i got like 0 friends :( nobody knows nothin in my school theyre all on gunits nuts.

every1 at my school hates g-unit so thats why this september is g-unot month every1 comp u a shirt and rock that shit

Yeah the thing is, when all ya'll say that 50 makes music for white kids trying to be thugs thats bullshit. Cause every nigga in my hood ride around listening to his shit all the time....

on a track 50 says ''a ill flow with no beat...is incomplete''.....

he's a marketting genius, he knows that if he has the right beat with the right hook, it'll catch the ears of everybody across the world and make him rich, he's the leader of a record label, tell me why he'd go all lyrical and not go double platinum on every album he sells.....and let his label die because of it making no money....

50 clearly is not about all the lyrical content and punchlines, thats Banks job in G-Unit.....

he's a genius, i agree with automatik.....Banks for the ill rhymees and mixtape heads, 50 makes a mill on everythin he touches, buck is one of the most popular southern artists on the 3rd coast, and now he signed mobb deep and m.o.p along with yayo for the new york streets, not to mention california got more luv and respect for 50 than they do the game and the game claims he the ''king of the west''.......

... Nuff Said ...

He did ''dumb down his lyrics'' tho...

Listen too some old school G-Unit and you'll clearly see 50 has a way with words...

His punchlines have never been great, but theres plenty of rappers who are ''legends'' who dont throw punch after punch

Dre only produces some of 50's shit, Dre has more of an influence on eminem and games career than 50'z....

''my flows untouchable, now you gotta face it...uh oh, it gets worse when i go back to the basics''.....

50's flow is fire, he may no throw down punch after punch, but flow wise, nobody can touch him, and along with a dope beat and the best hook writer in the business, thats your reason 50 is one of the biggest sellin artists today....

this is the truth^

What ever happened to quality over quantity? Back in 2000, 50 made an apperance on Next's album "Welcome 2 Nextasy" (I think that's what is was titled), in a song called "Jerk". Although the song was about jacking off, 50 delivered the subject with good lyrical content. I played the track for some kids and they said he sucked. In 2002, "Guess Who's Back?" was probably my favorite rap album at the time. It was the album Em heard that made him sign 50 in the first place. I played it for quite a few kids, the majority of whom said he sucked. February 2003 rolls around, and I can't go 10 minutes without hearing a reference to "In Da Club". I obatined Get Rich Or Die Trying, and only a few songs carried over the persona that I loved for the previous 3 years ("Patiently Waiting", "Heat", "High All The Time", and "Blood Hound") Everything else was commercial pop-rap. Everybody who once said he sucked now loved him. Why? Because he sacrificed quality (of lyrics) for quantity (of sales).

And before someone tries to contradict this post with talk of "You Not Like Me" and "Your Life's On The Line"...those were both on Guess Who's Back? originally, and bonus tracks on GRODT. I liked both of those, but they're not really part of the actual album, this "bonus tracks". So don't think I'm hating on them.

*runs to downloas these shits..*

^ Has a point. I cant think of cool comeback for that one.

EXACTLY!!!! word to that shit yo....

ayo ya'll who r hatin on 50 is cuz yall aint gettin no dough he is makin so much money its not even funny.....he got his own movie(get rich or die trying)...his own book....his own game......his own record label........50 cent is the man.......you guys just hating cuz u arent in his position.......

Do you not know how to fucking read? All the "haters" in this thread have provided valid points that have nothing to do with money. Why is it that herbs always have to assume that if we don't like mainstream/commercial artists, it's because we're jealous of the money they make? Riddle me that, damnit.

Do I hate Chingy because he makes money? No, because nobody buys his shit...because he sucks...which is why I hate him.

lol werd...nobody understands :( its about the money to everyone...

everyone who is on 50's side, their only basic argument is hes a "marketing genius"

why dont you guys forget about money and think about REAL HIP HOP...money ISNT everything and that is the truth...true hip hop > money anyday...i'd rather be poor as fuck sleeping on a park bench knowing i have real hip hop in my lyrics and blood and i would die for hip hop...I live hip hop...its more then just music, its a culture...and i would never sellout to become a millionare...its disgusting.

peace

Eh ... some good points and some not.

Overall,im going to stick to my personal opinion on Fifty. Lyrically he isnt the best,but the way he can put a song together without using wonderful lyrics has to show Some kind of talent.

^I can put together a 50 cent type song in 5 minutes or less...

50 cent is only hot because hes on Aftermath and the promtion is very high...simple as that, anybody can make a hit record...its just about promtion and what label your on, thats if you wanna sell records

in simpler terms

50 cent has no talent

peace

meh.. the 50 is wack..
..and everyone on this
site would agree wit me..
..not unless they're on
his dick..