Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

[tego calderon el abayarde]

50's and G-Unit's international impact was crazy.

 

[sohi 23]

50 should’ve never given how we do & hate it or love it to the game.

Also you have to give respect to 50 for Beg For Mercy and putting his people on, something Kanye didn’t really do to the extent 50 did.

People hate on 50 because the music got wack after a while but his run / peak was next level and not too many can see it.

 

[rbk93]

You were playing this

Yeah. I was 14 at the time.

 

[rbk93]

First CD purchase in a while...

 

[vegeta the god]

First CD purchase in a while...

 

[rolaholic]

RIP

 

[OrangeBlueGarden]

 

[Magic33]

 

[king j]

I always thought “In Da Club “ was corny & trash

 

[1995]

50's and G-Unit's international impact was crazy.

Remember this guy?

"How you gonna rap when you're skinny? 50 ain't skinny"

 

[waukeganwill]

Gonna chime in on this one from my perspective when I was growing up. Love these kinda posts because I rarely ever reminisce so this allows me to go down memory lane. probably gonna be a long post so I may just utilize the spoiler feature so there wont be a wall of text when ppl are scrolling.

Spoiler

I was in 6th grade in 2001. As a shorty at that time, No Limit was officially wack. Cash Money was there but it wasnt a major force fr. In my corner of the world it was pretty much all about DMX, Nelly, Ludacris, Eminem, and Ja Rule, with Nelly and Ja being the one most of us really rocked with. Mfs was really comin to school with band aids on they face like Nelly, and the whole basketball team had their hair half braided half undone like Ja did.

7th grade was more of the same, I'll throw in Lil Jon and Ying Yang twins they were buzzin heavy but it was still Ja and Nelly having a stranglehold on the youth in terms of popularity.

8th grade mannn listen...like I said earlier, Ja was the man but when GRODT dropped, mfs dropped Ja the same way Andy dropped Woody for Buzz. The switch up was unreal. Like others mentioned before, that buzz and popularity 50 had was something I never experienced before. I bought a G Unit chain from the middle of the mall that had my neck forest green for a week. 50 was that N! at this time Killa and the Dips was popular too, mfs was wearing pink n all, but it was 100% about 50 Cent and G-Unit.

Freshman year of High School. Weezy is on the rise. Kanye is big, but its still 50 Cent and G-Units world. The Dips are more popular and Lil Jon is big as well too. But The releases of Banks and Bucks albums, plus Beg For Mercy he had mfs in a headlock.

Sophomore year of High School: 50 is still the king. G-Unit clothing, mfs had G unit coats, GRODT the movie drops. He is ruling with an iron fist. Wayne is gaining crazy momentum, T.I. is becoming a force, and Jeezy has officially entered the chat. 50 drops the massacre and it was big.....but something was off. Idk, but at the time as a 50 stan it felt like a shift happened. Now mfs are more in tune with Weezy, Tip, and Jeezy. Gucci was there but nobody in my area was publicly pushin em fr, and Houston Rap is on the rise, but Sophomore year is where I truly feel Ye is becoming that guy. Everyone was bumping Late registration.

Jr Year & Senior year: Houston is still killin it, but Its all about TIP. He was King, no pun intended. ATL movie, King album he ran that year. Wayne is a STAR and now we are getting the best rapper alive talks (never agreed, but convo for another day). Plus he is killing the mixtape circuit as well..Jeezy is major player as well. For 50 I feel like this is when Im starting to feel the decline, and Kanye has cemented himself. I feel like this was the time period where 50 was just signing anybody. Lil Scrappy, Spider Loc, Mase, MOP, Mobb Deep....it was just a circus label with random acts all thrown in together. 50 is declining and Kanye is fully cemented as a power in the game.

Freshman year of College: 50 is officially wack..Fell off like bad dope. Nobody was playing him around my way like that and musically. He had one last blip on his pulse monitor with "I Get Money" but by my freshman year of college, musically he was a non factor. Ye Drops Graduation and I feel like he is just ascending into new realms. Weezy is superstar as well and his mixtapes are going crazy and he is gearing up to release Carter 3, but musically I feel like 50 died in 2007.

To me, 50 Cents mainstream run was from 2002 to 2007, so a solid 5 years. Like a blinkin said, that 02-03 50 buzz was his highest and I dont think Ive seen anyone do that since coming out the gate. Without thinking I'll prolly give Drizzy the closest as his rise was pretty fast, but overall vice grip on the game and the country, black and white 50 was unreal. as he said himself "America got a thing for this gangster shxt, they love me"

 

[Belgium]

50's and G-Unit's international impact was crazy.

As far as international impact goes I've never seen anything like 50 Cent's prime. Sure, everyone knew who Kanye or Jay Z were but they never really dominated the public over here like 50 did.
You couldn't go anywhere without hearing 50 Cent and I can't really say the same for any other artist besides maybe prime Eminem.

Snoop Dogg is kind of a unique situation. Everyone knew who he was and liked him but I guarantee most of those people couldn't name you a a single song. My mom used to be strongly anti-weed and disliked gangster rap but Snoop Dogg was somehow always a cool dude in her book.
Idk how but he's been a household name and very well liked for as long as I can remember. Gangster rap and drugs were very controversial at that time but somehow Snoop just skated past all of that over here.

 

[k3stacks]

Ahhhh sht. This bout to be SPECIAL isn't it

 

[frshstunna]

At least it’s cleared up that it wasn’t shorty’s fault n PNB was just literally trying to eat, no extra **** …Hate how folks run with stories without facts n try to assign blame soon as something happens when they don’t know ****

 

[jayt1202]

Speaking of Nelly, I remember being surprised by this song when first hearing it on a Funk Flex mixtape. To that point I had only heard Country Grammar (the song). The formula back then seemed to be release a pop-like single before the album came out and then a street single right before or right after the album dropped.

 

[a blinkin]

8th grade mannn listen...like I said earlier, Ja was the man but when GRODT dropped, mfs dropped Ja the same way Andy dropped Woody for Buzz. The switch up was unreal.

This is one of the best analogies I’ve ever seen when it comes to the 50 and Ja beef.

 

[OrangeBlueGarden]

Magic33 okay you really on to game.

 

[wavycrocket]

One of my homeboys growing up loved all the dipset affiliates . I mean, for like a summer or two, he’d bump that over the dipset “starters” and even the dipset “bench” lmao. A mafia had to be like injured reserve dipset or G-league. But he had bars

My homeboy would hop in the whip when we all mobbing out, talking about “put that A mafia on” .

 

[Grine]

I always thought “In Da Club “ was corny & trash

Finally…

 

[rbk93]

Heat is fire though.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[addict4sneakers]

Y’all say the women can’t rap well she’s rapping over conductor beats. No, I’m not playing this in the car but she’s legit.

 

[2163O1baller90]

Mods!!!!!

 

[lovehateself]

Y’all say the women can’t rap well she’s rapping over conductor beats. No, I’m not playing this in the car but she’s legit.

out of portland
i bet she taste gluten free

 

[geno90221]

out of portland
i bet she taste gluten free

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