How do you view 50 Cent's career? For me I applaud what he's done to evolve into other challenges, just wish we got more out of his prime. he was one of the best rappers early 2000s and still writes a fire verse from time to time. Musically do you think 50 was a disappointment?
yeah he should've branched out into other things to rap about. Still he had one of the biggest pushes in music of all time. He was the rap version of Stone Cold Steve Austin. People liked the hype and the beefs but when it came to the technical side of rapping and doing other stuff on the mic he just stayed in the lane he was in.
@@gregmatic2861 Kanye dropped graduation and then 808s the next year and it was over lol . Drake dropped so far gone a couple of months after 808s as well . Skinny jeans , the hipsters “weirdo “ sensitive and vulnerable guys/style took over . 50 was explosive and had talent ofc but didn’t have range . Someone like a Kendrick Lamar whose from the same type of environment of 50 but can just go more in depth about it and get creative and sound completely different on every song and album.
@StuntedGrowthMusic Great Video you should definitely do the other former members from the G-Unit Label like Olivia, Kidd Kidd, Spider Loc, Uncle Murda & Lil Scrappy that never amount to nothing from working with 50 Cent but at least it got their foot in the door at least 💯
50 got 5 albums, 2 which are classics. 2 group albums and a slew of mixtapes. With at least 5 of those mixtapes being classics. 50 did what he was suppose to do. The game changed and he saw it coming so he adjusted properly.
50 Cent rap career did exactly what it was supposed to. You can’t rap and stay relevant until your hair turn grey depending on how early you started. But I totally agree with you this man career is still going strong
@@snowskee7769 the crazy part is people say he fell off. I disagree. Animal Ambition was dope. The Big 10 was good too. His catalog might be unmatched.
Music was changing by the time "Curtis" dropped. 50 got out at the perfect time. Its hard to keep making street music after being away from it and RICH for so long. He didn't stay in the streets like these idiots today do. He moved faraway. He had video games,clothing,shoes, cologne, MOVIES, TV on LOCK and everything else you could ask for.50 did it PERFECTLY.Kanye, Cudi, and other similar acts were coming into serious form at the time. 50 is the Blueprint for these dudes today. 50 is the Floyd of rap to me.
Game really messed up the massacre. Don’t get me wrong, the massacre is great, but not as great as Get Rich Or Die Tryin. Game can’t write songs, so those songs that 50 Cent had for the massacre he gave to game. If 50 would’ve kept those songs, he could’ve had another classic on his hands. Not to mention Interscope delayed his album
I loved 50 Cent growing up. Ppl couldn’t stop playing his music for two years and after losing the #1 album spot to Kanye he figured out other ways to stay relevant than just making gangsta rap music.
50's flow was so smooth. I was listening to in da club today. He was a beast. But I don't think NY rappers ever lose that. He just realized that he can make more money faster in other areas. (same with Chamillionaire)
He's a rap legend and he didn't need to do shit else and he changed the whole trajectory of the rap game this nigga ain't disappoint nothin because he's successful as hell BECAUSE of rap
Man I use to listen to all 50 mixtapes back in the day before he even blew and I’m from Detroit ……Power of a Dollar, Guess Who Back and No Mercy No Fear all classics.
@@matthewmann8969 Horrible businessman. At his peak,50,Jay and Puff were worth about 200 million. Putt and jey are billionaires 50 omly worth 30 million. HORRIBLE BUSINESSMAN
For me his growth wasn't stunted he came into the game to do a job shake shit up dominate and move on!! (He cleaned house & expanded into the fields!!). In my opinion he conquered... Maybe 1 more project in the prime run maybe his biggest growth stunt.
I think the best comparison for 50 Cent is Shaq, both lived a larger than life lifestyle. Both put up number you will probably never see in a 3 year span. Both had GOAT potential. Both have achieve great success in the business aspect. Both were very dominant and put fear in opponents. And both of their peak were cut short.
Rap was 50 stepping stone. You can just tell when he first came in the game he was meant for more. He never fell off, he just never focused all his energy on one skill. In America where they judge every tiny thing he "fell off" but in other countries he's a rap titan.
50 had a great run in his career could have a longer run most definitely but this man has forever change the mixtape game and has 2 diamond albums world wide and has given us a G-Unit group of a dominance era. He's still dominating the TV/Show World with the power universe and BMF, and is a legend personally in my eyes!!! Salute to that man 💯💯💯🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The industry chose backpack rap over street music as it was just as lucrative minus all the extra shit that came with the street element. 50 walked away before the industry pushed him out the back door. The Kanan Tape proved it was the industry, not him who fell off.
his beef with jimmy iovine and undermining dre and releasing his own headphone line too, caused friction. Also the numerous beef he was always having with people and not believing in over saturation. This dude released mixtapes left and right while releasing albums and doing a movie. He got it back now in the TV world so at least he is still relevant in that way.
I love this comment section 50 Cent deserves all this respect and flower he’s getting! I’m glad most hip hop fans look at and respect 50 real street Nigga. Grew up right in front of us and knew the adjustments he had to make in his career. Good video! Future Suggestions: Ludacris. The Game. Missy Elliot. Ciara. Chingy. Roscoe Dash. Wiz Khalifa
50 Catalog is elite. 50 flooded the mixtape game rather than albums that's why he overlooked to me. Eminem told him he should've saved alot of music for album material...One of the few heavyweights that balanced supporting his artist and still.being successful..Majority of them only focused on self.
I agree fifty should've accomplished more as an artist. I think doing too many movies during the peak of his career took his focus away from music like most rappers than they decline as an artist. Signing too many artist watered down the g-unit and investing in artist that didn't pan out like Olivia.
@@onlyone23km as far as a album every year from 96-03 yea... but as far as apeel & have the whole world wantes to be G-Unit, the greatest run kinda goes to 50
50 Cent's growth isn't "stunted", his growth is "smart": rappers have a "hot period" musically, and 50 has reached his imo....all his Starz shows (Power, Raising Kanan, Ghost, Force, BMF) are keeping him relevant, but this generation sadly won't be checking for him musically.....realistically, the only 40+ rappers this gen will accept is Gucci, Boosie, 2 Chainz, Juicy J, Yo Gotti, Ross and maybe Jeezy
@@dabadguygeezie we don’t need them checking niggas still selling records after damn near 20+ years in the game , when the Durks lil baby’s & city girls can get like that then will see who be checking for them
@@onlyone23km Snoop Dosent "Have" to Rap like it was Life or Death in his Younger Years. If Snoop still raps it's out of Passion and Not Necessity. Not to mention older Rappers get little Respect if any and if you make one Album the Masses dont like you are immediately considered Wack, So why not Exit when your Name is not Mud? Just saying 🤷♂️
50 Cent is one of the best rap artist in history. He was the best at writing hooks , good cadences, the best character, hits, the image. He just check all the boxes. Honestly, he didn’t have any stunted growth.
Number two was biggest stunted growth for 50 musically. If he didn't have so many beefs, he could have callbo with so many artists from different coasts can truly could been the goats
50 did what lot of folks should do at the casino, win early and cash out ASAP. 50 peaked with Curtis as his last good album IMO, and then smartly transitioned to other things to make money. I have zero interest in a new 50 album, but will always be on the lookout for new, non music projects. Could he have done more? Sure, but he wisely moved on at the right time.
@@williamwolfxrivera2418 I don’t see how it didn’t hurt 50’s brand, because after Curtis, his next album didn’t really get much marketing or anything like that. Before I Self Destruct had some epic tracks on it, but the industry was too busy chasing Kanye and Taylor even before the VMAs incident.
@@onlyone23km or Because 50 cent was doing other business deals that was successful and Kanye actually has a lot of good albums I can already tell you didn't listen to any of Ye's Albums because you didn't know about the Album he release after the Taylor Swift Incident or the real life issues Ye went through after Graduation was released and Genre changing album he released after said incidents
He never fell off music just changed with the Kanye and lil Wayne era….after Curtis he had Atleast 6 solid projects and a lot of fire singles that shoudve blew but once the public perception of you is something negative and you don’t have the big machine behind you it’s def gonna look like a fall off he did what he had to and made a impact you gotta respect it IT WAS 50 vs THE INDUSTRY
Yo Ali, 50 has dropped PLENTY of material since 2010! War Angel, Murder By Numbers, The Lost Tapes, The Big 10, Hustlers Ambition, not to mention the two G-Unit projects The Beauty Of Independence & The Beast......anyone who says 50 fell off musically hasn't been paying attention to the underground, his catalogue is deep & extensive af!
Beloved war angel was released in 2009, and all and all 2009 was his last great year musically, the kanan tape was dope but that shit couldn't fuck with forever king or the war angel lp period!
Get Rich or Die Tryin is one of hip-hop greatest albums of all time. He will forever have that. The Massacre was good but it wasn't like Get Rich or Die Tryin'. He put on his group, and other artist and was movies and mainly television. He became a business man. His first major album helped him get to where he is a today.
@@nickthomas541 when I became a hip hop fan in 2016 as a 14 year old I became old school first I listened to pac and biggie then others came including 50 then I mixed it with uk hip hop taste now I am mixed taste fan
Imo 50 is one of the best rappers of all time he’s in my top 5 he had a great music career went diamond twice worldwide dropped 2 classic albums through his career dropped 2 classic G-unit albums throughout his career have plenty of classic mixtapes 50 is definitely one of the 🐐s in hip-hop I wouldn’t say he fell off musically I’d say it was more so hip-hop was changing gangsta rap wasn’t cool anymore Kanye West proved that no matter what 50 put out it wasn’t going to hit the same like it did earlier in his career. One thing I’d say that is bad about 50s career is 50 has been a rapper for 20 plus years right….. and he only has 5 albums in a 20+ year career imo he should be way more than 5 albums deep in his career he should have at least 7 to 8 albums by now but idk I always felt like 50 didn’t release enough albums like he could or should I really wanted to hear his SKI album that he kept talking about but unfortunately it never came out and honestly I think Interscope was holding the album hostage and not letting 50 put it out but that’s another story but yeah 50 should have had a deeper discography than just 5 albums.
50 was on top of the world then. I give him props for being honest about the fact that he doesn't do Drugs or drink Alcohol in a Interview. The problem is Kid's believe everything they hear in Rap song's. (They hear it because Adults play it continuously)
I recently had this thought and 50 cent, to me he’s the rap version of marlo from the wire. I think he generally liked the thrill of confrontation the street life brought. From the stories I heard about 50 back on the south side he was always looking for a fight or bullying somebody. I feel like he’s smart enough to know that getting back involved in the streets in any way is completely pointless but he still misses the blood rush, like marlo making it out the streets but still leaving that upscale party to go and confront some corner boys. so him beefing with other rappers or poking fun at people is that little bit of taste he can get, like Marlo licking his blood off his arm.
@@onlyone23km his third album got leaked even his single with robin thicke which lead to him breakimg the tv his 4th album got leaked somehow by the label hell even his sevond album got leaked before the release date
I look at it like he got what he wanted out of Rap, moved on to his other passions, but will still hit the Studio when the proper Inspiration hits him. He's had a couple Songs that have hit since his last Official Album. "No Romeo, No Juliet" made waves. Couldn't get away from "I'm The Man" when it dropped and "Money Power and Powder" is blasting out of the Cars of every dude in my City right now. 50 is a calculated dude, and he knows what he's doing. I expect his last Album to be a major surprise, even if it goes ignored by the masses, but I'll never count 50 out. Learned THAT LESSON already.
Coming from a huge fan, I would say musically from 2010 onwards he couldn't keep up with the times or fit in with the new crowd of the waynes,drakes and kanyes of the world or at least keep his core audience satisfied, he even acknowledged that he couldn't fit in his mixtapes and interviews from that point he became too formulaic and predictable & his attention shifted for movies, TV and other business ventures, I believe after the problems he started having with his record label in 2007 it was the point he gradually started focusing elsewhere.
But look at Wayne and I don't really like drake and them but Wayne been out since 97 and still doing his thing cuz Wayne kinda set trends and being unique at the time I'm guessing 5th just kept that gangsta flow but it gets tiring after a while plus the beef if you keep having beef records don't sell as much or they do in dome extent but it gets dead after a while
I have a love/hate relationship with my Cancer uncle 50. GRODT will always be one of those staple rap albums for me, though. I was like 10 or 11 when it came out. I remember getting a hold of the album and burning it to my computer. Hustler’s Ambition is my fave 50 track. 21 Questions was my teeny-bopper anthem. He really had the streets on lock. Plus I love the 50-Verse on Starz. But he… can be a jackarse.
Nah 50 still ruthless with classics he just doing it in a mastermind way. He did anything but fall off. His bars on force theme are pretty chilling when they finally reach you
50 cent is the greatest rapper ever too me, i am a New York nigga(qgtm) he has 3 classic albums Curtis sold almost 700k first week but people always forget that, g unit had fire albums and don’t forget the mixtapes
50 is nowhere near the greatest rapper. Nas, Rakim, Eminem, KRS 1, Scarface, Raekwon, 8Ball, MJG, Canibus, TI, Weezy, Jeezy, Jay Z, Jadakiss, DMX, Big daddy Kane,EPMD, Run DMC, PE are all better rappers and have better music than 50.
I haven’t watched all the reasons, so if he says this my bad, but giving Game most of his album was a huge knock. The Massacre could’ve been another classic.
A lot of artist stick around & become stale musically but 50 broaden his horizon after maybe realizing his music wasn't hitting as b4 but he has classic art & is a blueprint on how to leave the streets & get your corporate hustle on 🎩 Great video ✌️💖🌟
From someone who lived in queens during his prime . His impact dominated Ny and hip hop . His Prime run 2002-2007 is the 2nd greatest hip hop run ever . Getting older and looking at his run now it probably would’ve even longer if he collaborated with more artists nd not try to run everyone over
@@Jac735 With Jay-z it’s more the whole career body of work . At his best he was sharing the spot light a nas , Ja , dmx Eminem. Sorta like Kobe was competing with A.i , T-Mac , Garnet, nd Tim Duncan for the top spot . Jay took a break when 50 emerge
#3 should've been him losing to Kanye. When Curtis and Graduation had their battle for #1 on Billboard, and 50 lost, it was a changing of the guard in music and 50 never fully recovered. Honorable mention: Inner beef with G-Unit. From kicking Game out, kicking Buck out (twice) and then shitting on Banks and Yayo. He's proved himself to be non loyal and a lot of the G-Unit fans started turning on 50 and looking at him as corny and the problem child as all his previous enemies said in the past.
He never lost to kanye, Kanye outsold him in America, 50 outsold him world wide. The industry hated 50 at the time so I wouldn't be surprised if ye's numbers were inflated.
@@rexgamewell what we remember is the declared verdict which is Kanye winning. Chances are you’re right… they only counted the domestic sales and it destroyed 50’s rap career.
I’m glad you mentioned all that because the whole entire G-Unit had a Stunted Growth episode by way of group and individuals in it like Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Young Buck, too!
I'm sorry but he wouldn't have blown up with that Denstiny Child record bigger than he did with In the Club. 50 also peak so high with his debut album, that really there was no place to go but down.
50 cent career went went well. 1 classic album and 2 very good ones with hits. I dont think 50 was gonna to top get rich or die tryin. That album alone cemented him as the face of hip hop for the early 2000s
Can you believe that his previous unreleased 2000 debut album "Power of the Dollar" is even better than Get Rich or Die trying Listen to it, it will blow your mind.
Actually your first stunted growth topic was part of the story that helped him rise to prominence. I mean there were fans like myself blasting "Power of the Dollar" in my room as a kid, but the shooting and the following beef with Ja Rule catapulted him to the top.
Don’t know if I could view 50’s career as one where his growth was stunted. Even through just his music alone, he has achieved more than most rappers who made it could ever dream of. He was literally the pinnacle of hip hop when G-Unit was at its all time high. I mean, come on, 50 made himself into a brand, and is still going strong with his keen sense of business acumen to this day. Stunted growth? Nah. Simply a man that always knew he had more to offer to this world than his music. 50 said it himself, he’s not a rapper, he’s a businessman
I'd like to know whether you actually like 50 or not, you claimed he was jealous of Ja when it was much more than that and you didnt even include the Kanye album sales battle that him and 50 had that hurt 50's career a little bit,you didnt talk about how the labels sabotaged him.
I loved how to rob. I remember how people were so hyped for get rich or die trying. I bought it from the store that first day and honestly I was underwhelmed. 50's main flaws as a rapper is that he only made like 3 types of songs- gangster, bragging about money songs, and the getting women songs. That's why I think Kanye had the better debut in that era. Basically the beefs made him and that's what people know him for. Still he had a better run than most.
Nothing had an impact like 50 did. He blew the roof off the rap world. His mixtapes are amazing and Get Rich sold 13 million and is still one of my favourites. He done that then went into the film world. He has nothing to prove.👍🙏
50 realized that to make the real money you have to check out other ventures. In my opinion he had 3 classic albums including get rich or die tryin soundtrack. I think stunted growth belongs to broke rappers. 50 doesn’t belong in this category at all
50 might be the most complex artist you Will do.. GRODT gave him enough sales and notoriety for a life time but that’s the issue he was soo powerful it was only down from That point, he will go down as a top 10 nyc artist for sure
man 50 cent was the man when i was in 7th grade, the line to get ( get rich or die trying) was insane! wrapped around the store and damn it was worth the wait, couldn’t even skip a track.
Very interesting take. And as a Fif supporter. On the surface I instantly disagreed. Upon digesting in totality. I see and agree unequivocally. I remember the disappointment of the Massacre as I kept saying ok we gonna get gunit mixtape 50 and another dud. Still my guy tho. Wouldn't bet against. Great unbiased take as usual. Premium content! Your so in your bag now! I don't see your competition out here. What's next?
How to Rob, Guess Who's Back, 50 Cent is the Future, and GRoDT, is his pinnacle - everything after was mid - he made ENEMIES of everyone in the industry, which I don't know how that helped - now is is known for being petty and not much else - -