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No one is being sarcastic...that's an excellent point you made.Originally Posted by ItWasWritten
Can't tell if you guys are being sarcastic or not but w/eOriginally Posted by LifeLessons
good 1st postOriginally Posted by ItWasWritten
For all those people saying how 50 cent sold out and how Rick Ross makes better music, consider this:
What I have always liked about 50 cent/Gunit/Shady aftermath is the fact that they only rely on members within their own cliche to make songs. With the exception of Curtis which 50 MEANT to be a more commercial and less hardcore rap album, he has never had to rely on T-Pain or Kanye West etc to make a hit. All of his hooks are done by himself or nate dogg or another member of the fam. For Before I Self Destruct, he warned that no one should expect the features that were on Curtis. Curtis was nothing more than an experiment, or maybe even an adjustment to a world where the only thing the public likes is extensive mainstream pop features, and obviously this was not well recieved by his core listeners. Therefore, before saying that Rick Ross makes better music (forgetting that he is a fraud for the moment), take a moment to think whether Rick Ross could ever make a solid album without the aid of the industry's darlings (Akon, T-Pain, Lil Wayne) and then think of the two albums 50 cent made just using the people he trusts and meshes to well with that were bigger successes than Rick Ross will never see in his life. People come in here looking at Curtis saying how 50 is done when it was clearly, like I said, an experiment in surveying the state of the industry. Before I Self Destruct will not dissapoint.
It really was a good first post.
The average radio listener might not now who Rick Ross is...but the average hip hop fan does. Rick Ross isn't exactly an "unknown", but he'snot on Ja Rule status (in terms of popularity) when 50 and co. crushed him.