I must really not be paying attention to a lot of hip hop nowadays if 50 is as untouchable as y'all is making out. I been deep into hip hop for nearly 12 or 13 years now and played every hot joint that has come through. I played a couple of 50 tracks but dude did not register with me as being out of sight.
But see I'm not checking how much someone is selling when I decide what to play, I know we all strive to make ends, but selling so much off top doesn't make someone untouchable, ask Hammer y'all.
You need skills to have survival techniques, I can't see that in 50, he's not talented lyrically (that aint even open for argument) and he's runnin his mouth asking for someone to take him out of the game.
I don't cheerlead for nobody (except perhaps Bay cats who need their shit put out here) but to me Nas is one of the best lyricists. It's increasingly rare for a cat to have such a long history in the game.
The idea that he couldn't damage 50's career is funny to me. I ain't lookin at record sales to see that one mans skills can make another man's lack of skills look weak. Nas could put 50 in the shade.
Anyone who is tripping off how platinum 50 is, please, who cares about what every little girl and kid is buying in every corner of the globe. This ain't about who is marketed the best, this ain't on pop sales.
Straight out the gate 50 been dissing on people, it's only right that cats get at him with hip hop skills. What he sells is nothing. If Justin Timberlake dissed Nas would you be pointing out how much he sold?
Anyway thats just my two cents on 50 cent... I don't really care y'all, I'm just surprised at how he is already perceived, I never realised he was that untouchable. That's some heavy marketing right there.
Okay.... and finish off with reference to my original posting, my boy put me up on the line Nas spit before cutting the music at his show last night, I must have been too drunk to remember:
"Swellin my melon cause none of these *****z real /
Heard he was tellin police, how ima make 50 Cent squeal?"
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