Ummmm… unless his contract with Interscope says that Interscope is responsible for magically finding a fountain of talent and injecting some into him, then I don’t think Interscope dropped the ball at all. The 90’s are over, and so are the days of a million no-name no-talent rappers poppin up every 5 seconds and going multi-platinum. These days its going to take a hell of a lot more than good promotion to get records to sell. Its the survival of the fittest and a lot don’t fit.
@ thewiz: your a fuccing joke if you thing the talent today from artist even compares to that of early 2000’s and late 90’s. Let me guess you bangin jibbs in your ride lmfao! get the fuck outta here wit ignorant statements like that.
It don’t take talent to make it toda in rap, all you need is a couple chains around your neck, some gold teeth and to act like a fuccin bafoon and your in. TOP OF THE RINGTONE CHARTS lamez
THIS NIGGA’S TIGHT!!! HAHAHAHA.. SON HAD HIS ASS CLENCHED THE ENTIRE TIME! HAHAHA.. I BET HE SHITTED OUT A GALLSTONE. KEEP A TIGHT ASS NIGGA, G-UNIT’S FINISHED. DUDE ASKED ABOUT THE ENTIRE G-UNIT AS SON IGNORED EVERYONE BUT 50. LOL.. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO CHECK HOMEBOY’S BLOOD PRESSURE.
When they were selling 8 million everytime out it was 50 Cent “Interscope”Jackson and now that they selling 100k everytime out it’s Interscope’s fault?
So all of a sudden Interscope don’t want to sell 8 million,they rather settle with a 100k?
@16. Good point.
I guess these niggas thought they would be on top forever. If 50 was such a “genuis”, he would of known that. I mean, damn, Master P did tell the stupid nigga that shit.
Why didnt 50 pass on the wisdom.
All his employees are in lookin like “whats going on, anybody heard anything, should we try to find work elsewhere”.
Did yall notice he didnt blame Jimmy Iovine? He blamed the employees. He must didnt know that Jimmy has the final word on all decisions. So why would he blame the employees for Gunit’s problems at Interscope and not Jimmy?
What a bitch ass nigga.
DAMN! smh
If you were actually able to comprehend what you read then you would’ve known that my point was not to compare the talent but to compare how easy things were back in the late 90’s early 2000’s. Weather you had talent or not, you could get put on and easily sell a million plus with no problem.
It was that fast money that attracted all these over night rappers and eventually over saturated the market. Now the gig is up! fans are bored, the rhymes aint captivating, the real are blending in with the fake. Its gonna take a whole lot more than heavy promotion to sell records again. You gonna need outstanding talent or abilities to go multi-plat these days and unless you got it AINT NOBODY taking no losses by investing you.
Now go bang your mother upside her head and tell her that the nigga who was almost ya daddy but she wanted to swallow just dropped some science on your dumb ass.
Gucci dont make that shit in 4x. Is he telling Rick Ross that shit or his homeboy, K Slay?
Why nobody in his crew say shit about K Slay rocking those old as Daper Dan suits?
I seen him wear the exact same suit in Louis, Gucci, and MCM.
Anybody that knows K Slay, know what I’m talkin about. LOL
them niggas sucked from the beginning,you got 80’s artist that still tour and make money,talent=longevity in any business,them ass clowns lack talent including their mush mouth leader he’s a munkey lol
May 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
@ Can it!: U don’t know enough to challenge me.
If you were actually able to comprehend what you read then you would’ve known that my point was not to compare the talent but to compare how easy things were back in the late 90’s early 2000’s. Weather you had talent or not, you could get put on and easily sell a million plus with no problem.
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How do you sound right now? Yes, the economy is bad and people download a lot now, but that’s b/c artists come out with hot songs, not hot albums. There were way more classic albums put out in that time period then now!! You needed talent and not swag or a hot ringtone to make it back then. Of course there were One-Hit Wonders. That will go on for all time, but the internet has given shine to artists that labels would have never messed with. It could be a good thing, but as of late it’s a definite bad thing. People are coming up without having had to put in work and that “gotta have it now” attitude is bringing hip hop as a whole down. I’m not saying it’s dead. It’s just too many artists are going mainstream before they had time to learn and master the craft.
When was the last time Gunit had a hit?
(and remeber, 50 is not ON gunit. He is ON Shady/Aftermath),.
Niggas should have seen this coming.
Jimmy I is not a fool. He still has 50 to drain till the last drop.
And believe it or not, Em is not hip hop. He is a pop artist, so he has a couple more albums that will possibly go at least platinum.
Damn, “Last Drop” should be the name of 50s next cd because its over in the music department. Maybe the other bullshit will work out for him.
@LatinKing.
Rick Ross sold 150,000 the first week. Def Jam gave him a mill.
If you know how to apply math, you can see that money was made the 1st week out.
150,000 at $10 a cd. 150,000 x 10= 1,500,000. that means they are at a $500,000 profit the 1st week. The rest is gravy. How is that in the red? Def Jam made a killin with Jada and Ross.
Fake ass “Latin King”. You not from the “People’s Nation”
And thats from a real “4CH”
yall know every rap group has to fall and g unit had a hell of a run, but 50cent still will go on and do what he does.
i noticed the new rap groups dont seem to be getting much of a break, lil waynes young money isnt taking over, skull gang seems mellow, forget rick ross’ crew he lost all creditability. Whose left? There isnt any excitement in any new groups.
I’m sure the internet would help 50 out at least, even though his group doesn’t have an interscope backing i mean is niggaz smokin? It’s not that easy to tear down a big empire like g-unit they still have ground on stuff they already built and plus money from other ventures getting money even without the rap side not doing too well in sales so i know it’ll stay viable for a while. 50 and them gonna eat regardless stop hating g unit has became a another big hiphop super empire like wu-tang or master p no limit da limit or whatever its called now. Sh*t they could even make movies to get that cinema money off the name alone.
Yea there are a bunch of classic albums from the late 90’s and early 2000’s, but that’s also the time period that the easy money started flowing and rappers got lazy. Rappers got label deals and started to take on the roles of executives when they aint know what they was doing. They fucked up a lotta money from the parent labels and quickly turned the game into a “do anything for a quick buck” gimmick. They sold out! Money came before quality and it opened the doors for all these bullshit no-talent rappers dats out right now. Its unfortunate that the some of the good gotta suffer with the bad, but times have changed and the gimmicks of yesterday and producing big money today….niggaz can’t be pissed at the record label cause the mainstream aint buying your shit no more and the record company don’t wann loose money investing in u.
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Sha Money is right. Thats why some of theses new artists take so long to come out with a album causes the record labels heads dont know how to market. Jay-Z, Em, FIF, Dre, Snoop are all BRAND NAMES. They make $$$ off they name alone. Its NOT like the 90’s or early 2000’s anymore.
@28 and 29
how is Em a pop artists
when he has the title as the most paid/ best RAPPER alive
hav u listened to the Eminem show …..does that sound like a britney spears album to you ??
the man has incredible rap songs like “mocking bird”, “stan”, and “lose yourself”
and you gon call him a pop artist
thas a disrespect to the entire nation of hip hop
but anyways
as far as the 50 thing goes
i respect 50, but he knows his dominance in the music world is over
thas why he called his album “before i self destruct” as in before its all over
and lastly
where did u get that info on ross earnings
artist normally only get 5-7 % per cd
lets say we take 5%
that means he makes 50 cent per cd sold if ithe cd is 10 dollars
50 cent x 150,000 = 75, 000
plus off of that earned percentage he still has to pay off recording fees, video, marketing, etc the artist gets paid last
where did you get a million dollars from ?????????
the nigga does not make that
only big artist like jay-z, Em get the 50/50 deal
which $5 per cd if the cd is $10
so, $5 x 150,000 = $750,000
even with the 50/50 deal he couldnt reach a million hahahahahah
i still dont get it …..where did u get a million dollars from man ???/?hahahahahah
@ TheWiz: You got that completly backwards! Back then it took actual talent, induviduality, and a solid album to be revered in hip hop. If anything TODAY IS THE DAY AND AGE OF THE OVERNIGHT RAPPER & FAST MONEY!. How many times now a dayz to you hear a rapper on a countdown one month that you don’t hear from again the next. I can list countless artist ; dj unk (wheres that nigga at wit hiz little one hit) , D4L(ghost), you get the point cuz I can continue on homie? early 2000’s every artist had they own sound / luda and dtp , missy elliot and Timbo, 50 & dre, nelly and the st. lunitics, weezy and cashmoney, RAP WAS FUCCIN FIRE BACK THEN now its all the same (autotune) sound and the same ole namez every song – lil wayne, kanye, t pain(actually kinda quiet lately), and ATL dance muzik. YOU LOOSE AND BY THE WAY IT’S “WETHER OR NOT” NOT “WEATHER OR NOT”
And I love how yall get so excited over 50 not running rap anymore “haha 50’s career is over” stfu this rap shit is secondary at this point for fif and the money is chump change. All your favorite rappers if they were to loose they rap career they would loose their livelyhood, so whoz really eatin.
“I AINT EVEN GOT TO RAP NOW LIFE IZ MADE, SAID I AIN;T EVEN GOT TO RAP I’M FILTHY MAYNE/ I’M LAUGHING STRAIGHT TO THE BANK WIT THIS” Curtis Jackson
LASTLY: One of you said whenz the last time fif had a hit; staright to the bank, I get Money (hit of the sumer), funeral muzik. Not to mention before weezy sold a millie in one week the last Musician to do that YOU GUESSED IT 50 fuccin Cent
look @TOS that shit sold 250k with no promo and 2 low budget videos
G-Unit as a record label has sold over 10 million records in less than 10 year,people forget about that fact…even if their shit flop they all have their lifes made (well maybe buck not lol)
beg for mercy (3x plat)
hunger for more (2x plat)
straight outta cashvlle (1x plat)
the documentary (3x plat)
thoughts of a predicate felon (gold)
get rich movie soundtrack (1x plat)
blood money (230k)
rotten apple (350k)
buck the wolrd (400k)
TOS (250K)
I didnt say Rick Ross made that. Def Jam made that budget back. I dont know what they gave Ross out the deal but I know they made 1.5 million the 1st week. And if he only made what you said, thats cool too, in the 1st week. we know he made the other 250 the next week, and thats cool too. And before it falls out your gay ass mouth, Im not a Rick Ross fan or Em. And yes Em is pop. Just because a nigga rap, doesnt mean he is hiphop.(mc hammer, vanilla ice, soulja boy, bow wow). most of Em’s audience is outside of the hiphop community.(wich is cool). he is a pop artist who happens to rap. You rarely hear a Em on an urban station. thats why i say he is pop and not hip hop. But i give it to him, the white boy really can rap. But not hiphop in my opinion.
BOO HOO! Aint no more money in hip hop. Niggas drained it all dry. Now they scrambling trying to figure out how to bring those golden years back and aint nothing working.
man you on sum bullshit
how you gon put Em in the same category as vanilla ice, soulja boy, and mc hammer
is you crazy
and how you gon say his fans are outside the hip hop community
why because their white ?????
those same white people are the ones who made 50 who he is
what you gon say …..50 is pop too ???
i bet you gon say kanye is pop too???
man the hio hop community is global
europeans, caribbean, all the way out in japan
those niggaz dont even know what the rappers saying on the track
but they want to be part of the community …….you cant deny them that
“the white boy really can rap. But not hiphop in my opinion”
thas what you said
how can somebody rap and not be part of hip hop
rapping is a part of hip hop ….halllooo
and dont get it mixed up hip hop is not postive rap
hip hop is the culture on a whole
rap is just a small part of it
you know know …i dont suppourt the soulja boy music
but even he is part of hip hop ……hip hop created …..
without hip hop there would b no soulja boy
its like hipp hop is the father
its like being the father to 2 kids …one is nas …the other is soulja boy
you may like one over the other ……but there still both you r children
and yea on the ross thing
those are the facts…..thats what artists make
dont believe the hype they rap about …..do your research
but you know …u allowed to hav your own opinion
and ill respect that
is just that shit pissed me off ,, and i had to put my own opinion out there
Sit down Sha, you and that whole click was wack from the beginning. What killed your click, was a lack of humbleness. Niggahs really believed they shit didn’t stink like the next man’s shit does. Straight homo’s, trying to get free promotion off of disrespect. That particular formula is over. Sha is mad because them tall T.I.’s is turning they back on yall punk asses. Fisty is forever a federal agent in my eyes.
man you on sum bullshit
how you gon put Em in the same category as vanilla ice, soulja boy, and mc hammer
is you crazy
and how you gon say his fans are outside the hip hop community
why because their white ?????
those same white people are the ones who made 50 who he is
what you gon say …..50 is pop too ???
i bet you gon say kanye is pop too???
man the hio hop community is global
europeans, caribbean, all the way out in japan
those niggaz dont even know what the rappers saying on the track
but they want to be part of the community …….you cant deny them that
“the white boy really can rap. But not hiphop in my opinion”
thas what you said
how can somebody rap and not be part of hip hop
rapping is a part of hip hop ….halllooo
and dont get it mixed up hip hop is not postive rap
hip hop is the culture on a whole
rap is just a small part of it
you know know …i dont suppourt the soulja boy music
but even he is part of hip hop ……hip hop created …..
without hip hop there would b no soulja boy
its like hipp hop is the father
its like being the father to 2 kids …one is nas …the other is soulja boy
you may like one over the other ……but there still both you r children
and yea on the ross thing
those are the facts…..thats what artists make
dont believe the hype they rap about …..do your research
but you know …u allowed to hav your own opinion
and ill respect that
is just that shit pissed me off ,, and i had to put my own opinion out there
-Aruba
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!
Sha Money sounds upset…GGGG UNOT has fallen and they can’t get up!! Why he mad at Ross for dropping that classic Maybach muzic shit? I don’t care if his Polo is fake, that platinum music that he dropped isn’t. 50’s career as a rapper is dead, coffin! G-Unit ain’t been shit since Game moved back to the west. Tell Sha to calm his nerves and smoke on that blunt his man is rollin up in the back ground…..don’t be mad at Interscope, be mad that your bosses rap game is straight BOOTY! Fuck 50…I love to watch the down fall of a nigga that deserves every bad thing coming to him!!
you just got hella mad for no real reason. in his opinion em is pop, he said just b/c he raps doesn’t mean he’s not pop. pop music is an encompassing genre. there are country singers that are pop, pop means popular. It also includes some r&b, rock, punk, rap, etc… sorry but it’s true. in any major market urban radio station you are not gonna hear much eminem. his singles are pop singles, you have to admit that much. we made you is pop, the real slim shady is pop, etc. that’s why he went so hard on TRL trying to dismiss that pop cloud that he is under. think about how many of his videos were retired, it was like britney spears, nsync, backstreet boys, lil bow wow… long after the song was played out, people were still voting it on the countdown.
now for the songs on the albums that he doesn’t release those get more hip hop.. but you obviously sound like you love him (not in that kinda way, i mean you’re a big fan) so you should happy he’s pop. it’s given him a huge market and made him lots of money. but in my opinion he’s an act that can rap. he has this i’ma make fun of people thing that is not real hip hop. it’s kinda like a clown. like it was cool on the block to play the dozens but you weren’t s’posed to put that on your album and release it as a single. but when he’s introspective that’s when he get the respect of real hip hop fans. it’s his own fault that he’s more pop than hip hop.
that was like a thesis.. sorry it was hella long.. and not even on the sha money post, my bad to the rest of y’all.
@ 49 BLANKCHECK: your name fits you quite writing checks that you can’t cash I ate niggaz like you that get on here an say shit that you wouldn’t dare say to sha money’s face. Stick to just commenting instead of talk tough knowin damn well your ass would be asking for autographs if you ran into the unit nigga
Your math is off. First off doesn’t matter how big of an artists you are on a huge label like Interscope/Universal, your not getting a 50/50 split. Secondly, after expenses, record labels only make about $6.42 per CD sold. It works on a point system which is totally different. An album is 100 points. Points are split up among producers, writers, and the artists. Now, the artist doesn’t receive any money off of their share of points until the label has made back ALL THE MONEY they spent on producing the album (packaging, marketing, distribution, etc.). So you can actually go Gold as an artist and not make any money off of the physical sales of your album.
GUNIT TOS WASN’T PROMOTED AT ALL.. NO RADIO SPIN IN LONDON UK AT ALL …
IS NOT JST GUNIT, INTERSCOPE BEEN MESSIN ABOUT WITH PLENTY ARTISTS…
say whatever u wanna say about G-unit but them negros SELL OUT SHOWS… THATS WHERE ARTISTS MAKE MONEY NOWADAYS.. NOT THE RECORD SALE.. fif gets pay AT LEAST 500K/SHOW …..
the other day he replaced michael jackson in CANNES.. HE HAD 6FIGS CHEQUE FOR THAT…..SO SALE OR NO SALE THE NIGGA IS GOOOOOD!
please negroes start thinking about making something happen for ya’ll instead of being on a ni**a di*k.. thats GAY
@Aruba. We cool. We all gotta vent sometimes. But i hope you see where im coming from.
@Ant EZ. My point is, that mill that was spent on his album was made back. How it gets split, none of us know. But Im almost positive that Rick and Def Jam will make money off of it, because if we like him or not, he is a platinum artist and he will at least do gold within a few months. Maybe not platinum, but gold is good. (I bet Rick will lie about how much he made if asked)LOL
man to end all this 50 came in the game with a nice lead single wanksta,and a easy target in ja rule,now niggas sick of him banks suck,yayo suck even worse,they rode the dre,eminem new artist wave but like most groups they got oversaturated,they have limited skills and can’t re-invent themselves or have enough talent to captivate the youth so don’t balme anybody but them,if any of them had a fanbase clamoring for their records they’d be putting them out.the end,and 50 cent has transcended rap his name will fill stadiums but not in the u.s.
@60 atlbyrdHAG: youre a dope. Go check the itenerary fif’s been sellin out in the U.S all this year and thats a fact. None the less he’z one of the few rappers who CAN’T perform in no rinky dink ass club because the turnout is too large, he has to perform in LARGE VENUES AND STADIUMS, PLUS WHAT OTHER RAPPERS ARE FILLING STADIUMS OVERSEAS OF THEIR OWN NAME ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Last time I checked Lil Wayne went to perform in London and got booed off the stage. T-pain wanted to perform in Jamica and had to cancel cuz they was sendin threats his way. Meanwhile 50’s out in Africa chillin wit the Mandela’s poppin shots off in the crowd to get hiz chain back, come on now ppl keep it real and stop hating
G-unit pretty much been garbage since game was dismissed. 50 aint had a hot record in forever.He been on his own dick so hard he aint realized that his music sucks.They had a good run but so has a lot of washed up has beens.Millions sold is millions SOLD.What the fuck you selling now?
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May 29th, 2009 at 11:25 am
he sounded like he about to cry oooooooooooooooooooooooooo easy take it easy loooooooooooooooooool g-unit = history
deal with it. thank god
May 29th, 2009 at 11:27 am
1st niggas!
Its over for Gunit as a record company.
These niggas sound disgruntled.
EveryBody After Me Is Pregnant By Ru Paul!
May 29th, 2009 at 11:28 am
^^Damn, thought i was 1st!^^
May 29th, 2009 at 11:30 am
LOL. Sha Money Mad.
But I’m With Him, As Much As 50 Done Fell Off Musically. Rick Ross Is Not On Par With 50.
Rick Ross Would Be A Fool To Believe This Shit Over, Look How Long He Done Dragged This Fat Joe Shit Out.
He Just Needs To Burn All Others CD’s He Owns And Go Head 1st With GRODT II.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:35 am
But My Balls I want Kanye’s chilluns
May 29th, 2009 at 11:44 am
honestly?
May 29th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Damn man said that shit dont come in 4xl stop that fat boi lmao. Ross is a fruit cup, 50 doesn’t even have to rap to smash him.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Ummmm… unless his contract with Interscope says that Interscope is responsible for magically finding a fountain of talent and injecting some into him, then I don’t think Interscope dropped the ball at all. The 90’s are over, and so are the days of a million no-name no-talent rappers poppin up every 5 seconds and going multi-platinum. These days its going to take a hell of a lot more than good promotion to get records to sell. Its the survival of the fittest and a lot don’t fit.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Well I wanna smoke with Brotha/er Lynch Hung. Do not know what ya’ll niggas on
May 29th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
@ thewiz: your a fuccing joke if you thing the talent today from artist even compares to that of early 2000’s and late 90’s. Let me guess you bangin jibbs in your ride lmfao! get the fuck outta here wit ignorant statements like that.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
It don’t take talent to make it toda in rap, all you need is a couple chains around your neck, some gold teeth and to act like a fuccin bafoon and your in. TOP OF THE RINGTONE CHARTS lamez
May 29th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
@ #10 Can it!
He said “Jibbs”. LOL!
May 29th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
THIS NIGGA’S TIGHT!!! HAHAHAHA.. SON HAD HIS ASS CLENCHED THE ENTIRE TIME! HAHAHA.. I BET HE SHITTED OUT A GALLSTONE. KEEP A TIGHT ASS NIGGA, G-UNIT’S FINISHED. DUDE ASKED ABOUT THE ENTIRE G-UNIT AS SON IGNORED EVERYONE BUT 50. LOL.. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO CHECK HOMEBOY’S BLOOD PRESSURE.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
@noelle. LoL. we all know Kanye wont have any chilluns, for obvious reasons.
What u know about Brotha Lynch? “Its baby eatin season”. LOL
May 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
^^
May 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
When they were selling 8 million everytime out it was 50 Cent “Interscope”Jackson and now that they selling 100k everytime out it’s Interscope’s fault?
So all of a sudden Interscope don’t want to sell 8 million,they rather settle with a 100k?
How about y’all just ain’t as hot anymore?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
^^Dave cut the record down to the bone!^^
May 29th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
lol wtf u talkin bout?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@16. Good point.
I guess these niggas thought they would be on top forever. If 50 was such a “genuis”, he would of known that. I mean, damn, Master P did tell the stupid nigga that shit.
Why didnt 50 pass on the wisdom.
All his employees are in lookin like “whats going on, anybody heard anything, should we try to find work elsewhere”.
Did yall notice he didnt blame Jimmy Iovine? He blamed the employees. He must didnt know that Jimmy has the final word on all decisions. So why would he blame the employees for Gunit’s problems at Interscope and not Jimmy?
What a bitch ass nigga.
DAMN! smh
May 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
@Dave. That ol Run-Dmc shit
and now they got me rockin on the microphone
May 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
@ Can it!: U don’t know enough to challenge me.
If you were actually able to comprehend what you read then you would’ve known that my point was not to compare the talent but to compare how easy things were back in the late 90’s early 2000’s. Weather you had talent or not, you could get put on and easily sell a million plus with no problem.
It was that fast money that attracted all these over night rappers and eventually over saturated the market. Now the gig is up! fans are bored, the rhymes aint captivating, the real are blending in with the fake. Its gonna take a whole lot more than heavy promotion to sell records again. You gonna need outstanding talent or abilities to go multi-plat these days and unless you got it AINT NOBODY taking no losses by investing you.
Now go bang your mother upside her head and tell her that the nigga who was almost ya daddy but she wanted to swallow just dropped some science on your dumb ass.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Hahaha..Shy Went Off..
May 29th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Gucci dont make that shit in 4x. Is he telling Rick Ross that shit or his homeboy, K Slay?
Why nobody in his crew say shit about K Slay rocking those old as Daper Dan suits?
I seen him wear the exact same suit in Louis, Gucci, and MCM.
Anybody that knows K Slay, know what I’m talkin about. LOL
May 29th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
them niggas sucked from the beginning,you got 80’s artist that still tour and make money,talent=longevity in any business,them ass clowns lack talent including their mush mouth leader he’s a munkey lol
May 29th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
@ atlantabyrdgang ; I dont think there’s one rapper in the whole world that makes more money than 50 touring. 50 tours all around the fuckin globe…
May 29th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Sha kept it real…….
For those here that make jokes then u must be ignorant to what the real music biz is like….
Your favorite rapper CO Ross is in the RED and owes Def Jam money…..Believe dat!
May 29th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
TheWiz Says:
May 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
@ Can it!: U don’t know enough to challenge me.
If you were actually able to comprehend what you read then you would’ve known that my point was not to compare the talent but to compare how easy things were back in the late 90’s early 2000’s. Weather you had talent or not, you could get put on and easily sell a million plus with no problem.
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How do you sound right now? Yes, the economy is bad and people download a lot now, but that’s b/c artists come out with hot songs, not hot albums. There were way more classic albums put out in that time period then now!! You needed talent and not swag or a hot ringtone to make it back then. Of course there were One-Hit Wonders. That will go on for all time, but the internet has given shine to artists that labels would have never messed with. It could be a good thing, but as of late it’s a definite bad thing. People are coming up without having had to put in work and that “gotta have it now” attitude is bringing hip hop as a whole down. I’m not saying it’s dead. It’s just too many artists are going mainstream before they had time to learn and master the craft.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
When was the last time Gunit had a hit?
(and remeber, 50 is not ON gunit. He is ON Shady/Aftermath),.
Niggas should have seen this coming.
Jimmy I is not a fool. He still has 50 to drain till the last drop.
And believe it or not, Em is not hip hop. He is a pop artist, so he has a couple more albums that will possibly go at least platinum.
Damn, “Last Drop” should be the name of 50s next cd because its over in the music department. Maybe the other bullshit will work out for him.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
@LatinKing.
Rick Ross sold 150,000 the first week. Def Jam gave him a mill.
If you know how to apply math, you can see that money was made the 1st week out.
150,000 at $10 a cd. 150,000 x 10= 1,500,000. that means they are at a $500,000 profit the 1st week. The rest is gravy. How is that in the red? Def Jam made a killin with Jada and Ross.
Fake ass “Latin King”. You not from the “People’s Nation”
And thats from a real “4CH”
May 29th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
yall know every rap group has to fall and g unit had a hell of a run, but 50cent still will go on and do what he does.
i noticed the new rap groups dont seem to be getting much of a break, lil waynes young money isnt taking over, skull gang seems mellow, forget rick ross’ crew he lost all creditability. Whose left? There isnt any excitement in any new groups.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I’m sure the internet would help 50 out at least, even though his group doesn’t have an interscope backing i mean is niggaz smokin? It’s not that easy to tear down a big empire like g-unit they still have ground on stuff they already built and plus money from other ventures getting money even without the rap side not doing too well in sales so i know it’ll stay viable for a while. 50 and them gonna eat regardless stop hating g unit has became a another big hiphop super empire like wu-tang or master p no limit da limit or whatever its called now. Sh*t they could even make movies to get that cinema money off the name alone.
Sha money snapped tho on tha real
May 29th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
@ My 2 cents
Yea there are a bunch of classic albums from the late 90’s and early 2000’s, but that’s also the time period that the easy money started flowing and rappers got lazy. Rappers got label deals and started to take on the roles of executives when they aint know what they was doing. They fucked up a lotta money from the parent labels and quickly turned the game into a “do anything for a quick buck” gimmick. They sold out! Money came before quality and it opened the doors for all these bullshit no-talent rappers dats out right now. Its unfortunate that the some of the good gotta suffer with the bad, but times have changed and the gimmicks of yesterday and producing big money today….niggaz can’t be pissed at the record label cause the mainstream aint buying your shit no more and the record company don’t wann loose money investing in u.
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May 29th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Sha Money is right. Thats why some of theses new artists take so long to come out with a album causes the record labels heads dont know how to market. Jay-Z, Em, FIF, Dre, Snoop are all BRAND NAMES. They make $$$ off they name alone. Its NOT like the 90’s or early 2000’s anymore.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
@28 and 29
how is Em a pop artists
when he has the title as the most paid/ best RAPPER alive
hav u listened to the Eminem show …..does that sound like a britney spears album to you ??
the man has incredible rap songs like “mocking bird”, “stan”, and “lose yourself”
and you gon call him a pop artist
thas a disrespect to the entire nation of hip hop
but anyways
as far as the 50 thing goes
i respect 50, but he knows his dominance in the music world is over
thas why he called his album “before i self destruct” as in before its all over
and lastly
where did u get that info on ross earnings
artist normally only get 5-7 % per cd
lets say we take 5%
that means he makes 50 cent per cd sold if ithe cd is 10 dollars
50 cent x 150,000 = 75, 000
plus off of that earned percentage he still has to pay off recording fees, video, marketing, etc the artist gets paid last
where did you get a million dollars from ?????????
the nigga does not make that
only big artist like jay-z, Em get the 50/50 deal
which $5 per cd if the cd is $10
so, $5 x 150,000 = $750,000
even with the 50/50 deal he couldnt reach a million hahahahahah
i still dont get it …..where did u get a million dollars from man ???/?hahahahahah
anyways man
-Aruba
May 29th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
@ TheWiz: You got that completly backwards! Back then it took actual talent, induviduality, and a solid album to be revered in hip hop. If anything TODAY IS THE DAY AND AGE OF THE OVERNIGHT RAPPER & FAST MONEY!. How many times now a dayz to you hear a rapper on a countdown one month that you don’t hear from again the next. I can list countless artist ; dj unk (wheres that nigga at wit hiz little one hit) , D4L(ghost), you get the point cuz I can continue on homie? early 2000’s every artist had they own sound / luda and dtp , missy elliot and Timbo, 50 & dre, nelly and the st. lunitics, weezy and cashmoney, RAP WAS FUCCIN FIRE BACK THEN now its all the same (autotune) sound and the same ole namez every song – lil wayne, kanye, t pain(actually kinda quiet lately), and ATL dance muzik. YOU LOOSE AND BY THE WAY IT’S “WETHER OR NOT” NOT “WEATHER OR NOT”
May 29th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
And I love how yall get so excited over 50 not running rap anymore “haha 50’s career is over” stfu this rap shit is secondary at this point for fif and the money is chump change. All your favorite rappers if they were to loose they rap career they would loose their livelyhood, so whoz really eatin.
“I AINT EVEN GOT TO RAP NOW LIFE IZ MADE, SAID I AIN;T EVEN GOT TO RAP I’M FILTHY MAYNE/ I’M LAUGHING STRAIGHT TO THE BANK WIT THIS” Curtis Jackson
May 29th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
sha is a real nigga
i undastnd wer he cmin from
but da group shit aint poppin no more
name one rap group dats poppin rite now
May 29th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
LASTLY: One of you said whenz the last time fif had a hit; staright to the bank, I get Money (hit of the sumer), funeral muzik. Not to mention before weezy sold a millie in one week the last Musician to do that YOU GUESSED IT 50 fuccin Cent
May 29th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
G-Unit ain’t dead
look @TOS that shit sold 250k with no promo and 2 low budget videos
G-Unit as a record label has sold over 10 million records in less than 10 year,people forget about that fact…even if their shit flop they all have their lifes made (well maybe buck not lol)
May 29th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
beg for mercy (3x plat)
hunger for more (2x plat)
straight outta cashvlle (1x plat)
the documentary (3x plat)
thoughts of a predicate felon (gold)
get rich movie soundtrack (1x plat)
blood money (230k)
rotten apple (350k)
buck the wolrd (400k)
TOS (250K)
shit they had a hell of a run
May 29th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
I didnt say Rick Ross made that. Def Jam made that budget back. I dont know what they gave Ross out the deal but I know they made 1.5 million the 1st week. And if he only made what you said, thats cool too, in the 1st week. we know he made the other 250 the next week, and thats cool too. And before it falls out your gay ass mouth, Im not a Rick Ross fan or Em. And yes Em is pop. Just because a nigga rap, doesnt mean he is hiphop.(mc hammer, vanilla ice, soulja boy, bow wow). most of Em’s audience is outside of the hiphop community.(wich is cool). he is a pop artist who happens to rap. You rarely hear a Em on an urban station. thats why i say he is pop and not hip hop. But i give it to him, the white boy really can rap. But not hiphop in my opinion.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
@Aruba
May 29th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
HE GOT A MILLION DOLLARS FROM HIS BUDGET PROB RECORDING COSTS/VIDEO PRODUCTION/ALBUM PROMO WHICH IS SOMTHIN TOTALLY DIFF LMAO………….
May 29th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
BOO HOO! Aint no more money in hip hop. Niggas drained it all dry. Now they scrambling trying to figure out how to bring those golden years back and aint nothing working.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:28 am
man you on sum bullshit
how you gon put Em in the same category as vanilla ice, soulja boy, and mc hammer
is you crazy
and how you gon say his fans are outside the hip hop community
why because their white ?????
those same white people are the ones who made 50 who he is
what you gon say …..50 is pop too ???
i bet you gon say kanye is pop too???
man the hio hop community is global
europeans, caribbean, all the way out in japan
those niggaz dont even know what the rappers saying on the track
but they want to be part of the community …….you cant deny them that
“the white boy really can rap. But not hiphop in my opinion”
thas what you said
how can somebody rap and not be part of hip hop
rapping is a part of hip hop ….halllooo
and dont get it mixed up hip hop is not postive rap
hip hop is the culture on a whole
rap is just a small part of it
you know know …i dont suppourt the soulja boy music
but even he is part of hip hop ……hip hop created …..
without hip hop there would b no soulja boy
its like hipp hop is the father
its like being the father to 2 kids …one is nas …the other is soulja boy
you may like one over the other ……but there still both you r children
and yea on the ross thing
those are the facts…..thats what artists make
dont believe the hype they rap about …..do your research
but you know …u allowed to hav your own opinion
and ill respect that
is just that shit pissed me off ,, and i had to put my own opinion out there
-Aruba
May 30th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Sit down Sha, you and that whole click was wack from the beginning. What killed your click, was a lack of humbleness. Niggahs really believed they shit didn’t stink like the next man’s shit does. Straight homo’s, trying to get free promotion off of disrespect. That particular formula is over. Sha is mad because them tall T.I.’s is turning they back on yall punk asses. Fisty is forever a federal agent in my eyes.
May 30th, 2009 at 6:00 am
man you on sum bullshit
how you gon put Em in the same category as vanilla ice, soulja boy, and mc hammer
is you crazy
and how you gon say his fans are outside the hip hop community
why because their white ?????
those same white people are the ones who made 50 who he is
what you gon say …..50 is pop too ???
i bet you gon say kanye is pop too???
man the hio hop community is global
europeans, caribbean, all the way out in japan
those niggaz dont even know what the rappers saying on the track
but they want to be part of the community …….you cant deny them that
“the white boy really can rap. But not hiphop in my opinion”
thas what you said
how can somebody rap and not be part of hip hop
rapping is a part of hip hop ….halllooo
and dont get it mixed up hip hop is not postive rap
hip hop is the culture on a whole
rap is just a small part of it
you know know …i dont suppourt the soulja boy music
but even he is part of hip hop ……hip hop created …..
without hip hop there would b no soulja boy
its like hipp hop is the father
its like being the father to 2 kids …one is nas …the other is soulja boy
you may like one over the other ……but there still both you r children
and yea on the ross thing
those are the facts…..thats what artists make
dont believe the hype they rap about …..do your research
but you know …u allowed to hav your own opinion
and ill respect that
is just that shit pissed me off ,, and i had to put my own opinion out there
-Aruba
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!
May 30th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Sha Money sounds upset…GGGG UNOT has fallen and they can’t get up!! Why he mad at Ross for dropping that classic Maybach muzic shit? I don’t care if his Polo is fake, that platinum music that he dropped isn’t. 50’s career as a rapper is dead, coffin! G-Unit ain’t been shit since Game moved back to the west. Tell Sha to calm his nerves and smoke on that blunt his man is rollin up in the back ground…..don’t be mad at Interscope, be mad that your bosses rap game is straight BOOTY! Fuck 50…I love to watch the down fall of a nigga that deserves every bad thing coming to him!!
May 30th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
@ aruba
you just got hella mad for no real reason. in his opinion em is pop, he said just b/c he raps doesn’t mean he’s not pop. pop music is an encompassing genre. there are country singers that are pop, pop means popular. It also includes some r&b, rock, punk, rap, etc… sorry but it’s true. in any major market urban radio station you are not gonna hear much eminem. his singles are pop singles, you have to admit that much. we made you is pop, the real slim shady is pop, etc. that’s why he went so hard on TRL trying to dismiss that pop cloud that he is under. think about how many of his videos were retired, it was like britney spears, nsync, backstreet boys, lil bow wow… long after the song was played out, people were still voting it on the countdown.
now for the songs on the albums that he doesn’t release those get more hip hop.. but you obviously sound like you love him (not in that kinda way, i mean you’re a big fan) so you should happy he’s pop. it’s given him a huge market and made him lots of money. but in my opinion he’s an act that can rap. he has this i’ma make fun of people thing that is not real hip hop. it’s kinda like a clown. like it was cool on the block to play the dozens but you weren’t s’posed to put that on your album and release it as a single. but when he’s introspective that’s when he get the respect of real hip hop fans. it’s his own fault that he’s more pop than hip hop.
that was like a thesis.. sorry it was hella long.. and not even on the sha money post, my bad to the rest of y’all.
May 30th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
@50
aiight i agree with you
much respect
-Aruba
May 30th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
@ 49 BLANKCHECK: your name fits you quite writing checks that you can’t cash I ate niggaz like you that get on here an say shit that you wouldn’t dare say to sha money’s face. Stick to just commenting instead of talk tough knowin damn well your ass would be asking for autographs if you ran into the unit nigga
May 30th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
@ Aruba and @ Real Talk
Your math is off. First off doesn’t matter how big of an artists you are on a huge label like Interscope/Universal, your not getting a 50/50 split. Secondly, after expenses, record labels only make about $6.42 per CD sold. It works on a point system which is totally different. An album is 100 points. Points are split up among producers, writers, and the artists. Now, the artist doesn’t receive any money off of their share of points until the label has made back ALL THE MONEY they spent on producing the album (packaging, marketing, distribution, etc.). So you can actually go Gold as an artist and not make any money off of the physical sales of your album.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
damn y’all niggas REALLY B GATIN ON 50 AND ALL HIS MOVES…
COMON NEGROES GET A LIFE.. STOP FEELING SORRY FOR UR MISERABLE LIFE.. IT AINT 50”S FAULT THAT YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND U CANT GET OUTTA UR FUCKED UP HOOD..
May 30th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
FYI
GUNIT TOS WASN’T PROMOTED AT ALL.. NO RADIO SPIN IN LONDON UK AT ALL …
IS NOT JST GUNIT, INTERSCOPE BEEN MESSIN ABOUT WITH PLENTY ARTISTS…
say whatever u wanna say about G-unit but them negros SELL OUT SHOWS… THATS WHERE ARTISTS MAKE MONEY NOWADAYS.. NOT THE RECORD SALE.. fif gets pay AT LEAST 500K/SHOW …..
the other day he replaced michael jackson in CANNES.. HE HAD 6FIGS CHEQUE FOR THAT…..SO SALE OR NO SALE THE NIGGA IS GOOOOOD!
please negroes start thinking about making something happen for ya’ll instead of being on a ni**a di*k.. thats GAY
May 30th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
@Aruba. We cool. We all gotta vent sometimes. But i hope you see where im coming from.
@Ant EZ. My point is, that mill that was spent on his album was made back. How it gets split, none of us know. But Im almost positive that Rick and Def Jam will make money off of it, because if we like him or not, he is a platinum artist and he will at least do gold within a few months. Maybe not platinum, but gold is good. (I bet Rick will lie about how much he made if asked)LOL
May 30th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
oh he mad cuz i was stylin on him
May 30th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!
who ever posted that
thanks, i appreciate ur acknowledgment of my post
-Aruba
May 30th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
insert “cam’ron u mad gif”
May 31st, 2009 at 9:28 am
man to end all this 50 came in the game with a nice lead single wanksta,and a easy target in ja rule,now niggas sick of him banks suck,yayo suck even worse,they rode the dre,eminem new artist wave but like most groups they got oversaturated,they have limited skills and can’t re-invent themselves or have enough talent to captivate the youth so don’t balme anybody but them,if any of them had a fanbase clamoring for their records they’d be putting them out.the end,and 50 cent has transcended rap his name will fill stadiums but not in the u.s.
May 31st, 2009 at 5:00 pm
@60 atlbyrdHAG: youre a dope. Go check the itenerary fif’s been sellin out in the U.S all this year and thats a fact. None the less he’z one of the few rappers who CAN’T perform in no rinky dink ass club because the turnout is too large, he has to perform in LARGE VENUES AND STADIUMS, PLUS WHAT OTHER RAPPERS ARE FILLING STADIUMS OVERSEAS OF THEIR OWN NAME ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
May 31st, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Last time I checked Lil Wayne went to perform in London and got booed off the stage. T-pain wanted to perform in Jamica and had to cancel cuz they was sendin threats his way. Meanwhile 50’s out in Africa chillin wit the Mandela’s poppin shots off in the crowd to get hiz chain back, come on now ppl keep it real and stop hating
May 31st, 2009 at 9:36 pm
The Wiz is a WiZ! Troublesome gets it! Man Down too…
My 2 cents ain’t 2cents… Come on, work on that originality bone!
And the way Sha money talks in this vid makes me believe what Buck said about the royalties even more!
June 1st, 2009 at 6:03 pm
G-unit pretty much been garbage since game was dismissed. 50 aint had a hot record in forever.He been on his own dick so hard he aint realized that his music sucks.They had a good run but so has a lot of washed up has beens.Millions sold is millions SOLD.What the fuck you selling now?