50 Cent Claims King of New York, Says Jay-Z’s “Beyoncé’s Husband”
I haven’t enjoyed Fifty’s music as much as I enjoy his spectacle. No one has the same drive for controversy that Fifty has where you see them actively seeking out confrontation like he does. Fifty is also engaging and charismatic too. I would like to see what his day entails on a regular basis. He has all of these mini-empires to attend to while making records. I imagine Fifty Cent to be a more hands-on mogul than Jay-Z is. Fifty seems like the guy that wants to personally hand the checks off to his subordinates so he can look them directly in their eyes and gauge their loyalty. Don’t forget how Fifty creamed on Young Buck when he learned that Buck was being disrespectful towards Fifty on some downlow squirrelspeak shit.
A few weeks ago Jay-Z threw a salvo over Fifty’s bow when he said that “No one is scared of Fifty Cent.”. That was clearly a shot at Fifty’s remarks re: KanYe’s VMA interruption. This rap shit has become a queer, melodramatic soap opera where the raptors have a generic Pavlovian response whenever someone mentions their name.
Fifty’s claim that he is the king of New York doesn’t even take into consideration the real king, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, shut down Fifty this summer for his planned and overhyped ’40 projects homecoming’. Didn’t Fifty grow up in a house with his grandmother? Fifty was never a dude to let the truth ruin the hype. Bullet fragments become nine shots and grandma’s house becomes a New York City public housing development. What happens tho’ when all of this hype exceeds the artistic output? Andy Warhol turns into Marc Kostabi.
Instead of vying for the kingdom Fifty needs to regain his street authority with another position, say Chancellor, Commissioner or Comptroller. In the rap game, kings lose crowns.
if you delete the 3-4 radio records off that new album, you get a gritty new york beats/angry sounding MC/gangster LP that is at the very least, entertaining to listen to. I’ve had 4 spins of it already, and it’s more entertaining than anything since ‘power of the dollar’ (eff a GRODT)
I plan on peeping, whether purchase or bootleg is TBD, but I’m going to check him out…
On another note, I won’t front on this mans business savvy. The ‘Net is buzzing like worker bees right now. Dude’s marketing strategies work, every time. Sales may not indicate it, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t know how to get folks saying his name. If this dude was “Candyman” 100,000 people would’ve been slain in their mothers’ basements today alone.
I think the Kostabi reference went over their heads.
“I think the Kostabi reference went over their heads.”
Ha, I won’t front, I VAGUELY recognized the name, but I I had to Google! New Yorkers know their big-money artists!
“Fifty seems like the guy that wants to personally hand the checks off to his subordinates so he can look them directly in their eyes and gauge their loyalty” okay everyone gather round oh sorry buck i get all your checks until 2016. go do another album or something to make money.
Is 5o still even considered an emcee? Meh…not so much. However, he is DEFINITELY the king if Attention-Whores. He doesn’t sell albums like talking about anymore, but he maintains relevancy by being as publicly assinine as possible…and has found much success in doing so.
“but he maintains relevancy by being as publicly assinine as possible…and has found much success in doing so.”
^^That has “talk show host” written all over it. Couldn’t you just imagine him behind a desk, asking celebrities the questions everybody wants to know, but won’t ask
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hosting an awesome ‘Scare Tactics/Punk’d hybrid.
dam! ‘m always late….
but all thru my travels today thru the internets, i keep runnin into 50. its like a cyber graff artist came thru, and his tag was 50’s face. he caught a lot of fame today…
(how that sounds like i could mean both of them was planned…)
I personally dig BISD more than BP3. But we should all know by now that 50 aint stupid. He’s just trying to draw JayZ into his trap. Will it work? We’ll see..
^^^ T. Grands….man, that would prolly be a really interesting show, except that he might start “beefing” with his guests.
@ bboycult: that’s the beauty of what 5o does. He hasn’t made any really good music in a LONG time, but still, as you said, he’s tagged all over the internets nonetheless. That further reinforces my point that he’s no longer an emcee but is quite the marketing gimmick.
@ Sic: Yeah…he’s trying to draw Jigga in. Draw in Jigga, sell an assload of albums.
Fif’s new album is not bad at all.
Yo D, I enjoyed this post!
“Fifty seems like the guy that wants to personally hand the checks off to his subordinates so he can look them directly in their eyes and gauge their loyalty.” -hilarious!
“This rap shit has become a queer, melodramatic soap opera where the raptors have a generic Pavlovian response whenever someone mentions their name.” -true, true
“Bullet fragments become nine shots and grandma’s house becomes a New York City public housing development.” -PR people gets paid over time.
Andy Warhol turns into Marc Kostabi. – you know people were mad at Kostabi because he was getting money and smart enough to use assistants to increase production.