50 Cent
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- 2cents0
hahaha...good one gcabral...good one!
if you opened your mind a little you would find that groups with a message like that of tribe and l.o.n.s. do exist today and are making more waves on the 'mainstream' front.
go look up...
Ugly Duckling
J5
Black Eyed Peas
Blackalicious
Latyrx
L.A. Symphony
Dialated...just to name a few
- unknown0
are you kidding me? this guy is corporate garbage not even to be considered music.
- Carty0
education... love that...
i'm from the old school as well... 32.. gulp. but been involved in the urban scene since 1990, and before with the music... i listen to everything... rock to reggae to hip hop to r/b to radiohead.... but i am just pleased that ghetto people are rising up... whether i like EM or 50 or not... i love the fact that they are mainstream... i love the fact that every kid knows them...
i dont care if cats are white black or green... i just think we are all the same... what they use to divide us now is economy, cashflow, money. its where your heart is that counts... gcabral has good points, it seems we will blow up the earth first anyways.... 2cents... white or black... you're educated, you dont talk shit and you own your opinions... respect.
- gcabral0
hey 2cent,
are you a 12yr old white girl? cause that's who will be hearing this album and others like it.
i give props to rap artists for sure. i'm 31yr old and like the old school stuff myself.
but it really trips me out to see jay z on mtv rappin bout his bitches in front of these teenage white girls in the crowd. not to mention the young fellas as well.
no doubt this stuff is mainstream. rap has been mainstream for some time now.
but the media is giving this gangsta type rappers way too much power.
what happened to the tribe ya'll.. leaders of the new skool??
when i hear eminem.. it shocks me.. i give him props for his style and such.. but damn.. the content is harsh.. reality or not.
he talks about killing his wife.. and then these little girls go out and buy the albums..
amazing..
we are doomed as a society..
we will destroy ourselves if we don't destroy the planet first.
- 2cents0
carty: i hear what you're saying, i for one wasn't sensationalizing 50's hard life by starting this thread...more just seeing what others think of his new album.
do people really think living in projects or being shot at is cool? this is new to me, then again i have been into the 'urban' music scene for quite some time...far before it was considered cool...and guess what, i don't look like you.
- Carty0
funniest thread ever. where is k77 and fatoe when you need em?
i have so much to comment on these comments on hip hop culture, but i cant stop laughing...
i've been in it for a minute, urban is the new revolution.
funny that how i'm livin is suddenly mainstream culture... funny how 50 gettin shot and almost dyin is seen as cool.
he's not tryin to be cool for none of ya'll. he's tryin to live. he's the real deal and got out of the streets with his brains and his music. whether anyone you know listens or not. pac and biggie.... commentary on life on the other side of the tracks. a side the masses had never seen.
for along time urban music didnt appeal to the masses, only to peeps that looked like me. now in the new millenium, every kid knows the urban stars at the top of their game.
every kid rocks jersey's, listens to urban everything, reads the source, and starts threads like these....
juss so ya'll know, urban culture is here. poor peeps of all races rising out of their ghetto's and doing something positive has been happening ever since... marley was the first... 50 is the latest.
marley to 50. poor people rise up. juss know that none of these ghetto superstars wanna get dead. when ya got nothin, you gotta do something to live.
- 4cY0
shoot'em up rap stuff...
thx...not my kind of stuff.
- graham4140
Ja Rule: Holla!!!!!!!!!!
did u know that that doll that they throw away is of Ja Rule...imma find a pic of it...
- 2cents0
shit damn...i haven't even checked his site...not too bad, not too bad...
- kpl0
ja...! bwahahaahahah...
I'm sorry. the only time I see people getting scared of ja is if he took too much ecstacy and really want to start giving hugs.
- 2cents0
he talks about getting shot up in the dvd that came with the cd...he even takes you through a walkthrough of sorts where it happened.
- 4cY0
2cents,
could you hook me up with a link of that 50 cent cd? What is it...I have been away from news in that area of culture...thx.
- graham4140
i feel you on that "real" thug bullshit.... i guess there is a little thug in all of us if thats the case cause last time i recalled he wasnt the only MF getting shot and goin through hardships....
oh well....what can we do?
- graham4140
I wonder what all the people he takin shots at will do...he similar to eminem with all the name callin and stuff...
but besides that he a pretty good rapper.
Listening to his old shit and his new shit trips me out how different he sounds after he got shot up....
I wonder who did it...Prolly Ja Rule lol
- kpl0
is it me, or does it seem like the mainstream media is gushing over 50? it's like, I read, "wow, he got shot nine times!" and "look, he's a *real* thug!"
- arlo0
That pic of him pointing the gat at me in the CD jacket is the scariest thing ever.
- 2cents0
haha...he sure is prometheus!
- gcabral0
it's so sad to think that millions of young impressionable children will get their hands on this album.. and others that spread the messages they do!
long live rock!
- unknown0
he's 25 times the man you are 2cents
;)
- 2cents0
his first single off the new album 'wanksta' is prolly one of the weakest tunes...he's got some really good flow...look for the 50cent/biggie colabo...very tight. i'm assuming it was produced after biggies death.
new album also has a dvd, kind of a biography...this guy is a true thug fo sheezy.
G-Unit!