50 Cents Gettin Shot : carreer wise a good thing or a bad thing?
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it's the whole reason eminem signed him. eminem even said it was his story behind the music that made him sign him. when 50 first got signed by em everybody was just talking about how cool he was for surviving 9 shots and everybody was saying that 50 wouldn't live another month and all this crazy shit. it's the whole reason he is rich as fuck. if he never got shot he would just be another ja rule. no hate just the truth. people are obsessed wit image way more than talent. peace
Hold up, hold up....
While getting shot was a component of 50's success, it wouldn't have meant shit had he not handled himself the way he did afterwards.
So, he built a buzz through JMJ's label, right? signed w/ columbia, made Power of the Dollar, and got shot before it released. Then, columbia abandoned him. At this point, it prolly seemed like the WORST thing that could have happenned.
Its what he did next that almost entirely contributes to his success. People forget - i dunno why, either they're not form here or they're not in tune to music on the street - that 50 formed G-Unit and created, at the time, the next big NYC movement. You had Roc-a-fella, Ruff Ryders; G-Unit was the heir apparent to these if you remember. I heard Funk Flex say on an interview lately, which i totally agree with, that when a G-Unit mixtape came out, everyone NEEDED to get it. The energy on these tapes was absoltely insane. People KNEW they were hot before they got them. It was crazy.
Whoever was sayin how 50 has mostly white fans now, you're right, but in the post-Columbia pre-Shady/Aftermath era, he had maybe the LARGEST black fanbase of ANY rapper not on a major label. That's correct. People just now were seeming to make it sound like "he was hot, he got shot, and Em and Dre were like. 'Oh shit lets get him'". Not at all. He established himself and G-Unit as the NEXT HUGE THING in the rap game. It was pretty much a bidding war for him; every label wanted him, and Em and Dre put the most appealing offer on the table. Then you got GRODT, which sadly is the last classic album we've had. I'd getting shot influenced his music for the better, but ultimately it was his actoins after he got shot which attribute to his success.
While getting shot was a component of 50's success, it wouldn't have meant shit had he not handled himself the way he did afterwards.
So, he built a buzz through JMJ's label, right? signed w/ columbia, made Power of the Dollar, and got shot before it released. Then, columbia abandoned him. At this point, it prolly seemed like the WORST thing that could have happenned.
Its what he did next that almost entirely contributes to his success. People forget - i dunno why, either they're not form here or they're not in tune to music on the street - that 50 formed G-Unit and created, at the time, the next big NYC movement. You had Roc-a-fella, Ruff Ryders; G-Unit was the heir apparent to these if you remember. I heard Funk Flex say on an interview lately, which i totally agree with, that when a G-Unit mixtape came out, everyone NEEDED to get it. The energy on these tapes was absoltely insane. People KNEW they were hot before they got them. It was crazy.
Whoever was sayin how 50 has mostly white fans now, you're right, but in the post-Columbia pre-Shady/Aftermath era, he had maybe the LARGEST black fanbase of ANY rapper not on a major label. That's correct. People just now were seeming to make it sound like "he was hot, he got shot, and Em and Dre were like. 'Oh shit lets get him'". Not at all. He established himself and G-Unit as the NEXT HUGE THING in the rap game. It was pretty much a bidding war for him; every label wanted him, and Em and Dre put the most appealing offer on the table. Then you got GRODT, which sadly is the last classic album we've had. I'd getting shot influenced his music for the better, but ultimately it was his actoins after he got shot which attribute to his success.
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