I never jumped on the anti-50 bandwagon. I bought "The Massacre" in 2005 when it came out and there was already a sizeable backlash against him by then. However, when "Curtis" came out in 2007 I didn't buy and I haven't bought an album of his since. That was when there was a noticeable drop in the quality, to me.
And I don't support anything with Justin Timberlake on, for the most part since I dislike him intensely and find his weak-ass falsetto irritating. So to me, as soon as I heard that lame-ass "Ayo Technology" song, I wasn't fucking with the album. The following year, the second G-Unit album dropped, "Terminate On Sight" or whatever. I actually quite liked the single "I Like The Way She Do It", but as a whole the album was terrible. So I basically stopped checkin' for what 50 was doing for those reasons.
As for Ja, "Venni Vetti Vecci" is a classic, and I actually think "Rule 3:36" is pretty good overall too. Then the third album came out, and all of a sudden dude thinks he's 'Pac and does that god-awful remake of "Pain". Yeah, you lost me right there Ja, although the album after that had that "Thug Lovin" joint with Bobby Brown, I fucks with Bobby so I dig that cut. And after that? His next two albums had no 7 Aurelius productions on them so I wasn't fucking with them aside from that "New York" joint.
"Pain Is Love 2" is dropping next month and it's the first time I've cared about a Ja album in years. 7 Aurelius is back motherfuckers. I think he's one of the most under-rated producers in the game.
Oh, and Coonie, since you posted "The Reign", I'm gonna post where the sample comes from ("Africa" by Toto) cos it's one of my favorite songs of all time and I listened to it like 10 times in a row the other day. Fuckyeah.