Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was a recent guest on Conan, where he broached a bevy of Hip Hop related topics. At one point during the interview, the Power executive, who never fails to speak his mind, compared Kanye West’s confidence to that of Donald Trump’s.
With a menacing smile plastered across his face, 50 recalled all of the powerful figures West has drawn parallels to over the years, including Michael Jordan, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs and Jesus.
“Like Kanye will compare himself to Steve Jobs, Picasso, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, Walt Disney,” he said. “I think this is a big part of building your self-esteem but building it astronomically. You see yourself as the greatest of everything.”
Conan replied, “He’s doing the same thing …” before 50 jumped in with, “… as Trump. It’s the same thing. It comes from that portion of your career where nobody actually believes in it. You have to have so much confidence for it to continue to exist. It builds up so high, he just had a harder time before that.”
Elsewhere in the interview, 50 also touched on his comments regarding JAY-Z’s 4:44, which he compared to “golf course music” last July, shortly after the release of Hov’s 13th studio album.
“Hip Hop culture is connected to youth culture,” he said, “The kids gon’ bring new, innovative stuff. He just had the maturity bled off into the material. It’s cool for me, like in my car, I’m listening to it but the kids, I don’t see them actually listening to it.
“I felt like Carlton Banks listening to it.”
Watch the clips above.
Before yall say he is always talking about jay z, why do people constantly ask him about jay?
Both Kanye and Trump share one thing: They both have their jevvish handlers who pull their strings (also i believe 50 Cent might be a gorilla, just look at him).
U are a strange fella
You disagree both of them are surrounded by jevvs? Hello, Rosenberg, Kushner..?
You must have mistaken Kanye for Eminem. Rosenberg is Eminem’s jevvish handler. Kanye of course has his but i don’t know his name.
If anything, I’ve always seen 50 as the black Trump. If someone famous says something about him he will get on Twitter and start talking a gang of shit about them, like they have the same personality flaws where they thrive on controversy but hate criticism. On top of that they both have great business minds and tons of money. 50 used to openly say he thought Trump was “amazing” (an actual quote), and I think the still respects him but he can’t openly say that in public anymore or he’ll get dragged by everyone (plus his old boss recently said on record that any Trump supporters can’t be his friend).
Kanye on the other hand, more than likely, was just looking for controversy.
Exactly…50 is almost an exact match in personality to Trump….on another note, the only reason he even relevant is Power (only reason I can see Kanan still being alive after all that shit, he should be dead, but thats another complaint). My issue is with his old ass and alot of other old rappers and cats on the block. Boosie 34 but want to fuss about 444, 50 cent 42 fucking years old. Im 36 and even though I did my dirt way back, I matured and grew the fuck up. This whole concept about 40+ year old shooters is bs. My problem is these cats dont want to grow the fuck up. They dont have to rap like 444 but this animosity on it might stem from the fact that mentally its fucking with their securities
You sound like 50 cent babymama, like a b8ch…its not that serious man, you need to relax
Let me guess…maybe in your 20’s?? Thing is, when you get to that age, it IS that serious….won’t know it til you get there…
Let me guess…maybe in your 20’s?? Thing is, when you get to that age, it IS that serious….won’t know it til you get there…Real
Sorry was trying to reply to lol or whoever. its replying to your comment..my bad
LOL!
Kanye has a big ego but he’s not a sociopath like Trump. Before ya’ll say that 50 is like a sociopath, know that he had a really hard childhood that affected his personality a lot, but is much more empathetic than a man like Trump.
4:44 was just above average, don’t kid yourself, it was basically a 50 year old dude trying to drop the knowledge that people pick up by their early thirties. Jay Z sounds like he is talking down to people on that album and that we should be grateful for him reiterating common knowledge.
I would say his last decent album was the Massacre album from 2005. After that shit really went downhill when it comes to his music catalog.
50 who?
Kanye outsold you, stay retired or watever the fuck your doing these days Nothing!!
Revelation:
50 Cent, Kanye, Donald Trump, Floyd Mayweather, Charlie Sheen. Share the same personality traits. It’s called border line narcissism that only great men can possess.
Also they all got dat tiger blood aka HIV too right?
not to mention kanye and Donald have the same amount of talent when it comes to rapping. who listens to kanyes garbage anymore? he hasn’t had a decent song since college dropout. and that was just okay music. there was not good rapping on that album. at least not from kanye kardashian
You lost when you said 4:44 is straight classic.