50 Cent, who is gearing up to release The Beast Is G-Unit, the second G-Unit mixtape of the year, along with Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck and Kidd Kidd, says the group is going in a new direction with its music.
“The production has changed,” 50 Cent says in an interview with Billboard. “We’re going to start using some of the usual suspects for hits, at the present moment. [Fans] are going to feel the new energy connected to it.”
During the Billboard interview, 50 Cent also discusses how the impact of record sales has changed over the years.
“You know what you gotta do to sell a million records now?” he says. “My first album sold 13 million records…If the chart mattered now, I’d quit. Now, compared to that period, you can forget about it. The album [of mine] to sell the worst was the Curtis record, and Em just sold [for The Marshall Mathers LP 2] what I sold the first week on that album. It’s getting smaller and smaller as we go, but no one’s lost interest in great music.”
G-Unit is prepping The Beast Is G-Unit, a second in a series of mixtapes this year. The first, The Beauty Of Independence, was released in August.
RELATED: G-Unit’s “The Beast Is G-Unit” EP To Be Released October
times change and todays industry is shit just look at who popping right now LOL SMH
im i out of touch
no it must be the children
FUCK U FAG 50 GUNOT 4 LYFE UR CHARTS HAVENT MATTERED SINCE GAME DROPPED 300 BARZ!!!!
THIS BLOOD MONEY SHIT WILL BE DOPE AS FUCK LIKE ALL OF GAMES SHIT HE NEVER DISAPPOINTS ON ALBUMS OR MIXTAPES… CONSISTENT WITH CLASSIC ALBUMS!!!! GAME FUCKED GAY UNIT IN THE ASS AND KEPT IT PUSHIN JEEZY AND GAME 2 REALEST NIGGAZ IN THE INDUSTRY SINCE 05 FUCK BOYZ!!!!
SHUT THE FUCK UP FAGGET GAME DIDNT WANNA BEAT DURK LIL KID ASS…
THIS IS HIPHOP AND U FAGS LISTIN TO NIGGAZ LIKE LIL DURK IM FROM CHI RAQ FUCK THAT WEAK HALF RETARDED SHIT!!!! GAME A MUTHAFUCKIN BEAST THATS WHY HE WON YOU HOE ASS TONY YAYO!!! ENDED YOU FUCK NIGGAZ LONG AGO WITH 300 BARZ and Kept it PUSHIN ON YOU SOFT SINGIN GAY UNIT ASS NIGGAZ… and dont hit me with these fake ass game stripper fake blood got knocked out rumors … thats exactly what they are rumors… YOU FUCK NIGGAZ DONT KNOW REAL FROM FAKE TITTIES… GAME WILL SLAY UR FAVORITE RAPPER LYRICALLY AND IN THE STREETZ…
DRE and 50 did for Game The Same thing DRE and Em did for 50 so miss me wit that 50 made game shit bitch!!! Dre made all them niggaz only difference is Em and Game can rap and 50 just a lil NY SNITCH BITCH… GAME SHOULD KICK THE FUCKIN BUILDINS OVER AGAIN!!
tell me why the red album was good
Because It had Straight crack on it like Speakers on Blast, and Heavy Artilery with Beanie Sigel, and DJ Premier Produced Born In the Trap, just to name a few Great songs all around not 1 bad song on album a solid listen from beginning to end and game got sick fuckin lyrics
The RED album is Game’s weakest album. 2.5/5 at it’s best, which is only a few good songs. Ricky is a great one, for example.
@wooooooooo, Game was on the verge of being dropped by Dre when 50 got signed. Dre enlisted 50 to write games hooks because every song Game made was wack as fuck! The results were
1. How We Do
2. Hate it or luv it
3.Church for thugs
4. Special
5. Higher
7. Westside story
50 MADE Game! Meanwhile 50 and whoo kid mad multiple classic mix tapes alone and with G-unit which Eminem heard on the streets. Nothing in your faggot ass rant is factual. Kill yourself!
lol didnt animal ambition sell teh least? not curtis. corn ass mang
Nah, Before I self Destruct and Animal Ambition sold less than Curtis… and MMLP2 sold more than 2 mil. Curtis sold just one mil. so he’s lying in every sentence…
watch the interview, he wasnt talking about album sales, he was talking about critics considering curtis his worst album
The album [of mine] to sell the worst was the Curtis record”
That indicates album sales. And I believe critics are now split between animal ambition or curtis as the worst album.
“the album they said it was my worst album was the curtis record”
watch the video… the retard that wrote this article prolly has some hearing issues…
The album [of mine] to sell the worst was the Curtis record”
You know, its funny that you unit stans talk about ross lying when curtis is doing the exact same shit. Like someone else said, Before I self destruct went weak gold while animal abortion went wood. Meanwhile, Ross continues to go either gold or nearly gold with his albums.
cottdamn man, you can’t leave the bullsh$t alone for ONE DAY, smgdh
this article is lying… whatch the interview for yourself and you will hear 50 say that the “album considered the worst” [quality wise] was curtis… and it sold in its 1st week, the same as MMLP2
come back here when ross reach platinum level boi
Mastermind promo states that POM went platinum on your asses bitch. The rest are all gold (mastermind isn’t certified yet though should reach gold soon.)
Again, the promo lied because POM did not go platinum and only 4 Ross albums went gold, DTR and Mastermind aren’t gold and won’t be gold at all.
This site is full of hater damn so much hate 50 cent did a great performing at iheart radio but then again we need hater that mean he is doing a great to have any negative opinion lol 🙂
50 been hatin on Game since he out shined and outsold everyone besides him in the unit so fuck you!!!!!!! yeah the unit cause Game took the G with him when he left them bum ass fagget yayo and banks hahaha Game sayed them bitch niggaz wit no remorse and kept it pushin!!!! Those are jabs and jokes when he speaks of a reunion nigga has 30 million more than and other fuck boy in the unit, would generate more money but game isnt the Gunit nigga who needs a reunion!!!!!!!! so miss me wit that goofy shit I never seen Banks in no fuckin Rolls Ghost rented or owned lol!!!!!
@Gmann crack is wack my nigga!
5o iz a real nyc negga and imma luh nyc very muchos.
remember when 50 used to clown other ppl album sales.
karma is a bitch
It ain’t Karma, it’s just that the business has changed. People swear Rick Ross beat 50 Cent and Ross has never gone beyond Gold. Obviously sales aren’t the standard.
it’s karma. 50 cent is washed up.
Lil Wayne is still here. (debuted 1999)
Jay Z is still here. (debuted 1996)
Eminem is still here. (debuted 1996)
well when Michael jackson and Mariah carey cant even go gold you really know record sales are in the shithouse!
Xscape is gold. try again!
If being worth over 300 million is karma I’ll take it, you faggot ass hatin ass nigga!
country music has always been on top haha
You nvr see Bank’s at all so what’s your pint? He dnt put do the media! Bank’s was the biggest after 50 in the group then Game came out with an album 50 did most of th e writing on bc game couldn’t song write
50 did the writing on chorus/hooks but that don’t always make a song
Bank’s was still out the country every week doing shows in Dubai and Dublin etc… stop hating Game can spit but is a fucking reality tv star who begged to be back in the group so whose really hurting
i dont care how much he will sell i aint gonna make any money of it but if music is good i will njoy nad yes FUCK HATERS do something bigger than 50 in your life hahahhahha
Geek Unit fan boys still wear Du Rags and live in 2007 because that was the last year that Curtis went “platinum” with his Justin Timberlake assisted single and his Amusement Park song….nigga this is 2014.
Again, the promo lied because POM did not go platinum and only 4 Ross albums went gold, DTR and Mastermind aren’t gold and won’t be gold at all.
He was referring to worldwide sales, which undoubtely exceeded 1 million for POM and 500k for the rest. He’s closer to gold for mastermind than 50 will ever be for animation abortion.
You can’t go platinum worldwide. Certifications are only based on sales in one country.
These are ross’s own certifications. Still valid. As long as he feels platinum, its fine.
None of his albums went platinum. When will you remove your head from your ass to realize that?
I said these are certifications ross gave himself. These aren’t riaa certifications. He felt that his first album went platinum so he gave it platinum.
feels platinum? did you just make that up lmao.
Papoose feels diamond
He can’t give himself those certifications if they don’t exist. Only the RIAA can say it’s platinum and it’s not.
He already did that for that promo video. Nothing you say will change it. I bet if you meet him, instead of confronting him with the promo video, you would be begging on your knees for an autograph.
If these multi-millionairs cared about certifications as much as the nerds did they would take their Black Cards and spend 100K on digitalis copies but they choose to buy Ferraris and yachts instead.
He didn’t do shit. Saying he’s platinum doesn’t mean he is when there’s no certification. Why would I beg for an autograph from a guy I don’t like? Your groupie ass would be doing that. It makes more sense for me to asks someone I DO like for an autograph.
Critics shitted on the Curtis album but they shitted on Actual Ambition too, just go to Metacritc and look at the reviews. All that bullshit about energy, aggressive content, general public and listening audience is the bullshit you hear from label execs not from artists, and untill this Baboon makes music for the streets instead of music for men in suits he will continue to flop.
The charts only matter when you sell millions a decade ago, when you flop the charts dont matter.
TELL EM!!!!
the top 5 most relevant rappers right now aint complaining about sales!
Em will never complain, JayZ will never complain, and Wayne will never complain because they all debuted in the 90’s and still top the charts.
Kidd Kidd >>>> Memphis Bleek
Stalley>>>>>> KIdd Kidd.
They’re both on the same level.
Stalley has a unique voice while Kidd Kid dis trying to be wayne. He was also the one that filmed khaled’s mother and then abandoned ymcmb afterwards.
Stalley doesn’t have a unique voice, he sounds like every other rapper. Kidd Kidd doesn’t sound like Wayne and he didn’t film Khaled’s mother, that was French Montana.
Very few rappers like stalley are from ohio. Also, Montana denied filming it and the work form that video belongs to kidd kidd.
There’s many rappers like Stalley from Ohio. French lied about filming Khaled’s mom, he did that, not Kidd Kidd.
Which ones from ohio?
How does an artist go from selling 1.5 million first week to selling 45 thousand? lol I don’t care what the climate of sales is right now, 50 Cent is a failure who’s just making excuses.
simple. just act like a total jackass and ppl will get tired of you eventually.
You get rich and stop tryin, you lose touch with the streets and start making cross over songs so you can compete in sales with people like Kanye.
total failure?
yeah right. he’s counting his money while you homo’s are talkin bout other niggaz
@op you’re not wrong, but the fact remains as a failure he still makes more, does more and has more, than most artists who you would consider successes. Not an excuse, just a fact.
then Diddy is the best rapper alive
The times change, back in 2003-2007 you had Missy Elliot wearing garbage bag suits and
Eminem was at his peak, Nelly was on top of the world and the most popular songs had
hooks like “wait till you see my dick”. The South was as strong as ever by 2006 and then in
2007 it was Kanye and after that its been Waynee world for the most part.
Then Wayne fell off and Drake took his place.
one thing didnt change. Eminem is the best selling rapper of any era.
Eminem used pop resources though to keep himself afloat. Drake is hiphop and R&B and still came very close to reaching eminem’s sales. His singles charted well too. Hold On we’re going home was a bigger hit than eminem had with MMLP2.
This dude made his fans sick in the head like he is, all they talk about was ten years ago when he went platinum, they never talk about his beats or rhymes, just his money and sales….golddiggers.
Every rapper used pop resources to make it. Eminem is still hip-hop while Drake is more pop and he didn’t reach Eminem’s sales at all. Only two of Drake’s singles charted well and Hold On, We’re Going Home did not do better than MMLP2 at all. Eminem is still at the top.
The Monster went #1 on hot 100. Drake didnt lmao
Thanks to rihanna. Without her, it would struggle. Eminem no longer has lasting hits without her.
Also, What’s my name went no.1.
Eminem’s last 2 albums outsold Rihanna’s,if anything he is the one carrying her.
YMCMB is winning compared to shady records though. YMCMB hit singles recently include bang bang and annocanda with nicki, hold one we’re going home and started from the bottom with drake, and loyal with wayne plus a couple of singles with drake that hit top 40.
No, they ain’t. Bang Bang is not a YMCMB/Nicki record and Anaconda only got big because it samples Baby Got Back and the video. And Loyal is not Wayne’s record. Hop off the dicks.
Eminem singles alone crushes everything from YMCMB.
Eminem has lasting hits without Rihanna. Moster would do well with and without her. Also, What’s My Name is a Rihanna song.
What hits did eminem have? YMCMB crushes them.
Berzerk, Rap God, Survival, The Monster. And those were just songs off MMLP2. They crush YMCMB.
He’s only saying this because his sales have dipped significantly. If he were still up in sales, he’d being singing a different song. This guy always sways things to benefit himself.
lol So true.
Doesn’t everyone?!
no rapper thats winning is complaining about his album sales
real niggas never quit
He didn’t do shit. Saying he’s platinum doesn’t mean he is when there’s no certification. Why would I beg for an autograph from a guy I don’t like? Your groupie ass would be doing that. It makes more sense for me to asks someone I DO like for an autograph.
Trust me, you would beg for any celebrity. That’s why rappers crawl to him for verses. I guarentee you both eminem and 50 crawled to him in an attempt to get verses but ross laughed them off. Also, he still makes great music. His sales may be not be at his peak but he’s still the biggest bawse in the gamme.
No, I won’t. And Ross crawls to others for verses. There’s no way Eminem and 50 would beg Ross to do that. He’d crawl to them and they’d laugh him off. And he’s making shit music, not great music. You’re right about him being big, as in overweight.
Lol gtfo like Em and fifty need Ross weak ass fraudulent lyrics on a song you’ve been hit in the head too many times
50 got exposed. With nobody to beef with to help hype his album he failed generate the actual interest of the listening audience.
GRODT = 8 Million
The Massacre = 5 Million
Curtis = 1 Million
BISD = 500,000
Animal Amphibian = 100,000
Never in a 5 album span has a rapper lost nraly half his fans from the previous album, where did all his supporters go? Was he just another overhyped Nelly?
Maybe his previous sales from ten years ago greatly benefited from his association with Eminem and
Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine making a major motion picture for him like 8 Mile.
Nelly and 50 Cent are the biggest fall-offs in music history.
I thought Ja Rule’s was bigger. 50 sold 47k 1st week and nelly sold 15k 1st week but ja couldn’t sell 7k in 2 years.
^ Ja Rule’s album came out when he was in jail and had no promotion. Nelly and 50 promoted the hell out of their albums.
Lame excuse.
Ja Rule is posed for a comeback next year. MTV got him for a reality show and he’s looking to sign with ymcmb or mmg.
He’ll flop big time. Ja Rule is done.
Ja Rule didn’t fall off untill his record label (Murda Inc) got raided by the Feds and he was dropped from Def Jam.
Nelly sold 300K on his sixth album
Game sold 300K on his fifth album
Ross sold 400K on his sixth album
Ja Rule sold 600K on his sixth album
50 sold 100K on his fifth album
No rapper has fallen off harder over a 5 album span than 50 Cent, I guess LiL B and Brian Pumper took all his fans.
Bruthadee to the rescue.
And I’d help you with your bags
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fuck the industry. retards listen officer ross and shit and call it hip hop O_o
officer makes beautiful music
The dude who talked album sells religiously finally seems to be humbled but still full of shit.
I still see all the 50 stans making excuses to why he still better than others and why he cant sell albums.
50 cent is boring and lost his appeal.
No, I won’t. And Ross crawls to others for verses. There’s no way Eminem and 50 would beg Ross to do that. He’d crawl to them and they’d laugh him off. And he’s making shit music, not great music. You’re right about him being big, as in overweight.
Ross wants nothing to do with 50 and eminem. They are both pop stars and Ross and his team laughs at them every day. His music is great. Not every song needs to be personal. Sometimes, fantasies are all you need for great music. Also, he losing weight.
Eminem and 50 don’t want nothing to do with them. They’re not pop stars at all and they laugh at Ross and his team. Ross’ music sucks, period. He ain’t losing that much weight, he’s still fat.
Eminem was actually at talks one point to show ross music on his channel but then wanted most of the profits. Ross laughed him off and eminem put out subliminal disses. Eminem is fucking garbage.
You got everything backwards. It was Ross who wanted to work with Eminem and Eminem laughed him off with Ross putting out subliminal disses. Ross is the one who’s fucking garbage, not Eminem.
Ross may not reach eminem’s sales but he doesn’t need to in order to leave a legacy behind. He changed the game. He made you haters more sensitive.
Ross didn’t leave any legacy behind and he didn’t change shit.
Basically 50 is saying The Unit has to do shit music but that’s whats popping… I HOPE NOT!
No, they ain’t. Bang Bang is not a YMCMB/Nicki record and Anaconda only got big because it samples Baby Got Back and the video. And Loyal is not Wayne’s record. Hop off the dicks.
Nicki was the biggest star in bang bang. Jessie J no one hears about and ariana grande was helped by Iggy in the problem song. Also, Anaconda became popular because its a terrific club song. Starships and superbase were also big hits and didn’t sample baby got back. Also, Wayne lifted loyal. It’s funny how haters keep mentioning dick.
billboard counts youtube views. do the math
Michael Jackson songs became hits because of the videos. Eminem’s songs benefitted from videos. It’s nothing new.
No, Nicki isn’t. Iggy didn’t help Ariana Grande in Problem, it was the other way around. Anaconda is a terrible club song and it became big due to the video and sample. Starships and Super Bass are trash pop songs that sound like Lady Gaga/Katy Perry rejects. Wayne didn’t lift anyone. You’re the one talking about dicks, homo.
Iggy had a hit of her own in fancy and that was before problem. Top song of the summer. Anaconda is dope, baby got back had the same subject matter. Also, Starship and super bass are songs that’s made more for pop but still dope. Brown didn’t have top 10 hits after the rihanna incident unless wayne was involved.
Hop off the dicks.
Explain that homo.
Michael Jackson songs and Eminem songs don’t always become hits because of the videos. The videos are part of the reason, but they’re not the main reason.
Same thing with bang bang. The video was only part of the success.
Problem came out before Fancy, which is shit just like Anaconda. Baby Got Back did not have the same subject matter as that piece of shit. Also, Starships and Super Bass are pop songs, nothing more, nothing less, and they’re both garbage. Chris Brown had Top 10 hits without Wayne after the Rihanna incident.
Ever heard of metaphors? Don’t take everything seriously, fag.
Fancy release date: Feb. 17/2014
Problem Release date: Late april 2014.
Next you will be saying 2 plus 2 is 5. Iggy lifted ariana, not the other way around. Fancy is no.1. Also, Chris brown struggled after the rihanna incident.
Plus, you mentioning fag and dick suggest you are insecure about your feelings.
“Same thing with bang bang. The video was only part of the success.”
It’s not the same with Bang Bang. The video is the only reason why Anaconda did well.
Yet Fancy didn’t become an overnight hit like Problem did. Ariana lifted Iggy, not the other way around. Fancy is trash, there’s nothing good about it. Chris Brown never struggled.
“you mentioning fag and dick suggest you are insecure about your feelings.”
That is all you right there.
What other hits did ariana have though? And yeah that was all you being gay. Sometimes, you use that arrow and balls to represent your dick
Before Problem, The Way and Baby I. You’re the one being gay and using arrows and balls, gay bitch.
50 cent iz from new york city
Berzerk, Rap God, Survival, The Monster. And those were just songs off MMLP2. They crush YMCMB.
The first 3 charted 1 or 2 weeks and then rapidly declined due to poor WOM. Monster did better but had rihanna helping his ass.
The first three did not decline and they had good WOM. Rihanna isn’t helping Eminem at all.
They still shit though. That’s all it matters at the end of the day. They all suck.
They’re not shit and they don’t suck.
Charts do fucking matter.
“He made you haters more sensitive.”
You stans are the sensitive ones getting butthurt at everyone that doesn’t like your hero.
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“You got everything backwards. It was Ross who wanted to work with Eminem and Eminem laughed him off with Ross putting out subliminal disses. Ross is the one who’s fucking garbage, not Eminem.”
you might hear rappers say they want to work with Eminem but most of them just say that shit so they
can get a million headlines and pays on the back from the gazillions of psychotic Eminem fans….you
have to look at Ross 6 album catalog, he only has two features from white rappers/singers and that was
Avery Storm and Robin Thicke two Soul singers, Eminem is a pop rapper he would ruin an album.
Wrong, Bruthadee.
ANDRES RETARDIO FUCKING SUCKS DICK MAN
did retardio fuck your bitch?
The charts truly do matter. 50 basicaly admitted that he is not a hot rapper anymore. I mean popularity isn’t exactly talent, he still sucks.
You’re an idiot. G-Unit created gangsta rap.
NWA popularized “gangsta” rap but Schooly D and Ice-T created it.
“You’re an idiot. G-Unit created gangsta rap”
Suburban white 14 year old faggot comment.
Regardless to how untrue what they just said G-Unit didn’t create “gangsta” rap.
He needs to bring out a hot new artist like jay used too, set yourself up and ride that wave!!!!
LOL…KARMA IS A BITCH AINT IT?
DAMN!!
It sold 8 million domestically back when albums were flying off shelves. Today, 50 couldn’t go platinum if he changed his name to Drake. There’s just no interest from fans anymore. They’ll listen to his shit for free, but they won’t like it enough to support it.
Yeah u right. The Charts dont matter now?
Lets ask
Eminem
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Drake
Yes sales have slowed over the years but the above named rappers still moving Units.I mean Jay still moving Units he has been in the game for what? 20yrs+?
Curtis made fun of other rappers low sales and then KARMA bitch slapped the fool into reality. 14k first week…lol…Tripple C’s territory lol
if Jay thought charts mattered he wouldn’t have struck a deal with Samsung to move units
jay z is only relevant because of beyonce and plus live nation (who he sold his life too) is backing him to make sure that he regenerates their money.
Jay Z is relevant because of himself, not because of anyone else.
Funny how when he was moving major units, he was acting like sales matter. 50 ain’t making over 10 million dollars annually anymore, but Dr Dre, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Drake and Jay Z still are.
Back in the day going to the mall to cop some new CDs was as natural as chewing some gum but the game changed.
Somewhere during the era of HipHop music the CD got replaced by the MP3 and the Discplayer got replaced with the MP3 player and the IPod, now you can download your music from the comfort of a cellphone and instead of bulky CD collections simply store 1000+ albums on a hard drive.
Thus is technology.
Illegal downloading has broken total sales in half, and the accessibility of free Mixtapes has cut into sales even more and now that HipHop music has gone global and suburban the consumers have quadruple the choices when it comes to their choice purchasing a CD and supporting the artist.
Here is an interesting tidbit for you HipHop trivia buffs:
Here are the Platinum selling rappers since 2007:
(based on RIAA website certifications)
50 Cent (2007)
Soulja Boy (2007)
T.I. (2008)
Nicki Minaj (2009)
LiLWayne (2011)
JayZ (2013)
Drake (2013)
Eminem (2013)
Kanye West (2013)
Soulja Boy, T.I., 50 Cent, Nicki Minaj and LiL Wayne are no longer platinum artists, their last LPs went Gold.
New platinum artists:
Kemdrick Lamar
Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis
So basically we have a total of 6 rappers who have sold a million or more album copies in the last two years compared to 2008-2009 when you had 16 different Gold and Platinum certifications.
comment is erroneous
Timbaland went plat in 2007
Kanye went plat in 2007
Jay went plat in 2007
Nicki went plat both albums
Wayne’s IANAHB2 is consistent gold like rebirth & IANAHB1
Comment is accurate, why the fuck list every time they went Platinum instead of just the last time they went platinum and when the fuck did Timbaland become a rapper?
nerd alert, virgin alert
Nice, I would add Jeezy and Game to that list I think they sold a Millie in 08′ for LAX and Recession. I want to see a list of the Gold ones since 2007.
“Hell yea sales matter I’m actually killing the game right now these other rappers ain’t financially stable like me, the changing demographics of the country are actually showing support by buying my music”
Sales do matter if you put out a hot album and the sales are real low and you put out a decent album but sales are high people are gonna hate regardless. You could drop a classic album and only sell 100,000 and people are gonna say this muthafucka fell off. You put out an average album and sell 2 million or more people will say the album sucks I don’t care what it sold. Take GKMC if it would have only sold a couple hundred thousand people would say that shit sucks it didn’t even hit platinum. Damned if you do damned if you don’t. Just gotta find that balance.
Before Problem, The Way and Baby I. You’re the one being gay and using arrows and balls, gay bitch.”
No they were’t. Problem was ariana’s first real known song. Her label is buying her albums.
Yes, they were. The Way was Ariana’s first real known song, not Problem. It’s impossible for her label to buy her albums since her fans are doing that.
The way was only helped out thanks to mac miller. She hasn’t had any hits other than the 2.
Mac Miller doesn’t even have hits, how can he help her? She helped him. She does have other hits besides those 2 songs.
somebody tell me who went plat in 2014???
who went gold in 2014??? besides pharrell wit happy lol
and gold dont mean selling 150,000 first week and 3 months later u only at 300,000 cus thats not gold..
sales can not matter in this decade the internet has tooken over
if meek mill and tony yayo dropped an album on the same day meek might outsell yayo but funny thing is yayo has more money than meek….indie vs record label…thats wht it comes dwn to in 2014….not album sales its all bout tour money and buisness moves u make out side of rap..rap money aint all tht…
Yup true shit!!
The only reason Yayo has more money than Meek is because 50 gave him 10 mill to be his cheerleader, and personal bitch yes man. A real man grinds for his, so Meek might not be rolling in dough, but he’s doing the best he can. Yayo has and always will be hanging by 50’s side like a ho.
dumb ass nigga rick ross thinks hes the biggest BOSS in the game cus he keep dropping albums that bearly go gold…yea he owns a couple wingstop resturants but compared to 50………..lol
Nigga barely goes Gold but still makes the Forbes list every year, LOL at little Jimmy saying
“bearly” like Teflon Don didnt do 750 and GFID didnt do 575 while BISD was doing 475K and
Animal Ambulance was doing 100K
he wasnt even top 20 on the forbes list last year, he earned as much as mac miller and less than wiz, macklemore, kendrick, snoop, tech n9ne etc.
It’s funny this Ross fan named all Ross albums but only 50 last album lol… You know Get rich or die trying sold more then the whole MMG albums right?? Lol lame ass nigga!!
i bet g unit is getting way more for shows than mmg….but whos the hottest and whos selling now a dayz…yea ok
and who said 50 aint making over 10 mill a year…dude do u check forbes list or not?
Well MMG is a label of solo artist G Unit was build as an entire group…the original members of MMG are not even on the label…Wale was established before his MMG days unlike G unit where everyone got there start on the label
Any musician or rapper has a shelf life and the music is geared towards the youth, they control whats hot and whats not. As artists get older so does there fanbase and if you don’t grow as an artist then you will lose those fans. Which most do, Mariah Carey is a perfect example of this she started her career in the early 90’s and her last album’s first week wasn’t even 100,000 and had no major hit records. Your fans get older start families and just don’t have the money or their taste in music has evolved etc. This doesn’t take away what she did in her career, being the highest selling female artist of all time. Look at every artist’s sales that started their career 10+ years ago and its likely half of what they used to sell if that. Take a Jay Z for example he let Kanye take off then came in after him and he has Beyonce those two helped keep him afloat without them his sales would be at least half of what they are today and he barely went platinum. Along with him pairing up with fake ass Rick Ross to help keep some of the streets with me. IKR Rick Ross has fans from the streets.
the music is geared towards the youth, they control whats hot and whats not
^ corporate propaganda you fell for
their target consumer is 16-34 (35 you start realizing you’re being fed bullsh*t), they pay to hypnotize you with what’s “hot” by snatching up airtime, interviews everywhere and ad space
VERY VERY VERY FEW ARE BY POPULAR DEMAND, this sh*t is RIGGED and y’all don’t wanna believe it
jay is more like a business man first, some people like to just do what they do or experiment with music. Jay is smart and able to package himself to fit whats going on in the mainstream commercial world of music. The majority of fans don’t have that pioneering ear for music. Hip Hop was made to be experimental and radical but the artform has evolved into contemporary pop culture
you were the last nail in this rap shit, overt commercialism and marketing the hood off through universal records or whoever, those that were backing it, kinda set the game back years by marketing hiself and blowing the gangster life out of proportion without really touching on real social issues. you gotta be articulate and drop the message amongst all the madness, you gotta stop being the boy for corporate America
Eminem
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Drake
Drake don’t belong here wtf is wrong with you other 3 got catalogs, albums people buying a decade later to complete their collection, replacing worn copies
you add someone like Nas to that list, Drake belongs with 50, Nelly, Luda list
Drake is a hiphop artist unlike the other 3. Drake is a certified hiphop artist. The other 3 have all fallen off and now make pop music.
Drake isn’t a certified hip-hop artist at all. He’s the one making pop music, not the other three, who didn’t fall off.
Yeah, a certified hip-hop artist who sings shitty pop ballads like Marvin’s Room and Hold On, We’re Going Home.
Kanye’s Not IMMMUNE EITHER THAT LAST ALBUM WAS FUCKIN TRASH CANT EVEN REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT AND IT SOLD LIKE TRASH… I USED TO LIKE KANYE ON HIS first 3 cds that dark fantasy shit wasent no fuckin classic either i whos eyes…. calssics are the chronic , the documentary, reasonable doubt, stillmatic, u muthafuckas kill me, Kanye put wack ass retarded chief keef on and album and gets his lowest sales to date fuck that new slave bull shit wack beats wack flows kanye fell way the fuck off and im from chicago all this new musuc besides Game and Jeezy and Drake and Eminem fuckin suck dick ass and stank skunk pussy!!!!!!50 you been a bitch to me since Game dropped 300 bars rap music fuckin sucks dick holy grail wasent no fuckin classic that You Jeezy SEEN IT ALL is closer to a classic than anything these even lyrical rappers put out these days… I feel terrible for yall generation and these wack ass dj mustard flooded repetitive ass beats yall call hiphop mustard is a bitch HO!!!!!!!!!
Drake, Nicki, J Cole, Kendrick and Macklemore will be headed in the same direction within 10 years if not sooner. Enjoy the stardom while it lasts. In regards to what 50 said about his Curtis album from 09′ selling what EM sold with his latest album in the first week. The only problem is EM’s album is still selling and as of last week was still a top 30 album almost a year later. 50’s album dropped off the charts within weeks. But I blame 50 for this he put his energy into movies, business etc. instead of putting out albums when he had momentum otherwise he could have kept relevant. When you step away for awhile and try to come back it’s harder because your more out of touch with whats going on. Also 50 lost alot of fans that buy albums over seas and EM sold as much over seas as he did in the states.
Curst sold 600K first week
The album sold 143,000 copies in its second week of release in the US,[20] 71,000 copies in its third week,[21] 50,000 copies in its fourth week,[21] 38,000 copies in its fifth week on the chart,[22] and 30,000 copies sold in its sixth week,[23] It sold 24,000 copies in its seventh week,[24] 20,000 in its eighth week, 17,000 in its ninth week,[25] 17,000 in its 10th week,[26] 21,000 in its 11th week,[27] 15,000 in its 12th week,[28] 17,000 in its 13th week,[29] 19,000 in its 14th week,[30] and 25,000 in its 15th week.[31] In the US, Curtis ultimately sold 1,225,000 in 2007.[32]
Bro you have the internet use it before putting out BS info
“G-Unit is prepping The Beast Is G-Unit, a second in a series of mixtapes this year.”
Those are EP’s not mixtapes dummys
LMAO see that is what 50 is talking about….LP, EP, MIXTAPE it don’t matter what you label it if you can get someone to buy it…then its a profit….
i bought it im just saying HHDX should know they are 2 digital only EP’s not mixtapes.
White skinned devils slaughterd millions of their white skinned brothers during the holocaust because they classified them as being non-white. Jewish historians say that the Holocaust lasted 7 years.
Freakish white skinned albino mutants with their sickly pig like skin are nothing more than filthy Neanderthal mutants. Human swine.
Many white skinned Neanderthal albino mutants will attempt to compare a 7 year holocaust with a 400 year holocaust because white skinned people are inherently evil and devilish by nature.
White skinned Jews received reparations and their own homeland and they reintegrated into white society and now they own all the diamond mines in Africa.
White skinned reptilian devils spent 400 years raping, brutalizing, castrating, murdering, mutilating and dehumanizing Africans who they brought to America to be sexual slaves and human chattel.
White devils attempted to destroy these kidnapped Africans with their brutality and savage acts of barbarism but the Africans survived.
Wicked white devils raped men, women and children, hung them from trees and mutilated their sex organs and burned them alive, in a “struggle” for equal human rights the white skinned mutants assassinated Black leaders, bombed Black churches and terrorized an entire community of Blacks with vicious acts of white terrorism.
The pig skinned reptilian albino mutant is against nature because he has recessive genes and a shriveled pink sex organ, the sun scorches his skin and he peels like a snake because mother nature despises him and his hairy Neanderthal mutated self.
Jim Crow, Apartheid, Miscegenation laws, predatory lending, gentrification, segregation and all types of sick dysfunction in society omes from the white boys insecurity of being a genetic recessive mutant who fears genetic annihilation through miscegenation
White bitches bring Black babies into the world when they intermix and anytime a whiye bitch has a baby with a dominate man with color the baby is no longer classified as white, the dominate takes over the recessive which is why the white boy is so insecure about race mixing and interracial dating, he knows that we could wipe him off the planet by just fucking his women and bringing colored babies into this world.
Death to the genetic recessive albino Neanderthal mutant.
bow to your white albino reptilian master
by the usual …he means mike will and dj mustard i hope
when u sell 10 mill on ya 1st album its kind of hard to keep that pace…thats like 50 dropping 7 straight albums from 03 and they all sold 500,000 first week of release….make since?
50 basically did what jay z did from 96 to 03 ( as far as sales go) with his first 2 albums..(03-05)…thats why hes already on forbes top 5 along with puffy,jigga,dre….
if i was worth the mount of money 50 is i wouldnt giva damn bout no album sales i would just have fun with the music and release it indie….
The point is a career isn’t built on two albums.
@king little richard
how the fuck is 50 at the bottom?
the only rappers to sell major units they whole careers is jay and em….10 years from now i dont think drake will be going plat with every album he release….just look at Ludacris, Nelly, Ja Rule, DMX, Bow Wow, ect…all they first 3 to 4 albums sold BIG numbers….would u say they are suffering now? naw..more like a sucessful career if u ask me….nothin last forever u lil dummie lol…
aint nobody saying nothin bout dj khaled when he drop a album..that dude aint never even go gold but hes the best???
everybody has they time in this music industry thats jus how it goes….
Curtis actually sold 690,000 first week u lil dummie..dont believe everything u read even if its off the internet u no name piece of shit
now its time to jusGLO…..
So Jay-Z is a far more better rapper than Curtis since he had more successful albums. I cant imagine Jay-Z putting out a wack album…just think of it? Jay-Z putting out an album wack as BISD?…or ANIMAL flopAMBITION?…doing 14k first week?
Man Fat Joe must be having a ball right now. lol
Mr King of the charts, Mr ‘Album sales matter’…gadamn what happen to you?
Remember when Curtis said when other artist get low album sales they all make excuse and say they “Did a personal album for themselves” that was why the numbers was low? Curtis said if you cant sell records don’t release it. >>FF 2014-Curtis “The chart dont matter” ???!!!! {COMMON SON!!!??}
it was 47k first week troll
BISD was a dope album. Jays dropped plenty of wack albums. Jay is better then 50 but jays blueprint 3 and magna carta albums were trash.
animal ambition sold 1 million first week
Jay best album sold 2 Million
Hell his last album was bought by Samsung at 1 Million copies so we will never know what he can really do
“Men Lie, Women Lie…Numbers{The Chart} Don’t”
There you go kids. Lesson for the day?
Never make fun of other peoples low album sales…
…especially when you too are an artist
KARMA baby…look it up
when your first 3 albums sell more then 25 million copies, you dont give a fuck about the charts or the sales, you just care about the fans and respect. so fuck off lil nigglett
Man everyone is feeling that karma then…..
EM can only do 2 Million when he used to do 18 Million
Yup
KARMA A HINDU PRINCIPLE
leave it alone you ghetto loser
Starting a thread here please add yours to it
#YOUKNOWKARMADONTB!TCHSLAPYOUWHEN
You do like 14k 1st week then pull the stevie-j face & say–
“The Charts dont matter now”
50 cent is worth more than EM
Lil Wayne is not worth more then Baby/Drake is not worth more then Lil Wayne
So 50 has went pass the man who gave him his shine….That is very rare
Man everyone is feeling that karma then…..
EM can only do 2 Million when he used to do 18 Million
^^^^^
IF U AIN’T THINKIN LIKE THIS U A PURE FCUKBOI
REAL TALK
King Richard:
50 now saying sales dont matter? Wow,how the mighty have fallen,smh
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FCUKBOI 6 YRS IN BEGGIN FOR VIEWS & ASKIN 4 PAMPER $ ONLINE
BACK UP OUT DA ROOM SLOWLY…….
“Jay best album sold 2 Million”
More like 5 million.