50 Cent has put out a friendly reminder for his fellow rap contemporaries who may have forgotten how dominant both he and Eminem were in their musical heyday throughout the 2000s.
The rapper-turned-television-mogul took to Instagram on Thursday (July 13) to share a pair of photos that showed off both the Top 10 rap albums with the biggest first week sales and the most streamed rap albums released in the 2000s.
In the first photo of the albums with the biggest first-week sales, it depicted cover art for Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, and Encore; and 50 Cent’s The Massacre, and Get Rich or Die Tryin’. It also included albums by Drake, Lil Wayne and Kanye West.
In the second photo, which listed the most streamed rap albums that were released in the 2000s, it included the Eminem albums The Eminem Show, The Marshall Mathers LP, Encore, and Relapse. It also listed the 8 Mile soundtrack. As with the first photo, the 50 Cent albums included were Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and The Massacre.
Fif made sure to rub in the fact that he’s outsold most of his competition throughout his career and that only his friend and mentor Eminem has moved more records than him. “The funny shit is only @eminem sold more then me,” he said. “I made n-ggas so uncomfortable they don’t want to remember LOL.”
Check out the braggadocios post below:
50 Cent is never one to mince his words, whether he has a strong disdain for someone or if he’s worked closely with them.
Earlier this month, the G-Unit mogul let his humor run wild on Instagram by poking fun at Redman’s reason for not appearing in Season 3 of Power Book II: Ghost.
Fif reposted a clip of an interview where Redman was speaking about why he was noticeably absent from the hit TV show this season.
“I walked away from Power,” he explained. “I walked away from Power after the second episode because everybody on the show had to have the jab and I wasn’t with it. That’s what I’m saying. You have to stand your ground.”
“Like, would Power have been a game changer for me? Yes. The money was good. It’s a well-known show that could’ve helped my career. But, is my health less important than being on the show? Fuck no!”
He added: “My health is more important to me. And I had to make a choice. Either I was going to sacrifice myself with this third-world order bullshit or I just walk away.”
Being the consummate businessman that he is, 50 Cent wasted no time by not only bragging about his TV show, but also proudly letting people know that he’s vaccinated and not missing out on the bag.
“He’s not lying he walked right away [walk away emoji] from the #1 show in African American and Latino house holds,” he said. “SMH [laughing and squinting eyes emoji] I took the shot fuck that. LOL.”
This clearly means Hammer and Vanilla Ice are among the GOATs. FOh with this stupid shit.
You’re comparing singles to an entire album. GRODT is one of biggest rap albums ever
Their albums were the biggest albums in hip hop at the time when they were out. Hammer was moving units like 80s Michael and Janet Jackson in the early 90s.
Hammer Don’t Hurt “Em sold 18 million copies. Not just a single bruh. Hammer was big as pop stars in the early 90s. So I guess 50 got him up there with him and Em too.
You sound angry bro, calm down. Only a simp would argue that 50’s album wasn’t monumental. Have a good night 😂
Hilariously, bringing up[ that fad album manufactured by MTV is a great point. GRODT sold 12 million records. Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em sold 18 million.
Even MTV couldn’t keep 50 cent cool enough to have a long career. He sits in the Shadow of MC Hammer, a has-been that barely was.
It’s for 1st week sales. Not total albums sold.
Which should have been his first indication that he was riding on the coattails of actually decent rappers who marketed him to MTV. Hammer blitzed the world with 18 million records sold in the early 90s. No one talks about him anymore because he was a fad.
50 cent was also a fad. When 8 Mile wore off and the dust settled, he was carrying Kanye’s luggage.
50 conviently left out the fact he was only comparing pure sales. Back at his days, you had to buy an album. In terms of popularity, drake has recently surpassed eminem in total streams and listens and is already well ahead of anyone else.
To be fair though, if people still had to buy albums for artists to see popularity, I think many artists would’ve been shelved by now. In the Era of streaming, there is no shelving due to unpopularity. The crappiest artists ever can make money because there’s enough broke idiots who will stream at bo cost to themselves, but they’d never spend money to buy physical music from them. That’s why I miss when it was CDs and earlier. People had to have some sort of talent to actually sell records.
Absolutely! Streaming is what lead to the lack of actual good music in hip-hop. 2:15 songs that repeat 1 verse twice. No stories or poignant albums.
I only respect rappers with street cred. I only support gangsta mofo’s who grew up in the Thug Life like me. That’s why I love Drake so much, he’s a true OG
The fact that he has to keep reminding people of that tell you everything you need to know about his status as a rapper… Nobody care bro.. He hate that he’s not mentioned with the likes of Nas & Jay.. Hell I can name a whole list of rappers thats more revered than he is
Ja Rule went triple platinum once, too. No one looks at someone’s career from the perspective of just a couple of years. If they did, Vanilla Ice would be in the Rock ‘N Roll hall of fame. His debut album also sold mountains of records in the early 90s and clocked in at 7.5 million sold in 1990 (compared to 50s one-record-wonder of 9 million in the U.S.). MC Hammer doubled both of them with 18 million in sales.
The truth is 50 cent put out one good album and then spent the rest of his career living in a fantasy. Even Ja Rule went platinum in the early 2000s. It was a golden age of rap, even though 50 cent and Eminem seem to live in some kind of alternate universe where rap wasn’t even mainstream at that point in time or was somehow dying. It’s not even remotely true.
Rappers like Jay-z and Lil Wayne both had staying power and are all the biggest selling rappers of all-time list. Drake, Chris Brown, Nikki Minaj, and Rihanna also came out ahead.
Some artists are one hit wonders and light up the world for a couple of years. 50 Cent is very much like MC Hammer back in the day. Yeah, you sold a lot of records, but if you weren’t on Twitter, no one would remember your name.
You need some hobbies. Touch grass
MC Hammer total record sales: 24 million
50 cent total record sales: 22 million
End of discussion. You’re Hammer, dawg.