50 Cent is taking some time to brag about his often-criticized second studio album, The Massacre. On Saturday (October 16), Insider posted an article about the 21 albums that have sold 1 million copies in its first week, and 50 Cent’s sophomore effort made the list.
The Queens legend took to his Instagram account to brag about the inclusion of The Massacre, which sold a staggering 1.15 million copies in its opening week in March 2005, and he made sure all the critics who dragged the album back in ’05 heard him.
“But they act like i only had one album. I got 2 when i focus i get it all the way right. Green Light Gang,” 50 wrote in the caption of his post showing the article.
50 Cent was on top of the music world when he debuted in 2003 with Get Rich or Die Tryin’. The album was lauded by critics and is considered one of the greatest Hip Hop debut albums of all time. That wasn’t the same case for 50’s next album, The Massacre, though.
Although it’s reached 6x platinum and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards, The Massacre wasn’t as well-received as 50’s debut for its lengthy 78-minute run time and lack of cohesiveness.
During an interview on Lil Wayne’s Young Money Radio last year, 50 Cent believes the album received mixed reviews because he focused more on hooks and song structure than his actual rhymes.
“People fought love for the things they see are significant. Jimmy Iovine was a producer … he loves the significance of production,” 50 said. “He loves Dre. I don’t give a fuck what I made … look, I made my whole second album as a 10-record. I knew they wasn’t my best verses but my choruses were right so I focused on my song structure.”
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Around the time of The Massacre‘s release, 50 Cent was also living in Mike Tyson’s 52-room mansion in Connecticut that he purchased for $4.1 million. During a recent interview with VladTV, 50 explained he purchased the property primarily for tax purposes.
“If you don’t spend it, you know the IRS is gonna take it,” he explained. “I needed the expenses, so I ended up buying Mike Tyson’s home in Farmington and stuff like that. I was adjusting to it.”
Revisit 50 Cent’s video for The Massacre stand-out “Candy Shop” below.
I always say the Massacre could have been damn near as good as GRODT if he left all the bullshit off. It has about 21 songs if I remember right and the ones that’s trash are TRASH. If he left the 8 worst songs off and made it a 13 song album it would have been great. As far as that 1 million the first week, he sold that off the publicity of the “Piggy Bank” diss.
No many many is his best album
It is his only good album (not even great). And it wasn’t even really his album. He just colored by numbers with the boundaries set by Dre and Em.
Egh I kind of agree.
Massacre is the superior album to me.
Got Rich And Stopped Trying. That album was pretty awful in lyrics, content, and creativity compared to GRODT but people were so hooked on it after he dropped it that they bought it anyways but it hurts his next album sales because of that just look at Curtis’ album sales numbers first week.
His albums are horse shit, one album and that was ok!! He’s part of the reason hip hop is where it is.
save this “great” achievement to kanye & ringtone era
It wasn’t great either. It was an above average album, but nothing great or timeless about that album. Fifty had already spit his best stuff in the underground during his blackball from the industry.
Ya buggin, Get rich or die tryin was heat but I grew up bumpin to Massacre, to me it was an instant classic. 50 ain’t garbage, 50 is 50. I consider him one of the greatest rappers of the 00s.
50’s best shit is guess whos back
GTODT is his only good album, and Em helped on it a ton. That was followed by crap like take you to the candy shop. The Game has been consistently good though.
it was his debut debuts always have to make a good impression.
The Massacre selling so much in its first week is why this asshole would always be taking about first week sales and checking soundscan and all of that shit back at that time… that was when record labels started making a big deal about and putting emphasis on sales more than the quality of the work (if i remember correctly)
Massacre was part of 50s LP prime of GRODT, beg for mercy….by Curtis people jumped over to Ye, Weezy, Ross, T-Pain. I remember that once Curtis dropped people weren’t feeling 50 anymore
Massacre was incredible though. It was better than Get Rich I think
No matter what u dummies say number’s don’t lie people do and whoever said tha game was better kill your self dummy you people are dumb ass fucc 50 have tha number’s to bacc him ? but u damn dummies don’t see that better yet you dummies couldn’t make any album for your children
why you so emotional about this loool
Lol I agree, an if u see another person saying that the game is better than 50 cent here’s wat u say bro how can he?, Wen did he become better then 50? Can’t be first album ? an I quote, could not be the first album because the first album was better than all of his albums up to date, 50 cent also wrote half the music for his first f****** album which went platinum so in a way you can say that that was 50 cent’s third album majority of music that was supposed to be on massacre was on the games out at least six singles six single hits was on it, you can say game was the best G-Unit member other than 50 cent, how’s the game better than 50 cent and the massacre was not better than get Rich or die tryin
I LIKED MOST OF FIFTYS ALBUMS BUT HE REALLY DOES ONLY HAVE ONE GREAT ALBUM. WHICH IS BETTER THAN MOST ARTISTS TBH.