Queens rapper 50 Cent recently offered a brief critique of fellow artist Kanye West’s Yeezus album during an interview with MTV UK. The G-Unit head honcho revealed that he does still listen to a handful of Ye’s older records and songs, but doesn’t have the rapper’s latest album, Yeezus, in rotation.
50 Cent also shared his belief that Kanye is trying to make “a whole new sound” with his current music.
“He’s obviously a talent within our culture and is one of the driving forces of it, but some of that shit is weird to me,” he said. ‘That last record, to be honest, I’m not playing it right now. I still play ‘Flashing Lights,’ ‘Gold Digger’ and that whole (College Dropout) project. But some of the new stuff is so creative and feels like he’s trying to create a whole new sound.”
The New York City emcee then cited the highly popular Electronic Dance Music (EDM) genre as he commented on Yeezus not sounding like Hip Hop.
“It sounds scrambled… radio is going to play dance music, EDM – you got a lot of stuff happening in music culture that’s influencing a lot of R&B music to that tempo,” 50 Cent said. “It doesn’t feel like Hip-Hop to me, it feels like a fusion of something else, like a weird combination of dance music sounds and stuff. It’s just him being an artist, you don’t have to agree with everything an artist does. Like, I don’t have a favourite artist, I have a favourite moment from artists. Like with Drake, there’s songs he came out with and the timing was perfect for the record.”
50 Cent isn’t the only artist who has gone on to share their thoughts on Kanye’s sixth studio album. During an interview with MTV’s “RapFix Live,” Los Angeles rapper Hopsin called Yeezus “wack” and commented on the album sounding like something a high schooler could have produced.
“That album was wack. It was—and I tell everybody this, being creative is like a clock,” Hopsin said. “So, a clock only has 12 notches. He went all the way around like he was at the one then went all the way to 12. And then you go so far to where you just end up back at one again…The album sounded like he tried to get so creative where he maxed out and went to back zero. To where it just sounded like something a local producer would have made in my neighborhood. Or from my high school or something.”
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im just waiting on the 200+ comments go fif go
More trash from Fiddy. Waste of space. This ain’t ’05, you can’t go back.
Regardless of whether you like Yeezus or not, 50 Cent is just irrelevant now.
Put up or shut up.
Sssshhh
Its not suppose to be you morons. You all need dumb it down trap music to understand artistic shit like or not. Even Prodigy says he understood what West is doing. You fucking sheep hate everything social media hates. Get your own brain. Wasnt long ago the majority of social media users thought Weezy was top 5, no you all rode the wagon and rip on him…fucking zombies
50 hasnt put out anything relevant in 10 years
that’s YOUR opinion and stop using words without knowing the proper meaning
now yall like yeezus haha haters/dickriders
dx use 50 cent so he trolls can flock to the site hahah they fall for it again and again this will have 400 comments in a few hours
most of the comments are from haters like you who cant resist clicking on another 50 article,
Yeezus album was bullshit fuck EDM
Yeezus is NOT EDM. Not everything with synth sounds is EDM.
Someone who actually knows something ^
“Yeezus” is what 50 wanted his SHELVED “Black Magic” album to be… but he was too afraid to be creative and push boundaries. Hence, the reason why all he can talk about is guns, paper, pushing drugs and bitches… Your almost 40 and you live in Connecticut.
he dont stay in ct he be in ny and la,
i only like yeezus just so i can bash 50 cent. The truth is the biggest threat to my favourite rapper drakes crew was shady aftermath and g unit. I just want to make sure that these fuckers remain irrelevent and keep getting buried. YMCMB for life and TDE will never be on their levels
lmao you’re a terrible troll that didn’t even make sense
Kanye West is a gay Negus.
lol that made laff
Yeezus beats are ahead. Something different, something new. Love it or hate it. I like.
Me too. It’s beyond hip hop
50 just talks shit these days to stay relevant.
and you make it relevant simply by following it
lol exactly
His dickriders get nad easily when we saythat
they straight up asked him what he thought about the yeezus album
hahahha tooo funny
Its true. I got u to wear vests now these niggas got u wearing dresses-50 cent.
im free again back to bein me again
Kanye is alright down here at YMCMB headqaurters becuase he has recently been quoted as saying that Wayne is the greatest rapper alive. 50 cent is alright down here at YMCMB headqaurters becuase he has recently given Drake props. YMCMB is the unstoppable empire which all other record labels strive to be. That’s why we have the rap game by the clit.
hating ass bitch
another day another “50 says…”
Another time you clicked on the article. Secretly a fan it’s cool
I wouldn’t expect all hip-hop fans to be big fans of EDM but listen to Deadmau5 new album. A lot of Yeezus feels like it was inspired off parts of that. Maybe I’m right or maybe I’m wrong. I don’t personally know Kanye to ask him but I wouldn’t say it’s completely original. So called “trap” EDM has been around for a minute but Kanye, being mainstream, got his shit heard.
Yeezus was a bad El p sound imitation.
lmao read the real article.
Like 808s Yeezus was an experimental album not intended for the hip hop audience, I personally think the album was amazing, kanye already announced he’s dropping a hip hop album this year.
I liked Yeezus but I do think it was more of an idea that can be perfected later on. Is it me or does Yeezus sound like MIA’s sound?
Agreed. Love me some 50
Yeezus isn’t original, and it isn’t copying EDM, it’s exactly copying underground industrial rappers such as death grips. Listen to death grips and you’ll see Kanye copies their entire production style on yeezus. Yeezus wasn’t bad, but to call it original or EDM is just stupid.
50’s just mad that his new song sucks, and will flop harder than the rest of his misfires.
lol @ this nigga calling albums “projects”
At least he didn’t call it a “body of work”.
The homo thug 50 is the type of koon to make a song produced by Alex da Kid featuring Eminem and Adam Levine and wonder why he fell the fuck off.
HA! i was about to say the same thing except for the homo part.. i aint that big of a kanye fan but the album had some good tracks. I think 50’s doing all this so that now he got outta interscope he needs a new way of promotion for his album and he is back to his old tricks.
They asked him what he thought about the album? what should he have said?
This bitch ass nigga made a techno album called Black Magic that got shelved by Interscope, bitch miggs aleays got the nect man name inhis mouth like a prostitute.
Yeezus sucked, the production was terrible, and hes not lyrically interesting enough to carry an entire album without dope production. Kanye hasn’t had a decent album since Dark Fantasy. And College Dropout was his only real classic, lets be honest
In all seriousness do you know anything about sound design?
Consign bro, Kanye has some of the biggest dickriding fans ever. They ride his little hard than Kim Kardashian ever could LOL he’s only had one really dope album, his first one. As a producer he’s not on the same level as Dre, RZA, Havoc, Muggs, Premo, Alchemist etc. he’s lyrically mediocre as fuck, let’s face it he’s overhyped garbage, and his fans are a bunch of sensitive, skinny jeans wearing/sagging, emo, arm cutters, who border on homosexuality XD
So much wrong with this post…
Fuck Fiddy Snitch!! Yeezus is GOD!! I pray to him every night and his wonderful queen Kim K. He’s changing music, he’s the new Michael Jackson to rap !! We live in a different time now, you no longer have to be talented to be a rapper, or manly for that matter, you can wear squirts and skinny jeans baby!! Woohoo! Being relevant this day and age is all about rapping to trap beats and mediocre monotonous rhymes, if you’re not that you’re nobody!! Drake is a rap god as well and he’s a Jewish Canadian from the suburbs, who played on a teenage drama show, and now the hardest rapper alive, woohoo !! Ricky Rawse the Bawse, is the most gangster rapper ever in the history of mafioso rap,and he used to be a correctional officer, woohoo! The game has changed for the better, we need more phonies, sensitive niggas, homosexuals and fakes in the game, it’s a new day!!
you’re gay
50 cent thinks the sun shines off his ass. Young buck and game don’t need him. I do believe they will be fine without him. 50 keeps grudges like a female. I have a lot of respect for Nas and Jay z. they had the beef, squashed it and moved forward.In life when you don’t forgive you get stuck and 50 cent is stuck in the past musically, he can’t show growth, because there issues in the past that are left unresolved, until he faces to the issues, he will forever remain irrelevant in music or hang the mic he shouldn’t be holding it. He will always be asked about game and young buck untill that chapter is fully closed.
get some new material? talkin bout the sun shining off a niggas ass wtf?
This article has nothing to do with Buck or Game lol he mentioned Kanye and Yeezus. And I don’t hear Buck making any noise since his departure from G-Unit, and Game has been riding with numerous others to stay afloat, Rick Ross, Wayne etc. I heard he’s now signed to Young Money or something, but he’ll never top his Documentary album, ever. Infact, he’ll never come close, same as how 50 will never come close to GRODT.
You know hes right though. Im all for innovation but lets be real. Yeezus was not hip hop and we didnt need 50 to tell us that. Evidence is in the sales. Its Kanyes lowest selling album! That should tell you people werent fucking with it.
50 needs to get off drakes dick, every interview this guy boosting drake
Why? You wanna be the only one on Drake dick? STFU and sit down fool 50 is speaking
says someone who has been making the same music since 2000
That’s right
This nigga is dying for a Drake collabo.
Drake is the future and the game will be wide open for Drake. Thats a great future investment…sucka
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It ain’t hiphop.. it’s dickhop.
Kanye West is a closeted homosexual who wishes he would have came up with Same Love.. he’s so in the closet and so gay..
Lord Jamar pull up Kanye skirt dude did nothing.. he’s a crying homo
you’re a hero dog.
50 Cent got the mentality of a middleschool bully and ironically his music as of late sounds like it’s stuck in my 8th grade playlist.
BUT
He ain’t lie about Yeezus being shit.
I agree with him. I dont like all of that ish either. I like a few tracks but the album was different, not for the best
Hey DX, Favorite is spelled FAVORITE, not FAVOURITE. Dumb asses.
it depends on where your from. in my homeland we add a u.
U suck then
It wasn’t added, it was taken out. Favorite is the wrong spelling.
50 Stays hating. The album was wack, but still…wack can’t call wack –wack.
he gave his opinion when asked just like you are doing here
you soung wack…using the word four times in one sentence. you must be new to the game. sucka….50 is a boss and a Don. Watch how he bringing back the real in Hip Hop while those other perps disappear. I bet you bought that Masterflop LP…lmao!!
50 is like the Charles Barkley of Hip Hop. Sometimes the things he says sound crazy, sometimes they’re dead on but they’re always interesting. Also, like Chuck, he doesn’t give a damn what people think about him.
I liked Kanye more when he made music for black people, not european qweirdos.
bahaha
hahaha so true. Every Kanye fan who actually fucked with him back in the day can’t stand the new album. It’s only white rock critics and European feeling it.
Everyone on good music is fucking gay:kanye.john legend.big sean.common.kid cudi.mr Hudson
Pusha T was looking super gay last night on Jimmy Fallon with Future.
The only thing kanye know how to do is make beat n suck dick
I guess you would know
50 could do with a change in formula himself
why..Kool G Rap, never switched up. Scarface never switeched up….So …. whats your point hater?? Oh I see…You’re a rick ross fan…HA!
He could start by calling himself 25 Cent.
5 Dime
Yeezus is Kanye’s best album. Blood on the leaves is arguably the best song he’s ever made. I don’t understand the hate from hiphop artists maybe it’s because many of them appear to be pretty talentless and one dimensional when compared to Kanye West. Now that’s some real talk.
lolol you cant be serious but i respect your opinion
You must became a Kanye fan the last couple of yrs? lol!!!
cosign
50 had niggas wearing vests now these niggas wearing dresses thanks to ye
Why couldn’t this headline read “50 Cent Calls Kanye West One Of The Driving Forces Within The Culture”?
Cause HHDX loves to start some shit.
Then that would make it seem like 50 was getting soft. He needs the world to know he’s still as insecure and bitter as ever.
Yeezus is the Kid A of rap.
sure if Kid A was a complete rip off of another band
No doubt on that— Like a breath of fresh air on the occasional time I read through commentary on this website, and someone well rounded in music makes an educated comment.— But yea I totally agree, it is the Kid A of rap. I think a lot of people have difficulty understanding that Kanye is that ONE mainstream rap dude who is in every sense of the word an ARTIST. Salute
he justs steals ideas from lesser known obscure bands and trys to claim them as his own
Outside of being classified as industrial hip hop, the Death Grips comparisons make no sense to me. It’s as if people try to pretend that Kanye’s earlier beats weren’t influenced by the RZA and as if RZA wasn’t influenced by soul samples, and as if soul artists weren’t influenced by R&B/jazz, etc. It’s music going through it’s natural cycle of influence. Death Grips’ work is more harsh, barebones and gritty, whereas Kanye’s is more artsy and sonically varied. MC Ride would never have done something like Hold My Liquor, or Blood on the Leaves, or Guilt Trip, or Bound 2, or the end of New Slaves. That’s almost half the record right there.
that’s a reasoned assessment of that. What he said was fair, he doesn’t dig it but he respects it.
J Dilla, Anthony Davis, Afrika Bambaataa, Eric B., Grandmaster Flash, Scott La Rock, Dr. Dre, Marley Marl, Pete Rock, Large Professor, RZA are 10000000 times better producers than kanye
You’re the only one in the world thinking that, even the producers you’re mentioning respect Kanye.
^^ LMAO
I have reached a point in my life where I only go to hiphopdx to laugh at the bullshit you niggas type here, since the comedy written at the comments section is more interesting than the website’s misspelled, sensationalist articles.
look at my nigga fif…i wud fuck him in the ass any day any time…and yep i am a rick ross fan
king 50 is ryt tho…..YEEZUS SUCKED ASS BIG TYM….FRM THE COVER(OR LACK OF), to the beats…only that bound 2 track is listen worthy but even its prodution was wack as fuck
smh at all u bitch ass niggas talking to urself on ur own comments. hhdx comment section sucks dick because u dont have to verify who u r so niggas jus sit at home and talk to themselves. u ever see a comment with 9 comments under it? yahh it be 1 dude commenting on himself man hhdx needs to move to disqus and abandon this 1991 comment section.
if anyone wants to get on skype and gay off let me know im free all day
still waiting, no one wants to get freaky on a thursday?
last chance for some booty before i take my ass back to worldstar
Fuck am I too late to get in on this action?
Shoot me a message @Bruthadee if you want this dee
ummm nobody cares. no go cry me a river and take ur ass to ws then we dont want you
hey @Bruthadee what that mouth do?
Y’all have way too much time in y’all hands.
@anon enough time for you and this d
Fif right, I didn’t buy the album but downloaded when it was of google. I don’t remember listening to one complete song! Shit was straight TRASH!!! Eventually erased it off my phone!
Thanks captain obvious.
Man that cover picture had me cracking,that look on 50’s face is classic..LMAO
i wonder what someone said to make him look like dat
The actual photo where he’s actually looking down at Kanye….
oh i thought you meant the one on here with the raiders hat
http://www.business2community.com/entertainment/50-cent-reignites-feud-with-kanye-west-by-mocking-kim-kardashian-0248796
Check it out lol
kim use to be g-unit groupie back in 03, she was on the tour bus and all of that!
“and that whole (College Dropout) project”
lol he could’ve just said “I like his first album”
or he could have said the one with the gay ass bear on the cover
“why..Kool G Rap, never switched up”
Kool G Rap never had the opportunity to switch up.
Everyone who sign to good music is fucking gay:big Sean. Kanye. Kid cudi. Common. John legend
Pusha T told me he’s attracted to hood rats.
Pusha T ain’t fucking with No Malice anymore so he’s a bitch nigga
Big Sean is definately gay. he is a super faggot. Common is cool though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjiCkoJcpMI&list=UUJWUcqa4wEtW1RVOUGmohFw
lEAVE MY MONEY ALONE (Kayne)
The king always tell the truth
Kanye is the only artist to ever make 50 Cent scared. Their sales battle was a slaughter, and to this day Curtis can’t stop taking little shots at him. Insecurity alert. Even Kanye’s worst selling album will blow Animal Planet out of the water.
you mena Animal Ambition you dumb fuck. I hope 50 Cent holds you down and fuck you in the ass
No wonder 50 is losing. He’s wearing a Raider hat.