50 Cent Says Rappers Today Don’t Offer “Something New”

    Along with fellow members of G-Unit, Queens, New York rapper 50 Cent appeared on an episode of Snoop Dogg’s GGN to discuss a variety of topics including the reunion of G-Unit, the lack of “authenticity” in Hip Hop, and more.

    In regards to authenticity, 50 recalled a time in music when having your own style and your own energy in your records was crucial. He revealed that today’s artists prefer to stick with what’s trendy rather than offer “something new.”

    “I miss how important authenticity was…It was so important that you have your own style,” 50 Cent said. “Your own energy connected to those actual records. And we see some of those same vibes and things come out in decisions you make now creatively. So, we see it was your actual influence. It wasn’t something that was given to you. A lot of the artists—What I find now in our culture is that things are trending. So, they’re following what the last person just did. Instead of offering something new it’s the same thing.”

    Prior to speaking on the lack of authenticity in Hip Hop, 50 Cent recalled his falling out with the members of G-Unit. The G-Unit helmsman specifically referenced Tony Yayo’s comments on Instagram when he shared that as the leader of the group depression is a luxury he can’t afford.

    “At points, if you ever going through something emotional on your own there’s no break,” he said. “I say depression is a luxury I can’t afford…When they get going through their things or whatever and they have those feelings I say ‘Well, when do I get a chance to do that?’ Cause I can’t afford that luxury. It’s expensive. Depression, I just work through whatever’s happening at the time. Just get back at it, do something. And then when something positive breaks it goes ‘Okay, there go the ray of light we was looking for.’”

    GGN host Snoop Dogg later chimed in on the conversation as he commented on his time spent at No Limit Records. As he addressed the Master P-led label, he proclaimed that there “was no money in rap until Master P came out.”

    “If it wasn’t for No Limit it wouldn’t be no money in rap,” Snoop Dogg said. “And mothafuckas can look at me like they crazy right now, but nigga, it was no money in rap until Master P came out. Nigga, I was on Death Row Records. We made more money than any of you niggas, all you rap labels. Suge had all the money. He gave us a little bit. But nigga, when Master P came out everybody on No Limit had money. We had money, guns, cars, everything. Thank you, Master P.”

    Video of G-Unit’s interview with Snoop Dogg can be found below (via XXL).

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    88 thoughts on “50 Cent Says Rappers Today Don’t Offer “Something New”

      1. No he saying the label heads made a lot but not the artist. that is why he was saying Suge had money and gave us a little bit…But Master P gave his artist more

    1. The real problem is his music hasn’t evolved. His music sounds exactly the way it sounded back in 2003 except it’s a shittier version now. That’s why 50 Cent went from selling millions to a couple thousands. He didn’t evolve and sounds exactly the same, has the same style he had 10 years ago. People just got over it and got tired of the same ole shit.

      Now 50 Cent is just a jealous idiot who can’t shut up and has to bad mouth everyone instead of concentrating on making good music.

      1. His music has evolved you fucking retard, the problem is your brain, let me guess you enjoy new music with the Rick Ross’s French Montana’s , but you think 50 needs to change….smh

      2. ^You mad? I do not listen to Rick ross you fuckin moron. I am right in saying 50 Cent’s music hasn’t evolved. You just need wash out your ears dumbass.

        Let’s give you an example. Eminem from the Slim Shady LP and Eminem from Recovery…Does he sound the same? People might hate his new music, but the thing is, he has evolved. 50 has not

      3. Awwww did u get mad because somebody offended your idol 50??? U need a Kleenex?……..faggot,lol.

        Funny how nobody mentioned Ross or Montana except u…………insecure much??? Lmao.

      4. 50 Cent still talking about hustling and the streets.. He HAS NOT evovled.. His music basically sounds the exact same it did back in 2003 except he can’t make as good records anymore. It’s exactly the same with Eminem when he tries to reproduce the same old slim shady, the version nowadays suck.. The difference is Eminem has stopped doing it, 50 Cent still tries to do the same ole shit

      5. Say what you want about 50 he is one of the last real niggas in the game, he’s not a fake, he wasn’t searching booty holes years ago in a prison and now rapping about shit he isn’t about, he raps about where he came from, his lifestyle and even his new hustle which is legit movies, music and business. Yes attack one of the last rappers who has some integrity and won’t work with trash artists like young thug, French Montana, or officer Ricky, faggots, you got everything upside down

      6. 50 is a fuckin phony, he brings nothing new to the game in his music or in the artists that he brings to the game, he has no integrity which is why he can drop singles with Justin Timberlake and sign somebody like Kid Kid. His fans are mostly gay white guys who talk about booty holes and ass crack more than they talk about the culture. Why do you think he fell off so hard, just look at his fanbase.

      7. Lol @ this obsessed faggot 50 lover.

        “Last real nigga”………….huh? There are plenty of REAL niggaz making actual Hiphop music.

        You obviously only listen to mainstream commercial shitty rap music.

      8. Dude might be a “real ni99er” in the eyes of white peoples and ignorant black peoples but he is nothing more than a fake who pretends he cares about the culture but does nothing for the culture besides being beef and negativity into it.

    2. He’s right everyone bites peoples styles now, back in the day you had different artists with different sounds and lyrical style, Dmx, method man, 50 , eminem. Tupac, biggie (who is now Jay z with a tummy tuck), even the down south boys like Mystikal , Wayne, juvenile, now everyone sounds the fucking same with the shitty dj mustard beats

    3. The more this guy talks, the deeper he is bringing himself into irrelevancy. He is too focused on hating others and being mad jealous cause he can’t sell shit anymore instead of concentrating on making good music and actually evolving. 50 sounds the exact same he did in 2003, his style hasn’t changed. The only thing that did change is his music sucks now.. Time to into a new direction

      1. The more you talk Ithink officer Ricky is paying you to come and try and spread hate about one of the last real niggas in the game, oh waaaaaaaaa he raps about gangster shit still waaaaaaaa, at least he’s not a fake piece of shit

      2. Geek Unit fanboys are too stupid to see how the Black dude they idolize has fallen off due to his inability to reinvent himself or show growth in his music, his only contribution to the game in the last 5 years has been Kid Kid and Chelsea Handler.

      3. “The more this guy talks, the deeper he is bringing himself into irrelevancy.”

        hes so irrelevant you just read an article and wrote a paragraph about him. LOL as long as he can push your buttons and get your emotions going he will always be relevant

      4. Why do you have to bring Rick Ross in the conversation dumbass? Doesn’t mean someone makes some true statements about 50 Cent that he necessarily listens to Rick Ross you fuckin inbred. And everything said is true. The dude needs to evolve.

    4. …………….. ROFL, the irony.

      Like everybody ain’t sick of hearing that same shitty 50 cent style. Nobody wants to hear you “sing” a hook. Bitter old man stfu.

      1. 50 has turned into a jealous hater who is desperate for attention cause he can’t sell shit nowdays. He is just ruining what he’s already accomplished by talking all this crap in every interview.. He is tainting his past work by being such an fag.

      2. The irony of the nigga who took Ja Rules style and became a rap-singer lacing hooks with singsongy slop singing about Magic Sticks and Best Friends, IDE is delusional.

    5. it don’t matter how truthful the talk is, all they do is go right to their salty 50 Cent feelings

      BTW, if you’re still calling him an attention whore, you’re the trick who keeps coming back regardless of how stink or rotten you say the hoe is

      1. No truth in what he says for people that actually pay attention and listen to Mackelmore and Schoolboy and Tyler the Creator and YG and realize they are all representing the West Coast.

      2. Q-album mostly ignored by the fans and if he wasn’t with Kendrick would still be ignored

        Macklemore-ignored by the fans for 2 years until radio pushed the hell outta the album

        y’all ain’t no original supporters you hop on the dick of whatever’s hot

    6. For real tho… Everybody copying styles these days. Rich Homie and Young Thug sound like Future, Shmurda jacking dem GBE niggas style… He’s right

      1. There are some original artists in hip hop. Some of the best artists actually really are original. How many artists do you know that rap or sing like Childish Gambino or Chance The Rapper? I will say that there are some “trendy” artists out there but, there are also a lot of completely original artists too. I think it’s the radios fault for promoting so many “trendy” artists, but that is the job of the radio. To talk about and promote trends in entertainment

      2. Who the heck still listens to the radio? There is more variety and originality than ever, Gambino, Cudi, Chance, Ab Soul, and Cole are all awesome and all in their own lane.

      3. the internet didn’t kill radio, if anything radio’s king clear channel started iHeart

        you don’t see the interviews of rappers on radio stations? you can’t be that gullible and ignorant

        Chance and these other rappers y’all naming ain’t on radio, y’all rip their music but don’t support their plight

        time for y’all to realize a lot of this dysfunction is nothing but y’all fault, on on one hand bigging them up and the other hand killing their career

    7. Fake ass industry puppet, maybe the new artists don’t want to use beef to fuel their carrers, just because other rappers are singing on hooks like whores following your formula doesn’t mean the game is stale.

      1. the game is stale for many reasons, mainly the same 30 niggas always rapping together about the same played out shit on the same sounding beats from the same 10 producers

    8. Y’all remember when snoop jacked jay-z’s IZZO lingo LOL….snoop who u foolin boy. And fif dude u dissed ja rule for his hip hop rnb songs and u doin the exact same thing! You ripped of ja’s style and ran wit it. You irrelevant. G U NOT

    9. just me or is 50 cent focused on embarrassed and belitting his crew every interview he gets into..the fuck is that shit?
      50 is the biggest snake in the rap game

    10. funny how dame dash wanna call out white execs now but never wanna say nothing about diddy and suge who started robbing artists first and the culture..

      1. Are you stupid? I know you hate to see white execs getting called out but are you comparing
        Lyor Cohens robbery to Diddy?

        Suge was just muscle he lacked the intelligence and vision to be a mogul which is why his entire empire crumbled the minute Dr Dre left, Suge was in over his head and lost everything like an idiot.

        Diddy is a paper-gangster with the contracts but he gave The Lox their publishing which he didn’t have to do and he made his artists like Young Joc and Mase rich as fuck.

      2. you know Dame had that first hand personal experience. Maybe people are too proud to called out a successful black man who can actually own something and is probably has origins more deep in the culture than any jewish entrepreneur

    11. if what y’all said was so true, we wouldn’t be listening to 30 rappers with the same rap style on the same style beats, Gambino would have a song & album selling like Iggy, Stalley wouldn’t have been shelved for 3 years, KRIT wouldn’t still have to give away free mixtapes for attention, Gibbs would have a song in rotation, Chance would get MMG collaborations, Slaughterhouse could go gold without a problem, but y’all talking a bunch of bullsh*t like people can’t see how fvcked up sh*t is

      y’all don’t support diversity, you reward popularity. numbers look almost weaker than when this 1st started and there’s triple the base. y’all ain’t fooling nobody

      if were so great the labels wouldn’t be pushing 360 deals and the same rappers from 10 years ago with about 4 newcomers can sell over 500,000 units

      cut it the fvck out

      1. Blame yourself crybaby.

        I have 50 different rappers with 50 different styles in my IPod, from Jacka to Freewy to ZRo to
        King Louie, idiots like you force yourself to listen to the same ish.

        Iggy sells because she is white and the majority consumers of the music are white.

        Stalley was not “shelved” he was building his buzz and perfecting his debut (his own words).

        KRIT has a major label deal he is oing just fine.

        Chance has MMG collaborations with Rockie Fresh and went on tour with him.

        Slaughterhouse are a 5 man group of super-lyrical rappers they wouldnt go Gold in any era

        360 Deals? Blame illegal downloading and bootlegging. If rappers cant sell 500,000 then tell them to stop giving their music away with free Mixtapes.

      2. “Iggy sells because she is white and the majority consumers of the music are white.”

        its more than skin color, those same people were buying nicki minaj records 2 years ago

        “Slaughterhouse are a 5 man group of super-lyrical rappers they wouldnt go Gold in any era”

        naw they def would have went plat in the mid to late 90s

    12. So getting shot 9 times made you authentic, Curtis? There are plenty of artists who have their own sound. It’s mostly the Bay rappers, or the down south rappers who sound exactly the same.

      1. A lot of those established artists jumped on that south/bay bandwagon too: Fab/Game/Wiz/French even Jada doing trap not going to waste time dropping names you know who they are.

        Yeah maybe there’s 2 or 3 with different sounds but they still rapping about the same shit

      2. Those little Rae Summard nuccas sound original and Odd Future are pretty unique, I listen to a lot of indie stuff so I know its BS when people say all the music sounds the same.

      1. You are both true…But i believe he needs to evolve. You can do you and still evolve. The dude still thinks it’s 2003. Not very original

    13. 50 so washed up that he just get close to people to start beefs in an efford to salvage his fading rap career and wack acting career, 50 you need to go into WWE where fake crap rule ,the crap you pull on JA Rule worked 10yrs ago it want today! You want go into WWE because Vince Mcmann run that circus you would be just another clown,Nobody is looking for 50 the Fed Snitch if this beef is real Floyd should be happy this dude is a paid informant!!!!!!!!

      1. Haha this dude the game is a clown, if rap were WWE 50 would be Stone Cold Steve Austin, he opens a can of whoop ass on all these fags in the rap game…. 50 3:16 says “I JUST WHOOPED UR ASS!!!” Lol

    14. 50 in hindsight was a mutha fuccin genius. He crushed ja rule for makin weak ass, singsong tracks and got rich off the same bullshit music. Pre GRODT was the best 50 music. After he got rich(like most successful rappers) he wasn’t able to make quality street music. Hard 2 Write Hunger While Feasting should have been his second album title.

    15. GUNOT 4 LYFE BUT THE REAL IS REAL 50 TELLIN THE FUCKIN TRUTH THESE BITCH ASS NEW NIGGAS WIT THESE RECYCLED REPETITIVE DJ MUSTARD BEATS RETARDED ASS RAPPIN CHIEF KEEF and im from chi raq!!!! NEW NIGGAZ CAN SUCK DICK THEY LIKE TO SUE NO WOO NIGGA… FUCK YOU PUSSIES

      MIGOS
      CHIEF KEEF
      SNOOTIE WILD
      LIL DURK
      etc…

      ALL U NIGGAZ SUCK DICK AND BALLZ FUCK YOU YO LIFE ANF YO MUZIK KILL YO SELF AND EVERY BITCH NIGGA WHO LIKE YOU

      THERE NEED TO BE SOME TERRORIST IN HIPHOP WITH ALL THE FUCKERY THEY PUT OUT IN HIPHOP THESE DAYS!!!!!!

      MADD TROLLER BITCH!!!!!

    16. That was a dope interview Kidd Kidd and Yayo was super high haha, I like when Snoop clowns Migos and Future lol, future been needin a top dogg like S N double O P to clown him for a couple years now, I liked Tony Montana but ever since Future been a sell out and a disappointment

    17. when I read the title, i thought, ‘he’s talking about himself’

      50 cent is a smart businessman. He made a record and made a lot of money. He tried to copy his same formula, because he’s about making money, not music. He hasn’t made a relevant record since the first one, but he knows that controversy sells.
      Remember that time he shoveled his neighbors snow and let them take pictures for $100? Dude made a $1000 shoveling snow.

      1. Chris Lighty and Sha Money were the smart businessmen, as soon as they left 50 he fell off on the business end and the music end. He can still make a lot of bread through face/name recognition because he is still seen as an Eminem mascot but he no longer has the actual interest of the listening public.

      2. “naw they def would have went plat in the mid to late 90s”

        How do you figure dudes that cant even sell 250K solo would have went plat in the 90’s? Wu Tang did it because they had some colorful characters and RZA with a new sound. 5 rappers in one crew has never proven a succesful formula.

    18. 50 is more good than bad. Rap is like wrestling now, and you’re either a good guy or a bad guy. 50 is one of those dudes that would wrestle anybody, and did bad guy shit some times, but is mostly a good guy, like Sting or some shit. He has more a more wisdom than foolishness, and he does more positive than negative. The main thing though is that his music is still dope. I don’t care what anybody says, you show me someone puttin’ on more quality hardcore NY hip-hop than 50.

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