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CHART PREVIEW:
50 CENT MASSACRES RETAIL
Riddled Rapper Dwarfs All Comers in
Just Four Days
March 7, 2005
It’s been a retail Massacre, all right.
Call it thunder-stealing, shade-throwing, or whatever you want, but 50 Cent has crushed all comers in a show of retail force rarely seen these days. His new album, The Massacre (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) has been selling in rapid fire since its release last Thursday (2/3) and at this point looks like it will have easily moved over a million units once the counting’s done.
Indeed, The Massacre’s number could potentially move as high as 1.1 or 1.2 million, though it’s too early to tell. Regardless, 50 Cent is untouchable on this week’s album chart. Who else could do that and find time to excommunicate someone from his or her crew?
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news05562
jesus fuckin christ :-\...his ego is gonna be somewhere near mars
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his ego is gonna be somewhere near mars
Oh yeah
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his ego is gonna be somewhere near mars
Oh yeah
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Guess his plan worked. ::)
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it's not hard to sell albums when the price of ur cd is $9.99 canadian man.
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it's not hard to sell albums when the price of ur cd is $9.99 canadian man.
where at?? (not saying im gonna buy it)
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his head is gonna be so fucking big he gonna stop saying ggggg-unit and say 50505050 cent
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I hate this, and MTV's playing into it too -- instead of reporting about Game's responses or whatever and giving him equal coverage, they're covering the news about his videogame or whatever. The media perpetuates and profits off of all of this beef bullshit, and 50's completely abused every rule of decency to exploit it and achieve that.
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his head is gonna be so fucking big he gonna stop saying ggggg-unit and say 50505050 cent
lol idd
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I won't be surprised for one moment is he even reaches double Platinum in tha first week.........
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I won't be surprised for one moment is he even reaches double Platinum in tha first week.........
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fuck both of em
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get a life
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his head is gonna be so fucking big he gonna stop saying ggggg-unit and say 50505050 cent
^^ lol he will 8)
He might as well get so big headed he'll say "fuck G-Unit, I can do this on my own" and start making records all by himself without a crew or a recordlabel backing him up.
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I told you 50 cent is the best eva.
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his ego is gonna be somewhere near mars
Oh yeah
haha yeah
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I told you 50 cent is the best eva.
not the best, but just good ::) very :P
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that's just insane, i tought somethin like 700k, and that would be fuckin high, but 1,1-1,2mil, it's sick :o
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I told you 50 cent is the best eva.
Best at what...Givin' police tha info they not supposed 2 know ???
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Impressive
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I told you 50 cent is the best eva.
Best at what...Givin' police tha info they not supposed 2 know ???
lol
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Sucks.
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Thats great for him, but its so sad.
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:beer:
Throw it up & Down one for 50.......
One
Hatesrats 2oo0V
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I wonder what the second week sales will be. After people actually listed and word of mouth starts to spread. it'll probably be a big decrease. The album is ok but nothing special. I figured he would do big numbers due to all the drama.
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Damn...I've got to ask: who is buying this album??? 'Cause everyone I know who has heard it has agreed that its nothing special. In fact, most people I've heard from think the album is poor. Not to mention the terrible (yet catchy) first single, that is nowhere near reaching ''In Da Club'' proportions of hype. I guess the 12 year old girls went out in force to pick this one up. And, before someone inevitably suggests it: No, I am not a hater. While I still enjoy some of his work, and own ''Get Rich...'' as well as many of the ''G-Unit Radio'' mixtapes, the only people I really hear playing 50's newer material are girls. I doubt I'll buy it... :-/
I still think he announced this Game 'beef' in public for two reasons: 1) He wanted the promo that it would bring, and 2) He actually dislikes Game (rather obvious) :
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i agree with you but i think he got the whole game situation going because of backlash from the other G-unit guys bitching about games sales compared to theirs. Trying to keep them happy.
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i picked it up the album definately grew on me
when i first bootlegged it i thought i would definately not buy it all but then it just kept growing on me more and more
like i'm gonna die tonite is fuckin awesomee
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here in canada..i go to best buy and future shop..they still got tons of 50 cent's cd..and at HMV aswell..
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final numbers 1,150,658... damn thats incredible....in only 5 days
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it seems like after all the promotion stunts he has done, its shown in the sales, now im wondering who will stop his ego.
The Game did 98,065.
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damn over 1.1 million in the first week, but the sales are most likely going to drop
dramatically once they realized how much the album sucks. It will happen by the second week if not definitely during the third week.
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is that a record? thats more than grodt did right?
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damn! That sucks ass! I hope game drops "PUt you on the game" single pretty soon so that his sales go up
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it's not hard to sell albums when the price of ur cd is $9.99 canadian man.
where at?? (not saying im gonna buy it)
at all the Future Shop stores in BC, Canada so far. i dunno if its the same outta BC so i just decided to pick it up. it's got 2 different casings to choice from to but meh $10 isn't much so y not
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final numbers 1,150,658... damn thats incredible....in only 5 days
That's almost as amazing as your avitar.
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Yeah this shit is a record for a hip-hop album.
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I wonder what the second week sales will be. After people actually listed and word of mouth starts to spread. it'll probably be a big decrease. The album is ok but nothing special. I figured he would do big numbers due to all the drama.
I love the way haters come up with excuses,good lawd! give the Nigga propz.
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50 is officially bigger than Em at this very moment. Em only pushed 710,000 with Encore in it's 5 days.
First week millionaires:
1. N Sync - No Strings Attached (2.4 million)
2. N Sync - Celebrity (1.8 million)
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (1.8 million)
4. Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue (1.6 million)
5. Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again (1.3 million)
6. Backstreet Boys - Millenium (1.1 million)
7. Usher - Confessions (1.1 million)
8. 50 Cent - The Massacre (1.1 million)
9. Limp Bizkit - The Chocolate Starfish And Hot Dog Flavored Water (1.05 million)
10. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home (1.02 million)
50 has joined the ranks of great artists like N Sync, Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears.
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50 is officially bigger than Em at this very moment. Em only pushed 710,000 with Encore in it's 5 days.
First week millionaires:
1. N Sync - No Strings Attached (2.4 million)
2. N Sync - Celebrity (1.8 million)
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (1.8 million)
4. Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue (1.6 million)
5. Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again (1.3 million)
6. Backstreet Boys - Millenium (1.1 million)
7. Usher - Confessions (1.1 million)
8. 50 Cent - The Massacre (1.1 million)
9. Limp Bizkit - The Chocolate Starfish And Hot Dog Flavored Water (1.05 million)
10. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home (1.02 million)
50 has joined the ranks of great artists like N Sync, Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears.
All of those albums either had a hot fisrt single or alot fo controversy surrounding them. Everyone just start controversy from now on to sell shit.
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thats not bad :o
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None of this is really hard to believe. I was at BArnes and Noble(The book store) yesterday and they were selling it I was...surprised to say the least although they do have a CD section :-\
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Platinum in 5 ays.............. :o those Bitches ate that album up, 98% of those sales were from females
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50 is officially bigger than Em at this very moment. Em only pushed 710,000 with Encore in it's 5 days.
Encore did 711,000 in 3 days, not 5. It did another 800,000 the next week, and hit 2 platinum by the week after that. Eminem is still the proven franchise of the group. 50 still has to prove himself with this album. Most likely it will go far, but there is a chance that it dies out. Game sold 600,000 in his first week, but it dropped drastically every week since that. Let's not forget how cheap the 50 Cent CD was in the first week. Price has a lot to do with it. Look at Thriller; when it was $4 between 82 and 84 it sold nearly 20 million. When the price went up it didn't go 21 platinum for years, then slowly reached 26 over the entire decade of the '90s. Now look at AC/DC's Back in Black; it went platinum in it's first year, 5 platinum by 1985, another 5 platinum by 1990, then sold another 10 million copies between '90 and 2004. World wide it should catch up and surpass Thriller. One is an album with a great promotion and an even better price, the other is an album with a great reputation and a lot of word of mouth and influence. It takes longer for an album like that to sell, but it sells all the same. I hardlt doubt Massacre will grow over the years. It's best sales will be in the next couple weeks. Although Encore is the exact same kind of album thus far, Em has hit over 4 platinum 5 times, twice he went over 8 platinum. 50s got a long wat to go before he becomes the franchise. Of course if 50 had signed with Puffy or Rough Rider, we wouldn't even be having this conversation. I think it's funny how he gloats about making the Game a star when he was created by Eminem the same way.
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^^^lol this board gettin filled with these lil white em groupies
man some of y'all jus gotta give props where its due, million records sold.....nuff said
50 today is def mo "hot" than eminem.........eminem aint had a real big buzz in ages, and when just loose it came out, it got worse. face it, 50 runnin things currently, he got 3 singles in top 5....every g-unit member hit platinum
everyone be buyin 50's record,blackbitches,white bitches, white kids, hood niggaz.....EVERYONE!
this album selling so much isnt bad at all for hiphop......encore selling 4 million is....but when your already a proven hitmaker i guess i cant hate to much........but 50 since grodt has been makin way more noise than eminem......
50 runnin the charts, theres no denyin it, check the numbers
why y'all lil white dorks who be pissed eminem aint 50 numbers at the moment stop talkin shit and give props where they should be given
by the way, i hear some of y'all been sayin 50's cd wack, but since grodt was heat, i copped my copy today!
congrats to 50 on hittin the million mark
and westvet is spot on, 50 is bigger than em right now
pz
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i dont think Eminem gives a shit if the massacre is goin to sell more than encore he's making a shitload of money off 50 just like dre dont care that em sells more than him
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^^^lol this board gettin filled with these lil white em groupies
man some of y'all jus gotta give props where its due, million records sold.....nuff said
50 today is def mo "hot" than eminem.........eminem aint had a real big buzz in ages, and when just loose it came out, it got worse. face it, 50 runnin things currently, he got 3 singles in top 5....every g-unit member hit platinum
everyone be buyin 50's record,blackbitches,white bitches, white kids, hood niggaz.....EVERYONE!
this album selling so much isnt bad at all for hiphop......encore selling 4 million is....but when your already a proven hitmaker i guess i cant hate to much........but 50 since grodt has been makin way more noise than eminem......
50 runnin the charts, theres no denyin it, check the numbers
why y'all lil white dorks who be pissed eminem aint 50 numbers at the moment stop talkin shit and give props where they should be given
by the way, i hear some of y'all been sayin 50's cd wack, but since grodt was heat, i copped my copy today!
congrats to 50 on hittin the million mark
and westvet is spot on, 50 is bigger than em right now
pz
How is stating factual numbers dickriding? All I meant was that if I was a record label exec and had to lose either Em and his catalogue or 50 nad his catalog I'd let 50 go. This doesn't mean he isn't good for business, it just means he has a while to go before he beats Eminem as the number 1 guy on the label. This album has to go at least 5 platinum and then the next one will have to the same. It's like saying Mark Mcguire Barry Bonds is a better homerun hitter than Babe Ruth because of a few really hot seasons. Check the career HR/AB ratio and you'll know Bonds has a long way to go before he's in the Babe leagues, and Mcguire just didn't cut it.
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Im not suprised
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I will have to say that Shallow is right, and Lyrical_G is wrong.
Look at the numbers:
Marshall Mathers LP, 9 times platinum in U.S.
Eminem Show, 9 times platinum in U.S.
Get Rich or Die trying, 6 times platinum in U.S.
The Massacre will of course sell a lot, but all Eminem have to do is release a single, and radio/MTV will eat it up, sky-rocketing whatever album the single is on.
To keep up with Em's pace, 50 will have to flirt with DIAMOND numbers, catching up with Em is a long route to go, and Encore has just started..
I bet Eminem could release something as a single from Slim Shady LP, and still get 24/7 radio play. :-X
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I bet Eminem could release something as a single from Slim Shady LP, and still get 24/7 radio play. :-X
Hell, I bet if Em re-released Infinite, it would go 7x platinum
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i think it's pretty much universally official now ....Aftermath has passed Deathrow in it's glory days
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i think it's pretty much universally official now ....Aftermath has passed Deathrow in it's glory days
and this shows that Dre is a genius for that.... think about how Dre felt when he left Death Row. He had a vision on his mind to start a label bigger and more successful than Death Row which was pretty much impossible at that time but he made it. He deserves all the props in the world, cause its not that he's only makin good music, he owns a very successful record label too.
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i think it's pretty much universally official now ....Aftermath has passed Deathrow in it's glory days
Aftermath may be big right now but the thing is rap is more universal now because when deathrow came out they were the label that made rap commercially successful and they made much better albums and more classics so i'd still give the edge to Death Row as the Greatest Dynasty rap music has ever had.
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Hell, I bet if Em re-released Infinite, it would go 7x platinum
that album is so dope, he should re-release, i'd buy it 8)
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I will have to say that Shallow is right, and Lyrical_G is wrong.
Look at the numbers:
Marshall Mathers LP, 9 times platinum in U.S.
Eminem Show, 9 times platinum in U.S.
Get Rich or Die trying, 6 times platinum in U.S.
The Massacre will of course sell a lot, but all Eminem have to do is release a single, and radio/MTV will eat it up, sky-rocketing whatever album the single is on.
To keep up with Em's pace, 50 will have to flirt with DIAMOND numbers, catching up with Em is a long route to go, and Encore has just started..
I bet Eminem could release something as a single from Slim Shady LP, and still get 24/7 radio play. :-X
lol@lyrical_g wrong......i bet you enoyed saying that.....jome this aint no right wrong thing......
im sayin sraight facts, 50 is bigger than eminem right now......thats what shallow and you missing......RIGHT NOW.......NOT 5 YEARS AGO...when mmlp dropped, not when eminem show dropped..........period after grodt........eminem was bound to sell more than 50 with them two albums....he had everyone listening him.....nobody was touchin em back then.......he had everyone buyin his shit, hood niggaz, black bitches, white bitches....white kids, grown cats, rich cats, poor cats, EVERYONE who it was possible for eminem to reach out to he was sellin!.....now he aint........cuz he aint developed as an artist.....he still sayin the same story he told on all his other 3 albums......thats why hardly anyone who use to buy his shit aint buying it anymore, even the bitches who bought the previous albums aint checkin encore, its basically all young cats and loyal fans......keeping their collection going......but
TODAY, 50 IS BIGGER THAN EMINEM......ITS TRUTH......as of right now, no history, today.....
50 1st lp sold 6 million copies........everyone he could market out to copped it......his market reach aint as big as eminems, we both know why but whoever he could to cop it, copped it......diamond world wide....
now with his 2nd lp, he hit a million 1st week.......he broke all debut sales records with his last album......aint no way eminem is bigger than 50 right now.......
now as shallow said and i agree with, eminem is still the top dogg as an artist at interscope.......simply because of what his acheived previously, you cant just forget that, but as of right now, theres no doubtin 50s the bigger cat......
y'all gotta be some crazy cats to not see what im sayin above is truth.....or mad the white guy aint runnin the charts as of this seconds as sick as he use to......
i aint sayin eminem aint shit or nuttin, im speakin of whos bigger at this minute....and its 50....who has a longer career i dont know.....but im speakin of now.......
and 50 is bigger today.......maybe not tomorrow, but he is today and has been for a minute
pz
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That's just insane that he moved that many units. Good god, this guy is a monster. I listened to the album, in my opinion it's fucking horrible.
Eminem is a much bigger commodity than 50 cent, however. Eminem's presence on the album probably helped the album sales, too.
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i copped the album, i thik its dope-ish.........it starts strong as fuck, but i agree with jome about then hi tek beats, he dissapointed me...the 1st hi tek beat starts strong, but doesnt change.....and the 2nd one was weak to me.....scott storch track, just a lil bit is fiya though still......that beat is way better than the guns come out beat.....some early 90's summer shit is just a lil bit......and the hook to im supposed to die tonight is sick........eminem actually impressed me with his production on this....i cant stand his production but he came good to me......needlez shit stood out though still......dre gave him one sick beat(better instrumental than higher) and one wack beat......reminded me of the (what you say-that em n dre track) which has a weak beat to....but
massacre.....SHITS ALL OVER encore.....i already knows theres some sick joints on this that imma keep in the deck.....i tried listening encore again the other day and it sounded even worse than last time.....
eminem gotta go back to the days when he could make good songs.....not stupid songs......just good songs without really trying so hard.....mmlp style...his next album will tell alot of who eminem can be....or cant
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Lyrical; why do you not consider a 4 platinum album that will hit at least 5 when it's all said and done a failure? Encore was still 2 platinum before it hit 3 full weeks. 50 sold a mil in the first week. How about we wait and see how well it does in the long run before we over praise his star power?
Also, what do you mean by 50 broke all the debut records?
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Dr. Dre is greatest of all time he hasnt had one of his projects flop since the firm all have at least gone gold and others multiplatinum not many rappers today except for a very select few go multi platinum.Thumbs up to Dre and Aftermath/Shady/G Unit. 8)
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I dunno about the none of his projects flop thing. I'd consider "The Wash" and Truth Hurts albums both flops, by his standards.
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50 1st lp sold 6 million copies........everyone he could market out to copped it......his market reach aint as big as eminems, we both know why but whoever he could to cop it, copped it......diamond world wide....
If we all know why, and you're playing the race card again, then why did Biggie go diamond.. ??
Why did MJ go multi-diamond when he was black, but only a couple of plat-plaques when he's white ??
Why does 2Pac go multi-plat on every single CD, years after his death.. ??
Why ?
There's way more to it than the black/white world you're always painting..
On a sidenote, I can't understand why everybody is hating on "Gunz come out"..
The lyrics might be the usual gangsta braggadocio, but you gotta bump this in a dope system to really appreciate it, it bangs something ridiculous, the chorus & keys are crazy as well, try this on full blast at a party, and you'll get shit started.. 8)
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i think it's pretty much universally official now ....Aftermath has passed Deathrow in it's glory days
Aftermath may be big right now but the thing is rap is more universal now because when deathrow came out they were the label that made rap commercially successful and they made much better albums and more classics so i'd still give the edge to Death Row as the Greatest Dynasty rap music has ever had.
co-sign
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50 1st lp sold 6 million copies........everyone he could market out to copped it......his market reach aint as big as eminems, we both know why but whoever he could to cop it, copped it......diamond world wide....
If we all know why, and you're playing the race card again, then why did Biggie go diamond.. ??
Why did MJ go multi-diamond when he was black, but only a couple of plat-plaques when he's white ??
Why does 2Pac go multi-plat on every single CD, years after his death.. ??
Why ?
There's way more to it than the black/white world you're always painting..
On a sidenote, I can't understand why everybody is hating on "Gunz come out"..
The lyrics might be the usual gangsta braggadocio, but you gotta bump this in a dope system to really appreciate it, it bangs something ridiculous, the chorus & keys are crazy as well, try this on full blast at a party, and you'll get shit started.. 8)
homie at what party was you bumpin guns come out? a party with nuttin but dicks???bump it in a ride with ya homies yeh but i know for a fact hardly any bitch is gonna get up to that
and about the biggie thing, you cant even compare biggie and his time to 50.......so much has changed since then
and about 50 not being able to do eminem numbers cuz em is white is true, eminem will get sales from much mo cats than 50 will ever even get heard by......mom/dads and people who dont even listen hiphop buy em shit and even parents buy their kids em shit.......that'l hardly ever happen with 50.....imagine a lil rich mom gettin her lil clean white kid a 50 cd......"play this at ya sleep over son".....lol, u know that'd be crazy
em sells alot more cuz of his 1st single is poppy as fuck and aimed at lil white kids and the fact his white helps him with that 1st single.......obie tried it and nuttin happened cuz the people who buy em cd cuz of its first single aint gonna go cop their kid a obie cd even if he drops a eminem like 1st single...thats what im sayin, when i say, em can market and reach out to more people, if u fail to realise that, u lost. i aint even hatin on you, cuz i read ya shit and agree sometimes, but if u fail to see this, then you lost.....and i aint even sayin this a racist thing....its just the way shit is
peace
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Lyrical; why do you not consider a 4 platinum album that will hit at least 5 when it's all said and done a failure? Encore was still 2 platinum before it hit 3 full weeks. 50 sold a mil in the first week. How about we wait and see how well it does in the long run before we over praise his star power?
Also, what do you mean by 50 broke all the debut records?
noooooooo way dawg, 4 million sales is sick......but when this album will probably hit 6 million hits max in the end.......em lost 4 million fans......so even though its still sick......he aint doing numbers he should be doing by his standard, because if he developed as an artist , he'd still be killin it........i agree when ya say, eminem still the man at interscope, cuz he proved it long term, but currently 50 got shit on lock......
and about the debut recods.....my bad, i meant as in he broke opening week sales, snoop had that shit on lock, 50 broke it.....
and overhyping his star power?!?! homie, instead of comin up with all this shit about eminem, why dont ya jus praise 50 for whats his achieved in such little time, his debut hit 6 mill in US alone, he then released bare g-unit cats off his label, all sellin great, he got kicks on the shelves, he gotta game comin out, a film comin out with a cat the homie, samuel l jackson wanted to work with, his new album just hit over a million copies in 4 days, over praising his star power!?!? nah homie, im just givin him the credit he deserves for what his done in such short time
peace
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I'm thinkin maybe they were cheatin on the sales, because I saw the CD out on display at Best Buy the weekend before that shit was supposed to come out. Maybe they had like 1-1/2 weeks sales to make the figure seem so big.
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Lyrical; why do you not consider a 4 platinum album that will hit at least 5 when it's all said and done a failure? Encore was still 2 platinum before it hit 3 full weeks. 50 sold a mil in the first week. How about we wait and see how well it does in the long run before we over praise his star power?
Also, what do you mean by 50 broke all the debut records?
noooooooo way dawg, 4 million sales is sick......but when this album will probably hit 6 million hits max in the end.......em lost 4 million fans......so even though its still sick......he aint doing numbers he should be doing by his standard, because if he developed as an artist , he'd still be killin it........i agree when ya say, eminem still the man at interscope, cuz he proved it long term, but currently 50 got shit on lock......
and about the debut recods.....my bad, i meant as in he broke opening week sales, snoop had that shit on lock, 50 broke it.....
and overhyping his star power?!?! homie, instead of comin up with all this shit about eminem, why dont ya jus praise 50 for whats his achieved in such little time, his debut hit 6 mill in US alone, he then released bare g-unit cats off his label, all sellin great, he got kicks on the shelves, he gotta game comin out, a film comin out with a cat the homie, samuel l jackson wanted to work with, his new album just hit over a million copies in 4 days, over praising his star power!?!? nah homie, im just givin him the credit he deserves for what his done in such short time
peace
I'm not trying to downplay 50, I just don't think he's reached Em's level yet on a global scale when it comes to being a star. Why would you expect Em to sell as much as the last two? Encore is considerably worse an album than Em Show and MMLP. It got less promotion, no tour, and the same old video to start it up. No artist keeps sales up. Thriller sold 20 million with in it's first full year for MJ. Bad then came out and sold 6 million. Jackson lost 14 million fans. Eminem's peak is behind him. Of course he won't sell as much anymore. That being said, if he redefines himself and comes out with a new album that catches everyone's attention he may exceed what he's done, but if he's doing the same old thing he will not do so, and no one expects him too. When I said we shouldn't over praise 50 I only meant we shouldn't prematurely praise his record sales. It did a mil in 1 week, what if it only peaks at 3 mil? Then he certainly is lower than Em.
As for the records. The opening week record means shit to me. It's based only on albums post 1991, because that's when soundscan started counting.
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first weak sales
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i think it's pretty much universally official now ....Aftermath has passed Deathrow in it's glory days
Aftermath may be big right now but the thing is rap is more universal now because when deathrow came out they were the label that made rap commercially successful and they made much better albums and more classics so i'd still give the edge to Death Row as the Greatest Dynasty rap music has ever had.
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hell yeah, i agree with your words