Sorry 50, but now its really worth just 50 cents

Sorry 50, but you need to develop yourself as an artist or you can say goodbye to your at one time huge cd sales. You are right, Kanye West is not competition because he is way more talented, more intelligent, dynamic in his lyrics, and he also produces tracks. Now, granted most of his beats are sampled, they still come out pretty damn good most of the time. Either way you look at it takes some talent and skill even to sample songs to create something unique.

Another important factor that is important for maintaining fan base and to continue to have respect in the music industry is that you have to become influential at some point in time your career. 2Pac was influential, Biggie was heading towards the direction of being influential, but he wasn’t there yet and died too young for us to find out. Your first album was hands down a classic that blew my ears away and we got the “low down” about your shooting and your thug mentality, but damn two albums later you are still talking about killing people, murder this, murder that, guns this and that, ak47, bullet proof vests.

I mean damn you are a millionaire now and we all know that you don’t interact with the hoods anymore and you don’t’ go back in the hood nor do you live like a hood, so what’s with all the garbage content lacking lyrics??? Move on with life, don’t you have anything else interesting in your life to talk about??? Increase your vocabulary base, read some books, or do something. Eventually Dr. Dre is not going to be able to save your repetitive narrow minded lyrics over his hit beats and already he is not saving your ass, because there are no spectacular beats on this album.

And I know you are a cocky dude who claims mogul status in rap, but you are no longer the talk of the town dude and even if you go platinum 3 or 4 times which I am sure you will, you need to establish your long term objectives in surviving in this game. Don’t get me wrong I’ll still listen to some of 50's stuff like club type songs hits that are good to cruise to in the car or dance in the club, but I really tune myself out of listening to the lyrics and just enjoy the beats, because the lyrics are very elementary and not thought provoking at all. Whereas, Kanye damn I really have to think about his lyrics sometimes and put them together because his sick creativity leads to a lot of random phrases and words which find their way of flowing together. And I am only using Kanye as an example because both are in the spotlight right now with both of their 3^rd albums dropping on 09/11

Kanye is the obvious winner and the only thing that can come close to his versatile style and lyrics is 50’s first album. And who knows maybe Mr. West will become stale one day but so far he is has been pretty solid with the 3 albums.

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