How 50 Cent Flopped

[TSUNAMI 20,193]

Do you ever wonder what happened to the homophobe 50 Cent?

Yes? Start reading!

No? Seriously, sis? So much drama in here

 

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Before he self destructed: chronicling the fall of 50 Cent

 

There was a time when Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was unavoidable. With the exception of Snoop Doggy Dogg, it’s difficult to envision a rapper getting a bigger launch: his debut album Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ dominated the pop culture landscape in 2003, selling 12 million copies while its inescapable lead single “In Da Club” stayed at the top of the charts for nine weeks. The album made Rolling Stone’s list of the top 50 albums of the decade and became one of the most commercially successful rap albums of all time.

His popularity transcended racial, gender, class, and generational divides. Your grandmother knew who 50 Cent was. She may even have felt comfortable enough with the rapper to refer to him as “Fiddy,” as every white person in the world once did. Backed by his mentors Dr. Dre and Eminem, Jackson once had so much power behind him that it seemed nearly impossible for him to fail.

These days, however, it’s nearly impossible to imagine him succeeding. In the limp, late punchline to the grim joke that is his career, Jackson — a rapper whose preoccupation with money was obsessive even in a genre fixated on it — recently declared bankruptcy. A man whose never-released Columbia debut was to be called The Power Of The Dollar, who made a reported $100 million from his stake in Vitamin Water, and who in 2007 was the second wealthiest rapper in the industry — a man who named himself after money — was now conceding he was not financially solvent. A man who rocketed to fame shirtlessly bragging about being richer than everyone else donned a suit to meekly inform the court that he was not the pillar of wealth he was pretending to be.

Jackson’s struggles were once a strength: he was a hip-hop Horatio Alger story who overcame his drug-dealing adolescence and getting shot nine times to become a massive superstar. But he has only himself to blame for his downfall, and now his story has a much darker context: it’s a cautionary tale of how hubris and bad decisions can torpedo any career. Twelve years ago, the idea of 50 Cent pleading for his financial life in bankruptcy court was inconceivable. Today, his bankruptcy engenders not shock or pity but Nelson Muntz-like cackles of "Ha ha!"

That's because Jackson’s fall is among the most deserved in pop culture, to the point a would-be rhetorical question like "where did it all go wrong?" has multiple, specific answers. Here are 10 of the seemingly infinite mistakes he made en route from being one of rap’s biggest winners to one of its biggest losers.

 

2004: Jackson uses an early Playboy interview to out himself as a homophobe

2005: Jackson goes without an acting coach on the set of Get Rich Or Die Tryin’

2005: Jackson goes after Jadakiss and Nas (and Kelis) on the diss track "Piggy Bank"

2007: Jackson says he’ll retire from his solo career if Kanye West outsells him, then reneges

2008: Jackson decides that publicly humiliating Young Buck would be good for a laugh

2008: Jackson attempts to be the hip-hop Donald Trump on 50 Cent: The Money And The Power

2009: Jackson stars in 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand, a video game set in the Middle East

2009: Jackson goes after Rick Ross, regrets it

2009: Jackson introduces Pimpin’ Curly

2009: Jackson writes, directs, and stars in the insane vanity project Before I Self Destruct

2011: In yet another bid for his non-existent acting career, Jackson co-writes a role for himself as a cancer-stricken college football player in All Things Fall Apart

2015: Jackson's leak of a sex tape featuring an ex-girlfriend of Rick Ross costs him in more ways than one

IF you want to read waaaay more: https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9184209/50-cent-bankruptcy-rick-ross-beef

 

Good luck shading us

 

 

 

 

[BeIIadonna 5,480]

1 minute ago, JFK said:

Do you ever wonder what happened to the homophobe 50 Cent?

 That on its own answers it all. Also didn't he fail to lipsync at one of his shows before or something? 

[IAmNotHere1997 25,824]

omg I just remembered how he released (almost) all of the songs from his last album, Animal Ambition, as singles. And they barely managed to chart.

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

I was 11 to 14 during 50 Cent's reign. He was massive, like massive. He made hip-hop culture huge. It was during these years that hip-hop was dominating. I remember all my male peers dressing like 50 Cent, they were white. keep in mind, these were middle schoolers doing this. His influence was, WOW. 

According to Billboard, success wise 50 Cent was the top artist of 2003 and 2005. 

His commercial decline came in 2007 with the Curtis era. Though the fourth single did go Top 10 (but it was a Timbaland produced track featuring Justin Timberlake, two men who dominated 2007). And the song was only top 10 for 2 weeks. The summary is, 50 Cent was a fad. He became wayyy OVEREXPOSED. 

 

[rumours 45,521]

I suppose he came back a quarter short

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

This thread has inspired me to do a 50 Cent singles performances thread, working on it now

[Babel 40,910]

Sex tape you said?