Goo

4y

What would be the point? They won't be able to restore that magic, some things are better left in the past.

Jim Halpert

4y

Same as cudi with the third moon album.

ARCADE GOON

4y

50 ultimately saw music as a hustle and moved on to other projects. Some rappers aren't in it for the music. 50 is the most talented of that cohort

Danhust

4y

Dre was able to bring back the best of Em in 09.

Ygor Sunny

4y

people seem genuinely hype about it though

Jim Halpert

4y

Kanye west doesn’t make sequels lmao.

Thizz

4y

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/kanye-west-jesus-is-king-part-2/

MrWaffles

4y

Y’all remember when in da club dropped?

holy s*** that was a movement

Goo

4y

That was a long time ago bro

Jim Halpert

4y

This is true

Ran absolutely everything for 3 years and then musically did NOTHING that had quality or quantity since.

Bobby_96

4y

Nigga is the epitome of the "went from top ten to not mentioned at all" bar on Takeover.(Not mentioned for the right reasons anyway.)

Dude was Googled on the same level as pop stars from 2004 to 2009.

50 Cent vs. Beyonce from 2004-2009:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-01-01%202009-12-31&q=%2Fm%2F01vvyc_,%2Fm%2F01mpq7s

50 Cent vs. Eminem from 2004 - 2009:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-01-01%202009-12-31&q=%2Fm%2F01vvyc_,%2Fm%2F01vsgrn

50 Cent vs. Justin Timberlake from 2004 - 2009:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-01-01%202009-12-31&q=%2Fm%2F01vvyc_,%2Fm%2F0j1yf

50 Cent vs. Jay-Z from 2004 - 2009:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-01-01%202009-12-31&q=%2Fm%2F01vvyc_,%2Fm%2F01vw20h

50 Cent vs. Christina Aguilera from 2004 - 2009:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-01-01%202009-12-31&q=%2Fm%2F01vvyc_,%2Fm%2F0127s7

50 Cent vs. Usher from 2004 - 2009:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-01-01%202009-12-31&q=%2Fm%2F01vvyc_,%2Fm%2F01trhmt

(Btw, Britney Spears was the most Googled artist in that time period if you're curious.)

But it's crazy how this dude was musically dead for so long and became much more known for TV and social media trolling to Generation Z when he was THIS huge at one point.

If 50 had the right direction, he could've been bigger than Drake today.

mishka

4y

yall gotta stop excluding Curtis out the convo

that project had bare hits still (Still Kill, I Get Money, Ayo Technology, Straight to the Bank, Amusement Park)

Heeebzz

4y

I’m the cutest alive on Ktt ever tbh

Ezio

4y

You look like that dude in the wire that quit trapping to work @ footlocker

mishka

4y

yall gotta stop excluding Curtis out the convo

that project had bare hits still (Still Kill, I Get Money, Ayo Technology, Straight to the Bank, Amusement Park)

Bobby_96

4y

A lot of people consider 2009 to be Jay-Z's commercial peak, but check this out.

50 was still more Googled than Jay at his peak with a mid album.

And 50 was still mainly Googled for his music(the song with Neyo and the mixtape.) Nigga had the same buzz as Blueprint 3 way past his prime.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2009-01-01%202009-12-31&q=%2Fm%2F01vvyc_,%2Fm%2F01vw20h

Never posting agai

4y

50 cent didn't care about music like that. He wanted to be rich and do rich people s***. He wouldn't be able to be successful as an old rapper, jay-z and nas really the only dudes over 40 that aren't super corny

BillyShears

4y

I see what you’re saying op but a lot less people were using the internet in 2004-2009 so google searches isn’t the best metric for seeing how popular something is as it is today.

And iirc Google search wasn’t as integrated with news and social media as it is today. So if you were googling an artist you were doing so probably to discover who they were. So it makes sense that more people were trying to find out more about 50 cent around that time. That was around the time of the time of the massacre, his first movie, the vitamin water deal, his sales bet with Kanye, etc.

That’s still interesting to see op. Even with all that said it’s still wild that people googled 50 more than Britany and Beyoncé. Especially considering that image search was a thing back then.

NGNL

4y

Country artists still put Nelly on songs that I hear in convenience stores & CVS all the time