New 50 Cent Interview Addressing His Beefs

For the past half-decade, gangsta rap icon and international superstar 50 Cent has kept "beef" a steady part of the hip-hop diet by waging vitriolic -- but also cartoonishly entertaining, headline-grabbing -- wars of words with rap rivals.

50 Cent's place in the rap pantheon is also being debated on the cover of this month's Rolling Stone with the headline: "Showdown! 50 Cent vs. Kanye West / Who will be the king of hip-hop?"


At issue, West's third album, "Graduation," will be released on Sept. 11, the same day 50 Cent's third album, "Curtis," comes out, and the Queens, N.Y.-born rapper has vowed he will retire as a solo artist if West outsells him in its first sales week.

Brushing off questions about the challenge, 50 Cent instead took time to thoroughly diss the crop of rap stars he sees as pretenders to hip-hop's throne: Jay-Z, the Game, Lil Wayne, Nas -- and West.

And the tough-talking MC left little doubt about where he feels he stands in the pecking order. "In the music business, you're as relevant as the music you make," 50 Cent said. "I believe my consistency will break their necks, each one of them." Here's what he had to say during a recent interview:

Kanye West

Although 50 Cent claims to bear the Chicago-born West no personal animus and calls him a "talented producer," he says the proof of his commercial superiority will be in the proverbial pudding when fans hear the "Louis Vuitton Don's" new material.

"When the albums hit the streets -- and they're going to be on the streets before they hit retail -- that's when you're going to see the difference, the shift of energy for 50 Cent," he said. "Because the actual music on this record is going to dominate, generate more interest than Kanye's."

"I've heard Kanye's album. He has a good record with T-Pain. But that's all you can look forward to. He doesn't live up to expectation material-wise; it's going to hurt Kanye West."

Nas

Ridiculing the title and working premise of Nas' most recent album, "Hip Hop Is Dead," 50 Cent negatively assessed the venerable MC's densely narrative rapping and self-styled image as an "intelligent thug."

"Hip-hop ain't dead. That's just coming from an artist that's dead," 50 Cent said. "Hip-hop being what it was in his era -- the Tupac/Nas/Biggie/Jay-Z era -- is dead. Right now [rap fans] don't want to hear that nonsense."

He added with a laugh: "Those guys that flood their music with too much intellectual information don't sell. You could be so creative that you just got a smock and a French accent!"

The Game

Revisiting what is perhaps his most infamous "beef" with the Compton gangsta rapper and former member of his G-Unit collective the Game, 50 Cent again claimed credit for writing much of the material on the Game's multiplatinum-selling debut album, "The Documentary" -- an assertion the Game has repeatedly denied.

"So Game's 'Documentary' has six records that I wrote and three were his first three singles," 50 Cent said. "I had two records on Game's album in the top 10 and two records on my album ["The Massacre"] in the top 10 -- I'm the only hip-hop artist to be compared with the Beatles for having four songs in the top 10 at the same time."

"Bottom line: he's not even relevant now," 50 Cent said.

Jay-Z

Although it is clear 50 Cent views fellow former crack dealer turned rapper turned president of Island Def Jam Jay-Z as his strongest competition in the rapper-mogul department, 50 Cent feels Jay's policy of not responding to people dissing him is a major liability, contrasting it negatively with his own "let no diss go unpunished" hard line.

"Jay will look at the facts and say, 'They're not worthy of me saying anything to them,' " said 50 Cent, "when I'm willing to compete. A kid touches the stove and you say . . . 'Don't touch that!' Jay lets them go further and they just disrespect him more blatantly. It gets worse and worse; they feel there's no repercussions after a while. They say whatever they say and you will become accustomed to being disrespected."

Lil Wayne

The target of a diss track by 50 Cent earlier this summer, Lil Wayne has been touted in recent weeks as the most talented lyricist in rap today. Still, 50 Cent says the rapper's ubiquity on other artists' songs doesn't make up for his lack of stand-alone success.

"He hasn't actually had hit records," said 50 Cent. "He can bring a remix to life. Being featured on someone else's record, he sounds good. But where is his record? He doesn't have a hit of his own."

He continued: "If all I had to do was focus on one verse, I'd be on fire! There's a difference between good rappers and good songwriters."

Jimmy Iovine

Even 50 Cent's label chief, Interscope Records founder and music industry titan Jimmy Iovine, hasn't been spared the rapper's verbal lash. Upset with the way he feels Interscope has been marketing "Curtis" thus far, 50 Cent has at times run afoul of his boss by refusing to keep his feelings to himself.

"He gets angry with me because I say [expletive] Jimmy Iovine," said 50 Cent. "That's how I felt right then. He understands that I'm creative. But nobody else ever says anything like that to Jimmy! You don't say that period."

"Right now we ain't speaking," he added.

lol fifty a funni dude

lol fifty a funni dude

It's funny that most of it is true...including the part about Lil' Wayne. However, I don't believe he wrote 6 of Game's tracks (he might of wrote a couple hooks but thats about it) and the part about Nas is half true.

Lmao @ whoever "touts" Lil Wayne as "the most talented lyricist in rap today". ****, mainstream hip hop is pathetic. 1994 was a long time ago.......

50 is full of crap...Nas topic, true....Lil Wayne topic, funny but the Carters are fire.... Kanye topic, true but his commercial style will kill 50's lame non-creative style....game topic, 50 know dawn well he didn't write that dudes stuff. He must be still writing for him because his style has yet to change..

Sirius played the entire album for the both of them dudes and kanye's joint was far better than 50's...Knaye got one jam, "Big Brother" killed every track on 50's stuff..

Lmao @ whoever "touts" Lil Wayne as "the most talented lyricist in rap today". ****, mainstream hip hop is pathetic. 1994 was a long time ago.......

This person knows about rap music,

For 50 to put himself in the same league as Nas and Jigga is digusting, no serious lyricist belives what this dude is saying,

Illmatic and Reasonable Doubt are in a whole other universe to fifty's ***** pop songs,

The only people that buy 50's records are misguided young kids, hiding in their room listening to 50 with the sound down incase daddy hears the expletives, its the lowest form of teenage rebellion, truly a rebellion without a cause.

Oh and just for the record, 50's talking **** about beef, cos when shyne beefed him, he didnt wanna know cos he was ****in with a real g, not a studio gangster, and when black child stabbed him with a pen, he went to the cops and got an injunction against murder inc.

:lol1:

Oh and just for the record, 50's talking **** about beef, cos when shyne beefed him, he didnt wanna know cos he was ****in with a real g, not a studio gangster, and when black child stabbed him with a pen, he went to the cops and got an injunction against murder inc.

:lol1:
TRUE TRUE TRUE & TRUE

but this is true
lil wayne only writes one verse

The Game killed 50 and everybody else in G-Unit with "300 bars", as well as several other diss tracks.

This person knows about rap music,

For 50 to put himself in the same league as Nas and Jigga is digusting, no serious lyricist belives what this dude is saying,

Illmatic and Reasonable Doubt are in a whole other universe to fifty's ***** pop songs,

The only people that buy 50's records are misguided young kids, hiding in their room listening to 50 with the sound down incase daddy hears the expletives, its the lowest form of teenage rebellion, truly a rebellion without a cause.

Great Post:headbang:

no he was speakin the truth
kids from 12- 18 dont wanna hear that jay z nas lyrical ****
they want a song you can get drunk to and party and all that
not some EHTER who wanna go to a club and listen to ONE MIC?
come on now hip hop changing.. and fifty getting money while nas isnt

no he was speakin the truth

(he was speaking whatever will get him attention/more record sales. He has to breed controversy to divert from the fact that his music is recycled nonsense)

kids from 12- 18 dont wanna hear that jay z nas lyrical ****

(that's because the radio brainwashes them, and they follow suit with whatever is deemed the current "hot ****". And when I was 16-18, I wanted to hear that "lyrical ****".)

they want a song you can get drunk to and party and all that

(you can get drunk and party to all different genres of music, it doesnt have to just be mindless nonsense with a dope beat)


who wanna go to a club?

(not me)

come on now hip hop changing.. and fifty getting money while nas isnt

(they're both getting money, 50 might be making more at the moment, but Nas commands much more respect than 50. Considering his classic catalog and overall sales of 11 million+.....)



Nas has sold over 11 million records. Nas doesnt have to keep recording music. Nas' first album > 50's career.

anybody listen to 50's garbage....curtis? one of the worst albums of the year.... we heard all of this **** before...

People complain too much about 50 really. Just don't pay attention to him if you don't like him.

Nas has sold over 11 million records. Nas doesnt have to keep recording music. Nas' first album > 50's career.

RESPONSE TO WHAT U SAID BOUT BRAIN WASHING
the radio not brain washing them..people moving on this is what hip hop is
they go through era's an nas is done.. this the new era they not brain washing the radio is playing WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR...

you can have a party to any song... but for a a regular person who like rap he would prolly want a SICK beat u can bob your head to instead of a boring beat with great lyrics if im high or drunk i dont wanna waist all that energy listing to every lyric.. i wanna dope ass song i can just GET straight CRUNK!

ok over 11 million records sold for nas?
lol
50 did 12.. on his first album bro..

Nas is still the man though let's not get out of hand.

nas is a legend of course.. top 10 all time
all im saying is this generation is not for his kind of music
that old hip hop is dead but a new kind of hip hop alive

New 50 Cent Interview Addressing His Beefs

For the past half-decade, gangsta rap icon and international superstar 50 Cent has kept "beef" a steady part of the hip-hop diet by waging vitriolic -- but also cartoonishly entertaining, headline-grabbing -- wars of words with rap rivals.

50 Cent's place in the rap pantheon is also being debated on the cover of this month's Rolling Stone with the headline: "Showdown! 50 Cent vs. Kanye West / Who will be the king of hip-hop?"


At issue, West's third album, "Graduation," will be released on Sept. 11, the same day 50 Cent's third album, "Curtis," comes out, and the Queens, N.Y.-born rapper has vowed he will retire as a solo artist if West outsells him in its first sales week.

Brushing off questions about the challenge, 50 Cent instead took time to thoroughly diss the crop of rap stars he sees as pretenders to hip-hop's throne: Jay-Z, the Game, Lil Wayne, Nas -- and West.

And the tough-talking MC left little doubt about where he feels he stands in the pecking order. "In the music business, you're as relevant as the music you make," 50 Cent said. "I believe my consistency will break their necks, each one of them." Here's what he had to say during a recent interview:

Kanye West

Although 50 Cent claims to bear the Chicago-born West no personal animus and calls him a "talented producer," he says the proof of his commercial superiority will be in the proverbial pudding when fans hear the "Louis Vuitton Don's" new material.

"When the albums hit the streets -- and they're going to be on the streets before they hit retail -- that's when you're going to see the difference, the shift of energy for 50 Cent," he said. "Because the actual music on this record is going to dominate, generate more interest than Kanye's."

"I've heard Kanye's album. He has a good record with T-Pain. But that's all you can look forward to. He doesn't live up to expectation material-wise; it's going to hurt Kanye West."

Nas

Ridiculing the title and working premise of Nas' most recent album, "Hip Hop Is Dead," 50 Cent negatively assessed the venerable MC's densely narrative rapping and self-styled image as an "intelligent thug."

"Hip-hop ain't dead. That's just coming from an artist that's dead," 50 Cent said. "Hip-hop being what it was in his era -- the Tupac/Nas/Biggie/Jay-Z era -- is dead. Right now [rap fans] don't want to hear that nonsense."

He added with a laugh: "Those guys that flood their music with too much intellectual information don't sell. You could be so creative that you just got a smock and a French accent!"

The Game

Revisiting what is perhaps his most infamous "beef" with the Compton gangsta rapper and former member of his G-Unit collective the Game, 50 Cent again claimed credit for writing much of the material on the Game's multiplatinum-selling debut album, "The Documentary" -- an assertion the Game has repeatedly denied.

"So Game's 'Documentary' has six records that I wrote and three were his first three singles," 50 Cent said. "I had two records on Game's album in the top 10 and two records on my album ["The Massacre"] in the top 10 -- I'm the only hip-hop artist to be compared with the Beatles for having four songs in the top 10 at the same time."

"Bottom line: he's not even relevant now," 50 Cent said.

Jay-Z

Although it is clear 50 Cent views fellow former crack dealer turned rapper turned president of Island Def Jam Jay-Z as his strongest competition in the rapper-mogul department, 50 Cent feels Jay's policy of not responding to people dissing him is a major liability, contrasting it negatively with his own "let no diss go unpunished" hard line.

"Jay will look at the facts and say, 'They're not worthy of me saying anything to them,' " said 50 Cent, "when I'm willing to compete. A kid touches the stove and you say . . . 'Don't touch that!' Jay lets them go further and they just disrespect him more blatantly. It gets worse and worse; they feel there's no repercussions after a while. They say whatever they say and you will become accustomed to being disrespected."

Lil Wayne

The target of a diss track by 50 Cent earlier this summer, Lil Wayne has been touted in recent weeks as the most talented lyricist in rap today. Still, 50 Cent says the rapper's ubiquity on other artists' songs doesn't make up for his lack of stand-alone success.

"He hasn't actually had hit records," said 50 Cent. "He can bring a remix to life. Being featured on someone else's record, he sounds good. But where is his record? He doesn't have a hit of his own."

He continued: "If all I had to do was focus on one verse, I'd be on fire! There's a difference between good rappers and good songwriters."

Jimmy Iovine

Even 50 Cent's label chief, Interscope Records founder and music industry titan Jimmy Iovine, hasn't been spared the rapper's verbal lash. Upset with the way he feels Interscope has been marketing "Curtis" thus far, 50 Cent has at times run afoul of his boss by refusing to keep his feelings to himself.

"He gets angry with me because I say [expletive] Jimmy Iovine," said 50 Cent. "That's how I felt right then. He understands that I'm creative. But nobody else ever says anything like that to Jimmy! You don't say that period."

"Right now we ain't speaking," he added.

Get em 50!!!! Speaking the mother****in truth.The **** Ive been saying on this site for the longest,and its coming from a East Coast Rapper.haha. I dont even like 50 neither.:lol1: :lol1:

Godzhand, you have no business in this thread.

since when do album sales mean quality music? i never understood that.... i mean if that was the case than mc hammer ****s on everybody and vanilla ice is a god.

since when do album sales mean quality music? i never understood that.... i mean if that was the case than mc hammer ****s on everybody and vanilla ice is a god.

lol no , vanilla ice never did awesome numbers

lol no , vanilla ice never did awesome numbers

your kiding right? to the extreme went diamond..... for those that dont know, thats 10 million records.

since when do album sales mean quality music? i never understood that.... i mean if that was the case than mc hammer ****s on everybody and vanilla ice is a god.

Quit copying what Godzhand said.:slap: Back in the day Vanilla Ice's music WAS QUALITY. Dont act as if alot of ppl werent bumping him. He was the **** back in the day,now that alot of ppl think it was wack all of a sudden,doesnt mean it wasnt back then. Same goes for Hammer. Keep the hate to a minimum.

BOOOOYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

Quit copying what Godzhand said.:slap: Back in the day Vanilla Ice's music WAS QUALITY. Dont act as if alot of ppl werent bumping him. He was the **** back in the day,now that alot of ppl think it was wack all of a sudden,doesnt mean it wasnt back then. Same goes for Hammer. Keep the hate to a minimum.

BOOOOYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

do you not care about the message in the music at all? is all you care about is a ****ing beat? get your mind right.

Lil Wayne has been touted in recent weeks as the most talented lyricist in rap today[/B]. Still, 50 Cent says the rapper's ubiquity on other artists' songs doesn't make up for his lack of stand-alone success.

"He hasn't actually had hit records," said 50 Cent. "He can bring a remix to life. Being featured on someone else's record, he sounds good. But where is his record? He doesn't have a hit of his own."

He continued: "If all I had to do was focus on one verse, I'd be on fire! There's a difference between good rappers and good songwriters."


Now i understand what Nas means by hip hop is dead,how the **** is Lil Wayne the most talented lyricist in rap?

and to go as far as saying that vanilla ice put out quality music is some kind of sick joke.... i know you cant believe that. atleast i hope so..

if 50 cents the best rapper out then hip-hop is dead no questions he raps for kids that think there gangstars

he has no substance no lyrical content he trys to sing but he cant he is fake

Quit copying what Godzhand said.:slap: Back in the day Vanilla Ice's music WAS QUALITY. Dont act as if alot of ppl werent bumping him. He was the **** back in the day,now that alot of ppl think it was wack all of a sudden,doesnt mean it wasnt back then. Same goes for Hammer. Keep the hate to a minimum.

BOOOOYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you just say Vanilla Ice's music was quality? Damn, when I get home from work, I'll post some lyrics.

Did you just say Vanilla Ice's music was quality? Damn, when I get home from work, I'll post some lyrics.

What do you think of these lyrics, BE HONEST

Take heed 'cause I'm a lyrical poet
Miami's on the scene just in case you didn't know it
My town that created all the bass sound
Enough to shake and kick holes in the ground
'Cause my style's like a chemical spill
Feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel
Conducted and formed
This is a hell of a concept
We make it hype and you want to step with this
Shay plays on the fade slice like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast other DJs say damn
If my rhyme was a drug I'd sell it by the gram
Keep my composure when it's time to get loose
Magnetized by the mic while I kick my juice
If there was a problem yo I'll solve it
Check out the hook while dj revolves it

Now compare that to 50 cents lyrics, whose are better?

HONESTLY

lol no , vanilla ice never did awesome numbers

Vanilla Ice has sold close to 20 million records. I think his first album sold like 17 million. Vanilla Ice > 50 then, right?

What do you think of these lyrics, BE HONEST

Take heed 'cause I'm a lyrical poet
Miami's on the scene just in case you didn't know it
My town that created all the bass sound
Enough to shake and kick holes in the ground
'Cause my style's like a chemical spill
Feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel
Conducted and formed
This is a hell of a concept
We make it hype and you want to step with this
Shay plays on the fade slice like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast other DJs say damn
If my rhyme was a drug I'd sell it by the gram
Keep my composure when it's time to get loose
Magnetized by the mic while I kick my juice
If there was a problem yo I'll solve it
Check out the hook while dj revolves it

Now compare that to 50 cents lyrics, whose are better?

HONESTLY

Honestly, 50's rhymes are better than Vanilla Ice's.

Honestly, 50's rhymes are better than Vanilla Ice's.

I dunno, for me its a close one,

Lryically vanilla ice? dmx at least, post some lyrics, i think the vanilla ice verse i posted is better than most of what DMX writes, of course, thats cos vanilla ice didnt write his own lyrics, thats why they are decent.

Its a big myth about ice ice baby, the lyrics arent bad at all, its vanilla ice who is ****.

50 is far better than Vanilla Ice in my opinion 50 still put out really dope stuff before he came out and Get Rich was a very good album as well. And the Massacre was alright. This album is not that strong I need to listen to it a few more times. But it's still evident that it's is worst album.

50 is far better than Vanilla Ice in my opinion 50 still put out really dope stuff before he came out and Get Rich was a very good album as well. And the Massacre was alright. This album is not that strong I need to listen to it a few more times. But it's still evident that it's is worst album.

there both equily ****

That part about Lil Wayne is ****ing BULL****!!!

Lupe Fiasco's BY FAR the best lyricist out at the minute.

Listen to Dumb It Down for proof

50 is far better than Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice didn't even write Ice Ice Baby someother dude wrote it. And he probably had other ghostwriters as well.

Vanilla Ice has sold close to 20 million records. I think his first album sold like 17 million. Vanilla Ice > 50 then, right?

LMAO where do u get yo facts...??
even though you are wrong..if vanilla did sell that much 50 still has done OVER 20 mill.. and with curtis he gunna be round 25 mil SO 50 > ice... lol in sales and as an EMCEE

50 is far better than Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice didn't even write Ice Ice Baby someother dude wrote it. And he probably had other ghostwriters as well.

I wouldnt say much better, he is much realer, but 50 lyrics are whack,
But no one can touch dmx for **** lyrics, i still cant work out why people buy that ****, me and my best mate listen to the songs for a laughs, i may post up some lyrics later,

****est Lyrics= Bravehearts and DMX imo

:lol1:

And there's no way vanilla ice wrote them lyrics, which is why they are decent, he prolly has ghostwriter.

LMAO where do u get yo facts...??
even though you are wrong..if vanilla did sell that much 50 still has done OVER 20 mill.. and with curtis he gunna be round 25 mil SO 50 > ice... lol in sales and as an EMCEE

I was off, this is from wikipedia.com:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Ice#Mainstream_success_and_failure_.281990-1993.29

"As a consequence, To The Extreme became the first #1 album in the US without a vinyl counterpart release. It went on to sell over 11 million copies."


After listening to "Curtis", if this **** goes multi-platinum, I'll laugh my ass off.

50's irrelevent. He's been exposed as a hypocrite and a joke. Dissing Jar Rule for the way he makes records and does the same exact thing. Goes after rappers with weak verses to sell records. He's a chump.