Conversations With 50 Cent (BET)

Thursday, November 19 2009 8:13 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, Focus

Jay did it and now it’s Curtis’ turn to field questions from Angie Martinez, Harry Allen and Stephen A. Smith. It’s some Food For Thought. Dig in.

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  1. [...] Rapradar AKPC_IDS += "3949,";Popularity: unranked [?] Tags: 5O CENT, Angie Martinez, B.e.t, Food For Thought, harry allen, stepen A smith [...]

  2. I have a follow up question.

    HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE OUTSOLD BY RICK ROSS?

  3. sideshowRaheem says:

    HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE OUTSOLD BY RICK ROSS?

    ^^
    LMAO!!!!

  4. Kat says:

    ^^^
    Damn homie. (When I was)in high school, you was the man homie….

  5. JJ says:

    he aint bin outsold by officer ricky LMFAO u silly boys

  6. sideshowRaheem says:

    he aint bin outsold by officer ricky LMFAO u silly boys

    ^^^
    50 is estimated to sell about 150K in his first week Ross sold 158k in his first week……….that’s out sold my friend and embarrassing since 50 himself said that 150k is a disappointment for an artist at his level.

  7. he aint bin outsold by officer ricky LMFAO u silly boys

    ^^^
    50 is estimated to sell about 150K in his first week Ross sold 158k in his first week……….that’s out sold my friend and embarrassing since 50 himself said that 150k is a disappointment for an artist at his level.

    ^^ SONNED (OR DAUGHTERED IF JJ IS A FEMALE)

  8. dbraz says:

    If these numbers do hold up maybe this will be a good wake up call for 50….i still think he can make good music but he has to get back to makin great commercial songs like pimp or even those g-unit songs like stunt 101….those use to be the dayz…back then nobody could fuck wit 50…now all his songs just seem to be dry…i think baby by me is a good commercial hit but after that song there is nothing else on his new album that’s worth radio play…i mean he can still keep makin that street shit but mix it up like get rich or die tryin…his music has just continued to regress since game left him…i hope this is not the end for his music career but if it is he had a good run…like jay say on his track a star is born “clap for em”

  9. dope boy says:

    EVERYONE KNOWS THAT DEF JAM BUY SOME OF THIER OWN RECORDS.

    IF ITS TRUE THAT 50 SOLD 150K THATS NOT BAD KNOWING THAT HES ALBUM BEEN ON THE INTERNET FOR 4 WEEKS NOW

  10. Joe Blow says:

    wheres the rest?

  11. “EVERYONE KNOWS THAT DEF JAM BUY SOME OF THIER OWN RECORDS.

    IF ITS TRUE THAT 50 SOLD 150K THATS NOT BAD KNOWING THAT HES ALBUM BEEN ON THE INTERNET FOR 4 WEEKS NOW”

    ^^^

    YOU ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL BRUH, IF ANYBODY HAS THE CLOUT TO BUY UP HIS OWN RECORDS, IT’S 50. YOU KNOW DAMN WELL DEF JAM ONLY BUYS JAY’S RECORDS.

  12. SOMEONE BEEF WIT ME!

    SOMEONE…PLEASE!!!

    I NEED TO TAKE PLACE IN A HARSH REALITY SITUATION AND PUT SOME ARTISTS IN DISCOMFORT OF A GIVEN SITUATION THEREFORE GENERATING MORE INTEREST FOR MY AUDIO MATERIAL IN THIS VERY PARTICULAR TIME FRAME!!!

    IT’S FITTY!!

  13. dope boy says:

    EITHER WAY IF 50 DOES SELL 150K HE IS SELLING INTERNATIONALY HE NUMMBER 4 IN THE U.K O ITUNES AND IN THE TOP 10 IN OTHER COUNTRIES

    PLUS 50 IS A RTIST WHO SELLS CD THROUGHOUT THE YEAR HE WILL END UP SEELLING A HELL OF A LOT MORE CDS THEN ROSS

    ROSS AINT EVEN GOLD WITH HIS LAST ALBUM

  14. “If these numbers do hold up maybe this will be a good wake up call for 50….i still think he can make good music but he has to get back to makin great commercial songs like pimp or even those g-unit songs like stunt 101….those use to be the dayz…back then nobody could fuck wit 50…now all his songs just seem to be dry…i think baby by me is a good commercial hit but after that song there is nothing else on his new album that’s worth radio play…i mean he can still keep makin that street shit but mix it up like get rich or die tryin…his music has just continued to regress since game left him…i hope this is not the end for his music career but if it is he had a good run…like jay say on his track a star is born “clap for em””

    ^^^

    BE REAL, IT’S OVER FOR 50. AFTER “GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN” HE HAD TO RELY ON HIS CREW. HE STUPIDLY LOST THE BEST 2 MEMBERS – GAME AND BUCK. JUST CUZ HE GREW UP WITH LLOYD BANKS AND TONY YAYO DON’T MEAN THEY WORTH SHIT ANYMORE.

    GAME IS DOING WAY BETTER THAN 50 MUSICALLY NOWADAYS, AND IF 50 WERE TO LET BUCK GO FROM G-UNIT, THERE WOULD BE MAD CLASSICS UNDERWAY.

    50 IF YOU READING THIS, AND I KNOW YOU AREN’T, QUIT BEING A BITCH AND RELEASE BUCK.

  15. “EITHER WAY IF 50 DOES SELL 150K HE IS SELLING INTERNATIONALY HE NUMMBER 4 IN THE U.K O ITUNES AND IN THE TOP 10 IN OTHER COUNTRIES

    PLUS 50 IS A RTIST WHO SELLS CD THROUGHOUT THE YEAR HE WILL END UP SEELLING A HELL OF A LOT MORE CDS THEN ROSS

    ROSS AINT EVEN GOLD WITH HIS LAST ALBUM”

    ^^^

    I FEEL BAD FOR 50 CENT APOLOGISTS LIKE YOU

  16. DILLInGERMAN says:

    EXACTLY U NIGGAZ SAY RICKY AINT FLOP BUT IF 50 CENT DO DAT FAKE ASS NIGGA RICK FALSES NUMBERS HE FLOPPED RIGHT? DUMB ASS NIGGAZ JUS HATE FOR NO REASON DATS LIFE THO

  17. “EXACTLY U NIGGAZ SAY RICKY AINT FLOP BUT IF 50 CENT DO DAT FAKE ASS NIGGA RICK FALSES NUMBERS HE FLOPPED RIGHT? DUMB ASS NIGGAZ JUS HATE FOR NO REASON DATS LIFE THO”

    ^^^

    50 CENT SAID SELLING 150K IS A FLOP. YOUR DADDY SAID SO, SO IT MUST BE TRUE.

  18. dope boy says:

    HA HA HA ITS SO TRUE THAT JAY Z IS ONLY KNOWN AS MR BEYONCE KNOWLES IN THE U.K
    HA HA HA

    JAY Z A SNAKE NIGGA HE FAKE WITH HIS FAKE LAUGH AND SWAGGER CANT BELIVE YALL DONT SEE IT

  19. JJ says:

    ”””50 is estimated to sell about 150K in his first week Ross sold 158k in his first week”””

    LETS WAIT TIL THE REALLLLL NUMBERS COME IN non of this estimated junk!!!

  20. BJ says:

    I think 50′s fans are letting him down right now. Dude is working his ass off and the sales aren’t looking good. So if you bought this album you should go buy another copy. People really have to love you these days to buy your music. Jay sold to an older demo and 50′s demo isn’t supporting him. Everybody’s album leaks so no excuses. This is about the people and they are saying they don’t wish to fully support this record. Life is real right now. The masses aren’t focused on this shit. If he really wanted to sell he should’ve hit up Will I Am and the peas lol

  21. sideshowRaheem says:

    Look at all this 50 apologists coming out the wood work. First off everybody says Def Jam buys back albums because 50 once said that shit but I have yet to see anybody produce any evidence to prove this. I mean I’m pretty sure there are some disgruntled ex-Def Jam employees out there how come they don’t do an interview and and expose them? Second most people wouldn’t care so much about his albums sales if 50 wasn’t the one always bringing up sales numbers, so all this ridicule is his own fault. And third can we stop pretending 50 is the only internationally popular hip-hop artist just because he says that shit don’t make it true artist like Eminem, Jay-Z, and Kanye are equally as popular in other countries Kanye alone usually spends at least 2-3 months a year touring internationally. I don’t a hate 50 but facts are facts and if he didn’t spend so much time worrying about other artist he could get his own house in order.

  22. “Are you gay”? lmaooooooo!

  23. Ha Ha says:

    wheres part 3

  24. sideshowRaheem says:

    ”””50 is estimated to sell about 150K in his first week Ross sold 158k in his first week”””

    LETS WAIT TIL THE REALLLLL NUMBERS COME IN non of this estimated junk!!!

    ^^^
    As far as album sales go the estimates are pretty accurate 99 percent of the time so you just keep on holding out hope but you will be disappointed. As of right now it’s looking like your boy John Mayer is gonna out sell 50 because he’s gonna movie between 275,000 and 300,000 copies. DID YOU EVER THINK YOU’D SEE THE DAY 50 DROP A #2 ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  25. sideshowRaheem says:

    ^^^^
    AND 50 HAD A WEEK LONG HEAD START ON iTUNES!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  26. sideshowRaheem says:

    Oh my mistake guys, 50 isn’t gonging to have the #2 album IT’S GONNA BE #3!!!!!! A Christian rock band name Casting Crowns is looking to have a strong week selling selling 175,000………….Damn homie………

  27. “[...] Big ups to RapRadar. [...]”

    ^^^

    SPAM

  28. “Oh my mistake guys, 50 isn’t gonging to have the #2 album IT’S GONNA BE #3!!!!!! A Christian rock band name Casting Crowns is looking to have a strong week selling selling 175,000………….Damn homie………”

    ^^^

    CUE TO 50 CENT TALKING ABOUT HOW THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WASN’T READY FOR “AGGRESSIVE CONTENT”

  29. “Look at all this 50 apologists coming out the wood work. First off everybody says Def Jam buys back albums because 50 once said that shit but I have yet to see anybody produce any evidence to prove this. I mean I’m pretty sure there are some disgruntled ex-Def Jam employees out there how come they don’t do an interview and and expose them? Second most people wouldn’t care so much about his albums sales if 50 wasn’t the one always bringing up sales numbers, so all this ridicule is his own fault. And third can we stop pretending 50 is the only internationally popular hip-hop artist just because he says that shit don’t make it true artist like Eminem, Jay-Z, and Kanye are equally as popular in other countries Kanye alone usually spends at least 2-3 months a year touring internationally. I don’t a hate 50 but facts are facts and if he didn’t spend so much time worrying about other artist he could get his own house in order.”

    ^^^

    SLEPT ON COMMENT

  30. Big Mike says:

    HAHA WOW look at the haters come out. This was a good interview. Haven’t you idiots realized that 50 is successful and has already made it, albums, movies, vitamin water, condoms, cologne, books, etc. Whether he sales 150,000 or 300,000 or 100,000 first week, this record will be Platinum in a matter of months. It’s a solid album.

  31. YouKnowMe says:

    ^^^^^ Thats a Good a Stan…Heres a treat..Good Stan

  32. YO I JUST LISTENED TO THAT “BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT ALBUM”

    HAHA SIKE NO I DIDN’T

  33. MC says:

    You dickhead niggaz actually believe those early predictions??…They’re never correct…No 50 stan here either bitches…You niggaz sound mad gay the way you rejoice that he might sell 150K…Your life must be some fuckin bullshit…LOL!!!

  34. nae says:

    50cent was on Hot 97 and they asked him album they asked him if he feelsthe ressesion he said he oesnt feel it with his album he said his albu got leaked internationally around the world a month before its release and 50cent once the album was leaked he couldnt do anything and said if the numbers looked funny its interscopes fault for shipping the record and letting it leak

    SO BASICALLY THE SHIPPING OF THE ALBUM FUCKED EVERYTHING UP

    Oh and you can stop with the rick ross thing 50cent has 30million sold world wide rick ross doesnt even have a Platinum record even if 50cent doesnt sale rick ross will never have 50cent numbers

  35. DILLInGERMAN says:

    50 CENT HATERSS YALL NIGGAZ STOP BLOGGIN BOUT A FUKIN NIGGA WORTH HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DLLARS BOUT IF HE SELLS 150,000 OR W.E HE SELLS…..YALL STILL AT HOME WITH MOMS N SHIT N NOT WELL OFF FINANCIALLY..DOES IT MAKE U FEEL GOOD TO COME ONLINE N BLOG N LAUGH AT A NIGGA WORTH MORE MONEY THAT MOST IF NOT ALL YALL NIGGAZ FAMILY PUT TOGETHER!? SO WHOSE RELE LOSING???

  36. sideshowRaheem says:

    Man listen to all you excuse having nigga’s………it’s the recession fucking everything up……….Interscope fucked up the album release……….stop hating……..50 still richer then all these rappers. LISTEN TO YOUR SELFS!!! It’s fucking pathetic! Nobodies hating I’m just pointing out what 50 himself wouldn’t be pointing out had this happened to Kanye, Lil Wayne or Jay-Z so please STFU with the bullshit. Eminem and Jay-Z released albums during this same recession and they didn’t seem to have any trouble moving units. Fuck John Mayers albums came out the same week and he’s gonna sell 300K…….so………..WE DON’T BELIEVE YOU, YOU NEED MORE PEOPLE! It’s funny how according to 50 when he moves units it’s all him but when things go wrong then it’s everybody else’s fault.

    As Ordell Robbie said to Louis Gara at the end of Jakie Brown……”What the fuck happened to you, 50? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful!”

  37. WILL says:

    50 cent is right when he says he generates so much interest….cause the most popular articles ON RAP RADAR, on All hiphop….and other websites are about Shady/Aftermath/G-unit…….But 50 is killing the brand with all the bS comin out his mouth……and about the numbers…dont forget the early leak and the sells were only on Itunes the 1st week…..many people wait till the Cd drop…..

  38. SMH THERE WILL BE A LOT OF SUICIDES BEFORE THANKSGIVING

    WHEN NEXT TUESDAY COMES AND 50 DOES RICK ROSS NUMBERS, TAKE THE GUN AND AIM IT AT YOUR DOME, AND THEN PULL THE TRIGGER

    THE WORLD IS BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU

  39. rocstar says:

    lol man 50 got excuses for days. face it, people are sick n tired of ur bullshit. we just want music. that is why we say ross won because in the end none of the cartoons or movies mattered, deeper than rap was a banger. and before i self destruct is actually a good record. if he just let the music speak for itself he woulda done much better. he needs an “i get money” asap.

  40. cpmedia81 says:

    bisd is a good lp i bought it and no complaints. im just mad at the singles he chose.. baby by me is booty… and draws away from the direction of bisd. THAT CD IS HARD!!!!!! fuk the numbers when u already rich bitch!!!

  41. nae says:

    Alot of people dont like 50cent so they bring up rick ross which i dont know why they comparing 50cent sales perjections to rick ross album thats all you can do

    RICK ROSS IS A JOKE COmpARED TO 50CENTS WHOLE bODY OF WORK

  42. nae says:

    No one is making ecusses for 50cent we are jusr staing facts just like you hater are making your ecusses or facts yes albums leak but an whole entire album leaking a month before the release even billboard stated that the album and interscope making 50cent push it up was going to cost him sales I mean he saling out in everything else books perfume he still draws a massive crowd wherever he goes and has like a million folowers on the internet lovers and haters

  43. D-Lon says:

    Jay-Z is the king of New York and the World Nikka…
    Jay-Z is not Beyonce’s Husband, Beyonce is Jay-Z’s Wife actually…
    Im From AFRICA and Jay-Z has more BUZZ then BEYONCE here… Beyonce actually became more Popular here because she married Jay-Z….
    Jay-Z is an Inspiration for everybody man….

    50 Cent, you are not better than Jay-Z in any terms nikka… get over it…. and im your fan sayin this….

  44. Mattyboy says:

    Bottom line 50 is not a good lyricist! He makes watered down music with catchy hooks and this has always been his formula! He is not the lyricist that Jay-Z, Jadakiss, Eminem and the greats are!

  45. come on now says:

    @D-LON

    U are soooo right…

    50 always play himself 4 a fool he should be an aprils baby…

  46. Bingo says:

    O’k,, let me explain to all of yo stupid ass people including 50 cent why 50 cent will not sell as much..

    I’m a marketing and sales manager and i promote products all around the worlds.
    the following reasons are why 50 will not sell much:

    1. Not much people like Gangsta rap music (i know most white ppl don’t) . 50 cent album is gangsta and not commercial(or what white kids wants) except for couple of songs.. tell me one full gangsta loaded album that sold?!!!

    2. the album hardly features anyone, jayz wouldn’t sell if he didn’t put Alicia keys and Rihana in his album,, etc. this is because the popularity of pop or r&b music.

    3. radio radio radio, baby by me is not a huge radio hit. and it’s the only one in the whole album!!!

    4. dance or club banger song?!!!! nothing

    5. 50 thought the leak is good, but i think it’s bad as people now can see how aggressive this album is and they rather buy baby by me in itunes instead of the whole album.

    anyway, i still think 50 will sell more than 200k just because of his name and his fans around the world.

  47. Yanga says:

    well D-Lon i’m from Africa too and you’re stupid to think Beyonce became popular for marrying Jay-Z SMH! you don’t remember Destiny’s Child nigga??? ask your sister!
    Jay-z and beyonce are two totally different entities nahmean?

    50 better than Jay-Z at business… Jay plays that shit too safe. i’d rather work for 50, Jay would steal my ideas and sell em to the highest bidding white man.

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