50 Cent Calls It Quits

Written by Rizoh. Posted in Gumbo

Published on September 13, 2007 with 42 Comments">42 Comments


(via Str8hiphop.com)

Well…almost

An obviously downcast Boo Boo told Kala Rama of 22 News that he’s no longer excited about rapping. I’m sure this has nothing to do with Graduation outselling Curtis 437k to 310k the first day. Hell, at my local Best Buy, there were 40 copies of Curtis lying around in the front display section as opposed to 6 copies of Graduation. And I gather they stocked more copies of Graduation.

Can’t say I’m surprised though. After all, 50 said it three months ago that Before I Self Destruct (2/4/08) will be his Black Album.

Bonus:
50 Cent – Smile (I’m Leaving)
[Produced by Kanye West]
On this bonus track from Curtis, Boo Boo talks retirement and responds to mud slingers.

Curtis: SoundScan Killa in stores now.

TRU

Rizoh

Rizoh is the most powerful man in all the lands. He lives in Houston where he earned a BS in Nerf Herding. He's the founder of The Rap Up, the editor of Roc4Life.com, and is in the Grammy-awaiting band Pervertable Disciples.

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  • http://bgdboom.blogspot.com Enigmatik

    Pour out a little vitamin water for 50′s career.

  • http://bgdboom.blogspot.com Enigmatik

    Pour out a little vitamin water for 50′s career.

  • http://www.realniceaggie.blogspot.com Dwayne

    Poor multi-millionaire, mulit-platinum selling 50-Cent. Thank you for shedding light on your harships for us. It must be very difficult to have the #2 album in the country. 50 is stupid. He says Kanye’s people used the competition as a marketing campaign. If I remember correctly, wasn’t he the one running to every radio station talking noise about selling more than Kanye?

  • http://www.realniceaggie.blogspot.com Dwayne

    Poor multi-millionaire, mulit-platinum selling 50-Cent. Thank you for shedding light on your harships for us. It must be very difficult to have the #2 album in the country. 50 is stupid. He says Kanye’s people used the competition as a marketing campaign. If I remember correctly, wasn’t he the one running to every radio station talking noise about selling more than Kanye?

  • http://www.hiphopremix.com Vizion

    HEY HEY HEY

    GOODBYE!!

    lol…why dude gotta sound so depressed though. make your money elsewhere.

  • http://www.hiphopremix.com Vizion

    HEY HEY HEY

    GOODBYE!!

    lol…why dude gotta sound so depressed though. make your money elsewhere.

  • Chris

    50 got way more from this whole sales battle thing than Kanye did. Nobody was talking about 50 Cent a month ago. All his singles flopped and he had zero hype.

  • Chris

    50 got way more from this whole sales battle thing than Kanye did. Nobody was talking about 50 Cent a month ago. All his singles flopped and he had zero hype.

  • http://nayschola.blogspot.com Nahshon

    *High Fives HipHop*

    One down, many more to go.

  • http://nayschola.blogspot.com Nahshon

    *High Fives HipHop*

    One down, many more to go.

  • Dayne

    YOU SAME KANYE LOVERS WILL BE DOING THE SAME THING TO HIM NEXT YEAR. JUST WAIT AND SEE AND YA’LL WONDER WHY MUSIC IN GENERAL IS DEAD IS BECAUSE YOU PEOPLE BUILD UP YOUR ARTIST AND THEN TEAR THEM DOWN. TRUTH BE TOLD TOLD I LIKE BOTH KANYE AND 50 THEY SPEAK THE TRUTH.

  • Dayne

    YOU SAME KANYE LOVERS WILL BE DOING THE SAME THING TO HIM NEXT YEAR. JUST WAIT AND SEE AND YA’LL WONDER WHY MUSIC IN GENERAL IS DEAD IS BECAUSE YOU PEOPLE BUILD UP YOUR ARTIST AND THEN TEAR THEM DOWN. TRUTH BE TOLD TOLD I LIKE BOTH KANYE AND 50 THEY SPEAK THE TRUTH.

  • http://www.sungmusic.blogspot.com sooch

    Listening to the Kanye album was like trying to listen to a Busta album all the way through. It’s just annoying and it doesn’t help that the album kinda sucks. No where near as well rounded as Late Registrations was. Maybe he should’ve brought back Jon Brion.

    I don’t own a 50 Cent album. I just know he doesn’t like too many people. He puts other artists on blast and relentlessly boasts about past record sales. He’s not as smart as he thinks, obviously. I mean, he says he got writer’s block and had to go back to his grandma-ma’s basement to write the new album. I can’t say that his whole album’s wack cause I haven’t listened to all of it. But if his first few singles are any indication of how “Curtis” plays out, then what the fuck did you do in grandma’s basement? Lift weights and listen to your last two albums over and over?

    He doesn’t know any better. He can’t be original or creative, says Nas’ career is dead cause he’s “too intelligent” and no one’s buying intelligent music. Then he drops an ignorant album and sells ~300,000 copies to Kayne’s ~400,000. He can stir up the teens who buy his albums enough until they forget about him and get back to playing video games.

  • http://www.sungmusic.blogspot.com sooch

    Listening to the Kanye album was like trying to listen to a Busta album all the way through. It’s just annoying and it doesn’t help that the album kinda sucks. No where near as well rounded as Late Registrations was. Maybe he should’ve brought back Jon Brion.

    I don’t own a 50 Cent album. I just know he doesn’t like too many people. He puts other artists on blast and relentlessly boasts about past record sales. He’s not as smart as he thinks, obviously. I mean, he says he got writer’s block and had to go back to his grandma-ma’s basement to write the new album. I can’t say that his whole album’s wack cause I haven’t listened to all of it. But if his first few singles are any indication of how “Curtis” plays out, then what the fuck did you do in grandma’s basement? Lift weights and listen to your last two albums over and over?

    He doesn’t know any better. He can’t be original or creative, says Nas’ career is dead cause he’s “too intelligent” and no one’s buying intelligent music. Then he drops an ignorant album and sells ~300,000 copies to Kayne’s ~400,000. He can stir up the teens who buy his albums enough until they forget about him and get back to playing video games.

  • ferman

    50 Cent is a better RAPPER than Kanye West.

  • ferman

    50 Cent is a better RAPPER than Kanye West.

  • ITS NICHOLE BITCHES

    ITS ALL A PLOY. 50 CENT IS MENT TO FLOP. SO HE CAN BRING THE NEXT ALBUM WITH A VENGENCE AND LEAVE HIS LABEL. HE ASN’T EVEN REALLY PUSHED THE WAY KANYE WAS. THEY ALSO SAID THEY HEARD EACHOTHERS ALBUM IN THE STUDIO TOGETHER. ITS ALL ABOUT MARKETING AND SALES.

  • ITS NICHOLE BITCHES

    ITS ALL A PLOY. 50 CENT IS MENT TO FLOP. SO HE CAN BRING THE NEXT ALBUM WITH A VENGENCE AND LEAVE HIS LABEL. HE ASN’T EVEN REALLY PUSHED THE WAY KANYE WAS. THEY ALSO SAID THEY HEARD EACHOTHERS ALBUM IN THE STUDIO TOGETHER. ITS ALL ABOUT MARKETING AND SALES.

  • http://sitdownstandup.com wes

    “produced by kanye west”

    ha!

  • http://sitdownstandup.com wes

    “produced by kanye west”

    ha!

  • Chris

    50 hasn’t pushed his album the way Kanye has? So the 5 singles he dropped weren’t pushing the album?

  • Chris

    50 hasn’t pushed his album the way Kanye has? So the 5 singles he dropped weren’t pushing the album?

  • its nichole bitches

    NO IT WASN’T. IF YOU TURN TO ANY CHANNEL U SEE KANYES ALBUM COMMERICALS AND APPEARANCES. ON THE OTHR HAND YOU SEE 50S AFTER KANYES AND NOT EVEN ALL THE TIME. THEN KANYE WAS NOMINATED FOR THE TRIPPLE THREAT AWARD AND 50 WASN’T? WHEN 50 HAS MORE BUSINESS VENTURES AND HIS ALBUM WAS PUSHED BACK AND THE VIDEO WITH ROBIN THICK WAS LEAKED? PEOPLE DON’T LIKE HIM BECAUSE HE SAYS WHAT HE FEELS AND KANYE MARKTED OFF IT AND PLAYED HUMBLE AND WE KNOW HE NOT.

  • its nichole bitches

    NO IT WASN’T. IF YOU TURN TO ANY CHANNEL U SEE KANYES ALBUM COMMERICALS AND APPEARANCES. ON THE OTHR HAND YOU SEE 50S AFTER KANYES AND NOT EVEN ALL THE TIME. THEN KANYE WAS NOMINATED FOR THE TRIPPLE THREAT AWARD AND 50 WASN’T? WHEN 50 HAS MORE BUSINESS VENTURES AND HIS ALBUM WAS PUSHED BACK AND THE VIDEO WITH ROBIN THICK WAS LEAKED? PEOPLE DON’T LIKE HIM BECAUSE HE SAYS WHAT HE FEELS AND KANYE MARKTED OFF IT AND PLAYED HUMBLE AND WE KNOW HE NOT.

  • its nichole bitches

    CHRIS IF YOU LEAVE UR EMAIL WE CAN DEBATE IT.

  • its nichole bitches

    CHRIS IF YOU LEAVE UR EMAIL WE CAN DEBATE IT.

  • http://www.theehlp.com esbee

    The thing is ppl are tired of 50. He’s played hip hop’s premier villain to a tee and now ppl are turning on him because as opposed to appeasing them he’s consistently crapped on them..

  • http://www.theehlp.com esbee

    The thing is ppl are tired of 50. He’s played hip hop’s premier villain to a tee and now ppl are turning on him because as opposed to appeasing them he’s consistently crapped on them..

  • its nichole bitches

    ESBEE THERE IS TRUTH TO WHAT UR SAYING BUT IF PEOPLE CAN IGNORE RKELLYS PERSONAL B.S AND STILL BUY HIS MUSIC WHEN HE ALSO HAD ABIG BEEF WITH JAY AND A CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CASE WHY NOT 50? AND FURTHERMORE HES SOMEONE U WOULD LOVE TO HATE BUT EVERYBODY GETS MONEY WITH HIM JAY,JIM JONES,TIMBERLAND, SWIZZ BEATS TO NAME A FEW AND 3 OUT 4 FOUR OF THOSE PEOPLE HES HAD BEEF WITH. BUT THEY IGNORE HIS COMMENTS TO GET MONEY.

  • its nichole bitches

    ESBEE THERE IS TRUTH TO WHAT UR SAYING BUT IF PEOPLE CAN IGNORE RKELLYS PERSONAL B.S AND STILL BUY HIS MUSIC WHEN HE ALSO HAD ABIG BEEF WITH JAY AND A CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CASE WHY NOT 50? AND FURTHERMORE HES SOMEONE U WOULD LOVE TO HATE BUT EVERYBODY GETS MONEY WITH HIM JAY,JIM JONES,TIMBERLAND, SWIZZ BEATS TO NAME A FEW AND 3 OUT 4 FOUR OF THOSE PEOPLE HES HAD BEEF WITH. BUT THEY IGNORE HIS COMMENTS TO GET MONEY.

  • its nichole bitches

    SO I IGNORE SOME OF HIS NONSENSE AND BUY HIS ALBUM BECAUSE HE MAKES GOOD MUSIC.

  • its nichole bitches

    SO I IGNORE SOME OF HIS NONSENSE AND BUY HIS ALBUM BECAUSE HE MAKES GOOD MUSIC.

  • TRUF_IZ

    50 and his whole crew needs to STOP! Period. he continues to say he is the best. today on rap city he claims kayne is no comp and lil wayne is shitty. im offended. 50 is a weak rapper and needs to stick to bottling water… lol

  • TRUF_IZ

    50 and his whole crew needs to STOP! Period. he continues to say he is the best. today on rap city he claims kayne is no comp and lil wayne is shitty. im offended. 50 is a weak rapper and needs to stick to bottling water… lol

  • http://www.myspace.com/ironman8185 SiniSter

    50 is whack and always has been everyone knew kanye was gonna outsell him. 50 talks shit behind ppls back then acts all nice in person. kanye is racist but he is definitely a better artist then 50 cent. music actually means something to kanye west and 50 is just in it 4 the money.

  • http://www.myspace.com/ironman8185 SiniSter

    50 is whack and always has been everyone knew kanye was gonna outsell him. 50 talks shit behind ppls back then acts all nice in person. kanye is racist but he is definitely a better artist then 50 cent. music actually means something to kanye west and 50 is just in it 4 the money.

  • moneda

    “BECAUSE HE MAKES GOOD MUSIC.”

    No, he doesn’t.

  • moneda

    “BECAUSE HE MAKES GOOD MUSIC.”

    No, he doesn’t.

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  • http://fuckknows.com 25pence

    50 rules Kanye is shit

  • http://fuckknows.com 25pence

    50 rules Kanye is shit

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