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50 Cent Wastes His Time Picking On Kanye

Posted Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:09pm PST by Billy Johnson, Jr. in Hip-Hop Media Training
What's the purpose of writing a diss rap about someone who is not going to reply?

A good diss record is supposed to spark a feud. It is supposed to evoke a response record that could potentially outshine the instigating track. It should prompt fans of either side or even the unbiased to keep a tally of lyrical jabs and hooks. This will help listeners support their argument their winner.

A great diss experience can forever be debated.

I'm sorry 50, but this is not the kind of experience you are going to get with Kanye.

Kanye did not have much to say when you had the album release week battle in 2007, despite your claim to retire if he outsold you. And he is refusing to record a response to your song "Heartless Monster."

Not only has Kanye not responded to "Heartless Monster," clearly a dark parody of Kanye's "Heartless," his reaction to 50's sucker punch is actually sad.

Kanye recently likened 50's insults to a celebrity spitting on a child fan's face. In an interview with Bossip.com Kanye explained, "I felt like if he said something negative and tried to make it like I'm negative it's almost like if a little kid walks up to you at the airport and is like, ‘Man, I love you so much,' and then you spit on him. It's like," Kanye says jokingly, "'I don't know if I love you as much as I used to,' as you wipe the spit off your face, but you still play their music."

At the end of "Heartless Monster" 50 suggests that he should make a whole R&B record called 808s And My Heart Is Broke. He adds that guys from the hood are not supposed to wear rainbow colored clothes and doing so is an indication that they are gay. He considers having such guys beaten up. 50 is a self-described different breed of man.

Not once did I feel an urge to say "ooooh" or laugh at a funny punch line when listening to the song. In one sense, it would be hilarious to see Kanye go off in one of his typical rants. But that would be just as boring.

50 Cent needs a full-fledged battle like the old ones between Jay-Z and Nas, MC Lyte and Antionette, KRS-One and MC Shan or Common and Westside Connection.

It just feels like he's picking on Kanye. It's like Ja Rule all over again.

  
67 Comments

1. Quentin -
enough is enough, leave it alone please.

2. __A_YAHOO_USER__ -
Okay, first off Billy, I think you meant to say:

"Different BREED of man" not 'bread'.

That aside, yes it is getting boring to hear 50 Cent. Especially since he considers himself to be "from the hood!"

Since when did people "from the hood" file restraining orders?

3. VICTOR -
50 cents carrer is on the decline and kanyes is soaring. Talent is nautral and skill is learned. Kanye has both while 50 has one skill.

4. DUDE -
What's that sound?...Oh, It's the sound of Kanye's career leaving 50's in the dust...what a shame.

5. TamiekaH -
Agreed.

All the previous posters (except #2 and #3), I totally agree with.

6. Yahoo! Music User -
50 is still a better rapper than kanye his lyrics are weak

7. SCUDA -
see I don't like either one of them personally, but Kanye is a self-made artists. People like JayZ were using him for his writing and producing skills. He ventured into rapping on his own and succeeded. 50 is only popular because Dre and Eminem put him on the map. 50 needs a rap beef and reality show to keep his career in the public eye while Kanye does it with music. Kanye is an egotistical prick, but I applaud him for not responding to such a blatant attempt to create drama. Also, 50 isn't a gangsta as he claims. I am sorry once you make millions of dollars, you are no longer gangsta. Being gangsta isn't something to be proud of stupid. 50 pay more attention, Kanye never claimed to be from the hood, he is from the suburbs.

8. Sele D -
kanye has more talent in his pinky than 50 has in his entire body. ok he may be immortal, being shot 9 times nad all, but his career isnt...
stoped listening to 50 and the entire g-unit rubbish such a long time ago, i find it hard to belive grown men stil holla g g g g-unit!!! LOL!!!
kanye dosent need to say sqwat to 50's punk rear, neither does t.i or anybody he's "trying" to beef with!

uhh, and comment #5, noboby likes a know-it-all, go write your own blog..

9. Money over bitches -
I/m with you Demarcus DMX would knock the fool out the water. 50 just aint got notthin better to do he show is weak he just wants someone to talk about him. like we are now!

10. Pat M -
I agree with yumei

11. bobc -
scuba take a dive bro. If any of these rappers is GANGSTA its 50 aight.He was in basements making hits long before some of these wanabe cats came along. He was on the streets hustling his sound. So dont ever say my boy aint gangsta aight

12. bobc -
Back in the day 50 was roling with the notorius BIG he was already on the map

13. Cassandra -
Kanye KNOW that he don't need to record shyt cause 808s is da biznass and he didn't have to call women all kinds of b*tches and whores to do it. Neither did he have to tote about how "hood" he thinks he is. 50 need to go get a life and make some real music. KanYe is a friggin musical genius....

14. patty46 -
50 talks so much crap I wonder if he's gay. I so dislike him.

15. Dr Frank Boston MD -
this site shouldnt try to get into hip hop beef. they just corny it up

16. Yahoo! Music User -
all 50 raps about is screwing people and how beast an hood he is. kanye actually actually has some rawness and who cares if he has a big ego cuz he worked for it. 50 is just jealous of what he dont have.

17. Yahoo! Music User -
I son't care what is said about 50. I've always like his rap and he never came across like kanye being a arrogant idiot. Really how many times have you seen 50 get on stage at an award show or doing interviews that causes so much media because he is throwing a tantrum because he didn't win the award or think he was GOD'S gift to music? Listen to #13, silence that.

18. papaya -
really, who cares?

19. Yahoo! Music User -
kanye wests music stinks he uses a voice autotone machine kanye go back to you r old rapping style because listening to your new album gave me a headache

20. cmf2 -
call out response protocol:

1) if you're a piece and you walk away from getting called out you deserve whatever comes your way.

2) if you're the man and everyone knows it and you walk away from getting called out you just backhanded the "wankster" that opened his mouth.

who's the wankster here?
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