This past weekend 50 Cent hosted a hip hop concert, the ThisIs50.com Festival, in New York City. 50 Cent, usually known for bullying his competition, showed another side of himself by providing a line up filled with some of New York's hottest emcees. Guest included former enemies The Lox, as well as Maino, Corey Gunz, Wale, Jim Jones, Juelz Sanatana, and more. Prior to this festival, nobody has ever seen 50 be so collaborative outside of his G-Unit family. Fellow New York emcee Fabolous pointed out this fact via his Twitter account. "It's interesting to see 50 Cent unite with NY artists when he's one of the reasons NY hip hop became so isolated & crumbled.. Do u agree NY??"
He then added: "I wonder if this is a law in the 50th Law of Power' book? I guess it was a good show for New York.. But if you asked 50 a few years ago if he ever saw himself on stage with any of them, he would've said HELL NO!"
In another Tweet, Fab said he's not dissing 50 Cent "At 50's peak, his grind was unmatched, image was bulletproof, music was ignorantly motivational & catchy, even classic. Most never have that. ... So don't think I'm takin' shots at 50.. Just that NY show had me a lil' puzzled.. But I love NY so I couldn't knock it if I wanted to."
In my opinion there is some truth to what Fabolous is saying, a few years ago 50 Cent's intense competitive mentality would have never allowed him to collaborate some of the artist he brought on stage. However, in my opinion it is this competitive mentality that has allowed 50 to become the success that he is, and without 50 NY hip hop might have been in an even worse state. Although I feel that at the end of the day this was strictly a business move for 50 Cent, and a way to garner some good publicity before his album drops in November, I think 50 is becoming a smarter individual and realizing that his bullyish approach was getting old and gimmicky. I think Fab's statement was within reason, and I found it funny how he quickly made it clear that he wasn't taking shots at 50, knowing that 50 salivates at the opportunity of war, but I think Fab should just fall back and let the cards play out, and hopefully 50 is sincerely reaching out to some of these newer artist and creating a new image for himself.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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