50 never took Ja's style man. I think niggas just like running with that cause it was said.
Late 90s- Early 2000s 50 always had a singy song flow on mainstream sounding/hit songs, hell his debut album was going to have Destiny's Child on it. Ja, on the other hand, was singing FULL ON R&B songs with Mary J, trying to seriously harmonize with that dumb ass fake deep voice he always using like nigga ain't see him get off the bus on Backstage with his real voice.
Every rapper at the time was making songs that bitches would love, 50 was on that shit during the Venni Vetti Ja days and shit too. 50 just became decided to release those songs as singles. G-Unit mixtapes even had 50 singing on the hooks or doing the singy songy flow on the hooks of the tracks, it's nothing new.
I never was a Ja fan, and I've always heard he was a fuck nigga back in Queens, but he had a decent run sales wise with his 2nd and 3rd album. I think when he started to take himself too seriously around the G-Unit beef and was hyping himself as the second coming of Pac was when I lost any respect for him. But, Ja still had a dope diss record with that joint where he referenced Kim and Hailey in the last line.
50 fucked himself up though, by letting his mentality from the street get to him in the industry. You can't run the industry like you ran the street. He willing to diss anybody and just let it ride, but that dissing shit turned to a gimmick. That's 50 biggest downfall. Nigga so used to folks NOT wanting to see him win before he won, that he didn't know how to take it when he finally won and just kept it on some "fuck everybody" shit.
Ja vs 50 beef was an interesting time in hip hop. I hope we never have no shit like that again though.
