Who had more hype coming in..............50 Cent in 2003 or Drake in 2009?

[H-Rap 180]

50-cent had more hype because of the climate during that era with the Mixtape Vs Mainstream dichotomy plus he was going to the #1 selling rapper in HipHop and the most popular producer, and the best-oiled machine and he was beefing with everybody so the hype was extra-crazy.

Once the hype died down everybody seen 50-Cent he wasnt exactly the antidote for Ja-Rule and he was just another mediocre lyricist with sing-songy hooks and a background story that you could sell to the suburbs, which is why he fell off drastically instead of maintaing a platinum fan base like LiL Wayne has done.

Drake had the luxury of already being a star, and having Jewish connections, and most of all signing to the Hottest label and hottest rapper in the game behind LiL Wayne, plus he got to play off that Mullatto-Obama energy that was crazy around that time, HipHop was starved for some new blood and sex-symbol without the homo-thug aesthetic and that's what Drake gave the game, above-average lyrics with sing-songy hooks and heavy doses of catering to the brauds.

Quick lil recap but I gots to go with 50-Cent on this one.

 

[GoFoJoe]

50 had more hype and better music

 

[KNiGHTS]

Dude wrapped it up nicely, but 50 had way more hype. I remember everybody online and offline knew who 50 Cent was before he dropped. Drake's shit didn't exist beyond the internet down here, so he only seemed hyped if you were on the internet.

There's a reason everybody does mixtapes right now.

 

[KINGEC]

Def. 50 had the more hype.

 

[StoneColdMikey]

50

 

[PanchoYoSancho]

If was 50 and it wasnt even close. He made Snoop's hype look minor.

 

[andre_1024]

Yea gotta go with 50, not only did he have more hype, but the initial buzz lasted a lot longer..

Drake dropped Best I Ever Had, had hella hype, but lost a lot of his buzz before his debut even dropped..compared to 50 dropping hit after hit from Wanksta to the Massacre dropping..

 

[the_focused_one]

NO ONE, and I repeat, NO ONE will EVER have the hype that 50 had EVER AGAIN.

I still remember the aura around this motherfucker was like the second coming of PAC to A LOT of people.

Here in Cali it felt like 50 was an LA cat- that's how much play he was getting. I remember going to high school and cats were like "50 gonna take over the game." On the way to our football games, the entire team was UNANIMOUSLY voting to bump 50's shit in the team bus on the way to our away games.

I remember on TRL and 106, 21 questions was on for over 50 days, a record for both shows...

50 Cent's 2003 hype>>>>>>>>>> Lil' Wayne's 2008 hype>>>>>>>>>> Drake's 2009 hype.

But things are different now. This was before high speed internet fucked up record sales and when Majors used to push their artists to the fullest.

 

[_Menace_]

50 had more hype and way better music.

GRODT>>Take Care and TML

 

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

not even close 50 had more hype in 03 by miles niggas was bumping 4 or 5 joints from that song in the whip and at parties/social events and Discmans and boomboxes non stop across all segments of the hip hop population. He also got generation Y suburban kids male and female more into hip hop which wayne and many other rappers have capitalized off. From the time my parents moved up to a nicer part of town when i was 7 untill 2003 it was mostly my black friends fucking with hip hop.....after 50 3/4ths of the town white or black or asian was fucking with hip hop more.

The downfall of 50 was he made his best album first and never improved. He also got too cocky started to do some questionable things that spun into the lackluster 3rd album vs kanye and the kiddie prank shit in the ross beef days on thisis50. Regardless of what 50 puts out this year or next year he will never outshadow GRODT.

 

[FucktheIC]

Niggas skipped school to go buy GRODT.

 

[BobOblah]

50

 

[IceBergTaylor]

50 and it isnt even close. Man, he had everything on lock in 2003. I was in 8th grade then. I'll never forget everyone was bumpin GRODT. Its like he had this aura, you knew he was gonna be "that nigga" in the rap scene.

Drake's buzz wasnt close. He dropped "Best I Ever Had" and he didnt capitalize on it.

I agree to an extent with the poster who said we'll never see another 50 Cent, which sucks

I still got a lil hope that someone is gonna come along and have that same impact but in this era I doubt it

 

[damobb2deep]

the hype that 50 had shows how dumb and following minded people are... and fickle... with the right promotion ANY...AND I MEAN ANY BODY... can get that hype again....

 

[PanchoYoSancho]

Niggas skipped school to go buy GRODT.

Co-sign

I was in L.A. at that point of all places and I had to go to 3 different stores before I could get that shit.

When I went back home, everybody I knew was jamming that shit. Used to hear it bumping trucks everyday after school for weeks.

From being the anti-Ja Rule

To being shot 9 times

To being backed by Em and Dre

To "In Da Club" dominating

50 was selling records out of the ass. He destroyed Snoop's numbers for a debut artist despite only being released 5 days before the cut off date. Then he damn near put up the same numbers the next week.

 

[JJ 1975]

50 Cent by far.

 

[playmaker88]

50 Cent by far.

yep

 

[IceBergTaylor]

the hype that 50 had shows how dumb and following minded people are... and fickle... with the right promotion ANY...AND I MEAN ANY BODY... can get that hype again....

Is that so? So howcome there hasnt been ANYBODY to duplicate or go beyond that hype since?

 

[georgia boi]

I think this is highly arguable and neither of them hands down had more hype than the other coming in.

With 50, he had a huge hype on the mixtape circuit, but he gained a lot of momentum from that Shady/Aftermath connection. 50 had a spark and was huge in NYC, but the Shady/Aftermath connection balooned his buzz. Then you have him moving in on the space that DMX once occupied and Ja's more female friendly fan base.

Drake might have been on television, but far from being some huge superstar from Degrassi. He wasn't a household name until his music caught on. How many rappers have had a mixtape song reach #2? He wasn't even officially on Young Money/Cash Money/Universal when that song took off. Before Drake came on board, Young Money wasn't even established like that outside of Wayne. Outside of Wayne Cash Money hadn't had another big artist since Juve in '04. Drake came in the game in the lane of a 808's & Heartbreak era Kanye West and a Love Below era Andre 3000.

 

[Breezy_Kilroy]

50 Cent easily. A lot of casual fans didn't know who Drake was til Best I Ever Had hit the radio. Everybody and they momma know who 50 was. Even my grandma knew In Da Club.