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

[Sweet Dick Willie]

"Damn homie, in high school you was the man homie">>>>>>>>>>>"Baby your my everything, your all I ever wanted"

 

[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....

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

wayne came close with the carter 3... not 2 mention jeezy had a big buzz as well... now if u talkin music period there is sombody on that level every other year ( adele, justin bieber, taylor swift)

 

[c.b.b.]

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.

True, people realized eventually that 5-0 was just an average rapper, but the initial buzz isn't comparable.

Coming into the game, 50 Cent probably had the biggest buzz ever.

Another issue is that Drake delivered an average album for his debut IMO. Get Rich was 50's best work by far and he didn't disappoint

 

[damobb2deep]

all 50 cents 1 album was is.... " i got shot 9 times..." " i own a bullet proof bomb proof car" " fuck ja" then u had "21 questions and p.i.m.p"

 

[dalyricalbandit]

50 no argument to be made

 

[blackbloc]

i live Toronto and 50 has way more hype/anticipation for the debut then drake. shit drake is no where close . i still remember buying the album a week before valentine day and getting h last copy of the deluxe edition with the dvd , hen my gf at the time got me a copy for v day .

 

[therealdapdon]

50 had more hype around album-drop time, and deservedly so. Fif built his own buzz before Em even got to hear about him, Lil Wayne gave Drake the momentum he needed... FYI Drake actually had a big buzz but it died down by the time his album rolled around. His rerelease of the mixtape had just as much hype as 50 though ... www.twitter.com/therealdapdon

 

[georgia boi]

50 had more hype around album-drop time, and deservedly so. Fif built his own buzz before Em even got to hear about him, Lil Wayne gave Drake the momentum he needed... FYI Drake actually had a big buzz but it died down by the time his album rolled around. His rerelease of the mixtape had just as much hype as 50 though ... www.twitter.com/therealdapdon

I think this has pretty much turned into a GRODT vs. Thank Me Later discussion. If that is the case, then yes 50 had more hype surrounding his release than Drake had. Considering 50's album dropped about 6-7 months after being signed and Drake dropped his album 1 year after being signed. When you consider the pre-album hype surrounding both artists, it evens out as Drake clearly had a mixtape that started a bidding war. He had a #2 single off of a mixtape before ink ever hit a contract. That was before him signing with Wayne. Then there were several hit songs that he was apart of before he even dropped an album.

 

[dade county 305]

Niggas skipped school to go buy GRODT.

Damn!!! i'll skip work to buy that in your sig lol

 

[CracceR]

both wacc imo

but 50 had the bigger hype

 

[dade county 305]

i didnt say i gave him street cred though.

i gotcha...but real talk ya rite sum people thought woodface was a SUPER THUG or sumthang when he was runnin around cryin about bein shot 9timez when he really need;d a HUG cuz woodface was LYIN sayin he got shot 9timez cuz he dont even know how many timez he got shot lol...



& fa da record woodface didnt destroy ja rule n 03 cuz ja still was goin gold & platinum n 04 05 after get rich or die snitchin woodface just slow;d down his sellz rule aint fall off till da FEDZ took murder inc 2 court n 05 after woodface SNITCH;D on murder inc & preme...

The thread said who had the bigger buzz,not which posters can hate the most lol.

I just left Va 2 weeks ago and didn't run into a hater as your self.

You making that place look bad.

 

[H-Rap 180]

Why this thread even exist? smh

and oh yeah, i'm tired of hearing excuses about this climate vs 50's era etc.. One word Adele.

When ti's all said done the records will not show climate. 20 years from now the Hall of Fame will show 50 outsold all bum rapper fag swag rappers in the whole YM with one album alone.

GRODT worldwide numbers is 13 mil. Young Money hasn't done that with all its release yet. SMH.

When it's all said and done it will read:

GRODT = 8 million (2003)

The Massacre = 5 million

Curtis = 1 million

BISD = 430,000 (2009)

Buster Douglass knocked out Mike Tyson and didn't do shit after the fact except prove it was a lucky night with nice timing.

Young Money has already surpassed G-Unit records because none of 50-Cents mega-selling records were released on G-Unit records, they were released on Shady/Aftermath/Interscope... you sold all them records on another mans label and not yours.

A Swag-rapper like LiL Wayne has sold more records on his label than a PoP-rapper 50-Cent has sold on his. Fact.

 

[Wild Self]

Like someone said here, 50 had hype that only could have been done when major labels mattered. The backstory. The beef. The Tupac comparisons. It was a once in a lifetime event that started back in September 2002 and it ended exactly 5 years later. When I heard people play Wanksta on the school bus and talk about that backstory, I knew that Ja Rule days on the spotlight were numbered, especially when Eminem was backing 50.

 

[BV_]

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.

I don't agree with a lot of what you post, but this is spot on. I propped.

 

[dalyricalbandit]

to albums in and he's still not half way of what fif did on grodt

 

[Brian B.]

not a fan of either but I'll say 50

seemed like he had more demographics

 

[TayJone]

50s hype was bigger. Drakes hype was up there but he took too long. GRODT holds up better than TML...TML was so average

 

[Billy_Poncho]

50s hype >>> anybody's just coming in

 

[R.D.]

lmaooo time makes people forget but this shit shit really isnt close

 

[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.

yeah. after In Da Club hit radio lol....

it's not the same. people didn't know Drake before Best I Ever Had. 50 had hype before In Da Club that track just cemented it.