He taunts everyone in the outro: "Y'all gotta do something now. Dissing Fat Joe, he stumbles into the feeble line, "That fat nigga thought 'Lean Back' was 'In Da Club'/ My shit sold 11 mil/ His shit was a dud," after which the hook bragging "yeah yeah mo' money mo'money," creates a reasonable facsimile of oinking. And in case we don't, he hits us with indelible, existential gloom, especially on "This is 50"'s ominous piano plinking and the funereal low-end synths of "I'm Supposed to Die Tonight", where his warnings are cut directly from mobster cinema: "Don't be stupid, find out who you fuckin with, son/ 'Fore we find out where yo' bitch get her hair and nails done/ It's elementary, life is but a dream/ You know, row row your boat/ Your blood forms a stream."ĭelving further into his macabre imagination, the lyrically weak "Piggy Bank" lets up for comic relief, poking half-assedly at Jadakiss, Nas, Kelis, and Ja Rule, framed in a sort of "nanny-nanny-boo-boo" chorus for the ridonkulously wealthy.
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It's followed by a series of guttural threats and luggish offerings to snuff anyone to save face- "y'all know what I'm about," 50 reminds us more than once.
And yet, The Massacre's best tracks have 50 dropping club-clatter and gangster lean to show us the mind behind the six-pack, gat, and Teflon.Ĭlued in by an intro skit in which a sweet-sounding young damsel receiving a Valentine gets blasted by bullet-spray, we get it: 1) He's rich, and 2) He'll get you first. The man's underperforming lyrically on The Massacre, but he stretches and croons and assures us a $50-million paycheck and a gigantic mansion in Connecticut have not expired his steely street soldiering: He's riding on the narrative and tough-mugging that got him here. It's ironic that some of 50's best verses right now are his guest spots on The Game's The Documentary (particularly "Hate It or Love It" and "How We Do"). (The former, of Lloyd Banks' "On Fire", beats by Eminem the latter, 50 and Lil' Kim's "Magic Stick".). The Massacre, after all, tails 50's stratospherically successful Get Rich or Die Tryin' (which has thus far sold over 11 million copies) its release date had already been pushed back a month, and the two singles prefacing The Massacre- "Disco Inferno" and "Candy Shop"- are flaccid reprises of other tracks both in beats and in timbre.
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But while the "publicity stunt" analysis underestimates code of honor (and overestimates 50's and Game's collective rationality), you can't fault a kid for thinking like that. As if to confirm the hunch, according to, a week later, 50 was downplaying the whole ordeal, telling "106 & Park", "A lot of things you hear out there is being said for shock value and not really as serious as people make it out to be."īullets don't joke. That he started flexing his godfatherish persona mere days before he dropped The Massacre led some to speculate whether the whole thing was one ill-advised publicity stunt meant to invigorate his buzz and boost sales.
Shortly thereafter, a young man was shot non-fatally in the leg at Hot 97, while 50 was still on-air, and gunfire was purportedly heard outside the offices of Violator, 50's management. It does not store any personal data.Last week, on New York's Hot 97 FM, 50 Cent dismissed The Game from G-Unit, after Game had professed earlier to the same station that he wouldn't mind recording with some of 50's sworn enemies (namely Nas and Jadakiss). The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
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