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- freakk123, on 12/08/2007, -5/+328I don't like the guy's music, but I definitely like him more as a person now.
- gbarberi, on 12/08/2007, -3/+237Fifty just got more popular.
He is right, though. They should adapt instead of attacking their fans. They could start by giving the finger to the recording industry and distributing on their own. Welcome to the internet. Eaxh artist can have their own domain, distibute their own content, entertain, etc. Have your fans subscribe to your site. The more you entertain, the more that subscribe and follow you. - itsJALbert, on 12/08/2007, -2/+18150 isn't a dumbass... he's a got a great business mind, and much of his thug act is just that... he doesn't smoke or drink, but he'll guzzle iced tea out of a Hennessey bottle on stage... and he's admitted it in interviews.
- johnlandes, on 12/08/2007, -1/+129BREAKING - 50 cent invloved takes 8 more bullets in a drive-by.
RIAA suspected - Vhaeos, on 12/08/2007, -4/+124I guess I like 50 cent more now.
- EdgarVerona, on 12/08/2007, -5/+118When I read the title, I thought it was talking about lowering the price of MP3s purchased online to 50 cents.
- PistolSO, on 12/08/2007, -14/+101Wow...I might actually buy one of his songs just for saying that.
- manicallday, on 12/08/2007, -5/+90I really despise 50 an as Artist, but the guy definitely has a good business sense about him. I feel that advertisement dollars and concert ticket sales are way more valuable than selling albums. Learn to perform a good show and you go a lot longer off of fewer albums.
- ganymede2010, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6050 cent is a very brilliant man. Brilliant enough to invest a large deal of his money into Vitamin Water(Instead plantinum grills and bling), by purchasing a 10% stake in the company, he netted *400* million dollars last year when Coca Cola purchased the company for 4.1 billion dollars. YIKES!
- demonsnake69, on 12/08/2007, -4/+61I never cared for 50's music, but at least he knows how technology can shape his industry.
- Modestexcuse, on 12/08/2007, -1/+47Plain and simple; 50 Cent has a mind for business. He sees where technology is taking the music industry. Way to go 50, like him or not, he has an open mind.
- throop77, on 12/08/2007, -2/+38He wasn't doing coke. He was praying (I'm serious).
- Makaveli604, on 12/08/2007, -11/+45Maybe this explains how 50 Cent used to make decent music. It was actually some really good stuff before he became ridiculously commercialized.
Don't bury me just because you listent to a difference genre, hypocrites. - rivalius13, on 12/08/2007, -1/+30There's a cheap Ayo Technology joke here....
- ronmexico, on 12/08/2007, -1/+28Wow, and that's your proof?
- thcobbs, on 12/08/2007, -5/+3150 Cent is right because, like most rappers, he likely signed away all rights to his music for an upfront check.
- wookieface, on 12/08/2007, -3/+27Yeah, I give him +50 IQ for this...
- mdinire, on 12/08/2007, -0/+23Before everyone starts remembering 50 as "the rapper who was against file-sharing" let me remind you Chuck D of Public Enemy has had this stance for years (and he is a better rapper).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D#Politics - accessviolation, on 12/08/2007, -1/+23I think you mean Limp Bizkit. Fred Durst is a ***** tool. He will always be a tool. His group was never influential at all. He was a flash in the pan. And did I mention he was a tool?
- TheVigilante, on 12/08/2007, -1/+20Eminem and Dr. Dre were 100% against Napster when there was that whole battle years ago. But then again 50 Cent is a businessman unlike any other.
- seanc6610, on 12/08/2007, -2/+21I think you missed his point..
- weaksnyc, on 08/14/2009, -0/+18please write "almost all of them would be on it" next time, your version hurts my head
- aliguana, on 12/08/2007, -0/+18actually, this is 2007, not 1977. A lot of artists DO write their own songs, produce them, perform them, set up a studio, record their album, make the cd artwork, market the cd, get them pressed, ship them.
- h0merg0mez, on 12/08/2007, -3/+21My dog and you are equally intelligent, IMO.
- Smeed, on 12/08/2007, -2/+18Do you really expect to be dug up for copy-pasting a comment?
- teckieee, on 12/08/2007, -3/+19this is becoming youtube
- blueRAP, on 12/08/2007, -0/+14Kanye sold more in the US alone, but 50 sold more worldwide.
- pintomp3, on 12/08/2007, -0/+14it could also be seen as a statement. some people want to support artists who understand that music is an artform and not just a product. artists who don't treat their fans like criminals. artists who are in favor changing the industry and the way music is distributed so that they can perform what, how, when they want to perform and fans have better access.
- thecosmicpope, on 12/08/2007, -1/+15Who says he doesn't support the artists he likes? Judging by the fact that he would be perhaps willing to buy a song he doesn't like, just to support an artist on the principles of there thinking suggests that he already supports artists that he likes.
- DMCer, on 12/09/2007, -0/+13This has actually been his view for quite a while. When his first album saw major success, I read somewhere him talking about how he used to record songs from the radio with friends when he was younger, so his views are "I don't care where people get my music, I just want them to get it and love it." I have to give him credit for not turning into a complete idiot in interviews (i.e. Snoop Dogg, and the like).
- billbillbilly, on 12/09/2007, -0/+13dam you just trippled his score
- NeoCortex, on 12/09/2007, -1/+14It's just my two cents, but 50 cent seems to have some common sense after all.
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -1/+13I don't, only because I have ocd and must keep the pattern going
- TritonX, on 12/08/2007, -0/+12An artist without the cash to pay for bandwidth can easily use youtube's bandwidth on his own site.
- thcobbs, on 12/08/2007, -11/+22Boobies?
- dip03, on 12/08/2007, -3/+14I do, we need more artists to go public. It gives more tools to fight against the RIAA and MPAA
- c0nv1ct, on 12/08/2007, -1/+12CDs are obsolete, people can burn their own if they need them
You don't need a record company to hire a producer, writer, and people to play instruments. Plenty of artists have their own studio in their home, i mean *****, all you really need is a Mac these days lol. - FongoBongo, on 12/08/2007, -0/+11Wow, 50 cent has some really good insight into what the record industry should do. Although his music is generic and he doesn't talk about novel issues, judging from the interview, Curtis Jackson, actually has a good head on his shoulders...congrats.
- th3wiz4rd, on 12/08/2007, -2/+13Well that was pretty lame... he sure was composed after snorting all that coke.
But seriously, though his music does suck, he seems like a pretty intelligent/down to earth dude. - relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -0/+10VITAMIN WATA LADEEZ N GENTLEMEN
- Plasmatica, on 12/08/2007, -0/+9Haha @ you for mentioning Buck 65 in a thread about 50 Cent. You're dugg, my friend.
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -0/+9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_monkeys
they sold 120k albums on the first day their debut album was released and did pretty much all the promotion via myspace,
next question - adrenaline33, on 12/08/2007, -1/+9At that point in time file-sharing was young and it was pretty much all through Napster. It was smart at that point to be against it. Where are to the point now where it is impossible to stop file-sharing. There are torrents and p2p programs and for every torrent site you kill, three more will pop up. The technology will only get better and faster and harder to block. Regardless of whether or not you like 50 cent's music, he is a smart business person and the smart move right now is it find a way to embrace p2p and make money with online content.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -17/+25He doesn't smoke or drink, but he sure as hell does cocaine.
http://celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/?blogentryid=381 ... - chrillen, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8Yes it does, it makes him less sleazy. It doesn't make him good though.
- EdgarVerona, on 12/08/2007, -5/+13Well, does he have a history of being dugg down because he likes a certain musical genre?
If so, then it might be jumping the gun, but at least he had precedent for saying it. It's not pretentious if it's a valid concern. - Soytaco, on 12/08/2007, -0/+7Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he was praying, when he came outside and did the interview he seemed pretty normal.
- celkin, on 12/08/2007, -3/+10Most pointless thread ever.
- libertao, on 12/08/2007, -1/+8*deluded, Smartypants
- cwl157, on 12/08/2007, -2/+9i would agree 50 cent's music seems ignorant. However, he is a very good business man and this is just another example of how he really gets it even though his music gives him the appearance of not being very in touch with things.
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