Crumbling Unit

[A pimp named Sarkozy]

Read the rest of them below this text. 50 Cent went on Hot 97 morning show to talk about the G-Unit situation and he made some interesting revelations,50 let go of the majority of the G-Unit staff. Word on the street is, he's been getting a gang of resumes in light of this rumor leaking.

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1) He spoke about Young Buck and his alleged truce with game, he stated on the record " If that is what buck wants, then thats his decsion, Im gonna put him in the same space that i put game in when he was down with us. not to say that we have beef, but if you roll with me, and you know that I have issues with someone, that means you have issues with that someone too, thats how it goes and he knows that, he is from the streets too". 50 also went on and said that despite the so called truce, game still dissed young buck, 50 apparently thinks that body bags has to do with young buck and not Tony Yayo

2) He admitted that Olivia did get dropped from G-unit records, he stated that he dropped her because there were to many miscommunications with her and what she needed to do with her music, he said he got so fed up that he just wanted to focus on his own music. He also addressed an alleged rumor that Olivia was suing him for sexual misconduct in which 50 said it was not true.

3) 50 spoke on Cam and stated that he was done with it, his words were " Why continue to battle someone who doesnt even realize that they already lost, it makes no sense" He went on to say that he gave it the buzz he did, and that when ever he talks he makes things happen

4) he spoke about everyone else on G-unit records and stated that he will not be doing as much work on anyone else's albums, he said that they have to be on their own and make hits without him being there for it, he said that he put out songs for Mobb deep to give it that push, but now they will have to make that push on their own, same goes for lloyd banks and Young Buck

5) when asked about the incident about yayo, he said that he wasnt there and that he has cameras in his home that can prove that he was home the whole time, getting ready to go to Angola Africa

6) He then told the show that the reason why he doesnt make mix tapes dissing anyone and why the camron diss was on you tube as a video is because 50 and youtube.com have a deal and 50 gets credit wherever his name is mentioned in that site.

7) 50 said that the people who are protesting "Ban 50" are the same people that started the G-unot campaign

he said something very smart and that was that he felt that the hip hop retail marketing value is going down and will continue to go down, labels will not make the push to advertise an upcoming album as they used to, and artist will have to find other ways to get that money. He stated that Jay-Z went that route and had budweiser sponsor him, that is why he had that music video/commerical. 50 cent stated that they will make their money via tour, but as far as record sales, it will never truly reflect the success of an artist due to downloads and bootlegging.

Just some of the many things that he spoke about. He did not however, answer the question about M.O.P when asked by DJ Envy.



At last 50 cent Realised that He has Some Wack artists in His CAmp and All this Talking How "Olivia will be N1 RNB, Spider Loc with Blow Up hard, Buck Will take over 2007...I knew that that wasnt gonna happen and i was just like, damn man, this is so lame, Is 50 really thinking that, he is making himself look stupid..... I mean, 50 cent is smart, but All that Talking about Unit Takinng over, Hot Rod in 2007....Comon now.... \

He probably looked at Game, His sales, and the way he managed himself to Sell 900 000 copies with His Own Executive Producing and Said to Banks and Buck "Look niggaz, Game Made it himself, U cant do shit, so Do ur Own thing and Promote urself..I aint gonna waste time on u"...

I mean, 50 even Gives props to Game in Hot 97, Becoz Game did it himself, No Dre, No 50, He Chose his own singles, he Promoted His Own album himself and at least he is close to Platinum and 50 cent is just mad at G unit, becoz Banks and Buck was the ones saying that GAme will flop and THey will sell...


50 cent got angry and Dropped Olivia, The whole Situation with Buck and GAme, GAme dissing G unit, Yayo slapping kid(if that is true), juts got ouuta hand, Buck saying that He got No respect for Yayo slapping....I think G unit is on the state of Complete Crumbling and Falling apart....


Please, this is my opinion, based on The Facts and news...Dont Flame me, Just like U were Flaming the person who Posted that Olivia was being Dropped and They said it was arumor and shit.....


I think Buck will leave G unit, Banks will never come out and YAyo wont do shit without 50 cent....Damn, I start To Feel bad for 50 cent, becoz After Listening to Hot 97, i realised how "Smart" he is,

"Game was so right, with so many Things' -Only Person who 50 cent can help is Himself, That is the righest comment.....And 50 cent said it, He will not waste any time on banks or Buck, look at the sales, Everybody from the rap Game is selling, Luda, Snoop, Nas,Jeezy,Game,Wayne, T.I, And With G unit sales they are making 50 look bad....

[TNGlive]

:? Hmm. Valid point about Game having done 900K on his own. Much as I thought dude had made tthe wrong decisions. Definetly made the flopped G unit projects look extra bad.

[Vexer]

Now 50 has to deal with the ish that becomes with being an Exec.How to steer the ship when u r in a slump.

He's got to navigate the G-Unit ship thru its current trials and to make sure the brand survives.

That's every Execs responsibility.Right now it seems like he can't keep a level head and he's making emotional decisions, throwing tantrums and shit.

Shit's not always gonna be sweet and ur mettle gets tested during the hard times.

Let's see how he deals with the situation now that he's no longer on the come up.

It looks like its true when they say its easier to get to the top than it is to stay there.Fifty now has to maintain and it looks like he's out of strategies which is very worrying since he's the CEO.

@ the end of the day only time will tell how the G-Unit story will be written.

Maybe they'll go out like Murder Inc (Does anyone still remember them?). Who the f*** knows.

[Bondizzo]

what goes up must come down too a certain degree, they had a good run while it lasted and they could have still been on top if they didn't create all that beef, when Ja's new album comes out murder inc will be taking that spot back

[TNGlive]

, when Ja's new album comes out murder inc will be taking that spot back

Errr, homie, no disrespect, but I have no idea whatchu smoking or taking...The Inc is never coming back...they too had a good run, and it was a hell of a run... but there's no coming back from what they got given.

[MrC The Rap God Almighty]

It's not just G-Unit, hip-hop sales as a whole have come down drastically. An album like Game's "Doctors Advocate" could have easily gone 5X plat 5-10 years ago. I mean "One blood" was huge. Same goes for the Busta LP, "Touch It" was a huge single. Now these cats are all struggling to go plat. Even cats from the South. Eveybody talking about the South running shit. Them cats rarely go Plat. TI only went 1 plat. Jeezy is almost Plat but wont go further than that. Even Jay didn't sell that much with his comeback album.

I guess people are just tired of the watered down shit. Time to restructure people. f*** all the dance trends and all that stupid shit going on nowadays. Hip-hop's got no substance anymore. Everybody gonna end up taking it back underground, after they dissed us all these years.

I think 50 might still sell 5 million at least, depends on his first single.

I really miss the "Power of the Dollar" 50 though. hope he brings back some of that.

[Bondizzo]

artists like Redman, Lupe Fiasco, Method man,  etc the guys you call real hip hop are doing alot worse, so how can they restructure the game, I think hip hop reached its peak 2 years ago and theres no coming back from it. technology is killing it too with all the downloads, when was the last time you bought a cd ?

[MrC The Rap God Almighty]

artists like Redman, Lupe Fiasco, Method man,  etc the guys you call real hip hop are doing alot worse, so how can they restructure the game, I think hip hop reached its peak 2 years ago and theres no coming back from it. technology is killing it too with all the downloads, when was the last time you bought a cd ?

FYI i bought the Lupe.

Most of those artists u listed there got little to no promotion. That's cos record companies push all that bullshit and the real shit does not even get played on BET and MTV anymore. Payola also comes into play here. A lot peeps from the US i  communicate with on forums didn't even know Meth had an album out. How are people supposed to cop that shit when they don't even know it's out ? You don't even see promo's of that shit in the Source and XXL anymore, so the real heads don't even check those mags anymore. There's a lot of dope music out there, it's just needs to be taken to the people. I agree, downloading has a lot to do with it as well. But how come Akon can still sell as well as he does Cos his market knows his shit is out there and they cop it still.

[deePea]

File sharing may boost CD sales
Study defies traditional beliefs about Internet use
By Beth Potier
Harvard News Office

As sales of recorded music drop precipitously, the music industry has pointed a blaming finger at the dramatic growth of file sharing among individuals who search, share, and download music files from each other. Surely if consumers can get their favorite songs for free, the reasoning goes, they're not making tracks to the nearest record store to pay $18 for a CD.

Think again, says Felix Oberholzer-Gee, a**ociate professor at Harvard Business School. In a recent study, Oberholzer-Gee found that sharing digital music files has no effect on CD sales. "It's a finding that surprised us," he says. "We just couldn't document a negative relationship between file sharing and music sales."

Oberholzer-Gee and co-author Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina accessed data directly from file-sharing servers and observed 1.75 million downloads during a 17-week period in fall 2002. "Our key advantage is that we have much better data than anybody else who worked in this subject," says Oberholzer-Gee. Most other research on the market impact of file sharing has relied on survey data. Asking people to self-report about what is, after all, illegal activity almost never produces reliably truthful answers, he says.

Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf's study used statistical models to compare downloads of songs from 680 popular albums in a variety of styles with the actual sales of those albums, as reported to Nielsen SoundScan, the industry's leading sales tracker. The researchers statistically analyzed whether the sale of an album declined more strongly in relation to the frequency and volume of downloaded songs from that album. In one week, for instance, they saw a spike in downloads of songs from the soundtrack to the film "Eight Mile." They would chart sales data for that CD in the following weeks to see if the download activity caused sales to decline.

It didn't, they were stunned to find. "This is where we cannot document any relationship between file sharing and subsequent sales," says Oberholzer-Gee, calling the effect "statistically indistinguishable from zero."

Music to record industry's ears?

In fact, the study found that for the most popular albums - the top 25 percent that had more than 600,000 sales - file sharing actually boosts sales. For every 150 songs downloaded, the study showed, sales jumped by one CD. For the least popular 25 percent of the sample, "we found a more pronounced negative effect," says Oberholzer-Gee. Despite predictions that the Internet would level the playing field of the music industry, giving consumers equal access to obscure, independently produced artists as to chart-topping pop darlings, music downloads parallels music sales.

"When you look at what the music people are sharing online, it's very much like looking at radio," he says. Not coincidentally, the early days of music radio brought similar fears that consumers would not purchase records they could listen to for free.

For the record industry, Oberholzer-Gee argues, this research brings great news. "[File sharing] is not as dangerous as many have believed. The music industry's ability to influence what people listen to seems almost unbroken," says Oberholzer-Gee, adding that the study found that industry marketing - video play on MTV, for instance - seems to affect downloads as well as CD sales.

Still, the duo's research has not been music to the industry's ears. The Recording Industry a**ociation of America, the U.S. music industry trade group, has rejected the study's findings and clings to its a**ertion that file sharing is chipping away at CD sales, which are, undeniably, suffering.

Oberholzer-Gee poses several theories on the slack pace of music sales, from what he calls the "CD replacement boom" winding down as older listeners finish replacing their vinyl with CDs, to the poor economic climate, to the rising price of CDs. Despite his and Strumpf's initial surprise at the results of their study, he says, it makes clear economic sense that every download does not displace a CD sale.

"Observing that people consume lots and lots at a price of zero dollars makes sense to an economist," he says. If someone offered him a free plane ticket to Florida, he offers, he'd be poolside in a heartbeat. For $250 roundtrip, he'd think harder about how much he wanted to fly south. "At $18, we're being lots more selective than at zero dollars."

Emotions meet economics

Although he is a music fan, Oberholzer-Gee says that economic inquiry rather than musical pa**ion drove this research. As the proliferation of digital media - and the ease of disseminating it - drives the discussion of property rights into the courts, economists are taking notice. The fine line between granting sufficient protection of intellectual property to spur creation yet not such stringent protection that market forces will be choked is as important to economists as to lawyers, he says.

One such lawyer looking closely at property rights in the digital age is Jonathan Zittrain, the Berkman a**istant Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He gives the study high marks for bringing rigorous empirical research to what he calls an important public policy issue. "Making generalizations about Internet use is tricky, and Felix has identified and dealt with the pitfalls in a way well suited to peer scrutiny - while still accessible to industry, government, and the public, all of whom have important interests within the battles over digital property protection," says Zittrain.

Oberholzer-Gee is also hopeful that the study's robust data will inform the music industry as it struggles to tame the digital media beast. Until now, the industry has resorted to shots in the dark.

"One of the motivations to do this study was that the debate is emotionally very charged," he says, in part because of the scarcity of factual data on the subject. "We were struck by the fact that so much is at stake and yet we knew so little. It's very important to get this right." '


http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/04.15/09-filesharing.html



Its not about taking it back its about innovation in your music (DPlanet would agree with me  :wink: )[/b]

[Bondizzo]

Akon is pop, popular music sells. Well for hip hop I don't see any label pushing underground/ so called real artists, those days are gone, even with proper marketing meth wouldn't have sold as much, the majority of ppl who buy hip hop are not checking for that stuff, only big name artists/ artists with bling will sell but not crazy like back in the days, gold is like the new platinum lately for hip hop that is, other genres still do well like rock and pop, but they've taking a big hit too in the sales department.

[MrC The Rap God Almighty]

Akon is pop, popular music sells. Well for hip hop I don't see any label pushing underground/ so called real artists, those days are gone, even with proper marketing meth wouldn't have sold as much, the majority of ppl who buy hip hop are not checking for that stuff, only big name artists/ artists with bling will sell but not crazy like back in the days, gold is like the new platinum lately for hip hop that is, other genres still do well like rock and pop, but they've taking a big hit too in the sales department.

I made an example of Akon because he has a huge following in the hip-hop community and his shit is readily available for download just as much as the next man, but his album is still doing well. Even if it's all the 16 year white girsl buying his shit it makes no difference cos it was proved years ago, that hip-hop in the US was mostly bought by young white people.I guess we can say they have lost interest as well, cos the mainstream shit sucks period.Meth would have definitely sold (at least gold) with good promo. That joint with Lauryn Hill on the hook was pure sickness and even the 16 year old white girls would have ate it up.

Its not about taking it back its about innovation in your music (DPlanet would agree with me  :wink: )[/b]

Its funny you say that dog, cos your signature reads "Boom Bap Resurrection"

[Bondizzo]

the truth is hip hop is on big decline, south african hip hop artists are a bit late on the bandwagon, if it was 2-5 years ago our local cats could have done something but now if you a south african hip hop artist make sure you have a day job after your album drops, can you guys list 5 local rappers that are living well strictly off hip hop ?

[deePea]

All im saying is innovate innovate innovate .. K.I.M


Maybe i should change my sig to Boom Bap Innovation  :wink:

I think the problem is people get stuck in a time machine. Just like with everything, shit evolves. Things change (wherether we like it or not), what people need to focus on is adapting. Yes we all miss Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five but that was then. We need to stop looking back see how you can grow the artform to higher levels. That can only be achieved with creativity and innovation and not forgetting substance.

[MrC The Rap God Almighty]

Primo said it best

"Underground will live forever baby
we just like roaches, never dying, always living".

Sean Price is doing his numbers. El-P is doing his numbers. On independent labels nogaal ! Their shows still get packed like they used to. They make most of their money from touring. They go to Japan and get the craziest love.

Aint shit changed over here baby !
Let this mainstream crap-bullshit  they trying to call HIP-HOP die a f***en horrible deaths. I'mmo be on the sideline with the rest of my true heads celebrating that shit !

Yo D, maybe you should and i'll take the BOOM BAP RESURRECTION title back !  :wink:

[deePea]

Yes Premo said it best, that is why he's making beat for Christina now (EVOLUTION) :wink:

See it goes beyond that

Yo Underground will live forever (and i hope it does, i love that shit to bits)and the only thing thats keeping them niggas numbers up is INNOVATION, CREATIVITY and ORIGINALITY.


Thats what it boils down to at the end of the day,you will never make it mimicking other people and "taking it back". nah we should strap up our boots and move foward.