I'm starting a rap thread

[GonzoStyle]

While I agree that to people who listen to rap cause we like it and not cause it's pop and on MTV. We all knew of 50 cent, I first heard 50 on the ballin' outta control tape from back in '99. I liked him and then when "how to rob an industry nigga" came out, I really though he'd get somewhere and be big one day.

But to say that he woulda been as popular without eminem is ignorant. You can't make a talent like 50, he had "it". But eminem really helped him out as far as his lyrics, cause he was pretty deep in a lot of his lyrics, especially "many men". Ofcourse having the greatest producer the games ever seen giving you the beats he had made for his own album, doesn't hurt.

While 50 had a lot of offers and woulda eventually been signed, Eminem IS rap as I said before. He like Dre had the golden touch and still has it. Do you think anyone woulda bought a D12 album without eminem?

The only difference is 50's talent, notice em has 2 small apperances on the album, very brief. 50 didn't want all the bullshit collaborations and he pulled off a very good album, very exceptional.

You can't say if 50 will fade away or not, that's what people were saying about Eminem in 1999, that he was a gimmick. Now he is the defenition of rap with the passing of pac and big.

As far as Snoops contribution to rap, without snoop I doubt Dre's "Chronic" album woulda been a third as good as it was. Therefore Death Row wouldn't have exploded like it did, and it woulda held a different future for the rap industry and artists like tupac, dre, and everyone they influenced, from biggie, to eminem down to 50 cent.

Dre put Death Row on the map but only with snoops help.