stillmatic wrote:Do people pay attention or are they stuck in 2007? 50 Cent as soft? I mean, if HE qualifies as soft, I'd love to know what the likes of Drake, Wiz, J.Cole, Big Sean, Nicki etc. all qualify as (whether it's good music or bad music).
The only 50 Cent album that can be considered soft is Curtis, with career damaging crossover songs that were made at a time when he had just received 200 million from Vitamin Water and he just wanted to establish his status as #1 in game in the easiest and cheesiest way possible.
Anyone calling The Massacre as soft is really clutching at straws. There were a few love songs on that, but it wasn't ballads or anything like that. Check the internet, the original tracklist for The Massacre is there, and if 50 didn't have to give away his songs, and songs like How we do, Hate it or love it, Drama setter, Higher, Special and Nothing to say, which were 50 songs, were kept than it would have matched GRODT. In fact, Candyshop was the last recorded song on the album, and it was a beat that was refused by 50, Fat Joe and others, but the fact that his 2 singles were taken away (How we do, Hate it or love it), and the deadline approaching, it was recorded.
If 50 makes soft music now, then I must be deaf. Everything since Curtis has been as gritty as any music anyone's put out. Even the far left of gritty have acknowledged it, from Raekwon to Jada to Kool G Rap. Which of these is soft - Forever King, War Angel, Before I self Destruct, 2011 Freestyles, the SK songs and The Big 10? You could count the number of 'love' songs he's done in the last 4 years in one hand.
But who got that nothing to say song?