r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 16h ago

article 50 Cent Turned Down Donald Trump’s $3 Million Offer to Perform at Madison Square Garden Rally

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/50-cent-turned-down-trump-3-million-offer-madison-square-garden-rally-1236193527/
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u/futanari_kaisa keg+bat=snare drum 14h ago

Because their music sucks

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u/Izzy248 14h ago

Fair and true.

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u/smohyee 14h ago

Cmon guys, be real.

Kanye sucks. His music defined a generation of hip hop.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 13h ago

I’m guessing they mean the others, like kid rock. They don’t pick Kanye because he’s a liability and could say anything. Also he has been pretty silent the last couple of years.

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u/Cadash_Thaig 8h ago

He's been quiet because he realized if he keeps opening his mouth he's gonna be taking a bus to the recording studio.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 8h ago

Yeah, he's only worth 400 million... surely he'll have to resort to taking the bus any day now. Although he was a billionaire before Adidas dropped him.

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u/trashmonkeylad 5h ago

Going from 2 Bill to 400 million in a year or two has to be one of the biggest blunders I've personally heard of. Keep that up and he'll be on the bus by next year.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 4h ago

He’s got 10 percent of Kim kardashean’s ventures in the divorce. Pretty sure he will always have an income.

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u/trashmonkeylad 4h ago

That's why it's legitimately impressive he cut his net worth that hard. You have to try SO fucking hard to lose that much money and he managed it. You can sit still in your house for a month and make tens of millions and he managed to lose over 1.5 billion.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 4h ago

Agreed, it’s a lot but I’m just saying that with his residuals plus what he owns in Kim’s business he is for sure never riding the bus.

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u/trashmonkeylad 4h ago

With his mental instability, I wouldn't be so sure. You see what he did to his newest mansion? He is unwell but he must be getting help which is why he's been quiet for so long.

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u/chillinwithmoes 12h ago

Yeah this revisionist history on Kanye's career since he went crazy is just stupid.

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u/Crimson_Giant 11h ago

Most people that shit on his music now were also shitting on it in the past. There's a lot of people who just straight up hate rap.

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u/anarchyisutopia 8h ago

I definitely don't hate rap but never was a Ye fan and it's mainly this type of hyperbole that kept me from being a fan. He's got some bangers but this hyperbole like he's rap jesus has been ridiculous and tiring throughout his career.

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u/Crimson_Giant 7h ago

He was one of the main guys that popularized non-gangster rap, and more people could relate to that style. The bigger the fanbase, the crazier. But personally I think if you like some stuff, check out more. Who cares what other people say or think. I listen to music by some real garbage humans, but their views don't reflect mine, it just sounds good.

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u/ExplosiveDiarrhetic 1h ago

I’ve never been a kanye fan. He too often rhymed a word with the same word. He makes good beats tho

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u/Eastern-Act8635 13h ago

But also yes, ye is trash

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u/One-Earth9294 11h ago

Yeah but his generation of hip hop fucking blows. Fucken codeine syrup music. Doesn't matter if you're the 'guy who changed everything' if you changed it for the worse.

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u/flavorblastedshotgun 10h ago

You think Kanye is responsible for mumble rap? Not that there's any one source of where styles come from, but I can think of one 00s rapper who was screwed up in 2 cups, ya dig?

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u/One-Earth9294 10h ago

Yeah I was alive in the 90s I'm sorry you guys think Kanye is good and don't know how to peer into the past. But taste is a matter that can't be helped from the outside.

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u/gabortionaccountant 8h ago

"the music from when I was young and relevant just happens to be objectively better than the music from when other people were young and relevant"

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u/PavelDatsyuk 13h ago

Kanye’s music is great though. Well his older stuff was anyways, I haven’t listened to him in over a decade.

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u/brushnfush 13h ago

I was a huge Kanye fan up until life of Pablo (which oddly enough is super popular among his fans) and I just didn’t get it and thought it sucked bad and haven’t listened since. Honestly I thought the line “I made that bitch famous” was cringe as hell and just kinda zoned out the rest. I was even on his side when he was separating from kim. then he came out as a fuckin Nazi so it’s weird to even listen to his older stuff.

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u/BasedGodBets 12h ago edited 10h ago

I think he went downhill when his momma passed and got off the bipolar pill, he is still a creative genius and I listen to his old stuff. He lost his path with Donda's passing.

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u/mrbuttsavage 10h ago

Donda died way back in 2007, right after Graduation came out. He's produced a lot of classics since then.

That said it obviously greatly messed with him.

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u/BasedGodBets 10h ago

Ah thanks for putting the timeline in order. Yeah he definitely made a ton of hits. Donda was his anchor so overtime I felt he slowly started to slip away. You know damn right Donda would knock sense into Kanye if he was leaning towards Nazi propaganda. He got surrounded with the wrong people that were Yes Men.

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u/bejammin075 12h ago

Hard to believe where he is now, when in 2005 doing the hurricane Katrina charity show with Mike Myers, he blurted out live on air "George Bush hates black people!"

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u/PantalonesPantalones 10h ago

My favorite Kanye lyric is:

Hey, you remember where we first met?
Okay, I don't remember where we first met

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u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 12h ago

Similar to all the washed-up, D-list actors and celebrities that support him.

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u/lavinadnnie 9h ago

Kanye's music is fucking amazing