50 states that Hip Hop is now Pop. Hip Hop is about telling your own story, not replicating someone else’s story. “I think the best rappers are like battling each other. They come up with the wittiest lines—[the] coolest ways to insult a person you ever heard in your life,” 50 Cent explained. “But they can’t write a song to save they life…Em is one of the guys from that platform that made it to that point. [He’s] that strong of a writer. He means more to music culture than people give him credit for. Because Hip Hop culture is a black art form, it’s a black music. When they have a figure or you have someone that’s from a different ethnicity come in and he does it as well, if not better than everybody in it—it loses its color. And that’s why Hip Hop music is now Pop music…You gotta be careful or you’ll get your ass handed to you on a track man. He’ll get to you.”
During SXSW 2O13, Hard Knock TV’s Nick Huff Barili sat down with 50 Cent and chopped it up about a variety of subjects including Eminem, Rick Ross, Street King Immortal and how hip-hop has turned into pop. In part 2 of the interview, after the jump, 50 Cent discusses Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Get Rich or Die Tryin, Lil Wayne clones and more.
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