West nabs Fifty’s crown

The music industry may be suffering at the moment, but Kanye West is still hot as hell. He is officially the kin of hip hop at the moment, and 50 Cent is just a has-been. Remember when 50 Cent’s debut album came out? People were hyping him up as the next Notorious B.I.G. All hype, brother! Kanye has taken the crown already.

In its first week of sales, Kanye’s Graduation outsold 50 Cent’s Curtis 957,000 copies to 691,000. West’s album is doing better than any other new release this year. 50 Cent has fallen off. The Massacre sold more than a million copies in its first week, but now everyone is hyped about West.

”It’s great marketing on Def Jam’s part, by putting us out there at the same time and make like we can actually be compared on some level,” said 50 Cent, who boasted that if West outsold him, he’d retire. Looks like it’s time for someone to hang up their mic then. None of Fiddy’s recent tracks has inspired much radio play and even with the prospect of a world tour looming, it’s hard to get excited about the G-Unit frontman any more.

We’re still not so keen on West after he dissed Justice at the MTV Video Music Awards, but getting one over on 50 Cent goes some way to redeeming that. Now if only he hadn’t ripped off Daft Punk on the track “Stronger”, we might be even more forgiving.

Posted on 19 September 2007 by mike in News: hip hop