Poll Better Year: 2003 50 Cent or 2024 Kendrick Lamar?

[Goldie]

50 Cent:

- 9x Plat album
- 4 platinum records (1 diamond)
- 2 number 1 singles
- 2 american music awards


Kendrick:

- 6 plat records (1 diamond)
- 5 grammys (song of the year)
- 4 number 1 singles
- super bowl

 

[Sky Davis]

Kendrick

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

50 by miles

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Not even close

 

[Chi-Town B]

50 had the bigger year, you couldn't escape that dude. Every car blasting GRODT, dude all over tv.

 

[Tessai]

Kendrick by far. Dude had the world in a chokehold with that damn not like us song. 1 fucking song.

 

[Greg.nice]

The superbowl performance is the only thing that can make this a discussion

50 had much more ground to cover...and dominated that... the media landscape was much more robust and varied at that point too.

Then clothes lol...dvds

 

[RandomOne]

50 dominated without social media

But Kendrick had the world call Drake a pedo lol

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

The superbowl performance is the only thing that can make this a discussion

50 had much more ground to cover...and dominated that... the media landscape was much more robust and varied at that point too.

Then clothes lol...dvds

Had niggas wearing them thick ass wife beaters
Wack ass Reeboks

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Kendrick thrived in a terrible era lol

50 had to compete w heavyweights

 

[Freeman]

Social media and streaming didn't exist yet but 50 was inescapable. It's not close.

 

[mryounggun]

Yeah, I was around for 50's year in 2003. He wins this. The way that nigga had the world in a choke hold with NO social media was NUTS. Nigga sole 9 million PHYSICAL copies of his DEBUT.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Plus 50 had the entire industry beefing w each other
lol

 

[L3NU]

I don't see how anyone who was around in 03 would pick Kendrick.

 

[RandomNegro]

You are smoking dick dipped in shit if you think Kendrick had a bigger year than 50.

 

[RandomOne]

50 with social media and streaming would have been interesting

 

[BMDC]

This is a white people's question. We've never seen anything like 50's run and don't get started on the actual song/album quality.

 

[Victory_Kid]

The biggest rap producer + the biggest rap star + Interscope/Universal backing + a survival story that the general public bought = the greatest setup an artist can ever dream of.

50 Cent's foundation was unbeatable, even Jay-Z saw it from miles away and warned his own mandem to cool the fuck out lol. Damn near everything 50 touched was gold. Music, fashion, beverages, jewelry, you name it. 50 Cent/G-Unit's dominance was out of this world. A powerful hold for at least 3 years straight

Kendrick's run was impressive too, and unique, but can't be compared to 50's

 

[GOAT]

Kendrick

Cmon son

50 got a couple american music awards.... wudever that even is lol

Kendrick got multiple Grammys and Super Bowl

 

[GOAT]

Kendrick had congressmen quoting Not Like Us during hearings