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50 Cent Explores Alternate Outcome To 2007 Sales Battle With Kanye West

50 Cent and Kanye West famously competed for the No. 1 position on the Billboard 200 in 2007 when 50's 'Curtis' album went head-to-head with Ye's 'Graduation.'
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50 Cent and Kanye West famously battled it out for the top spot on the Billboard 200 back in September 2007 when his Curtisalbum faced off against Ye’s Graduation.

Ye comfortably won the contest by a margin of 266k sales, but in a new conversation with Billboard published on Tuesday (October 22), 50 insisted he could have come out on top in the long-run if he was really trying to be the winner.


“We made the highest sales week for Hip Hop culture, doing that and being competitive,” he said. “People that were participating as fans were buying more than one copy of it, because of the competitive side of it. When you look at it… we had to stand together to face off, but we never had an issue.

“That was his ‘break’ album that broke him in. If I was trying to combat that, I would’ve went on tour with him. I would’ve had all of the material with the albums that worked ahead of [Graduation] to draw from, while he had that one record.”
 
“That was his ‘break’ album that broke him in. If I was trying to combat that, I would’ve went on tour with him. I would’ve had all of the material with the albums that worked ahead of [Graduation] to draw from, while he had that one record.”

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i don’t even understand what this means, kanye had two prior albums to work with, and there were plenty of hits on those albums, he had plenty to go on tour with
 
The bottom line is that Graduation >>>>> Curtis in '07. The Curtis album in a way was the beginning of the end of 50's dominance in hip-hop. BISD >>> Curtis.

Kanye put effort in Graduation while Curtis sounded lazy af with no real direction other than hopping on the current trend at the time that really didn't fit 50 at all.
 
Yeah, graduation is my least favorite album out of the first 3 kanye albums, but its still a good album.

Curtis on the other hand I only listened to once and knew it was the beginning of 50s decline. In fact there's not a single song on the Curtis album that I've listened to since the year it was released.
 
Lou Cypher said:
Yeah, graduation is my least favorite album out of the first 3 kanye albums, but its still a good album.

Curtis on the other hand I only listened to once and knew it was the beginning of 50s decline. In fact there's not a single song on the Curtis album that I've listened to since the year it was released.
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I agree with you. However, the only song I kept from Curtis is Curtis 187. Havoc's production is so dope
 
onetoughmiracle said:
I agree with you. However, the only song I kept from Curtis is Curtis 187. Havoc's production is so dope
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From the Curtis album the only songs I liked:

Touch The Sky
Movin On Up
I Still Kill
I Get Money

50 tried to do the TRL/commercial route w/Curtis and the shit was wack af. He almost did the same shit with The Massacre but balanced out album with the street joints like Ski Mask Way.
 
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