50 Cent EXPLAINS Why It’s Easier To Make A Hit Hip Hop Record Today

[@Jayarrin1]

LMFAO!!! "He said we got little everybody!!!" That was hilarious!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@crusadergamer4995]

I actually agree with 50 Cent here I think with the music industry changing it's really more easier to make a hit record these days

[@redscorpion9325]

Facts plus it’s easier to get your Music out there because of KZbin,iTunes,Instagram,Twitter,Tunes-core and ect… and Rapping all with the same Cadence or Style just makes it ridiculously easy

[@MIS3RY.]

Especially for labels , they already have a literal formula .

[@tatertots0046]

You literally don't even have to write a 3rd verse

[@Yt_ShadowBannedme]

It’s more-so that we go so many more platforms, that alot more voices can be heard. And then you got platforms like tik tok that will have ppl using the same songs over and over again

[@kikoferras7369]

true

[@93deiondavis]

T-Pain was so right, its okay to do something else. Hip hop was never really just one lane, it used to be something for everybody.

[@ACarter87]

I can’t believe it’s 2022 and people don’t know why this is happening When everybody and their brother can make and put out songs, it creates an OCEAN of mediocrity and you are forced to sift thru the muddy waters to find the gold This could have all been prevented Since EVERYONE told us this would happen back in the day when the Napster controversy happened So once the technology hit that allowed everyone to produce their own stuff, it created the dichotomy that we’re seeing, and so ALL these rappers just give up finding the “gold “ and go “well I can just make this wack stuff why would I try harder??” So who’s to blame???? YALL for still supporting it and buying thier albums Until somebody can get a grip on the market and only produce what’s “gold “ like the old days, it ain’t going to change Cuz these idiots are going to keep buying it 🤷‍♂️ The blame is on us

[@WeTheFaithful]

@@ACarter87 well said

[@savesevenandre]

No, T- Pain said it's not okay to do the same thing, which was common also back in the day

[@miles46100]

​@savesevenandre true it was common, but the difference is that even though they were saying the same thing and a part of the same culture, they all had different expressions and different presentations.

[@Shortyland05]

T-Pain's rant cracks me up each time I hear it xD

[@josephjohnson8520]

50 speaking facts!!

[@wade_west]

Even if its ez to make a hit it will never be easy to make true art.

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

But the hits these days are forgotten in a week or two. So are they really hits? Even when these so called lyrical rappers drop an album EVERYONE boosts it up likes it’s a classic and a week later nobody cares. For example I don’t think anybody plays that new Kendrick album anymore.

[@mmmhmm1309]

@@ArtisanWindchimes That's got nothing to do with the music or how good/bad it is. It's just the human attention span shrinking due to the constant flow of new everything.

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

@@mmmhmm1309 that’s true too but also there are still some songs within the last 5-10 years that will be remembered a decade from now. But not many like how there used to be 15-30 years ago.

[@stansmith5610]

*DUHHH 🙄 art and a hit are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT things*

[@rockfresh1993]

​@@ArtisanWindchimes what song is classic from 2010s

[@crazyworld_life]

I miss rap fr. It's all the same shit now once n a blue something different pops out. I remember when I couldn't even decide what I wanted to listen to there was so much flavor/creativity

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

Listen to Jpegmafia.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

Try these songs by him: Hazard Duty Pay, Dikembe, Rebound and then try his albums. He writes, performs, produces, mix & masters all his music.

[@RCX_Sco1]

Yup

[@juniorrhinox]

Word, a mixtape actually had a MIX of different flavors. Even if it was a straight Hip-Hop Boom Bap mix, no two songs sounded the same even if it was the same sample. I miss that flavor... if was all fun with different types of expression. No one is being fun with it or funny. Not everyone is serious and has a gun and sells drugs, or taking someone's girl like come on lol.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

@@juniorrhinox Listen to Jpegmafia bro.

[@HC-gm4fo]

It’s not even comparable, It’s far easier to make a hit record today But harder to keep it around for a long time

[@sirjefferson4790]

It’s easier to make hit music today because we have far less expectations then we had in the past

[@rewade70]

I been saying this. You can sing Hickory Dickory Dock over Any trap beat.

[@jaysonbossuet211]

Lmaooo

[@AndrewWorthy]

This is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH. There’s a difference between being inspired by Art and creating New Art using the Energy vs Copy and Pasting a particular format and trying to brand it as Your own. That’s called plagiarism…. And that’s what these “Rappers” do today.

[@LurnWell]

Underrated comment

[@ZachVanHarrisJR]

*”I totally agree with T. Pain and his rant 💯 I felt that lmao” 🤣😂 - MELL DUNEY 616*

[@d.felixphoto2260]

50 was nailed the point and T Pain hit that nail with a sledgehammer 🤣🤣🤣

[@cjzanders5430]

I don’t even listen to enough contemporary hiphop anymore to even know how true this is, but I totally believe them.

[@Reppintimefitness]

As a in the car freestyle artist I agree 👍 💯

[@khrashingphantom9632]

Triplet flow, bass and kit drum pattern (without the click track removed. Lol), lots of ad libs. Rinse and repeat and you have a hit. ☺.

[@calisthetics]

The formula to make a "hit" is already established , that's why it's easy because all you have to do is follow a formula. Hit records require no creativity whatsoever. This is the formula: "catchy beat + catchy hook ÷ dumbed down lyrics= hit record"

[@jaydevinexo]

Catchy flow catchy topics etc….

[@trashyraccoon2615]

Nah. If it was that easy, everyone would have a hit. Try making a hit and you’ll see it’s not that easy

[@swadey2.017]

Guchi gang Guchi gang Guchi gang Guchi🤦🏻‍♂️

[@HC-gm4fo]

The difference is the ease of making music Studio time costed bucks

[@TimeV23]

Also your numbers

[@yuukirito1996]

"Tap dancing Christ" Love this

[@sphakamisozondi]

"We have Lil Baby, we have DaBaby, we have Lil Uzi Vert, we have LIL YATCHY and we have EVERYBODY!" Pain dropped an accidental bar 🤣

[@PHlophe]

Sphakamiso , he sounded like an angry Xhosa Uncle. i was cracking a pecan nut open , i just froze. whew Chile !

[@4thManonCross]

I agree, the cadence & flow even ad libs are the same, whats worse I think is, the fans dont seem to notice or care or want any better, the old days were always about topping the past song & having endless flows, sounding different one every song or beat. because of this longevity or art is more & death or rappers is up cause its not rare artiste who spend most thier time developing art or in the studio makinbg music, but regular ppl on the corner,who devote little time in the sudio or getting better, thats only following a formula only for mula, no pride or love in the craft

[@thf6027]

Rap needs more gate keepers. Business side of it got so big that the artistry ain’t really there like it used to.

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

“And niggas see you in the street, pretend to be friendly, but know any type of success breeds envy, I know in the back of your mind you conjuring ways to hem me, leave my friends in a circle pouring out Henny, but Jesus I’m heaven bound so how I'm gon receive anything y'all pour to the ground, next time throw it up” 🔥🔥🔥

[@iambounceback]

It's easier to make a song that "could be a hit" but its harder for the song "to be a hit". It's so many songs that come out these days you can find a good today and a better one tomorrow. While both are good you will forget about them in a week.

[@bluerobe918]

The old heads thought rap music was trash when I was growing up. I think the mainstream form of rap is trash now. As you get older and mature, you shouldn't even be checking for young cats rappin. Let them have their time and get their money the way they know how. I listen to cats my age and older that create the type of rap I like.

[@bumbleeistheequeen4052]

Thank you!! More than likely my generation will despise the music that our generation listens to that’s just the way it is 🤷🏾‍♀️ we can even go deeper than generational gaps… I’m sure that if you told some rap head in the early 90s that 30 years later the Mecca of rap would be centered in the south, the region that they ignored and shunned, they would say you were lying.

[@DmizzMOB]

True and cap at the same time

[@DmizzMOB]

Niggas ain't really spitting like that anymore just them cookie cutter flows and shared bars there's the odd anomalies that still doing it now but there was also trash back then too but majority or rap nowadays is just the same old copy and paste Migos future flows but back then you needed concepts originality to stand out.

[@codypandajones]

Oh my Lordy, pissed off T-Pain hilarious to watch. Like I'm sorry for him for getting irritated but at the same time, it cracks me up 🤣🤣

[@Surgus2010]

“I gotta switch my style, a lot of niggas biting it they shit sound like mine I might as well be writing it” -Styles P

[@remarcablemc]

T pain rant is a classic, that’s one for the culture

[@travisrowe7697]

T-Pain sounds like an angry football coach at a press conference

[@mark4869]

Rap turned pop. Mainstream. Sold out.

[@ALexander-ue3kj]

2017 was that year

[@derrickzorns6506]

Andre 3000 can have the hottest verse at 50 years old he just doesn’t feel like rapping anymore

[@YISHYAWO]

100% right. Sample a classic song, add some trap beat, say stuff like "i go dumb on the go-go, i stay loco, run up on me thats a no no", upload on tiktok/IG reel & BOOM! Hit song. Wanna go higher? Create a challenge for it!

[@ZachVanHarrisJR]

*T. Pain @ **3:30** “Jesus Tap Dancing Christ!!” 🪩 🕺🏾🤣😂 - MELL DUNEY 616*

[@gigisgucci]

It’s because it’s no longer quality over quantity anymore.

[@ALexander-ue3kj]

Yep it's about quantity. Ppl question Kendrick's status all bc from 2018 - 2021, he didn't drop any projects.

[@SpectreRyder]

"Just DO IT!!"

[@Blackwoman12345]

That's A True Statement I Totally Agree with that

[@j-giv27]

Thank God I'm in my own lane - & only making music I Like Amen

[@ChadFreeman757]

He’s smart for sayin’ that. Watch what the outcome will slowly be…

[@animeloverhaven]

It’s def easier then before to make a hit record now then before

[@kg3658]

its easier in theory, but its probably harder to be heard because of the amount of people trying to get in the game right now.

[@MIS3RY.]

Omg it’s sooooo many ppl like damn , we need doctors .

[@kevinmiller2210]

Harder to be heard? 50 and pain generation didnt have social media. Its so many platforms today to get heard. Hip hop has alway been competitive everybody tryna get heard this younger generation has it easier.

[@mayaw.4013]

No no, it’s easier to be heard, harder to STAY heard though. I’ve been able to find so many small rap artists due to YT or Souncloud, but because there’s so many rappers, I don’t always stay listening to them. So the issue isn’t being heard, it’s staying heard.

[@Yt_ShadowBannedme]

@@mayaw.4013 It’s easier to be heard yes, but it’s so many people trying to eat is what the original comment is saying. So many new dudes in the industry nowadays I haven’t heard of tbh. Seems like it’s someone new every week.

[@RapRants]

@@MIS3RY. Everybody don’t need to be doctors either. Leave it to the people who have a passion for that field.

[@dobbytarantino7260]

You gotta realize it’s platform vs populace. The way you put out music is related to however the news is reached, doesn’t change the fact that there’s competition. One hit wonders have always been.

[@tzulutron3323]

That T pain rant I can listen to all day, the truth

[@zetsusamehada9401]

Snoop said that once nowadays all rapper's sound the same

[@whitegoldakarawstahh]

lego in fam

[@sherm90061]

The problem isn't just with the artist it's with the fans also

[@YoungSwaggness]

G-Unit 💪🏾

[@DoggPoundBDN]

1 word INTERNET

[@hikidunm1582]

Given how difficult it has been for him to make a hit - strange comment.

[@miles46100]

I agree

[@kefentseKdot]

Streaming makes it easier versus the old school way of selling cds and touring actually mattering

[@A92CB7]

He definitely ain't lying

[@RoohTah]

People in the comments saying it’s easy to make a hit nowadays are bums without any notable records, not to mention a hit song 🙈 The formula was always the same since the pop music invented, but not a lot of people can come up with at least a hot song using this formula.

[@DmizzMOB]

It's not easy for everyone obviously but it's easier for people who rap to get a hit because everyone copy and paste their flows and bars and it's acceptable

[@sharondavis787]

Good content. ❤

[@Geemonroe11]

Absolutely

[@CarolinaKID910]

All facts

[@ShadyRaccoon1]

agree with 50

[@Aznk1d]

I love Tpains rant 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@muziseanbymuzitv]

THANK YOU TPAIN

[@Roses78]

50 cent is probably one of the best song writers in hip hop especially for radio cuts. I’ve been listening to his whole catalog even his mixtapes and he’s a genius even his new stuff. Just because he’s not “popular” today his new stuff is good. Hip hop today is diluted with cornballs. There was once an requirement that you had to be what you wrote about now there’s no rules. A lot of rappers are frauds and never done a thing they speak. See 50 cent can have a basic bar style non complicated flow because what he’s saying we know he did it. Wayne on the other hand has bars but he’s not real as jay z said “he’s alright but he’s not real”. A real artist you can hear the essence in the words beat and how they rhyme today there’s too many frauds rappin and way more frauds listening so the real get drowned out. Look at drake he’s the most popular bit he’s always reaching to the real for help with credibility cause he’s a fraud.

[@tatertots0046]

Drake is extremely credible. The things raps about (relationships, jealousy, money etc) who could be more credible than him?

[@legendary9689]

I agree with everything you said about 50 and these are some of the reasons why he’s in my top 5 he also has one of the best flows in hip-hop imo.

[@richdude8150]

@@tatertots0046 the fact that he allowed his ghostwriter to get exposed is what hurt him the most. 85% of rappers use ghost writers but you dont find out

[@tatertots0046]

@@richdude8150 Drake doesn't have a ghostwriter stop believing silly myths

[@watchmenoftruth5238]

No way

[@richdude8150]

that trend has been so since 50 cent dropped candyshop and later on lil wayne used the same formula with lollipop

[@apple-xx2or]

That's why everybody wanna rap now cause it's easy if the news post you, you get views in 50 time it was harder to be a rapper

[@RKentish94]

FACTS

[@shanelouis7551]

a real mi artist that is it💯

[@FridgeTalk]

His last hit was im the man which was wrote by metro boomin and chris brown on the hook. Whats he talking about

[@kasanova749]

I agree. No originality or new twist to old styles. Everything sounds the same that gets noticed.

[@JohnSmith-nm4zd]

All you need is a hot beat and a catchy hook

[@DonovanJamesOfficial]

Yall don't want different music. The artists want new music, but the fans don't.

[@ALexander-ue3kj]

Exactly

[@DonovanJamesOfficial]

@@ALexander-ue3kj loads up a 2022 track that sounds like bbbbbbbb bbbbbbbbbb bababab bababab

[@megabkny]

T Pain’s rant should be a song intro 🤔👀

[@armandokoshena5133]

we have little everybody 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Trinity5722]

"Naah! You gotta talk about something else", Lupe Fiasco, Four and Dem

[@MillionaireJoe]

That T Pain rant is still a classic 🤣🤣🤣

[@sirjefferson4790]

FACTS TO T-PAIN AS WELL

[@harchiossama746]

is that Kimiko from the The Boys serie behind T-Pain lmaoooo

[@YungSaulz]

He's Right Tho

[@jjtbui2614]

It's already two nigga with a baby in that name 😂😂😂 T pain was wild bruh

[@OwnTwoFeetRecords]

Very true 50, and it’s also easier to be a one hit wonder.

[@gokuzwarriors]

why these old heads act like they dont copy or use other rappers flow back in the day lol

[@Cynthipede]

T-Pain yelling obvious yet overlooked truths!!

[@kubolor1234]

I used to go to grime to escape the monotony of hip-hop but now even the uk is making homogeneous music with uk drill.

[@deanryan8533]

Fifty a hip-hop mastermind

[@robcinq5956]

Because the formula is literally copy and paste, It's easier to make a hit SOUNDING record than ever before But its harder for that record to record to cut through the noise, because the industry is flooded - due to how easy it is

[@godsounddivine1718]

Shitt that's facts

[@roberttarimo4956]

I agree, how come he doesn’t drop anything to smash 💥 some..

[@ChadFreeman757]

50 knows damn well 🤫

[@tonyc9018]

Ai can make better beats then most humans can lol

[@bigchase1439]

It's easier now but not cause of what he said..... It'd be easy for the 50 now cause he could afford that method but you could do that then too but it'll kill your budget the easier part now is you don't have to be nice anymore back then you had to master the craft b4 you even thought of a record deal

[@Packeeemup]

This is obvious. They ain’t have social media back then. Back then they needed the industry now ppl going viral from their crib!

[@billionabil]

This shit is in easy mode now smh

[@atsushimurphy504]

I think a lot of peoples listening to the vibe of the beat instead listening more to the point of the story line in the lyrics its the beat.

[@Skizo089]

I give yall my selfmade album this friday✌🏽

[@macewbee]

There both right

[@JimmyMRollins]

There’s no creativity in hip hop and R&B music. A lot of producers and artists don’t know how to be original. The problem is that being original is really hard because it’s already been done a thousand times in different styles.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

There’s a lot of creativity in the underground, but that creativity is too “experimental” for mainstream taste.

[@ALexander-ue3kj]

​@@TokyoBalletReprise Mainstream listeners only care about what's hot & catchy

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

@@ALexander-ue3kj Yee

[@Karlhto]

Man why is T-Pain so loud there? Damn

[@slimwolf7434]

Cause they bited his style he was the only one who use autotune back in the days now everybody usin' autotune everybody looks the same Snoop dogg already talked about it

[@ki11atj49]

Anyone notice many of the female hit records recently have literally been a rip off of Old hit records and they also make a worse version than the original

[@j2323j]

Yeah brotha

[@DmizzMOB]

I hear that

[@mrkilo-g8794]

They're famous off Tik Tok jingles

[@TheRealHaloLover]

Hip hop for sure has reached the point of exhaustion where it's almost a parody.

[@lemanuellsanders]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Sataka23clips]

Amapiano

[@MIS3RY.]

This is true , actually to a lot of these newer artists verses . They’re saying the exact same thing in a different order . Same metaphors and everything . Weaker versions of Wayne and drake metaphors.

[@camronshean1758]

Eminem's song Syllables is basically about this and how lyrics & creativity doesn't matter anymore in Hip-Hop/Rap and that song was made in 2006 or 2007. 50 Cent should've mentioned the song since he's on it too lool. Eminem: "It is not about lyrics anymore. It's about a hot beat and a catchy hook. If we gotta dumb down our style and A-B-C it, then so be it, cause now days, these kids, jeest, don't give a shit bout lyrics. All they wanna hear is a beat and that's it. Long as they can go to the club and get blitzed, pick up some chicks and get some digits and the DJ's playin' them hits, oh this my jam, this my shit, we don't know a word to a verse, all we know is the chorus cause the chorus repeats the same four words for us, and the song's ginormous, the whole formula's switched cause we don't know anymore what are hits. Is it the beat, is it the rap. Is it a finger snap or the same 808 clap and how do we adapt and get TRL votes, when thirteen-year-olds control the remote and Ashlee's got a brand new nose. We gotta put some new em-pha-sis on our syl-la-la-bles"

[@nintendofannot4898]

Honestly it's only about lyrics until you're established. Then it's only about the name.

[@user-xd6gr1yb6d]

"Jesus got-damn tap dancing Christ" - T-Pain has never made me laugh louder.

[@MrKenmosley2000]

We got lil everybody🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HC-gm4fo]

Far easier, You can record 100 songs on your iPhone in like two days pick the best one Studio time used to cost a lot of money To even have a Contacts to make a song was hard You had to prove you were top talent to even get noticed