"But you can't call a #1 [album] a 'flop' under any circumstances.-50 On DTR Sales

[Camrun Miles]

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1610423/20090430/50_cent.jhtml

While Rick Ross' Deeper Than Rap did hit #1 on the Billboard Top 200, some say the numbers were weak.

"150,000 is not a lot of copies sold on a major [label]," MTV.com reader Eagles36 wrote in. "Fifty did 691,000 his first week. Rick Ross is a joke."

Meanwhile, Ross advocate DCollins4444 said to naysayers, "Haters, haters, haters. Stand up ... it's a good album. This album would have sold [a million] six years ago in its first week."

For the record, Deeper Than Rap's first-week numbers aren't far off from his first two LPs, both of which went in at #1. Last year's Trilla pushed 198,000 copies in its first week, while his 2006 effort Port of Miami sold 187,000 out of the gate.

"It's interesting, because it's so many different factors working against the music industry right now," veteran journalist, music blogger and Hot 97 radio personality Miss Info said about the Ross debate. "You look at digital downloading and compound it with the state of the economy. You just feel like a lot of times the creative products are the first to be put on the back burner. ... In a lot of ways, I think record-label people are looking at gold as the new platinum. Literally. Someone told me they are making gold plaques again. At this point in time, you could have a lot of build-up on an artist and they're hitting 50,000 first week."

When asked about the first-week sales of Deeper Than Rap, Ross' biggest detractor in the music biz, 50 Cent, wondered if the numbers were somehow flubbed by the record company.

"I didn't get an opportunity to hear his record, but a lot of freak [SoundScan] numbers come out of the Def Jam system," 50 said with a grin.

Def Jam couldn't be reached for comment as of press time.

But even Fif didn't agree with some of his fans that the Ross record was a flop.

"I think it can be a disappointment to the system, based on how much of an effort and money they spent marketing," 50 explained. "But you can't call a #1 [album] a 'flop' under any circumstances. It's still #1."

50 Stans Lost

[MRc.]

It is kinda funny after reading what all the 50 stans been saying the last few days

[dom_p08]

50 Stans Lost
:smoker:

[Gentility]

Curtis kept it real at least.

[kicknpush_08]

50 Stans Lost
lol irishunit aka king lion aka Hiphop capo aka Hexagram aka fred wont be happy :laugh:

[Still Datshyt]

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Boo-Boo, King Lion, HarlemAl82, and Hexagram lost big time!!!!!

[YoungPimpin_1]

bhzhahahhahahahahahah

:laugh:

Gotdayuuuuuuuuuum, their main talking point has been nullified by their own leader.

50 stans = :sadcam:

[badgyal]

lol irishunit aka king lion aka Hiphop capo aka hexgram aka fred wont be happy :laugh:
:laugh:
lol we tried to tell them, but they argued us down for days. Hicksgram plz go kill ya self.

[Stadium Status]

damn Cuurtis got some Courtesy

[Haze Luvah]

50 Stans Lost
pretty much

[YoungPimpin_1]

That's the difference between black folk and white folk. Brothas give credit where credit's due. White folks will never give anybody credit if they ain't on your side. White folks will argue in the face of logic just to hold onto their belief.

*Salutes 5-0*

[badgyal]

When did we start realizing that G-Units are embarrassing? lol, these guys never stop taking L's.

[kicknpush_08]

bhzhahahhahahahahahah
:laugh:
Gotdayuuuuuuuuuum, their main talking point has been nullified by their own leader.
50 stans = :sadcam:
R.I.P 2 The Competition :laugh:

[reddog271]

they'll have something to say. trust me

[Kid-Wave08]

Curtis kept it real at least.

[badgyal]

That's the difference between black folk and white folk. Brothas give credit where credit's due. White folks will never give anybody credit if they ain't on your side. White folks will argue in the face of logic just to hold onto their belief.
*Salutes 5-0*
word. i gotta give him props for admitting that. i know that had to be hard as hell for him.

[MRc.]

word. i gotta give him props for admitting that. i know that had to be hard as hell for him.

I do agree with what pimpin says, but you know damn well it's cos curtis knows what to say if his album bombs and reaches number 1 with 200k sold.

[kicknpush_08]

word. i gotta give him props for admitting that. i know that had to be hard as hell for him.
Just as hard as it for sunzoo 2 enter this thread :laugh:

[Still Datshyt]

Can you imagine the look on Boo-Boo's face...probably feels betrayed...probably making them will smith in 7 pounds facial reactions...

[badgyal]

Just as hard as it for sunzoo 2 enter this thread :laugh:
forget sunzoo:laugh:

where is hiphop capo aka king Lyin?

[NotSoft]

dont buy this,dude is just settin himself up for his own up coming flop...and lol at "I didnt get a chance to listen"...this Ross album well on its way to street platinum the way i hear nikkas bumpin this.

[HiphopDude420]

That's some real sh1t from 50.

[big business]

only an idiot would think the #1 album in the country is a flop, good to see 50 is not an idiot

[Camrun Miles]

:laugh: 50 just made them niccas look dumb. 50 ethered his own fans.

[badgyal]

Can you imagine the look on Boo-Boo's face...probably feels betrayed...probably making them will smith in 7 pounds facial reactions...
hahahaha:laugh::laugh: weres hicksagram?
Usually these guys would have been all of up in the thread within 2.5 seconds.

[Still Datshyt]

this is the biggest stan ethering in sohh history...

[_free]

ropes and houseshold poisons are being prepared as we speak

[mayibeats]

whoa didnt expect that from 50 . .


Ross should back down from this point on . . .


50 stans are :spazout:


:laugh:

[badgyal]

dont buy this,dude is just settin himself up for his own up coming flop...and lol at "I didnt get a chance to listen"...this Ross album well on its way to street platinum the way i hear nikkas bumpin this.
lol exactly. 50 knows his next album numbers might be :thumbsdow: so he's trying to prepare us for that.

[PrayIVReign365]

damn that must have taken alot. lol he had to pause a lil but hey. He had to say it.

AND if you guys think 50s album will sell less than 200k you guys are high

50s fan base is larger than Rosses. 50 got whites, blacks, etc. According to you guys Ross only has black people buying his albums. so yeaa. i dont see a flop in the near future/

[Louis V]

Just as hard as it for sunzoo 2 enter this thread :laugh:
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Still Datshyt]

ropes and houseshold poisons are being prepared as we speak
I bet things are getting serious over at Boo-Boo's place

Boo-Boo's Mom -
...hold up...wait...whats that...no!...no!...boo-boo stop!...its not worth it...put the gun down...u got much to live for...no!...no!!!...Boo-Boo please!

Boo-Boo
...mother, you either get rich or die tryin...in this massacre, i did neither...one last word before I self destruct...Trilllllla!!!!

[YoungPimpin_1]

Just as hard as it for sunzoo 2 enter this thread :laugh:

:laugh:

Peep it my n1gga:

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/511/wants2enter.png (http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wants2enter.png)

[GOD420]

50 did his stans dirty virtually undoing all of their excessive hating and confirming them to be the idiots that they are

[mayibeats]

dont buy this,dude is just settin himself up for his own up coming flop...and lol at "I didnt get a chance to listen"...this Ross album well on its way to street platinum the way i hear nikkas bumpin this.


i was thinking the same thing .. he probably knows he gonna do similar numbers with his album , so he saying its all good . . .


but im still checkin for that Before I Self Destruct

[Camrun Miles]

:laugh:

Peep it my n1gga:

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/511/wants2enter.png (http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wants2enter.png)
:laugh:

[big business]

:laugh:

Peep it my n1gga:

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/511/wants2enter.png (http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wants2enter.png)

:laugh:

[badgyal]

:laugh:

Peep it my n1gga:

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/511/wants2enter.png (http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wants2enter.png)
:laugh::laugh::laugh:

i'm dying right now LOL:laugh::laugh::laugh:

yooo sunzoo just enter my nig, come in and take the lost :laugh::laugh:

[The Palace Artest]

50, Em and Ross are probably somewhere chilling somewhere

[kicknpush_08]

:laugh:

Peep it my n1gga:

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/511/wants2enter.png (http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wants2enter.png)
:laugh:

[Sunzoo aka LC]

Just as hard as it for sunzoo 2 enter this thread :laugh:

bought as hard as it is for you to let go of my zipper


and i'm still not all that impressed with going number 1, when your biggest comp is asher roth

[kicknpush_08]

bought as hard as it is for you to let go of my zipper
no homo :gag:

[badgyal]

bought as hard as it is for you to let go of my zipper


and i'm still not all that impressed with going number 1, when your biggest comp is asher roth
:laugh::laugh::laugh:
no spin sunzoo. :laugh:

[pop203]

he's actin like those numbers aint weak so yall can't call him out when his album drops, lol, how don't yall see that? if he's frontin like 150k first week aint bad then it's gonna look perfectly fine when his own album only do like 350k it's first week.

[kicknpush_08]

bought as hard as it is for you to let go of my zipper
and i'm still not all that impressed with going number 1, when your biggest comp is asher roth
:laugh: I like how sunzoo spins things when it comes 2 shady/aftermath/G-unit artists. When it was 50vsKanye the excuse was 50 sold more worldwide:dry:

When eminem released foolish pride it was just a mistake, "I understand eminem i been in a similar position myself" -Suncoon, Yet this n1gga has the nerve 2 call Asher Roth Out:laugh:

Now this smh

[Sunzoo aka LC]

:laugh:

ROFL @ you n1ggas anticipating my posts, like an album droppin, you n1ggas know you can have umpteen firefox tabs open at once right? i don't read one thread at a time, but that is hilarious :laugh:

fucck you n1ggas mang

[Still Datshyt]

bought as hard as it is for you to let go of my zipper


and i'm still not all that impressed with going number 1, when your biggest comp is asher roth
I heard that tear drop...:laugh:

[YoungPimpin_1]

bought as hard as it is for you to let go of my zipper


and i'm still not all that impressed with going number 1, when your biggest comp is asher roth

So you were more impressed with trilla when he beat snoop?

For some reason a show called "spin city" popped into my head.

[badgyal]

:laugh::laugh::laugh:
ROFL @ you n1ggas anticipating my posts, like an album droppin, you n1ggas know you can have umpteen firefox tabs open at once right? i don't read one thread at a time, but that is hilarious :laugh:
fucck you n1ggas mang
sunzoo starred at this thread for a good 10 minutes like: damn this can't be life. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Nagra]

So no more beef?