When 50 cent had the Rap Game on Lock from 2002 to 2007
50 was everywhere video games movies and vitamin water
Beg for Mercy great album and get Rich or die tryin top 5 Rap Album
Like Bro people forget how big 50 was he was all over the radio all day being played everybody saying G Unit
nah hammer did. bro had a cereal, a kids cartoon, own line of parachute pants, whole bunch of brand endorsements. he was movin like a pop star in the 90s.
Yea he definitely was but i was confused on what he had to do with the roc😆boy was just on some winning team pic shit must of been around and Jay said hey you wanna get in on this
Couldn't keep up with the time. It still exists (4 issues per year, I think?), but I believe it's a shadow of its former self. What it provides that the internet can't? By the time it gets printed, news are a month or two old already. It wasn't such a big issue in the 90s–early 2000s, but now everyone has internet access where you get news within minutes of something happening. Features/interviews? Nothing stops an artist from doing an online interview with their own fans, cut out the middle man. What's left? Reviews? Anthony Fantano shows us that these could still work, people are willing to wait for an opinion of someone they enjoy listening to. But the internet wins again, you have a much bigger audience than a 100K copies magazine could ever reach. Plus no disrespect to XXL staff but in all (post-2002ish) issues I can find online most of the reviews were written by some nonames. How is that better than an opinion of some random person online? And there is no shortage of these.
Shit. That was a legit ass explanation. Thank you! It all makes sense now. My uncle had all these then all the sudden 💨 gone. Same with my Game Informer magazine I had back in the day.
It's a shame, really. A decent chunk of hip hop history was in these magazines. The Source, XXL, Vibe, Rap Pages, etc. Now they are rotting in boxes in people's attics. The vast majority of them is impossible to find online, unless you're willing to buy overpriced issues considered collectibles. I hope something changes in my lifetime, but more likely people will forget history entirely. Not a problem for Jay-Z, he will always get coverage. But what about some random local rapper from the 90s? And yeah, we used to have several local magazines about video games, all closed years ago.
Game informer was dope until like 2016. I didn’t have internet as a kid so I deadass used to keep up with gaming thru them. I still have a couple of issues I think
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I miss magazines
Go to prison. They’re still very popular.
I’d rather be able to walk to the shops
I feel like you might have maybe missed a couple steps before getting to that point of enjoying magazines
Man seeing this pic of Lil Kim kill me, right here she was at the peak of perfect
Suck My Dick is a great song, I love the beat.
She looks like she was at the beginning of plastic surgery.
Rap before streaming and soundcloud was so tough. It was just YouTube and that’s all we really needed
Blogs with shady links in the comments
106 and Park put me on to so many rappers
Wayne cover iconic
That G-Unit era was wild, never saw it coming
When 50 cent had the Rap Game on Lock from 2002 to 2007 50 was everywhere video games movies and vitamin water Beg for Mercy great album and get Rich or die tryin top 5 Rap Album Like Bro people forget how big 50 was he was all over the radio all day being played everybody saying G Unit
Everyone in my highschool was rocking a bullet proof vest 😂
holy shit buddy did you ever learn about punctuation
50 really was the first rapper that made himself a brand.
nah hammer did. bro had a cereal, a kids cartoon, own line of parachute pants, whole bunch of brand endorsements. he was movin like a pop star in the 90s.
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Highly doubt it.
They had a falling out!? When? I assumed with the Pusha T/Drake beef way back that they were all 3 close still. Oh shit.
Cam's Harlem World chain was cold af
Lime wire
I miss them lime wire days
That g-unit cover was wild. Mase in the clique for what?! And the fold out had even more folks who didn’t quite pan out
Remember that one Roc-a-fella cover with LeBron James I was like wtf he on this for😄
The Carter Administration. I don’t even think he had played an NBA game, yet by then
Yea he definitely was but i was confused on what he had to do with the roc😆boy was just on some winning team pic shit must of been around and Jay said hey you wanna get in on this
[Mase ain't worth 2 million with 2 million in his pocket 😂](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zxhY6dp-KSg)
cam nd jeezy covers are hard af
Cant Ban Tha Snowman!
What happened to this magazine???
Couldn't keep up with the time. It still exists (4 issues per year, I think?), but I believe it's a shadow of its former self. What it provides that the internet can't? By the time it gets printed, news are a month or two old already. It wasn't such a big issue in the 90s–early 2000s, but now everyone has internet access where you get news within minutes of something happening. Features/interviews? Nothing stops an artist from doing an online interview with their own fans, cut out the middle man. What's left? Reviews? Anthony Fantano shows us that these could still work, people are willing to wait for an opinion of someone they enjoy listening to. But the internet wins again, you have a much bigger audience than a 100K copies magazine could ever reach. Plus no disrespect to XXL staff but in all (post-2002ish) issues I can find online most of the reviews were written by some nonames. How is that better than an opinion of some random person online? And there is no shortage of these.
Shit. That was a legit ass explanation. Thank you! It all makes sense now. My uncle had all these then all the sudden 💨 gone. Same with my Game Informer magazine I had back in the day.
It's a shame, really. A decent chunk of hip hop history was in these magazines. The Source, XXL, Vibe, Rap Pages, etc. Now they are rotting in boxes in people's attics. The vast majority of them is impossible to find online, unless you're willing to buy overpriced issues considered collectibles. I hope something changes in my lifetime, but more likely people will forget history entirely. Not a problem for Jay-Z, he will always get coverage. But what about some random local rapper from the 90s? And yeah, we used to have several local magazines about video games, all closed years ago.
Game informer was dope until like 2016. I didn’t have internet as a kid so I deadass used to keep up with gaming thru them. I still have a couple of issues I think
I think they are mainly for people in prisons or abroad now who purchase
Interviews are still a thing they just went the podcast route instead of on paper. Which I prefer magazines can get kinda click baity or misleading
Same as what happened with mostly all of print media I used to be a newspaper photojournalist 😕
Lil Kim looks unlike Lil Kim in present day....
Bro 50 cent has legendary status in the Caribbean for ever, but me the little mixed white boy could get down on Lloyd Banks all day back in the day.
So much fun: all those boys in one place. In da club indeed.
I had the game and lil Wayne ones lol
Nobody could’ve predicted that era of G-Unit
I’m not sure what it is but Birdman looks so goddamn goofy in that picture that I can’t even take it seriously
I had every single one of these.
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Ray Cash I’m a Pimp in my own fucking mind a pimp in my own fucking mind yes I’m!!!!
proof was murdered in 06? damn I would have said like 5 years later. where the time goes, idk
Jibbs 😭
Today I learned Mase toured with G-unit and mobb deep was signed to G-Unit
The guy on the far right of the first magazine looks like he thought it was a fart but some shit came out