Customer Reviews

The Massacre

5 star:		(150)
4 star:		(80)
3 star:		(66)
2 star:		(60)
1 star:		(204)

 

 

This CD is horrible! The lyrics suck, I can make better beats on my computer at home! Hey 50, you kicked out da game for not having your back on your beef with fat joe, nas and jada...Jennifer Lopez did a single with joe! So she must be takin sides! You gonna diss her on your next cd? I'm sure that will give you some more street cred to diss jlo, I mean shes hard core! And your boy Eminem did a single with jada...wanna explain that one? The only reason he's popular is cause of the hype everyone makes about him, so what..he's from the streets, that doesn't make him a good rapper. 90% of rap sucks anyway, very few good rappers left. it's all POP rap now, it's sad. Candy shop...god that has to be the worst single this year! Don't buy this CD, you will regret it

First off let me start by saying that I am a 50 cent fan. Since "Get Rich or Die Trying" dropped I have been feverishly anticipating his next LP. However "The Massacre" is nothing what I expected. The beats are really the only thing keeping this CD from being the worst album of the year. The whole "diss err body and they momma" thang is played out and his ABC rhymes are worse than ever. I knew that 50's negative attitude toward other artists was kinda shady but I always thought that him being talented would give him clout to do so, but that is no longer the case. COME ON 50!!!

Remove the sleeve of the deluxe edition of 50 Cent's THE MASSACRE, and you'll see a photo of the artist aiming a gun at the camera, surrounded by a display of firearms of all kinds. Look further and you'll find an insert advertising Reeboks, complete with discount coupon. The booklet in the edited version includes a photo of the artist pouring water into a lovely, scantily-clad woman's cleavage instead of the gun picture...And then you get to hear the album, which begins with a girl's voice sighing over a valentine, followed by blasts of gunfire.

Strong language and constant references to guns, violence, drugs, and explicit sex with objectified women combined with monotonous backing tracks and monotone delivery make THE MASSACRE a hard album for any parent to love. With an intensity so overdone that it would seem like self-parody if his lyrics weren't so deadly serious, 50 Cent weakens the power of his talent by indulging in this fierce and fatal machismo. The edited version had to be SO edited that is sounds like nonsense.

It's too bad, because 50 Cent is a good songwriter, The instrumental tracks are beautifully produced and sometimes even mesmerizing; the lyrics are the work of an obviously intelligent, hard-working man. But they are also unrelentingly nasty, especially if you happen to be female, and these songs send a loud-and-clear message that problems are best solved with violence. There isn't a young person in the world who really needs to hear this CD, and that's a shame.

wow how should i begin? this is one of the most higly anticipated albums of the year and yet it is so garbage. his first cd was off the chain i could let it ride from front to back but this mess is just down right terrible .i dont reccomend paying full price for this cd and if u are one of those people that just have to go buy this cd go to a cd resell shop because there are so many there that they wouldnt even by my copy back.I cant believe this came out of gunits camp especially since all the previous cd's that they have put out have been pretty good (with the exception of young buck) but what can u expect from a record label that signs one hit wonder olivia ,and thrives off of publicity stunts for record sales(game n 50 beef). I thought 50 had a few rapping skills until i put this cd in the deck, THIS IS GOING OUT WITH MY GARBAGE !!!! OR MAYBE I WILL LET MY DOG CHEW ON IT!!

Let me start of by saying that Get Rich was one of the best albums of the past few years. Every track was a bomb waiting to drop. This album sounds like some dude that let fame and steriods go to his mellon. He takes no advice from Em when that is really the only person who he should be listening to.

Let's cover the dis-track Piggy Bank first (actually this may be the only one I need to cover). This is the worst dis track in the history of diss tracks. When you hear some of the underground stuff that Eminem has done where he devotes minutes upon minutes ruthlessly destroying everyone from Ja Rule, to Benzino, to Dialated, to Everlast you realize the lyrcial skill he has to be able to deconstruct artists until there is basically nothing left for them to reply to because they have been destroyed. On this 3+ minute track the only clear diss is to Jadakiss, (something to the effect of don't test me if you want to eat...or something weak like that). He should have never started that with such a week track..Actually if I was Jada, I would not waste my time replying to this schlock. If I was Ja Rule I would just sit back and laugh about what happens when muscle heads try to do something other than lift weights.

If you are still thinking of purchasing this...I would recommend R.U.L.E. At least R.U.L.E has New York on it which is tight. I think that the 100 guns and 100 clips need to be aimed at 50.

So, as I have said Piggy Bank is WEAK. Disco Inferno is OK and pretty much every other track is junk. Gatman and Robin the worst thing I have ever heard, if I was Em I would walk away fast from that one. The album is too loose and the only thing that works on it is the production. If I was Game I would take every track on this album rip it my own way and put that on the shelves to see what sells better.

If 50 did not have a major lable supporting him and he was selling this album out of his trunk..he would be driving a broken down chevy nova and wearing british knights and cross colors.

So, to finish, rather than buy this album you are better off doing one of the following: 1. Buy Young Buck's Album, 2. Buy The Game's album, 3. Buy them both a second time before you ever consider getting curious enough to pick up this trash.

A lot of the five star reviews on this site are ridiculous. Everyone is certainly entitled to their own opinion, but you people give pretty dumb reasons why you consider this a good CD. Some of you guys should just really stick with the "I love/like/dislike/hate this album," and end it at that, instead of delving into your silly reasoning.

For instance, it seems that people's most "logical" defense for 50 Cent is that he sold more copies of his album than so-and-so. So, this is what it comes down to? Sales? Money? Good music is about the quality, kiddies. Not album sales. Saying 50 Cent is good because his CD hit number one is even more agitating than someone in the music industry who's STRICTLY in it for the money (which 50 definitely is). Don't feed into the sales crap. Nelly was a hot commodity about two years ago. His album shot to number one. I rest my case.

Another thing. "Hata." This is one of the most annoying words in the English language these days. If people having their opinions and calling crap for what it is (crap) makes them "hatas," then call me a hata. But do you really think it will change my view of the rapper in question? I'm hard-pressed to have a discussion with a mainstream rap fan without the ignoramus calling me a "hata." Hata, hata, hata. It's like the Ricki Lake Show, you HATAZ!

50 Cent sucks. I don't care who or what he's "respresenting." This man will never have my respect. He's a moron. An ignorant, talentless thug. And you people buy into it. Bravo.

At the rate we're going, in a few years, the only thing you'll have to do to ensure a hit song is to grunt a few times over the beat of a looped fart noise.

Yeah, first of all, nice cover. In the original shot Fitty was looking a trifle weak, so they had to draw on all the muscles...lol. Same thing applies to the tracks. God, this album SUCKS. Don't get me wrong, I hated his first also, I think 50 Cent may actually be legally retarded, and his getting shot multiple times doesn't make his crap any more compelling to me personally. If you have absolutely no idea what real music is, or if you're just the typical toy who buys/downloads anything with cheap generic rinky-dink beats and wanna-be "gangsta" lyrics so that you can feel like you, too, are some kind of badass, go for it, I'm sure this BS will sell in the millions anyway. No accounting for tastes..

Although I had certain dissatisfactions with 50cents earlier album, "Get Rich or Die Trying," I eventually grew to like that record and consider it an above average piece of musical work. That album, however, looks like a priceless Mozart symphony on a wax cylinder when compared to 50cent's latest effort, "The Massacre."

Where to begin with this album? 50cent seems to have found nothing new to rap about beyond guns, how much sex he allegedly has, how "classy" people dont like him (gee, I can't imagine why), how he considers himself rap's Jesus, repeating the "Geee-UNIT!" catchphrase every few seconds, and how he is ready to lay out any gangster who thinks they are more of a gangster than he himself is.

For such a tough gangster, 50cent seems to spend an awful lot of time and effort trying to come up with cute, radio-friendly pop hooks for his songs (listen to the boring, idiotic "Candy Shop" and see for yourself). Also, for such a tough gangster, 50 does an awful lot of moronic grinning into the microphone during live performances, which, I must say, are terrible! For someone who likes to think of himself as Tupac Shakur Jr., 50 has no lyrical or vocal flexibility -- all his rhymes (if they can be called that) are delivered in a monotone, low-decibel drawl that sounds more like some random guy rapping quietly along with a song on the radio while on the way to work, rather than a famous artist himself delivering vocals for a studio album.

I'd give this CD 1 star but I must admit I do enjoy hearing "G-UNIT!" because I haven't tired of the catchprase yet. Ask me again in a month and I'll probably take back that extra star I gave 50 and give it to Nas instead.

I think this album exposes 50 as being a phony and shows he doesn't belong among the elite in the hip hop game. 50's lyrical ability doesn't sell, in fact 50 has the weakest flow of anyone in G-Unit. 50's image sells, he sells record because he's a former drug dealer who's been shot 5 times. I've never heard a flow by 50 that left me in awe and "Piggy Bank" is the absolute worst diss song I've ever heard. "Piggy Bank" doesn't belong in the same breath as "Ether," "Takeover," "Hit Em' Up," etc. After hearing "Piggy Bank", I actually asked myself if Fat Joe, Jada, and Nas were actually supposed to get pissed about that song? The beats on this album are average at best and 50 should be on his knees blowing Dre for making his first album so good. Someone said if you wanted a good album, check out The Documentary by The Game. The Game's cd is hot, Dre is all over it and The Game has the lyrical ability to rap about something besides gun shots.
One more thing is that someone needs to tell 50 he's no 2pac.

This album is over 20 tracks of absolute garbage. Some beats are nice, but the lyrical content is so elementary. He should have had more guest appearances to help him out lyrically. He'll still go multi-platinum but eventually it's going to get old...just like Eminem.