Say it isn't so. Rapper 50 cent's career could be over. How long did it take. It took years. Jay-z strategically brought the demise to 50 cent's career. Jay thought he could easily get rid of 50 cent. Jay-Z tried at Summer Jam saying,"I'm about a dollar what the fuck is 50 cent". After that ,50 actually became bigger. Jay dished out subliminal lines such as," Mike jordan of rap watch how quickly I drop 50" to no avail. 50 cent on the other hand became bigger and more hostile with his lyrics by directly calling out Jay-Z's name. 50 cent also allowed up and coming rapper The Game to lyrically assault Jigga. This is when the tables began to turn...

Jay-Z got rid of the Gunit movement and pretty much gangsta rap the same way he got rid of Autotune. 50's claim to fame was he was shot 9 times. He glorified being shot, and that added to his gangsta image. On Kingdom Come Jay-z rapped," I'm scared of the future. Why? Yall respect the one who got shot. I respect the shooter." Jay-z launched a direct line at 50 by questioning the shooter vs the one who got shot. 50 was hot because he got shot, being shot was 50's advantage over other rappers. Jay-z also dropped lines like, " Ya beats is bangin, nigga ya hook did it. Ya lyrics didn't. Ya gangsta look did it, so I would write if yall could get it being intricate will you wood critic." Move number one a success. Move number two pratically put a stamp on 50's career being over. 50 had an album coming out and Def Jam's Ceo, Jay-z, scheduled label mate Kanye "Ye"West to drop of the same day as 50. Kanye killed 50 on the soundscan and made 50 look like a clown. Kanye sold about 900,000 compared to 50's 630,000. Jay-z even mentioned it on American Gangsta, "I get away with murder when I sling Ye". Who knows if Jay-z had anything to do w/ Rick ross coming at 50, but that played a factor as well. The result 50 cent's last album has yet to go gold while Jay-z last album dropped a month before 50's and has sold over 1.5 mil copies. 50 doesn't even know how his career came to end he was too busy listening to Jay-Z's beats and not his lyrics. At a recent award show JAy-z referenced 50's album being a flop as he stated his infamous, " Men lie women lie numbers don't"