50 Cent Gives Away Game’s Whole Album As A Free Mixtape

Most hip hop blog readers are familiar with 50 Cent’s website ThisIs50.com. For those of you who aren’t familiar it can best be described as one part social network, one part 50 Cent nut riding festival. 50 Cent’s team has used the website to report on current hip hop news, to promote new projects from G-Unit artists and to take shots at all the artists 50 Cent doesn’t like. One of the biggest events for the website was the release of the free mixtape “Elephant In The Sand” which was a free mixtape by G-Unit artists which was made to poke fun at and to spoil the release of Fat Joe’s album Elephant In The Room album. And now 50’s at it again but this time it’s not funny or cute, it’s just plain old grimey.
Right now ThisIs50.com is promoting a new free mixtape. There aren’t any G-Unit artists on this one though. However a former G-Unit artist is on every track, The Game. That’s because the website’s newest free mixtape is actually Game’s whole album LAX. Front to back. In an effort to see that Game’s album is a failure 50 Cent is encouraging his readers to download it for free instead. How messed up is that?

I’m thinking this might be bit too much. I understand that the guys hate each other but is that really a can of worms that any artist wants to open? Artists are already making way less off of albums than they used to, so just imagine an industry where artists purposely and publicly leak each others albums and promote the free downloading. No one is gonna make any money off sales. Though he has many sources of income to supplement low sales, not even 50 wants that.

Now we provide music here on HN but I never encourage people to download it but 50 is strongly encouraging it. I know there are many 50 fans out there that think everything the guy does is “genius” or “the greatest marketing ever” but this is wack. The music industry has been dying for a while but I think 50 just killed it. Pandora’s box is now open. Welcome to the free for all.

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Comment by ROCTHASPOT on August 27, 2008 at 2:01pm: 50 a bitch!!!! Game we got u homie ...Fuck them G-Unit Clowns straight like that but real shit bring 50 2 newark we will take good care of his whack ass...

Comment by Cmoney714( 8 Flowz ) on August 27, 2008 at 2:11pm: i agree 50 is a bitch and this just proves it again something a lil punk ass kid would do its not games fault your last cd flopped ....oh wait maybe it is LOL !!!

Comment by King on August 27, 2008 at 2:18pm: fifty is king, no one has the balls to do what his done, G GGGGGG UNIT

Comment by tony on August 27, 2008 at 2:24pm: man 50 is lame down hea his shit dont even get played game is way better than him

Comment by ORANGE MOUND VET.AKA MR.22 SHOTS. on August 27, 2008 at 2:24pm: THAT'S SOME REAL WHOE SHIT RIGHT THERE THAT NIGGA MAD THAT TOS SHIT FLOPPED LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER..

Comment by Derek on August 27, 2008 at 2:27pm: hahah damn this is fucked up....but good 4 50....

Comment by cye young on August 27, 2008 at 2:29pm: MAN ANY NIGGA THAT COSIGN TO DISS....KNOWS WHAT FIF SPERM TASTS LIKE.....BOY NIGGAS IS HOES...AND THIS IS REAL...YOU A REAL NIGGA....DAMN RIGHT YOU IS....BOY...MAN...ILL BURN HIS ASS...ITS YOUNG............

Comment by Griller on August 27, 2008 at 2:50pm: Yeah. I dont really even comment on shit but im a let my feelings be expressed on this one. This is some bitch ass nigga shit. How you gon take somebody album and release that shit for free. I see why fifty gopt shot the first fuckin time. Probably doin some bitch nigga shit. But anyways i bought that game album nigga and that shit raw! But fifty on some bullshit wit that one.

Comment by Torin on August 27, 2008 at 3:13pm: Only that dumb ass nigga would pull a bitch move like this lol If you wanna discredit a artist do that shyt on the mike...o i forgot, last he tried that he got ate up. This ain't gonna effect shyt anyway, Niggaz are still gonna cop Game album, no one is goin to 50 stupid ass site for nothin...besides when Game hear bout this bitchassness he prolly gonna make 400 bars lol Ain't nobody thinkin bout boo boo, he the most commercial "rapper" in hip hop and just upset cuz his lil group has been fallin' aprt since game left. If he spent as much time in the booth as he did pullin' that o gay shyt like this he might see a platinum plaque in his lifetime again.

Comment by Victoria MsV Taylor on August 27, 2008 at 3:45pm: 50 was very immature and childish for that i dont even listen to him amymore he is a poor excuse for an artist and he mad cuz game doin good w/o him, u wastin yo time tryin fuck up otha people carreers when u need to b tryin to get yo own shit together. 50 u's a dumb ass nigga