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 jessica on August 30, 2008 at 2:53pm: 50 a bitch fuck him and his music and fuck them ugly g unit clothsFUCK G-UNIT

Comment by alexandria irving on August 30, 2008 at 3:42pm: FUCK GAME Faggot ASS! HE'S THE PRIME EXAMPLE OF A FUCKING POSER. BUT EVEN STILL 50 IS DEAD ASS WRONG! BUT AS HE RECENTLY SAID HE DOES WHAT HE WANTS HE IS MR. INTERSCOPE HAVE YA'LL FORGOT INCASE PEOPLE I GUESS THAT WAS A REMINDER.

Comment by DA BLINGY STAR TOUCHIN DIVA on August 30, 2008 at 4:08pm: WOW! 50 IS NUTZ FOR THIS ONE! PANDORA'S BOX IS DEFINITELY OPEN NOW! I WANT TO INTERVIEW HIM. I GOT QUESTIONS FOR THAT ASS! HE RUNNING OUT OF SHIT TO DO! LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

Comment by Terrence Jones on September 3, 2008 at 9:17am: 50 A SMART MAN!!! ALWAYS BE TEN STEPS AHEAD OF NIGGAS NO MATTER WHAT!!! THAT'S HOW SMART NIGGAS ON THE BLOCK DONT GET LOCKED THE FUCK UP!!

Comment by Mac on September 13, 2008 at 8:25pm: Man niggas need to chill. Alot of y'all talkin' that shit like "oh, 50 a bitch ass nigga for doin' that shit." But, the fact of the matter is that the majority of y'all probably already downloaded that shit. So thank him. I mean y'all niggas forget the fact that game is known to bite the hands the feed him. And y'all feelin' sympathy because 50 leaked his shit?. That's called fuckin' karma. And like the nigga MEECH said, he can't sell LAX by himself. I mean for fuck sakes he has Lil' Wayne on his album. Weezy ain't bad, but then again he got the nigga on his album during his spotlight. The nigga Game is a fad and unorignal. Don't get me wrong. I'm no dick rider but when Game makes anything close to Get Rich or Die Tryin', let me know. p.s. I laugh because the majority of y'all niggas probably had GRoDT at some point in time and was feelin' it.

Comment by Mac on September 13, 2008 at 8:30pm: p.p.s. Just to add, out of 19 tracks on L.A.X. (including the intro and outro) 14 of those tracks are featuring another artist. This is a fuckin' collaboration album.

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