Is 50 Cent wrong for saying Jay-Z never dominated rap and making the conversation about sales instead of impact and skill?

When x was hot. Jay was hot. When Ja was hot. Jay was hot. When Nelly was hot. Jay was hot. When Luda was hot. Jay was hot. When OutKast were hot. Jay was hot. When Wayne was hot. Jay was hot. When 50 was hot. Jay was hot. When they all stopped being hot, Jay is still sizzling.

Again these dudes are limited in their scope of thinking and a bit delusional. JayZ cultural impact is limited to Nee York vastly! Tupac cultural impact is globally and bigger than any one rapper! I believe 50cent cultural impact has been much bigger than Jay Z and Snoop is definitely someone that had a bigger cultural impact.

50 is the white folks nigga.... Record sales only indicates crossing over into White America, it has nothing to do with cultural impact. They both got Reebok shoe deals.... If Jay wasn't a big deal then how'd that happened?

Why does anyone have to be “ clearly that guy” ? Jay is THE guy. All the other others came and went. They were flashes in the pan. Jay was the cornerstone and infrastructure. The rest are just table toppings .

Bro…..answer the question…..when did Jay-Z dominate an era?? And saying there’s never been anybody 👀👀2Pac….DMX….Eminem……LL Cool J.These dudes are clueless. It’s cool that they love Jay Z, I love Jay Z! But the fact la are the facts!! I want yall to notice….they can’t address the question. Also, since when did the numbers of records sales don’t matter? Irv Gitti said “If you want to be the king YOU MUST SELL!”

No artist ever has or ever will have the cultural impact or cultural cache that Hov has .. I was in the Bronx this summer ☀️ that feeling amd energy will never happen again UNLESS Hov does it again..

If we're talking sales then he never had a year that he was the top selling rapper. If we're talking skills that's subjective considering he existed in the era of Nas, Biggie, Jada, Wayne, Eminem and others. Jay's claim to fame is staying consistently top 5 but never #1.

Kanye got infinite more of whatever dude just described….

adults circled up in a room discussing absolute nonsense.

Jay Z business acumen plays the most influence in how we view his music jay z only had a influence in new york dude said he made you put your jersey away nigga that was franchise boys the south had the most influence in today’s hip hop

Nobody was trying to dress like Jay Z at any point in time. Nor did he influence how the next generation rap, Everyone had their own style and after that Nas had more reach as far as rapping style, then Eminem, Wayne, then future. Jay was just constantly Among the top

His impacts in the files

50 NOT better than hov....PERIOD neva heard 50 mentioned in the goat conversation

New York dudes be thinking the 5 boroughs is the world 😂 just because Jay Z influenced them they think he did that world wide

No he’s not wrong.. Jay z was one of the best back then.. but there was never a year where he was the number 1 rapper in the industry

Facts tho

Jay z didn't tell anyone what to wear. Or dress. Nobody ever wanted to be Jay z. Jay z wanted to be Tupac. Lil wayne wanted to be Tupac. And that's all. The biggest influencer of rap is weezy. But its not a good thing

I love JayZ and see him as one of the top lyricist in the world, but his influence or dominance is centre only in America. Outside USA he's not really impactful. Real impact cross boundaries and unfortunately JAYZ isn't in that conversation.

Kanye had a bigger influence on the hip hop culture than Jay Z and 50 cent

Lil Wayne culture impact is in fact up there boy influence a whole generation if we being honest 🤷🏾‍♂️

Corny niggaz

David Stern called Jay z because Jersey sales went down after he dropped Change Clothes

Yes!

JayZ said Men lie women lie kids lie but numbers don't 🤣🤣🤣

What's the point of these conversations, especially on the internet where a million people could have different views on the same topic?

50 had an impact ‘world wide’ Africa especially.. yall trippin America is not the world. 50 > jay every f’ing day

Jay did 6.8 mil. He outsold both X albums unless you combined the numbers from both.

Only New York niggas worship Jay Z. Yeah he had hits. But sale wise he wasn't at the top. He was propped up by bias radio and heavily pushed by his label. And that's cool. He never outsold OutKast. We need to decide on what metric to use to measure success. Because 50 lapped Jay

Kanye

Jay-Z had several impactful songs, whereas 50 Cent’s songs weren’t nearly as important or influential. If anything, T.I. has more impactful and skillfully crafted songs than 50 Cent. Nothing wrong in having good sells even Kanye West better than 50 cent.

Yall need to travel

Don’t forget we switched from gold to platinum—IN TEXAS!!

Valid points. Well said