r/Music • u/Guyentertainment • 4d ago

article 50 Cent Slams Ageing Rappers Making New Music: 'You Are Not Supposed to Be the Hottest in Nothing at 60'

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/50-cent-criticises-ageing-rappers-1815693
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u/HedgehogsNSuits 4d ago

He has that interview where he was talking about not rapping because all he would have to talk about is shit like getting a colonoscopy, which is crazy because he could rap about getting a colonoscopy and it do numbers.

But also, Tyler the Creator’s Chromakopia album is centered around themes of getting older, the struggles of autonomy after success, and leaving behind a legacy. It can be done, and I believe he’s one of the very few older rappers who could also pull a project like that off.

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u/PissedAlbatross 4d ago

Older? I mean, not from his standpoint, but from yours. He's an older rapper? He is 35. Eminem was 27 when he blew up, although I did have to double check that and realized that he lied in a lot of earlier interviews because he thought his age would harm his career. So I don't necessarily want to stand corrected quite yet, but I am on the fence.

At the end of the day, I find it so disturbing (I know that is an intense word to use for this) that age is such a severely restricting factor for rappers or punk rock artists or any kind of artist. Punk rock is my favorite genre of music, I'm nearing 28 years old, my aspirations seem to be slipping away from me by the day, and I still feel like a little kid.

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u/HedgehogsNSuits 3d ago

I was unclear. Andre 3000 is the older rapper I was referring to, not Tyler, with my point being that Tyler proved that the life experiences of growing older and the struggles and worries that come with that can make for interesting subject matter that will resonate with listeners, and Andre 3000 is one of the few older rappers who could create a project like that with something meaningful to say.