And the two guys at the helm where 50 and Kanye. So if you look at like 2000s, the great story was rap splitting off into all of these other, accessible genres. While the song is about going to a club in thug style, it covers a lot of ground, including some of 50s backstory ('been hit with a few shells'). Dre, Eminem, Xzibit, Lloyd Banks and Tupac. That is what Biggie and Pac did - Pac fathered this thug confessional kind of rap, and Biggie perfected the hustler to don dream story, and rappers pretty much were all doing one or the other. 50 Cent namechecks five different rappers in this song: Dr. The 50 Cent story you can see in rappers like early kevin gates, trap rappers like Young Jeezy, Game, etc.

The Kanye story and the 50 Cent story were basically the two narratives of hip hop - and the Kanye backpackers like early Drake, Cudi, Weeknd, etc were clearly influenced by the Kanye story. Eminem played a huge role in this, as did Kanye with TCD and with his persistence in the face of rejection when he didn't fit the image the industry was marketing gangsta rap as. It was rap's divide and the emergence of the non-gangsta, sensitive / introspective rapper. For his part, 50 Cent has long maintained that a man named Darryl 'Hommo' Baum was the gunman Baum was killed three weeks after the 50 shooting. The real divide or story of 00s hip hop wasn't beefs and east v west. Korman refused to allow jurors to hear such testimony. So in this bad analogy, I think actually Pac would be (don't shoot me).

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