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Description: While his commercial success and famous antics in the rap music industry are the stuff of legend, Curtis Jackson (a. k. a. 50 Cent) often doesn’t get enough credit for his influence on the legacy of Hip-Hop overall. In today’s video, we’re going to give you 3 ways 50 Cent changed the rap music industry forever. ----------- The Top 20 Songwriting Secrets of Professional Rappers (FREE VIDEO COURSE): freestylefortnight.com/top20songwriter ----------- 50 Cent Teaches Rap Songwriting In 3 Steps (VIDEO I MENTIONED): youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64p83Iz6-6HKcs5rzx4goYbie0GERHQK ----------- TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 0:37 #3 He Changed Rap From “Verse First” To “Chorus First” Music  1:06 50 Cent On How Jam Master Jay Taught Him The Rap Music Industry 2:54 Free Songwriting Course 3:08 #2 He Reinvented The Mixtape 4:53 #1 He Invented The Modern “Branded” Rapper 6:35 Watch 50 Cent Teach You Rap Songwriting ----------- FULL ARTICLE ON 3 REASONS 50 CENT CHANGED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY FOREVER: rapgamenow.com/50-cent-the-rap-music-industry Think of a famous 50 Cent song, and what is the first thing that comes into your head? Whether it’s “In Da Club”, “P.I.M.P”, “Window Shopper” or any of his other blockbuster hits, chances are it’s the hook or chorus that has you spitting along before you’ve even realized it! 50 Cent cites his short-lived working partnership with Jam Master Jay as an education in writing catchy choruses. “I didn’t actually know how to count bars when I met Jay. I would write a verse and it would be 12 bars, sometimes 14, sometimes 18… everything but 16 bars you know… he kind of trained me to write the chorus, and he was like… he’d write make the chorus to the record 3-4 times before I started. And this is why sometimes I have habits based on that. Sometimes I’ll put more than one melody on the actual record. So for example, on P.I.M.P., I’ll say, ‘I’m a P.I.M.P… and then there’s a part in the record where I’ll say, I’m ‘bout my money you’ll see… ‘ So, there’s a bridge area on the record and I learned how to do that under Jay’s tutelage”. 50 Cent on Jam Master Jay This is a noticeable difference in mentality from the verse-centric, bars-heavy rap of earlier generations such as KRS-One, Rakim, Nas, and the Wu-Tang Clan. Although many of the most iconic rap songs indeed have memorable chorus (think of “Juicy” by The Notorious B.I.G. or “California Love” by 2Pac and Dr. Dre)… The main “showpiece” of the performance was the verse of the rappers as opposed to the chorus itself. 50 Cent flipped that on his head when he dropped the hook-heavy instant classic Get Rich or Die Tryin’ in 2003. 50 often takes the chorus a step further, including multiple tunes and hooks in one song. Take “P.I.M.P.” as an example, where 50 describes his strategy as “You’ll hear the chorus area, and then you’ll hear an area that feels like a bridge on the record, but that’s out of the habit, that I write two or three melodies in every song”. The music backs this up with the main hook playing throughout the track, ensuring it’ll be stuck in your head for days. It’s also worth noting that a huge number of his tracks start with a chorus rather than a verse, catching your ear from the get go. In fact, of the 18 tracks on Get Rich or Die Tryin‘, a full 13 of them start with a chorus! Of the singles he released for that album, 100% of them start this way (“In Da Club”, “21 Questions” and “Many Men”). This ability to pen a catchy anthem is one of the main things that launched him to stratospheric fame, and solidified 50 Cent as one of the biggest selling rap artists in history. If you can get a track in people’s heads, you take up space in the zeitgeist, and that’s exactly what he’s done for almost two decades. Back when 50 was an unknown rapper from Southside Jamaica, he didn’t just do things the way everyone had before. Instead, he flipped the mixtape formula on its head, not only splitting the art form open for new generations of rappers to build on, but using this new method to get unprecedented buzz for his work. Originally, a mixtape was a recording of a live show, but in the 90’s, prominent DJ’s popularized a new wave of tapes, getting rappers to freestyle over other people’s beats. These were exciting and collaborative, but wouldn’t follow the standard format of a song. When 50 was dropped by Columbia Records in the early 2000’s, the young rapper suddenly had to figure out how to generate buzz on his own. FULL ARTICLE ON 3 REASONS 50 CENT CHANGED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY FOREVER (CONTINUED): rapgamenow.com/50-cent-the-rap-music-industry