50 Cent says he stopped rapping because today's music is too dumb

In the early aughts, 50 Cent made a strong name for himself in the Northeast's tri-state area with some well-received mixtapes. Then by the time 2003 rolled around, and he released his debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin', his career exploded.

Then more albums came, including 2005's The Massacre and 2007's Curtis. 50's last LP Animal Ambition was released in 2014 and since then he's pretty much changed careers. These days 50 is knee-deep in the TV business, producing shows like the crime drama Power. Plus, earlier this year, he launched G-Unit studios in Shreveport, Louisiana.

So, some may be wondering if the 49-year-old will release new music again. He spoke about his rap career in an interview with Earn Your Leisure and explained why he isn't all that enthused to drop new tunes.

"If you listen to the music that’s out right now, I have to tap into my stupid. I have to tap into the stupid side of me to write the right thing when it comes time to write the music," 50 explained. "This is why I haven’t created as much content as I was creating in the past, and I started going towards the film production and development of these projects, because I can impact things in a bigger way through that."

50 is far from the first rapper to criticize the modern rap scene. Last year, Offset called the music monotonous and said people are afraid to take chances. "I’m noticing that the numbers are down in our genre specifically because I feel like everything is so the same," he told Apple Music's Ebro Darden. "It’s nothing new being brought to the game."

A little before that, Yo Gotti said rap has been suffering since the pandemic. "I just feel like since COVID, they put us inside and we never came out ... The energy ain't been the same. I feel like mentally we been inside," he said on Los Angeles' Power 106.

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