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The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoI'm in my Lambo maggot
- defraudbah 1y ago[flagged]
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoI don't get it. I posted 50 Cent lyrics
- defraudbah 1y ago50 cent lyrics is too much for this audience, people aren't that educated here, you better go with books for kids, like harry potter :D
- defraudbah 1y agoawesome website! looking forward to see websites for $uicideboy$, C-Note, 2 Chainz, maybe Lil $1
- defraudbah 1y agodamn, it wasn't sarcasm, people are dumb here
- thenthenthen 1y agobbno$?
- defraudbah 1y agowhy not, whatever makes people happy
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- observationist 1y agohttps://archive.is/68cAI https://archive.is/68cAI (In case you can't see the official link for firewall purposes.)
- CaptainOfCoit 1y ago... Is the term 50cent commonly blocked in firewalls, or am I missing some joke?
- observationist 1y agoIt's a newly registered website, gets classified as a risk by some organizations "Newly-Registered-Domain". After 30 or 60 days, it's no longer flagged and blocked.
- CaptainOfCoit 1y agoThanks! Funny I one minute before your comment, commented on when the domain was registered. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619354
- rx_tx 1y ago> Based on 50 Cent's name being coined I see what they did there.
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- srameshc 1y agothe images at the top is the best part, we get a little over 2 50 Cents. Makes it so much easier to understand inflation
- testthissite 1y ago[flagged]
- Rendello 1y agoI love it. If you track your mouse over the graph, the image of 50 Cent expands with inflation. It reminds me of another great interactive rapper graph: "rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary": https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html
- defraudbah 1y agoyeah, no wonder cunninglinguist was pretty high in that list :)
- HPsquared 1y agoAnd "0 Cent" before June 1994 :)
- codyb 1y agoUsing the first 35,000 words is a bit unfair for a rapper such as Lil Wayne who's been releasing work since he was 14. Also I wonder if this is including proper nouns and other references. (I'd think it should, but it's hard to account for the fact that referencing seven different Chris's would be counted as one token used seven times. Similarly, many words have many meanings, and those are all being lumped together as well, so no accounting here can probably ever be perfect). If you had all the lyrics for all the rappers I think I'd - aggregate word counts - combine variations - remove most commonly used words in each language (I, I'm, You, You're, etc) Then see who came out ahead. You shouldn't get penalized for releasing more. You could probably do a bunch of cool analysis with that data. edit: Oh no, there's actually a Genius API isn't there. No no no no. I have no time!
- 1970-01-01 1y ago1994? The artist 'made it' in 2003. 88 cent in 2025. Not great, not terrible.
- sgt 1y agoSo before 2003 he was less than 50 cent? When was he a dime?
- gdsdfe 1y agoI miss the era when the internet was more fun like this
- CaptainOfCoit 1y agoSeems the creation date of the domain was 2025-10-08, so you're in luck, this particular fun exists and was created in this era!
- treetalker 1y agoSince 50 Cent worked with Robert Greene to co-author The 50th Law, maybe now he and Peter Thiel can co-author Zero to 109 Cents. Or, you know, something about rap and the Antichrist.
- mk_stjames 1y agoI would argue that valuation of '50 Cent' (real name Curtis James Jackson III) was essentially flat leading up to immediately before the release of Get Rich or Die Tryin', his debut album released February 6, 2003. Which, undeniable, is an * all-time banger * that substantially increased the valuation of 50 Cent to something far surpassing US dollar inflation. Seriously, go listen that that album again; total game changer. Top cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D3crqpClPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D3crqpClPY
- cma256 1y agoIf you're into AI music I leave this without comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GrSKMzQg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GrSKMzQg0
- mk_stjames 1y agoI was prepared to be absolutely fucking disgusted by such a comment but I.... shit. I mean... this is.... this is wild I gotta go contemplate 'where we're at' again it seems. If that is truly a straight generative audio diffusion model.... wait, how did they get the same verse by verse chord progressions to match? this has to be professionally post-produced, right? AI models aren't able to do this end-to-end yet, right?
- conception 1y agoProbably not end to end, no. But you can make something similar to just about any pop song on suno.com now.
- kayge 1y agoAs a big fan of Chris Cornell I went through the same stream of emotions with their Motown version of Like a Stone[0]. And if you can get past the thumbnail, check out the 2000s Rock version of Many Men[1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_88Qg8FGrqY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_88Qg8FGrqY [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFKREP3gPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFKREP3gPg
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- lanewinfield 1y agohi, i made this. thank you for posting. unfortunately due to the government shutdown, the BLS inflation data for September 2025 is delayed from October 15 (as it normally is) until October 24[1], so please check back then to see if he is >109 Cent. assuming future stability, the site will automatically update on the 15th of every month. [1] https://www.bls.gov/bls/092025-cpi-reschedule-notice.htm https://www.bls.gov/bls/092025-cpi-reschedule-notice.htm
- karmakaze 1y agoIt would be fun to have currency conversions too.
- earlyriser 1y agoConversions to Nickelback, Poundz, Los Pesos, DJ Euro and Yen.
- at-fates-hands 1y agoOr to Robert Deniro's
- edbaskerville 1y agoRobert Dinero?
- esperent 1y agoBob Deniros
- sellmesoap 1y agoBuck sixty five
- W4nn4B_h4x0r 1y agoThere's also Rupee [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupee_(musician) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupee_(musician)
- CSMastermind 1y agoA currency being worth half it's value in 25 years is absurd. The US despreately needs to make it's money a stable unit of measure.
- joshuamcginnis 1y agoWe're $38.8 trillion in debt and still printing. https://www.usdebtclock.org/ https://www.usdebtclock.org/
- kristofferR 1y agoInflation is just what you want when your debt is denominated in the currency that is being inflated, though. The more inflation the easier it will be to service the debt.
- BartjeD 1y agoThat's why everyone sane is fleeing into gold and silver.
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- mothballed 1y agoThey're probably too late, it's already priced in. Gold is up like 30% in 3 months.
- nonethewiser 1y agoBeing up doesnt show that it's priced in.
- mothballed 1y agoOf course not. It being known to the market is what causes it to be priced in.
- nonethewiser 1y agoI wonder how the data is updated. I dont see any network calls so I guess it's provided on build. The latest datapoint is August. Do we just not have data for the last few months? I suppose you could have github action or whatever to pull in the latest and republish on change. edit: i see elsewhere in the comments the author explains this. github action indeed.
- lanewinfield 1y agoyou bet. I pull it straight from the BLS.
- nly 1y agoIt's remarkable how over this time frame how inflation in the UK and the USA has been so similar. https://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/uk-historical-cpi/ https://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/uk-histor... https://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/usa-historical-cpi/ https://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/usa-histo... Both approx +110% Yet over that time UK GDP per capita is up only 46% compared to the US which is up a massive +223%. Depressing.
- jhallenworld 1y agoThey don't say that the currencies are pegged, but I'm pretty sure they're defacto pegged. Same deal with the Euro.
- metalliqaz 1y agoThey don't call USD the global reserve currency for nothing.
- mdnahas 1y agoI went back to get an Econ masters and studied international currencies. Some exchange rates are very stable over time and we don’t know why.
- borisjabes 1y ago2.6% per year inflation. Fed did a decent job.
- RhysU 1y ago30% error.
- deadbabe 1y agoChamillionaire was another rapper who pivoted into tech investing and venture capitalism and did 50x to his net worth. I think he still posts here.
- t1234s 1y agoDidn't he make more money from his stake in Vitamin Water being acquired by Pepsi or CocaCola than from rap?
- defraudbah 1y agonot really, he has a lot of businesses, this was one of them which turned out to be very successful. He was a very famous rapper back in the days, and he invented mixtapes :)
- ops 1y agoHe absolutely did not invent mixtapes.
- defraudbah 1y agobefore it was a collection of verses for DJs or minuses for rappers who couldn't afford DJs (from late 80s). He threw all non-album songs in mixtape and since them it's what mixtape is, not what it was before. Absouletly, fkng hilarious people hang out here
- fair_enough 1y agoHow many 2025 dollars will it cost me to take a nice lady to the candy shop?
- chriswalz 1y agoA lot less than in da club that’s for sure
- fair_enough 1y agoI don't care if there are some special privileges unlocked at higher "karma" levels, I hope my "karma" stays at 69 forever because of this thread.
- chistev 1y agoIt wouldn't matter because she can't get a dollar out of you.
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- david927 1y agoThe full chart https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2j03rkcw.jpg https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2j0...
- mothballed 1y agoImagine how much worse that chart would look were it not for deflationary pressure from science/technology introduced efficiencies.
- k2enemy 1y agoThat's an incredibly misleading graph. Never look at something with a growth rate on a linear scale, as it will always have a "hockey stick" shape, even with constant growth. If you look at the same series on a log scale, you see high inflation in the 70s, but from the '80s on it looks pretty similar to the pre-70s trend.
- undebuggable 1y agoI'm tired of using technology, boss.
- emaccumber 1y agoThe favicon updating is a nice touch.
- ErroneousBosh 1y agoPretty good value for a dollar, you don't see much of that these days.
- bevelwork 1y agoYesterday's 50cent in today's dollar
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- m463 1y agoI wonder if 10cc resizes due to changes in male fertility.
- DyslexicAtheist 1y agoreminds me of the time, a Malaysian newspaper mentioned him in a story an converted his name to local currency: 1.50 Malaysian ringgit https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3915 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3915
- userbinator 1y agoThat or a similar occurrence elsewhere is probably the inspiration for this.
- aidenn0 1y agoI guess we gotta sip something cheaper than Bacardi now?
- ryanschaefer 1y agoMade this a while back riffing on the same idea https://ryanschaefer.github.io/Its-one-banana-michael/ https://ryanschaefer.github.io/Its-one-banana-michael/
- cantalopes 1y agoThis is the reason for internet to exist
- supportengineer 1y agoI think he increased since this morning!
- RhysU 1y agoToo bad ska-punk beat him to today's value of 109 cents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck-O-Nine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck-O-Nine
- ranman 1y agoEventually he'll be about tree fitty
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoDo you offer 50 cent in other currencies? Approximately what point in time would he have appropriately been called 50 euro cents?
- defraudbah 1y agomy friends use 50 cent often as a meme in their local currency to track devaluation comparing to dollar
- arneslot 1y agoI created an account just to comment that I laughed my balls off as a hiphophead.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoNeeds to use an AI generated coin in his likeness.
- aatd86 1y agoTo be benchmarked against his net worth.
- ladon86 1y agoBurying the lede here, the real story is that he was already 60 Cent by the time his first album dropped.
- henry_bone 1y agoThis is backwards. He's still 50 cent, but to have the buying power he had in '94, he'd need to $1.09. But he's still 50 cent, so really, in today's money he's more like 23 cent.
- benrapscallion 1y agoAbsolutely. This is the correct way do this. It should be adjusted downwards to account for inflation, not up.
- megaloblasto 1y ago50 cent's intrinsic value doesn't decrease over time so to maintain that value, his name must go up.
- roblh 1y agoI would have gone the other way. He’s still 50 Cent today, but he’s less than a quarter 20 years ago.
- alex1138 1y agoWhat does Ja Rule think about this?
- ugh123 1y ago50 cent sure loves Republican administrations
- hamasho 1y agoReminds me this: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9ljv3n/50_cent_in_malaysia/ https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9ljv3n/50_cent_in_ma...
- pavelstoev 1y agoMuch respect for the artist 50 Cent - converted his rap music success into respectable business ventures (Vitamin Water, others). So he is worth much more now!
- kiriberty 1y agoHe just changed name to One Buck.
- MBCook 1y agoFrom what I can tell Ke$ha started putting the dollar sign in her name between 2009 and 2010. At that time 50¢ was only worth about 75¢, making Ke$ha the clear queen of finally named music performers.
- charlieflowers 1y agoKevin Hart is what's left when you adjust 50 Cent for inflation.
- MrThoughtful 1y agoFrom 1994 to now, it only goes from 50 to 109? That looks like the "inflation" the government wants you to believe in. Name one thing that only doubled in price over the last 30 years. Even gold (which has its own inflation) went up in price 10 fold.
- archon810 1y agoThe author's website and Instagram are amazing. I subscribed. https://brianmoore.com https://brianmoore.com So fun.
- l5870uoo9y 1y agoInflation rose by 6.5 cents/year in the period 2020-2022, and if that were the case for the entire period, the 50 cents would have grown to 201.5 cents.
- guerrilla 1y agoYes, of course is name was coined.
- grashalm 1y agoThis is the internet at its best.
- dankobgd 1y agoHe can now only be a window shopper
- jrochkind1 1y agoInteresting that as of August 2025 exactly, he's become the pop ska punk band Buck-o-Nine, which is probably distressing to both of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByaBdXi77Zg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByaBdXi77Zg Although I guess buck-o-nine is now approx $2.37, which is also concerning.
- keitmo 1y agoI've always thought of him as Nibble. 2 bits = a quarter (25 cents), 4 bits = 50 cents 8 bits = byte, 4 bits = nibble Therefore 50 Cent = Nibble.