His sales totals are great but anyone who is all over MTV and comes out with an album goes platinum within a week nowadays.
The Beatles have had their records broken by like 50 different artists in the past 2 years so what exactly do sales mean anymore? Hell Kid Rock's album has been around for over a year sitting at the bottom of the charts and now MTV starts playing a single of his and his album has shot up to #3.
IMO 50's just a "harder" version of Nelly aka DMX 2003. He's pop. Everything I've heard about him I've heard about Nelly, Xzhibit, Black Rob, JaRule, etc etc.
And before you say JaRule is a fag, two years ago everyone was claiming he was a hardcore thug.