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Eh, it’s fine. Not the best lyrics, beats are ok (the Dre produced songs stand out!) but I’m not going to add this to my regular rotation.
I did not get this at all
Bängeri heti ekana kehiin. Menneisyyden kaikuja soundissa ja hieman liian pitkä kokonaisuus.
In high-school, I at least thought the singles were good--like I'd defend them to friends. But listening to this start to finish does it no favors: poor songwriting, weak rapping, and largely mediocre production. This gets 1 extra star for the singles, and because I always like Eminem--but that's generous.
Not my style.
I think I understood less than half words, and most of those were variations of words that I daren't type. I did enjoy a cocking gun providing the beat on one of the tracks, and recognised a surprising number of other songs, but I can't say that I got much enjoyment from my listen
Apart from the notable songs on this album there isnt a lot to write home about. The delivery is a bit stilted. When it hits home its exciting but its not many or often.
2+ Stars (6/15)
Basic
You know the drill. Some clever rhymes, lots of filler, some great beats mixed in with a lot of pedestrian ones, yup. It's a big early 2000s event album. It outstays its welcome well before the midway point. There is nothing all that bad about Get Rich or Die Tryin' and absolutely nothing worth a second listen. It sounds like how 50 Cent looks on the album cover. Big, dumb, shiny, dated, hard and hard up. Ultimately a pointless way to start my day.
I'll be honest, I knew I would physically not be able to listen to the whole album. I chose to listen to everything with over 100k listens on Spotify, which about halves the album. Hip hop isn't for me. I respect the craft, and I enjoyed certain aspects of the music, but the themes of the music just aren't relatable for me. It is also too repetitive for my liking.
I really don't get it. Sub par delivery over mostly lacklustre beats.
Corny bars and corny beats
Boring and one note
Pretty generic but has a very satisfying guitar sound.
Did he just brag about having a fax machine? I love that!
Sometimes I don't know what I'm doing listening to these 1001 albums. Here I am, about the same age as 50 Cent, revisiting Get Rich or Die Tryin', which came out when I was living in Queens, NY. Its themes are East Coast gangster rap but lacking any other dimension. It's driven by slick but generic production that owes a debt to Jay-Z. Despite Curtis's past, it's also cartoonish — maybe it's the modeling audition photo on the cover, complete with a gunshot glass overlay that takes aim at the broadest possible audience. There are a few singles that prop the album up, but why are most of us going to listen? Are we supposed to relate through our life experience or step into a fantasy? Twenty years on, the album feels more like it's selling an idea and the music is secondary. None of this diminishes 50 Cent's delivery and flow, which remain strong. The record is undeniably listenable, but I question the packaging of the world and the intended audience. It's well-crafted, but to what end? Lifestyle branding, perhaps? Somehow, for an album and artist making a bid at authenticity rooted in lived experience, this feels too much like a caricature — a falsehood fashioned to sell to kids in the suburbs.
< The Beatles
The hits off this are all good but honestly this didn't age that well at all. It's hard to listen to this in full, partly because it's from the CD era where every album was bloated and over an hour long and partly because 50 Cent is a not that good rapper rapping over not that good beats. I'm clearly not an authoritative figure on hip-hop, but yeah I don't know. You should listen to 21 Questions before you die. But this whole album? I don't know. It's fucking long, dude.
This is really repetitive, annoying... I did not enjoy its listening except few tracks that can "PIMP" a bit my day
This was a big one during my high school days, "In Da Club" in particular got an insane amount of airplay. 50 Cent just never appealed that much to me.
un album bueno dentro de todo. los temas me sonaron muy pasables, muy faciles de digerir. esperaba un poquito mas de las letras, pero hay algunos temas que me gustaron y los escucharia. no escucharia todo el album de nuevo, me parecio innecesariamente largo, pero esta nice
This is 50 Cent at the absolute top of his game, and he's still a subpar rapper. He's basically the godfather of mumble rap, and the best example of what happened in the late 90s/early 2000s as the industry took the blueprint of what made rappers like Tupac successful and tried to replicate it, without any of the lyrical prowess. He not only raps slow, his rhymes are very simple. Even his slurrish delivery would be pardoned if he could build more intricate rhyme schemes. Just look at what G Rap did despite a slight lisp. 50's whole schtick is just selling this image--and with Eminem and Dre behind him, white kids in the suburbs loved it. To be fair, they probably would have eaten up anything those two produced at this point. But it wasn't, obviously, the image of an unsuccesful drug dealer who had been shot numerous times because of it. It was 50 reborn as some sort of street kingpin. Then there's the lyrical content--or lack of it, really. This is gangster rap at its most banal. At this point we're a full three years past Supreme Clientele, which may be the last truly great mafioso rap album. And that album is powered by Ghostface's high octane lyricism, storytelling and use of non-sequiters at its finest. 50 Cent, meanwhile, has none of the self-reflection of Wutang or Tupac, none of the flow of Biggie or early Snoop, none of the grim street tapestry that Mobb Deep has, none of the rhyme schemes of Kool G Rap and none of the story telling ability of Slick Rick, Biggie or Scarface. Even all his G-Unit crew who features on this album suck--if Eminem didn't drop a couple of mostly unmemorable verses, this whole thing would be a workshop in mediocre lyricisms. Which brings me to the production. There are some high points here. PIMP is a great track, In da Club, Many Men, 21 Questions, If I can't--maybe 50 Cent at his best flow on this album--even Heat. But even Dre's passing involvement doesn't seem to bring most of these boring tracks above the level of average early 2000s club hits. Some tracks, like Blood Hound, What's Up Gangsta and Poor Lil Rich are truly terrible. This was the worst era of rap, both for beats, lyrics and flow, and 50 is a central figure of that. This album is certainly an important herald of everything to come for the next half decade or so. It's just that I hated what rap became before Lupe Fiasco, Kendrick, J Cole and even Kanye arrived to save what rap had become (remember when ye outsold 50's album on a bet and we all hopes 50 would retire like he promised? Kanye as the hero--simpler times!). Anyway, since this list is so sparse on rap albums, I always find myself extra critical of the ones that Dimery did choose to place on here, and this does not reach the high bar set by what I'm sure are many classics that didn't make this list. If it wasn't for that, I'd probably put this as a low 3, based on quality of album. But based on impact etc., I'd give it a 1. Though it had an undeniable impact on rap, most of that was negative, proving to the industry that you could sell albums based on image alone without any real substance. So I'll settle for the middle on this. As a hiphop head, there's nothing I hate worse than bad rap. 2/5.
It was fine for what it is.
2.5
He’s got great beats and street authenticity but his flow and lyrics are so lackluster. Undeserved place in rap history.
There's many better hip-hop albums to have come out in 2003. Jay-Z's 'The Black Album', Little Brother's 'The Listening', and MF Doom had a few albums too. All of those are fantastic albums with solid production and thoughtful lyrics. 50 Cent on the other hand does nothing special. He's just another braggadocios rapper who fits the stereotype of only rapping about money guns women and drugs. He has no energy in his flows, he almost sounds bored. The production isn't great. If you want something that isn't too thought provoking, with fun beats and lyrics from 2003, just listen to Ludacris' Chicken-n-Beer. That is more worthy than any 50 Cent album.
My son loves it. I do not.
stvarno not my cup of tea jedva sam izdrzala da ga odslusam ceo, pomoglo je to sto sam usput ucila pa se nisam previse fokusirala na muziku.
Here's another album whose mediocrity shines through most of the tracks. It's not great rapping for the most part. The production and beats are often fairly rote and things only really pick up for a few songs - the lead single, P.I.M.P, 21 Questions. Otherwise it's flat and dull, despite its appeal to authenticity. The whole shtick gets tiresome too because everything's just too earnest (which is why P.I.M.P. stood out as something which had a bit more wit about it) and so long (the downside to CD production). Surely there's a lot better hip hop out there which could've made a 1001, or which aged better than this.
Glad people love this. But as I’m reaffirming by doing this challenge, most hip hop just isn’t for me. 2/5
Ngl thought it was 20 cent lol
Tätä on nuorempana kuunneltu. Tämä kitenkin edustaa sitä rapin aluetta josta en välitä. Rahalla bostaamista ja ylimielisyyttä, liian huonoa lyyristä osaamista. Kovat biitit ei pääse mihinkään.
Some great singles, but 50 has never been able to hold my attention for an entire album. I know he’s an icon to some at this point, but I don’t see it.
In Da Club is still solid but most of this is silly and hard to take seriously. Not my thing
Just can't get into it
The production is fine and there are some interesting guest rappers, but Fitty’s flow and lyrics about gangbangin’ (sample: “I’m into having sex, I ain’t into making love / So come give me a hug if you into gettin’ rubbed”) leave me pretty flat. Neither the pedestrian beats nor the backing electronic loops create enough interest to compensate. Other than his associations with big names like Dr. Dre and Eminem, and his backstory about surviving being shot, I’m not sure what makes this noteworthy.
NINETEEN tracks? Alright, well, bonus for being prolific, I suppose. I wanted to hate this one but...it's alright. Some good tracks on here. But a lot of bland as well. There doesn't seem to be a lot of depth to most of the song structures here. Here's a loop, mumble over it, talk-sing a chorus.
Day560 - i’m what world should this be on any to listen to album. two stars cause i don’t ever want to see it again
I was expecting an hour of songs that sound like "In da Club" a song so annoying it stopped me from listening to this album for over 20 years. Instead I found an album full of inconsistent music, a few of the songs are solid but others are just more mediocre nonsense
Every one of these songs could've been on my NBA Live 2004 PS2 game. Phew, talk about an album that aged poorly. To be clear, I am not a huge Eminem or Dr. Dre fan, so the fact that their influence is all over this album is not a good start for me. It's not that this album is terrible, but the fact that this was the most successful album of 2003 is pretty embarrassing. 50 definitely has one of the best mixes of bravado and rich spoken vocals, but the flow and rhymes are so bad, and they're so bad for almost 80 minutes. A case to prove the point from the biggest hit from the album, "come give me a hug if you into getting rubbed" is cheezy as hell, and I always thought rhyming "club" with "bub" was so cringy. P.I.M.P. is like the only track with an interesting beat that matches the aggressive style of 50 Cent. 21 Qs works well from a softer smoother sound, but I credit Nate Dogg heavily for that. Funny enough, I felt throughout the album that 50 Cent sounded like a shitty Jay-Z, and apparently he struggled to get on a record label in the 90s because people felt he sounded too similar to Jay-Z. This album definitely set up Kanye for commercial success, because if people thought 50 Cent was clever, their heads must've fallen off during College Dropout. 2.5. rounded down
Man, just really not my thing. The few tracks I recognize are obviously important to the pop culture scene and I can respect that, but 50 Cent has never been on my list of most important rap artists.
50 Cent always had the veneer of the hardened gangster, toughened by the streets, and he really has stories about that to tell. But make no mistake, this is pop music through and through. It may have been huge back in the 00's, but it surely hasn't aged that well. Key tracks: In da Club P.I.M.P.
Not really my jam. It'd be good hype music before a wrestling match though
This might be good, but it's just NOT my thing.
More songs for gardening. The rhythms and flow for Da Club and P.I.M.P. were catchy. Overall, the lyrics are a bit ... shallow.
Guess I'm just not a hip hop guy.
Not as horrific as I expected. Still pretty bad and (c)rap "singing" just rubs me the wrong way. Made it to "Heat", there's just so much repetitiveness and sound effects anyone can stand I guess.
So I have to say I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. That's not saying I liked it, though. I would never go back and give it another listen of my own accord. So tired of every rapper claiming to be "the best ever" over and over again. If you were truly that good, you could find something else to rap about. I'd say this is, for me, very slightly better than the Slim Shady junk we had to sit through, but not by much - and of course Eminem himself shows up for a few tracks. Admittedly, I (little past middle aged white guy from a small town) am not the target audience here, but since we're judging these based on our own tastes, I'll go with a 2.
Not my vibe. Seems to repeat the same themes every song.
There’s something about his voice that grinds on me. Generally it’s just a bit dull
I died trying. Its got some beats but entirelly lacks on the lyrics front devoid of humour, satire or irony. I believe he was a proper G and ultinatly the genre had to end up here but it's dull at best frightening at worst.
Yeah, what Greg said. P I.M.P. cover by Bacao Steel Band is better than the original.
Just another ex-1001 album!™ http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex There are a couple of standout tracks, In Da Club and P.I.M.P., the rest was uninteresting to me, felt that I'd heard similar with other hip-hop/rap on the 1001 list.
happy belated father’s day 50 cent!
I have honestly not been looking forward to this one. 50Cent has never been my favourite rapper and while many of the songs on here are regarded as classics I'm just kind of sick of them. Hoping I can see past that and at least enjoy it for what it is. Maybe in the full context of the album I gain some new found appreciation for the more famous tracks. What Up Gangsta Kinda dated. Don't really love how hollow and compressed it sounds. 50's voice is at least very recognizable. Sort of hate the hook. Average. 2.5/5 Patiently Waiting Has a very dark vibe to the production. Kinda like the strings. Unlikable lyrics at times. Don't mind the hook that much, has a bit of style to it. Eminem is alright I suppose. The adlibs in the background get really old really fast. Average. 2.5/5 Many Men (Wish Death) Super recognizable hook. The piano riff in the background gets a bit annoying with it's repetitiveness. The lyrics are okay for the most part. I just can't help but find the verses really boring. Fine. 3/5 In Da Club I guess it's considered a classic these days. Very catchy. Instantly recognizable beat. Fairly charismatic delivery. Too overplayed to give a fair rating to. Fine. 3/5 High All The Time Got nothing to say. Just unrelentingly average. Average. 2.5/5 Heat Horrible beat. The gun effects are extremely distracting. Only there for the shock effect. Exhausting. 1/5 If I Can't Boisterous and fun hook. The beat is a bit much. Boring verses. Gets really draining after a while. Dislike. 2/5 Blood Hound Simply awful beat. Hate the "wet" atmosphere. Also those drums are way too loud. The feature breaks the monotony somewhat, even if his verse isn't the most memorable. I can't get over the beat, it's just that distracting. Strongly Dislike. 1.5/5 Back Down A song that exists. It has a beat and a few verses. There's definitely a hook there as well. Says nothing interesting. Kinda cringe. The skit at the end is so unfunny it's almost impressive. Awful. 1/5 P.I.M.P What is there even left to be said about this song. Classic hook I suppose, though the delivery makes me wanna fall asleep. Still dated, still annoying. Dislike. 2/5 Like My Style And this is the point in the album I completely zoned out for two minutes straight. I can't take this serious. It's just extremely bland. Rehashing the same bravado and tough guy attitude that's been done 1000s times before. Awful. 1/5 Poor Lil Rich Dumb as balls. Who fucking cares. The beat is also realy boring. Uninspired. 1/5 21 Questions The hook has some charming qualities. Decent beat. Refreshing feature. Kinda like that there's some smoothness on this track to go against all the harsh and over the top material preceeding it. Decent. 3.5/5 Don't Push Me Has some cool effects in the instrumental, especially on the hook. The fearures add some dynamism to the track. Really appreciate Eminem changing up the energy. Fine. 3/5 Gotta Make It To Heaven I like the triumphant beat. Don't mind the performance. Okay hook. Unlikable lyrics at times. Average. 2.5/5 It's what I feared it would be. Boring and unlikable deliveries, stale lyrical content and dated production. Sure there are listenable songs on here, but equally many that are not. It's really a reflection of hip hop in its most 2000's form, where image mattered more than substance. 2/5
Eldist eins og vondur ostur.
I appreciate that there's quite a bit of singing. There's still a lot of songs I don't like though. The best song was 21 Questions.
Never got into 50 Cent I know the singles and they feel like they were created in a lab to be big hits, I'm not a fan of manufactured pop rap
okay i guess dint get very far. lost interest.
This just isn't for me. The music style, the topics. Nothing.
2000's Rappers try not to make an overly long album challenge, impossible. This didn't need to be 74 minutes long, none of it is bad but it doesn't all feel essential. That aside, it's a pretty fun listen that holds up surprisingly well. I like the big beats all throughout and 50 cent has a pleasant voice to listen to. A lot of Hip Hop in the years following tried and failed to sound like this. A bit conflicted on this one, it was a fine album to listen to but way too long and not every song is quite In Da Club genius. Points knocked for the Eminem feature as well.
Not for me but listenable
Meh
A flash pan in the moment of time.
Can't rap. Can't sing. Good beats.
Boring
Liked it more than I thought I would
Not as bad as Eminem, but this whole era of hip-hop does very little for me. Beats and production tries really hard to elevate itself above that from the 80s and 90s. I understand wanting to innovate, but it often falls flat. Simplicity is key. Rhymes are unrelatable being mostly tough-guy fantasies, glorifying violence and misogyny. I'd rather listen to Public Enemy or BDP for the millionth time over ever hearing this again.
Ehhhh? 2.5?
I had no idea this album was so long. And I really only knew "in da club" and "candy shop" by him. But this album is why I typically don't like rap. I don't think the songs had much substance and it was just hard to get through. I don't think anything special was said and the actual music is just whatever. I could've gone without this one.
I enjoyed listening to parts of it. Is it good? Not so sure
I gave it a listen, or about half of it. That’s more than enough. You don’t need the full 75 minutes (!!!) to absorb Curtis’s worldview, which - guess what?! Women be ho’s and he’s the baddest MF on the planet. You’re boring, Fitty.
21 Questions is so nostalgic, but besides that this album was not a pleasant listening experience.
1.6 I remember once being in church as young lad in a very white northern English town. There was another kid there, couple years younger than me, probably around 9 or 10 wearing a 50 cent shirt. The priest liked to get the kids involved (no pun intended) during the sermon and I vividly remember him asking this kid what his goal was for life and his response was, obviously, "get rich or die trying". I tell the story as I think that kid encapsulates who this album was marketed it at, and shows what really went wrong with hip-hop in the 90s/00s, overly commercialised shite, god awful cringe lyrics, terrible beats, just an embarrassment to the human race overall. This might be one of the worst I've heard of this variety, of which this list has had far too many already.
God, I never wanted to hear this again. I had a roommate back in the day that played this on repeat for months. I like the first song with Eminem, and PIMP. Other than that, I just can't get into this album. I know Dre produced some of it, but I don't like 50's flows. Not my thing. 2
won me over but then just went on and on and on
I mean obviously a landmark slapper album. But never really made an impact on me when it came out and i get the production and maybe the raps/bars/rhymes/flow but i know he doesnt smoke or drink and it just sounds like hes cosplaying. not a fan.
He got rich, somehow.
The overall album feels really lame while never getting to be aggressively bad.
Debut Gangsta.
343/1001 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
I have this CD in my collection and I'm trying to figure out how it got there...
1. intro - 2. gangzta - 1 3. uuaiting - 1.5 4. men - 1 5. club - 2 6. time - 1.5 7. heat - 1 8. cant - 1.5 9. blood - 0 10. douun - 1 11. pimp - 2 12. ztyle - 1 13. rich - 0 14. queztionz - 3 15. puzh - 1 16. heaven - 1 17. uuankzta - 0 18. me - 1 19. line - 1 20. pimp - 2
Testosterone poisoning!
A couple songs I bump to but too long and repetitive
50 Cent is not for me. It’s okay if it’s on in the background at a party or a bar, but that’s about all the tolerance I have for it. It’s mostly cliche subject matter that doesn’t resonate with me. Familiarity may have saved this album- somehow there were like a dozen singles off this album, so it kept the songs from completely running together for me.
Somehow both nostalgic to high school and not for me
What did 50 cent say when Eminem made him a sweater? Gee, you knit?
Pre-listening thoughts: hey generator. It's me, your old pal writing. I've just got a small favor to ask you. Would you mind generating an album that's under 1 freaking hour long next time please? I am dying out here. Thanks. Also two Eminem features is just two too many. Post/during listening thoughts: well I enjoy my fair share of rap and hip hop but there is almost nothing about this that says "hey I'm essential listening!!!". Nothing special about the lyricism or flow, and 50 Cent is just sort of forgettable against the other rappers/groups on this list like Kendrick, Biggie, De La Soul, etc. I mean even a really lyrically questionable album like Biggie's or Snoop Dogg's I could immediately tell they were super talented and I did understand why someone would need to hear at least some part of those albums before they died. I just can't find myself caring about this at all. The production is occasionally really good though (shoutout Dr. Dre). Also so many of the rap albums on this list are way too long. 4/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no Fav tracks: In Da Club, Blood Hound Least fav tracks: Heat
Minne meg om barneskulen
Ontkom niet aan Eminem
In Da Club made me chuckle
J: 2 N:3
This is real for many people, I suppose, but I don't really know. I am fine with telling stories in one's own way, this way just isn't for me...
2.5
It was fine, not for me.
The hits are the hits, but not much else here stood out for me
Didn't do much for me. That said, there's some talent... I'm not a fan of this genre but I have to give some credit for the obvious skill of the artist.
Meh, a little too vulgar/violent for me.
It's OK for the background and there are certainly worse hip hop albums out there but it's nothing you need to her. Fitty has a flow that is boring after a while. The instrumentals sound dated. He's helped by good features.
Fine, just not for me.
Honestly, it's the same gangsta rapper BS like many others have done before and after. Even Eminem and other guests couldn't change that.
Fiddy er ikke verdens bedste rapper og det er for langt MEN der er dælme et par bangers og jeg synes generelt at beatsene er ret gode, specielt for sin tid! Mindre kedeligt end Marshall Mathers LP på trods af at Eminem styrer
Well this was a very unexpected suggestion, don't know why I do like some of his songs, and I had two from this album in my playlist already; have not added any more though
A raw, hook-laden debut that cemented 50 Cent as an icon of early 2000s hip-hop. Some of these songs were played to death, you heard them everywhere. Honestly, while you can't help but bop your head to many of them, I find the album as a whole to be pretty formulaic and I've heard them enough to last me a lifetime.
In da club, já já, ekki nostalgískt en var allt í lagi á sínum tíma. P.I.M.P. er síðra. Restin rennur inn í annað og út um hitt og skilur lítið eftir. Þetta er ekki fyrir mig.
Has some moments but not my thing. Nothing offensive or bad just seems kinda run of the mill...generic. 2.5 stars
While I admit that there are many bangers here, I also don’t really care much for most of them, at least when taken together. For one thing 50 is not that great of a rapper, for another the songs don’t exactly offer any variation in terms of music, rapping or lyrical content.
Gangsta pop
With the exception of In Da Club, which uses an extremely dated slur one time too many, all of the hits in this album are pretty good – at least for 90s/00s rap standards. Unlike various other hip-hop artists from the same era, 50 Cent is at least unapologetic about something both relatable and admirable: having to work his whole life to get the riches he deserves. (Hence the album name, I guess.) The compositions themselves, though, are extremely spotty, with about half the tracks having little to no interesting hooks to keep the listener engaged. 50 Cent's voice doesn't help matters, being incredibly generic for the genre. Man, even Eminem has a pretty distinctive voice – and I haven't been generous enough to give any of his albums a 2 just yet. One of the main separators, bringing this far above the countless 1-star hip-hop records, is the lack of interlude/skit tracks. In addition, once you start hearing tracks with genuine hooks, melodies, chords, (god forbid) instruments, the music really starts to pick up. Many Men (Wish Death) has a great bluesy lo-fi-esque backing, making it a standout. If I Can't, although a little repetitive, has the same advantage. P.I.M.P. demonstrates that 50 Cent isn't a particularly good singer, but it still sounds better than his lazy/slurred spoken vocal – and for that reason alone P.I.M.P. is relatively good. Judging by the listens on Spotify, most people agree that 50 Cent's music is better with these more "tonal" musical elements. So it's a little surprising to me that many of the remaining songs – including What Up Gangsta, Poor Lil Rich, and U Not Like Me – avoid them entirely. 2/5 Key tracks: Many Men (Wish Death), If I Can't, P.I.M.P.
I almost bailed on this album twice. The ONLY reason I didnt give it 1 ⭐ was because while it was horrible, Eminem was the only part of the album that saved my ears from bleeding.
I thought it would be the lyrics that would make me dislike this album, but I actually objected to the slick and super commercial production more.
It’s kinda strange how timid this sounds 20 years later. 2 Killer Tracks…rest pretty conventional
2/5
Ok we get it- you have guns -like to shoot people- women are all ho’s and F the cops. I was def never the target audience. Not a rap fan but some I can truly appreciate. This isn’t on that list. Rounding up to a 2 - probably because I just listened to the Human League and they make 50 sound almost tolerable.
You kill me 50. Your album was oh so boring and predictable.
Meh
But I can’t quite get there with Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (a title I like a lot, btw). It just isn’t for me. I recognize 50 Cent’s impact on the culture and on hip hop. https://open.substack.com/pub/richcain/p/project-1001-get-rich-or-die-tryin?r=4ztyq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Not my cup of milk, brother
Very early 00 rap album. The beats are decent, though often simplistic and repetitive, but I just don't like the profanity and vulgar lyrics. The cover picture and the title of the album are so over the top. Eminem saved this album. Overall not my jam, and I won't listen again.
Not really for me.
Really don't like gangsta rap and the bullshit that surrounds this. Do not particularly like 50 Cent as a rapper or person so was expecting to give this a 1. Surprisingly enjoyed it more than I was expecting and in all good consciousness cannot give it a 1 so its a grudging 2.
Really enjoyed In Da Club, but then the f-slur came up. Fuck off
Álbum divertido, un poco DEMASIADO largo, nada que me vuele mucho la cabeza o que me encante en general pero tampoco estuvo mal, auqnue si tiene un par de bangers. Total del álbum: 66
i think i'd rather die tryin
-5/10
Achieves what it sets out to, but not for me. Good beats. Well produced. I think he could do with more variation in his flow but I don't know the genre well enough to be confident about that. I am not the target audience for the subject matter. I feel bad putting in at a 2 for what's largely a matter of taste, but equally it wouldn't feel right to me among the albums I've given a 3.
Takes me back to first year of uni. At the time, I loved this record, but the years haven't been kind. The beats are still killer, but a lot of 50's bars just sound dated now. In Da Club is and always will be a banger, but the rest is forgettable and way too long.
There is a couple of songs on here that I might listen to again but apart from that nothing worth shouting about. In all honesty I don't think this album was aimed at me.
The bits I liked the most were the bits that didn’t feature 39 pence
In Da Club was everywhere and is still referenced in pop culture, but the rest is not anything that really resonates with me
Not good
50 cent has definitely made his mark on the gangsta rap genre, but I just could not get into it.
The beats are catchy and well made, which is why 50 cent has remained so popular. However, I can't rate it highly compared to the other hip hop albums, since I feel this was one of the big turning points to what rap and hip hop are today. The poetry has been mostly stripped up, and as long as we bop our heads to the beat we're fine with it.
Half decent hip-hop, but questioning why its on this list
It’s got rhythm, tune, and vocals so I respect it… but not for me.
I appreciate 50 as a person, but his mumble-slurring makes me appreciate how much energy late-90s rappers like Mystikal, DMX, Busta Rhymes, and Twista put into their rap.
Not a fan. Didn't hate it. But I didn't like it.
Reminds me so much that I’m in my mid-50s. And that I’m not gangster (yes, I said ‘gangst-ER’, because my spellcheck won’t let me write ‘gangsta’, because even my phone knows that i can’t like 50 Cent, even if I give it the old college (see!) try).
Un des albums de hip-hop parmi ceux qui ont le plus mal vieilli depuis leur sortie. Le bling étant l'un des styles qui a le moins duré, au-dessus de ça il y a que 50Cents n'est pas un rappeur hors paire. Ses flows sont souvent maladroits et les paroles très peu recherchés. Quelques bons beats mais globalement un album décevant. 4/10
I always thought of 50 Cent as a novelty. I knew the hits but had never listened to this album all the way through. This was okay. It’s dumb catchy rap music. There are worse things.
Album 523 of 1001 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (2003) Rating : 2 / 5 Another Hip Hop clown show. Just when I think a track is going to offer something worthy of listening to, he goes back into the same old goonish gansta rap. Crap like this cheapened the genre. Luckily, the next song in queue when this finished was 'Tom Sawyer'. My ears were happy.
C'était fun ce petit throwback
Mainly filler, not really a killer.
As far as the gangster rap that’s been on this list, I guess this is pretty decent. But I really don’t like this stuff. And why is such misogyny lauded as a great album? It feels like about a 1.5/5, but I guess I’ll round up to 2 since it’s better than a lot of the other rap that’s been on this list.
Tras escuchar 12 tengo que dejarlo. Me da angustia y desazón.
Had so much potential, but ends up as faux gangster rap with pop production.
Album cover is iconic. Kinda bloated outside of the two hits. 21 questions reminded me of the Kanye bar on College Dropout. High 2. Edit -- Wanted to add that the production is good but I found the vocals underwhelming.
3/10 - I think that it is rap. The two songs I had heard were alright probably just because I have heard them enough times that they are manageable. The end of Back Down was strange and the rest of the songs were not that memorable.
Meh.
Another underwhelming effort from an award-winning, so-called, gangsta rapper. This does absolutely nothing to convince me that 50 Cent is even worth paying 25 cents to see him perform live. Yes, he is getting rich and richer with every overrated release. Nothing to see or hear here.
It's not even bad. I'm sorry, 50 Cent, but this is the only album in this project so far I cannot listen to. I don't know why. I think music has a lot to do with life timing and I cannot find the time in my life to listen to it.
I actually liked the idea of this one, with some sung vocals and poppy production. I think it fails a bit in execution, mainly because 50 doesn't really sell his performances and I don't find him to be a great singer/rapper or lyricist. Fav songs: - What Up Gangsta - In Da Club
5/10. It had some nice songs on it, but it felt a little bit too long.
This album lives up to all the memes about rap music, but it's much more musical than the usual and I enjoyed listening to some tracks - but not many!
I really really really really wanted to get into this album when it dropped. But the title tells you what to expect: 50 doing whatever he needed to do to get rich, even if that meant dropping subpar lyrics that managed to rise to the top during one of the more fallow times in hip hop. I mean... definitely one of the weaker eras in my book, Eminem aside. So this is what we got. C'est la vie.
It's OK but it is kind of hot garbage in a lot of spots.
The lyrics are rough but the music is actually pretty good.
I didn’t think this was bad at first, and it’s probably fine in smaller doses, but it wore out its welcome pretty quickly. It’s too long and not interesting enough to keep my attention. I recently watched the movie “Anatomy of a Fall,” which features “P.I.M.P.” prominently, so it was kind of fun when it popped up here; however, I once again have to endure that steel drum bit playing in my head in an endless loop
I'm genuinely surprised at how bad this is. I hate the bland vine-boom driven beats and the way 50 Cent raps.
It's just hard to comprehend the accolades, peaking at #1, certified 9x platinum, best selling album of 2003 and number 280 on RS top 500 songs list. What is wrong with us!?! No disrespect, but this shit just isn't good.
1.5 - Over an hour?! I mean, it's to be expected, but it's only really carried by the hit, which I don't even like, so it feels like forever. And, you know, I don't exactly love Eminem, so his involvement doesn't really change anything for me. I don't see this as an album I have to listen to before I die. This is an album that feels like you're supposed to listen to it for the hit(s?) and nothing else. I could give it a 1, but it's not one of the worst albums ever, so it sits at a 1.5.
It´s just Hip Hop but it´s ok. Maybe a bit too long.
While in da club is obviously a staple of how are you, I hope the rest of the album aggressively mediocre
Algumas músicas que fizeram muito sucesso nos anos 2000, que não sei se se sustentam por si. Acho que relevância do álbum é pelo tamanho que as músicas tiveram na época. Em quesito de produção musical, inovação e letra tem coisa muito melhor na lista
I tried, just can’t relate
Not for me
Once & Done. Guy got Rich.
G Unit in the house well not this house but definitely a house
overall, nothing groundbreaking here. other than “in da club” and “p.i.m.p.”, which were massive radio hits when they came out, there’s really not much to this album. generic gangster rap from that era.
Biitit on kyllä hyvät, mutta en ole ikinä digannu centin tavasta räbäyttää. Lähellä kolmosta.
I can see why this sold a bajillion copies. Dre in pop mode, and 50 cent is a surprisingly mellow and tuneful rapper bearing in mind his rep. However it's way too long (a punchy 40-minute 12-tracker once more the ask to raise it by a star), monotonous and half dollar does not have much to say lyrically or interesting ways of seeing it. Prosaic.
The beats are pretty good on some of the songs (thanks Dre) but 50 was never that great of a rapper in my opinion. This album was a monster when it came out and I don't quite understand why. I guess being friends with Dr. Dre and Eminem have strong benefits.
I’m a gangster, a straight up G. The gangsta life is the life for me! But this album is not. Sure, Mr. Curtis delivers some certified club bangers that ruled the world back in the day, but have very much worn out their welcome by now, given that they’re not quite timeless.
This album sounds expensive and all, but it ain't for me. In my ears it just sounds like a producer spent a lot of money having 50 Cent talk about bad life decisions and putting an interessting but mostly monotonous collection of samples in the background.
Overrated tripe. We all disliked JaRule, but this was vapid crap too.
What a slog. That was way too long.
Surprisingly homogenous. Decent to start with, but became flat quite quickly. Meh.
This was hard work to get through - the production is alright but his delivery is just naff - mumbly and barely keeping on the beat. That kind of thing can work well with sufficient skill, but he don't got it. It's thrown into particularly sharp relief on the tracks with guest rappers. I was expecting to maybe have some nostalgia for "In Da Club" as it was pretty ubiquitous for a while, but it sounded way more cringe than I remembered. "21 Questions" was horrible. Fave tracks - uh, "Don't Push Me" maybe, as it has two guest rappers. "Gotta Make It To Heaven", maybe. I'm not rushing to come back to this album...
No es demasiado de mi agrado.
I mean...it's 50 cent and I like the movies he's been in. The music? I might not have been in the mood after getting another one yesterday or so.
Tras escuchar 12 tengo que dejarlo. Me da angustia y desazón.
I remember when this one came out. “In Da Club”was a banger in the club, though I don’t remember much more of the lyrics other than the birthday opener. I know rap fans rave about this album but I find myself not invested. Much like Biggie and Tupac it’s that I don’t identify with the culture of guns, drugs, or despite my best effort, hanging with the “hoes”. The track with Eminem is good but not something I would look for. The object misogyny, racial overtones and hedonism just isn’t my thing. I stopped listening about 1/2 and don’t feel like going back. Next…!
oh god, please take me with you
Too long
Remember when this album was a thing and dont know why its on this list.
Tras escuchar 12 tengo que dejarlo. Me da angustia y desazón.
I'm just not really into gangsta rap, and musically this album is less interesting than some others. The exceptions being the well known tracks: In Da Club and PIMP.
Thoughts before listening: I remember 50 Cent being extremely popular, but not something that would necessarily make a list like this. More pop rap made for the radio than anything else, although his association with Eminem and Dr. Dre probably helped get him a little more critical recognition. There will be some fun songs on here I'm sure, but its probably not my thing. Review: \"In Da Club\" was massive when it came out, and it's still a great 00s era hit. Songs that become that big have a way of worming their way into your conscious to a point that even if you typically would completely avoid their sound, you end up with a ton of nostalgia for the song. That's totally the case here. That being said, I don't really like the rest of this album. The songs with Eminem are okay, but overall it sounds like every other rap album from that era with the same tired lyrical content as well. It's also long as hell...I don't need 20 tracks and over an hour of this stuff. 2-stars mainly for \"In Da Club\".
I don’t mind 50, but I’m not down with over an hour of 50 ya know? The hits from this record are awesome but nothing else really stood out to me. Some of the songs were actually a bit trash now that I think about it.
I found this pretty boring. Not as good as most of the other hip hop we've had on this list.
Drugs, guns, death threats, boasting, N words and MF’ers galore. Not much different than the other gangsta rap albums I've already heard here. It wasn't made for me.
2.5 Have not listened to 50 Cent before this showed up in my list. Not too bad, but I can't see myself listening to the album again
nah.
Hooky and varied, lots to listen to, mostly interesting occasionally grating. That said, this album is not for me. I can barely understand him which is frustrating but better than the stretches when I can actually decipher some of the lyrics. My ears perked up for Eminem's little windows of intelligibility.
50 Cent is a product of his times, whatever that means.
not for me
first of all, I'm going to listen to this on youtube because while I've accepted that this project is gonna put my spotify algorithm through a lot, I still have my limits. so we're off to a great start it barely got better from there. I am not at all into gangsta rap and it's honestly a surprise that I could tolerate this enough to get through the album. which brings me to my final point: in the beginning I thought it's gonna be an easy 1 star but now I can't bring myself to rate it that low. this album is the epitome of the gangsta rap genre so it clearly did something right within this specific cultural moment and it has some decent beats. ~ there's no business like hoe business ~
I didn't enjoy this. Not quite skippable, but definitely not what I look for in rap.
Wasn't as bad as I expected,in fact some tracks were even quite tuneful. However I really hate the whole "gangsta" thing so only 2*
Not my jam at all
College anthem album that doesn't work as well as an album as the memorable songs do.
That was exhausting.
Deze hype heb ik nooit begrepen...
This is a strange album. The gangsta rap revival aesthetic doesn’t quite work for 50 Cent though it is better than other commercial hip hop that was out at the time. He seems like he has an inferiority complex when he talks about Tupac. The beats were fine but I wasn’t a fan of 50 Cent’s flow. It felt a bit too lazy. His lyrics were full of bad rhymes as well and over the top depictions of violence. Overall there was just a lot of posturing that felt unnecessary. My favorite parts were the Eminem features which says a lot about how I felt about 50 Cent’s performance.
This just kept going on and on and it was allot of the same beats and violent boasts. If it weren't for a few straight up bangers this would get a 1
My favorite part of this album is Terrence Winter got his start writing a movie for 50 Cent titled after this album, propelling him to a career writing some of the best episodes of The Sopranos, The Wolf Of Wall Street, and creating Boardwalk Empire. You're probably asking, "But what does any of that have to do with the album?" Inspiration can come from anywhere kids.
Nothing stands out, feels derivative. Poor Lil Rich is just obnoxious.
\"Go shorty, it's your birthday\" is arguably one of the most iconic lyrics of the early 2000's and it's paired with what is one of the most recognizable beats of all time now. It certainly created a major thumbprint on our young and impressionable suburban brain grooves. And how many of us poor put upon millennials strained our optic nerves eye-rolling at every boomer joke about 50's name. Uncle pulls two quarters out of his pocket, \"I got the new 50 cents for you right here, hyuk hyuk.\" It has contributed to the cultural zeitgeist, there's no denying that. But was this my first choice of music growing up, or even now? Absolutely not! Is the rest of the album worth a damn? Absolutely not!
I was hoping this was going to be something I liked but his voice is not as interesting as the lyrics and so I then hope musically it will hold me but the rhythms are flat and repetitive. A couple of songs are ok like Poor Lil Rich but I don't feel like I need to dig into this album again maybe other ones are better.
The beats are generally decent, but the lyrics are the very worst of early 2000s homophobia and misogyny. 50 himself would never earn a place on a list of greatest rappers.
Tras escuchar 12 tengo que dejarlo. Me da angustia y desazón.
"Back Down" was the high spot for me on the album. Overall, there are some very solid tracks here and the collaborations are excellent. Eminem, Snoop, these are rap world heavy hitters and speak to how respected 50 was when he dropped this album. That said, it's a violent album with none of the humor of similar albums by these collaborators that could have helped to soften the harder lyrics. The album doesn't seem to have a lot of awareness beyond self-promotion and that makes it a little boring. The first time I heard this, I was working in the foster care business and one of the kids played it for me. They were very excited about it and I could see how for someone who was growing up in a very desperate situation this album had huge appeal.
I’ve never heard so many gun shots used as sound effects in music. And it’s not just for that one sound either - there are even casings hitting the floor sometimes! 50 Cent really wants to make sure you know his gangsta background is legit. But from the start he kinda struck me as a caricature. The album cover says it all. This is a Curtis Jackson who has moved past a very colorful youth, and is cashing in on the image of the gangsta that was sold to America in the 90s. Other than the gun shots, the other thing I noticed most was the b****es. It is of course a big part of much of hip hop, but especially so from the late 90s onward. But b**** is a word that can have many different meanings. And they’ve all been used throughout the history of music (great article - https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/09/06/160672019/who-you-calling-a-b). But I think the way it’s used in modern hip hop takes it to a different level of aggressive misogyny. It makes it less fun to listen to when women are almost always reduced to conquests and sexual objects to be possessed. 50 Cent is hardly the worst offender here. Too many of songs are about shooting people to worry about women. But it’s still there to my discomfort. Except on “21 Questions.” That was so sweet! But maybe he needed to ask a 22nd question. “Is it ok if I angrily and aggressively call you a b****?”
This is not the kind of flow I enjoy with rap music. All of the features on the album were better than 50. Almost felt like early mumble rap. Lyrics were bad, flow was bad. Beats were pretty good on some songs, but too repetitive with the awful choruses. Fav tracks: P.I.M.P. - Snoop Dogg Remix, Poor Lil Rich, In Da Club
Gangsta rap is a bit of a blind spot for me, so I have little to compare this to. I will say that I generally wasn’t impressed with 50 Cent’s lyrics or rapping—it wasn’t bad, but just kind of boring. In fact, my ears perked up and I got excited for the first time when Eminem showed up in “Patiently Waiting.” HIS parts were exciting, deep, and interesting. And then it goes back to 50 Cent and I start yawning again. Not great to be outshined on your own album… “In da Club” is fun and has a great beat (and is one of the few tracks on the album I had any familiarity with). I will acknowledge my own biases. I don’t really connect with these themes or this aesthetic, and I can respect that people who do probably really enjoy it. 50 Cent’s story is certainly compelling and the album is well produced. Track Picks: “Patiently Waiting,” “In da Club”
This was super popular when I was in high school. Remembered some things listening again I'd rather not have tbh (Like every 14 yo boy running around yelling G--U-Nit!) But a couple of tracks friends and I will still put on ironically when we get together so that redeemed it enough for 2 stars.
I like the song where he calls me a pussy and then a gay man tells me he is going to kick 50’s ass cus he ain’t no pussy. My favorite song is ‘21 Questions’. Trigger Warning. I can’t take this music serious. The beats and lyrics are borderline comical. I just don’t believe rap ages well. This is meant to be taken seriously but it just sounds like a joke. I appreciate that he carved his name in the industry and created a sound that is indistinguishably 50 cent, even if he has to tell you who he is every song like you have brain damage and forgot who you were listening to. The musical aspect is like 3 sounds per song so its really just rapping which he does have great flow and catchy choruses but its just not enough to win me over to genre. If I can’t relate to lyrics and the instrumentals don’t do anything for me theres not much left for me to enjoy. 4/10
The antithesis of the Queen Latifah album we just heard. Misogynistic, violent and overly aggressive. Yes, there are good beats and the actual rapping itself is very good too, but that doesn't outweigh the content for me. Not something I will listen to again.
Much better than I thought it would be 2/5
Ok
stereotypical gangsta-wannabe. It's not as catchy as early Eminem album, not as funky as 90s west coast rap (Snoop, DRE, Nate Dogg etc.). Overall im not suprised his career was relatively shortlived compared to mentioned rappers. This album and 50 Cent brings nothing new to the table, just rides the hype build from his predecessors. Just listen to DMX from this era...
I've been familiar with this album's reputation for decades now, but I think this was my first full listen. I sure haven't been missing out. Just more arrogant raps about guns, drugs, and misogyny. It sounds like a Grand Theft Auto soundtrack, and 50 isn't even that technically skilled to my ears, mumbling half the time. He sure seems proud of his willingness to kill, but he certainly isn't a killer in the studio. The production helps, though -- Dr. Dre producing a number of tracks brings some genuine pop-rap production cred to the album, helping to get this a half-step above being the most basic shit I've heard.
The music is good as a whole. But I struggle to like it because of the ethos of the artist the misogynistic and violent lyrics.
Nah
The homophobic slurs haven’t aged well
Dat ten tijde van verschijnen van dit 1001 boekje, dit album erin stond, zou je nog enigszins kunnen snappen. Want de beste man had best succes destijds. Maar als je nu dit album luistert, is het best wel gedateerd. De beatjes en samples zijn nog wel enigszins om aan te horen, maar je kan gewoon niet om de teksten heen. Die zijn echt enorm kinderachtig. En dan die gunshots de hele tijd, man man man. Had lekker in die ghetto gebleven.
Man, I don't know what to say. This certainly has a vibe but it's not great. Fiddy's got that one drum and he just bangs it over and over. Is it classic gangsta? Sure. Is it good? Not really.
I thought 50 Cent was overrated back when I was 14 when the album was released, and I still think he’s overrated to this day. “Many Men” is the best track on the album which is the main reason I am giving it two stars.
Not big on this and probably more critical since the album before this was Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’
At the time, I remember thinking somehow that 50 Cent was kind of the pop hip-hop guy? Despite his street credentials, his party anthem hits just seemed to be more happy and silly than some of the other rappers at the time. Listening back to this, I still feel this way. But it's clear that 50 did not think of himself like that. I think this record is "meh". It contains all of the misogyny of hip-hop from the time, which is a real bummer. And I was bored for quite a bit of this despite the smooth flow of 50 himself.
Gangster Rap with some singing "Patiently Waiting" (with Eminem) "In Da Club" "P.I.M.P."
Didn’t dislike but just not my thing.
Meh never been a huge 50 cent fan, not sure why this is on the list. Wonder if it’s dropped off on more recent versions of the book. I see it’s credited with reviving gangster rap. Come 2003 I don’t think gangster rap was needing to come back.
I think the one thing is that this album was way too long. Rather than being satisfied with what I heard and willing to hear it again, I heard over an hour of very similar sounding music. I didn’t despise it but I think after awhile I just didn’t get what was great about it.
whatever
One good song. Some interesting music backing the raps, as compared to others. But still, too many F Bombs, N Bombs for my liking.
This doesn’t really do anything for me, but it’s fine.
way too long. i like his individualism. its nonthreatening. better vocals, instrumentals and message than 90s rap. it sounds like he has less ego than them too. in da club (like me 24/7), 21 questions
blood hound is fucked. I wonder if 50 did the bark himself. not unlistenable, but there are def better. many men is my fav. "I love you like a fat kid love cake", poetry. 3 star album but it's sooo long and repetetive, could've cut a few tracks.
Alls ekkert alslæmt, en ég tengi nákvæmlega ekkert við þetta.
eh
Few songs a catchy but the album get's redundant pretty quickly and not my style of music to begin with.
I guess the singles were ok for a bit of nostalgia. But this record just felt disposable. After the summer these songs were out, i didn't think about them at all. Nothing on the rest of the record stood out and was either boring or skipable.
It's just boring. No message that I care about. Fades into the background as if it's not even there. The singles I can get how they got popular but the rest just exists and no better than that.
Yeah, I can't get into this one. I love good rap and hip hop, but to me this represents the worst elements of the bling era. Every damn song is about drugs, making money or shooting people. I definitely understand the appeal, and i can see how this was insanely of its time, but I feel that hip hop has grown since then, and the themes just seem so one note to me. That all said, the production is decent enough, and the couple of Eminem features shine, but there ain't much reason for me to come back to this one.
some good production and beats from Dre, some decent lyrics, buried in an avalanche of gangsterism, homophobia and misogyny
Am I wrong in thinking this is super bland? I don't often call rap flat out BORING, but... The songs don't really have much differentiation from each other. Just a blur of dated and silly gangster machismo. Don't feel like this needs to be on the list.
Sorry, just does not grab me. I persevered with it, waiting for the penny to drop. Still waiting.
I don't like gangsta rap. Never did. This album is credited with reviving the genre, but is not a strong example of the form. I don't generally rate Dr Dre's production, and there is not much on this album (except In Da Club and possibly P.I.M.P) to change that impression. The album is over-long, monotonous, and self-obsessed. Fiddy is certainly no Tupac, Biggie or Snoop, the rappers he most clearly idolizes. It's cliched and hollow and generally unpleasant. Exception: In Da Club is a bangin' track, but once you've heard Beyonce do it, you'll never need to listen to Fiddy again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvSnSd2-DKY
Bad but not the worst
50 Cent is a steaming pile of garbage.
3/10. Bleh. A whole lot of the same shit. Not much for me to like
Enjoyed the nostalgia of In Da Club but otherwise the album crawled through pretty unremarkable tracks
This genre of music is not for me. I can tell that as far as hip hop albums go, this is probably as good a specimen as you'll get. But as far as listenability goes, that's a low bar. Scale: 5 - My absolute favorites. 4 - Albums I like. 3 - It was ok to listen to but I wouldn't seek it out. 2 - Didn't like. 1 - Absolute shit.
There are some club/radio hits with catchy hooks (i.e. 'In Da Club' and 'P.I.M.P') so credit where credit is due. And where that credit is due is with the people/teams that made the backing tracks and the hooks. If that was Fifty, then kudos to him! If not, then, again, credit where credit is due. As an album, I don't see why this is something that people should put on a pedestal. The subject matter is repetitive and paints an exaggerated caricature of a lifestyle, that really isn't appropriate to romanticize. The rhymes and rhyming techniques are basic; made all the plainer by Eminem's collaboration on 'Patiently Waiting', where he completely runs circles around Fifty's contrastingly lethargic contribution. By the 7th track I just got bored and it felt like a task to push through anymore. Let's trade this one out for MF Doom's 'Madvillainy'. People need to hear that!
Production is mostly bland and repetitive, and when it's decent it leans way too bubblegum to compliment the tough guy image. 50's flow is alright, but when he sings on the hooks, it's just painful. A few punchlines and quotables ("I love you like a fat kid love cake" is an all-timer), but not enough to counter the barrage of lame, childish rhymes. Eminem in true Eminem fashion had the best verse on the album (Patiently Waiting) and also the worst (Don't Push Me). The frustrating thing is 50 completely lost his sense of humor since "How to Rob". Busta Rhymes, DMX, Mobb Deep, Wayne are all more worthy of inclusion here than 50. I'll still give him 2 Jesus pieces, because at the very least most of his boasting is based on real shit that he went through. Won't be listening to this again though. ♱♱
Couldn't even finish.
Carn fidy, do you even buy what you're pedaling?
The rhythm is pumping (yeah!) and the music is pretty okay (woah!!) but I just can't get past the attitudes that inform the album (uh-huh!)
I want to say that the last 20 years haven’t been kind to this but then I’d be saying it was good 20 years ago. The hits are mostly memes by now.
Completely not my thing but I will grant that In Da Club is a tune
2-3 Gute Beats, aber nerviges dicke Hosen Gehabe.
Not a fan of gangsta rap at all, a lot of it just feels the same and I don’t particularly care for the lyrics (when I’m trying to listen to them) Saved tracks: What Up Gangsta, In Da Club, Heat, P.I.M.P.
It's deft, clean, and polished, but that just runs counter to the whole mood it's trying to conjure. I want Danny Brown's style of musical polish and lyrical grime instead of this sanitized gangsta stuff.
Uninspiring.
Yes, (music of) PIMP and In Da Club is good to hear, but a full hour of the same music and all tough talk how 'fucking' good/strong/dangerous he is, became tiring and utterly boring.
GO SHAWTY ITS YA BIRTHDAY
definitely some bops, some classics, not my typical genre of choice
True original when it was released. I recognize some bits from music that followed (“I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind”). Listening to it as background meant a lot of repetition not a hook. 50 Cent is gifted and original just not my thing.
PREFS : Patiently Waiting, In Da Club, P.I.M.P., Poor Lil Rich, 21 Questions MOINS PREF : Like My Style
Jammer, alweer rap. De sound heeft een beetje de eentonigheid van Eminem. Sommige beats zijn wel geinig, maar ook niet heel bijzonder. Net iets te laf en eentonig eigenljjk. Het nummer "Patiently Waiting" is de positieve uitzondering. **
Hard to believe this is a debut album given how limpid and tired Fitty delivers his bottom-of-the-barrel bars. Seriously sounds like they had to slow the tempo down on the instrumentals (which are uninspired at best) so the man can eke out his kindergarten-level rhymes and strings of curses/slurs. The best part is when Eminem shows up to inject some life into this album, but then he tries to rhyme “pork” with “walk” and it’s back to having the worst bars possible. Only giving this a 2 as I was able to tolerate listening to it and didn’t feel the outright hatred which merits a 1.
I enjoyed some of the songs.
Het zal niet mijn ding worden. Vond dit album nogal veel van hetzelfde. Ondanks de 2 grote hits die het bevat
Not good
Well this will be the first time I've listened to Fiddy seriously. Always saw him as a bit of a novelty act - the last twitch of 'gangsta rap's' twitching corpse. Obvs I know the singles, but I wonder, has he really got the bars to match up to other rising rappers at the time (early Kanye, Twista, Eminem)? The answer is no. His rhymes are good, but the delivery is so flat that it can't sustain these 20 tracks. When Eminem or any other guest turns up, it suddenly injects his fairly lifeless tracks with life. Which isn't great, really. In Da Club and PIMP are both great tracks (obvs Dre was going to throw a few great productions on here) but I can see why he hawks energy drinks and NFTs now, as nobody can he interested in hearing more of the same as this.
Me ha resultado aburrido y repetitivo al principio. Menos mal que hacia el final se anima con "P.I.M.P." o "Poor Lil Rich". Por ahí se va a ir a 2 estrellas altas, casi 3.
I wasn't into hip-hop when this first came out, but 50 was impossible to ignore. His music was everywhere and this album defined the genre at it's time. It's decent hearing it now, but I have no personal connection with it. A few enjoyable tracks, though.
Again, an album that makes me realize I’ve crossed into the “get off my lawn” category of people. But, when compared to older music from the same genre, this just doesn’t hold up. The beats and grooves were fine, excellent actually, but the lyrics were terrible.
-Not really a big fan of gangster rap -I like Eminem's verses on "Patiently Waiting" and "Don't Push Me," particularly on "Patiently Waiting" -The lines "In the Bible, it says what goes around, comes around/'Hommo' shot me, three weeks later he got shot down/Now it's clear that I'm here for a real reason/‘Cause he got hit like I got hit, but he ain't fuckin' breathin'" in "Many Men (Wish Death)" is absolutely savage -I've heard "In Da Club" and "P.I.M.P." before and they are quite catchy -Idk it is a fun vibe I guess but I just don't find this rap that interesting
I’m not big on the language in the lyrics. I’m old. The music is fine though.
Some really good and catchy hooks, rhythms, and such here. This album grabbed my ear and held it well. I had heard the artist’s name many times but don’t think I heard any of his music. Solid stuff.
El contraste con el disco anterior, de rap francés, enfatiza como este tipo de hip hop no me gusta. Sé reconocer la importancia del disco y que tuvo algunos sencillos relevantes, pero por mí, podría jamás volverlo a escuchar.
Gonna be real with you, I listened to about 1/3 of this album, lost interest and went back to revisit Patti Smith’s Horses, a record I was assigned last week and loved. 50 never did it for me, that hasn’t changed over the years.
In da club ei yhtään parempi kuin muukaan jömpötys... Ei huono... ei hyvä...
Mjuuh vähän väsynyttä nykyään. Ihan ok biisejä muutama niin ei jää ykköseen.
Some fun catchy songs but too long and a little outdated. 3.8/10
Was alright
Me cuesta un toque. Siento q hay temas buenos y temas muy meh
I kinda wanted to like this, but it’s just so boring.
I've just never really been able to get into 50 Cent, in spite of digging a lot of his peers. Some of Dre's production on here is pretty good though I will say. I'm happy I gave it another go.
Only like on da club
This was a tough journey. Relentless strutting and name dropping.
50 has strong singles and a consistent voice, and the bass peaks distinctively throughout. But the last half of the runtime fades away into mist. Solid, though not sure it left many echoes in music.
Hmmm. Some interesting beats and production with a couple of great tracks, but in general can't help feeling that by the time this was released it had all been done before and better. 50s tales of the streets seem slightly dull and lifeless, competently delivered, but lack either visceral, connection or humour. It just left me a bit bored.
Nope!
I think it has been all an illusion because at some point right after clicking play I thought I would at least enjoy this album, but it has been far from happening. What I have really experienced for almost an hour long is an increasing boredom. The way 50 Cent raps feels very monotonous, the lyrics are completely tasteless and the songs are, again... hip-hop, so repetitive beats and very bland melodies. I can't see what's the interest in here. So, it's been more like of a waste of time rather than actually a good time listening to music. Well, now I know an album I won't ever listen to again. And, sure, another issue is the length. If only it were shorter... At least it would have convinced me more than disturbing me.
Not worth 50 pence