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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).
Couldn't make it all the way through it, not for me.
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.
Mä en jotenkin pysty suhtautumaan tähän vakavasti. Ei sitten lähde sitten millään tavalla.
Even if I wanted to enjoy this genre, and could get passed all the cliched over use of the N-bomb, derogatory slurs to women and glorification of violence, I couldn’t choose this dick head as my go to artist. Just can’t take him seriously. Lyrical genius he is not. Here’s 2 examples of his finer work… • I’m similar to a squirrel, lookin’ for a slut with a nice butt to get a nut • I love you like a fat kid love cake Five stars to me for sitting all the way through this garbage. 1 star to the album.
Try to enjoy this or die tryin' I attempted to give Fiffy a fair unjudgemental listen and I think I succeeded for the first few songs. Eminem's first rap was probably the highlight of the whole album. Considering how I detest his voice sort of reveals what I thought of the rest of this. Musically basic, no surprises with the lyrical content, the usual aggressive 'nigga' laden old tripe. Yeah, you're probably a better gangsta than you are a rapper. Don't give up your day job.
No.
I like hip-hop, but this era of hip-hop and what came after with mumblerap and whatnot, is just not my cup of tea. I feel it lacks the finesse of old boom bap, and the penmanship of Wu Tang and the likes. And why is it so damn long?!
50 Cent zu viel für einen ehrelosen Gangsta
50 cent is responsible for the only good rap skits that I can think of, where he and G-unit rag on Ja Rule for sucking the life out of every duet he features on. It's the exception that proves the rule. As a rapper though? I seem to remember people being pretty down on him at the time. Since then we've had lots of worse MCs gain success, from Soulja Boy to 2 Chainz to modern mumble rap. But listening to this, it's pretty clear Fiddy’s greatest rap talent is getting shot an untenable amount of times and living. That's legend making in a scene that loves gun violence and braggadoccio. But his flow, his lyricism, his musical concerns (and indeed often his musical backdrops) are often more like a tarnished nickel. It really feels like he was pulled out of obscurity because he was a decently built man who survived death, and given a couple rap lessons. GRoDT is similar to the last album in that it, in its own way, feels sorta phoned in. There are some comparisons that are not flattering. For example, when Snoop makes a career out of being high all the time, it works because he has a unique flow that is informed by that. When 50 is rapping about being high all the time, though, he sounds like the stereotype, the brain dead, slow reacting pothead. When he talks about being threatened and killing and people wanting him dead, he sounds bored, while Biggie always makes it sound personal. About the best this album has is a very early in the album Eminem feature, which pulls the trick of Em's general better skills and his surprising serious verse making a case for him that his own whiny histrionic class clown rap cannot. Good for Em I guess. It's the weird dichotomy of an album that is inherently fluff and a bunch of songs that are not memorable. Like, who is singing along with the stilted chop and bland melody of “if I cant. Do it. It cant. Be donnne”? I guess the same people who got into the mumbled word salad of “in da club”, which is a damned symphony comparatively. But this is music made exclusively to have a product to sell. And it is so, so, so, so long for what it is. I hate giving two ⭐️ ratings in a row, but ffs.
Hip-hop isn't music. Gangsta rap certainly isn't. 1/5
The music was not enough to salvage this from the crude and, frankly, dated lyrics
Don't like this one, not my vibe, I love hip hop just not for me this one
Massive efforts to cover fundamental insecurities spewed over sonic cliches without much in the way of creativity or inspiration.
La canción Heat es insoportable y dejé de escuchar ahí.
I'm tired, boss
Lasted about a minute before the first n word shortly followed by an h word. Nah, I’m out.
Not wasting my time with this shit.
hmm.. dat was een halve dollar te veel misschien volgende keer meer concentreren op tweede deel van de titel?
Inte min sorts musik
Would not, could not, listen to this.
I have better things to do with my time than listen to music that is homophobic and misogynistic and glorifies violence. 👋
When you listen to Biggie Smalls or Tupac they tell gripping stories about life on the streets. 50 Cent tells no stories except the size of his dick and how bitches love to lick it like lollipop. Yum. I’m old and I first started getting into hip-hop and rap about 25 years ago. Thank goodness for the artist like Kendal Lamar and Tupac.
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
not my taste
This was stupid. Gangsta rap is stupid. I don’t care about how many people you’ve shot, it doesn’t make you cool. His voice sounds nice though.
There’s a lot of rap that’s unlistenable due to the unrelenting nihilistic stupidity of the lyrics and this is a good example.
я не знаю мне очень не нравится просто но ставить этому альбому единицу как будто нельзя, но я поставлю читка у фифти цента такая гуфи
Pure crap
Rap is not for me
OMG - Another hour of my life that I'll never get back.
Sorry, but that’s not music; it’s the musical equivalent of Tourette's diarrhea, performed by a misogynistic, violence-glorifying thug with no musical talent. It feels like half the lyrics are just 'I, I, I, I, I', ''n-word, n-word, n-word, n-word', 'motherf*cker, motherf*cker, motherf*cker, motherf*cker', 'gangsta, gangsta, gangsta, gangsta' and 'bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch'. Compared to the other rap albums I’ve heard in this challenge so far (such as Gang Starr and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy), this is the most simplistic and rambling verbal diarrhoea I’ve heard from an egomaniacal idiot.
Not terrible but nothing for me
Not my music , kinda boring... nigga, m......er , shootings , p...y , seems repetitive once the 80s Rap passed it seems we do not need any more of this
I don’t normally listen to rap, but I have the feeling that people who are into rap would thing this album is crap.
couldnt finish it, not my type of music i dont want to listen to gun shots tbh
It's a no - thank you.
There may be a couple of bangers on this album, but what's with artists of this era and the homophobia?
Nah bro
Hard nope
Boring with a capital B.
All explicit
This is absolutely terrible and should not be on any list.
Ei oo edelleenkään puhelaulut (rap ja Hip-hop) mun juttu…
This was bloody awful. I'm getting close to the end of the project and as much as I'll miss it, the one thing I won't miss will be this kind of American hip hop garbage. There was nothing appealing or redeeming about Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. It sounds so foreign to my ears. 50 Cent - and every other rapper that falls within this category - are all such wannabe gangster try hards.
Almost as bad as his first pitch for the Mets
Nah
If you paid 50 cents for it, you paid too much. 0.00
Awful.
Not a fan. Probably clever, but I think it comes across as too matcho in a way I don't particularly like.
*nothing but rap, no Music
Just about managed to get through to the end, but the songs meant nothing to me and I didn’t find anything redeeming to note.
Rounding up to a 1.
Nope
Nope. Not for me.
not my jam at all
meh. Base hip hop is dull. The gunshot nonsense was really stupid.
I like one song. Hence the one star. Not really my thing.
Awful.
Vad sjukt, trodde inte denna skulle vara med. Det här lyssnade jag mycket på i lågstadiet för att impa på mina vänner. Men vad dåligt det är.
ÅNGEST! dåligt!
I never listen to this homophobe
1.5 - just not for me
Dull
With Eminem is automatically 1*
Blech
An album concentrating on the N word, MF word and his extensive knowledge of guns…shite
Not for me. I find that super laid back rap delivery doesn't really work for me. The production grated on me pretty quickly. Then lyrically I found the gangster stuff, guns, objectifying women all pretty irritating.
Awful. This has absolutely no redeeming qualities.
Wow this has aged poorly. I don't think that I have ever heard such a dated album that actually came out within my lifetime. It just uses all the same boring hip hop clichés over some of the most mediocre and uninteresting rapping and production I have ever heard.
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Can't listen to this stuff
wtf. why? why? this is music?
I can't bring myself to listen to a 50 Cent album. This list was already pretty dubious and now this?!?!?!
You could say it’s minimalist because of its un-fussy, straightforward production. Or you could say it’s maximalist, with its giant orchestra hits. Either way, it’s *insubstantial*. It lacks substance. It’s big and dumb. It’s a Fast and Furious movie. It’s a jumbo hot dog with zero toppings. It’s an episode of Highlander on a Sony Watchman.
Did not listen
Fiddy var ikke bra i 2003. Det er definitivt ikke bra i 2025. Og det kommer, om mulig, til å være enda dårligere i 2047. Var denne skiva med i loudness-krigen? Høres ut som første låta er bitcrushed. Jeg gidder faktisk ikke å høre på 70 minutter med monoton gangsta rap. Jeg kan til dels forstå at hitsa var hits, men de er hits fordi de var lett gjennkjennelige, ikke fordi de var bra.
Det er rart å lage et rapalbum som er så dårlig produsert at man sliter med å høre teksten. Jeg har kanskje også blitt gammal, men det er ingenting ved gangstergreiene til 50 jeg syns er spennende eller kult. Jeg syns mest det er trist. Noen av beatsa er ganske kule da. Hvorfor er disse albumene så jævla lange?
"fuck fuck fuck pussy nigga fuck fuck gun gun fuck nigga fuck gun" I'm too white for this shit
Just not my stuff.
It was mediocre at the time. It's aged poorly and even worse now.
Oh dear, another one.
Not my thing and I didn’t really like it. In Da Club is iconic I guess but not enough to save this
Puedo tolerar las bases y temas repetitivos, pero si cantas y suena como karaoke desafinado y descoordinado (te estoy mirando "High all the time") es como, NOPE. Igual fue gracioso que en "Patiently waiting" partiera diciendo "you are ny favourite white boy" y que mi cabeza respondiera "Eminem?". Primera vez que el track más conocido (In da Club) fue el que más me gustó en un mar de "por qué me estoy haciendo esto?"s
Hip Hop, 38 eme album => 1/5
Man this album was a lot better when I was in 6th grade and didn't know what the words meant. This is pretty trash besides some excellent beats.
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It’s troubling to me that people find violence, hedonism, and misogyny so appealing.
Seriously? This? After 4 decades of monumental rap and hip hop albums? Sorry, not in my top 1000.
Das Debütalbum Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ des US-amerikanischen Rappers 50 Cent wurde in mehreren Studios aufgenommen, darunter die Hit Factory in New York und 54 Sound in Detroit. Produziert wurde es unter anderem von Dr. Dre und Eminem, die auch stilistisch Einfluss auf den Sound nahmen. Das Album ist dem Genre des Hip-Hop zuzuordnen, genauer dem Gangsta-Rap, der Anfang der 2000er Jahre stark in den Mainstream rückte. Die Texte behandeln Themen wie Gewalt, Überleben im urbanen Umfeld und persönlichen Aufstieg. Musikalisch dominieren eingängige Beats und einfache, klare Strukturen, die auf die direkte Wirkung der Texte abgestimmt sind. Besonders bekannt wurden Songs wie „In Da Club“, „21 Questions“ und „P.I.M.P.“, die nicht nur kommerziell erfolgreich waren, sondern auch stilprägend für 50 Cents Karriere. Sie zeichnen sich durch eine reduzierte Produktion, markante Hooklines und einen betont gleichmäßigen Flow aus. Das Album vermittelt ein klares künstlerisches Konzept und zeigt eine konsequente Umsetzung der thematischen und musikalischen Ausrichtung. Es ist ein prägendes Werk für den Mainstream-Hip-Hop der frühen 2000er.
No
Yo shorty! Gonna pass due to the outsize portion of my life that 50 Cent has taken up simply by declaring it someone's birthday. He gets a point for continuing to publicly vex fellow has-been Diddy.
When we do "1001 macho posturing recordings with multiple gunshot sounds you should hear before o threaten to kill you", I will be all over this. Until then, 1 star.
There's some some real cognitive dissonance in "Da Club" where you're fetishizing queer women but slamming your rivals as queer men.
I am mostly disgusted, I got used to it later but towards the end I just wanted to kill myself hearing this so damn.
The inclusion of rubbish like this just makes the omission of MF DOOM even more baffling. Some of the samples are quite catchy, but his rapping is meh (all of the best rapping on the album is by the guest rappers) and the lyrics are pathetic.
I couldn’t make it through a single song.
Yeah ... no.
I did not need to listen to this before I died, I think. An interestingly nostalgic listen, such a sign of the times.
I'm A Motherfuckin' P.I.M.P. 1001 Albums Generator 60 (06/25/2025) I'm going to start this review with a list of hip-hop albums by artists that are not present on the list at all that are highly acclaimed AND personal favorites. BROCKHAPTON - Saturation III Dalek - From Filthy Tongues Of Gods And Griots Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition Death Grips - The Money Store DJ Screw - Bigtyme Vol II: All Screwed Up Koopsta Knicca - Da Devil's Playground: Underground Solo Little Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation Madvillain - Madvillainy MF DOOM - MM..FOOD Three-6 Mafia - Mystic Styles Tyler, The Creator - IGOR It's easy to look at something like 50 Cent's Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and try to justify its inclusion on 1001 Albums To Listen To Before You Die using arguments that include the words "influence" and "popularity", but this list's relative lack of hip-hop albums make the available spots very valuable. Simply being popular without having quality to go along with it is simply not enough to earn a spot on this list, and unfortunately, this is the camp that Get Rich falls into. Don't get me wrong, the hits are a lot of fun. After a bit of a slow start, the album hits us with 3 great songs in a row. Patiently Waiting is produced by Eminem and features a great verse from him. This was right around when Marshall was in his prime, so he does great here. Many Men (Wish Death) is one of the most badass songs put to tape. It is about 50 Cent's near death experience after being shot 9 times in 2000. In Da Club is the song that every college girls listens to on her birthday. It's super catchy. P.I.M.P. and 21 Questions are also massive hits that I had forgotten about honestly before listening to this album. But really, 19 (mostly) forgettable songs and 70 minutes later, is my life better now? Am I glad that I listened to this album before I died? No. This style of rap is just so dated and has aged terribly. Note, many albums in the list above have very "gangsta" lyrics; my problem is not with the fact that the lyrics talk about this lifestyle, but that they do a poor job at it. 50 Cent is not a convincing MC, which is so funny because he literally lived this shit. Somehow, every time he talks, I just think about the fact that he tweeted "I can't believe my grand mothers making me take Out the garbage I'm rich fuck this I'm going home I don't need this shit" and I question my life choices. Get Rich Or Die Tryin' is a pretty bad album. If it were an EP or even just a single vinyl's worth of music, it may be a 2, but as it is, I can't justify giving it more than a 1. I'll be fine never listening to it again. Favs: In Da Club P.I.M.P. 21 Questions Least Fav: Like My Style