Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

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.

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

Lets just say this met and somewhat exceeded my expectations.

Repetitive, annoying, violent, and somewhat stupid. Same exact thing every gangsta rapper has been doing for the decade before this, probably longer. 50 Cent's marble mouthed overconfidence has no irony or deprecation whatsoever. Like most stuff in this genre it's all bad all the way down, everything sucks all the time, the only way out is to die. Or kill someone I guess. THe lowest of the low, congratulations.

this was a rough start, so overly repetitive and hated the lyrics

This is comically bad. Basic beats, basic rapping, juvenile lyrics.

Meh

Not enjoyable musically, nothing catchy, lots of stupid lyrics

shyte

This has got to be a joke inclusion. This is not great Hip Hop. This is cliche nonsense. Continues to support my case that the naughties were the worst decade of popular music, ever. "In da Club" would be fine if they would cut out the ridiculously sophomoric lyrics and vocals and just let the jam groove instrumentally. But alas, we are stuck with idiotic lyrics ruining the groove. WTF Hip Hop?! Stop with the 1 hour long albums. Ain't nobody got patience for that.

Kinda ass.

I hate this. Couldn't finish this rap pile of trash. I guess the only resealing quality was I didn't hear and stupid skies that rap albums tend to have; I only got a little halfway through, there might have been some and I didn't get to them. I'm not going to find out though. 0/5

This was painful to listen to. Cheesy simplistic loops. Rapping about how much of a badass he is. I made it about 12-14 songs in and gave up. One of the worst albums I've listened to on this list.

I really hate this junk

I wish Dre had spent his time and energy on a more worthy rapper than 50 Cent. What a waste.

Not for me 1/5

Rap, 2003 -> 1

This has not aged well at all. It was bad when released and is worse now. The words rap and music soild never be used in the same sentence.

This sucks... to each their own. One thing is clear; No other form of music has played such an integral role in the deaths of so many American youth, nor led to an epidemic of unwanted and parentless children. 50 Cent and his peers reap the riches from their message of bravado bullshit. I've got no use for this misery.

No, keine Chance!

Why is this album anywhere near the others?

Huh, this monotony has been going on for a while. <checks playlist> Oh shit, there's another 25 minutes to go‽

Admittedly, this isn't my favorite genre, but I've heard better... way better... This radiated a stiflingly lazy vibe to me. I felt like I was being asked to put more energy into listening to it than 50 put into producing it. Honestly, this doesn't even deserve a 1 since I'd rather have an album outright disgust me than induce such a feeling of ennui.

why is this here

It doesn't get much worse than this

If your life is this bad, surely you don't want others following you down this path. I really do not get this entire genre of music and why record companies continue to release it.

I would appreciate if someone better informed than me could explain hip hop's evolution to being the most popular musical form of the early 00s.The samples are less hooky and drawn from a much narrower range of sources than those chosen by, say, De La Soul or A Tribe Called Quest. At some point, the art of collaging sound became divorced from hip hop entirely, left to the Avalanches or someone, returning sampling to avant garde tradition starting with Pierre Boulez. Or something. I don't know. I'm not an historian. Perhaps these aren't samples anyway. Maybe they are just beats. In which case, when did it become the prevailing aesthetic that beats should be tinny, plodding, and cluttered? Perhaps these beats are groovy or slinky or something, but the timbre of everything is so course that I can't feel it. The vocal is mumbled and hard to follow, so any complaints about the lyrical content aren't coming from me - I don't know what they are. Of course, hip hop became the most popular musical form of the time by becoming pop music of the time. As the title suggests, this is a project aiming to make 50 Cent rich, but, in the trying, something definitely died. While I was listening to wildly different things that was how it felt to me at the time, that this was product + pose, with nothing else to it. Listening to it properly now, that seems about right. 1 I have grumbled about every rap record we have encountered so far and my common complaint is that the backdrop to the (mere) talking is always little more than one or two bars of music on a loop. Well here is a record that dismantles that preconception like…let’s say shooting a person until their brains come out. Not only does Get Rich or Die Tryin’ have someone footering on a keyboard a good portion of the time - 50 Cent actually sings a bit! Even more surprising is that in this act of what seems to me something like daring, 50 Cent has made the worst rap album I’ve heard yet. Wow. How little I know about rap. Now 50 shows me how little I want to know. 0.5/5

It's like Eminem without any of the humour or self-reflection that redeemed parts of his discography.

synes bare virkelig ikke han er en særlig god rapper og beats er kedelige ud over den ene banger. tidlige 00'ere var en virkelig dårlig periode for hiphop

Jesus christ this album is very very long... And aged like milk..

No

I don't see the appeal at all. I'm not a huge rap fan but these raps are not that good, the instrumentals are really basic, and I can't help but notice that he's rapping behind the beat sometimes. If you don't have good rhythm then don't rap, but I know he does because he does in some songs. I also thought that the album kind of blended together and I can't tell you how over half of the songs even go they didn't stick in my mind at all. Overall, I didn't like it at all. Favorite Song: Waiting Patiently (I like Eminem) Least Favorite Song: Poor Lil Rich (Idk it was kind of a blur)

This has the 5th Billion Play (1.7B) with "In Da Club" and "P.I.M.P" at over 800k. I understand it being her birthday and we gonna celebrate because you her pimp, but outside of that I can see why his name is 50 cent, because this album ain't worth half a buck

90s rap, not my preference, but this one was well known.

Nah, not my thing

Get in the bin.

Rap is not a good genre for me. I can't relate to most of it and, most critically, I have audio processing issues that make it very difficult for me to understand lyrics. That means most rap for me lives or dies by its beats, and with a few exceptions most rap is not musically or structurally interesting enough to engage me. In this case, the beats are good, but they are offset by 50 Cent's AWFUL singing and generally mediocre flow. There's also EIGHTEEN songs of this, so as much as I want to reward the production with a star, I cannot in good faith say I enjoyed listening to this.

this era of rap is just absolute garbage to me and this album is its poster boy. basically you've got 3 or 4 songs, some of which sound like they're using Casio keyboard beats, repeated over 54 minutes (thank god the last 4 songs were bonus tracks, which to me means i was under no obligation to subject myself to them)

Wow ur like so cool mr gangsta

With some exceptions (when I can enjoy the music), I really can't listen to hip hop for more than 15 minutes. I don't enjoy the music on this album.

Any albun where every alternate word is "mutherfucka" is an immediate 1 star.

Didn’t like all the F and N words! Just a downer listening to this album.

Gimme 50 cent so I can buy a bag a chips.

Just no. Music for complete idiots.

Sendo música de farrista, quase fui procurar algum clip. Mas certo mesmo é que esta lista está carregada de rap.

I just can’t stand it. The type of hiphop that 14 year olds believe it’s edgy because of the cocking gun sound effects and white chicks love to wohoo in da club 🤮

I sometimes wonder if it's worth it. If the occasional discoveries really outweigh moments like this. When the album of the day pops up, and it's one that everyone and their dog knows, 1.5 billion streams on its hit. And I know precisely what to expect and what I could totally not care less about. a): Boooring. b): this one's pretty shit to boot. Couple of disjointed thoughts: had clearing samples become more difficult or expensive in the 10 years between this and, say, Snoop's or Dr. Dre's gangsta rap debuts? Because the music on here that's not beats all sounds like someone's hacking away at a toy keyboard. And did this album pave the way for rap devolving into artists mumbling over the same lawn sprinkler hi-hats, rhyming words with "words"? Pretty sure it did. Awful, awful legacy. Outside of In Da Club's unfortunate effectivity at making my head involuntarily bop, and that Eminem bit maybe, there are no whatsoever redeeming qualities here. Ugly hustle macho dreck. Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT to write me a review linking "get rich or die trying" to the rise of characters like the Tate brothers. It nailed the assignment. 🗑, next.

Shite bro

Wanskter Rap. Utterly without value.

Not for me

I’ve heard enough of these songs before to know that I hate it so gonna skip this one.

it’s not cool to be a pimp

These albums are robbing me of the will to live.

Please don't make me listen to music like this ever again

Like i keep saying when hip hop comes up this music was not made for people like me so i cannot give honest review except to say I don’t like it. 1/5 23/5/24

Nope.

I hate rap. There's a track with Eminem which is OK because, basically, he's better.

Didn’t care for it period

Something you ought to know is that I cannot stand people who are full of themselves. 50 Cent is an arrogant, tone-deaf douchbag who's so high on ego that he's practically impregnated himself. I find it funny that people love to drag Morrissey through dirt, but turn a blind eye towards the hip hop industry. Is it because Morrissey’s a white guy, so it's easier to criticize him? (/semi-sarcasm, maybe.) As far as it goes musically, 50 Cent sucks at rapping, his songs sound like parodies, and he has a sh** annoying voice. Sadly, it seems like most of the new generation has no music taste (I'm saying that like I'm not a Generation Z too.) More critical hip hop reviews coming soon (/joke, but not really.)

I'd like to take this opportunity to say I've enjoyed listening to a variety of hip hop albums as a part of this project. Just some of the most creative, vibrant music ever made by some incredibly talented people. Albums I love and will listen to again long after this project is over. This... is not one of those albums. I've been thinking a lot about this album, which I almost gave a higher rating. I tried to consider it for its contributions to the genre, or give it credit for being clearly very popular. But, nah. Popularity doesn't bestow value on a work of art; neither does a positive critical response. The music is fairly listenable as these things go and as a total work, 50 Cent pulled together a cohesive collection of songs. It's not a complete shell of an album in that regard. But I didn't enjoy it on any level. It lacks creativity, nuance and lyrical depth, and I couldn't wait for it to be over. And I owe don't owe 50 Cent any of my stars. Fave Songs: Don't Push Me, In da Club

Not

After so many good hiphop albums on this list, this was bound to happen. An entire music style built for saying a lot in a short time. But after having finished this album I don't think anything of substance has been said in an entire hour. I feel dumber having listened to it. I'll be back in the other corner of hip-hop.

bad

I am not a fan of the genre. I do not like to celebrate violence. The closing track of this album has a line: "I don't like ya'll anyway - fuck all ya'll."

Total utter shit. Nothing stinks as badly as this.

I’m really surprised to see a 50 Cent album be considered as an essential listen. I didn’t realise he was that important in music. I definitely know a few songs of his. I remember someone playing some video game when I was a teenager about rappers fighting. It was called something like Def Jam Oiled Fighter Boys Bonanza. Songs I already knew: In Da Club, PIMP, 21 Questions Favourites: In Da Club I can’t deny the catchiness of In Da Club, but this album was mostly quite rubbish. Here are some gems from the lyrics: “I love you like a fat kid love cake” “I'm your friend, your father, and confidant, bitch” And those are from the bigger songs. Really not my kind of music, to be honest. The best bits were probably when the featured rappers took the helm.

Bit much.

u must be joking

The only positive thing I’ve got to say about this is fair play to him, hes made a living out of this. I imagine he’s got a canny pension behind him. Lyrically, it’s the worst I’ve heard on this list so far, and the whole idea of this album just annoys me. It’s firmly in the ‘utter, utter shit’ category for me.

Wouldn't want to jump to any conclusions but I think fiddy is trying to say he's a rich gangster with guns that you don't want to mess with. Maybe he could have added some bonus tracks along these lines so that more than the current 100% of content could have tackled these themes. Heard one song and you've heard the album, except youve saved an hour of your life, congratulations. Sampling cocking a gun and using it in the beat for a whole track was equal parts hilarious and horrendous. I guess the beats are generally okay but I find the smug violent posturing unlistenable.

Dreadful. In Da Club does have a decent rhythm and I remember it being exceptionally popular. A poor, violent album.

We got bling, we got bitches, and oh boy do we have guns. Roll up, the gang is all here! The trifecta of gangsta rap. If you like the aforementioned, interspersed with the occasional "G unit" shout, you're in for a treat. He can rap, his voice sounds ok and I assume he wrote it, it's just the content is inane. This album epitomises everything that makes me dislike gangsta rap. I challenge anyone to find me an album that demonstrates this better. I really don't like the singles at all either which doesn't help. Played to absolute death. If I had to pick one highlight, it would be 21 questions. I would've guessed this album was released before 2003, it sounds more like it's from 1993 to me. I definitely had it. It was popular when I was at school. Yesterday we had Stanktonia which was released in 2000, 3 years before this, but feels so much more fresh (and clean) than this It's honestly quite impressive that every track on a 1hr 15 minute album is about violence or misogyny The amount of plays this has on Spotify would suggest that I know nothing! Doesn't fit with my east coast is better theory

This album started out okay enough, Hell I even thought I was enjoying it, which was shocking, but then as the hour(!) dragged on I started realizing how tiring this "I'm so cool" shit is. I'm all for being a cool as fuck, ballin' gangster, you do you man, but not a single thing here feels real. It feels like a guy coping with the fact he is a nobody, and can't handle that, so has to build himself up, give confidence by repeating the same tired stereotypes of fucking things up in the streets and the sheets, and not a single moment feels justified. It only explains to me why so many YouTube comments under these songs are like "these are my hustling songs" or "this gets me pumped" because no one is actually impressed with 50 Cent's accomplishments, they only take his place because they wish they were as cool as his lifestyle, and they daydream about it while working their 3rd shift at the gas station. If you enjoy this, more power to you, as I said, at first I get it, but if you think this whole album's existence is justified, rather than just one or two tracks, I want to know what draws you in, because all I'm seeing is a wannabe gangster rap great, and they make that abundantly clear that's what 50 Cent is, with all the allusions to other, BETTER rappers. 50 may have had hits, but he fell out fame pretty quickly, and this album explains that.

I know this is considered a landmark album in early 2000s hip hop, and for a lot of people it defined an era. I went into it fully aware of its reputation and cultural impact, hoping I might find something in it that connected. It just did not land for me. The production is polished and confident, and you can hear why it dominated at the time. There is swagger, hooks and plenty of attitude. But across a full album listen, it all felt very one dimensional to my ears. The themes, the tone and the overall vibe never really shift, and I found myself disengaging rather than getting pulled in. I can respect its place in music history and the impact it had commercially and culturally. It is clearly an important record for the genre. It just does not align with my personal taste, and I cannot see myself returning to it. Favourite song: None stood out enough for me Least favourite song: Most of the album blends into one for me Album artwork: Instantly recognisable and iconic for many, but not one I would choose to display

I’m sure if there were only 1,001 albums in the world I wouldn’t want to have this as one to listen to. Look, it’s not offensive. In places the music bounces along in quite a catchy way. But I’m not convinced the lyrics are either profound, clever or interesting. If The Wire had a soundtrack this would be it.

Every song sounds the same. In da club sounds slightly better than the rest. No thanks.

Just don’t

1/5. Gangster rap really has not aged well. It's ultimately a collection of songs talking about how tough/cool/great he is.

Another one of those albums that isn't for me. There is nothing here for me to relate to, it's not aimed at me. I get it. But I like hip hop and I know really I don't like this. The main reason is that I don't think 50 is very good at his job. A rapper that isn't good at rapping. I'm not Eminem's biggest fan, but his appearance on 'Patiently Waiting' really stands out as the closest this thing has to a highlight. The production is meh, the themes are endless violence and excess ... which I could forgive but we're back to everything just not being very good. Millions of people lapped it up, so what do I know.

Is this a joke?

This is so shit. A real nail in the coffin of hip hop. Tone - monotone, he sounds bored of himself, but then… occasional out of tune singing! Flow - generic and uninspired. Production - lazy and repetitive. Lyrics - complete gangster garbage. I hate that this was so popular.

Didn’t listen to the entire album because I didn’t want to and I remember when these songs were everywhere.

trash

I can see why he became popular, but I am not a fan.

2/10 bro, this shits unbelievably weak like how can a dude write this and think it sounds hard in any way it’s just hilariously bad, like oh my god

Dit album laat me volkomen koud. Minpuntje erbij voor het gescheld en we zijn weer op het vertrouwde aantal sterren voor dit soort artiesten.