Get Rich or Die Tryin'

[Byron The Bulb]

is 10 years old today. I listened to this album like every day in my car driving to school for six months straight. Really important and formative in my development as a human being. Listening to it now for the first time in quite awhile. It's still a nearly flawless piece commercial product and remains maybe the most expensive sounding rap album ever made. Looking back, I think it can be seen as basically the culmination/endpoint of according-to-hoyle gangsta rap.

50 Cent - In Da Club

50 Cent- Patiently Waiting (feat. Eminem)
(last great Eminem verse?)

50 Cent - Heat (Lyrics)

 

[Incandenza]

50 Cent is/was awful.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I mean, everything else he's done is really terrible, but this album knocks and rocks, dude.

 

[Edwin]

Couldn't decide if I wanted to share my admiration for a good chunk of this album, or just say that it was GULLY and leave it at that.

 

[MFer]

I was just thinking about how some of these albums that are 10 years old already. My mom got me the fucking clean version of GRODT. White kids loved this shit in high school.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

It's depressing to look back at the start of Eminem's downfall.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Couldn't decide if I wanted to share my admiration for a good chunk of this album, or just say that it was GULLY and leave it at that.

Rate each track using the GULLY scale. Bad songs (there are no bad songs) get a G, classics get a full GULLY

 

[Incandenza]

A few years ago, some crust punks who were renting a house in my neighborhood spray-painted on the front of it "SUCK A DICK OR DIE TRYIN." It made me laugh, but I'd have been pretty furious if I lived within daily view of it.

 

[Baby Shoes]

I re-listened to this on my way to and from work today due to this thread. Loved this album when it came out and Patiently Waiting was my favorite track. Stayed my favorite "mainstream" debut for only a minute, when College Dropout came out.

 

[Fall of Epic]

I never got the love for "In Da Club". An awesome beat set to awful rhymes. P.I.M.P was a much better song and is the only 50 track I can tolerate.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Byron's right, you guys. The production on this did sound expensive, as if they paid a premium to play you something that sounded like it was ahead of its time. It still sounds like that in a lot of ways, which shows it hasn't aged much. 50 was really hungry at the time and it showed with his delivery. Maybe like me you can't personally relate to the lyrics and the stories he's telling, but the visceral nature of his flow still made it all sound so real, and so damn raw.

 

[still fly]

I really thought 50 would be an all time great then his second album came out and good lord was that the worst piece of shit, phoned in, money grab ever.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I re-listened to this on my way to and from work today due to this thread. Loved this album when it came out and Patiently Waiting was my favorite track. Stayed my favorite "mainstream" debut for only a minute, when College Dropout came out.

Ironic because I think that media hyped Kanye West-50 Cent rivalry in '07 or '08 when 50 dropped whatever piece of shit album he came out with that year the same day as Graduation was the nail in the coffin of 50's career as a mildly respectable recording artist (rather than the multimedia corporate shill he is now). I

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

Oh yeah. 50 hasn't been the same since Graduation came out.

 

[still fly]

He was exposed when The Massacre came out.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

In retrospect, yeah, 50 was over when that came out but at the time, people (well, idiots at least) thought his third album was gonna be his big comeback and when it came out and got slaughtered by Graduation, it was clear that 50 was over.

 

[Baby Shoes]

He was exposed when The Massacre came out.

Pretty much this. I was so hyped for The Massacre, which was following up his best album with arguably his worst album. The one that came out same time as Graduation at least had Ayo Technology. If I'm remembering right, Massacre was also released so close to The Game's album, which was better.

 

[Edwin]

I'm trying to think of good comparisons for 50-Cent's career arc. Requirements:
-excellent ahead of its time debut that achieved massive commercial success
-everything afterward was terrible
-made infinite money via other business ventures

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I'm trying to think of good comparisons for 50-Cent's career arc. Requirements:
-excellent ahead of its time debut that achieved massive commercial success
-everything afterward was terrible
-made infinite money via other business ventures

Barack Obama

 

[Incandenza]

So I'm listening to this. I'm nine tracks in and I've liked only two (2) songs. This guy is far too uninteresting a rapper to carry all this bloat.

 

[KOAB]

his best song isn't even on this album... it's on the shitty soundtrack to the shitty movie.

 

[Incandenza]

Mods, ban Byron for indirectly making me listen to this garbage.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Mods, ban Incandenza for being too pussy to handle 50 Cent's realness

 

[KOAB]

Never listen to byron when he hypes/recommends/etc. any rap.

It's all awful.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Inc has a reasonable request. I'll take this up the chain.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

his best song isn't even on this album... it's on the shitty soundtrack to the shitty movie.

"Wanksta"?

 

[KOAB]

...

 

[still fly]

his best song isn't even on this album... it's on the shitty soundtrack to the shitty movie.

"Wanksta"?

LOL

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Fun fact: "Wanksta" was my first exposure to 50 Cent. I saw the video for it on MuchMusicUSA like a week before "In Da Club" blew up. I thought it was sort of wack. "In Da Club" was a p. great single though.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

Yeah, "Wanksta" was his first mainstream single. Then he made headlines because he was one of the guys Jam Master Jay was mentoring before he died, so police were questioning him in New York.