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Get Rich Or Die Tryin

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I remember back when this album came out, everybody loved it. I mean, even the rockers liked a few songs on this album. But then, after about a year and a half of GRODT being out, every started sippin on the G Unit haterade, and all the sudden 50 Cent is hated by many people. I checked on this cd on Amazon back when about 750 reviews were written, and it had 5 stars! Now, after 50's Massacre, people decide that they don't like GRODT either (Only 3.5 stars), after selling 11 million records. You can say what you want about The Massacre, but anybody who knows what their talking about knows that GRODT is a very hot album and is an example of how good a rapper 50 was during his underground stage, back when he was the best underground rapper alive. (If you haven't heard his mixtapes, you should, they are great, 50's flow is explosive and fast). This was 50 before the haterade, and he really exploits his talents on this cd. Most of the songs on here are very gritty, gangsta, and gutter, the way 50 should have it, not pop records. His lyrics are actually pretty good (the best you can get from a Jamaica Queens gangster) and like I said his flow is much better than in the Massacre. The beats are the biggest thing on the album though, Dr Dre put out his best beats for 50, and anybody who appreciates rap music will love the beats on this album, they are crazy good! Some of the best songs, other than the singles, because you've probably heard a few of them before are Patiently Waiting, Many Men, High All the Time, If I Can't, and Back Down. It's a shame I had to spend half of the review explaining why 50 had only 3.5 stars, but just remember, those are just Gunit hater freaks giving it 1 star and only writng 2 lines just to be idiots. Don't get me wrong, 50 has plenty of fans, but some jealous ones had to envy. There was a time, when GRODT was on top and if you buy it you will know why. It was gangsta rap at it's finest and 50 when he was a really hot rapper. So, as I said before, this was 50 at his best when everybody loved him, before the haterade was passed around. You will love this album if you get it, the beats are off the chain-crazy and you will like every song, it's definitely one of the best albums of 2003 if not the best.

The moment 50 broke into the scene with "Wanksta" (Ja Rule Diss). He immediately became the "next big thing"...then news broke out that his album would be dropping. February then came, and the album was released.

The question is: Should We Believe The Hype?

Well, you should and you shouldn't. 50 Cent has excellant production, but he has failed to have done anything ground breaking or new. Now, don't get me wrong, i COMPLETELY respect how he got into the game, but most of the subjects he talks about have already been done. Also, they're are many tracks that weren't added to the album. Where was "The Realest" & "In The Hood" ? They were high quality, yet i don't find them anywhere else except on bootleg cds

But, Don't worry, there are some good tracks. "Many Men" is a song about life. 50 Cent isn't everybody's best friend, and he knows it. It's your basic "i'll get you before you get me" scanario. "In Da Club", although is played out, talks about...well...being in the club. Its a track of 50 Boasting of what he has, what he does, and what he can do. "If I Can't" is a track of "i could do it better than you can"...nothing new, although the beat is hot! "What Up Gangsta" is like a lil anthem, short but good. "Wanksta", one of 3 bonus tracks, is the famous (but not known throughly) as the Ja Rule Diss. Its catchy i admit that, but doesn't show the full potential of 50 Cent. "21 Question" is probably one of the better & decent tracks...lyric-wise. Its a change from the "i'm better than you" personna since it talks about fame & love. "Blood Hound" has a nice flow, nice rhymes, nice beat, one of the better songs...

With the good, comes the bad. "Patiently Waiting" is one of the most overhyped tracks. Just because Eminem's name is near "featuring" doesn't guarentee it as a classic. People assume too much and hype up too much medium quality stuff. While Eminem does have a good verse, its still not enough to bring this song up where it needs to be. People, Stop Frontin!!!...well...i'm not even gonna get into that. The song is mediocre, but the world treats it as if it was a classic...please. "Like My Style" sounds very rushed, incomplete, since the hook sounds a lil bit off sync with the beat. Also, only almost all of the songs, 50 Cent attempts going vocal. Face it, that seems to be the trend these days, rappers that sing. I'll admit, sometimes it does flow nicely...but other times, he tends to just repeat the title of the song...and thats it...no effort at all. Why do rappers keep singing?! I Still don't understand that.

If your looking for some tracks laced with nice beats (thx to dr. dre), this is the album your probably looking for. Has good rhymes, not great, but good enough to flow with the beats nicely (in most cases). 50 Cent can come off arrogant at times...but thats just how he is. This album is definantly not bad, but i can't say its a classic. 50 Cent has the production down, but he still needs to work on those rhymes, since his rhymes seem shallow & once again, arrogant-sounding. On "Patiently Waiting", he says quote "When I Die, They'll Read This And Say A Genius Wrote It"...highly doubtful. I mean, i'll admit, 50 Cent does know how to make hits...but this makes him seem more like P. Diddy rather than Tupac, Biggie, Rakim, or Nas...

[Beats 90/100] - Strong point of album
[Lyrics 80/100] - I've heard better
[Creativity 75/100] - Lots of Repeating
[Flow 90/100] - I'll admit they're catchy
[Overall 80/100] - Its good...but not THAT good. He shouldn't have rushed it... He probably got a little hype over the success of "Wanksta"

"Get Rich or Die Tryin" is a contemplation of rough ghetto life from beginning to end, but it's also laced with the pop sensibilities that put album co-producers Dr. Dre and Eminem at the top of their genres, which is exactly what this album should prove to do to 50 Cent. There are tracks like "What Up Gangsta", "Heat", and "Don't Push Me", which are filled with the usual hardcore rap chatter, however 50's delivery is solid and places him above those who may rival him lyrically. The first single, "In Da Club", along with "PIMP" and "If I Can't" are the album's "fun" songs, however they do not disrupt the integrity or the flow of the album as a whole. While still providing controversy in the form of the Ja Rule/Murder Inc. diss "Back Down", 50 proves he can be more introspective on tracks like thuggish love song "21 Questions" and "Many Men", which is a song about a man struggling to keep his faith in God in an increasingly virulent world. Powerful guest appearances by G-Unit soldiers Young Buck, Tony Yayo, and Lloyd Banks, as well as Eminem and West Coast crooner Nate Dogg make the album complete, and without the use of gratuitous skits and noise making, as has become so common in rap today. "Get Rich or Die Tryin" is here, and has affirmed 50 Cent as one of the most essential performers in the industry.

This man is so talentless. The only thing worth while is the background music to his trite lyrics; this background music would be better without 50 cent's influence and can be found on a mixture of rock and, surprisingly, classical albums. Nothng original here and it butchers the real music in the background used to move this product.

"In Da Club" is a fun song to dance to. And that is where the fun of this album ends. 50 Cent's rap style has been done before (I-20, anyone on the Cash Money label). The only reason his hit song is catchy is because it sports an awesome beat created by someone other than 50 Cent. Of all of the famous rappers I have heard, 50 Cent has the least talent by far. Everything he says sounds grumbled and there is no change in the tone of his voice. In addition to his lack of talent, his lyrics are poor. There is neither depth, nor substance. Nobody will ever care what 50 Cent raps about. All they want to hear is the beats.

I gave this album 2 stars only because the beats are generally pretty good, but 50 Cent had nothing to do with them.

Over the past year or so, I've done a little bit of growing up. I'm starting to see things in a different light, particularly that of America's youth. It's starting to make me a little sick that it's "cool" to be vulgar and disrespectful these days. Before gangsta rap came along, America wasn't the craphole it is now. Am I putting some responsibility on record labels for the way kids act these days? Absolutely.

It's not a coincidence that before NWA and the like hit the mainstream, children didn't go around dressing and talking like fools. Now, rap is the most lucrative genre of music, and over the past few years I've witnessed some deterioration in the culture of America. Entertainment for young people just isn't fun for me anymore (and I'm only 21). It's all so bland. The lyrics in gangsta rap glamourize the ghetto lifestyle and, thusly, some people buy into it and think that it's all so cool and do their best to imitate what they're hearing. This is not opinion; the sales of gangsta rap CD's escalating over the past few years prove it to be a fact. As far as what I said about people imitating what they hear goes, go outside and look around you. A large number of kids weren't dressing and talking that way 10 years ago.

I used to be a HUGE rap fan. Now, I find myself listening to it less and less. If anything, I only listen to my old hip-hop CD's now for the nostalgia. I haven't bought anything new in about a year because, to put it bluntly, I'm starting to grow up. If you like gangsta rap, then fine. Nothing wrong with that at all. To each his own and, as I said, I was once a fan, too. But at least I had my own mind and didn't try to live the life of my then-favorite rapper (Tupac).

This will probably get edited by the folks at Amazon, but here goes anyway - to all the minority kids out there who look up to these rappers as a sign that you can in fact make it in the world despite the color of your skin, there are other great black musicians to listen to (Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, just to name a few). So, open your minds, kids. There is other music out there besides rap. Go back in time to find some REALLY good music because, quite frankly, I think the majority of music these days is lousy anyway. And I'm not alone on this; I know quite a few people who, like me, were into rap and as they got older, they wised up and bought music that didn't degrade women and glamourize guns.

Thanks for reading. Hmm... I wonder how many "NOT HELPFUL" votes I'll get on this one.

Remember when music was about emotion? Well in case you don't, heres a hint.. life is not about prostituting women, being a pimp, getting rich, and being shot 9 times. His music has no feeling, its all an image. IMAGE! Doubtful any of you can relate to this. It's fluffy, somewhat catchy garbage fed to you by the media, and none of you know any better than to take it for the gospel. Please proceed to run far, far, away from 50 Cent the street-worn Gangster, sitting pretty in his billion-dollar mansion, and take a look at what a sucker would buy this crappy music.

Was at my boy's crib, enjoy'n some herb, and some wanker drops in this cd. Boom, that was it, party over.
This cd has got to be the monster truck of all hip-hop ball washers.
Is it me, or does anybody understand what this dude is even say'n? He's bumbl'n, stumbl'n practically fall'n over himself just to get the rhymes out.
This is just another cat gett'n his 50, oppps, I mean, 15 minutes . . . until the same time next year. We'll all be at Mc D's tell'n dude behind the counter to sling us a mac, then we'll be like, wait a min', aren't you that rapper, what's his name?

Mykey

it seems like every day has been "shorties" birthday ever since the song "in da club" was released. i hate 50 cent. i hate rap music. People these days will like anything that is on the joke now known as MTV. i could go on mtv with a bandana on my head and an apple in my hand and rap about the food chain, and my albums would sell millions of copies. do not by this garbage.

I'm so sick of ex-cons and ex-drug dealers and crackheads getting recording contracts. This is only more proof of the sleazy state of the music industry today. I wouldn't give you one cent for this cd. I can't stand this guy's droning voice. That "In Da Club" song has been played to death by pop radio stations and on every booming car stereo driven by 16-25 year old males who think the song is cool. Anyone who thinks 50 Cent is cool needs to seek therapy at once. Why are we worshipping and idolizing lowlife thugs who should never have been released from prison where they belong?? Oh, and that's really intellegent to bring your own son to your concert and endanger his life by putting him up on the stage in a bullet-proof vest. Really smart there! In ten years when they start releasing compilation cds of rap songs from the early 2000s, they'll put a song by 50 Cent on it, and people will be saying, "Oh yeah, 50 Cent. Remember when everyone thought he was so great?"In two years from now he'll be all but forgotten while the next rap star of the moment will come along to replace him. 50 Cent is only popular now because of MTV, pop radio, and marketing. I'd rather listen to Celine Dion...and i HATE, HATE, HATE her music. That's how badly i dislike 50 Cent. Anyone who would spend money on a 50 Cent cd is stupid.