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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Okay kids; class is in session...., March 18, 2005
Some of you people out there seem to be surprised by how weak 50's new album is. Let me explain to you all how this works. When 2pac died he had a lot of unreleased music that he recorded. What this tells me is that artists record music that they hold on to and wait till the right time to release. When 50's first album came out he had to bring the goods to build a fan base. As you know most albums have 3 or 4 good songs and the rest is just filler. If an artist put all his good songs on one album, then his next album would be complete garbage (a.k.a. filler). Its all about money/record sales. 50 knows that all of his fans/suckers will run down to Best Buy and grab his latest cd. So he'll give you a few singles to listen to on the radio 45 times a day to get you hyped. Then when his album drops its PAYDAY. You think he would put some more hot tracks out for the fans who MADE him a millionaire, but no. We have to wait till his next cd for 3 or 4 more good songs. I used to be a fan/sucker too. But I haven't bought a rap cd in 3 years because of this BS. Just download the songs you like best and save your money so that you can waste it on a crappy movie like Be Cool. CLASS DISMISSED
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I thought 50 cent was supposed to be the leader of G unit, March 8, 2005
I gave it 2 stars because it has some pretty good production, but if I were only judging lyrics, this album is a zero.This album is dissapointing at best, no matter how you look at it. If you want a CD with great beats, this CD is definitely above average in its beat production, but doesn't even come close to standing up to 50's first CD or Game's beats, and production is supposed to get better over time. Lyrically, after listening to other younger G Unit members Game and Lloyd Banks recently, it's almost painful to listen to how bad 50's flow is.
On both his singles he says the same phrase "take it to the next level." The CD is full of meaningless phrases like this that only affirm that 50 hasn't taken it "to the next level" lyrically, instead he's fallen off. The line that pisses me off more than any of the other pointless phrases he says is on the song everyone's heard: Candy Shop. He asks "Isn't it ironic how erotic it is to watch her in thongs?" The line offends me not because it degrades women, but just because of how stupid of a rhyme it is and proves fifty may know less about what irony really is than Alanis Morisette. I feel dumber every time I hear it because it doesn't make sense, there's nothing ironic about having 'watching a girl in a thong' be erotic. That's pretty much the norm, fifty.
Game made sure his first CD was a classic, he took you on a jouney through the history of the last 15 years of rap music. This CD on the other hand is all recycled garbage useless lyrics that nobody will learn anything from or even rewind a single part to hear it again, because you won't care. His flow is all monosyllabic rhymes, he would be nowhere if he didn't have street cred of being a real gangster. One may think you could at least look forward to the standard Aftermath classic tracks: a couple Nate Dogg tracks, a good Eminem feature, a couple amazing Dre beats. However, all those are missing, the Dre beats are minimal and just OK, no Nate, and Eminem's feature is his worst in a while. The whole song is stuck on this stupid comic book charcacter theme (Gatman and Robin) that Em started with that lame song Superman, which was on his 3rd album when his albums started to suck coincidentally. Em tries way too hard to flow to the melody of the song, and the beat and melody are so repetitive, it sounds really lame and like he's warming up by singing up and down scales as he rhymes, and I am a big Em fan. Anyways, 50 has a couple good lines on the whole album, but he seems to already have Snoop Dogg syndrome (completely out of rhymes so you resort to lame single syllable rhymes like boom, zoom and tomb) by his second album. People keep mentioning Piggy Bank as a highlight, but that song is terrible, don't waste your money downloading it. Songs that you should check out to see which ones you like the most for downloading include the following in order of how much I like (#1 = favorite and so on...):
1. Just a Lil' Bit
2. I'm supposed to Die Tonight
3. God Gave Me Style
4. So Amazing
5. Position of Power
6. Get in my car
7. A Baltimore Love Thing
8. The Ski mask way
9. Ryder music
10. Hate it or Love it Remix ft. Game AND Lloyd Banks
11. Build you up ft. Jamie Foxx
12. In my hood
13. My toy soldier ft. Tony Yayo
14. Disco Inferno
15. Candy Shop
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
50 cent mediocre at his best, April 7, 2005
A Kid's Review
Yo, 50 Cent has half the sense of a Young Buck, a dollar and male deer. Would someone please shine light in the eyes of all these G-unit, Garbage Unit dudes and show them for what they really are, a bunch of fake, half a** rap charlatans. 50 wouldn't be so bad if he were consistently garbage but the fact that he actually shines when he wants to is what makes his music an insult to one's intelligence. The other 50% of the time he is dumbing down the music Jay-Z style just to get a buck. I mean, come on now when your living in the 'burbs of Connecticut, eating massive amounts of swordfish, drinking only Spring water and hosting the local high school prom, where's the logic or credibility of making a song like Ski-mask way? Yo, it would actually seem more logical economically speaking if someone rolled up on 50 Cent and were like "that G-Unit pendant's nice, is this what you bought for me." Dag yo, what's up with the synthetic gangster imagery when 50 Cent if he were truly a "thugged out gansta", he'd actually consent to housing the high school prom off gate, then rob all the decked out graduates-to be and make off with all the prized pearls and jewels of the wanna be prom kings and queens.
Yo 50 is fake as the lead in pencils, just graphite, and so 50 Cent is merely graphic, yet totally without any substantiating reason or method to the madness behind the outrageous exploits he presumes will sell forever. My point of speaking of his insult to the intelligentsia of the masses of consumers is when he actually drops garbage all over an album and then produces what has to be a constipated gem in the form of "Baltimore Love Thing". Yo, that jawnt alone is worth a single but guess what, it won't be because on the DL, 50 Cent's garbage unit rhymes and Drugs are big business. You would have to waste $15 bucks for one good song and a whole album with only one good song isn't even worth 1 star yet 0.0 is not an option according to the rating system. All y'all 50 Cent fan club members who can't wait for the next 50 Cent album or G(Garbage)-Unit crappola, tell 50 to make some more conscientious songs like "Baltimore Love Thing" that frankly and artfully discuss the dangers and hazards of long term drug use, and that song was about heroin in case 50 Cent at his best went over the heads of some of you narfs.
Believe it or not Hip Hop will make a return and the music will cease to be a pit stop and dumping ground for money hungry lucres, wrongfully rebellious well offs, and perverts who can't get enough of porn-pop and half-nude to nude nubians shaking their a**es without discretion, because they have adult video stores for that. Do what you want at home, but the airwaves should be safe for younger kids, they can listen to something like "Baltimore Love Thing" but not "Candy Shop". Sure parents should raise their children but the radio you shouldn't have to deny your kids, especially young girls and daughters. 50 Cent's music should imbue a little hope, you know. How does that song go, oh yeah, "Just A Lil Bit" of hope you know. Do it for the kids 50, the kids, the kids, the kids.
50 Cent's music is strictly for suburbanite daydreamers trying to rebel against their parents, parents who actually want their kids to succeed in life, rather than proclive to a lifestyle that they were fortunate enough to not have to be born into. As far as those who were born into some rather harsh environments, 50 needs to make some music to provide an alternative to the cycle that they were born in, you know, a little hope. 50 Cent's music should foster a little hope. As far as hope is concerned, we only need "Just A Lil Bit". The hoods are harsh enough without 50 cent standing on the outside looking in, yo check it, Immortal Technique is coming to take all the garbage out to the curb with his LP "Middle Passage" due out this year, check for it and watch the trash fly in the wind. PEACE.
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