50 Cent Get Rich Or Die Tryin' CD

50 Cent was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' was nominated for Best Rap Album. "In The Club" was nominated for Best Male Rap Solo Performance and for Best Rap Song.

50 Cent was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' was nominated for Best Rap Album. "In Da Club" was nominated for Best Male Rap Solo Performance and for Best Rap Song.

Provocative 2003 official debut from Queens gangsta-poet, includes anthemic #1 hit "In Da Club."

With its inclusion on the mega-successful 8 MILE soundtrack, 50 Cent's "Wanksta" blew up in late 2002, calling out the hypocrisies of wannabe gangstas who boast of criminal exploits that exist only in their imaginations. If anyone has the right to speak it's 50 Cent; he made his mark in the streets (not to mention newspapers) long before Eminem inked the Queens rapper to his Shady Records. In between the occasional single and album, 50 Cent has been involved in many notorious hip-hop confrontations. The too-aptly titled GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' (which includes "Wanksta") introduces his brash, talk-it-like-he-walks-it rap style to the world at large.

50 Cent blithely cites the Bible in "Many Men (Wish Death)" while crowing about the rival who famously shot him in 2000 only to be shot himself ("cuz he got hit like I got hit and he ain't...breathin'"). From that slice of ultra-reality, he shifts to the dance-pop anthem "In Da Club." Throughout GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN', 50 Cent presents a strikingly original, raw worldview, even by the well-traveled genre's bleak and violent standards.

Though critics may disagree about the success of superstar rapper 50 Cent's foray into acting, few would question his skills when it comes to supplying the accompanying soundtrack. GET RICH OR DIE TRYING is packed with the lyrical honesty, gritty immediacy, and plain-spoken realism that originally endeared 50 and G-Unit to their legion of fans. The film in question is a semi-autobiographical story of a drug dealer turned MC, and most of the tracks here are of a piece, addressing either the desperate struggle for ghetto survival ("Hustler's Ambition," Young Buck's "Don't Need No Help") or the cultural difficulties that can accompany a quick rise from dire poverty to fame and fortune ("Talk About Me," Tony Yayo's "Fake Love"). Musically, many of the songs are influenced by classic 1970's and '80's R&B, whether it's the go-go-style synthesizers of "We Both Think Alike" or choice samples from Maze, Valerie Simpson, and Bobby Womack. A rare example of a huge seller (not to mention multi-media enterprise) that manages to retain hip-hop street cred, GET RICH OR DIE TRYING shows 50 Cent and his G-Unit comrades at the top of their game.

Probably the most hyped debut album by a rap artist in about a decade, most likely since Snoop's Doggystyle (1993) or perhaps Nas' Illmatic (1994), 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' certainly arrived amid massive expectations. In fact, the expectations were so massive that they overshadowed the music itself -- 50 becoming more of a phenomenon than simply a rapper -- so massive that you had to be skeptical, particularly given the marketing-savvy nature of the rap wo

This Limited version includes a bonus documentary DVD disc.

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Personnel: Tracie Spencer (vocals); Mike Elizondo (guitar, keyboards); Ron Feemster, Luis Resto (keyboards).

Audio Mixers: Eminem; Ted Wohlsen; Patrick Viala; Richard Travali; Steven King.

Recording information: 54 Sound, Detroit, MI; Chung King Studio, NY; Encore Studios, Burbank, CA; Lobo Studios, Deerpark, NY; Teamwork Studios, Long Island, NY.

Editor: Carlisle Young.

Personnel includes: 50 Cent, Eminem, Young Buck, Tony Yayo, Nate Dogg, Lloyd Banks.

Producers include: Dr. Dre, Eminem, John Freeman, Red Spyda, Terence Dudley.

Rolling Stone (No. 988, p.118) - 3.5 out of 5 stars - "...[A]nother state-of-the-art installment of the Fiddy story....The tracks are his creamiest..."
Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.104) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003"
Rolling Stone (3/6/03, p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A great record....Dark synth grooves, buzzy keyboards and a persistently funky bounce..."
Entertainment Weekly (12/26/03, p.145) - "In Da Club" ranked #14 in Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "Records of the Year"
Entertainment Weekly (2/21/03, pp.148-9) - "...50 Cent may end up the Goliath he wants to be..." - Rating: B
Q (01/01/04, p.83) - Ranked #6 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums of 2003" - "[H]ip hop's man of the year, no contest."
Uncut (01/04, pp.84-7) - Ranked #35 in Uncut's "Albums Of The Year 2003"
Uncut (5/03, p.109) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...[An] unapologetic throwback to straight-assed songs about guns, girls and drugs..."