Track Listing
1. Intro (Skit)
2. What Up Gangsta
3. Patiently Waiting
4. Many Men (Wish Death)
5. In Da Club
6. High All The Time
7. Heat
8. If I Can't
9. Blood Hound
10. Back Down
11. PIMP
12. Like My Style
13. Poor Lil Rich
14. 21 Questions
15. Don't Push Me
16. Gotta Make It To Heaven
17. Wanksta
18. U Not Like Me
19. Lifes On The Line
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Dr. Dre, Eminem | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: 50 Cent, Eminem, Young Buck, Tony Yayo, Nate Dogg, Lloyd Banks.Producers include: Dr. Dre, Eminem, John Freeman, Red Spyda, Terence Dudley.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.
Editorial Reviews
...50 Cent may end up the Goliath he wants to be... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (02/21/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...A great record....Dark synth grooves, buzzy keyboards and a persistently funky bounce...
Rolling Stone (03/06/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...[An] unapologetic throwback to straight-assed songs about guns, girls and drugs...
Uncut (05/01/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...[An] unapologetic throwback to straight-assed songs about guns, girls and drugs...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 (2/21/03, p.148-9) - ...50 Cent may end up the Goliath he wants to be... - Rating: B
Uncut (05/01/2003)
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