![]() Dre beat and 50 Cent’s flat-out confidence rapping the chorus, “If I can’t do it, homie, it can’t be done! Now I’ma let the champagne bottle pop, I’ma take it to the top, for sure I’m a make it hot, baby!” Of course, the album wasn’t all ethos and pathos other songs like “If I Can’t” were fun-as-hell toe tappers, thanks to another catchy Dr. Indeed, 50 Cent oozed the proper street cred required for the “gangsta rap” era of the 1990s and 2000s, from joking references on the aforementioned “In Da Club” (“I’ve been hit with a few shells, but I don’t walk with a limp, I’m aight”) to serious declarations on the merciful track “Many Men” (“Many men wish death upon me, blood in my eye, dawg, and I can’t see, I’m tryin’ to be what I’m destined to be, but trying to take my life away”). Dre also joined Eminem in the music video, wearing lab coats to create their protege on treadmills like a fresh hip-hop specimen.Įminem hopped on the mic to join 50 Cent on the track “Patiently Waiting,” which opens with 50 saying, “Hey, Em, you know you my favorite white boy, right? I owe you for this one.” After 50 Cent’s methodical hook, Eminem’s verse is fire: “Take some Big and some Pac and you mix ’em up in a pot, sprinkle a little Big L on top, what the f*** do you got? You got the realest and illest killers tied up in a knot, the juggernauts of this rap sh**, like it or not.”Įminem had previously worked with 50 Cent on the “8 Mile” (2002) soundtrack, which won Em an Oscar for “Lose Yourself.” It also featured 50’s “Wanksta,” which returned as a bonus track on “Get Rich or Die Tryin'” with the hook: “You say you a gangsta, but you never pop nothin’, we say you a wanksta and you need to stop frontin’.” 1 as 50 Cent sang, “Go shorty, it’s your birthday” to Dre’s all-time banger of a beat. Its breakthrough hit, “In Da Club,” reached No. Dre’s Aftermath Records and 50 Cent’s own G-Unit Records. Instead, “Get Rich or Die Tryin'” became his debut by Jimmy Iovine’s Interscope Records along with Eminem’s Shady Records, Dr. In a 1999 incident, the rapper was shot nine times, giving him a dimple scar and canceling the release of what was supposed to be his debut album “Power of the Dollar” (2000), even after singles like “Thug Love” with Destiny’s Child. In high school you was the man, homie!”Īs a Top 10 selling rap album of all time, it instantly “put the rap game in a chokehold” with a red album cover showing the native of Queens, New York, defiantly standing through the shattered glass of a bullet hole. Whoa, hold up, has it really been 20 years since 50 Cent exploded onto the scene back in ’03? It feels like yesterday that we were teenagers riding around with the windows down my senior year of high school blasting this hot new album by an unknown Curtis Jackson with the words: “Damn, homie. Rapper 50 Cent takes the stage at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia, as his farewell jaunt “The Final Lap Tour” ceremoniously marks the 20th anniversary of his seminal hip-hop album “Get Rich or Die Tryin'” (2003). ![]() on Monday night? Why not make it a DMV trifecta with a hip-hop show in Virginia on Tuesday night? WTOP's Jason Fraley previews 50 Cent at Jiffy Lube Live (Part 1)ĭid you see Beyonce at FedEx Field in Maryland over the weekend? Are you headed to Pink at Nationals Park in D.C. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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