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Track Listing 1. Intro 2. What up Gangsta 3. Patiently Waiting - (featuring Eminem) 4. Many Men (Wish Death) 5. In da Club 6. High All the Time 7. If I Can't 8. Blood Hound - (featuring Young Buck) 9. Back Down 10. P.I.M.P. 11. Like My Style - (featuring Tony Yayo) 12. Poor Lil Rich 13. 21 Questions - (featuring Nate Dogg) 14. Don't Push Me - (featuring Lloyd Banks) 15. Gotta Make It to Heaven 16. Wanksta 17. U Not Like Me 18. Life's on the Line
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. 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. This Limited version includes a bonus documentary DVD disc. Personnel includes: 50 Cent, Eminem, Young Buck, Tony Yayo, Nate Dogg, Lloyd Banks. Producers include: Dr. Dre, Eminem, John Freeman, Red Spyda, Terence Dudley. 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.
Industry 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)
Included in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2003 Rolling Stone (12/25/2003)
Ranked #35 in Uncut's Albums Of The Year 2003 Uncut (01/01/2004)
Ranked #6 in Q's The 50 Best Albums of 2003 - [H]ip hop's man of the year, no contest. Q (01/01/2004)
In Da Club ranked #14 in Entertainment Weekly's 2003 Records of the Year Entertainment Weekly (12/26/2003)
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