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Get Rich or Die Tryin’

50 Cent

hip hop gangsta rap east coast hip hop pop rap hardcore hip hop new york
Interscope Shady

Recorded

2003

Released

2003

Get Rich or Die Tryin’ is full of dramatic action-movie atmosphere, standard-bearing production from Dr. Dre (including the standout “In da Club”), and typically witty bars from 50 Cent. In ’03, nothing was more captivating than a Queens-based rapper, produced by Dre, having beef with other MCs (i.e., Ja Rule)— a shot (nine times!), stabbed and jailed former drug dealer to boot. 50 Cent’s classic debut formed a foundation for G-Unit, four more studio albums, and his 2005 biopic of the same name.

Miles Marshall Lewis

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