GRODT falls off HEAVY after Back Down
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BK The Great
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21 Questions was dope cause of Nate Dogg hook, but Dr. Dre didn't want that song on the album cause it was "too sappy"
When producer Dr. Dre worked with 50 Cent on his debut album, he did not want the song on the album. According to 50 Cent, "Dre was, like, 'How you goin' to be gangsta this and that and then put this sappy love song on?'" 50 Cent responded saying, "I'm two people. I've always had to be two people since I was a kid, to get by. To me that's not diversity, it's necessity."
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When producer Dr. Dre worked with 50 Cent on his debut album, he did not want the song on the album. According to 50 Cent, "Dre was, like, 'How you goin' to be gangsta this and that and then put this sappy love song on?'" 50 Cent responded saying, "I'm two people. I've always had to be two people since I was a kid, to get by. To me that's not diversity, it's necessity."
21 Questions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rell84shots
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Oh shyt DJ Khaled is a poster on the coli
Like My Style, Poor lil rich, gotta make it to heaven were all okay to me till years later when I went back and listened now they all among my most played from the album. Some of the best lines he ever said on poor Lil rich
In all honestly, it's always been an average album.....Exalted because of 50's hype and our age at the time, for many reasons...I could write a fukking thesis on this album, and how i played throughout my life in 2003, junior in high school, hotels where I partied for days, 'Get Rich Or Die Trying' on an XBOX, along with all the rest of 50's mixtapes, in every car I got into, or rode passenger in, smoking a blunt at the beach, or leaving school, this album was an omnipresent soundtrack to my life, whether I wanted it or not, it was inescapable. I shot my boy the connect on AIM for the bootleg, and he burned dozens of copies, and we split the money. I rode around scheming with my boys listening to 'Heat', watched girls strip and dance to '21 Questions', and 'PIMP', on hotel beds when I was 16....I have memories of friends that died listening to this with them in the car, speeding down the freeway.... 'Get Rich Of Die Trying' is forever embedded in my memories.....
The album though....There are some indisputable bangers, 'What Up Gangsta', 'Many Men', among them.....But, it's formulaic and very dated by Aftermath production, Eminem, and 50 himself. It's paint by the numbers music.....The weed track, the club track, the diss track, the love song, the 'Heaven' song.....Banks murders his verse on 'Don't Push Me', but i can't suffer through Eminem much in 2016. Or 2010, for that matter. It aged instantly to me, and even by Fall 2003, the only tracks I really played were 'What Up Gangsta'...Some great production, and a lot of really average productions, and this is where 50 is exposed as not having much to say.....I liked 'The Massacre' better, though as an album it's bloated and marred by commercial attempts, the content is much better, and the production more varied.
The album though....There are some indisputable bangers, 'What Up Gangsta', 'Many Men', among them.....But, it's formulaic and very dated by Aftermath production, Eminem, and 50 himself. It's paint by the numbers music.....The weed track, the club track, the diss track, the love song, the 'Heaven' song.....Banks murders his verse on 'Don't Push Me', but i can't suffer through Eminem much in 2016. Or 2010, for that matter. It aged instantly to me, and even by Fall 2003, the only tracks I really played were 'What Up Gangsta'...Some great production, and a lot of really average productions, and this is where 50 is exposed as not having much to say.....I liked 'The Massacre' better, though as an album it's bloated and marred by commercial attempts, the content is much better, and the production more varied.
Yeah when it came out the hype was indescribable, not even comparable to anything these days (mixtape run + prominent signing + eminem & dre backing + ja rule beef + shot 9 times + in da club... goddamn) but I didn't like the album itself too much
StraightUpMenace
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The only tracks I really play from the album is Back Down and Your Life's On The Line, and sometimes 21 Questions. I don't care much for the rest of the album.
WickedGames
Superstar
Classic ain't really about your unpopular opinion. It's more about how an album is embraced by a generation. GRODT is a classic
Nah, "Like My Style", "Don't Push Me", "Gotta Make It To Heaven" all come after that.
And we can't say "P.I.M.P". and "21 Questions" are good songs just cause they're "commercial", "poppy" or whatever lol?
And we can't say "P.I.M.P". and "21 Questions" are good songs just cause they're "commercial", "poppy" or whatever lol?
Life on the line was the hardest song on that album.
Many men a close second!