Today is the 20th anniversary of Get Rich or Die Tryin
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FluffyEyes
Mrs. Boss Lady
One of the best albums ever made(even though Curtis gets on my nerves).
Black Man of the Nile
All Star
Iconic album 
Was a Cultural Phenomenon when it released
Was a Cultural Phenomenon when it released
Devil Plisken…CMS
Veteran
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HipHopStan
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Couldn't decide if I wanted to share my admiration for this album, or just say that it was GULLY and leave it at that.
I remember I had to go to three CD stores to find that album and they had one copy left at a FYE at a now defunct mall that I used to frequent. I listened to this album like every day in my car driving to school for six months straight. 50 was really hungry at the time and it showed with his delivery. The visceral nature of his flow made it all sound so real, and so damn raw. Listening to it now for the first time in quite awhile. It's still a nearly flawless piece of commercial product and remains maybe the most expensive sounding rap album ever made. Looking back, I think it can be seen as basically the culmination/endpoint of gangsta rap.
Everything else 50 has ever done is really terrible, and he’s basically become a parody of himself at this point, but this album knocked and rocked in 2003 and it still does today in 2023, dude.
I remember I had to go to three CD stores to find that album and they had one copy left at a FYE at a now defunct mall that I used to frequent. I listened to this album like every day in my car driving to school for six months straight. 50 was really hungry at the time and it showed with his delivery. The visceral nature of his flow made it all sound so real, and so damn raw. Listening to it now for the first time in quite awhile. It's still a nearly flawless piece of commercial product and remains maybe the most expensive sounding rap album ever made. Looking back, I think it can be seen as basically the culmination/endpoint of gangsta rap.
Everything else 50 has ever done is really terrible, and he’s basically become a parody of himself at this point, but this album knocked and rocked in 2003 and it still does today in 2023, dude.
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HipHopStan
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2003 was a rough year for me, but music wise, it was amazing. A truly great year for rap/hip-hop music.
SilverSamurai
All Star
Gonna watch the bonus DVD today 
PlayerNinety_Nine
Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by....
Still one of the most interesting albums of it's period.
There aren't many albums which captured the zeitgeist like it did - whether by design or mistake. 'The Predator' by Cube is up there with it for 'right place, right time' LPs.
GRODT will always be the soundtrack to the US invasion of Iraq to me. shyt was like an audio Schwarzenegger movie.
There aren't many albums which captured the zeitgeist like it did - whether by design or mistake. 'The Predator' by Cube is up there with it for 'right place, right time' LPs.
GRODT will always be the soundtrack to the US invasion of Iraq to me. shyt was like an audio Schwarzenegger movie.
InstantKlassik
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My freshman year of high school I remember everything surrounding this in real time. HISTORIC.
I remember everything surrounding this in real time. HISTORIC.