Product Description

'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' is the debut album from Eminem and Dr. Dre protege 50 Cent. The album brings together Dre's trademark hip hop production of slick hip hop beats, and gangsta style hooks with 50 Cent's tales of street life derived from his time in prison, being shot, and growing up growing upin Queens. The album also features a guest appearance from Eminem. This two disc set contains a bonus DVD.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Intro (50 Cent / Get Rich or Die Tryin')
2. What Up Gangsta
3. Patiently Waiting - 50 Cent, Eminem
4. Many Men (Wish Death)
5. In Da Club
6. High All The Time
7. Heat
8. If I Can't
9. Blood Hound - 50 Cent, Young Buck
10. Back Down
11. P.I.M.P.
12. Like My Style - 50 Cent, Tony Yayo
13. Poor Lil Rich
14. 21 Questions - 50 Cent, Nate Dogg
15. Don't Push Me - 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Eminem
16. Gotta Make It To Heaven
17. Wanksta
18. U Not Like Me
19. Lifes On The Line

Disc 2:

1. In Da Club
2. Wanksta
3. Wanksta

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9983 in Music
• Released on: 2003-02-17
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Explicit Lyrics
• Running time: 80 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Stabbed, shot, assaulted and now with a million-dollar record deal, 50 Cent lives up to the title of his latest album Get Rich or Die Trying. The New York native comes from the same school as B.I.G, Shine and Mobb Deep--a raw street rhymer who mixes the thug and poet in one perplexing package. 50 cent earned extra cred by coming up through mix-tape popularity after his first album was dropped when the ex-boxer was shot on the eve of its release. Guns, threats, drug deals and misogyny populate 50 Cent's outlaw world, but it's a popular mix--hence his recently sealed link with Eminem's record company.

The excellent "Wanksta" was pulled onto the 8 Mile soundtrack and Dr Dre produced the crunching first single, "In Da Club". Jamaican Sean Paul puts his now familiar patter on the hypnotic "Dem Not Ready". "If You Want It" is a ridiculously rude party joint, while "Cocaine Dreams" takes a pop at Ja Rule. "Got the Hood on Smash" is, undoubtedly, damn funky. Sadly his first single "How to Rob an Industry N***A" (reminiscent of B.I.G's equally scabrous "Dreams") doesn't appear. Even the most hardcore have to tone it down sometimes. --Jake Barnes

Customer Reviews

Some underground praise...
I didn't pick this album up until this year (2008) as I'm not normally into this kind of hip hop. I mainly listen to things like Talib Kweli, The Roots and other underground/intelligent stuff.

But I have to say I was surprised by this album, yes 50 raps about the stuff everyone else has said, but he does it in quite an intelligent way and over some dope beats. There are a number of standout tracks and this album is definitely worth listening to.

Just don't expect it to be A Tribe Called Quest, 'cos it definitely isn't. But if you take it for what it is you will enjoy it, and it's great for the car!

(A few too many people on their high horse about this album)

oh dear
Put ya hands in the air if you admit to listening to this abomination. Really, oh dear, what are you thinking. Eject now, snap the cd in half, "it's time to "STOP THE PAIN". You know guys like kurtis blow, Eric b and rakim, kool moe dee, slick rick, Big daddy kane,(the list is endless)tread the boards, paved the way for the next generation of rap. And oh my God is this what hip hop's come down to, muscle bound freaks that can't rap have no flow no talent and endless droning in gangsta cliche (yawn). Hip hop's a seriously powerful medium and if used in the right way can invoke emotion and reactions other forms of music can only dream of achieving, it can be a positive influence. Take "Jedi mind tricks" for example (pure talent), these guys are truly gifted, yeah there's bad language (in context), but it's modern, flowing, positive and refuses to sell out , the way rap should be, true to it's roots. I've never had anyone admit to me they listen to 50 cent. So who the buys this junk. Is it sad loners throwing gang signs in a mirror in the privacy of their bedrooms? (probably). Among educated hip hop fans 50 cent is considered a real joker, so if you profess to like hip hop and listen to this pollution to the ears, shame on you my friends, cos' this ain't hip hop. Avoid like the plague. And what is with the front cover, is this one 4 the ladyboys or what? Sickening. Avoid. Very very sad that hip hop's come down to this.

I can only give 5 stars unfortunately!
Brillaint album, a must buy for any 50 cent or rap fan & I think there is about 1 track on this album which is a bit rubbish, but hey whats one track?