Nov 14, 2018 Growing up my sister had 2pac posters on her wall and my brother had Biggie and nwa. They loved hip hop. But there was a age gap between us and me being younger I didn’t really get it. But when Eminem came through and 50 fallowed to run the rap game.... this is what made me fall in love with him hop. This is one of the albums that gave me a passion for the culture. 10/10 I still bump it
Nov 15, 2018 Can’t be anything less than 10/10. Everything on it it’s perfect. 50 sounds fresh af Production is amazing In fa club was playing in every single corner you could turn lol Amazing album, amazing times
Nov 15, 2018 8.5/10 Finished this last night. Forgot what an amazing album this is. Production is top quality. 50’s storytelling on this>>>>>. In Da Club, Many Men, High all the Time, all timeless classics. For having been released in 2003, this album aged very well.
Nov 15, 2018 Guess who’s back Is the greatest mixtape ever. Period. I bought that s--- too when it came out. One of the few projects I literally played constantly for years (and still do if I’m being honest). I eventually lost or broke my cd or someone stole it, can’t remeber, so I re-burned it to cd but also added the best songs off Power of the Dollar to it that weren’t already on guess who’s back. That s--- was all I listened too. It blew my mind. I never heard anyone as prolific, before or since, as 50 cent was during this era. One more thing, Da Repercussions and Lifes on the Line >> Edit: I know I’m in the minority here but pre-Eminem 50 was goat. They dropped amazin s--- together and i wouldn’t want it any other way, but pre-Eminem 50 was way better musically. Just my opinion. I know it’s unpopular.
Nov 15, 2018 9.5/10. This album is responsible for me, and I assume several others, getting into hip-hop when I was younger. I can’t believe it is over 15 years old. What a timeless classic. Middle school me was bumping p---- on the school bus every morning. I would give this a 9/10 on nostalgia alone, but it still holds up as one of the best rap albums ever imo. Many Men is one of my favorites. “Death gotta be easy, ‘cause life is hard.” “Hommo shot me, three weeks later he got shot down Now it's clear that I'm here for a real reason ‘Cause he got hit like I got hit, but he ain't f---in' breathin'”
Nov 15, 2018 What time zone are you in again (or, in how many hours-ish do you think you will you post a new one)? Wanna make sure I get my rating/blurb up before that happens!
Nov 15, 2018 Iconic album that will give anyone growing up in that time period nostalgia. I distinctly remember being in elementary school when this came & you heard “In Da Club,” “Many Men,” “P.I.M.P.,” & “21 Questions” EVERY WHERE. Cars blasting it out speakers, in malls, commercials, MTV etc. You talk about an album that literally took over the music industry overnight, this was it. This was in large part because it’s one of the finest produced hip-hop albums ever. 50’s charisma/swagger is so abundant throughout the project, he just sounds so natural. It makes the whole album so hypnotic, like you just have to bob your head to every song. I’d say this album is like a high 8 but for rounding sake I’ll just say 8.5/10.
Nov 15, 2018 Like a lot of people in this thread mentioned, this was really a coming of age album for me—I was in 6th grade when this came out and 50 was one of the first artists I ever got into, along with Eminem, Nelly, Chingy (lol), Murphy Lee (lol), Ludacris, and some other artists that were really, um, of that time. But GROD held up for much longer than any of those artists for my friends and me. In Da Club still sounds fresh today (as does a lot of production). I remember being in college and it came on in a bar and thinking how dope it would have been to have been of drinking age when that song was popular. In high school, my friends and I knew "Heat" word for word and would get drunk, play it, and yell the whole thing, skit/outro included ("Cause my motherfuckin hat is bulletproof! But the Doc said if I get hit, I might get a f---in' concussion). But that being said, my fav song from the album is actually the bonus track "U Not Like Me" "n----s wanna shine like me (Me) Rhyme like me (Me) Then walk around with a 9 like me (Me) They want to do it 3 to 9 like me And they ain't strong enough to take 9 like me Ayo, you think about shittin' on fifty, save it My songs belong in the Bible with King Davids I teach n----s sign language, that ain’t deaf, son [click click] you heard that? That mean run Ask around, I ain't the one you wanna stunt on, pa Pull through, I throw a f---ing cocktail at ya car" And probably my favorite: "Shell hitted my jaw, I ain't wait for doctor to get it out Hit my wisdom tooth [huck-too] spit it out" That I-don't-give-a-f--- swaggger/charisma is just unmatched. 8.8/10
Nov 15, 2018 For nostalgia reasons I want to say 10/10 but it’s probably like a mid 8 to 9, I’ll say 8.5. Generation defining album. If you mid twenties to thirties, 50 probably one of the first rappers you got into. Don’t think any rapper has ever been as big as 50 was at his peak in the mid 2000s.
Nov 16, 2018 This was originally one of the songs on guess who’s back. U not like me is legendary. A top 5 50 song for sure. Song doesn’t get enough love. Happy you mentioned it. I didn’t even realize this was also a song on GRODT. Also, 50’s As The World Turns >>> Hova’s Big Pimpin
Nov 16, 2018 Guess Who's Back was so great. Had Life's on the Line, U Not Like Me, Ghetto Qu'ran. Plus there was that G Unit remix of that Wu Tang song, Take That I think it was called. Need to give it another listen one of these days, good memories
Nov 16, 2018 Get Rich or Die Tryin’ gets an 8.8/10 based off 20 ratings Next up... RATING 2: Kendrick Lamar & TDE - Black Panther: The Album Release Date: 9 February 2018 Label: Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope Tracklist: 01. Black Panther - Kendrick Lamar 02. All The Stars - Kendrick Lamar & SZA 03. X - Schoolboy Q, 2 Chainz & Saudi 04. The Ways - Khalid & Swae Lee 05. Opps - Vince Staples & Yungen Blakrok 06. I Am - Jorja Smith 07. Paramedic! - SOB X RBE 08. Bloody Waters - Ab-Soul, Anderson .Paak & James Blake 09. King’s Dead - Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar & Future 10. Redemption (Interlude) 11. Redemption - Zacari & Babes Wodumo 12. Seasons - Mozzy, Sjava & Reason 13. Big Shot - Kendrick Lamar & Travis Scott 14. Pray for Me - The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar This remains one of my personal favorite releases of the year. Most soundtracks tend to come off as disjointed or just over-the-top (ahem, Creed 2), but this is actually a really good, well thought-out collection of songs. I like how Kendrick threads himself through the whole project, it gives the album a sense of continuity and brings all the diverse sounds together. Plus, there’s a bunch of South Africans on here and its amazing for me to hear them keeping up with all these big names. There’s a few songs that don’t work but overall one of the best soundtracks in recent memory tbh. 7.5/10 @RateThisAlbum
Nov 16, 2018 I remember when this soundtrack first came, I was left feeling pretty underwhelmed but that might have been because of all the big names/expectations. I’ve since gone back to it & several songs have grown on me. The project is a bit of a mess in how it’s put together. It sounds like a a bunch of songs just thrown together but at the end of the day it is a soundtrack. I think Kendrick did nice job in putting artists on tracks that fit their styles/strengths. There are several stand out performances, Kendrick did his thing on most tracks, schoolboy was cool, Anderson .Paak was cool, Mozzy did his thing. Then of course there were the Bay Area natives that completely stole the show — SOB x RBE. These kids (yes..kids, a couple of the members were still in high school at the time) from Vallejo knew this was their moment to make an impression on a wide audience & they did not let down: “22 or 23 I’m heavy with the heat, hit with you this chop, paramedics can’t save you, really in the field, com’on bro, I know that ain’t you, 2018, h--- no I ain’t gon’ fade you, gon’ paint you, TDE and SOB, we can’t lose” “California n----- and I’m heavy in these streets, if you don’t keep a pole, how you ready when it’s beef?” “One whole wood to the neck, it’s a 8th in it, new baby chop, let it sing, it’s a Drake n-----” Hardest song of the fucken year. Project over all is a 7.5/10.
