Word: cent
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...Cent has a major edge over his aspiring killers, as well as most other emcees on the rise, like his executive producers Dr. Dre and Eminem. The latter signed 50 Cent onto the Shady/Aftermath label after Columbia Records dropped him for releasing bootleg records on the street and lampooning ostentatious musical celebrities...
Along with most of hip-hop’s current luminaries, 50 Cent has a talent for setting life stories to clever, expletive-laden rhymes and killer beats (pun intended). When he’s not boasting about his talents and mad pimpin’ skillz or taking potshots at his archenemies, he has an autobiography to tell...
...what a story it is. Though “Patiently Waiting,” describes his ascent to success, it’s misleading—if anything, 50 Cent is not patient. If he doesn’t like something, he tells you immediately. Exhibit A: the hypnotic “Wanksta,” a bonus cut also featured on the wildly successful 8 Mile soundtrack. Chock-full of thinly veiled jabs at Ja Rule and his label Murder, Inc., “Wanksta” is the latest opus in a complex longtime feud that involves stealing...
Most of the time, though, 50 Cent is content to blow just himself up—his ego, that is—but the violence that characterized his drug-dealing days in the Jamaica, Queens ghetto is never far beneath the surface of pimps and bitches. Rap would not be rap without puns and guns, and 50 Cent obeys this golden rule. “I aim straight for your head / So don’t push me / Fill your ass up with lead / So don’t push me,” he threatens...
Other notable tracks of Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, all of which 50 Cent executes with his smooth baritone drawl, are “Life’s On The Line” and the rapid, chart-climbing party anthem “In Da Club,” the edgy, infectious beats of which could only hail from uber-producer...