Artist: 50 Cent Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Drum & Bass
Hip-Hop
Other
Discography:
Straight to the Bank CDS Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
Freestyle B4 Paystyle Year: 2007
Tracks: 28
Curtis Year: 2007
Tracks: 17
Classics Remastered Year: 2006
Tracks: 27
The Massacre Year: 2005
Tracks: 22
The After Party Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Candy Shop (Dnb Mixes) CS001 Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Candy Shop Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Battle for the Throne (with DJ Game) Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Behind Da Bars Year: 2004
Tracks: 23
50 Minutes Of 50 (A 50 Cent Mixtape) Year: 2004
Tracks: 59
The New Breed Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
Rap From Mafia Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Massacre Year: 2003
Tracks: 22
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' Year: 2003
Tracks: 19
Gangsters and A Gentleman Year: 2003
Tracks: 33
24 Shot Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
21 Questions Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
Guess Who's Back? Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
Power Of The Dollar Year: 2000
Tracks: 18
Promotional Use Only ('97-'98) Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
The Hood News Year:
Tracks: 19
How 2 Rob Year:
Tracks: 19
Have A Party Year:
Tracks: 1
Bulletproof Year:
Tracks: 13
Before Curtis Year:
Tracks: 12
Though he would by and by contend with the nature of his celebrity as considerably as market expectations, 50 Cent endured substantial obstacles throughout his young yet unmistakably dramatic life earlier bonnie the most discussed figure in hip-hop, if not pop music in general, circa 2003. Following an unsuccessful late-'90s black market at mainstream success (thwarted by an effort on his life in 2000) and a successful function on the New York mixtape circuit (compulsive by his early-2000s bout with Ja Rule), Eminem sign-language 50 Cent to a seven-figure shrink in 2002 and helmed his warm ascend toward crossover winner in 2003. The product of a unkept home in the rough Jamaica neighborhood of Queens and, in turn, the storeyed hood's hustling streets themselves, 50 Cent lived everything most rappers save rhymes about just non all actually get: drugs, crimes, imprisonments, stabbings, and to the highest degree infamously of all, shootings. Of line, such experiences became 50 Cent's rhetorical stock-in-trade. He reveled in his oft-told past, he called out wannabe gangstas, and he made headlines. He tied
looked like the ideal East Coast hard-core doorknocker: big-framed with oft-showcased biceps, 002 for grease-gun monomania. The media recounted his biography storey ad nauseam, specially his historied copse with death -- and not simply the expected media outlets like MTV -- even such unlikely mainstream publications as The New York Times ran feature stories ("Amid Much Anticipation, a Rapper Makes a Debut"). By the fourth dimension
Get Rich finally streeted on February 6, 2003, 50 Cent had become the almost discussed figure in the medicine manufacture, and bootlegged or not, his initial sales figures reflected this (a record-breaking 872,000 units touched in five days, the best-selling debut album since SoundScan started its trailing system in May 1991), as did his ubiquitousness in the media. Late in the year, undermentioned some early round of pop hits, "21 Questions" (which charted number one on the Hot C) and "P.I.M.P." (number threesome), 50 Cent made his group debut with G-Unit,
Beg for Mercy. The album charted at number deuce and spawned a couple Top 15 hits, "Stunt one hundred one" and "Wanna Get to Know You." In 2004, 50 Cent stayed on the sidelines for the most share as G-Unit affiliates Lloyd Banks and Young Buck released pop solo albums. Another G-Unit affiliate, the Game, released his debut in January 2005, and it proved the to the highest degree successful among these solo spin-offs, in special the singles "How We Do" and "Sexual love It or Hate It," both Top Five hits that prominently featured 50 Cent. As these singles were riding high on the charts, however, 50 Cent and the Game were feuding, and the latter was acrimoniously booted kO'd of G-Unit. There were also feuds with Fat Joe and Jadakiss (instigated by the birdcall "Shoat Bank") during the sew to the March 2005 spillage of
The Massacre, 50 Cent's second album. Nearly as popular as
Get Rich or Die Tryin',
The Massacre debuted at number one, sold millions (over ten one thousand thousand oecumenical), and spawned a series of dash hits ("Disco Inferno," "Confect Shop," "Hardly a Lil Bit").
By this point in time, 50 Cent's renown overshadowed his music, thereby predicating "street" credibleness issues that would frequent him in the years to keep up. For example, the marketing rollout of
The Massacre carried over into ventures such as the video game 50 Cent: Bulletproof, the semiautobiographical film
Get Rich or Die Tryin', and the soundtrack to that film -- all released in 2005, along with former product. The radioactive dust from 50 Cent's overexposure was manifest via the singles from the film soundtrack ("Hustler's Ambition," "Window Shopper," "Topper Friend," "Sustain a Party"), which failed to bring in a good deal traction in the market place, charting modestly relative to past singles. The side by side round of golf of G-Unit solo releases (Tony Yayo's
Thoughts of a Predicate Felon, 2005; Mobb Deep's
Blood Money, 2005; Lloyd Banks'
Rotted Apple, 2006; Young Buck's
Buck the World, 2007) didn't do commercially well, either, and it's wasn't completely surprising when plans for another, Olivia's
In arrears Closed Doors, were shelved. The gloomy mentality didn't foretell well for 50 Cent's side by side album, which was pushed back repeatedly and retitled a duet multiplication. The net title,
William Curtis, was inspired by yet another feud, this one with Cam'ron, wHO taunted 50 Cent, more or less peculiarly, by addressing him by his innate name. After a mate of lead singles, "Unbowed to the Bank" and "Amusement Park," failed to connect in the market place,
William Curtis was reworked unrivalled last-place time and pushed back from a summer loss date to a fall one (i.e., the memorable particular date September 11, which -- to the mirth of industry observers -- cavitied the album against Kanye West's
Graduation). A second round of golf of singles, "I Get Money" and "Ayo Technology," was released in the latter half of the summer, spell the video for a fifth individual, "Keep up My Lead," was leaked to the Internet -- to the foiling of 50 Cent, wHO reportedly doomed out Interscope for endangering the commercial prospects of his album -- over a calendar month before street date.
