Deep Album Cuts Vol. 207: 50 Cent
I made this playlist a while back when it seemed like a 50 Cent vs. T.I. battle on Verzuz was imminent, but it seems like that's not gonna happen after all, so here it is anyway.
50 Cent deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Poor Lil Rich
50 Cent deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Poor Lil Rich
2. High All The Time
3. What Up Gangsta
4. Back Down
5. Patiently Waiting (featuring Eminem)
6. Heat
7. G'd Up (with G-Unit)
8. Eye For Eye (with G-Unit)
9. Get In My Car
10. Ryder Music
11. I'm Supposed To Die Tonight
12. A Baltimore Love Thing
13. Ski Mask Way
14. When It Rains It Pours
15. What If
16. Movin On Up
17. Come & Go
18. My Gun Go Off
19. Get Down (with G-Unit)
20. Death To My Enemies
21. Hustler
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 from Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (2003)
Tracks 7 and 8 from G-Unit's Beg For Mercy (2003)
Tracks 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 from The Massacre (2005)
Making this playlist reminds me a lot of doing the Snoop Dogg playlist: a Dr. Dre protege who had a huge classic record-breaking debut that looms over the rest of their career, but has a decent catalog of albums that followed. In 50's case, he didn't continue releasing albums really steadily after his buzz cooled off -- he's now at only one retail album in the last 10 years -- but he released a ton of music back when he was one of the biggest stars, including a soundtrack to his first big movie vehicle and two G-Unit group albums that kind of feel enough like part of his solo catalog that I wanted to include them here. Obviously, 50 Cent is one of those artists where the mixtapes are really important to his catalog, but he used a lot of industry beats so those will probably never hit streaming services, so I'm sticking to retail stuff.
Tracks 14 and 15 from Get Rich Or Die Tryin': Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (2005)
Tracks 16, 17 and 18 from Curtis (2007)
Track 19 from G-Unit's TOS (Terminate On Sight) (2008)
Track 20 from Before I Self Destruct (2009)
Track 21 from Animal Ambition (2014)
Making this playlist reminds me a lot of doing the Snoop Dogg playlist: a Dr. Dre protege who had a huge classic record-breaking debut that looms over the rest of their career, but has a decent catalog of albums that followed. In 50's case, he didn't continue releasing albums really steadily after his buzz cooled off -- he's now at only one retail album in the last 10 years -- but he released a ton of music back when he was one of the biggest stars, including a soundtrack to his first big movie vehicle and two G-Unit group albums that kind of feel enough like part of his solo catalog that I wanted to include them here. Obviously, 50 Cent is one of those artists where the mixtapes are really important to his catalog, but he used a lot of industry beats so those will probably never hit streaming services, so I'm sticking to retail stuff.
Nothing on Get Rich Or Die Tryin' really feels like a deep cut -- I still hear "Poor Lil Rich" and "What Up Gangsta" in mix show rotation as much as any of the album's huge proper singles, and those are maybe my 2 favorite 50 Cent songs. The Massacre is one of those albums where the singles are all mediocre or worse, but there are just a ton of great deep cuts. If he had just kept some of the singles from the first wave of G-Unit solo albums for his own album, I really think it could have been better than Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. One of my favorite things about 50 in the Beg For Mercy/Massacre era is that he brought Hi-Tek, who was at that point mainly known for his work with Talib Kweli and Mos Def, into his fold. "Eye For Eye," "Ryder Music," and "Get In My Car" are all great tracks, and the latter was sampled this year for a hit by Migos and NBA YoungBoy. "Baltimore Love Thing" and "Ski Mask" are some of the best songs he ever wrote too.
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