I sincerely think that album was what finally vaulted hip hop into position as a truly mainstream genre. It was everywhere when it came out, even the most basic mayos were listening to at least the radio-friendly version of "In da Club". Hip hop became the default party music at that point in a way it hadn't been before for non-black people, and that's when you started to see the first big crossover between rappers and other artists, which people like Timbaland and Kanye really turned into a formula for mainstream success. But it took 50, Eminem and Dre to blow up the last doors standing between pop and hip hop first. Great music for fucking, too. Like, everyone was boning to that shit. Not me of course but everyone else.
You might be right about that. Everyone and their mom knew In Da Club. G UNIT shit everywhere, MTV playing it all the time, the sheer hype from 50 getting shot. It was perfect.
And it's crazy that you mentioned the radio friendly version because it's not just a censored one but sort of rewritten.
That reminds of a time back in 2004 or so when a group of us went out to breakfast and some young white suburbanite had on a gold G-Unit necklace, and my friend Eric Sean belted out loudly "ja ja ja ja ja-G-U-NIT!" to the applause of his fellow friends.
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1 lamb_der 2018-03-19
Literally who?
1 grungebot5000 2018-03-19
good god
1 PoorLilMarco 2018-03-19
Her most famous role was in Cool Cat Saves the Kids, playing Vivica A. Fox.
1 Shalabadoo 2018-03-19
She won an Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Juwanna Mann
1 lamb_der 2018-03-19
Is that the girl from George of the Jungle?
1 DistortedLines 2018-03-19
Literally all that pops into my head when I hear her name.
1 HodorTheDoorHolder 2018-03-19
/ #5042020
1 grungebot5000 2018-03-19
has 50 cent punched a woman yet
1 imaginarycreatures 2018-03-19
The woman in this video said that she was punched:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lc1UMkTX68
It certainly looks like he did, at the very least.
1 grungebot5000 2018-03-19
good
1 RichEvansSextape 2018-03-19
He's too busy investing in bitcoins.
1 siskonaut 2018-03-19
Get Rich or Die Trying was a great fucking album.
Also, lmao.
1 disgruntled_chode 2018-03-19
I sincerely think that album was what finally vaulted hip hop into position as a truly mainstream genre. It was everywhere when it came out, even the most basic mayos were listening to at least the radio-friendly version of "In da Club". Hip hop became the default party music at that point in a way it hadn't been before for non-black people, and that's when you started to see the first big crossover between rappers and other artists, which people like Timbaland and Kanye really turned into a formula for mainstream success. But it took 50, Eminem and Dre to blow up the last doors standing between pop and hip hop first. Great music for fucking, too. Like, everyone was boning to that shit. Not me of course but everyone else.
1 siskonaut 2018-03-19
You might be right about that. Everyone and their mom knew In Da Club. G UNIT shit everywhere, MTV playing it all the time, the sheer hype from 50 getting shot. It was perfect.
And it's crazy that you mentioned the radio friendly version because it's not just a censored one but sort of rewritten.
1 NoblerThanOedipus 2018-03-19
That reminds of a time back in 2004 or so when a group of us went out to breakfast and some young white suburbanite had on a gold G-Unit necklace, and my friend Eric Sean belted out loudly "ja ja ja ja ja-G-U-NIT!" to the applause of his fellow friends.
1 TheRealTrueDarkLord 2018-03-19
That kid kicked sand in Cool Cat's face!
1 CarnistHappyCamp 2018-03-19
that's actually pretty dope. respect.
1 o11c 2018-03-19
1 gergerherher 2018-03-19
50 still has my respect for hanging out with pruane2forever
1 disgruntled_chode 2018-03-19
https://i.imgur.com/Zjwo4.gif