Then to have the most decorated producer in the game, Dr. 50 Cent’s Lazarian tale of surviving nine shots and being dropped from his label, only fueled his legend in the streets who then devoured his every word and adlib. You literally couldn’t make an album like Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ again. When it came to peers like Ja Rule, the onslaught was personal and focused, but it was also Curtis Jackson’s wider assault on a music industry that had quite literally left him for dead. It was a declaration of war on both a macro and micro level. Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ wasn’t just a mantra tattooed on his producer and partner Sha Money XL’s arm.
In some ways New York hip-hop is still trying to climb out of the crater that was made when 50 Cent’s debut album dropped in 2003. 50 Cent’s 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin’' Photo by Steve Grayson/WireImage for BET Entertainment Read all the nitty gritty behind 50 Cent’s classic opus, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’.
