Then I heard Eminem was interested and signed him. Then he started using some of my other beats like Cam’s “Losin Weight” on their mixtapes. He had his studio in Long Island and he’d tell me 50 gotta song to one of your beats, we keeping that. But then he got his deal and within months out of nowhere he was on the mixtape circuit and doing records and then Sha Money was following up. At the time I’m like “Yeah, whatever.” You thinking a rapper getting shot and you got no deal, you thinking it’s over. He called my crib and we talked for like two hours and said I got a song I wrote to that track and whenever I get my deal I’mma use that joint. His mouth was wired shut and he was fucked up.ĭarryl “Digga Branch,” producer of “Many Men”: He was in Pennsylvania healing up and he called me. From that May to September he was in full rehabilitation. The week before he was supposed to shoot the video with Beyoncé he got shot. And at that moment I produced the title track “Power Of The Dollar”. He took full advantage of the opportunity. He was gonna leave with 36 Trackmasters tracks. His exact quote to me was that in these 18 days I’m here I’m gonna do two songs a day so by the time I leave I’m gonna have 36 records. They gave him like 18 days to prove his worth. Then he met The Trackmasters and Corey Rooney in the process and Corey Rooney took him to Trackmasters. He was the one that groomed 50 and showed him how to make hooks, when to stop rapping. He had a 12-inch vinyl called “The Hit” with Jam Master Jay. What we want to get into is… the rich underbelly involving the secret history of Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. It sold over 800K copies in its first week and has since been certified Diamond by the RIAA. The anticipation for Get Rich Or Die Tryin’‘s release was so high that Interscope Records rushed it out five days before its scheduled Feb. Dre, and one of the most pure lyricists the world had seen, Eminem, both anoint him as their next star, you couldn’t script it any better if you tried. 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’.

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