That would have been a whole different trajectory. “If I Can’t” was about to be the single instead of “In Da Club”.
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“Find me in the club, bottle full of Bubb…” Fifty heard it and knew how to make it a hook and make it hot. That whole part was a verse in one of Banks’ songs. Truth be told Lloyd Banks wrote that hook. We come back to Cali and he has 50 do some re-records and tighten up some bit to Dre’s quality standards and smashes it out with that “my show, my flow…” and we’re going crazy. 50 does the whole song, Dre gets it and he loves it. If you look at the credits I got engineer credits because I recorded the record. He made me pull it into ProTools and we recorded it in my basement. On that CD was a real skeleton and 50 was able to hear everything he wrote. Sha Money XL: Dre sent us back with a beat CD. He came with the whole squad and then he stayed in my basement for like two years.
I had my studio in the basement, I’m out the hood. I told him I just bought a crib in Long Island. He let me know they put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Sha Money XL: The first call I got was in September. Then finally they was like “Who is your lawyer?” We about to get this popping, it’s on the album. 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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