Today is the 20th anniversary of Get Rich or Die Tryin
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Dipsey Doo
Superstar
One of the best debut albums and rollouts in hip hop history.
Bought this on day one. Really miss the days when new music being released was a can’t miss event.
I was a senior at a suburban high school in northern LA county when this came out. Every white boy was bumping this shyt out of their lifted trucks.
2003 was the year of 50 and G Unit. Copped all the G Unit gear and got the Beg for Mercy Album released later in the year.
Bought this on day one. Really miss the days when new music being released was a can’t miss event.
I was a senior at a suburban high school in northern LA county when this came out. Every white boy was bumping this shyt out of their lifted trucks.
2003 was the year of 50 and G Unit. Copped all the G Unit gear and got the Beg for Mercy Album released later in the year.
Tommy Gibbs
Superstar
It took me 2 weeks to buy this album when it dropped 20 years ago. I didn't want it initially, but when a car passed buy playing one of the songs, I immediately wanted it. When I went in the store, a guy I knew had the last copy in his hand. Then another week passed and I missed it everywhere. So I had to go on the German economy and get the European version. I listened to this every day all day for a week. 21 questions was instantly my favorite track, then "high all the time" and so forth. The only tracks I really didn't like were "wanksta" and " pimp". Classic album, and I don't like throwing that word "classic" around too often.
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MaxBundles
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shyt, I was in 8th grade when this dropped and still remember this being the biggest most talked about topic at the time. My grandmother who ONLY listens to gospel music even was talking about it lol
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Piff Perkins
Veteran
Biggest memory from that time was Back Down coming out before the album dropped, and Ja fans coming to school the next day acting like they were never Ja fans.
papertrail08
Pro
High All The Time 
AJtheOne
Nets/Giants/Yankees
Listened to it straight through today. Straight up Classic. Iconic I wanted to throw on a bulletproof vest and a doo rag and yell Ggggggg Unit
I wanted to throw on a bulletproof vest and a doo rag and yell Ggggggg Unit
First album I learned every word, every ab lib, and every beat drop! Legit one of the best rap albums of all time
So DMX never walked the Earth!?
X changed the rap game's energy forever. 50 was the biggest and final payday of the Crack Era gangsta rapper.
Tommy Gibbs
Superstar
Reasonable Doubt had very little promotion. When Jay Z was going on BET shows at the time during that summer, he'd always take Foxy with him because at the time she truly was a bigger star than he was based on her verse from I Shot ya. RD was slept on and that's why the original copies of the cd(with the gun art) are very hard to find. I didn't sleep. I kept telling everyone how great the album was that summer and I had no idea why no one felt like I did.
Black Mamba
Superstar
shyt wasMy freshman year of high school
Playing this all week
that beat wit the glock clips tho
This is the Thriller of gangsta rap.
It was seriously and I don't use this phrase loosely a once in a lifetime rollout and hype for an album and artist. "You had to be there" is a perfect way to describe it. It was insane how worldwide the impact of this release was felt through all ethnicities and ages.
For Gen Z nikkas..... Y'all missed out. Never seen anything close to this since. nikkas was actually outside and touching grass back then tho so that was a part but still.... Man
This shyt birthed drill music Fredo called it original drill. nikkas from this era still can't stop sampling and remaking Many Men. The biggest rappers of this era too like 21 and Pop Smoke. Many Men was named most influential song of 2020 by Spotify.
It's insane the influence and impact this album and the key tracks especially have had on the culture still 20 years later. Very few albums ever in rap can say that.
It was seriously and I don't use this phrase loosely a once in a lifetime rollout and hype for an album and artist. "You had to be there" is a perfect way to describe it. It was insane how worldwide the impact of this release was felt through all ethnicities and ages.
For Gen Z nikkas..... Y'all missed out. Never seen anything close to this since. nikkas was actually outside and touching grass back then tho so that was a part but still.... Man
This shyt birthed drill music Fredo called it original drill. nikkas from this era still can't stop sampling and remaking Many Men. The biggest rappers of this era too like 21 and Pop Smoke. Many Men was named most influential song of 2020 by Spotify.
It's insane the influence and impact this album and the key tracks especially have had on the culture still 20 years later. Very few albums ever in rap can say that.