BK The Great
Veteran
Classic album, only listen to a couple songs like Many Men, What Up Gangsta, and Lifes On The Line.
Today is the 20th anniversary of Get Rich or Die Tryin
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That’s when the anti “rap is crap” rhetoric was at its highest
50 was the face of that movement.
GetRichOrDieTryin
Superstar
i was in grade 3 when this came out and even my teacher was talking about GRODTMy freshman year of high schoolI remember everything surrounding this in real time. HISTORIC.
GetRichOrDieTryin
Superstar
its because every form of content we consume (aside from movies) is seconds to maybe 2-3mins max. People don't have the attention span anymore.
avon barksdale
i want my corners
Fucc Curtis murder Inc all day 
Metal Face
Superstar
we will never see a rap album this big ever again 
Classic album that gets disrespected because he shat on your favorite NY rapper.
As much classic talk Reasonable Doubt (for example) gets; that album didn't smack the streets up like this one.
Biggest album of our era.
As much classic talk Reasonable Doubt (for example) gets; that album didn't smack the streets up like this one.
Biggest album of our era.
this was inescapable at the time. Everywhere I went you could hear it coming from cars, every person who came through to chill only wanted to play it, it was absolutely everywhere. Definitely will be playing it in full again today 
GetRichOrDieTryin
Superstar
Fucc Curtis murder Inc all day
My junior year of high school. I gave a homie the link, and he made burned copies and we split the profits. One of those albums that just played everywhere for months on end, a true soundtrack to my life as a 17 year old. I remember the girls who turned up Patiently Waiting (which sounds funny today) I remember the hotel parties where PIMP played in the early morning hours, girls were stripping down in the bathroom, I remember that weirdo skit before Back Down, High All The Time playing as we smoked blunts of bull rider, the stickiest Cali shyt stuck to our finger tips.
It's not really a great piece of work, musically, it's iconic, it's memorable, it's a soundtrack to an era, but most of these songs are genre formula lay ups, and it shows years later.
It's not really a great piece of work, musically, it's iconic, it's memorable, it's a soundtrack to an era, but most of these songs are genre formula lay ups, and it shows years later.
Money Be Green
Superstar
My senior year of elementary
had a copy before the release...i replayed in da club so many times after i first heard it...being in club or parties where the DJ would just run the whole fukking album..shyt was a real vibe
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
iconic album. Soundtrack to a lot of memories. Everyone everywhere was going crazy over 50. Can't remember another time quite like that in hiphop where everyone in the world was behind a rapper to that degree. 50 and GRODT in 2003 was as big as anyone or any album.