Today is the 20th anniversary of Get Rich or Die Tryin

[Early 2000s Nikka]

Greatest album of all time & it was released in the greatest year of all time

2003!!!!!!!!!

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

I still remember my brother showing me the in da club video for the first time with our slow ass pinebelt internet

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Truly a had to be there moment/time in hip hop. In Da Club was absolutely EVERYWHERE and the hype for the album was insane.

They would legit play in da club 100 times a day
And I lived in a cac city

Imagin nyc when this dropped

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Greatest album of all time & it was released in the greatest year of all time

2003!!!!!!!!!

Man did a quick recap of 2003





So many classic
Byonce
50
Outkast
Hov

 

[HipHopStan]

EDIT - Wrong thread

 

[Yinny]

I def remember being alarmed at the sound of the sirens on Many Men, kept thinking they were real cause I had my HP on full blast playing it

 

[skyrunner1]

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.

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

Was reading some GRODT articles earlier, this article popped up. How dude supplied dam near ALL the big CDs on internet in that era, dude had this shyt on street for everybody.. Crazy music industry was moving close to a billion units back then, now doing like 25 mil, cotdam

The Man Who Broke the Music Business

How an employee at a CD-manufacturing plant became the Patient Zero of Internet piracy.

www.newyorker.com

 

[HipHopStan]

I def remember being alarmed at the sound of the sirens on Many Men, kept thinking they were real cause I had my HP on full blast playing it

There was something about the sounds on those Shady/Aftermath records that sounded so authentic and real than any of the sounds you’d hear on anyone else’s record. I brought this up to some friends one time and they really didn’t get what I was trying to say so I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one who noticed things like that.

 

[Deltron]

Was reading some GRODT articles earlier, this article popped up. How dude supplied dam near ALL the big CDs on internet in that era, dude had this shyt on street for everybody.. Crazy music industry was moving close to a billion units back then, now doing like 25 mil, cotdam

The Man Who Broke the Music Business

How an employee at a CD-manufacturing plant became the Patient Zero of Internet piracy.

www.newyorker.com

Yeah that's a great read...there was a thread on here about it when that article dropped initially

 

[50CentStan]

Life was so good in 2003. Id go as far to say hip hop as a culture was at its peak.

 

[FluffyEyes]

Back to this thread. In between running the Dangerously In Love and Chapter ll albums back to back was me playing this shyt loud AF. 21 Questions irks my nerves though. I think it was overplayed.

 

[Yehuda]

*Coin drop sound effect*

 

[FluffyEyes]

Man did a quick recap of 2003





So many classic
Byonce
50
Outkast
Hov

What a year. And every single one of these artists are legends and icons in their own right today. I love it.

 

[Tj Bronson]

Back to this thread. In between running the Dangerously In Love and Chapter ll albums back to back was me playing this shyt loud AF. 21 Questions irks my nerves though. I think it was overplayed.

21 Questions is the only song on there I could do without. It's fine, but i wouldnt miss it if it was gone

 

[Easy-E]

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.

Right before it came out my homie played me Be A Gentlemen and I was like Who this nikka dissin JiggaMan?

A few months later, my play cousin put in Get Rich and them two quarters dropped