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Track List
01) Intro
02) My Gun Go Off
03) Man Down
04) I'll Still Kill
05) I Get Money
06) Come & Go
07) Ayo Technology
08) Follow My Lead
09) Movin On Up
10) Straight to the Bank
11) Amusement Park
12) Fully Loaded Clip
13) Peep Show
14) Fire
15) All of Me
16) Curtis 187
17) Touch the Sky (feat. Tony Yayo)
01) Intro
02) My Gun Go Off
03) Man Down
04) I'll Still Kill
05) I Get Money
06) Come & Go
07) Ayo Technology
08) Follow My Lead
09) Movin On Up
10) Straight to the Bank
11) Amusement Park
12) Fully Loaded Clip
13) Peep Show
14) Fire
15) All of Me
16) Curtis 187
17) Touch the Sky (feat. Tony Yayo)
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First Released
2007
Hip-Hop
Angry
Urban/R&B
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Album
791,000 copies
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American rapper 50 Cent, released September 11, 2007, on Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. The album features production from Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Timbaland, among others. Music writers have noted that 50 Cent divides between "hard" songs and "soft" songs on the album.
Upon its release, Curtis received generally mixed reviews from music critics. It debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 691,000 copies in its first week. After years of slumping sales, the album's competition with Kanye West's Graduation and the resulting record breaking performances both albums displayed was considered to be a "great day for hip hop." Initially, 50 Cent's 2007 album was planned to be Before I Self Destruct, however, he decided to push back its release date to 2008, and to release Curtis in 2007 instead. The album's title was changed twice. The first time, it was changed from "Curtis" to "Curtis S.S.K.". The second time, it was changed back to "Curtis". The "S.S.K.", which stood for "SoundScan Killer", was intended to show the pressure 50 Cent felt to succeed. The "S.S.K." also stands for "SouthSide King" and "Shoot, Stab, Kill". 50 Cent stated that the album was inspired by his life before his commercial debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. He also stated that he chose the album's title because he was known as "Curtis" before he became famous. In January 2007, DJ Whoo Kid predicted the album to be a double disc LP, with one CD having a "crazy club-bangin' ridiculous" theme and the other having a "hard-core killer sh--," theme. However this did not materialize
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Being a man of no little self-regard, 50 Cent claimed that if Curtis, his third studio album, failed to outsell Kanye West’s Graduation in its opening week, it would be his last. Final figures had Curtis clocking in at second place, but the music within confirms that if Curtis Jackson is from now on going to cut a more modest figure, it’s a demeanour that still appears to be largely alien to him.
Affairs kick off with one of 50’s customarily bullet-ridden openers, “My Gun Go Off” - a tension-knot of swaggering machismo and rising synth that references Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” both musically and lyrically (except 50 flips the lyrical reference, rap battling replaced by the rattle of a fully automatic).
If Curtis suggests that 50 Cent’s main passions – that is, money, violence, and women – remain largely unchanged from his 2003 debut Get Rich Or Die Trying, it’s clear that he’s still finding new ways of articulating them. Not in his delivery, necessarily; that remains the familiar cycle of boasts, threats and unflappable self-confidence delivered in that one-note slur. Partly, this is thanks to updated production, heavy on the buzzy, heat-warped synthesiser lines and booming, post-Neptunes drums.
But also, it’s in part down to a judicious use of guests including Eminem, Mary J Blige, and Nicole Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls. “I’ll Still Kill” sees 50 joined on the chorus by Akon, his mournful soul delivery adding a sad, fallen-soldier fatalism to the martial battle rhymes. “Ayo Technology” hooks up with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake, the former building the high-end from blocky, pixellated synths fresh from an ‘80s computer game. And “Follow My Lead”, a match-up with crooner Robin Thicke, imagines 50 in smart evening wear, trying his alpha-male thing with a ‘lucky lady’: ‘If you’ll be my Beyonce, I’ll be your Jay’.
As ever, 50 Cent remains a troublesome sort of figure, touting violence and amorality with a shamelessness that’s doubly chilling for his mainstream ubiquity. It remains hard, though, not to be a little impressed his dogged, unwavering spirit. In 50’s world, might really is right.
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American rapper 50 Cent, released September 11, 2007, on Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. The album features production from Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Timbaland, among others. Music writers have noted that 50 Cent divides between "hard" songs and "soft" songs on the album.
Upon its release, Curtis received generally mixed reviews from music critics. It debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 691,000 copies in its first week. After years of slumping sales, the album's competition with Kanye West's Graduation and the resulting record breaking performances both albums displayed was considered to be a "great day for hip hop." Initially, 50 Cent's 2007 album was planned to be Before I Self Destruct, however, he decided to push back its release date to 2008, and to release Curtis in 2007 instead. The album's title was changed twice. The first time, it was changed from "Curtis" to "Curtis S.S.K.". The second time, it was changed back to "Curtis". The "S.S.K.", which stood for "SoundScan Killer", was intended to show the pressure 50 Cent felt to succeed. The "S.S.K." also stands for "SouthSide King" and "Shoot, Stab, Kill". 50 Cent stated that the album was inspired by his life before his commercial debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. He also stated that he chose the album's title because he was known as "Curtis" before he became famous. In January 2007, DJ Whoo Kid predicted the album to be a double disc LP, with one CD having a "crazy club-bangin' ridiculous" theme and the other having a "hard-core killer sh--," theme. However this did not materialize
User Album Review
Being a man of no little self-regard, 50 Cent claimed that if Curtis, his third studio album, failed to outsell Kanye West’s Graduation in its opening week, it would be his last. Final figures had Curtis clocking in at second place, but the music within confirms that if Curtis Jackson is from now on going to cut a more modest figure, it’s a demeanour that still appears to be largely alien to him.
Affairs kick off with one of 50’s customarily bullet-ridden openers, “My Gun Go Off” - a tension-knot of swaggering machismo and rising synth that references Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” both musically and lyrically (except 50 flips the lyrical reference, rap battling replaced by the rattle of a fully automatic).
If Curtis suggests that 50 Cent’s main passions – that is, money, violence, and women – remain largely unchanged from his 2003 debut Get Rich Or Die Trying, it’s clear that he’s still finding new ways of articulating them. Not in his delivery, necessarily; that remains the familiar cycle of boasts, threats and unflappable self-confidence delivered in that one-note slur. Partly, this is thanks to updated production, heavy on the buzzy, heat-warped synthesiser lines and booming, post-Neptunes drums.
But also, it’s in part down to a judicious use of guests including Eminem, Mary J Blige, and Nicole Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls. “I’ll Still Kill” sees 50 joined on the chorus by Akon, his mournful soul delivery adding a sad, fallen-soldier fatalism to the martial battle rhymes. “Ayo Technology” hooks up with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake, the former building the high-end from blocky, pixellated synths fresh from an ‘80s computer game. And “Follow My Lead”, a match-up with crooner Robin Thicke, imagines 50 in smart evening wear, trying his alpha-male thing with a ‘lucky lady’: ‘If you’ll be my Beyonce, I’ll be your Jay’.
As ever, 50 Cent remains a troublesome sort of figure, touting violence and amorality with a shamelessness that’s doubly chilling for his mainstream ubiquity. It remains hard, though, not to be a little impressed his dogged, unwavering spirit. In 50’s world, might really is right.
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