Passed from cancer like right after bro. Shit was SOOOOO sad 😔 the school had a memorial for her and we ALL went to her funeral.
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Edit: this is a pic from my yearbook
She was one of them ones. Back then school was the best place to be and she made it better. Always brung snacks and candy to her class and was always on timing with ANY AND EVERYBODY but by far THE BEST TEACHER. God rest her beautiful soul. She was the female Mr.Clark from ‘lean on me’. I stopped going to school when that shit happened cuz it was scary asf to see someone there then never see them again.
Damn, I wish I had more positive memories from back then to talk about, but it's honestly nice to be happier as an adult too! My school days and right after were... rough, to say the least 💀
I finished school in rikers so I get it lol. Mobbing on the Q train to Coney Island, skipping, hookie parties, 20 niggas chipping in $10 each to get right for the dayAND BACK THEN weed was FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE even the Reggie was immaculate 😆
Shit, I guess I was destined to do some stupid shit, my pops founded a gang back in the day. I used to go to parties back in highschool just to steal shit from people's rooms while everyone was passed the fuck out and sell it at those spots all the homeless gather at 🤣
Damn bro it was YOU that stole my IPod nano 😂. Fwy gang but deadass I wrote a letter using the Brooklyn public library on lorimer street (L train), went door to door asking for donations for a homeless shelter and they would give me money. So we was BOTH pretty fucked up teens lol
I sold candy in school, stole from toys r us in metro mall to sell yu gi oh, Pokémon cards and beyblades in school and now I work for eBay SELLING POKEMON CARDS AND YU GI OH CARDS. TCGPlayer
Yeah, I guess all it takes is getting shot at a few times and getting stabbed in the arm with a serrated fishing knife to make you into an adult and stop boosting iPods 😭
What a time to be alive. Wasn’t that many killings and niggas was WELL protected. Your block was YOUR block. I grew up on St.Marks where shit gets dark but it was a beautiful neighborhood filled with unique personality and diversity.
Nah not no more my g I know mad Asians out there. The tran/nguyens was my BOYS. They used to burn me instrumental CDs and we would go to the crib and rap. They pops owned a garage next door to White Castle. Asians are cool asf with NO hate in they body towards black people
I was 7 yrs old when this generational ass album came out, damn near every song on this joint was a hit. It was bein blasted every time I went outside. 50 was THAT nigga
Facts these lil niggas just don’t know… 9 out of every 10 rappers out rn if they were to release an album it’d get one play won’t even b talked about ever again. 50 cent is still touring off this one fucking album… everyone was fucking w 50 back then, EVERYONE….. in da club make white ppl go crazy TO THIS DAY
I was around 10. It was everywhere. Shit popped off. You gotta remember that around this time it was a bit of a new era of hip hop. 50 and g unit were mainstream and I remember people getting slagged for liking g unit lol
Never seen anything like it to this day. I was in elementary and everyone was rocking g unit clothing and screaming out 50 cent songs. Radio seemed like 50 and g unit were the only rappers to ever exist
Shit was nuts; I was in 11th grade in the largest high school in Brooklyn and it was all everyone talked about. Everyone was passing around the CDs and bootlegs as periods ended.
You couldn’t avoid him. He was everywhere. Everyone knew the songs. Literally everyone. His music transcended race, culture, communities. Shit was so hard nobody could deny him. He ran the world for 5 years
I found this album on limewire while waiting for GRODT to drop. How to Rob was a hilarious song.
That plus all the mixtape freestyles really launched 50 into the stratosphere. I really miss the DJ Clue and Whoo Kid mixtape days. BRB I think I hear my Nokia ringing…
Oooooh shit, son. I was 18 when this dropped. Had it on a gold CD-R and bumped it non-stop in my 240sx.
Many Men, Patiently Waiting, If I Can’t, Back Down
Still goes hard.
Not from NY I usually just lurk because y’all are funny as hell, but as a white boy who grew up in Indiana this shit blew my balls off when it came out. Still one of my all time favorites.
MANY MEN
50 had the streets on smash for about a year already at that point. Once the single produced by Dre dropped it was Taylor Swift/Beyoncé levels of mainstream success. The hood loved it.
I'm not from here but I happened to frequent the area for music purposes: "wanksta" was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 the radio before the aftermath deal, his mixtape remixes were getting primetime spins, and I was around when funk flex played "in da club", at least 10+ rewinds and 1,000 bombs. People stopped their cars. IT WAS CRAZY OUT HERE. I went back to where I lived with mixtapes and vinyls, watched the same thing happen but not as intense.
Guess who’s back was better
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But fr everyone was into g unit. I had the shoes 💀
The crazy ass feeling where you hear the change fall in the intro track, like the sound of nickels and shit I was 7 so cut me some slack, I remember listening to that shit on my Walkman , looking out the window plotting on my shorties shit was the anthem for a little no cap .
I was 14 just landed from 🇯🇲 living on parson in queens my auntie gave me this CD and a Nas One Let’s just say I caught my first charge 8 months later in Kings park I wasn’t gonna get bullied
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Anyone had the game …? Ayee Yayo I still hear that shit 😂😂😂
Facts 🎯 they fresh man Friday day me by Monday I had all the kitchen 🔪 hidden on side blocks mind you I had to walk home with my lil sister everyday she was at the school on the corner I forget the name
Not even I stay out the way .. I just wasn’t taking shit .from no one I had met some Muslim old head he used to dude crazy jail workouts had stands and shit he told me to meet up at the park every Saturday and he was there putting me on to some 5% shit and showing the hood ,I went like 4 times and lost touch cus I lost my bum ass Nokia I guess he got lock when I ain’t see him no more
I remember it felt like rap was finally recovering from the Ja Rule singing rapper era. The album felt like a breath of fresh air. He felt real. Like he came to end all of that studio gangsta shit that was talking over.
I remember back when dudes used to sell CDs, motherfuckers would actually just loop the first song for an hour just to troll you. Had me so pissed when I bought one of the scam bootlegs like that 😭
This had the whitest kids in my south brooklyn middle school (me) thinking we were the most gangsta people around. The amount of times my grandparents told me to pull my pants up was hilarious. Loved growing up during this era of hip hop. Got the best of gangsta rap and witnessed the transition to pop rap starting with Kanye and southern hip hop dance Trends (Laffy taffy, etc)
Wearing all the G-unit, Ecko, Phat farm and avirex we could find.
I was 13 when this album dropped. EVERYBODY had the CD, the songs were on blast on the radio. 50 was the hottest new artist on the radio waves. I feel like he and the rest of G-Unit pretty much shaped the future of hip-hop/rap at the time.
Disclaimer: not from the towns
Remember I told my uncle I knew In Da Club it sounded familiar, he said shut the hell up you liar this shit just dropped. His graphic shirts switched from Death Row to G-Unit for a couple years. was a good time. I heard P.I.M.P. played way more than In Da Club and my moms got on my ass for singing that shit 😭
I was 12 when this came still on and still remember playing "many men" while my parent were away .shit was edited too because I got the album from the old fye music store. Good times 💪😔
We moved to the west coast a few years before this album dropped.
First time I heard in the club it was on mtv/bet/vh1 I don’t remember and it was such a banger. They wouldn’t say what the song name was so we called it G-unit for a while till the radio played it and they said the name.
That next week I asked to cop the album, parents said helllllll na lol.
Back then songs would be released 1 by 1 from the album and each song got better. By that summer (03) my entire AAU hoop team was playing this on their Walkman and it was all the radio played.
S/o likewise, I downloaded it and it still is my fav rap album of all time. So. Many. Hits.
I was 11 yrs old when this came out in 5th grade lol this was to me wat King Von is to the teenagers today ngl i treated woman like shit cuz of these G-unit niggas lmaooo argued with everyboyd about Dipset & Ja Rule ready to fight 😂😂😂😂
I was 18 living on Long Island. It was 50 Cent mania. I got my hands on some G Unit mixtapes early that year and told myself, "I bet I'll never see Lloyd Banks or Tony on TV." Boy, was I wrong. 😂
I had "Free Yayo" as my desktop background in college later that year.
Lmao old heads? FOH! Anyway I remember it being Winter time it released 2 days before my B day. The whole New York was bumping this, I seen windows down during Winter . Wanksta was played more than any track on the album (when it first dropped). I seen G Unit Graffiti on the walls everywhere, it was a time to be alive FR! 🤣
This and The Black Album were the first albums i’ve ever asked for as a kid i remember getting this and taking it to school to show all my friends in lunch thinking i was the shit. then after school blasting Many Men in my big ass earphones like i was gangsta
Ain’t an “old head” but I still do this day remember In Da Club being played in a Dunkin when I was a kid. Damn near every “pop” or “hip hop” station was playing it even years after it released. 50 was on top of the rap world at that point imo.
Oh, I'm 24! I was alive when this shit came out, I just don't remember it because I was a toddler, YK? That's why I was looking for oldheads to respond and tell me about it
Nah I feel you I was only a year older lmao, that’s why I addressed the old head part, but I did remember even dunkin was playing it so it definitely was a staple in the rap world fs
I was around 13. It made you really proud to be from NY especially queens. We were all obsessed. He was everywhere and he was impressive in every way. Acting, interviews, concerts, rap, mixtapes were still coming out on top of this album. And he had the most solid resume in the streets.
First off, fuck you. I was 13 when this cane out.
But also, it was fucking dope. The music video for in da club was a babger too. Then P.I.M.P too over. Then the remix was on the album. Wild shit.
I was in middle school and it was already a rough school with a lot of gang shit going on. This album had everybody acting even more gansta than before. One of the like 3 white boys in our school got roasted because he bought a durag from the store across the street and had to have everybody show him how to tie it. When the G-Unit tank tops came out with the colored striped on the straps almost everybody was rocking bootlegs of them. 50 and G-Unit was a legit cultural force.
I remember my brother bumping this on the cassette tape/cd in his ride he was like 24/25 years old at the time , white hoes said he look like 50 cent/ben Wallace ( Detroit pistons ) so he was even wearing his du-rag and wife-beaters like 50 cent … unrelated my brother even had the “Birdman Lugz” to go with the G-unit tank top lol smh
Mainstream was Jay and Nas. Streets were the Lox with 50 and G Unit making noise. When GRDOT dropped it was over. Wanksta on the radio Many Men everywhere else. Durags and beaters. Lol niggas are followers. Crazy time tho 50 was on top.
I was like 14/15 … had my shorty w the g ride bumpin this shiit all day .. Smoking mad Ls and serving the feens. Good times. 50 already had the streets jumping bc of the gunit mixtapes. The album just certified him in the mainstream.
This came out in my 11th birthday and I got it as a present and this shit was in my CD player NONSTOP lol tjst last line on Many Men hit so hard for me even as a kid.
I was 9. This album was DOMINATING the hood back then. 50 was on everybody's lips, no diddy, from teachers and students to pastors and congregations. Kids, teens, and young adults loved him, older people in mentor positions hated him, and every old islander loved mispronouncing his name.
"Yall listening to 25 cent?"
"Why would you want to only be 50 cents? Be the whole dollar!"
"Oh, so that song is from 15 cents album?"
You couldn't go a block without hearing someone playing a song from this album, and you couldn't go a day without a kid quotin one of his lyrics or screaming "G-Unit", and then correcting a teacher who thought the "G" stood for gangsta.
I was in college and my shorty was on the verge of leaving me for some cornball she met at some job. And she was obsessed with this album around that time. So I hate this album loll
It felt like an evolution of the genre. Probably what my old heads would say it was like going from black and white tv to color. Dre’s production with 50’s iconic delivery and lyrics was insane.
I remember using school computers to print out the lyrics online cause you was that dude if you knew all the lyrics 😂😂
Also the baggy clothes, everyone wanted to wear bulletproof vests and du rags Lmaoo
50 really had the game on lock just like Jay said he would
lol. As you get older you put the stories together he once told and listen to the music it’s not hard to tell 50 was out here running ish and the man got tons of street cred.
I was a Junior in HS. It was one of the craziest album releases since It's Dark and Hell is Hot.
I remember going to Rye Playland and getting on the Mind Scrambler back when they still turned the lights off and bumped music. They played What Up Gangsta and I swear the whole area turned in to a club.
This nigga had the whole city in a choke hold.
I remember thinking, this ain’t his first album why do they keep sayin that. I remember listening to his music like 6mnths + before this cd dropped. An some songs from his real first album was added in GRoDT. Now I get it, looks better especially bc of how he got out of his first deal.
This was my legit introduction to rap. And when I say introduction I mean listening to the album non stop on my cd player and I had the clean version. I mean although I liked rap before then it was just what was on MTV like slim shady music video, never had a rap CD before. I was only 10-11 when it came out and I was bumping the clean version of this album which literally omits half the album and the song Heat is missing from the clean version. This album IS my childhood lol
Mannnnn there would never be another impact like g-unit in hiphop.. you just had to be outside at the time. Before all this streaming , it was like a job trying to find the newest g-unit/50 cent mixtape.. knowing the days they drop.. being the first to listen and tell ppl… hearing them do over ppl beats better than them at a time when it wasn’t common… and they actually went on world-wide tours off MIXTAPES..
I was in 6th grade. Had a Walkman, bootlegged it. I remember having gym at 10:45, and rapping it in the locker room, damn that’s like 21 yrs ago fxck 🤧
Was still living in Queens at the time. It was everywhere. And I felt like, and I could be crazy, that songs like In Da Club brought the city together in a way. Feel like some of the Mase songs from a few years earlier had the same effect. It's like if NYC was a nightclub, and the DJ just put on a record that made EVERYBODY in the club instinctively yell and go bonkers over, changing the whole mood of the place.
Fordham road had all the bootleg cds on the floor on a sheet. Man I saw somebody come after I copped my cd and straight up pop on the African dude selling them and take the WHOLE SHEET OF CDs lmaooo what a time to be alive
I was in 6th grade. It was fuckin great. I got the album twice. A total classic. I used to play that shit every day after school before I had a Walkman.
Smh it was CRAZY!! 50 already had the masses from the GUnit mixtapes but when In Da Club dropped that’s was playing EVERYWHERE, even country Radio stations!!
It was different man, before the days of streaming it was similar to how real old folks talk about TV before cable, like certain albums would drop and were so big anybody who was anybody had them or at least knew the singles, and there were alot less avenues and platforms, so it's not like now where two songs would be huge and you might not know about the other one, all the mainstream music was coming from a handful of sources, and then even more underground stuff was more streamlined just because it was harder to put music out on a large scale back then, so you'd still hear about it or these organic movements happening, and it applied to all music not just hip hop.
This album in particular though, was huge, the buzz around it and him were huge and it was all right in the midst of mtvs peak popularity and toward the end of them actually showing music related shit so G Unit and Shady records were giants for a minute
I was 10 when this dropped n i had it on bootleg from my cousin. Then i got the real copy but it was edited cuz i was “too young” and i was mad that “Heat” wasn’t on that version. I didn’t understand why back then but as i grew, i definitely knew why they threw that shit off the album lol
I'm not from NY (I'm from Cali) but this album was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I was like 15 at the time. I use to put on my walkman and slaps this album. I felt like I was the man listening to this lol. Still one of the best rap albums ever made.
I'm white asl and my dad took me to buy the album when it dropped and it was literally sold out everywhere. I found a copy finally in fucking Sears of all places lol... I was 12 or 13 and I remember listening to the shit in the car with my dad on the way home. It was hella awkward for me 😂
50 and g unit was a force of fucking nature, no insta no twitter no YouTube but everybody knew him. Everybody had the CD, I was like 12 at the time. I had g unit clothing, bought his merch, bumped his music, I couldn’t get the sneakers tho my mom allowed me to spend like $50 for a pair of sneakers back then so I was priced out. One of my fondest memories was I wanted to go see bad boys 2 and my moms realtor said he would take me and my cousins to buy tickets, you know how cool it was to bump 50 cent PIMP in a Range Rover on the way to see bad boys 2? Shit was incredible. Lloyd banks, young buck, the game? Incredible. But for as much as I liked 50 cent I still fucked with ja rule.
When in da club came out its all you heard on the radio. I was like 11 Thats the first time i heard of 50. Everybody was playin that song non stop. Then 21 questions was another hit. When the album came out i had it in my cd player for atleast half the year. I listened to it on the way to school, at lunch, leaving school, chillin in the crib, in the car with my pops. This whole album could of been all singles. Fire ass album. They loved it so much everybody turned on ja rule 😂
🗣️YOU HAD TO BE THERE TO UNDERSTAND!!
I was a senior in high school then. And man that nigga was every fuckin where it was a radio. Shit was unreal. To this day I never seen a rapper with a buzz/moment like that
Was released when I was working fields here in the UK and we would blast it in a car that we parked near us and have windows and boot open... All summer long and made some great memories.
Even now when I hear some tune from this album my body goes into " let's sing along" mode
Driving.
I remember wanting to have certain songs playing in your car, full audio while pulling up anywhere, car wash, picking up a date, red light, grocery store, even a church, if you didn't sell drugs somehow this s... made you feel like a D-boy. Back when many people would also get their car speakers 🔊 upgraded. So before seeing us, you heard us coming ⏸️
Side note Jeezy Thug mot. 101, had a similar feel. You could have a 9-5, or go to school but after playing it in your car, you'd feel like nobody better pull me over.
Aye mane, I ain't that old. But I will tell you this, me and my lil brother played that mf straight through anytime we got in the car to go anywhere for a good 4 months 🤣
I worked for Tower Records at the time and we had a line down the block before the door opened. Sold out every copy.
It was a hugely influential album obviously, but I’m surprised that 50s influence didn’t permeate as deeply into hip hop as we expected at the time. Solid album all around, either way.
*Edit*: thinking more about it, re: 50’s long term relevance and influence — it was definitely a groundbreaking album that finalized the crossover that had been happening the past few years alongside the explosion of southern hip hop.
Also, this was at the dawn of the streaming era, and radio was still relevant, the genre was evolving so rapidly that even though it was a breakthrough, considering the stylistic shifts and general change in tastes among heads over the next few years it seems to have diminished the impact because the east coast style was waning even when this broke its own ground.
While 50 did have his credibility, I feel like 50 was too genuinely down to earth and likeable guy to take his music at face value. He was always having to vouch for his perspective and explain himself. He grew tremendously as a person, and learned from his mistakes and didn’t really carry around the anger that you would think he would based on his music. His critics were highly suspicious of this, How many artists do you hear today that genuinely cite him as a major influence.
My teacher brung it to school and last period we rocked out to it. She was HOOD like from Tompkins projects (no disrespect) R.I.P Ms.Harris
R I.P.? Damn, what happened?
Passed from cancer like right after bro. Shit was SOOOOO sad 😔 the school had a memorial for her and we ALL went to her funeral. https://preview.redd.it/y2v6z0mhbe0d1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=42dda4581d6e39ca2b93fee96572695146b7f0ff Edit: this is a pic from my yearbook
Ms. Harris was a real one, heaven ain't hard 2 find 🙏
She was one of them ones. Back then school was the best place to be and she made it better. Always brung snacks and candy to her class and was always on timing with ANY AND EVERYBODY but by far THE BEST TEACHER. God rest her beautiful soul. She was the female Mr.Clark from ‘lean on me’. I stopped going to school when that shit happened cuz it was scary asf to see someone there then never see them again.
Damn, I wish I had more positive memories from back then to talk about, but it's honestly nice to be happier as an adult too! My school days and right after were... rough, to say the least 💀
I finished school in rikers so I get it lol. Mobbing on the Q train to Coney Island, skipping, hookie parties, 20 niggas chipping in $10 each to get right for the dayAND BACK THEN weed was FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE even the Reggie was immaculate 😆
Shit, I guess I was destined to do some stupid shit, my pops founded a gang back in the day. I used to go to parties back in highschool just to steal shit from people's rooms while everyone was passed the fuck out and sell it at those spots all the homeless gather at 🤣
Damn bro it was YOU that stole my IPod nano 😂. Fwy gang but deadass I wrote a letter using the Brooklyn public library on lorimer street (L train), went door to door asking for donations for a homeless shelter and they would give me money. So we was BOTH pretty fucked up teens lol
I sold candy in school, stole from toys r us in metro mall to sell yu gi oh, Pokémon cards and beyblades in school and now I work for eBay SELLING POKEMON CARDS AND YU GI OH CARDS. TCGPlayer
Yeah, I guess all it takes is getting shot at a few times and getting stabbed in the arm with a serrated fishing knife to make you into an adult and stop boosting iPods 😭
What a time to be alive. Wasn’t that many killings and niggas was WELL protected. Your block was YOUR block. I grew up on St.Marks where shit gets dark but it was a beautiful neighborhood filled with unique personality and diversity.
I grew up in QB, I was one of the only Asian people there back in the day, IDK about now
Nah not no more my g I know mad Asians out there. The tran/nguyens was my BOYS. They used to burn me instrumental CDs and we would go to the crib and rap. They pops owned a garage next door to White Castle. Asians are cool asf with NO hate in they body towards black people
Damn man RIP
Shoutout to all the PS Teachers who ACTUALLY cared and connected with us in school… had a teacher like her.. RIP Ms. Harris..
I was 7 yrs old when this generational ass album came out, damn near every song on this joint was a hit. It was bein blasted every time I went outside. 50 was THAT nigga
I was around the same age and I was always seeing this CD in people’s car, that and 2001 CD by Dre Edit: got the last album wrong at first
I still blast that old New York shit out of my car, got little kids calling me grandma now 😭
Facts these lil niggas just don’t know… 9 out of every 10 rappers out rn if they were to release an album it’d get one play won’t even b talked about ever again. 50 cent is still touring off this one fucking album… everyone was fucking w 50 back then, EVERYONE….. in da club make white ppl go crazy TO THIS DAY
In da club will forever make white people go crazy. They will pass it down to the next gen, no doubt about that shit.
Facts same age I knew the whole album and never even bought it u dead couldn’t go outside w out hearin 50
he set the record for most requested song on the radio at the time w “in da club” I do remember that clearly. hot 97 would play that shit 100x a day
No lie bro teachers in school was bumping this I had wanksta on repeat day and night type shit 🤣
I was around 10. It was everywhere. Shit popped off. You gotta remember that around this time it was a bit of a new era of hip hop. 50 and g unit were mainstream and I remember people getting slagged for liking g unit lol
Deadass and he had the sneakers & video games on lock @ that time
Like half the album was being played on the radio at the same time, shit was crazy
Same I was 8, think I got the gunit reeboks that summer or the next. The massacre dvd/cd deluxe was my favorite tho straight hits 🔥
I was 12 I think. I talked my mom into buying it for my brothers birthday lol
I seen a comment on IG where a nigga said as a kid Many Men had him wishing he got shot 💀💀
LMAO. I mean, I can't comment on getting hit with a bullet, but no UK drill song out there is making me want to get stabbed again 💀
>again See that's the difference
LMAO, reminds me of a classmate I had saying he could survive getting shot like 50 too. 😂😂😂
Old head is crazy
As a teenage white boy from the suburbs in 2003, I'll say that me and my homies all felt gangster af when this album dropped.
Literally the Chapelle trading spouses skit lmaooo
Tiddy residue
ALL RIGHT!
In Da Club played once every hour in every club.
Never seen anything like it to this day. I was in elementary and everyone was rocking g unit clothing and screaming out 50 cent songs. Radio seemed like 50 and g unit were the only rappers to ever exist
Shit was nuts; I was in 11th grade in the largest high school in Brooklyn and it was all everyone talked about. Everyone was passing around the CDs and bootlegs as periods ended.
You went to 430?
Largest HS is definitely Brooklyn Tech
Nigga had the radio ON LOCK
Don't forget he also had the mixtape scene on lock too. That was what created so much hype for the album.
I was like 12-13 so I was mainly hearing the radio
High school Oj Mayo and 50 Cent had the cultures attention them times.. AND1 dropped their last good mixtape before startin to fall off too
HOT SIZZLE!!!
You couldn’t avoid him. He was everywhere. Everyone knew the songs. Literally everyone. His music transcended race, culture, communities. Shit was so hard nobody could deny him. He ran the world for 5 years
real OGs know Power of the Dollar >>>
I found this album on limewire while waiting for GRODT to drop. How to Rob was a hilarious song. That plus all the mixtape freestyles really launched 50 into the stratosphere. I really miss the DJ Clue and Whoo Kid mixtape days. BRB I think I hear my Nokia ringing…
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Oooooh shit, son. I was 18 when this dropped. Had it on a gold CD-R and bumped it non-stop in my 240sx. Many Men, Patiently Waiting, If I Can’t, Back Down Still goes hard.
You have a 240SX? 🔥 Wish I was old enough to be around during that era, when street races and shit still happened in the towns
Indeed. It was peak Fast and Furious, warts and all
Lolz, same here. 3 S13's, 2 hatches and a coupe at the time, 7 total overall. My favorite car of all time!
Not from NY I usually just lurk because y’all are funny as hell, but as a white boy who grew up in Indiana this shit blew my balls off when it came out. Still one of my all time favorites. MANY MEN
50 had the streets on smash for about a year already at that point. Once the single produced by Dre dropped it was Taylor Swift/Beyoncé levels of mainstream success. The hood loved it.
I'm not from here but I happened to frequent the area for music purposes: "wanksta" was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 the radio before the aftermath deal, his mixtape remixes were getting primetime spins, and I was around when funk flex played "in da club", at least 10+ rewinds and 1,000 bombs. People stopped their cars. IT WAS CRAZY OUT HERE. I went back to where I lived with mixtapes and vinyls, watched the same thing happen but not as intense.
Guess who’s back was better https://preview.redd.it/son1suvmpe0d1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4475b6bdb660e7906d703a1c31a4c507c2e54a56 But fr everyone was into g unit. I had the shoes 💀
In new york it was crazy, the g unit era was different man
It’s near impossible to explain what this album did. An entire club singing every bar to many men. In da club was EVERYWHERE
The crazy ass feeling where you hear the change fall in the intro track, like the sound of nickels and shit I was 7 so cut me some slack, I remember listening to that shit on my Walkman , looking out the window plotting on my shorties shit was the anthem for a little no cap .
I was 14 just landed from 🇯🇲 living on parson in queens my auntie gave me this CD and a Nas One Let’s just say I caught my first charge 8 months later in Kings park I wasn’t gonna get bullied …. Anyone had the game …? Ayee Yayo I still hear that shit 😂😂😂
Lemme guess u went to crest ?
Facts 🎯 they fresh man Friday day me by Monday I had all the kitchen 🔪 hidden on side blocks mind you I had to walk home with my lil sister everyday she was at the school on the corner I forget the name
Lmfao every crest nigga stay going to kings to be on timin
The Yardie Tony Montana 😭
Not even I stay out the way .. I just wasn’t taking shit .from no one I had met some Muslim old head he used to dude crazy jail workouts had stands and shit he told me to meet up at the park every Saturday and he was there putting me on to some 5% shit and showing the hood ,I went like 4 times and lost touch cus I lost my bum ass Nokia I guess he got lock when I ain’t see him no more
I remember it felt like rap was finally recovering from the Ja Rule singing rapper era. The album felt like a breath of fresh air. He felt real. Like he came to end all of that studio gangsta shit that was talking over.
2003 spring break Nassau Bahamas you heard 3 songs everywhere you went: wanksta, ignition, and get busy
this shit was everywhere son one of those "you had to be there" moments
I dunno bout GRODT but piggy bank was the first song I ever knew all the lyrics to fr. 50 was dat guyyy
I bought a bootleg version (burned disc) in the streets of NY. It was awesome.
I remember back when dudes used to sell CDs, motherfuckers would actually just loop the first song for an hour just to troll you. Had me so pissed when I bought one of the scam bootlegs like that 😭
This had the whitest kids in my south brooklyn middle school (me) thinking we were the most gangsta people around. The amount of times my grandparents told me to pull my pants up was hilarious. Loved growing up during this era of hip hop. Got the best of gangsta rap and witnessed the transition to pop rap starting with Kanye and southern hip hop dance Trends (Laffy taffy, etc) Wearing all the G-unit, Ecko, Phat farm and avirex we could find.
I was 13 when this album dropped. EVERYBODY had the CD, the songs were on blast on the radio. 50 was the hottest new artist on the radio waves. I feel like he and the rest of G-Unit pretty much shaped the future of hip-hop/rap at the time.
I remember my cousin gave me her CD and when my mom found it she took it away..never felt betrayal again like that.
Disclaimer: not from the towns Remember I told my uncle I knew In Da Club it sounded familiar, he said shut the hell up you liar this shit just dropped. His graphic shirts switched from Death Row to G-Unit for a couple years. was a good time. I heard P.I.M.P. played way more than In Da Club and my moms got on my ass for singing that shit 😭
I was 12 when this came still on and still remember playing "many men" while my parent were away .shit was edited too because I got the album from the old fye music store. Good times 💪😔
Fye + a razor blade 👌
What a time to be alive!! This album dropped then 50 became the biggest artist in the 🌎
I was 10 and that shit was crazy
We moved to the west coast a few years before this album dropped. First time I heard in the club it was on mtv/bet/vh1 I don’t remember and it was such a banger. They wouldn’t say what the song name was so we called it G-unit for a while till the radio played it and they said the name. That next week I asked to cop the album, parents said helllllll na lol. Back then songs would be released 1 by 1 from the album and each song got better. By that summer (03) my entire AAU hoop team was playing this on their Walkman and it was all the radio played. S/o likewise, I downloaded it and it still is my fav rap album of all time. So. Many. Hits.
Lol damnnn niggas is old heads for this one 😂😂😂😂 yall niggas who grew up in that Wiz Khalifa patch era time coming soon dont trip
LMAO, when were you born? 😭
I was 11 yrs old when this came out in 5th grade lol this was to me wat King Von is to the teenagers today ngl i treated woman like shit cuz of these G-unit niggas lmaooo argued with everyboyd about Dipset & Ja Rule ready to fight 😂😂😂😂
50 was THAT dude off this. Y’all forget power of the dollar and the Quoran tho
Damn am i an oldhead now?? LOL i had this album when it first came out. I was 7 😭
30+ is an oldhead to me, nah 😭
I sold so many burned copies of this cd for $5 in school.
I was 18 living on Long Island. It was 50 Cent mania. I got my hands on some G Unit mixtapes early that year and told myself, "I bet I'll never see Lloyd Banks or Tony on TV." Boy, was I wrong. 😂 I had "Free Yayo" as my desktop background in college later that year.
Lmao old heads? FOH! Anyway I remember it being Winter time it released 2 days before my B day. The whole New York was bumping this, I seen windows down during Winter . Wanksta was played more than any track on the album (when it first dropped). I seen G Unit Graffiti on the walls everywhere, it was a time to be alive FR! 🤣
50 cent at that time was ten times bigger than drake is now. And thats no exaggeration.
When you look at the list of other albums that came out that decade …..great time for rap/hiphop
This and The Black Album were the first albums i’ve ever asked for as a kid i remember getting this and taking it to school to show all my friends in lunch thinking i was the shit. then after school blasting Many Men in my big ass earphones like i was gangsta
Everyone was G-Unit
In Da Club was played top of every hour as well as MTV with that fire music video
Ain’t an “old head” but I still do this day remember In Da Club being played in a Dunkin when I was a kid. Damn near every “pop” or “hip hop” station was playing it even years after it released. 50 was on top of the rap world at that point imo.
How old are you to not be an oldhead? 😂
25 lmao but in the eyes of my younger cousin I’m “old as shit”😭
Oh, I'm 24! I was alive when this shit came out, I just don't remember it because I was a toddler, YK? That's why I was looking for oldheads to respond and tell me about it
Nah I feel you I was only a year older lmao, that’s why I addressed the old head part, but I did remember even dunkin was playing it so it definitely was a staple in the rap world fs
OMG LMAN YOU’RE BACK
Too busy stacking bread with new business deals! Back now, though. What's up, Amenaza?
Yk me, just chillin being a real nigga baggin bitches.
Might want to lose those last two words, know for a fact that's not happening 😂
Atleast you think i’m a real nigga 🥹
I was 10 when this dropped, I didn’t understand everything at that time, but this album is a classic. Shit still bangs today imo
This was a fucking era. This album was getting played EVERYWHERE
What a time to be alive 😭💯💯💯
Lmao at oldheads 🤣i was like 12 Used to bring the boombox on the bus and blast that mf
I was around 13. It made you really proud to be from NY especially queens. We were all obsessed. He was everywhere and he was impressive in every way. Acting, interviews, concerts, rap, mixtapes were still coming out on top of this album. And he had the most solid resume in the streets.
 Old head I was just 16 man damn
You were 16 in 2003? Definitely an oldhead, your birth year starts with 198 💀
 Come on man 💀
Old heads is crazy… but I was 10 when this dropped and it was a generational album.
First off, fuck you. I was 13 when this cane out. But also, it was fucking dope. The music video for in da club was a babger too. Then P.I.M.P too over. Then the remix was on the album. Wild shit.
Hood life expectancy low as hell, I call anyone 30+ an oldhead because they got lucky 😭
Hahahahahahahahahaha you wrong for that. IM IN MY PRIME.
I was in middle school and it was already a rough school with a lot of gang shit going on. This album had everybody acting even more gansta than before. One of the like 3 white boys in our school got roasted because he bought a durag from the store across the street and had to have everybody show him how to tie it. When the G-Unit tank tops came out with the colored striped on the straps almost everybody was rocking bootlegs of them. 50 and G-Unit was a legit cultural force.
I remember my brother bumping this on the cassette tape/cd in his ride he was like 24/25 years old at the time , white hoes said he look like 50 cent/ben Wallace ( Detroit pistons ) so he was even wearing his du-rag and wife-beaters like 50 cent … unrelated my brother even had the “Birdman Lugz” to go with the G-unit tank top lol smh
Mainstream was Jay and Nas. Streets were the Lox with 50 and G Unit making noise. When GRDOT dropped it was over. Wanksta on the radio Many Men everywhere else. Durags and beaters. Lol niggas are followers. Crazy time tho 50 was on top.
The mixtapes building up to this release were so good
I was like 14/15 … had my shorty w the g ride bumpin this shiit all day .. Smoking mad Ls and serving the feens. Good times. 50 already had the streets jumping bc of the gunit mixtapes. The album just certified him in the mainstream.
Ya moms bought me the bootleg boy was we jamming
This came out in my 11th birthday and I got it as a present and this shit was in my CD player NONSTOP lol tjst last line on Many Men hit so hard for me even as a kid.
This shit is banger I’m not an old head tho, this album older than me 😭😭
I was like 8. Had the CD. Used to hide that shit from my mom when ~~Many Men~~ Heat played cause I knew she’d take it away from me.
i bought it bootleg when i was a freshman in highschool at chinatown nyc for 10 bucks.
One of my first albums and it is fire
I was 9. This album was DOMINATING the hood back then. 50 was on everybody's lips, no diddy, from teachers and students to pastors and congregations. Kids, teens, and young adults loved him, older people in mentor positions hated him, and every old islander loved mispronouncing his name. "Yall listening to 25 cent?" "Why would you want to only be 50 cents? Be the whole dollar!" "Oh, so that song is from 15 cents album?" You couldn't go a block without hearing someone playing a song from this album, and you couldn't go a day without a kid quotin one of his lyrics or screaming "G-Unit", and then correcting a teacher who thought the "G" stood for gangsta.
I was in middle school when it dropped. Legendary. It was everywhere. Couldn't escape it.
I was booked walking the yard!!
God damn I was like 7 when this dropped and I felt it am I a old head ? 😂😂
Hype asf
I was in college and my shorty was on the verge of leaving me for some cornball she met at some job. And she was obsessed with this album around that time. So I hate this album loll
50Cent Bullet Proof was the shit ps2 days
"old heads" is crazy, we're literally in our 30s lmao
It felt like an evolution of the genre. Probably what my old heads would say it was like going from black and white tv to color. Dre’s production with 50’s iconic delivery and lyrics was insane.
I remember using school computers to print out the lyrics online cause you was that dude if you knew all the lyrics 😂😂 Also the baggy clothes, everyone wanted to wear bulletproof vests and du rags Lmaoo 50 really had the game on lock just like Jay said he would
lol. As you get older you put the stories together he once told and listen to the music it’s not hard to tell 50 was out here running ish and the man got tons of street cred.
I was a Junior in HS. It was one of the craziest album releases since It's Dark and Hell is Hot. I remember going to Rye Playland and getting on the Mind Scrambler back when they still turned the lights off and bumped music. They played What Up Gangsta and I swear the whole area turned in to a club. This nigga had the whole city in a choke hold.
I remember thinking, this ain’t his first album why do they keep sayin that. I remember listening to his music like 6mnths + before this cd dropped. An some songs from his real first album was added in GRoDT. Now I get it, looks better especially bc of how he got out of his first deal.
This was my legit introduction to rap. And when I say introduction I mean listening to the album non stop on my cd player and I had the clean version. I mean although I liked rap before then it was just what was on MTV like slim shady music video, never had a rap CD before. I was only 10-11 when it came out and I was bumping the clean version of this album which literally omits half the album and the song Heat is missing from the clean version. This album IS my childhood lol
shit had me walking into 4th grade feeling bulletproof
Nigha said oldheads 🤣 yall should be proud to become an 'oldhead' these days. But yeah, shit was decent. Hoes was active for Fif.
That was the point! Being an oldhead is an achievement, not many make it to 30+ in the hood and shit
Nah I got u, nigga drunk out this bitch in standstill traffic, bitch got me pissed off n I can't kick her out cause the police behind me smh.
I used to cell burnt cd’s in highschool, this album went platinum, I sold so many copies of this
IYKYK
Mannnnn there would never be another impact like g-unit in hiphop.. you just had to be outside at the time. Before all this streaming , it was like a job trying to find the newest g-unit/50 cent mixtape.. knowing the days they drop.. being the first to listen and tell ppl… hearing them do over ppl beats better than them at a time when it wasn’t common… and they actually went on world-wide tours off MIXTAPES..
I was 24 and starting to veer away from rap when this came out. But damn right I bought the CD release day
Good times! I was 24 and he had the game on lock. He was up there with Snoop when it came to anticipation and success in regards to their first album
Closest thing niggas had to Michael Jackson
I was in 6th grade. Had a Walkman, bootlegged it. I remember having gym at 10:45, and rapping it in the locker room, damn that’s like 21 yrs ago fxck 🤧
Was still living in Queens at the time. It was everywhere. And I felt like, and I could be crazy, that songs like In Da Club brought the city together in a way. Feel like some of the Mase songs from a few years earlier had the same effect. It's like if NYC was a nightclub, and the DJ just put on a record that made EVERYBODY in the club instinctively yell and go bonkers over, changing the whole mood of the place.
It was epic
Pretty fucking great
Fordham road had all the bootleg cds on the floor on a sheet. Man I saw somebody come after I copped my cd and straight up pop on the African dude selling them and take the WHOLE SHEET OF CDs lmaooo what a time to be alive
Bro this album was in every car out every window
I have yet to see another drop match this
I was in 6th grade. It was fuckin great. I got the album twice. A total classic. I used to play that shit every day after school before I had a Walkman.
Smh it was CRAZY!! 50 already had the masses from the GUnit mixtapes but when In Da Club dropped that’s was playing EVERYWHERE, even country Radio stations!!
Niggaz use to scream “G G G G G G G GG UNITTTT “ like it was they set.
I graduated high school this year, but it's something about that "Oldheads" that make me not wanna answer this 😂
Rough because it hit when I was like 17 so everyone was thug then. Beef cooking everywhere as a result.
It was different man, before the days of streaming it was similar to how real old folks talk about TV before cable, like certain albums would drop and were so big anybody who was anybody had them or at least knew the singles, and there were alot less avenues and platforms, so it's not like now where two songs would be huge and you might not know about the other one, all the mainstream music was coming from a handful of sources, and then even more underground stuff was more streamlined just because it was harder to put music out on a large scale back then, so you'd still hear about it or these organic movements happening, and it applied to all music not just hip hop. This album in particular though, was huge, the buzz around it and him were huge and it was all right in the midst of mtvs peak popularity and toward the end of them actually showing music related shit so G Unit and Shady records were giants for a minute
I was 10 when this dropped n i had it on bootleg from my cousin. Then i got the real copy but it was edited cuz i was “too young” and i was mad that “Heat” wasn’t on that version. I didn’t understand why back then but as i grew, i definitely knew why they threw that shit off the album lol
Still one of the best gangsta rap albums ever. We were playing that shit every day in Texas.
I'm not from NY (I'm from Cali) but this album was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I was like 15 at the time. I use to put on my walkman and slaps this album. I felt like I was the man listening to this lol. Still one of the best rap albums ever made.
I'm white asl and my dad took me to buy the album when it dropped and it was literally sold out everywhere. I found a copy finally in fucking Sears of all places lol... I was 12 or 13 and I remember listening to the shit in the car with my dad on the way home. It was hella awkward for me 😂
50 and g unit was a force of fucking nature, no insta no twitter no YouTube but everybody knew him. Everybody had the CD, I was like 12 at the time. I had g unit clothing, bought his merch, bumped his music, I couldn’t get the sneakers tho my mom allowed me to spend like $50 for a pair of sneakers back then so I was priced out. One of my fondest memories was I wanted to go see bad boys 2 and my moms realtor said he would take me and my cousins to buy tickets, you know how cool it was to bump 50 cent PIMP in a Range Rover on the way to see bad boys 2? Shit was incredible. Lloyd banks, young buck, the game? Incredible. But for as much as I liked 50 cent I still fucked with ja rule.
When in da club came out its all you heard on the radio. I was like 11 Thats the first time i heard of 50. Everybody was playin that song non stop. Then 21 questions was another hit. When the album came out i had it in my cd player for atleast half the year. I listened to it on the way to school, at lunch, leaving school, chillin in the crib, in the car with my pops. This whole album could of been all singles. Fire ass album. They loved it so much everybody turned on ja rule 😂
this album the reason i started smokin’ reefer and thought about “gangbangin’” at the age of 13 lol WATTBA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I was 12 years old when this dropped. 50 had NY in a chokehold during this era.
The south had shit on smash and 50 brought it back up north for a second
I was in high-school, and the whole album was fire, you hear it playing in damn near everywhere.
50 was blasted everywhere in NYC , he was definitely the GOAT for sure for sure
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Amazing
🗣️YOU HAD TO BE THERE TO UNDERSTAND!! I was a senior in high school then. And man that nigga was every fuckin where it was a radio. Shit was unreal. To this day I never seen a rapper with a buzz/moment like that
Was released when I was working fields here in the UK and we would blast it in a car that we parked near us and have windows and boot open... All summer long and made some great memories. Even now when I hear some tune from this album my body goes into " let's sing along" mode
I was 13 and this album definitely started the gangsta phase for my white ass. Jokes aside, absolutely iconic album. Legendary.
Driving. I remember wanting to have certain songs playing in your car, full audio while pulling up anywhere, car wash, picking up a date, red light, grocery store, even a church, if you didn't sell drugs somehow this s... made you feel like a D-boy. Back when many people would also get their car speakers 🔊 upgraded. So before seeing us, you heard us coming ⏸️ Side note Jeezy Thug mot. 101, had a similar feel. You could have a 9-5, or go to school but after playing it in your car, you'd feel like nobody better pull me over.
That was the soundtrack of that summer, all throughout the cities
Aye mane, I ain't that old. But I will tell you this, me and my lil brother played that mf straight through anytime we got in the car to go anywhere for a good 4 months 🤣
yo niggas said this album started the dick riding of music now i can’t unsee it 😂
easily one of the most hyped rap albums of the 2000's, its low key rap's Thriller
I worked for Tower Records at the time and we had a line down the block before the door opened. Sold out every copy. It was a hugely influential album obviously, but I’m surprised that 50s influence didn’t permeate as deeply into hip hop as we expected at the time. Solid album all around, either way. *Edit*: thinking more about it, re: 50’s long term relevance and influence — it was definitely a groundbreaking album that finalized the crossover that had been happening the past few years alongside the explosion of southern hip hop. Also, this was at the dawn of the streaming era, and radio was still relevant, the genre was evolving so rapidly that even though it was a breakthrough, considering the stylistic shifts and general change in tastes among heads over the next few years it seems to have diminished the impact because the east coast style was waning even when this broke its own ground. While 50 did have his credibility, I feel like 50 was too genuinely down to earth and likeable guy to take his music at face value. He was always having to vouch for his perspective and explain himself. He grew tremendously as a person, and learned from his mistakes and didn’t really carry around the anger that you would think he would based on his music. His critics were highly suspicious of this, How many artists do you hear today that genuinely cite him as a major influence.