50 Cent - Curtis
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Artist: 50 CentEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Aftermath
Product features:
- 50 CENT CURTIS
- Intro
- My Gun Go Off
- Man Down
- I'll Still Kill
- I Get Money
- Come & Go
- Ayo Technology
- Follow My Lead
- Movin' On Up
- Straight To The Bank
- Amusement Park
- Fully Loaded Clip
- Peep Show
- Fire
- All Of Me
- Curtis 187
- Touch The Sky
Music reviews of Curtis
Music Review: 50 attempts to make more money, not more fans with the release of "Curtis"
Rating: 3 Stars
I was originally introduced to 50 Cent when I heard the track "How To Rob" that was featured on the "In Too Deep" soundtrack, a movie that featured LL Cool J and Omar Epps. From there, I didn't hear too much from him until my roomate at the time came home with a CD entitled Guess Who's Back. The CD was released by Full Clip Records and they advertised the CD as 50's underground classics and freestyles. My favorite tracks included "Rotten Apple", "Life's On The Line", "Ghetto Qua'ran", "Who U Rep With" w/Nas & The Bravehearts, and "As The World Turns" w/Bun B from UGK. 50 sounded like an artist trying to promote his demo and you could feel through his words that he wanted to make it in the hip hop game. Eminem heard this same "Guess Who's Back" CD and decided to give 50 Cent a call to see if he wanted to do some business. Before you know it, 50 Cent had been signed to Eminem's Shady Records. A couple of months later the same roomate bought home 2 50 mixtapes: "50 Cent Is The Future" and "No Mercy No Fear". I then found out that 50's G Unit crew consisted of 50, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. From the 2 mixtapes, I was impressed with "You Should Be Here", "Bump Dat", "A Lil Bit Of Everything", which featured Young Buck when he was still down with the UTP crew, "Bad News", "Soldier", "After My Cheddar", and "Banks Victory", which was a freestyle where Lloyd Banks ripped the instrumental to the Puff Daddy, Notorious BIG and Busta Rhymes track. Eminem released the soundtrack to the movie "8 Mile" and that's where 50's track "Wanksta" was commercially born. It had also been featured on "No Mercy, No Fear". We later found out that the track was for 50's main nemesis, Ja Rule. This is where the "Order Of Protection" drama was drawn out after 50 and Ja's confrontation in the past. Once "Wanksta" ran its course, 50 was back with "In Da Club". The track was a Dr. Dre track that was turned down by D12 and passed down to 50. Anywhere you went you heard, "Go shorty, it's your birthday"..lol and after awhile you were just tired of hearing it. Get Rich Or Die Tryin was released in 2003. At the time, you couldn't tell 50 anything. He sold over 800,000 records in a short week. My favorite tracks ended up being "Many Men", "What's Up Gangsta", "Back Down", "P.I.M.P.", and "If I Can't". Later on that year, 50 Cent and his G Unit crew, which now included Young Buck, released "Beg For Mercy". Tony Yayo was incarcerated so Young Buck played a bigger role than expected. My favorite tracks included
"G'd Up", "Poppin' Them Thangs", "Better Ask Somebody", "Groupie Love", and "I'm So Hood". There was nothing groundbreaking about this release, but the project still kept the G Unit faithful happy.
With all of 50's success going to his head, he released The Massacre in 2005. The problem with getting too much success to fast is that instead of being a rapper that is hungry with the mixtapes and with "Guess Who's Back", since the money is there, that's takes precedence over making a good CD. Don't get me wrong, "The Massacre" had its moments with tracks like the "Hate It Or Love It (Remix), "I'm Supposed 2 Die Tonight", "In My Hood", "Get In My Car" and "The Ski Mask Way", but for a Cd with 22 tracks, "The Massacre" didn't live up to "Get Rich Or Die Trying". The singles were terrible: "Candy Shop", "Disco Inferno", and "Just A Lil Bit" were tailor made for the club, but neither of those tracks were songs that you would want to hear anywhere else. The supposed diss track of Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Nas and others was overrated in "Piggybank" and there were just too many unmemorable tracks.
Now in 2007, 50 is back with CD #3 "Curtis". The first 2 singles "Straight From The Bank" and "Amusement Park" were not the best songs for 50 to use to promote a new CD. Atleast you can listen to "Straight From The Bank" but "Amusement Park" is basically "Candy Shop 2007" so the only people that would want to hear that track would be the ladies. However, it seems that anytime 50 is down and about to be given the 10 count, he always finds a way to redeem himself. Producer Apex basically saved the whole "Curtis" project with 1 track, "I Get Money". If you did buy this CD, this was the #1 reason why you did, in my opinion. This reminds most people of what 50 can do when he is determined. However, this doesn't happen too often on "Curtis". Single #4, yeah that's right and that is even before the CD dropped is "Ayo Technology" which features Justin Timberlake and is produced by Timbaland. Anyone who was a fan of Justin's "Future Sex, Love Sounds" will like this track as 50 tries to keep up with a nice track from Timbaland. 50 would have done this project better justice by just making "I Get Money" the 1st single and "Ayo Technology" the 2nd single. He shouldn't have rushed "Straight From The Bank" and "Amusement Park" just to have new material out.
"My Gun Go Off" gets things off to a decent start. It even sounds as if 50 actually took his time to come up with something that sounds have way decent. It's clearly better than most of what you heard on "The Massacre". "Man Down" is another decent track. I am not sure why it's censored but Detroit Red & Don Cannon provide 50 with some good production and 50 shows that when he wants to he can still display his street side. Other than "I Get Money", my next favorite track is the catchy "I'll Still Kill" which features Akon. The 2 artists have a good chemistry and the track would even be better if Akon would have produced it just as he did with his collaboration with Young Jeezy, "Soul Survivor" and his collaboration with Rick Ross, "Cross The Line". "Come & Go" features the good reverend Dr. on the chorus and is alright but compared to the 1st 3 tracks, it won't do too much for you. However, it's clearly better than tracks like "Peep Show", "Fire" and "Touch The Sky" which features Tony Yayo for an unmemorable guest appearance. The 5th single, yeah that's right 5 and the CD isn't even a week old yet..lol is "Follow My Lead" w/Robin Thicke. The track would be alot better if 50 didn't come with cheesy lines like "I like you alot, I don't want to hurt you, but I call a square a square and a circle a circle". The track is very catchy so it may grow on you after awhile but 50 could have done better lyrically. I don't know who 50 is claiming copied his style, but "Movin' On Up" is another decent track. This songs aren't as good as anything on "Get Rich Or Die Trying" but at the same time this isn't a 1 star release either. "Fully Loaded Clip" features a nice beat from Havoc from Mobb Deep. I am not sure what Jay Z & Beyonce, Nas & Kelis, Young Jeezy & Keysha Cole, JD & Janet or Trina and Lil Wayne and/or Young Buck have to do with a "Fully Loaded Clip" but the track is another decent/average track. My girl Mary J. even hooks 50 up with a nice hook on "All Of Me". It will be obvious who does a better job on this track. If 50 could leave his cockiness at the front door sometimes, he could improve the quality of some of these tracks. "Curtis 187" also isn't bad.
Now if you gave "Curtis" 1 star because you only heard the tracks "Peep Show" w/Eminem, "Fire" w/Young Buck and Nicole from PCD, "Amusement Park" and "Touch The Sky" with Tony Yayo then I can understand. However, love him or hate him, 50 still released a average/decent product. He's far from my favorite rapper and because of his antics and his aspirations for constant beef, I can see why most people dislike him, but "Curtis" isn't as bad as everyone is claiming it to be. I would rate it between 2.5 and 3 stars out of 5, which is decent& average just like the majority of the tracks on here.
50 claims on a track that I heard on welovehiphop.com entitled "Smile", which is supposedly produced by Kanye West, (so much for Beef, it's just a ploy to get more money people, don't be fooled by what you think you see) that he will be leaving the game soon. If he leaves now, I don't think that people will complain at all. If you are into 50 and G Unit or then you should get this CD. If you don't like 50 because he isn't as hungry as he was on "Guess Who's Back" and on the early mixtapes, then you might want to leave "Curtis" on the shelf.
P.S. Does anyone actually know what "Ayo Technology" is?
P.S. #2 50 dissed Ja Rule because he sang on every track. Isn't that what 50 does on every song now?....Hmm
James' Top 5
1) I Get Money
2) I'll Still Kill w/Akon
3) My Gun Go Off
4) Man Down
5) Ayo Technology w/Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
Honorable Mention:
Fully Loaded Clip
Curtis 187
All Of Me w/Mary J. Blige
Description of Curtis
THIS CD INCLUDES A FREE RINGTONE AND MOBILE PHONE WALLPAPER (please see insert for details) The Superstar Rappers Third Album Includes Production from Dr. Dre, Eminem and Timbaland, and more.CURTIS (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope), features guest appearances by Eminem, Timbaland, Akon, Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige, Robin Thicke, and Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls.
50 has 2 HOT tracks leading up to the release of Curtis! Both have taken the radio airwaves by storm: "AYO TECHNOLOGY" featuring JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and TIMBALAND - produced by TIMBALAND, and "I GET MONEY!" Curtis continues 50 Cent's phenomenal rise from the mean streets. His official debut album, 2003's Get Rich Or Die Tryin.., sold 872,000 units in the first four days of its release, making it the fastest-selling debut disc in the SoundScan era (since 1991). The album was the biggest seller of 2003 and is currently ten times platinum worldwide. Later that year, The New Breed, a DVD with a bonus CD including new songs, charted #2 Pop and #1 R&B/Hip-Hop. His second album, 2005's The Massacre, was the second biggest-selling album of the year and is now seven times platinum worldwide. Since he first dropped his bombs on the music world, 50 has earned 11 Grammy nominations, from Best New Artist to Best Rap Album for each of his first two efforts. Attesting to his worldwide popularity, Get Rich Or Die Tryin' hit #2 in the U.K. and #1 in Australia while The Massacre went #1 in both those countries, #2 in Sweden, and is the biggest-selling rap album in India, where it has been certified double platinum, selling more than 2,000,000 copies. Back in the U.S., 50 has scored three singles claiming the #1 spot across the charts -- R&B/Hip-hop, Rap, and Pop: "In Da Club," "Candy Shop," and "21 Questions" (featuring Nate Dogg). Three more went Top 3 across the board: "P.I.M.P," "Just A Lil Bit," and "Disco Inferno." Yet another four were Rap Top 10s: "Wanksta," "Outta Control (Remix)," "Window Shopper," and "Best Friend." Four of the above have been certified digital gold: "In Da Club," "Candy Shop," "P.I.M.P," and "Disco Inferno." From music to movies, video games to books, a clothing line to footwear, 50 has taken street culture by storm. But as Curtis proves, and as he says in ..Straight to the Bank,.. 50 Cent wants even more.
If you believe everything you hear, Curtis is 50 Cent's bid to be hip-hop king--the rumor goes that he issued it the same day Kanye West released his Graduation CD to spawn a sales race and thus, a) establish superiority, or b) retire with his head hung low. But here's what might not have occurred to 50: Given enough talent and a fully loaded speed-dial--the kind that can raise Timbaland, Akon, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, and Eminem faster than the sickest rapper can stitch together a verse--it's possible for two diabolically good discs to drop the same day. Forgetting the Kanye competition for a moment, Curtis might come up short in a race with its creator's other albums--the rawness and reach of Get Rich Or Die Tryin' isn't here. But certain cultural moments (who would refute that the release Get Rich? was one?) can't be replicated, and what Curtis lacks in credible grit, it more than makes up for in finesse. Never let it be said that you can't be fierce and flow at the same time: "I Get Money" glides back to the old school in sound--there's a house party happening behind this track--but sends out a modern message, "I'll Still Kill," with Akon, underscores 50's continued thug-hood with a lethal hook, and "Follow My Lead," with the smoothie Robin Thicke, is a finger-popper worth 100 plays for its sly mood alone. May the best rapper, if there is one, keep rapping. --Tammy La Gorce
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