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Released on September 11th 2007, it was 50’s 3rd album. I remember this album being okish, but people have said this album was bad, I’ll review it, either y’all are tripping or y’all were right.

Track 1. Intro, this leads into the first track.

Track 2. My Gun Go Off, produced by Adam Deitch and Eric Krasno. This song sounds like an eminem beat which isn’t appealing to me, but he was talking that bang bang shoot em up stuff, decent track. 6.5/10

Track 3. Man Down, produced by Don Cannon and Detroit Red. This isn’t a great song, 50 is talking that gun talk, not terrible but nothing to revisit. 5.5/10

Track 4. I’ll Still Kill featuring Akon, produced by DJ Khalil. So far this is the first good song on here. This was prime Akon during his feature run. 4th straight song of 50 talking about the same shit. Nothing distinguishing from the previous tracks. 7.5/10

Track 5. I Get Money, produced by Apex. This was the 3rd single and the one that actually hit. This song was fire, dope use of the Audio Two sample. 50 talking his shit on here. Another dope track. 8.5/10

Track 6. Come & Go, featuring and produced by Dr Dre, I’m not feeling this. And something just came to me but I’ll save that for the end of the review… 5/10

Track 7. Ayo Technology featuring Justin Timberlake produced by Timbaland. This was the 4th and final single. This was also a hit albeit it was a song of its time. I liked this song. 7/10

Track 8. Follow My Lead featuring Robin Thicke, produced by Tha Bizness. Nice smooth laid back track. A more female centric song. 7.5/10

Track 9. Movin On Up, produced by Jake One. I like this beat, I would’ve preferred a Styles or a Jada on this over 50. Solid track regardless. 6/10
 
Track 10. Straight To The Bank, produced by Ty Fyffe. This was the 2nd single. This was when he was searching for a song to hit, not a bad song, I hate the chorus. This probably would’ve hit 2 or 3 years earlier. 7/10

Track 11. Amusement Park, produced by Dangerous LLC. This was the 1st single. His first attempt at a hit, this didnt hit, but it wasn’t a bad song either. Dope beat. 7/10

Track 12. Fully Loaded Clip, produced by Havoc. Dope beat, but I wasn’t feeling 50 on this. A lot of the couples he name dropped aren’t even together no more. Keyshia Cole and Jeezy, Nas and Kelis lol. Should’ve gave this to Prodigy. Not a bad song though. 6/10

Track 13. Peep Show featuring eminem, produced by eminem. Terrible. Down to the beat, lazy lyrics, and yuck at em. 1/10

Track 14. Fire featuring Young Buck and Nicole Scherzinger, produced by Dr Dre. Another bad song he should’ve left this off the album. 3/10

Track 15. All of Me featuring Mary J Blige, produced by Jake One. A good song again. I liked Mary on this, and this was the first track in a while where 50 sounds inspired, maybe it’s the Mary feature. 7.5/10

Track 16. Curtis 187, produced by Havoc. This sounds like a GRODT-Massacre era song. Might be the 2nd best song on here. 8/10

Track 17. Touch The Sky featuring Tony Yayo, produced by K Lassik Beats. This sounds so dated even for the time period. Not a good song and it’s the same ole gun talk to boot. 4.5/10

Track 18. I Get Money 1,2,3 Forbes Remix featuring Jay Z and P Diddy. Produced by Apex. This is a bonus song which was added later because this wasn’t on the version I bought back then. This was a big deal when it dropped at the time. 50 had his issues with both men around this time and even after this. 8/10
 
What hit me as I was listening to this album is that while 50 was never the most lyrical, he had charisma, wit and charm, mixed with slick talk who had a believable backstory. By this point we got watered down versions of what made 50 great and he overstayed his welcome by this point. He was always carried by beats and his personality. This album had its moments but it was clear that his best days were behind him. This might’ve been his mainstream swan song. 6.5/10
 
5th Letter said:
What hit me as I was listening to this album is that while 50 was never the most lyrical, he had charisma, wit and charm, mixed with slick talk who had a believable backstory. By this point we got watered down versions of what made 50 great and he overstayed his welcome by this point. He was always carried by beats and his personality. This album had its moments but it was clear that his best days were behind him. This might’ve been his mainstream swan song. 6.5/10
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This is kinda why I said this was the end of his career

Yeah I understand he still released a “successful” album after but as far as 50 being a hip hop darling and mega star it was over

Nobody wanted to even hear this kinda shit in 2007 either so it sounded like someone who failed to keep up with the times despite only being “out” for 5 years up to this point
 
Amusement Park and Straight To The Bank had me thinking this album was going to be wack then he dropped I Get Money and that made me think differently.

I listened to this album two times from start to finish and never went back to it again.
 
I hadn’t listened to this since the great album war of 07. At the time I thought it was aight but this aged horribly compared to his first two albums.
 
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