Earlier than 50 Cent started constructing his sprawling universe, which ought to eventually include Lady Danger on Amazon Freevee, he laid the inspiration together with his 2003 debut album, Get Wealthy Or Die Tryin’. Uproxx celebrated its twentieth anniversary in February by ranking the 34 best 50 Cent songs.
“I need you to grasp one thing about this. I’m by no means, form, or type exaggerating in even the teeny tiniest little bit after I say that this album F*CKED THE GAME UP,” Uproxx‘s Aaron Williams wrote. “We discuss quite a bit on this enterprise about ‘groundbreaking,’ ‘earth-shattering,’ and even paradigm-shifting albums. Normally, that’s a bunch of nonsense. However this time? This time, it’s all the way in which actual.”
50 seems to grasp the importance of his seminal venture.
On Wednesday, Might 3, he posted a 24-hour countdown clock labeled “20 Years Later…,” and the one logical conclusion is that it’s associated to Get Wealthy Or Die Tryin’.
It’s the one submit on 50 Cent’s Instagram grid. He additionally shared the semi-mysterious clock to his Instagram Story and on Twitter.
In February, 50 marked the official twentieth anniversary by making autographies vinyls of Get Wealthy Or Die Tryin’ accessible for seven days.
“20 years in the past right now, I dropped the most important debuting hip-hop album of all time,” he captioned a since-deleted Instagram submit on February 6, as captured by HipHopDX. “Right here’s Your likelihood to Personal a chunk of Historical past!”
For the report, 50 Cent has gotten very rich within the many years since.