50 Cent would love to relive the “Get Rich Or Die Tryin'” days.
50 Cent recently made an appearance on Big Boy’s Neighborhood, where the G-Unit mogul asked about his legendary career and a moment that he would love to relieve if he could.
“The first time I realized the numbers on Get Rich or Die Tryin’, that was it for me,” he said. “We had a short first week, and it came back, it was like 830,000 something. And then we didn’t have the decrease that you would have, meaning they under-shipped it.”
He continued: “The 60 percent, 30 percent decrease that would be there for every album wasn’t there because the following week, it came in with a whole other 800,000. I was on a bus riding in the back, and I remembered [thinking], ‘This is never going to feel like this again.’”
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Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was Fifty’s debut major studio album, and was released in 2003 through Interscope Records, Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment, Eminem’s Shady Records, and his G-Unit Records. Dr. Dre was executive producer of the project, which additional production from Mr. Porter, Mike Elizondo, Dirty Swift and more. It featured guest appearances from Eminem, Young Buck, Nate Dogg, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and more.
50 Cent’s debut album, featuring hits like “In Da Club,” “21 Questions,” and “P.I.M.P,” was the top-selling album in the US in 2003 and received a nomination for Best Rap Album at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards, although it lost to Outkast’s Speakerbox/The Love Below. The highly successful project received 9x Platinum certification in February 2020 and is expected to reach diamond status soon, marking 50 Cent’s first diamond album and the 12th rap album in history to surpass the 10 million sales milestone. It would join the ranks of other historic rap albums like Eminem’s The Eminem Show, 2Pac’s All Eyez On Me, and Biggie’s Life After Death.
