Review: 3 out of 5

Best Song: I Get Money

Fifty’s third album is one big guilty pleasure. Considering he said he wanted to go back to the old Fifty, which was really just a marketing ploy, this isn’t even close. He gets 3 stars, cause damn this foo like 10 videos deep, even before the album drops!

1. Intro

Some random clip from some English movie about some kid selling guns. A real lazy way to start the album.

2. My Gun (Produced By Adam Deitch & Eric Krasno)

I first thought Eminem produced this as it seems just as rigid and borderline cheesy as his previous beats. Nevertheless, the beat provides an uptempo soundscape for Fif to talk about how his gun go off. Really? Your a 100 millionaire and your shooting people to death? Your a killer baby!

3. Man Down (Produced By Detroit Red & Don Cannon)

Pretty much the exact same song as the last one, except with a better hook (It’s more to the point) Fifty chants “I’ll murda dem, I’ll murda dem” in a freshie accent. Some of the rhymes here, I’ve actually heard 50 say before.

4. I’ll Still Kill ft. Akon (Produced by DJ Khalil)

Wtf, another song about killing people. I thought Fif was a drug dealer, not a serial killer, ah well at least Killa Cam won’t snitch on ’em. Even friggen Akon stacks up a few bodies here.

5. I Get Money (Produced By Apex)

This song is sincerely serious. Even though the drum programming is a bite of Cassidy’s “I’m a Hustla.” Best Line: “Have a baby by me baby, be a millionaire/ I write the cheque before the baby come who the fuck cares?”

6. Come and Go (Produced By Roomio & Veto)

Beat sounds like a car with bad breaks trying to stop. I really have nothing to say about this track, other then it’s hot garbage. Speaking of hot garbage, these damn animals knocked down my trashcan and the garbage went all over the damn place, it was ‘gusting!

7. Ayo Technology (Produced by Timbaland)

I always wondered when Fifty was going to play the Timbo card. Never expected a song about being sick of internet porn. So not only is Fifty a serial killer he’s also an internet perv. Nonetheless, this song is mad catchy -which is all that really matters anymore. And that Castlevania sample is kinda cool.

8. Follow My Lead (Produced By Tha Bizness)

And now Fif becomes a hopeless romantic. This song is actually hot in a mature-one-woman man-kinda-way. It’s like the watered down “21 Questions”. Robin Thicke gets his Jon B on.

9. Movin’ On Up (Produced By Jake One)

Beat knocks. Hooks on point. But lyrics are uninspiring. I seriously don’t get how this guy could say these lyrics in the studio and think this shit is hot. I personally blame the Engineer. Shame on ’em for not telling Fif to step his rap game up.

10. Straight to the Bank (Produced By Ty Fyffe)

I actually liked this song. Yayo’s laugh is absolutely brilliant on the hook here too.

11. Amusement Park (Produced By Chris Styles)

I can’t figure out exactly why, but this is the worst song in recorded history. Now think about that for a minute? Think about all those myspace rappers who record whole albums on their computer mics, this is worse than that shit. Dayum.

12. Fully Loaded Clip (Produced By Havoc)

Now this beat is very serious and finally Fifty sounds inspired. He barks, “While Jay and Beyonce were muah muah kissing…” This some classic 50 cent hood music, something you would hear on “Guess Who’s Back.” Nah, but more like something you would have heard on “Massacre”.

13. Peep Show ft. Eminem (Produced By Eminem)

This is Eminem production post Akon’s “Smack That”, and yes it sounds just as corny as all his other beats minus Jay-z’s Renegade. Not only that this is the Club-Thug-Eminem, which is so believable, really. I don’t want to hear a rich white ex-backpacker get jiggy in the club, that ain’t cool skippy!

14. Fire ft. Young Buck & Nicole Scherzinger (Produced By Dr. Dre)

Wtf is Buck doing on this? This song would have been hot in like 1999. Calling a song “Fire” in 2007 with a beat anyone with a Korg Triton and one finger could make is very amateur.

15. All Of Me ft. Mary J Blige (Produced By Jake One)

Beat bangs. I could just listen to Mary on this, I mean did they really have to get Fif to yap on this one? Best line: “God gave me a gift, I’m supposed to be rich”.

16. Curtis 187 (Produced By Havoc)

This beats very hood, but the quality sounds like it was made in FruityLoops 2.1. I mean no way the scratches here are real. The hook is hella a catchy, but verses are so uninspiring, it’s almost as if Fifty just wants to get the song done. Wait, that’s probably what he wants.

17. Touch the Sky ft. Tony Yayo (Produced By K Lassik)

Song is actually decent. But what’s with the tribute to Pac and Big on the hook? That’s gotta be the most insincere b.s. I’ve heard since Jay-Z’s “Bonnie & Clyde.”