![]() Released on the independent label Full Clip Records in 2002, the record featured now classic 50 cuts like “U Not Like Me,” “Life’s on the Line” and “Ghetto Qu’ran” as well as guest appearances from Nas, Bun B, Nature and Bravehearts. Guess Who’s Back? was just a compilation of tracks 50 had recorded for his Columbia debut album, Power of the Dollar, before it got shelved. Even to this day, rappers trying to promote their mixtapes are jacking 50’s formula from back in the day.ĥ0’s mixtapes from that era – 50 Cent Is the Future, No Mercy, No Fear and God’s Plan – are now legendary, but it was one project in particular that launched him to the top. Whether you were Raphael Saadiq, Mobb Deep, Jay-Z or the Wu-Tang Clan, it didn’t matter – if your shit was hot, 50 was jacking it and making it hotter. Using the mixtape circuit to distribute his music better than any car trunk could, 50 quickly saturated the market with freestyles and remixes of other artists’ songs. ![]() With his G-Unit soldiers, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo, right beside him, 50 start recording music non-stop. Hip-hop heads, did you know that Eminem signed 50 Cent to Shady Records after he heard the rapper’s 2002 compilation album Guess Who’s Back?Īfter getting shot nine times on May 24, 2000, 50 went on a mission to make it in the rap game.
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