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This song hit it so big that due to constant demand, DJs had to play it twice in a row at most clubs when it came out.
This was he first song 50 recorded with Dr. Dre, and his first on a major label. After being dropped by Columbia Records without releasing an album, 50's mix tapes became wildly popular in underground scene and he was heavily bootlegged on the Internet. This got the attention of Dr. Dre and Eminem, who signed him to very lucrative deal with their label, Shady/Aftermath Records.
The video shows 50 going through training at Shady/Aftermath Records to become a superstar. It proved prophetic as 50 did become a star. The album sold 872,000 copies the first week it was released. Eminem is the only rapper to sell more records in a week.
This won for Best Rap Video at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. 50 also won for Best New Artist In A Video.
Beyoncé recorded a version with different lyrics that was circulated on the Internet. Like the original, it became very popular in dance clubs. Her lyrics take the point of view of a girls' night out, and is called "Sexy Lil' Thug."
Mary J. Blige used the beat in song called "Hooked," which she recorded with P. Diddy.
Other rappers who used this beat include Bubba Sparxxx, who did a version called "In The Mudd," and Cadillac Tah, one of 50 Cent's rivals, who did an angry version called "There's A Snitch In The Club." Beyoncé and Mary J. Blige also recorded variations of it. Parody versions include "In Da Pub" by British DJ 50 Pence, and "In Da Dome," which was recorded for The Calgary Flames during the 2004 NHL playoffs. A Finnish rap group called Urbaanilegenda recorded a version called Klubilla (In Da Club in Finnish). (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
The line, "Go shorty, it's your birthday," dates back to a 1994 song by Luther Campbell of The 2 Live Crew called "It's Your Birthday," where he rapped, "Go Sheila, it's your birthday." The owner of Campbell's copyright sued 50 Cent for stealing the line.
In 2007, this song was used in a commercial for Vitamin Water, with an orchestra playing the instrumental and 50 Cent conducting. 50 was an early investor in Vitamin Water, and made a huge profit when the company was acquired by Coca-Cola.
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Sarah from Cambridge, England I'm sure you enjoy getting wicked smashed in da pub to this song, but I'm just a little bit more concerned about the 300 teens who were shot this year alone in my city because they want to grow up to be just like famous fiddy.
0 - raised without a father and mom gave birth to him at fifteen.
8 - cocaine dealing mother got murdered (AGE *!!!), moved in with about a dozen aunties and uncles.
10 - started dealing narcotics. Took guns and drug money to school and got arrested.
Until 19 - tons of bad sh*t like getting arrested.
19 - Arrested twice for selling drugs, possesion of drugs and weapons.
25 - shot nine times, (including the chest and at almost point blank)
Product - a rich, high selling, businessman who still to this day, does not care about making a "good change" but only cares about money. Someone who has been given so many things for nothing but at the same time has sufferd alot and experienced life as a thug or underprivilidged kid still doesn't give back what he he gotten. People have given him a record label for goodness sakes. Still he sits around eating benjis all day and rapping about his high life. Kids in other countries are dying for god's sakes. He even said himself that he got into the business to make money and fame. Peole like that know what is going on and still don't care, that is greed, besides he can't rap anyway.
but seriously most people who are hatin him either just dont like rap or u dont like his class
most people hate it when rappers are on the radio singin about sex like in the candy shop
and little kids hear this on kiss 108 and they think hes talkin about a candy store when really they dont know the true meanin and theyre parents change the station in disgust and embarassment and if theres one thing rap will never match is the class of rock and the number of fans
u cant get in to a 50 cent concert without all the craze and danger zone...meanwhile u can get in to a rock concert at ease and have a great time
id love to see 50 in concert but i dont know
if anyone saw my itunes library ud laugh
rap-rock-rap-rock-punk-rap all of that all mixed up..
You can often find Mr.Jackson in nightclubs drinking champange right from the bottle. Mr. Jackson will probably also be in possesion of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (street name: extascy). He will gladdly dispense this drug to all those that care to partake. Mr. Jackson is actively seeking out emotionally-dettached sex. If you would like to have emotionally-dettached sex with Mr. Jackson, simply embrace him.
Mr. Jackson generally travels to nightclubs in Mercedes Benz automobiles, with an entourage of twenty, well-armed, associates. Mr.Jacksoin has engaged in sexual intercourse with Andre "Dr. Dre" Young, and this relationship has given him status in his community. Mr. Jackson's record sales are comprobale to Marshal "Eminem" Mathers, and that makes him attractive to prostitutes.
Mr. Jackson has smoked marijuana cigarettes with Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner (editor's note: no wonder he changed his name to Xzibit). Mr. Jackson's body language gives off the impression that he is a basketball player or possibly a manager of prostitutes. Mr. Jackson has recieved multiple gunshot wounds, none of which have impaired his bipedial mobility. In the slums of cities his physique is commented upon by females. Those females like him, but at a lesser degree than that of the late Lesane "Tupac Shakur" Parish Crooks- an issue that Mr. jackson laments. Mr. Jackson suggests that you shout to others that he is mentally impaired, when in the city of New York.
Mr. Jackson plans to monopolize the Hip/Hop entertainment business. Mr. Jackson has a keen business sense. He has made $1 million, but is still working on growing his assets. One female relates to Mr. Jackson's vocalizations. This woman and Mr. Jackson will likely engage in sexual intercourse, along with a third woman, who is a bisexual.
Mr. Jackson's entertainment skills have brought him great prosperity and high-end material goods. He no longer has to spend his money at K-Mart. His recent windfall has not changed his personality.
You should be happy that Mr. Jackson is sucessful. Mr. Jackson precieves you as being upset by his sucess. Mr. Jackson prefers to think of himself as a man at a tavern, toasting to sucess. He accusses you of being a sodomite and a detriminet to his sucess. Mr. Jackson loves thrusting his penis at nightclubs. He flirts with women in relationships by winking- if they smile, he has sexual intercourse with them. If the nightclub is on fire, than Mr. Jackson is not concerned. Mr. Jackson is also not concerned with fiscal matters. Mr. Jackson wishes to tell you an ancedote told to him by one Christopher "Lloyd Banks" Lloyd: "Even if other people do not like you, it doesn't matter if you are making money." Mr. Jackson drinks champange in public. You know where Mr. Jackson currently resides.
Mr. Jackson knows that you know where he has been in the past. He advises you not to lie about such matters. Mr. Jackson is in nightclubs constinantly. This song is about to end.
p.s. Heck- any-thing is better than rap! Any-thing. Just buy something else people.
Have you taken the time to listen to what he talks about on his albums? This fellow is not a musician, he's a thug who is "getting over" on people by selling them CDs.
It's crap.
Rap has a quality control issue largely because there are a lot of people who feel they still have to defend it as a genre, and so are less than willing (except when talking among themselves) to condemn cruddy hip hop, for fear that they're somehow giving comfort to their critics.
Rap at its best is about "skills." Having heard groups like Eric B and Rakim (on tracks like "Follow the Leader,") Run DMC (Peter Piper), Pete Rock and CL Smooth (Mecca and the Soul Brother), Public Enemy ("By the Time I Get to Arizona"), and even lesser known groups like Group Home (Livin' Proof), I find it hard to give any credit at all to guys like 50 Cent who just do not impress me.
And it is pretty amazing the way complete moral degenerates have become heroes in the rap world. I'm hardly an expert on hip hop, but to me the idea of hip hop was, you have these underpriviliged kids living in urban squalor, a place which a lot of white folks considered "cultureless." No money for textbooks, not to mention musical programs...but wait, dad's got an old turntable he doesn't use...And maybe I can't sing but I have a story to tell, and I can tell it in a rhythm most drummers couldn't even drum.
Rhyming, DJing, graffiti, and breakdancing - the sum of the parts greater than the whole...Now it is true that *anyone* can rap; at least anyone with working vocal chords. The issue is that not everyone can rap *well* and the best MCs really are talented, even though, if you've been raised on the Top 40 garbage of the last 10 years, you might not understand this.
One would think that if you lived in a crime-ridden ghetto you'd be appalled by the violence, drug addiction, and all of the other plagues of inner city life, and you'd want to build a scene, a united front against all of this. I don't see how much of what is played on the radio or television contributes anything positive. Moral bankruptcy seems to be the baseline these days as does constant, never-ending bragging about sexual escapades, tossing money in slow motion to the camera, outright sexism, and in some cases glorification of a violent, criminal lifestyle. Worse yet, so many of the people who slog this garbage and call it art never want to take responsibility for what they say or do. They can advocate any kind of degeneracy, and when challenged, fall back on the cop-out that they're "just reporting life, like it is." You know what that is? That's being b****-made. That's all it is. And the vast majority of people who want to say whatever they want, however they want, and dodge responsibility when people can't tell if they're advocating something, reporting on something they saw, or mere high-school braggadocio, are indeed, just a bunch of lame, low-life punks. And if you are honest about advocating selling drugs (and wrecking lives), shooting people, whatever, to me you're just a criminal, and any idiot can be a criminal. It is not ennobling.
The rap world needs to start recognizing quality and talent when it comes around and through what they lay their money down for in record stores, start encouraging talent rather than pimping out anything that comes along that calls itself hip-hop. Hint: Any group that constantly references "getting paid" probably isn't it, as any long time rock fan would point out. It's not about being a Big Money Hustla, it's about skilled rhymes and dropping science and tearing **** up on a turntable, and at least sometimes, having something worthwhile to say.
Morever, it's about not being a *POSER*, which so much of the rap world is, in its pretense to being some kind of gangsta. 50 Cent may well be one, but the fact that people tend to be endlessly fascinated by this, and give him *credit* for being a degenerate criminal, is one primary reason why heavy criticism will always dog rap, and why so much of the criticism of mainstream rap is completely deserved.
Also threatening each other with violence constantly tends to make people consider rap a sick joke. That should probably stop too. When the gangsta fetishists realize that any idiot - and I do mean *any* idiot - can take up a gun and shoot someone, or sell drugs, maybe things will improve. The greatest enemies of hip hop right now are undiscerning hip hop fans and the phonies and degenerates whose records they buy. There is room for disagreements on matters of taste, but at best, In Da Club is disposable pap - rap's answer to Britney Spears. And if you don't see that, I can't do nothin' for yuh man.
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- The settings are are always at a party/club
- Women dancing/shaking their "booty"/rubbing the buttocks on someones groin.
- Quick flashes of beautiful cars.
- Quick flashes of bling bling/jewelry
- Slow motion poses
- "Fashionable" Clothing
DONT JUDGE MUSIC BY GENRE BUT BY QUALITY!
- Pat, Evan, Matt and Sean from Georgetown Law
Rap _is_ on the way out, fortunately. Already bands like the Roots are moving in to take the place of the shrinking rap scene. I was actually just watching a video on MTV of a band with a white keyboardist, black guitarist, black bassist and black drummer. The guitarist was playing pedal steel and soloed on the thing? This kind of hip-hop infused folk isn't really my cup of tea, but it's better than rap.