![]() ![]() The song is basically a rich asshole’s bitter laundry list, but it’s set to an instantly likable sped-up soul beat that almost gives his petty gripes the weight of actual grievances. “Listen homey, I don’t know you, I wouldn’t save you if I could,” he barks at the guy approaching his car. Nothing summons 50’s eloquence like unbridled contempt, and he’s got generous servings of it here for everybody: “She called the cops on me/Because I don’t love her like I used to,” he sneers of his baby mother. “I’ve got so many enemies/So many memories/So many flashbacks/We used to be friends/Sugar turned to shit/People just changed,” he snarls in the opening lines, and “They Burned Me” only grows more acrid from there. Black Magic, or whatever it is, exists in a purely theoretical realm right now if and when it ever surfaces, it will likely boast half the entertainment value of what we’ve collected here.ĥ0 taps into his seething id and uncorks a gusher. Just a random spray of freestyles, original songs, random remixes of pop hits, and left-field collaborations with random West Coast street rappers. There seems to be no “strategy” surrounding their presentation: no mixtapes, no themed projects, no “one song a week” roll-out schemes. Usually, this music - released on G-Unit mixtapes, or lately just sent willy-nilly to blogs as he finishes them - is all the things he’s good at being without even trying: undeniably funny, acridly contemptuous, cynical, openly hostile and bullying to anyone/everyone, and basically cartoonishly dickish. 50 CENT SONGS 2013 TORRENTAnd when this itch grows burdensome, he goes on a small tear to relieve it, issuing a torrent of deeply entertaining, cheaply recorded freestyles and mini-songs over which he rants and raves like a gangsta-rap Yosemite Sam about his dwindling legacy. Music is a demanding beast, after all, requiring hours of focused effort, and when you can get the same return on investment publicity-wise by filming yourself interrupting one of Shyne’s conference calls, honestly, why bother?īut if there’s one thing Curtis Jackson needs to feel, it’s that he can still command your attention, should he want it. But it’s hard to get too worked up over these niggling details when you live in a 9,000-room mansion and will never, ever run out of money. ![]() Really!) He may or may not be releasing another full-length record sometime soon it may or may not be called Black Magic. (Although here’s a secret almost no one knows: His last such effort, 2009’s Before I Self-Destruct, was one of the year’s best rap albums. Actually, you had better look now - he only does this once a year or so, in between failed commercial projects. Archived from the original on May 4, 2014.Don’t look now, but 50 Cent is off in his little corner making compelling music again.
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