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50 Cent Loves 2003 Like A Fat Kid Loves Cake
12.29.2003 8:04 AM EST
50 Cent (file)
Photo: John Shearer
It's a good thing 50 Cent bought that spacious mansion in Connecticut a few months back. The year's best-selling artist is going to need at least one of its 52 rooms to display all the gold and platinum albums he's amassed.
50 Cent's major-label debut LP, Get Rich or Die Tryin', has been certified six-times platinum for sales of more than 6.4 million, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Although one more week's worth of record sales has yet to be counted by SoundScan, Get Rich or Die Tryin', which dropped in February, stands to be the top-selling album of 2003.
Include the plaques he earned for his work with the G-Unit, whose debut, Beg for Mercy, was certified double platinum, and 50 beats out the act next in line, Outkast, as far as RIAA certifications go.
Although Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below has sold 2.7 million copies since September, its six-times platinum certification stems from the fact that it's a double album, and the RIAA counts units, not whole albums, as the criteria for gold (500,000 units shipped) and platinum (1 million shipped) certifications.
While both can boast three-times platinum status, it looks like Linkin Park will edge out Evanescence for 2003's best-selling rock act. Meteora, which has sold more than 3.3 million since March, gives Linkin Park a perfect platinum streak through their first three releases. Reanimation, their 2002 remix album, was certified platinum, and their 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory, earned an eight-times platinum plaque.
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Good for them. Just finished reading their cover story in the new XXL and I gotta say - they work hard for what they got. Bank's talk about Biggie changing the pitch of his voice between his albums shows how seriously he takes his music. And whatever some peoples views, Beg For Mercy was a great album for me. And that's 'great' as in 'better than just good' :)I was expecing nothing from that album and it pretty much blew me away.
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cool
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"Beg For Mercy" was garbage. Too bad Yayo aint around to celebrate with them :'(
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That's good news...thanks for the article.
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Outkast is actually 2 albums if you ask me. So, I think it should count as 6 mil.
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it does
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Released 11/18, and certified 2x platinum 12/16... 28 days.. ::)
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That's good news...thanks for the article.
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dayum..........2 plat already, this maywell hit between 3-4 plat
peace
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"Beg For Mercy" was garbage. Too bad Yayo aint around to celebrate with them :'(
true that, it was not a good album at all,
wats Jay's album at?
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Jiggaman hasn't been certified yet, but he's aiming for Double Platinum as of right now. I'm impressed with G-Unit. Most crew albums don't even go double Platinum (ask Eminem and Nelly).
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Jiggaman hasn't been certified yet, but he's aiming for Double Platinum as of right now. I'm impressed with G-Unit. Most crew albums don't even go double Platinum (ask Eminem and Nelly).
The D12 was a lot better than Gunit
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The D12 was a lot better than Gunit
;D ::)
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Jiggaman hasn't been certified yet, but he's aiming for Double Platinum as of right now. I'm impressed with G-Unit. Most crew albums don't even go double Platinum (ask Eminem and Nelly).
The D12 was a lot better than Gunit
I agree. But, it did outsell D12 it seems.
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Both were disappointments, but G-Unit was better of the two IMO. The D12 album doesn't have a single track that stands out of the rest and has stuck to my mind, while G-Unit's CD got at least 5 I really dig.
I find it kinda weird that Jay is actually behind them in sales though.
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That's good news...thanks for the article.
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lol at claimin d12 was better............man some of the beats were sicker but thats about it, i mean they talked shit on that album, aint no hiphop head gave d12 any props for there joint and rightly so...............the gunit album is kinda weak to, they jus boastin half the time about how rich they are now but they do spit some nice lines between it all...........its weak but id rather hear this shit than d12s album! i aint into listenin bizzare rappin about fuckin his own Mommas, aint hip hop, niggaz jus tryin to be contraversial
peace
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^^^They ain't trying to be contraversial. That's their style. That Detroit Horrorcore sound.
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^^^They ain't trying to be contraversial. That's their style. That Detroit Horrorcore sound.
exactly, thats why a lot of people were disapointed, they approached the album and excpected to get ill punchlines and dope concepts. A lot of people excpected an Eminem album.
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exactly, thats why a lot of people were disapointed, they approached the album and excpected to get ill punchlines and dope concepts. A lot of people excpected an Eminem album.
Yup. People don't know, that's what Eminem used to sound like. He PROBABLY only switched up because Dre told him to. Em was always on some Horrorcore shit. Talking about doing drugs and all that other strange shit. That's when I liked Em. He wasn't trying too hard to be serious.
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^^^They ain't trying to be contraversial. That's their style. That Detroit Horrorcore sound.
i know thats the way they do shit down their, but if u gon do that shit, u gona have to do it dope u getz me killa, bizzare jus is weak as fuck imo.......and most other cats to, im sure u think the same to................like when other cats from the D duz that style, aslong as they spit it dope, noone will hate, but damn...........bizzare jus is wack, simple as, no matter if he talkin about his granny, or whateva........dudes gotta be one of the weakest rappers ever no doubt
peace
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im surez u dontz no whut u talkinz bout...........getz me killa
peace
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im surez u dontz no whut u talkinz bout...........getz me killa
peace
lol coming back to wcc must have been ya best xmas pressent huh "mc scitt"
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im surez u dontz no whut u talkinz bout...........getz me killa
peace
lol coming back to wcc must have been ya best xmas pressent huh "mc scitt"
No, because I never left...Even when I was banned, I was still posting here under different names...PeACe
PS, it's MC Sccit
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This was 4 months ago, they've been moving good units since this, must be close to 3x now..
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Congrat's.....but
I'm one of the 3X or whatever....
but my copy is still wrapped in plastic.
Still haven't got around to open it..
That'z buzy!!
Hatesrats 2oooIV
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They came out th sameday as Jay. How can he not be close to certification yet? ???
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exactly, thats why a lot of people were disapointed, they approached the album and excpected to get ill punchlines and dope concepts. A lot of people excpected an Eminem album.
Yup. People don't know, that's what Eminem used to sound like. He PROBABLY only switched up because Dre told him to. Em was always on some Horrorcore shit. Talking about doing drugs and all that other strange shit. That's when I liked Em. He wasn't trying too hard to be serious.
Who's D-12 anyways LOL,oh I can rap on Acid but I'll steal yor style anyway having bitches.ICP is better than those fools!
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Congrat's.....but
I'm one of the 3X or whatever....
but my copy is still wrapped in plastic.
Still haven't got around to open it..
That'z buzy!!
Hatesrats 2oooIV
shit dawg! the fuck u been coppin? sell the muthafucka befo u open it homie and get some next man to burn u a copy, shits weak......and i thought grodt was a dope debut........but g-unit beg for mercy=weak
peace!
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Off the new G-Unit radio:
[Banks]
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I'm 3 times platinum, 50 grand each feature, and
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Anybody know if it's certified.. AlerG.. ?