ARTIST: 50 Cent
TITLE: Curtis (Special Edition)
LABEL: Shady/Aftermath/Interscope
GENRE: Rap
GRABBER: EAC (Secure Mode)
ENCODER: Lame 3.98b5 / -V2 --vbr-new
QUALITY: 195 Kbps Avg / 44.1 KHz / Joint Stereo
PLAYTIME: 0h 59min 56sec total
SIZE: 83.80MB
RELEASE DATE: 09-11-2007
RIP DATE: 09-11-2007
Track List
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01. Intro 0:50
02. My Gun Go Off (Produced By Adam Deitch 3:12
& Eric Krasno)
03. Man Down (Censored) (Produced By 2:49
Detroit Red & Don Cannon)
04. I'll Still Kill (Feat. Akon) (Produced 3:43
By DJ Khalil)
05. I Get Money (Produced By Apex) 3:43
06. Come & Go (Produced By Roomio & Veto) 3:28
07. Ayo Technology (Feat. Justin 4:08
Timberlake & Timbaland) (Produced By
Timbaland)
08. Follow My Lead (Feat. Robin Thicke) 3:17
(Produced Tha Bizness)
09. Movin' On Up (Produced By Jake One) 3:24
10. Straight To The Bank (Produced By Ty 3:10
Fyffe)
11. Amusement Park (Produced By Chris 3:09
Styles)
12. Fully Loaded Clip (Produced By Havoc) 3:13
13. Peep Show (Feat. Eminem) (Produced By 3:52
Eminem)
14. Fire (Feat. Young Buck & Nicole 2:49
Scherzinger) (Produced By Dr. Dre)
15. All Of Me (Feat. Mary J. Blige) 3:51
(Produced By Jake One)
16. Curtis 187 (Produced By Havoc) 3:57
17. Touch The Sky (Feat. Tony Yayo) 3:19
(Produced By K-Lassik Beats)
18. Hustler's Ambition (Bonus Track) 4:02
(Produced By B-Money "B$")
Release Notes:
There are two big stories behind 50 Cent's third album, Curtis (as in real name:
Curtis Jackson). First, there's the promise he made that he would outsell Kanye
West -- who was releasing his Graduation album the same day as Curtis -- or he
would retire. Second, there's the album's original title, Before I Self
Destruct, a fitting caption to the moody close-up of 50 on the cover, which
looks much more troubled, concerned, and intense than anything on the album
sounds. Referencing self-destruction would have been a gross misrepresentation
of a full-length that repeatedly employs the tried-and-true 50 Cent formula --
heavy hooks, macho charisma, a dash of controversy, and some sly cleverness --
and features a collaboration with the ultra-suave Robin Thicke smack dab in the
middle. The perfect soundtrack if 50's G-Unit empire begins opening cocktail
lounges, "Follow My Lead" with lounge lizard Thicke is pure polish, a slow
finger-snapper dressed up in an expensive suit that feels extremely comfortable.
Equally at ease is the Timbaland production "Ayo Technology" featuring Justin
Timberlake, an obvious single that's "been there, done that" for all parties
involved. This doesn't mean it's bland, just safe. Same goes for both "Amusement
Park," which is as empty-headed and hook-filled as "Candy Shop," and "I'll Still
Kill" with Akon, which offers no surprises, just another melody that refuses to
leave the head. Also from the high-profile department and pushing a little
harder is the emotional "All of Me," which finds Mary J. Blige and 50 displaying
some passionate chemistry, and "Fire," which succeeds not because of the
underwhelming Dr. Dre production or the severe chorus from Pussycat Doll Nicole
Scherzinger, but because of 50's inspired verses, one of which gives up "You can
hate this/But face it/B.I.G. and 2Pac/Just ain't around." "Get a tan?/I'm
already black/Get rich?/I'm already that" comes from "I Get Money," a classic "I
run New York" swagger-fest in the G-Unit style. The third killer verse on the
full-length is much too fowl to repeat and comes from Eminem, who also produces
the great "Peep Show" and makes 50 sound hungry for a change. As far as Dre
rapping on "Come & Go," he's got two lines, and as far as controversy, "Fully
Loaded Clip" flippantly drops some big names for the sake of mischief while "Man
Down" is censored no matter what version you buy, since Interscope isn't so keen
on cop-killing lyrics. In the end, Curtis is entertaining but only impressive in
that 50 can run in place and still be on top.
The bonus track dupes 50_Cent-Hustlers_Ambition-Promo_CDS-2005 and
VA-Get_Rich_Or_Die_Tryin-OST-2005, among others. Enjoy the plethora of scans we
included. Track 3 is censored intentionally. Also for the other group, track 2
looks like it's missing "Go Off" from the title. We won't proper such a great
group for a silly reason like that though...
Since this must be pred internally, we used Lame 3.98b5. Normally the bitrates
would be higher versus a 3.97 encode as demonstrated from our other 3.98
encodes, but the original release of this album was normalized to slightly
higher levels than this copy, causing the other release for the most part to
have higher bitrates than this. Different source is probably the cause. In any
case, we strongly urge the rules changed to allow Lame 3.98 when the final
version hits. Higher bitrates (ala 3.90 rates), and the not-so-rare distortion
that came with 3.97 for the most part is fixed. Consider it 3.90 with --vbr-new
speeds, with better high end.
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