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  Just like Rodney Dangerfield, 50 Cent can't get no respect. In 2003, he arguably dropped a modern classic — GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' — infiltrating the charts with hit after hit. The MC stormed pop culture, starring in films, buying Vitamin Water and creating a worldwide brand with G-Unit. But the ghetto guerilla warfare of 2007'a CURTIS took second place to Kanye West's super glossy GRADUATION during a highly publicized sales war. Then 50 dropped G-Unit's super-underrated (and under-bought) TERMINATE ON SIGHT. But hopefully the tightly woven hip-hop assault of BEFORE I SELF-DESTRUCT, his freshest and fieriest album since his debut, will remind people of what a great rapper he actually is. 50's lyrical snipes take dead aim at Jeezy, Weezy, Jay-Z and the Game on the hilariously vitriolic "So Disrespectful," wherein he cranks out one-liners like "I'm in that tax bracket you're never gonna see" over sparse production, and the most audible element is his anger. "Psycho" stands out as Fiddy's finest collaboration with Eminem. The two fire off depraved rhymes like mental patients bouncing around their cells, with flows focused on taking out all foes, real or imagined. Then there's the synth-fueled death march on "Crime Wave" and the neck-snapping hook of "Death to My Enemies." Ne-Yo pops up on "Baby By Me," a bouncy banger that shows 50 can still get a club bumping. Let's just hope that Fiddy doesn't self-destruct anytime soon. — Rick Florino

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  Just like Rodney Dangerfield, 50 Cent can't get no respect. In 2003, he arguably dropped a modern classic — GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' — infiltrating the charts with hit after hit. The MC stormed pop culture, starring in films, buying Vitamin Water and creating a worldwide brand with G-Unit. But the ghetto guerilla warfare of 2007'a CURTIS took second place to Kanye West's super glossy GRADUATION during a highly publicized sales war. Then 50 dropped G-Unit's super-underrated (and under-bought) TERMINATE ON SIGHT. But hopefully the tightly woven hip-hop assault of BEFORE I SELF-DESTRUCT, his freshest and fieriest album since his debut, will remind people of what a great rapper he actually is. 50's lyrical snipes take dead aim at Jeezy, Weezy, Jay-Z and the Game on the hilariously vitriolic "So Disrespectful," wherein he cranks out one-liners like "I'm in that tax bracket you're never gonna see" over sparse production, and the most audible element is his anger. "Psycho" stands out as Fiddy's finest collaboration with Eminem. The two fire off depraved rhymes like mental patients bouncing around their cells, with flows focused on taking out all foes, real or imagined. Then there's the synth-fueled death march on "Crime Wave" and the neck-snapping hook of "Death to My Enemies." Ne-Yo pops up on "Baby By Me," a bouncy banger that shows 50 can still get a club bumping. Let's just hope that Fiddy doesn't self-destruct anytime soon. — Rick Florino