Before I Self Destruct
| 50 Cent
Before I Self Destruct
Before I Self Destruct is the fourth studio album by American rapper 50 Cent, released November 9, 2009 on Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records and Universal Music Group. The album is his final solo release with Shady, Aftermath and Interscope excluding a "greatest hits" album. A feature film, also titled Before I Self Destruct was also made, and is available within the album packaging. The Invitation Tour took place in promotion of the album and his then upcoming studio album Black Magic, which has since been shelved.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
50 steps back and makes a record designed to appeal to listeners who still might be rooting for the guy.
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COS
A resoundng “MEH” of a swan song,
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All Music
Is still a fantastic juggernaut of a 50 album if you exit early, and a very good one even if you don't.
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Sputnik
What do you know, 50 Cent has released his first good album since Get Rich Or Die Trying, color me surprised.
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Hio Hop DX
It’s more arrogance than anything else.
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Rolling Stone
This is an album where “Got more guns than a gun store” passes for wordplay — but that’s how 50 sticks to basics
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Common Sense Media
Violent rap release is for adult Fiddy fans only.
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Prefix Mag
50’s desperation is palpable
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Spin
Who’s who of hip-hop stars on “So Disrespectful” only underscores his own increasing irrelevance.
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Drowned in Sound
An album that’s nasty and brutish but will last a short time in the memory.
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Slant
Easily identifiable as a return to form: less commercial than it could be and better than it should.
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BBC
50 has said all this before, better, but that won’t put off his legion of fans.
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Rap Reviews
The first half of "BISD" should do well to show that 50 is indeed still hungry.
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Telegraph
Feels like just another part of the singer's brand.
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Music OMH
simply another financial feather in 50 Cent’s cap.
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Exclaim
But for those of us that appreciate 50 as an MC, the CD is for you ― 50 Cent in his raw, taunting prime.
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All Hip Hop
Lags a bit in spots, but makes up for it in sheer effort, the album is a great offering from 50 Cent
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XXL Magazine
This new Fiddy album looks like it's about to redefine what it means for a 50 Cent album to be unsuccessful.
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The Gaurdian
Recovers his inner gangsta.
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Independant UK
Who’d have dreamed that a whole album of sex and violence could be so… boring?
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Hip Hop Vibe
This is definitely a great album
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BOL
Innovative Good singing All hits
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IGN
50 Cent at his hardest in years.
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Planet Ill
He is invigorated and the beats are husky and power his aggression.
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Central Recorder
50 Cent doesn’t play a bad guy the whole album. He gets a little sensual for the ladies
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Laut
it's easy to destroy pop-tired hip-hop fans in their own ears.
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Stuff
Trying but failing to throw his weight around in a hip-hop genre that has long since passed him by.
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The Billboard Files
Depicts signs of that power beginning to wear off.
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EW
he’s returning to, but at least he’s going through the motions with gusto.
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Juice
altogether colorless
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Blues and Soul
His most cohesive work to date but I still reckon he has an all-time classic album in him somewhere.
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Blumpkin Reading Material
Every track has one musical element I really like and one that I can't stand.
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Nappy Fro
50 sounds REAL hungry on this one, jumping on with little hesitation
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Rap News Center
It would be a 7/10 because nothing catches my ears too much.
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Byron Crawford
Was Curtis this bad? No wonder it did so poorly.
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I Hip Hop
it’s that formula that’s made him a staple on the Forbes List,
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Harlem Hubris
He has guts.He is what a lot of these rappers and thugs want to be;
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UK Mix
A generally good album,
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Cleveland Scene
Thoroughly adequate result that's nonetheless enjoyable
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Hit The Floor
50’s latest work of art is definatly a masterpiece
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Sway
It's low budget, hyperviolent, clichéd — and strangely alluring.
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