Curtis Rolling Stone Review

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3.5/5

I ain't fresh out the hood/ I'm still in the hood,” 50 Cent rhymes in “Fully Loaded Clip,” feeling the heat even if he just sold 5 million copies of The Massacre a couple of years ago. He's out to prove he's everything he used to claim (“Still in da club, still sipping bub”) while rocking “more whips than a runaway slave.” Like The Massacre, Curtis divides between hard songs (“Man Down,” “Fire,” “I'll Still Kill”) and soft songs (“Follow My Lead”), for the first time letting guests sing most of the hooks. Fiddy revisits old streets in “Straight to the Bank,” produced by Ty Fyffe and Dr. Dre, while “Peep Show” brings back Eminem.

“My Gun Go Off” has a metal-guitar hook a la “Party Like a Rock Star,” “I'll Still Kill” lets Akon thug out, and the summer jam “I Get Money” takes off on Naughty by Nature's “Hip Hop Hooray.” The down side? The I-need-love pop tunes are not getting any better, even with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake in the stripper ditty “AYO Technology.”

“Follow My Lead” is an inexplicable Robin Thicke duet (“Like Janet Jackson said, I miss you much/I really wanna feel your touch”), and “Amusement Park” is even sillier (“Watch me as I pull a rabbit out my hat/It won't be a rabbit, it'll be a gat”). Much better is “All of Me,” with Mary J. Blige. Wailing, “I got a feeling like I'm fiending on crack,” Blige steals the show without even trying.

[BigBangBazinga]

Both ups and downs, as usual. I've booked it on the internet and I hope it's okay. Bet it's like the massacre; like about 5-6 songs, the rest is too mainstream.

[Nick419]

im interested to see what XXL will give it cause i bet u anything no matter how shitty it is he'll get at least a XL

[Ghst84]

curtis got 3.5/5
kanye got 4.5/5

[squaneminem]

Is going to be a hot 9/11 on the chartboards. I think the public still enjoys 50 Cent's vicious and provoative lyrics and his approach to music. Still then, I am sure he will sell more than Kanye West. There is no competition between them, nothing to relate them.

[DOPE]

fuck Kanye

this album is better than i expected, matter of fact i wasnt expectin it to be this good at all

apart from 5 to 6 tracks i dig the rest.

better than Massacre cuz on that shit i ONLY liked 6 tracks.

[Link665]

the album gonna rock! cant wait to see the rest of the songs

[Nick419]

Is going to be a hot 9/11 on the chartboards. I think the public still enjoys 50 Cent's vicious and provoative lyrics and his approach to music. Still then, I am sure he will sell more than Kanye West. There is no competition between them, nothing to relate them.

Vicious lyrics? o i mean rapping about going to the amusment park and having money is really pressing the limit man

[navysealkid14]

i hope chesney outsells them both, but i'm buyin both still.....even though i think kanye is bad

[macdaddy019967]

Hey you guys can see the behind the scenes of kanye west and 50 cent at rolling stone video on this link
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i ... ver-shoot/

[patwivo]

Hey you guys can see the behind the scenes of kanye west and 50 cent at rolling stone video on this link
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i ... ver-shoot/

this video was pretty cool except for it was more based around 50, even his song was playing in the background, they should've shown more of kanye

[BigBangBazinga]

Just got home from school, and there was two packages waiting for me on the kitchen table. One with The Re-Up (I know I'm late...) and the other one with Curtis! Haven't listend to Curtis yet, but I've already heard like 8-9 songs so I'm gonna listen to the rest.