After Donald Trump was shot on Saturday (7.13) during an apparent assassination attempt, 50 Cent revisited his 2003 Get Rich or Die Tryin’ debut album cover and his “Many Men (Wish Death)” song that references the rapper surviving someone opening fire on him some two decades ago.
Re-addressing an incident in which he was shot nine times, over the weekend the musician (born Curtis James Jackson III) took to social media with “Trump gets shot and now I’m trending,” along with a shrugging emoji and the Get Rich or Die Tryin’ cover superimposing Trump’s face on his body.
“Many men wish death upon me/ Blood in my eye, dawg, and I can’t see/ I’m tryin’ to be what I’m destined to be/ And n—– tryin’ to take my life away,” rapped 50 Cent during the intro of “Many Men (Wish Death).”
Nominated for a Grammy for best rap album 20+ years back, 50’s breakthrough debut LPGet Rich or Die Tryin’ secured the #1 position on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 2003 and was
While “Many Men (Wish Death)” was never released as an official single, it established a life of its own that included a music video released in 2003 though the artists revealed two decades later that “Many Men” was his least favorite song from the debut set: “We was in that hard-hitting intensity, the energy on the records, and it’s the slowest song on Get Rich or Die Tryin’. And it’s now the tempo that the artists are rapping to. So the fast tempo, hard-hitting beats, that was that era, that time period.”
In his 2013 interview with Howard Stern, Curtis said of his shooter, “He was paid to do it … It’s my past … It’s karma.” He told Stern, “He was paid ’cause someone felt like I would potentially do something to them if they kept going in the direction that they were going in,” adding that getting shot in the face was “not as painful as having to visit the dentist repeatedly for a root canal.”
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Author: Al Denté
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America