50 CENT & G-UNIT – 50 Cent Is The Future
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50 CENT & G-UNIT – 50 Cent Is The Future

The phenomenal success of 50 Cent and G-Unit starts here. It begins with this mixtape, on which the rapper and his crew hijack other artists' beats and make them their own. It begins with this masterfully executed release, that will become the soundtrack of the summer of 2002. It is here, also, that 50 Cent cements the image of the untouchable gangster that will define his career.
BUCK 65 – Square
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BUCK 65 – Square

The major-label debut from Buck 65, Halifax’s inventive rapper and beatmaker, hardly sounds like an album designed for mass appeal. It feels more like a mixtape. The Canadian strings together his best production sketches and rambles over them. His ambitions to reach a wider audience would come with the next album. But on "Square", the music is already - or still - gorgeous.