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Before I Self Destruct

50 Cent

Before I Self Destruct

The US rapper come actor with his fourth studio album

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4.7

Label
Polydor
UK Release date
16/11/2009
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  1. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    With surprisingly little filler, renewed energy, and the unique glimpse Before I Self Destruct offers into the psyche of a public figure as intriguing as Curtis Jackson, 50 Cent has crafted easily his best album since Get Rich or Die Trying
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  2. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    Call it voyeur. Call it artificial. Call it exploitative. Just don’t call it boring. It’s the first 50 Cent album in some time that can boast that
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  3. 6.0 |   Pitchfork

    He's still got that voice, and when he wants, it can still intoxicate and overwhelm with sheer menace
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  4. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    He's still got the knack in the superb Dre production "Death to My Enemies," baiting Lil Wayne over a stand-up bass
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  5. 5.0 |   Spin

    Eminem by far out-raps his former protégé on "Psycho," and 50 Cent's crabby sniping at a who's who of hip-hop stars on "So Disrespectful" only underscores his own increasing irrelevance
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  6. 4.0 |   Eye Weekly

    ...it’s more fun to laugh at the unintentional comedy that inevitably pops up when a rich idiot takes himself too seriously
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  7. 4.0 |   Evening Standard

    ...we've heard it all before
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  8. 4.0 |   The Times

    If this album is anything to go by, 50 Cent’s self-destruction can’t come soon enough
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  9. 4.0 |   NME

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  10. 4.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    He has bought the best producers in the business, but his monotone rapping does little to adorn their work
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  11. 1.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    He wants to move on, and so should rap music from an album that’s nasty and brutish but will last a short time in the memory
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