Jul 06 2009
50 Cent in his Power suit

50 Cent’s War Angel and Forever King: He’s Back!

Last month, 50 Cent debuted his new fragrance “Power by 50 Cent” at Avenue in New York City. Videogames, movies, vitamin enriched water, clothing, it was the kind of brand extension gig I’ve come to expect from him. Unexpectedly, he has also restored my faith in hip-hop - at minimum it’s new music I can listen to in a loop. With Jay-Z’s “D.O.A.” leading the fight against the candy ass, mindless, meaningless, and downright fraudulent place hip-hop has been stuck in for a good minute, 50 Cent’s latest ‘free’ mixtapes War Angel and Forever King continue to speak on the subject.. “Goons don’t use Auto-Tune..  I can’t fit in with these n*ggas, man. N*ggas got mohawks and wearing skinny jeans, man. I think these n*ggas is..” You know the rest.

More importantly, 50 managed to bring back the energy and spirit of his early mixtapes.

50 Cent's War Angle mixtape cover

50 Cent “War Angel” ← download

War Angel is the better of the two, packed with five album worthy tracks: “I Gotta Win,” “Better Come On Your A Game,”  “I Line N*ggas,” “Redrum Murder,” and “CREAM 2009.”

50 Cent's Forever King mixtape cover

50 Cent “Forever King” ← download

Forever King is 50’s tried and proven successful strategy of hopping on the topic/song of the moment and spinning it his way. In this case it was Michael Jackson’s passing that gave him the opportunity to release more ‘product.’ There is a freestyle titled “Michael Jackson” where he raps over “Been Away Too Long” but with summertime R&B classics like Gina Thompson’s “Things You Do” and Horace Brown’s “One for the Money” backing up a few others, I think of Forever King as bonus tracks for those that think War Angel ends too soon.


☼ What's Your Opinion? ☼

1 IMISSTHEOLD50CENTWHENHEWASGANGSTAWITHHISHIPHOPCLOT Mon, Jul 06, 2009 - 2:24 pm

DUDE 50 UR A RAPPER NOT A F*CKING LAWYER RAPPER DON,T WEAR SUITS EVERY WERE THEY GO I MISS THE OLD 50 CENT WHEN HE WAS WEARING THE BLING G UNIT SHIRTS TIMBERLANDS ECT PLEASE DON,T LET US DOWN 50 U LOOK UGLY IN SUITS BUT U LOOK TIGHT IN THE HIP HOP CLOTHES

2 danzenie Wed, Jul 08, 2009 - 11:55 pm

Biggie once said “niggaz is actors niggaz deserve actors”.  It make sense more and more everyday.  How the hell we go from baggy Girbuads, Guess, and ‘lo to tight ass skinny jeans.  That really makes nose sense to me mang.

3 COLBY Sat, Jul 11, 2009 - 3:44 pm

50 punk ass niggea

4 hell Thu, Jul 16, 2009 - 6:29 pm

f**k u 50 shit

5 j Thu, Oct 22, 2009 - 9:52 am

he got more money den all of u s doe

6 brandon Fri, Oct 23, 2009 - 1:57 pm

50 all the way all these pussies taking shit if u dont like him why the fuk u serachin him ass holes hes the fukin greatest haterz

7 abraham Thu, Sep 09, 2010 - 2:16 pm

50 cent ur still da bast man

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