Music Review: Eminem featuring 50 Cent - The Re-Up
Published November 28, 2006
By the time the song was 1:45 in, I was ready to chalk it up as a total loss, and I'll be honest, I definitely wasn't expecting Ferrari 50 to save the day. But boy does he ever. He launches right into a kiss my ass revelry that includes the lines "the clean parts/the s***** parts/my bullet wounds, my beauty marks/the fifth will tear your ass apart" and that just glides over the beat, suddenly making the previously boring track sound haunting and menacing. I hit rewind four times before moving on.
After a brief trip to Genericville (although it still sounds good), the beat changes up and splices in the instrumental from "In Da Club," which is both a little surprising but also kind of nice, like getting a phone call from an old friend. And the change of pace is perfect, because 50 switches his flow up right along with the beat. Not only that, but he pulls off his greatest coup on the track within this mini interlude as he combats all of the vitriol and recent success of the Game with just a few bars, rhyming: "I carried Game's style for nine months and gave birth to it/now I feel like a proud father watching him do it." 50 really only has one card to play with Game and that is that he, in effect, "made him." I'm not sure I agree with the sentiment, especially since Game seems better now without 50, but the argument sure was presented beautifully. Less is more and all that.
After the brief segue into 50's favorite pastime of dissing Game, the beat is flipped back to the throbbing bassline, which 50 greets with manic energy and hammers home ("Every day is Dre day, front and cause a melee/turn a town upside down/with a frown upside down/I smile and do something foul/and watch my money pile/I'm f****** with straight stacks/I'm kicking you straight facts/I hit you where they bag it punk and bring me mine right back").
All told, it's my favorite 45 seconds of 50 Cent since he obliterated Ja Rule on "Back Down." And I have to tell you, it makes this song one to remember. We can only hope this version of 50 Cent (he also provides some memorable lyrics two tracks later on "Jimmy Crack Corn") is here to stay.
Track Score: 8/10.
50's Verse: 9.5/10
- Music Review: Eminem featuring 50 Cent - The Re-Up
- Published: November 28, 2006
- Type: Review
- Section: Music
- Filed Under: Music: Hip-hop, Music: Rap
- Writer: Adam Hoff
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eminem is so sexy im gonna ave im 1day he is gorgous
Why do all c**** these days feel like they have to bash Eminem? They think they're so good just for doing that. Incredible how many people envy him and the position he is in.
Whoever bashes Eminem knows absolutely nothing about music.
And some even consider themsleves "music reviewers" hahahahahahahahahaha
hell yeah em's the shit and if you don't like that then fuck you. well point the finger at you and it's not the thumb pinkie the ring or index it's the one you put up when you don't fuck
and thats old school bitchs hahhahah
WTF is this guy goin on about, eminem is a ledge and always has been. im sure it will be some of the shite he has ever written
EMiNEMS THE BEST AND iM HiS NUMBER 1 FAN -- THE RE-UPSS THE SHiT =) I CANT WAiT FOR HiS SOLO CD !! LOVE HIM <3
the reups eminems come back yea i said it hes on top top yall bitch niggaz from the south better step your game up
Eminem is the greatest Rapper there is, he is sick. The Re-Up will kick ass all the artist that are on it are good. Proof is one of the greatest rappers D- 12 its a shame what happen, R.I.P Big Proof
Emimem is arguably the best rapper ever. Well, If Jay Z, Nas, Game, Redman, Method Man, Cassidy, Canibus, Busta Rhymes, Andre 3000, Kurupt, Obie Trice, Swifty, Rakim, Melle Mel, Crooked I, die along with Proof, 2Pac, Big Pun, and others. He can be a favorite but if they REALLY know about "music" as someone said, they would know this.
50 cent u and d12 are best since hip hop began fuck gamye
I luv Eminem's song's so dam much Jimmy Crack Corn is the best !!!!1
Ya Fuck u if u think Cree is rong !!!!
I dont even know her !
LOL
Lov ya Slim
i fink that eminem is da shit , even tho all the motha fukas mess im bout , i fink hes 1 of dres and 50s bestest
shout out to all mi m8s at skool motha fuking big dogs ABI LIN N KEZZ XXXX LUV YA EM
some new song appeared yester week on MTV of 50cent n D12 do any one have info about that one. Its video was shot in a prison if any one know about this song please tell me kindly
ems the greatest cant wait till solo 1
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shout to all my shady/aftermath we getting money R.I.P proof GGG-UNIT