Curtis (5. 0 Cent album) - Wikipedia. Curtis. Studio album by 5. Cent. Released. September 1. Recorded. 20. 06–0. Genre. East Coast hip hop. Length. 55: 4. 4Label. Producer. 50 Cent (exec.), Adam Deitch, Apex, Tha Bizness, Dangerous LLC, Danja, Detroit Red, Don Cannon, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Eric Krasno, Havoc, Jake One, DJ Khalil, K- Lassik Beats, Timbaland, Ty Fyffe. Cent chronology. Singles from Curtis. Curtis is the 3rd studio album by 5. Cent; it was released September 1. Shady, Aftermath and Interscope. The album features production from Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Timbaland, among others. Music writers have noted that 5. ![]() Cent divides between "hard" and "soft" songs on the album.[1]Curtis received generally mixed reviews from music critics upon release. The album debuted at #2 on the US Billboard 2. After years of slumping sales, the album's competition with Kanye West's Graduation (2. Hip Hop."[2]Background[edit]Initially, 5. Cent's 2. 00. 7 album which was planned to be Before I Self Destruct.[3] However, he decided to push back its release date to 2. Curtis in 2. 00. 7. The album's title was changed twice. For the first time, it was changed from "Curtis" to "Curtis S. S. K.". The second time, the title of the album was changed back from "Curtis S. S. K." to "Curtis". The "S. S. K.", which stood for "Sound. ![]()
Scan Killer", was intended to show the pressure 5. Cent felt to succeed.[5] The "S. S. K." also stands for "South. Side King"[6] and "Shoot, Stab, Kill". Cent stated that the album was inspired by his life before his commercial debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Research about and of value to people age 50 and over. ![]() He also stated that he chose the album's title because he was known as "Curtis" before he became famous.[5] In January 2. DJ Whoo Kid predicted the album to be a double disc LP, with one CD having a "crazy club- bangin' ridiculous" theme and the other having a "hard- core killer sh- -," theme. However this did not materialize.[7]Recording[edit]5. Cent wrote parts of the album in his grandmother's old house in South Jamaica, Queens. He flew to Florida to work on the track titled "Ayo Technology" with Justin Timberlake, and the song was finished in Houston, Texas.[5] While Get Rich or Die Tryin' and The Massacre featured mostly G- Unit and G- Unit Records artists respectively, Curtis features artists that 5. Cent has never worked with before, such as Akon, Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige, Robin Thicke, Timbaland and Nicole Scherzinger from Pussycat Dolls. When asked about his choice of working with artists outside of his company, 5. Cent stated, "The album, for me, was finding a space where I am content and comfortable with my career, where I can go off and create with other artists and experiment a little bit".[5] 5. Cent wrote a significant amount of the guests' lyrics.[5] In an interview with XXL, he said,I mean, it just brings memories back to me. I'm in my old space, see old faces, things start feeling the way they used to. Being able to write material from a perspective I couldn't probably write [from] in any other space like that. And I was in one of those funky creative spaces where I couldn't come up with nothing.. For me, when I come back here, it's like my feet are on the ground. I don't think nothing is more painful than having known what it feel like to be successful and then having it taken away from you. So on some levels, it's healthy for me to go 'head and come from the financial space that I'm in back to here, as a reminder, so I can actually appreciate what I've got.[8]Music and lyrics[edit]Stylus Magazine's Jayson Greene writes that "the beats on Curtis sound about as dated and cheap as any Koch record", and that "each no- name producer (Veto and Roomio? Jake One?) provides the comfort food they know he'll lap up".[9]Pitchfork Media's Ryan Dombal also comments that 5. Cent "should be able to work with producers who could conjure his hit- making abilities, but instead the MC mostly sticks with tried- and- failed G- Unit stalwarts and Dre- aping up- and- comers that do him few favors".[1. Dave de Sylvia of Sputnikmusic writes of the production on "Ayo Technology", "Timbaland's shred- guitar- goes- keyboard melody is just mesmerising enough to work".[1. Rap. Reviews editor Arthur Gailes states that "there is no dip in quality lyrically; 5. Cent "manages to cover different themes very well", noting his "seduction" on "Follow My Lead".[1] Greene writes that 5. Cent is trying to "revisit the raw fatalism that defined the best tracks on Get Rich or Die Tryin' ", quoting lyrics from "My Gun Go Off" as an example: "You know tomorrow's just a day away / If you can just keep your heart beatin' and your ass awake".[9]Critical reception[edit]Curtis received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 1. Stylus Magazine observed that "there isn’t an ounce of life in Curtis".[9]Nathan Rabin of The A. V. Club wrote that 5. Cent "has yet to master the art of making a satisfying album rather than delivering a random assortment of demographic- pandering tracks".[1. Allmusic's David Jeffries wrote that Curtis "is entertaining but only impressive in that 5. The Boston Globe stated that, "artistically, [Kanye] West is always moving, while 5. Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot wrote that "at a time when consumers are expressing their dissatisfaction with music- industry product", Curtis provides "exactly what they say they don't want: More of the same".[2. Chase Hoffberger of The Austin Chronicle found 5. Cent "redundant" and said that the album "tires on second- rate beats, juvenile hooks, and rote lyrics about money and guns."[1. Slant Magazine called 5. Cent "one of the worst lyricists alive", criticizing "Amusement Park"'s lyrics and the execution of his metaphors which he "mumbles without a hint of irony or conviction".[1. Robert Christgau, writing for MSN Music, named it "dud of the month" with a "B" grade and wrote that 5. Cent, "a parvenu mastering pop music for money", has "turned into a made man running on vanity".[1. In a positive review, USA Today's Steve Jones wrote that its themes of "chip- stacking and sexual prowess [..] aren’t new", but stated that 5. Cent "delivers them with unmatched swagger and flair".[2. Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield noted that 5. Cent is "out to prove he's everything he used to claim", and similar to The Massacre, he "divides between hard songs ('Man Down', 'Fire', 'I'll Still Kill') and soft songs ('Follow My Lead')".[1. Sheffield also noted that 5. Cent is for the first time "letting guests sing most of the hooks".[1. Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times commented that "his mush- mouthed delivery is still charming, and so are his endless provocations".[2. Greg Tate of The Village Voice stated, "Curtis is stuffed with tightly wound 2. Accolades[edit]Time magazine ranked the single "I Get Money" number six on its list of The 1. Best Songs of 2. 00. Time critic Josh Tyrangiel praised the song as "hypnotic", observing that its appeal is owed to the "Top Billin" sample, and that 5. Cent's bemusement at his own survival and success "makes the song as wry as it is scary".[2. Pop. Matters editor Josh Timmermann cited "I Get Money" as "the collection's clear MVP, an iron- fisted ode to living large".[2. Curtis earned 5. 0 Cent a win for the Best- Selling Hip- Hop Artist category at the 2. World Music Awards.[2. However, Entertainment Weekly placed the album at third place in their list of Worst Albums of 2. Commercial performance[edit]. Publicity over the album's release date pitted 5. Cent in a sales competition against rapper Kanye West (pictured).[3. Curtis debuted at number two on the US Billboard 2. It had the fourth highest sales week for an album in 2. Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight which sold 6. Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden, which moved 7. Alicia Keys' As I Am bringing in 7. It also had the highest sales week for an album by an East Coast- based artist since Jay- Z's Kingdom Come debuted with 6. However, Curtis brought in the third- lowest first- week sales of 5. Cent's career, with Get Rich or Die Tryin' selling 8. The Massacre moving 1. The album sold 1. US,[3. 8] 7. 1,0. It sold 2. 4,0. 00 copies in its seventh week,[4. In the US, Curtis ultimately sold 1,2. Competition with Graduation[edit]In July 2. Kanye West changed the release date for his third studio album Graduation from September 1. Curtis, with September 1. This forced the albums to go head- to- head and compete for higher sales against each other.[5.
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