#6. I Get Money
by 50 Cent
When
it comes to the admittedly minor art of turning a few menacing bars into
a hypnotic track, Fitty is king. I Get Money owes a lot of its appeal to
a sample from Audio Two's Top Billin' that's best described as the sound
of bad things about to happen, but 50 Cent's bemusement — at his survival,
his success, the fact that you could possibly care what he has to
say — makes the song as wry as it is scary. On his returns as a Vitamin
Water investor, for instance: "I take quarter water sold it in bottles
for 2 bucks/ But Coca-Cola came and bought it for billions, what the
f**k?"
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