Get Rich or Die Tryin'

***Get Rich or Die Tryin*** is the debut studio album of American rapper 50 Cent. It was released on February 6, 2003, by Aftermath Entertainment and Shady Records.

## Critical reception

_Get Rich or Die Tryin_  gained positive reviews. At Metacritic, it holds an aggregate score of 73 out of 100, based on 19 reviews, which were "generally favorable reviews".

## Track listing

- Sample credits
- "Many Men (Wish Death)" contains a sample of "Out of the Picture" by Tavares
- "21 Questions" contains a sample of "It's Only Love Doing Its Thing" by Barry White
- "Patiently Waiting" contains a sample of "Gin and Juice" by Snoop Dogg feat. Daz Dillinger
- "If I Can't" contains a sample of "Peter Piper" by Run-DMC
- "Poor Lil Rich" contains a sample of "Your Life's on the Line" by 50 Cent

## Personnel

Credits for _Get Rich or Die Tryin_ adapted from Allmusic.

- 50 Cent – executive producer
- Justin Bendo – engineer
- Sean Blaze – producer, engineer
- Darrell Branch – producer
- Tommy Coster – keyboards
- Terence Dudley – producer
- Mike Elizondo – bass, guitar, keyboards, producer
- Eminem – producer, executive producer, mixing
- John "J. Praize" Freeman – producer
- Marcus Heisser – A&R
- Steven King – producer, mixing
- Tracy McNew – A&R

- Megahertz – producer
- Red Spyda – producer
- Luis Resto – keyboards
- Ruben Rivera – keyboards, assistant engineer
- Rockwilder – producer
- Tom Rounds – engineer
- Sha Money XL – producer, engineer, executive producer
- Tracie Spencer – vocals
- Rob Tewlow – producer
- Patrick Viala – engineer
- Sacha Waldman – photography
- Ted Wohlsen – engineer
- Carlisle Young – engineer, digital editing

## Charts

|Chart (2003)|Peak position|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Australian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|4||
|Austrian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|16||
|Belgian Flanders Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|3||
|Belgian Wallonia Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|14||
|Canadian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1||
|Danish Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|6||
|Dutch Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|5||
|Finnish Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|11||
|French Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|12||
|Greek Foreign Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|3||
||Hungarian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|17|
|Italian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|13||
|New Zealand Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|3||
|Norwegian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|5||
|Swedish Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|8||
|Swiss Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|8||
|UK Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|2||
|US _Billboard_ 200|style="text-align:center;"|1||
|US _Billboard_ Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|style="text-align:center;"|1||

## Certifications

|scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Certification|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Australia|2× Platinum|||
|Belgium|Platinum|||
|Canada|6× Platinum|||
|Denmark|Gold|||
|Europe|Platinum|||
|France|Gold|||
|Germany|Gold|||
|Greece|Gold|||
|Ireland|Platinum|||
|Japan|Gold|||
|New Zealand|2× Platinum|||
|Norway|Gold|||
|Russia|5× Platinum|||
|Sweden|Gold|||
|Switzerland|Platinum|||
|United Kingdom|3× Platinum|||
|United States|8× Platinum|||

## References

- Footnotes

- Books

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: 50 Cent
- **released**: February 6, 2003
- **recorded**: 2002
- **genre**: East Coast hip hop, gangsta rap
- **length**: 69:32
- **label**: * Interscope Records, Interscope
* Shady Records, Shady
* Aftermath Entertainment, Aftermath
* G-Unit Records, G-Unit
- **prev title**: Guess Who's Back?
(2002)
- **next title**: The Massacre
(2005)