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#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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