Choice Is Yours Vol. 84: It’s Dark and Hell is Hot vs. Get Rich or Die Tryin’
DMX – It’s Dark and Hell is Hot (1998)
Vs.
50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003)
The Game is simple… if only one could exist which would it be? What’s more important… personal relevance, cultural significance, or simply being the better album all other things aside? Choice is yours…
- My Pal the Crook
June 29th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Damn thats fucking tough, but i’d have to go with get with GRODT just based on impact 50 from 02-05 was fucking crazy
June 29th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
damn. DMX all day. 50 changed the game but DMX was in major rotation when i was a kid .plus he dropped like 3 classics in a row. DMX wins in my book.GRRRRR
June 29th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
way DMX.
June 29th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Where my dogs at? DMX
June 29th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Get Rich came out when I was in highschool; my tastes were moving underground in search of something more meaningful while 50 was blowing up. The name of the album was the epitome of what I was rejecting. I didn’t dig it then and I still don’t. The G-unit has always seemed a little embarrassing to me.
Hands down, It’s Dark.. I feel like DMX would mess you up personally while 50 would just pay somebody to do it for him.
June 29th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood wins over both of these. DMX in a blood bath??? come on now.
June 29th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
G-unit’s movement was WAY stronger, but back to the album at hand i’d have to pick Grodt because 50 REALLY sold that “gangster” shit to those “eminem rap fans”.
June 29th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
what. classic darkman. i was seventeen when this dropped. swizzzy! RxR!!
June 29th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
This is the best CIY in a minute. As much as I like GRODT, It’s Dark is an incredible album (besides meaning more to me nostalgically.) Neither X or 50 brought the same level of hunger and intensity to the rest of their respective career releases, so the usual argument I make for CIY doesn’t apply here. Neither of these albums are replaceable by anything else they’ve released. Unfortunately for Mr. Jackson, his failure to sample Phil Collins might’ve cost him the decision here.
Also,@Noise43… yr kidding me, right? Flesh of my Flesh is nowhere near the level of It’s Dark.
June 29th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
It’s Dark.
@Jones c’mon man, judge not lest ye be judged.
June 29th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
@oh mars… if the price to pay for judging someone’s music taste is having my own judged, bring it on. :)
June 29th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
I made way too much money bootlegging It’s Dark in grade 9 to not go with X. Shouts to early adopting friends with cd burners.
I think 50′s album is popular hip hop as we knew it jumping the shark.
June 29th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Look thru my eyes
June 29th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Personal preference, DMX. But thats just me.
DMX had a string of great albums and was so raw. 50 came up in the P2P era so his music was accessible before he even had an album.
I don’t think people expected 50 to blow up like he did. Nothing about mixtape artist says mainstream appeal (Im looking at you Papoose).
And Then There Was X would probably have been a better comparison since it was DMX’s best commercial release.
June 29th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Nothing is worse than the voice of DMX
obliviously screaming words and noises.
1. What???
2. COME ON!!!!!
3. Yeah.
4. Uh
Nas is better than 50 cent, DMX, and Ja Rule combined
June 29th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
I’d have to go with dmx it was the first album i bought from wal-mart later throwing up on it!. Arf- Arf!
June 29th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
50 Cent wins this battle. I was in 9th grade when this albums it seemed like every kid had the album and I grew up in redneck cracker ass small West Virginia town.
June 30th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
dmx wins. i have such a hard time taking 50 seriously that i’ve never even bothered listening to his albums and i even have get rich or die trying on itunes. also, has anybody noticed that 50 is the worst rapper in g-unit?