The season finale of Power Book II: Ghost aired on Starz last night. You can also hear the track on his debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin‘. Listen to 50 Cent’s ‘ Many Men (Wish Death)’ as played on Power Book II: Ghost last night in that music video. The ‘ Many Men (Wish Death)‘ music video, which was released along with the track, is based on the real-life shooting of 50 Cents in Queens, New York in 2000.Īccording to The Guardian newspaper, 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson), himself a former crack dealer was the target of a three-man hit squad after he wrote a song slamming drug lord Kenneth McGriff. Listen to Drake’s ‘0 to 100/The Catch Up’ from Power Book II: Ghost, Season 1, Ep. The song only charted in the U.S., making it to #11 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip Hop Singles chart, but was eventually certified Gold with more than 500,000 units being sold in the U.S. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was certified 9 x Platinum in the U.S., 4 x Platinum in the UK, and Platinum or Gold in 15 countries.ĥ0 Cent’s ‘ Many Men (Wish Death)’ was the third single released from the hit album. It also charted on a huge number of other countries, including #1 in Canada, #2 in the UK, #3 in Belgium, Greece and New Zealand, eventually hitting the charts in 19 countries. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and at #1 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. As school shootings proliferate, militarized police and white vigilantes continue to surveil and harass non-white people, often without consequence.50 Cent’s ‘ Many Men (Wish Death)‘ is from the rapper’s debut studio album Get Rich or Die Tryin‘, which was released in 2003 via Shady Records, Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment. His series Black Matter tackles mass incarceration, poverty, redlining, and the killing of unarmed Black Americans.Įvery year in the United States, gun violence systemically controls, threatens, and murders thousands of Black and Brown people, as well as people who belong to the LGBTQIA community. Irving makes sculptures that address the political and economic realities of St. ![]() It takes its title from rapper 50 Cent’s 2003 song “Many Men (Wish Death).” The stars symbolize lives lost to imprisonment and people murdered by police and civilians. ![]() ![]() This flag, one of three in the collection, serves as a memorial to and for the Black community. “How long before drastic changes are taken to rework the colonialist system that still shapes how we live? Until then, the work will continue to remind viewers of the past, and how colonialism has evolved into the present.”
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