{"id":672810,"date":"2026-11-02T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672810\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:24:08","slug":"50-cents-many-men-joins-spotify-billions-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672810\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent\u2019s \u2018Many Men\u2019 Joins Spotify Billions Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMany Men\u201d has many streams. The 2003 track from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/artist\/50-cent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">50 Cent<\/a>\u2019s debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin\u2019 has reached one billion streams on Spotify, joining the Spotify Billions Club.<\/p>\n<p>The song was produced by Darrell \u201cDigga\u201d Branch, Eminem, and Luis Resto. Despite its success, the song was never actually released as an album single. The track peaked at number 11 on the US Bubbling Under R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Singles chart and has been certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>Digga spoke to Okayplayer about how his beat made it into 50 Cent\u2019s hands: \u201cI created the beat probably two or three years before it was released on an album\u2026 We made tracks and it didn\u2019t really move so then I tried to get some tracks to Nas\u2026 He picked two tracks and that was one of them\u202650 was in a Nas session and he heard the track and he heard the track and liked it. He got Lenny Nicholson, the A&amp;R at Sony at the time, to give him a copy so he would write to it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Album producer Sha Money XL additionally shared: \u201cThat was a track where 50 came to the crib with it and he was like \u2018I got this joint.\u2019 He had the whole song and we recorded it in my basement. We took it to Detroit and I spent about a week or two with Eminem and we mixed \u2018Many Men\u2019 and \u2018High All The Time\u2019 with Em. Em made that mix really tight and put all the sound effects on it. He made it a movie.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany Men\u201d was prominently featured in author Ocean Vuong\u2019s 2019 novel On Earth We\u2019re Briefly Gorgeous. As Vuong told The Paris Review: \u201c50 Cent\u2019s song was ubiquitous in the early aughts, where so much of this book takes place. It also marked the last era of gangsta rap, whose cultural framework provided men and boys a means of performing masculinity while also reducing it to erroneous tropes of misogyny and violence.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.udiscovermusic.com\/collections\/50-cent?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=udiscovermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buy 50 Cent\u2019s Get Rich or Die Tryin\u2019 on CD here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMany Men\u201d has many streams. The 2003 track from 50 Cent\u2019s debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[40079,93,284961,338,61,60,284962,278,230188],"class_list":["post-672810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-50-cent","tag-entertainment","tag-get-rich-or-die-tryin","tag-hip-hop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-many-men","tag-music","tag-spotify-billions-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}