The Rundown: 50 Cent, Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win

A track-by-track look at the fifth album from the Queens MC.

The Rundown: 50 Cent, Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win - Many people were writing off 50 Cent's hit-making ability, but the G-Unit general is silencing the masses with his fifth release Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win.Read on for a track-by-track look of Fif's first independent release since he left Interscope, a decisive statement that he still runs New York. — Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photo: G-Unit)

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The Rundown: 50 Cent, Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win - Many people were writing off 50 Cent's hit-making ability, but the G-Unit general is silencing the masses with his fifth release Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win.Read on for a track-by-track look of Fif's first independent release since he left Interscope, a decisive statement that he still runs New York. — Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photo: G-Unit)

"Hold On" - 50 Cent kicks off with the message that even though his finances have changed, he's still got the heart of a South Jamaican hustler. Refusing to let beefs die, he also sends a missile at former record executive Jimmy Henchman, who was convicted of drug trafficking last year and sentenced to life, rapping, "On the phone I heard Yayo smacked the s--t out of a kid/Now Jimmy got life, go smack him again."  (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BET)

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"Hold On" - 50 Cent kicks off with the message that even though his finances have changed, he's still got the heart of a South Jamaican hustler. Refusing to let beefs die, he also sends a missile at former record executive Jimmy Henchman, who was convicted of drug trafficking last year and sentenced to life, rapping, "On the phone I heard Yayo smacked the s--t out of a kid/Now Jimmy got life, go smack him again."  (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BET)

"Don't Worry Bout It" featuring Yo Gotti - 50 connects with Memphis emcee Yo Gotti to tell nosy people to mind their own. "When time pass and I'm not around/N----s saying I'm out of town/Probably moving them bricks around/They swear they know how I get down," Curtis laments.Fif is at his finest here as he delivers another gangster hook that still commands radio, too.  (Photos from left: Cory Schwartz/Getty Images, Kevin Wintera/Getty Images) 

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"Don't Worry Bout It" featuring Yo Gotti - 50 connects with Memphis emcee Yo Gotti to tell nosy people to mind their own. "When time pass and I'm not around/N----s saying I'm out of town/Probably moving them bricks around/They swear they know how I get down," Curtis laments.Fif is at his finest here as he delivers another gangster hook that still commands radio, too.  (Photos from left: Cory Schwartz/Getty Images, Kevin Wintera/Getty Images) 

50 Cent's Mixtape Takeover - Over the past year, 50's fueled the fire with a series of grimy mixtapes — The Lost Tape, The Big 10 and 5: Murder By Numbers — that recalled his early 2000s corner classics.  (Photo: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

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"Animal Ambition" - 50 Cent lets the guns blow on the title track, a survival of the fittest guide to the grind to the top. With only victory in sight, Fif growls with bars like, "New York is a concrete jungle, where n----s got to get paid/Get in the way of that paper and n----s got to get sprayed."(Photo: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

G-Unit Is an Army - 50 Cent didn't take over the game alone — he was backed by his G-Unit crew-cum-record-label. With Fif at the helm, G-Unit helped launch the careers of Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and Game, and later signed vets including Mobb Deep and M.O.P.   (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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"Pilot" - "Better back up off me and just watch me ball" is the motto here, as 50 Cent gets his stunt on once again. If you think you're on his level because you pop a few bands at the club, Boo Boo politely checks you with, "You do this s--t once a year/We do this s--t all the time."(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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"Smoke" featuring Trey Songz - Fif connects with R&B crooner Trey Songz to go on a skirt-chasing mission with this certified club banger. The G-Unit boss compares one hottie to some of the baddest dope you could smoke with lines like, "I don't want forever, I just wanna taste her love sample/That product, I bet a n---a tongue go numb/She's a narcotic, that bomb s--t burning."(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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"Smoke" featuring Trey Songz - Fif connects with R&B crooner Trey Songz to go on a skirt-chasing mission with this certified club banger. The G-Unit boss compares one hottie to some of the baddest dope you could smoke with lines like, "I don't want forever, I just wanna taste her love sample/That product, I bet a n---a tongue go numb/She's a narcotic, that bomb s--t burning."(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

"Everytime I Come Around" featuring Kidd Kidd  - After being shot nine times, 50 warns that he's forever strapped. Riding out with his protégé Kidd Kidd, Curtis's message is simple: "Everytime I come around, me, I keep my gun around/It's never on safety."(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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"Everytime I Come Around" featuring Kidd Kidd  - After being shot nine times, 50 warns that he's forever strapped. Riding out with his protégé Kidd Kidd, Curtis's message is simple: "Everytime I come around, me, I keep my gun around/It's never on safety."(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

"Irregular Heartbeat" featuring Jadakiss and Kidd Kidd - 50 Cent, Jadakiss and Kidd Kidd let the wankstas know that they are not cut from the same cloth and that they bite while the pretenders bark. With cyber gangsters running rampant these days, Jadakiss sums up the track with bars like, "30-something and you ain't never open your mouth yet/Social media is giving cowards an outlet/See him in person, say something, I doubt that."(Photos from left: Jeff Bottari/Getty Images, Stuart Ramson / PictureGroup)

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"Irregular Heartbeat" featuring Jadakiss and Kidd Kidd - 50 Cent, Jadakiss and Kidd Kidd let the wankstas know that they are not cut from the same cloth and that they bite while the pretenders bark. With cyber gangsters running rampant these days, Jadakiss sums up the track with bars like, "30-something and you ain't never open your mouth yet/Social media is giving cowards an outlet/See him in person, say something, I doubt that."(Photos from left: Jeff Bottari/Getty Images, Stuart Ramson / PictureGroup)

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"Hustler" - 50 Cent slows it down over this Jake One production and lets it be known that whether he's in the streets or the boardroom, he's a hustler. The rules are basically the same, "We talk marketing and distribution and politics."(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Motorola)

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"Twisted" featuring Mr. Probz - Curtis gets grown and sexy here to celebrate his success and pay homage to the grind and struggle it took to get to the top. With Mr. Probz on the hook, Fif toasts to the good life as he spits, "If they don't call us by name, they call us entrepreneurs/From the block to the board room, the 'hood to the high life/Skyscraper paper, baby, life in the limelight."(Photos from left: Mr. Probz via Instagram, Foc Kan/WireImage)

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"Twisted" featuring Mr. Probz - Curtis gets grown and sexy here to celebrate his success and pay homage to the grind and struggle it took to get to the top. With Mr. Probz on the hook, Fif toasts to the good life as he spits, "If they don't call us by name, they call us entrepreneurs/From the block to the board room, the 'hood to the high life/Skyscraper paper, baby, life in the limelight."(Photos from left: Mr. Probz via Instagram, Foc Kan/WireImage)

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"Winners Circle" featuring Guordan Banks - With Gourdan Banks on the hook, the G-Unit general creates a theme song for success. "The s--t you say to yourself when you make history/I'm trying to make it feel like the first time/Like a junkie I'm sort of chasing my first high," he spits.(Photos from left: Mike Coppola/Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Accessories Council)

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"Winners Circle" featuring Guordan Banks - With Gourdan Banks on the hook, the G-Unit general creates a theme song for success. "The s--t you say to yourself when you make history/I'm trying to make it feel like the first time/Like a junkie I'm sort of chasing my first high," he spits.(Photos from left: Mike Coppola/Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Accessories Council)

"Chase the Paper" featuring Prodigy, Kidd Kidd and Styles P - Yonkers, Queens and New Orleans connect as 50, Styles P, Kidd Kidd and Prodigy laugh at lames too occupied with going after women instead of keeping their focus on obtaining that bread. 50 drives the point home with, "He still love her, she ain't s--t/Get her a pair of Louboutins, she suck a d--k."(Photos from left: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Spike TV, Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic)

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"Chase the Paper" featuring Prodigy, Kidd Kidd and Styles P - Yonkers, Queens and New Orleans connect as 50, Styles P, Kidd Kidd and Prodigy laugh at lames too occupied with going after women instead of keeping their focus on obtaining that bread. 50 drives the point home with, "He still love her, she ain't s--t/Get her a pair of Louboutins, she suck a d--k."(Photos from left: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Spike TV, Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic)

"The Funeral" - Fif displays his storytelling prowess as he details the death of young a wannabe who meets the Grim Reaper after trying to hang in the streets and bark with the wolves. "The shootout s--t happens, the sister read the eulogy/Couldn't help but think, ''N---a better you than me.'''  (Photo: dpa /Landov)

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"The Funeral" - Fif displays his storytelling prowess as he details the death of young a wannabe who meets the Grim Reaper after trying to hang in the streets and bark with the wolves. "The shootout s--t happens, the sister read the eulogy/Couldn't help but think, ''N---a better you than me.'''  (Photo: dpa /Landov)

Get Rich or Die Tryin' - With an already legendary backstory — surviving nine gunshots, beefing with Ja Rule and Queens gangsters — 50 Cent first set the world on fire with his 2003 classic Get Ready or Die Tryin', which sold more than 8 million records with timeless bangers such as "In Da Club" and "Patiently Waiting." (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)

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"You Know" - Boo Boo is in the building on this track as Fif transforms into Nino Brown and warns the ladies that they can be easily canceled and replaced. "Front if you want, I will make it hot/You think you ill, but you not."(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)

"Flip on You" featuring ScHoolboy Q - 50 and ScHoolboy Q may be successful, but don't think they won't go back to the gangster roots which inspired that passion for success. Haters be warned as Curtis spits venom and promises to end any beef, "I got a gift, I communicate with the after life." (Photos from left: Robin Marchant/Getty Images, Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

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"Flip on You" featuring ScHoolboy Q - 50 and ScHoolboy Q may be successful, but don't think they won't go back to the gangster roots which inspired that passion for success. Haters be warned as Curtis spits venom and promises to end any beef, "I got a gift, I communicate with the after life." (Photos from left: Robin Marchant/Getty Images, Johnny Nunez/WireImage)