Released in 2003 on 9xPlatinum “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”, “Many Men” keeps inspiring young artists and influencing hip hop 17 years later.
Two of the most noticeable recent examples would be Pop Smoke’s “Got It on Me” which interpolates 50 Cent’s “Many Men” on the posthumous album “Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon”, and 21 Savage’s take on “Many Men” for his joint project with Metro Boomin “Savage Mode II”.
Spotify’s Head of Urban Music, Carl Chery, touched this topic during his conversation with 50 Cent for Spotify’s podcast “RapCaviar”. That was Chery who called “Many Men” the most influential song of this year but Fifty had nothing to object here:
Yeah, because they made it that for me. The younger artists doing it over, they made it that. You can’t make a person decide to write a song. It’s influenced by a song. Creatively, it’s them going, “You know what? This is how I feel right now”.
Fifty also mentioned that the game has changed and popular cadences are different now. For example, “Many Men” is the slowest song on his album and probably new school rappers just do not feel other tracks’ tempo as theirs.
The spirit of the song is encoded its beat, and it is only fair to remind that “Many Men” was recorded, mixed and produced by Eminem, who supervised the whole Fifty’s major album debut.
Watch 50 Cent talking about “Many Men” and how it influences the modern hip hop:
Here is also the incomplete list of songs that used “Many Men” as an inspiration:
300 Bars & Runnin’ by The Game
Exclusive 2003 Shit by Big L (Ft. DJ Ron G)
Cro Diss by KC Rebell
Mauvaises Manies by La Fouine
Many Men by YFN Lucci
Women Men by Z-Ro
Quiet storm/wish death Freestyle by Kyce
Heartbeat by Jon Murdock
「AALIYAH」x あいのうた by Arca
Undaground King by DJ Smokey
Lonely by BiG HEATH
Много лет (Many Years) by Карандаш (Karandash)
Miniman by Plusma
King by Thomas Parr
Got It on Me by Pop Smoke
IntrXX by Wheezy (Black Money)
Mirror (Intro) by OG Prince
FIERRO by Members Only Group
Many Men by Lil Jairmy
Many Men by 21 Savage & Metro Boomin
