I'm going to come out and say I do like 50 cent. I liked wanksta, i like in tha club, i liked all of the first songs I heard. He is different, has a really good rhythm, and isn't doing the cookie cutter rap with a r&b female singer schtick, so i have to like that. As for the album, I don't really care for it. I like the two singles and maybe one or two others, but the rest sound like typical eminem/dre songs that were just put into a formula to produce the same sounding songs. I think his past albums would probably be better just due to the fact that most of dre and eminem's songs are usually overproduced.
He is receiving a lot of hype right now, and I am fine with it, because he is a breath of fresh air. As for the album itself, I don't think it does him much justice.