in da club

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"In da Club" is the first official single but second single, if Wanksta were to be counted, from 50 Cent's debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Released in 2002, it became 50 Cent's first number-one single in the USA; it also reached number three in the United Kingdom. The song was written by 50 Cent and produced by Dr. Dre with co-production from Mike Elizondo, the keyboardist for several of Dre's productions. "In Da Club" is one of the most listened to songs in the history of radio. Arbitron radio ratings estimated that at some point during the second week of March 2003, 200 million people had listened to some or all of the song. It remained at number one in the U.S. for an estimated 26 weeks until it was finally topped by Sean Paul's "Get Busy" on May 10, 2003. The song itself depicts club culture and the atmosphere within it. "In da Club" was nominated for Best Male Rap Solo Performance at the Grammy Awards of 2004, but lost to "Lose Yourself" by Eminem.

music video...

The music video for "In da Club" was directed by Phillip G. Atwell and released in February 2003. It is set at the "Shady/Aftermath Artist Development Center", where 50 Cent is shown training in a workout room, also showing a man having surgery, referring to 50 Cent having been shot at nine times by the time of the release of Get Rich or Die Tryin'. It also follows the song's context by portraying a clubhouse. The video has cameo appearances from many celebrities, including Eminem, Dr. Dre, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, Tony Yayo, The Game, Xzibit, Bizarre, and the rest of D12. The video for Eminem's song "Without Me" also appears briefly on a television screen.

The video received heavy rotation on many television stations. At the MTV Video Music Awards in 2003, it received the awards for Best Rap Video and Best New Artist, as well as receiving nominations for Video of the Year, Best Male Video, and Viewer's Choice.

Like the song itself, the "In da Club" music video has been subject to parodies. An example of this is in the clip for the D12 song "My Band", in which Bizarre, in a reference to the "In da Club" video, runs on a treadmill in the attempt to achieve 50 Cent's physical fitness (reflecting his line, "50 told me to do situps to get buff / Did two-and-a-half and couldn't get up.")

controversy...

On January 20, 2006, 50 Cent was sued for copyright infringement by former 2 Live Crew manager Joe Weinberger, who owns the rights to the rap group's catalog. Weinberger claims that 50 Cent plagiarized lines from the song "It's Your Birthday" by former 2 Live Crew lead singer Luther Campbell, on his 1994 album Still a Freak for Life.[2] The lawsuit was later dismissed by Floridan judge Paul C. Huck, who said that the lines were a "common, unoriginal and noncopyrightable element of the song" and not entitled to copyright protection.[3]

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