Ghetto Qu'ran (Forgive Me)
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| "Ghetto Qu'ran (Forgive Me)" | ||
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| Single by 50 Cent | ||
| from the album Power of the Dollar | ||
| Released | 2000 in New York City (Unofficially) | |
| Recorded | 1998-1999 | |
| Genre | Hip-Hop/Rap | |
| Length | mm:ss | |
| Label | TrackMasters / Columbia / Sony Records | |
"Ghetto Qu'ran (Forgive Me)" by 50 Cent is from his unreleased, Columbia Records debut, Power of the Dollar. The song was leaked in early 2000 and garnered the attention of many within the underworld of drug dealing, mainly because of the name-dropping it contained. The song name checks hustlers from the 1980s in his neighborhood of southside Jamaica, Queens.
[edit] Aftermath
Due to the details of past hustler's dealings, many[attribution needed] viewed the song as exposing too much and that 50 had broken the code of the street. The song garnered relatively few air spins but became controversial because of the dangerous content it portrayed. There was speculations that the song itself caused the May 2000 attempt on 50 Cent's life, wounding him with 9 of the 9 bullets that were shot at him.[1]
It is also rumored the song, and the following music industry blacklisting of 50 Cent by Supreme and his associates, led to the murder of Run DMC's Jam Master Jay. The Queen's native Hip hop star had defied the blacklisting by taking the young 50 Cent under his wing, introducing him to the music industry. According to Francis Mace, a special agent assigned to the US treasury department, wrote in an affidavit, "Law enforcement agents are investigating the possibility that [he] was murdered for defying the blacklist of 50 Cent."[2]
The song later served as a basis for 50's rivals (mainly Ja Rule, Irv Gotti and the Murder Inc. camp, whom he was feuding at the time) to use against him, labeling him a snitch. Nevertheless, the song is noted by many critics as it portrayed the hustlers in an almost iconic stature to the masses (50 even states that it hurt him that "Fat Cat" snitched on "Pap[py]"). 50 Cent mentioned in a Hot97 interview[citation needed] that Supreme told him that he loved the song and talked about how Nas' record "Memory Lane (Sitting in the Park)", from his Illmatic debut, similarly mentions names, but few people consider anything wrong with it.
The chorus to this song was later sampled on Proof's solo CD Searching for Jerry Garcia on the song called "Forgive Me". 50 has stated that McGriff liked the song.[citation needed]
