
Down On Me
2010
Twenty-three weeks of climbing before it peaked at number four, riding a Mick Schultz beat built for last call.
★ 1.9

Twenty-three weeks of climbing before it peaked at number four, riding a Mick Schultz beat built for last call.

Dre and Mike Elizondo built it spare, clipped piano and low thump; the Mobb Deep remix reached number six.

50 Cent wrote the chorus, liked it enough to take a verse, and Dre's beat carried Compton nationwide.

Scott Storch's synth strings borrow from Middle Eastern melody, and nine weeks at number one followed for 50 Cent.

Dre objected to a love song on a gangsta album, then mixed it into four weeks atop the Hot 100.

Cool and Dre's Trammps flip earned two Grammy nominations and stalled at two, blocked by 50 Cent's own 'Candy Shop'.

Dre's beat was offered to D12 and Rakim before 50 Cent wrote to it and held number one nine weeks.