Released to toast the 10th anniversary of his first mixtape, 50 Cent Is the Future, the fallen star's latest street album time-warps back to his glory days, when he was gangsta rap's premier beefcake. 50 snarls uncouth come-ons over some of his sunniest hooks in years, gushing, "Bedroom superhero – naked, I'm Batman," on the Bobby Womack-sampling "Wait Until Tonight." His underdog grit is back too. On "Body on It," he flaunts his gun stash and mourns the dying code of the streets. "It seems like principled living is startin' to fade,' he says, stretching out that last word till it's downright funereal.

Listen to 50 Cent's "Wait Until Tonight":

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“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.