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"Ghetto Qu'ran (Forgive Me)"
Song by SNITCH ]
Album	Power of the Dollar
Recorded	1999
Genre	Hip hop
Length	04:35
Label	Trackmasters/Columbia/Sony
Producer	Trackmasters
Power of the Dollar track listing
"As the World Turns" (7) "Ghetto Qu'ran (Forgive Me)" (8) "Da Repercussions" (9)

"Ghetto Qu'ran (Forgive Me)" is a song by 50 Cent from his unreleased, Columbia Records debut album Power of the Dollar. The song was leaked in early 2000 and garnered the attention of many within the underworld of drug dealing. The song mentions drug dealers from the 1980s in his neighborhood of South Jamaica, Queens.

Due to the details of past hustler's dealings, many^{[attribution needed]} viewed the song as exposing too much and that 50 Cent 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 nine bullets.^[1]

It is also rumored the song, and the following music industry blacklisting of 50 Cent by Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and his associates, led to the murder of Run DMC's Jam Master Jay. He defied the blacklisting by taking the young 50 Cent under his wing, introducing him to the music industry. According to an affidavit by IRS agent Francis Mace, law enforcement officials believed that the shooting in 2000 was in retaliation for the lyrics of the song.^[2]

The song served as a basis for 50 Cent'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 Cent even stated that it hurt him that "Fat Cat" snitched on "Pap[py]"). 50 Cent mentioned in a Hot97 interview^{[citation needed]} and an AllHipHop.com interview^[3] that everybody mentioned in the song appreciated it and McGriff even told him that he loved the song. He also talked about how Nas' record "Get Down" from the album God's Son similarly mentions names, but few people consider anything wrong with it.

The chorus to this song was sampled on Proof's solo CD Searching for Jerry Garcia on the song called "Forgive Me".

• 50 Cent's official website