Composition and Lyrics
"Hustler's Ambition" is a hip hop song of three minutes and fifty-seven seconds in length. After opening with a sample of the Frankie Beverly and Maze song "I Need You", the instrumentation provided by B-Money "B$" is built around a "solid bassline", and features background vocals that harmonize with 50 Cent's voice. As with much of the material from earlier in 50 Cent's career, the song follows a rags to riches theme of "getting rich or dying trying", according to Azeem Ahmad of musicOMH. 50 Cent's lyrics muse "exactly how far he wants to go" in the entertainment business following his rapid rise to fame over the preceding two years, as well as his believed superiority to other contemporary artists: "Look at me, this is the life I chose / Niggaz around me so cold, man my heart done froze... I'm just triple beam, dreamin / niggaz be, schemin". Writing for The Michigan Daily, Andrew Kahn noted the "old-school, pre-fame hunger" present in "Hustler's Ambition" due to the use of the "I Need You" sample. Steve Juon of RapReviews commented on 50 Cent's enunciation on the song, observing how the background vocals "never distract from 50's words" and that his "skills as an orator helped him rise to his current station in life".
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