Reception
"Hustler's Ambition" received generally favourable reviews from music critics. David Jeffries of AllMusic called the song "a clever number" and compared it to the material found on 50 Cent's debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', commenting that it "recall the looser moments of his debut". Although Azeem Ahmad noted "Hustler's Ambition" to be more musically diverse that 50 Cent's previous work in his review of the song for musicOMH, he also wrote that "it's hardly inspiring to those expecting a slice of raw hip-hop", although he concluded that that the song sounded better after repeated listenings and that 50 Cent had "once again hit the jackpot". Andrew Kahn of The Michigan Daily felt the song to be "by far best solo song on the album", and also wrote that it sounded "superior to most of The Massacre's tracks". In his review for the Get Rich or Die Tryin' soundtrack for PopMatters, Mike Schiller observed that "Hustler's Ambition" effectively represents the struggles that 50 Cent's character faces in the corresponding film, pointing out that it emphasizes his "hunger for money" and also noted the song to be a "subtle shift in perspective" of 50 Cent's music, in that it had moved from "club bangers that serve no particular purpose other than to get people dancing" to "raps... spit through the voice of a fictionalized version of his own younger self".
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