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•  The only thing that I’m scared of is not livin’ up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.
• I don’t have to say ‘Rap it up’ every two seconds, or ‘Don’t do drugs’ every two seconds. They know they’re not supposed to use drugs, and they know they’re supposed to put a condom on.
• I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.
• Two days ago, I was killed in LA. CNN reported that. What if my grandmother had seen that and had a heart attack? People talk about lyrical content. There is no media responsibility. Movies, the porn industry, it has to be across the board or it’s ineffective.
• Where did ‘Pac get killed? That passenger seat. Where did Biggie get killed? That passenger seat. Where did 50 Cent get shot? The backseat, but still in the car, shooters are comfortable shooting in vehicles so I’ve got a bulletproof vehicle.
• You stop thinking about the police finding out what you did. You start thinking about God knowing what just happened.
• Right now he’s desperate. He should be talking about me, not Eminem and Dre and everybody else. He’ll lose, he knows that. The route that he has to take is the ‘I’m a mad gangsta’ hardcore route, and ain’t nobody gonna believe him.- On his feud with bubblegum rapper Ja Rule.
• In Hollywood they say there’s no business like show business in the hood they say there’s no business like ho business.
• I’m not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain’t me.
• A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power’s an aphrodisiac.
• I think it’s easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I’m a bad person.
• I don’t display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has but I’ve developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.
• In my neighborhood if you’re too aggressive, you intimidate someone, they kill you. Or if you decide to be emotional and you start crying, you’re a victim. You know, the kid in the schoolyard that doesn’t want to fight always leaves with a black eye. 
• You have to find a way to stay in the middle, somewhere where people just don’t mess with you because they know that you don’t have a problem with it if it goes there.
• If they keep comin’ at me, I’ll just keep responding back until they don’t exist anymore. I got the time and energy to ruin what is left of their careers, if they want to do that. – On his feuds with all of his adversaries (such as Nas, Jadakiss, Fat Joe, Shyne, The Game, Ja Rule, Sheek Louch and Styles P. among others)
• A lot of kids join the army to get a college education. That’s why they do it, and they get sent into these horrible situations.

50 Cent’s many tattoos have always been a part of the rapper’s image. He’s displayed them prominently on album covers and in magazines throughout his career. But the ink that made him stand out in the music world isn’t serving him so well now that 50 Cent the rapper is becoming 50 Cent the rapper-actor. So Curtis Jackson (his real name) has begun the process of removing many of them with costly laser procedures.

50 Cent is erasing some of his past, literally. The rapper has begun removing most of his tattoos. Turns out, that ink is causing a problem as he turns his focus to acting, “It cuts down on the amount of time I have to spend in makeup covering them up,” 50 Cent says about his decision, which he calls “an ongoing process.” Still, don’t expect him to rid himself of all the ink. His arms may be tattoo free, but 50′s vowed to keep a tattoo on his back.

Jackson has a tattoo of “Marquise” with an axe on his right biceps. “The axe is ’cause I’m a warrior. I don’t want him to be one, though,” he explains. He also has “50″, “Southside”, and “Cold World” inscribed on his back because “I’m a product of that environment. It’s on my back, though, so it’s all behind me.”

Under the belly stand “Love & Hate”.

Left side of (Love & Hate) is Head of Devil.

On the right side a head of Jesus.

On the left side of the neck the name of “Beau”.

On the right external Biceps an axe with the name of his son “Marquise”? and the writing “Warrior”.

On the right internal lower arm, The name of his mother “Sabrina”.

On the right lower arm under the name “Sabrina”, the words “Ghetto Angel”.

Angel on his shoulder.

On the Left arm Biceps, Drawing and in the center 50.

On the Left internal lower arm, a Cross with a D? and writing “God understands ME”. 

On the Right hand G-unit.  

Number 50 on the back center. 

On the Upper back “South Side”.

In the Upper part of the “5” in the “50” the word “Gangsta”.

Lower part of the “5” in the “50” written “Cold World”.

Lower Back written “G-unit” 

• 50 Cent: The New Breed (2003)
• The Simpsons (2003)
• Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005)
• Home of the Brave (2006)
• Righteous Kill (2007)
• Before I Self Destruct (2008)
• Streets of Blood (2008)
• Dead Man Running (2009)
• Everything’s Alright (2009)
• Caught in the Crossfire (2009)
• 13 (2009)
• Love Me, Love Me Not (2009)
• Twelve (2010)
• Jekyll and Hyde (2010)
• Morning Glory (2010)
• Vengeance (2010)
• Gun (2011)
• Blood Out (2011)

• Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003)
• The Massacre (2005)
• Curtis (2007)
• Before I Self Destruct (2009)

Birth name: Curtis James Jackson III 

Date of birth: 6 July 1975 

Place of birth: Queens, New York, New York, USA

Nickname: Interscope, Fiddy, Boo Boo 

Height: 6′ (1.83 m)

• Curtis James Jackson III grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, New York in poverty-stricken circumstances.
• When he was eight years old, his mother was murdered in her home in a drug deal, and 50 Cent moved in with his grandparents.
• Grew up in the same area of Queens, New York as actor Dwayne Winstead’s cousin Ted Witherspoon.
• He soon became immersed in the drug trade, hustling around his native neighborhood by the name of “Boo Boo.” By embracing that reputation, 50 Cent built a large following in New York before ever signing a major record deal.
• His mother was killed at the age of 23. 50 Cent was only 8 years old at the tim.
• His big opportunity came in the form of the late Jam Master Jay, who signed 50 Cent to his JMJ label in 1996.
• He entered the “family business” and began selling crack cocaine when he was just twelve.
• A three man security detail isn’t enough to protect 50 Cent. He wears a bullet-proof vest religiously, as does both members of his G-Unit crew.
• The shooter of 50 cent was shot 9 times but died but it was not known who did the shooting.
• Is currently involved in a feud with music artist, Ja Rule.
• Is currently signed to Eminem’s Shady Records imprint, which is distributed by Interscope Records.
• Has a son: Marquise, nicknamed 25 Cent.
• His son Marquise appered in the song wanksta.
• In the spring of 2000, 50 Cent was shot in the face, hand and legs by a man with a nine millimeter at close range. He survived a total of nine bullets.
• 50 first received mainstream press in November 2002, when police questioned him in the days following the murder of Jam Master Jay.
• His first single for Aftermath, “Wanksta,” first appeared on the 8 Mile soundtrack. 50 Cent once said that Ja Rule was the inspiration for “Wanksta.”.
• Jay-Z, the late Big Punisher, Sticky Fingaz, Ghostface Killah and most recently Fat Joe, Jadakiss, The Game and Nas have all replied to 50 Cent’s dissing songs.
• His debut album “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” was the highest debut ever with 900,000 copies sold in the first week.
• After catching the attention of the Trackmasters, in 1999 50 Cent signed a deal with Columbia Records for $250,000.
• With the Columbia deal, he received a $65,000 advance. $50,000 went to Jam Master Jay and $10,000 went to an attorney.
• In just over two weeks, he recorded thirty-six songs, some of which ended up on his Columbia debut LP Power of a Dollar, deemed by Blaze Magazine as a classic.
• His crack operation grew to gross over $5,000 a day, but he saw rap as a way to get out of the game and performed rhymes at parties.
• Released DVD called “The New Breed” (April 2003)
• 50 Cent’s first arrest happened at his high school when he was busted in gym class for the hidden crack vials in his sneakers.
• After Columbia released him, 50 Cent started selling his music straight to bootleggers. Many or the covers of his bootleg CDs feature 50 Cent brandishing some sort of firearm. These bootlegs gained him many fans, including Eminem, who, on a Los Angeles radio show, declared 50 Cent his favorite rapper.
• In the summer of 1999, his first single was released. It was the comedic, and now classic, single “How To Rob,” which jokes about jacking the hottest music celebrities of that time, including Mariah Carey, Master P, Timbaland and Jay-Z.
• His mother was killed at the age of 23. 50 Cent was only 8 years old at the time
• Was discovered by Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay.
• Wears a bullet proof vest and even bought one for his son. He also drives a bullet-proof SUV.
• Has a new music video “Just A Lil Bit” out that Lloyd Banks and Olivia have cameos in.
• The video for ‘In Da Club’ was voted the 82nd greatest music video of all time in a Channel 4 (UK) poll.
• Once while performing at a concert 50 cent was stuck in the head with a water bottle prompting him, and members of his group G-unit, to dive into the audience looking for the thrower.
• That’s not a dimple on 50 Cent’s left cheek. It’s a bullet wound.
• Some of his top music videos include: “In Da Club”: Dr.Dre, Xzibit and Eminem, “21 Questions”: Meagan Good, Nate Dogg and Tyson Beckford, “P.I.M.P”: Snoop Dogg, “Many Men”, “Candy Shop”: Olivia, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck & Lil Scrappy and has appeared on Lloyd Banks: “I’m So Fly”, “Karma”, “On Fire”, Young Buck: “Shorty Wanna Ride”, “Let Me In” and “Look At Me Now/Bonafide Hustler”, Eminem: “Like Toy Soldiers” and The Game: “How We Do” and “Hate It Or Love It”. 
• After the release of “Beg For Mercy” from his group G-Unit, he teamed up with Reebok to release his own G-Unit Sneakers and clothing line.
• Grew up in the same area of Queens, New York as actor Dwayne Winstead’s cousin Ted Witherspoon.
• Voted #8 on VH1′s 100 Hottest Hotties
• Used to be a boxer.
• He was allegedly stabbed during a recording-studio scuffle with Ja Rule’s posse.
• Neither drinks alcohol nor smokes.
• Days before the relase of “Power of the Dollar” 50 Cent was shot 9 times with 9mm pistol and Columbia decided to pull the plug on the album.
• While sitting in a car in Queens in May of 2000, 50 Cent was shot in the face, hands and legs, but he managed to survive.
• 50 cent was an orphaned child.
• 50 cent was shot 9 times in front of his grandmother’s house and rumours started he went back to selling crack.
• He has been stabbed and put in jail numerous times in 2000.
• According to 50 Cent, beef started with Ja Rule and Murder Inc. when Ja Rule was robbed by a neighborhood acquaintance of 50 Cent’s.
• He bought former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson’s Farmington, Conn., mansion for $4.1 million. The house is approximately 50,000 square feet, has 52 rooms, and was bought by Tyson for $2.7 million in 1996. The house includes five Jacuzzis, 25 full baths, 18 bedrooms, an elevator, two billiard rooms, a movie theater and a locker room.
• Born on the same day though not the same year as President George W. Bush.
• Recorded an album in 1999 titled “Power of the Dollar” but it was shelved by Columbia Records due to 50′s “legal problems”
• Released a series of street mixtapes in 2002. These mixtapes became so popular that Eminem heard them and became determined to sign 50 to his record label. Even after his success, 50 still releases street mixtapes on a regular basis.
• Album “The Massacre” was originally titled “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” and set for a February 15 release date, but due to halted production of CD, it was set back to March 8th.
• Currently touring everywhere possible with artists like Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Sean Paul, Chingy, and Bone Crusher on the Roc Tha Mic Tour.
• 50 Cent’s break out hit single “Wanksta” reached #14 on the U.S. Hot 100. “In Da Club”, “21 Questions” and “Candy Shop” all reached #1 and “Window Shopper” has been as high as #2.
• Bought a multi-million dollar mansion that was once owned by Mike Tyson
• Was accompanied by actress Vivica A. Fox to the MTV Video Music Awards 2003.
• 50 Cent bought former boxer Mike Tyson’s house in Farmington, Connecticut and as of 2006 lives there.
• He recorded the track “Piggy Bank” on his album “The Massacre” and attacked Jadakiss and Fat Joe for their association with Ja Rule.
• Created a dance known as the “two step”.
• His favorite actor is Charlie Sheen.
• Some of his Grammy nominations include: Best Rap Album (twice) for “The Massacre” and “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”, Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group (3 times) for “Hate It or Love It”, “Encore” and “Magic Stick”, Best Rap Solo Performance for “Disco Inferno”, Best Rap Song (3 times) for “Candy Shop”, “Hate It or Love It” and “In Da Club”, Best New Artist in 2004 and Best Male Rap Solo Performance for “In Da Club.”.
• Since starting G-Unit as of 2006 he has signed three different artists including Mobb Deep, Ma$e, and M.O.P.
• His cartoon-like photo on the cover of his album “The Massacre” was meant to make him look like a Ninja Turtle, his son’s favorite cartoon characters. 50 is also a fan of the cartoon, his favorite turtle is Donatello.
• Album “The Massacre” was originally titled “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” and set for a February 15 release date, but due to halted production of CD, it was set back to March 8th of 2005.
• 50 Cent has appeared as a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, “The View”, “Live with Regis & Kelly”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, “Late Show with David Letterman”, “106 & Park Top 10 Live”, “Howard Stern,” and “Saturday Night Live”.
• His group, G-Unit, includes Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, Olivia, Spider Loc, Mobb Deep, MOP, Mase, and DJ Whoo Kid.
• 50 cent will be having a movie called “Get Rich, or Die Tryin” in 2005 based on his life an how became to be a star.
• Raised in Queens by his grandparents.
• 50 Cent appeared on an episode of The Simpsons entitled “Pranksta Rap” in February 2005.
• He has a video game called “50 Cent: Bulletproof”, which is available on the PS2, Xbox, and PSP.
• Named among Fade In Magazine’s “100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know” in 2005.
• He has a new video for the remix to the song “Outta Control” which features Mobb Deep.
• 50 Cent’s SUV is bulletproof… and is also bombproof.
• 50 Cent currently has an escalating feud with The Game. The Game, who was previously signed to G-Unit, was booted by 50 Cent. Fans mostly believed that 50 Cent and The Game were bonding at the time of The Documentary’s release. 
• The Game’s major debut album was surrounded by controversy. Right after its release, 50 Cent felt that the rapper was disloyal for saying he wanted to work with artists G-Unit were feuding with and he formally dismissed the rapper.
• Was #8 on the annual Forbes magazine Celebrity 100 list in 2006.
• Dan McTeague, a member of Canadian Parliament suggested that the government ban 50 Cent from entering the country. McTeague said the rapper’s message was inappropriate at a time when its largest city Toronto was experiencing a huge increase in gun violence. 
• He released a memoir about his life up to his success entitled “From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens”; the book was released on August 9, 2005. There are other books planned for release sometime in 2007.
• He wrote an autobiography called “From Pieces to Weight”.
• Filmed a motion picture called “Home of the Brave” in 2006 with Jessica Biel and Samuel L. Jackson.
• In December 2008 50 told the Canadian press that he had been affected by the recession, losing several million dollars on the stock market. He also went on to say that he had been unable to sell his Connecticut mansion and pushed Before I Self-Destruct back because of the recent economic downturn.
• In November 2009, 50 Cent won in a lawsuit against Taco Bell over the fast food chain using his name to promote the brand without his permission.
• In July 2009, The Game stated the beef was squashed with help from Michael Jackson and Diddy, and he apologized for his actions during the beef. Tony Yayo said that neither Jackson or G-Unit would accept his apology. Since then, The Game continued his old “G-Unot” ways at live concerts. Jackson released “So Disrespectful” a diss song on Before I Self Destruct targeting Jay-Z, The Game and Young Buck.
• Game later responded with the song “Shake”, poking fun of the music video for 50′s single “Candy Shop”, quote, “Me and 50 aint agreeing on shit so I had to (Shake) Aint no telling what he putting in that protein (Shake) Seen the candy shop video look at this nigga (Shake) And thats the same shit that made the nigga Young Buck (Shake)”. He also takes shots at Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo, in which he says, “I’m surprised that Lloyd Banks and Yayo didn’t (Shake) Wasn’t selling no records Jimmy Iovine said (Shake)”. Game also dissed G-Unit several times on the song “400 Bars”.
• In an interview with the British entertainment website ContactMusic, 50 Cent announced that he was working on a dance (primarily Eurodance) album named Black Magic. 50 Cent said he was inspired by the European nightclubs. “First they played hip-hop which suddenly changed to uptempo songs, known as Eurodance”. Later however, he confirmed that he had shelved Black Magic in favor of writing new material that did not fit the concept of Black Magic. He did confirm that he is working on his yet-to-be-titled fifth studio album.
• In 2010, Jackson’s film company Cheetah Vision landed $200 million in funding.

Curtis James Jackson III better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003) and The Massacre (2005). Get Rich or Die Tryin has been certified 8 times platinum by the RIAA and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. His album The Massacre has been certified 5 times platinum by the RIAA and has sold 11 million copies worldwide.

Born in South Jamaica, Queens, Jackson began drug dealing at the age of twelve during the 1980s crack epidemic. After leaving drug dealing to pursue a rap career, he was shot at and struck by nine bullets during an incident in 2000. After releasing his album Guess Who’s Back? in 2002, Jackson was discovered by rapper Eminem and signed to Interscope Records. With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre, who produced his first major commercial successes, Jackson became one of the world’s highest selling rappers. In 2003, he founded the record label G-Unit Records, which signed several successful rappers such as Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo.

Jackson has engaged in feuds with other rappers including Kanye West, Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Cam’ron, Rick Ross, and former G-Unit members The Game and Young Buck. He has also pursued an acting career, appearing in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin’ in 2005, the Iraq War film Home of the Brave in 2006, and Righteous Kill in 2008. 50 Cent was ranked as the 6th best artist of the 2000-2009 decade by “Billboard Magazine.” (Also ranking as the 4th Top male artist and as the 3rd Top rapper behind Eminem and Nelly)

He was also ranked as the 6th best and most successful Hot 100 Artist of the 2000-2009 decade by Billboard Magazine. Billboard Magazine also named him the #1 Rap Song Artist of the 2000-2009 decade. His album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was ranked as the 12th best album of the 2000-2009 decade by Billboard Magazine and the album The Massacre ranking as the 37th best album of the 2000-2009 decade by Billboard Magazine

Curtis Jackson III grew up in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, in New York City. He grew up without a father and was raised by his mother, Sabrina, who gave birth to him at the age of fifteen. Sabrina, a cocaine dealer, raised Jackson until the age of twelve, when she was murdered in 1988. Twenty-seven at the time, she became unconscious after someone drugged her drink. She was then left for dead after the gas in her apartment was turned on and the windows shut closed. After her death, Jackson moved into his grandparents’ house with his eight aunts and uncles. He recalls, “My grandmother told me, ‘Your mother’s not coming home. She’s not gonna come back to pick you up. You’re gonna stay with us now.’ That’s when I started adjusting to the streets a little bit”.

Jackson began boxing around the age of eleven. At fourteen, a neighbor opened a boxing gym for local kids. “When I wasn’t killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip”, he recalled. In the mid 1980s, he competed in the Junior Olympics as an amateur boxer. He recounts, “I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too… I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they’re the champ”. At the age of twelve, Jackson began dealing narcotics when his grandparents thought he was at after-school programs.

He also took guns and drug money to school. In the tenth grade, he was caught by metal detectors at Andrew Jackson High School. He later stated, “I was embarrassed that I got arrested like that… After I got arrested I stopped hiding it. I was telling my grandmother openly, ‘I sell drugs.’”

On June 29, 1994, Jackson was arrested for helping to sell four vials of cocaine to an undercover police officer. He was arrested again three weeks later when police searched his home and found heroin, ten ounces of crack cocaine, and a starter gun. He was sentenced to three to nine years in prison, but managed to serve six months in a shock incarceration boot camp where he earned his GED. Jackson said that he did not use cocaine himself, he only sold it. He adopted the nickname “50 Cent” as a metaphor for “change”. The name was derived from Kelvin Martin, a 1980s Brooklyn robber known as “50 Cent”. Jackson chose the name “because it says everything I want it to say. I’m the same kind of person 50 Cent was. I provide for myself by any means”.

Jackson started rapping in a friend’s basement where he used turntables to record over instrumentals. In 1996, a friend introduced him to Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC who was organizing his label Jam Master Jay Records. Jay taught him how to count bars, write choruses, structure songs, and how to make a record. Jackson’s first official appearance was on a song titled “React” with the group Onyx on their 1998 album Shut ‘Em Down. He credited Jam Master Jay as an influence who helped him improve his ability to write hooks.

Jay produced Jackson’s first album; however, it was never released. In 1999, after leaving Jam Master Jay, the platinum-selling producers Trackmasters took notice of Jackson and signed him to Columbia Records. They sent him to a studio in Upstate New York where he produced thirty-six songs in two weeks. Eighteen were included on his unofficially released album, Power of the Dollar in 2000. He also started the now-defunct Hollow Point Entertainment with former G-Unit affiliate Bang ‘Em Smurf.

Jackson’s popularity started to increase after the successful but controversial underground single, “How to Rob”, which he wrote in half an hour while in a car on the way to a studio. The track comically explains how he would rob famous artists. He explained the reasoning behind song’s content as, “There’s a hundred artists on that label, you gotta separate yourself from that group and make yourself relevant”. Rappers Jay-Z, Kurupt, Sticky Fingaz, Big Pun, DMX, Wyclef Jean and the Wu-Tang Clan replied to the song and Nas, who received the track positively, invited Jackson to travel on a promotional tour for his Nastradamus album. The song was intended to be released with “Thug Love” featuring Destiny’s Child, but two days before he was scheduled to film the “Thug Love” music video, Jackson was shot and confined to a hospital due to his injuries.

On April 24, 2000, Jackson was attacked by a gunman, alleged to be Darryl “Hommo” Baum, outside his grandmother’s former home in South Jamaica, Queens. He went into a friend’s car, but was asked to return to the house to get jewelry. His son was in the house, while his grandmother was in the front yard. Upon returning to the back seat of the car, another car pulled up nearby. An assailant then walked up to Jackson’s left side with a 9mm handgun and fired nine shots at close range. He was shot nine times: in the hand (a round hit his right thumb and came out of his little finger), arm, hip, both legs, chest, and left cheek. The face wound resulted in a swollen tongue, the loss of a wisdom tooth, and a small slur in his voice. Get Rich or Die Tryin’: The Movie (2003) (bonus documentary DVD). Interscope Records. His friend also sustained a gunshot wound to the hand. They were driven to the hospital where Jackson spent thirteen days. Baum, the alleged shooter, was killed three weeks later. Baum was also Mike Tyson’s close friend and bodyguard.

Jackson recalled the incident saying, “It happens so fast that you don’t even get a chance to shoot back…. I was scared the whole time…. I was looking in the rear-view mirror like, ‘Oh shit, somebody shot me in the face! It burns, burns, burns.’” In his autobiography, From Pieces to Weight: Once upon a Time in Southside Queens, he wrote, “After I got shot nine times at close range and didn’t die, I started to think that I must have a purpose in life… How much more damage could that shell have done? Give me an inch in this direction or that one, and I’m gone”. He used a walker for the first six weeks and fully recovered after five months. When he left the hospital, he stayed in the Poconos with his then-girlfriend and son. His workout regime helped him attain his muscular physique.

While in the hospital, Jackson signed a publishing deal with Columbia Records. However, he was dropped from the label and “blacklisted” in the recording industry because of his song “Ghetto Qu’ran”. Unable to find a studio to work with in the U.S, he traveled to Canada. Along with his business partner Sha Money XL, he recorded over thirty songs for mixtapes, with the purpose of building a reputation. According to Shady Records A&R Marc Labelle in an interview with HitQuarters, Jackson shrewdly used the mixtape circuit to his own advantage saying, “He took all the hottest beats from every artist and flipped them with better hooks. They then got into all the markets on the mixtapes and all the mixtape DJs were messing with them.” Jackson’s popularity rose and in 2002, he released material independently on the mixtape, Guess Who’s Back?. Beginning to attract interest, and now backed by G-Unit, Jackson continued to release music including 50 Cent Is the Future. The mixtape revisited material by Jay-Z and Raphael Saadiq.

In 2002, Eminem listened to a copy of Jackson’s Guess Who’s Back? CD. He received the CD through Jackson’s attorney, who was working with Eminem’s manager Paul Rosenberg. Impressed with the album, Eminem invited Jackson to fly to Los Angeles, where he was introduced to Dr. Dre. After signing a $1 million record deal, Jackson released the mixtape, No Mercy, No Fear. It featured one new track, “Wanksta”, which was put on Eminem’s 8 Mile soundtrack. He was also signed to Chris Lighty’s Violator Management and Sha Money XL’s Money Management Group.

In February 2003, Jackson released his commercial debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’. Allmusic described it as “probably the most hyped debut album by a rap artist in about a decade”. Rolling Stone noted the album for its “dark synth grooves, buzzy keyboards and a persistently funky bounce” with Jackson complementing the production in “an unflappable, laid-back flow”. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 872,000 copies in the first four days. The lead single, “In da Club”, which The Source noted for its “blaring horns, funky organs, guitar riffs and sparse hand claps”, broke a Billboard record as the most listened-to song in radio history within a week.

Interscope granted Jackson his own label, G-Unit Records in 2003. He signed Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, and Young Buck as the established members of G-Unit. The Game was later signed under a joint venture with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment. In March 2005, Jackson’s second commercial album, The Massacre, sold 1.14 million copies in the first four days-the highest in an abbreviated sales cycle- and peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 for six weeks. He became the first solo artist to have three singles on the Billboard top five in the same week with “Candy Shop”, “Disco Inferno”, and “How We Do”. Rolling Stone noted that “50′s secret weapon is his singing voice – the deceptively amateur-sounding tenor croon that he deploys on almost every chorus”.

After The Game’s departure, Jackson signed singer Olivia and rap veterans Mobb Deep to G-Unit Records. Spider Loc, M.O.P., 40 Glocc and Young Hot Rod later joined the label. Jackson expressed interest in working with rappers outside of G-Unit, such as Lil’ Scrappy of BME, LL Cool J from Def Jam, Mase from Bad Boy, and Freeway of Roc-A-Fella, some of whom he recorded with.

In September 2007, he released his third album Curtis, which was inspired by his life before Get Rich or Die Tryin’. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 691,000 units in the first week, behind Kanye West’s Graduation, whom he had a sales competition with, as both albums were released on the same day. He confirmed on TRL on September 10, 2008 that his fourth studio album, Before I Self Destruct, will be “done and released in November”. On May 18, 2009, Jackson released a song entitled “Ok, You’re Right”.

The song was produced by Dr. Dre and will be included in Before I Self Destruct. In Fall 2009, 50 is set to appear in the new season of VH1′s Behind The Music. On September 3, 2009 months upon the release of his “Before I Self Destruct” album 50 Cent posted a video  for the Soundkillers’ Phoenix  produced track “Flight 187″ which introduced his mixtape, the 50th LAW, and was also featured as a bonus track on his iTunes release of Before I Self Destruct. The song ignited speculation that there was tension between rapper 50 Cent and Jay Z for Jackson’s comments in the song.

He went on The Invitation Tour in the summer of 2010, in support of Before I Self Destruct album, and the shelved Black Magic album. On September 3rd, 50 Cent showed support to longtime mentor Eminem, and appeared on his and Jay-Z’s Home & Home Tour, performing hit songs such as “Crack A Bottle,” alongside his longtime mentors Eminem & Dr. Dre, amidst rumors that 50 was no longer working with Dre.

Jackson has established himself in a variety of fields. In November 2003, he signed a five year deal with Reebok to distribute a “G-Unit Sneakers” line as part of his G-Unit Clothing Company. He provided the voice-over as the protagonist in the video game, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, which was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and the PlayStation Portable. Its sequel, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, was released in early 2009.

He worked with Glacéau to create a Vitamin Water drink called Formula 50. In 2007, Coca-Cola purchased Glacéau for US$4.1 billion. Forbes estimated Jackson, who owns a stake in the company, earned $100 million from the deal after taxes. He has teamed up with Right Guard to launched a body spray called Pure 50 RGX Body Spray and a condom line called Magic Stick Condoms, in which he planned to donate part of the proceeds to HIV awareness. Jackson has signed a multi-year deal with Steiner Sports to sell his memorabilia.

In 2005, Jackson made a cameo appearance on The Simpsons episode “Pranksta Rap”, in which he makes light of his legal troubles. The same year, he starred alongside Terrence Howard in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He starred in the 2006 film, Home of the Brave, as a soldier returning home from the Iraq War, traumatized after killing an Iraqi woman. Jackson is working on a role as a fighter in an Angola State Prison in Spectacular Regret alongside Nicolas Cage, and starred opposite Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in 2008′s Righteous Kill, a movie regarding a police death. He also started the film production companies G-Unit Films in 2007 and Cheetah Vision in 2008. In August 2007, Jackson announced plans to launch a dietary supplement company in conjunction with his movie Spectacular Regret.

In August, 2005, shortly before appearing in Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Jackson published an autobiography entitled From Pieces to Weight: Once upon a Time in Southside Queens. In it Jackson explores the cultural and economic forces that led him to sell cocaine and crack, details his entrepreneurship as a drug-dealer and then as a rapper, and reflects on his own ethos and on society. On January 4, 2007, Jackson launched his G-Unit Books imprint at the Time Warner Building.

He also co-wrote The Ski Mask Way, a novel about a small-time drug dealer who attempts to rob his employers, which is to be turned into a film. Jackson said he read Robert Greene’s The 33 Strategies of War and worked with the author on a book titled The 50th Law, an urban take on The 48 Laws of Power. In May 2008, Jackson met billionaire Patrice Motsepe to forge a joint venture selling 50 Cent-branded platinum.

In 2008, Jackson started a reality television show on MTV titled 50 Cent: The Money and the Power; the winning contestant, Ryan Mayberry, won a $100,000 investment from Jackson. In 2010, Jackson’s film company Cheetah Vision landed $200 million in funding.

On October 13, 1997, Jackson’s then-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins gave birth to a son, Marquise Jackson. Tompkins later sued Jackson for $50 million dollars, claiming that he said that he would take care of her for life; the suit, which includes 15 claims was later dismissed by a judge, calling it “an unfortunate tale of a love relationship gone sour.” As of February 2009, Tompkins’ and her lawyer are considering an appeal.

The birth of his son changed Jackson’s outlook on life: “When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn’t have with my father.” He credited his son for inspiring his career and being “motivation to go in a different direction”.

Jackson has a tattoo of “Marquise” with an axe on his right biceps. “The axe is ’cause I’m a warrior. I don’t want him to be one, though,” he explains. He also has “50″, “Southside”, and “Cold World” inscribed on his back because “I’m a product of that environment. It’s on my back, though, so it’s all behind me.” Jackson dated actress Vivica A. Fox in 2003. After a few months, he announced their split up on The Howard Stern Show when pictures from a photo shoot they did ended up on the cover of Today’s Black Woman magazine without his knowledge.

In 2005, Jackson expressed support for President George W. Bush after rapper Kanye West criticized him for the slow response in assisting the Hurricane Katrina victims. If his felony convictions did not prevent him from voting, he claimed he would have voted for Bush. He later stated that Bush “has less compassion than the average human. By all means, I don’t aspire to be like George Bush.”

In 2007, Forbes recognized Jackson for his wealth, placing him second behind Jay-Z in the rap industry. He resides in Farmington, Connecticut, in the former mansion of ex-boxer Mike Tyson. He put the mansion for sale at $18.5 million to move closer to his son who lives in Long Island with his ex-girlfriend.

On October 12, 2007, the Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut declared it “50 Cent Curtis Jackson Day”. He was honored with a key to the city and an official proclamation. One of his homes in New York purchased for 2.4 million dollars in January 2007 and at the center of a lawsuit between Jackson and ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins caught fire on May 31, 2008 while he was out of town filming for a movie in Louisiana.

In December 2008 50 told the Canadian press that he had been affected by the recession, losing several million dollars on the stock market. He also went on to say that he had been unable to sell his Connecticut mansion and pushed Before I Self-Destruct back because of the recent economic downturn. In November 2009, 50 Cent won in a lawsuit against Taco Bell over the fast food chain using his name to promote the brand without his permission.

“I don’t display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has but I’ve developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.”

Why we like him ??

More so than any other music since the blues, hip-hop is all about stories. And its stories are both criminal minded and grand, making them enthralling and unbelievable, but also making them only as interesting and convincing as the teller. That’s why, despite being blackballed by the industry, without a major-label recording contract, heads still gravitated to Jamaica, Queens’ realest son, 50 Cent, like the planets to the sun.

Why is he famous ??

Curtis James Jackson commonly known by his rap name 50 Cent or Fiddy Cent, is an African-American gangsta rapper, who rose to fame following the success of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and The Massacre. 50 Cent achieved multi-platinum success with both albums, selling around 15 million albums worldwide. Jackson is known for his gangsta image, and prides himself on having been shot nine times and surviving the ordeal.

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