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This article was from the August 2007 issue of Blender magazine
1) HIS MOTHER DEALT DRUGS TO SUPPORT HIM. Sabrina Jackson gave birth to Curtis on July 8th, 1975. She was 15. "She wanted to provide for me, but she didnt see Burger King as an option." 50 says. "She found another means: Hustling." His grandmother would mind him for weeks on end. "My momma substituted presents for time: Everytime I see her it was christmas." 2)SHE TOLD HIM HED BEEN AN IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. "One day I asked her, 'Mama, why dont I have a father?" he recalls. "She said, 'You was an Immaculate conception, like Jesus,' She was just trying to make me feel special. 3) TO THIS DAY, HES NEVER MET HIS FATHER "I dont know how he was, and I have no interest in knowing," he says. "I mean, its a source of regret. He could have helped me in life. But that period has passed." 4) BEFORE HE WAS 50 CENT, HE WAS A BOO-BOO "My aunt used to say, 'Come here, Boo-Boo!' and it just stuck. "Was it hard to command respect on the streets with a name so cuddly? "Its scarier that way," 50 says. "If someone calls themselves Terminator, youre like, 'Yeah right!" 5) IN 1994, HE WAS SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR POSSESSION OF 280 GRAMS OF CRACK AND 4 OUNCES OF HEROIN. To avoid hard time, he enrolled in New Yorks Shock Incarceration program: boot camp for felons. For six months upstate, he awoke at 5:30 am, did push-ups on his knuckles and sawed trees. 6) HIS MOM SWUNG BOTH WAYS. 50 cent recalls: "I aint see males around my mom. My mama liked women. But I would never see anything that would make me think something sexual was going on. It didnt dawn on me till later." 7) WHEN 50 WAS 8, HIS MOTHER WAS MURDERED. Sabrina kept her own apartment across town. In 1983, someone drugged her and turned on her gas oven, leaving her to die. "When they found her, her body was fucked up." 50 later recalled. Today, he says, "My biggest loss was my mom. Everything that went wrong was wrong because she wasnt there-if I wanted to go to the park and it started raining, it was raining because my mother wasnt there." 8) HE FOLLOWED IN HER DRUG DEALING FOOTSEPS JUST FOUR YEARS LATER. With 50, his grandparents and eight aunts and uncles all under one roof, money was tight. "Hustling was the only option," he expains. "I wasnt thinking about a career. I was looking for instant gratification." 9) HE SAYS HIS AUNTS AND UNCLES WERE HIS FIRST CUSTOMERS... "Theyd have parties, and at the time, cocain was like marijuana-it was common. Id say, "Yo, Ill go pick it up for you" then run to the side of the house where I put it in a little bag. It went from there to me husling from 3-6pm everyday. My grandparents thought I was in an after-school program" 10) ...BUT ONE UNCLES ADDICTION ALMOST GOT 50 KILLED A complaint kept arising-his bags were light. He says he discovered his uncle Star had been dipping into his stash. "If the guys I had been selling light bags to thought I was cheating them on purpose, they would have killed me," he later wrote in his autobiography. He beat his uncle with a giant wooden fork in reprisal. "To this day, Star and I dont speak much." 11) EVEN WITHOUT GIANT UTENSILS, HE PACKED A KILLER RIGHT HOOK. When 50 was 14, an older neighborhood dealer opened up a small boxing gym for local kids. "When I wasnt killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip." 50 recalled. He took what he learned in the ring ou onto the streets: "At the slightest infraction, I was punching someone in the face." 12) HE LOST HIS VIRGINITY AT AGE 12. "It went well- I was 12 and she was 21!" he says, grinning. "I spent a night at my friends house, and his sister had her friend staying over, too. So I started to touch on her. I was a horny little dog, and I got away with it." 13) HIS SECRET STASH SPOT? WOMENS PANTIES! One morning, when he was 19, 50 was out hustling with the help of a girlfriend when the cops swooped in. "When they searched her, they found 36 vials of crack and 12 packs of heroin in her underwear," he later recalled. 14) THE STREETS WERE 50'S BUSINESS SCHOOL. THERE WERE HOSTILE TAKEOVERS... At Shock, 50 met a stick-up kid from Brooklyn named Jah. "When we got out, I brought him into my are to rob all the dealers who werent part of my group. I said, 'You can have all the money, just give me their pieces." 15) ...SPECIAL PROMOTIONS... "I would take the pieces from Jah and give them away free with every purchase. So even if the fiends catch a sale with someone else, they would go, 'Nah, I can get this for free." 16) ...AND MARKET SATURATION "When theres money to be made, theres no hours, no going home," 50 says. "In the music business, I adapt the same concepts. When its not 50 Cents album, its the G-Unit album. When its not Young Buck, its LLoyd Banks. Im here constantly." 17) HIS NEXT BRUSH WITH THE LAW INVOLVED A HIGH-SPEED MOTOR CYCLE CHASE-AND CROSS DRESSING. Shortly after his release, 50 was mistaken for a murder suspect who owned a motorcycle similar to his. When a squad car tried to stop 50 on Queens Guy Brewer Boulevard, he fled, escaping only after several squad cars and a helicopter had given chase. He snuck into his grandmothers house, donned a dress and a wig, and slipped pas patrolmen outside. "They must have been like, 'Damn, thats an Ugly bitch," 50 jokes. The real murderer was apprehended later that day. 18) HES A PRETTY EASY GOING DAD. Does 50 let 10 year old Marquise listen to his music?" Of course. If I say something a little racy, Ill be like, 'You know what that means?' and he'll be like, 'Yeah.' He already knows. The kids know. The problem is that their parents arent asking them the questions. I went into his room the other night and he was on this porno site, big booty girls. He was like, 'I just clicked a link!' kids are gonna be kids man." 19) A QUEENS HIP HOP LEGEND GAVE HIM HIS BIG BREAK The same year Marquise was born, in 1997, 50 Cent met Run DMCs Jam Master Jay at a club. A childhood fan of Rakim, 50 had written only one rhyme, in 1995 for fun- "I dont remember itexactly, but it was street," he says. Jay was impressed by his singsong delivery and by his story, and brought 50 into his fold. 20) WELL IT WAS ALMOST HIS BIG BREAK Things moved quickly: Jay brought 50 to the attention of Columbia Records, they signed him, he recorded an album, then.....nothing. "When I met Jay, I wasnt a starving artist," 50 says. "But right after I committed to music I starved." 21) HE BECAME A PAPA IN 1997-AND STARTED WORKING ON HIS CRACK GAME EXIT STRAGETY. When then girlfriend Shaniqua Tomkins gave birth to his son Marquise, 50 quit dealing. As he puts it: "My mamas motivation to get into the game was my motivation to get out." 22) OK SCRATCH THAT, A PAID ASSASSIN GAVE HIM HIS BIG BREAK. On may 24, 2000 a gunman shot 50 Cent 9 times in front of his grandmothers house. In his autobiography, 50 hints that the hit came about because hed insulted drug kingpin Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff. But when asked explicitly in interviews about McGriffs involvement, 50 has demurred. Either way, he was hospitalized, Columbia dropped him-and, unbeknownst to him, his glorious future was guarenteed. 23) HIS NEXT MENTOR WAS..."WEIRD AL"? With a head full of new rhymes and no label to release them, 50 Cent turned to New Yorks mix-tape circuit. Instead of filling the samizdat titles with throwaway rhymes, he approached them like albums: "I wrote my freestyles in song format." He also recorded parodies of hits. As he put it later, " I took the Weird Al Yankovic approach." 24) AFTER HE GOT SHOT, HE BEGAN WEARING A BULLETPROOF VEST-AND STILL WEARS ONE TODAY When 50 started booking shows, advertising his whereabouts made him nervous. "I wore a vest 'cause I knew it could pop off," he explains. During 50s first tour, Marquise wore one, too. 25) EMINEM HEARD ONE OF 50'S MIXTAPES, FLEW HIM TO L.A AND, WITH DR DR DRE, SIGNED HIM TO A MILLION-DOLLAR DEAL. "I was at the airport to go see them when my vest set off the metal detector," 50 recalls. A TSA supervisor whod heard his songs let him through anyway. "If they hadnt let me take the vest, I probably wouldnt have gone." 26) HIS IS THE FASTEST SELLING DEBUT ALBUM OF ALL TIME In its first week, 2003s Get Rich or Die Trying sold nearly 900,000 copies-and did again in week two. 27) HES AVAILABLE FOR BAR MITZVAHS! "The last Bar Mitzvah I booked, I got paid $500,000 for 30 minutes," 50 explains. "Thats not a fixed rate, but its in the ballpark." 28) HE COLLECTS HIS OWN BRAND OF SNEAKERS "I got 500 pairs," he says. " All G-Unit. A bunch of different colors, limited editions. Tony Yayo is a size over me, but he'll squeeze his feet into mine and borrow them." 29) HE LIKES GEORGE BUSH After Kanye West railed on Dubya post-Katrina, 50 defended the prez, calling him a "Gangsta" 30) HE KEEPS HIS MOST REVEALING MUSIC FOR HIMSELF On 2005s "Hate it or Love it," 50 rapped about his mothers bisexuality-but that was an exception. "You dont want to be too complex," he says. "I have records that I wrote for myself, and theyre playing on my computer at home. Sort of like a diary. But Im not gonna waste the publics time with them" 31) HES BUDDIES WITH ROBER DE NIRO 50s burgeoning acting career has been respectable-the autobiographical Get Rich or Try Dying; the war flick Home of the Brave-if not spectacularly successful. But his biggest role yet is ahead of him, starring opposite of De Niro in the upcoming thriller 'New Orleans'. He invited me to his house-gave me the De Niro look, sizing me up," 50 says. "But I passed the test." 32) HIS NEW ALBUM HAS ONE HELL OF A GUEST LIST 'Curtis' which 50 says will include several returns to the street-hardened, wisecracking "old 50" also features collaborations with Akon, Nicole Scherzinger, Robin Thicke, Mary J Blige and Justin Timberlake. "Basically its one fo my best pieces of work." 50 explains. 33) NEXT STOP:RETIREMENT! ...Sort of. 50 has alluded to leaving rap behind once his five-record contract expires. "Ill put out albums like Dre, every five years or every seven," he clarifies. "I enjoy rapping, but thres so much more out there." (Source) Blender Magazine, August 2007 Issue |
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props on dis 4 real.a real good read
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If fifty retires I'm gonna miss seeing that sexy face and those hott lips!!!!....
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lol he talks so much shit, "lost virginity at a age of 12" not many people can even cuum at 12 any ways besides that which 21 yr old dog would fuk a 12 yr old rofl enuff wit bullshit boooboo
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propzzzzzzzzz
good shit
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recycled information but thanks
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HE KEEPS HIS MOST REVEALING MUSIC FOR HIMSELF
On 2005s "Hate it or Love it," 50 rapped about his mothers bisexuality-but that was an exception. "You dont want to be too complex," he says. "I have records that I wrote for myself, and theyre playing on my computer at home. Sort of like a diary. But Im not gonna waste the publics time with them" I want to hear that shit.
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rhis shits older then a mother
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lol at number 18.yeah whatever marquise he knew what he was doing.
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i like this stuff about 50.
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