Jackson's first appearance was on " React" with Onyx, for their 1998 album Shut 'Em Down.
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Jay taught him how to count bars, write choruses, structure songs, and make records. In 1996, a friend introduced him to Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC, who was establishing Jam Master Jay Records. Jackson began rapping in a friend's basement, where he used turntables to record over instrumentals. I provide for myself by any means." Career 1996–2002: Rise to fame, shooting, and early mixtapes The name was inspired by Kelvin Martin, a 1980s Brooklyn robber known as "50 Cent" Jackson chose it "because it says everything I want it to say.
Jackson adopted the nickname "50 Cent" as a metaphor for change. He has said that he did not use cocaine himself. Although Jackson was sentenced to three to nine years in prison, he served six months in a boot camp and earned his GED.
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He was arrested again three weeks later, when police searched his home and found heroin, ten ounces of crack cocaine, and a starting pistol. On June 29, 1994, Jackson was arrested for selling four vials of cocaine to an undercover police officer. I was telling my grandmother, 'I sell drugs.'" After I got arrested I stopped hiding it. In the tenth grade, he was caught by metal detectors at Andrew Jackson High School: "I was embarrassed that I got arrested like that .
I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ." Īt age 12, Jackson began dealing narcotics when his grandparents thought he was in after-school programs and brought guns and drug money to school. "I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too . "When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip," Jackson remembered. He began boxing at about age 11, and when he was 14, a neighbor opened a boxing gym for local youth. After his mother's death and his father's departure, Jackson was raised by his grandmother. Jackson revealed in an interview that his mother was a lesbian. A drug dealer, Sabrina raised Jackson until she died in a fire when Jackson was 8. Jackson was born in the borough of Queens, New York City, and raised in its South Jamaica neighborhood by his mother Sabrina.
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He executive-produced and starred in the television series Power (2014–2020) and is slated to produce its spin-offs. He underwent musical changes by his fifth album, Animal Ambition (2014), and is currently working on his sixth studio album. 50 Cent had similar commercial and critical success with his second album, The Massacre, which was released in 2005. In 2003, he founded G-Unit Records, signing his G-Unit associates Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. Dre (who produced his first major-label album Get Rich or Die Tryin'), 50 Cent became one of the world's best selling rappers and rose to prominence as de facto leader of East Coast hip hop group G-Unit. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. In 2002, after 50 Cent released the mixtape Guess Who's Back?, he was discovered by Eminem and signed to Shady Records, under the aegis of Dr. He later began pursuing a musical career, and in 2000 he produced Power of the Dollar for Columbia Records however, days before the planned release, he was shot, and the album was never released. īorn in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Jackson began selling drugs at age 12 during the 1980s crack epidemic. Known for his impact in the hip hop industry, he has been described as a "master of the nuanced art of lyrical brevity". Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor and entrepreneur.
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