50 Cent

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50 Cent born Curtis Jackson 26 years ago is the real deal, the genuine article. He's a man of the streets, intimately familiar with its codes and its violence, but still, 50 Cent, an incredibly intelligent and deliberate man, holds himself with a regal air as if above the pettiness which surrounds him. Couple his true-life hardship with his knack for addictiveness to the game of rap and hip-hop, great hooks, it is perfectly clear that 50 Cent has exactly what it takes to ride down the road to riches and diamond rings.

50 Cent born into a notorious Queens drug dynasty during the late 70’s. Raised without a father, 50 mother died when he was 14. Now 50 was an orphaned now, father no where to be found. 50 had to live with his grandparents. His grandparents were unable to handle him in his teen years, so he was driven to the streets. 50 had no where else to go or anyone to depend on. That’s the choices we made for the life he wanted. We all have choices.

50 was known in Queens as Guy R. Brewer Blvd. On York Avenue. There 50 stepped up to amusing a small fortune and lengthy rap sheet. 50 Cent was getting into a lot of trouble. All because he didn’t have any parents, friends, relative, no one else to go to but himself. 50 later had a son. 50 Cent began to pursue rap seriously now he was determined to make it.

At JMJ, the label of Run DMC DJ Jam Master Jay, he began learning his trade. 50 learned how to count bars and structure songs. Unfortunately the death of JMJ had occurred, and there wasn’t much JMJ could do for 50. Mean while in 1999 50 was sighed by Columbia records. They shipped 50 to NY where he was locked up on drug charges. While incarcerated 50 wrote songs on how to rob people, and later late recoded in the studio with Columbia. The song blew through the roof a day dreamer of robbing famous rappers like Jay-Z, Big Bun, Sticky Fingaz, and Ghostface.

The artist later replied on the hit song toward 50 and h...