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Wikipedia Summary for 50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, television producer, and businessman. Known for his impact in the hip hop industry, he has been described as a "master of the nuanced art of lyrical brevity".
Born in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Jackson began selling drugs at age 12 during the 1980s crack epidemic. He later began pursuing a musical career and in 2000 he produced Power of the Dollar for Columbia Records, but days before the planned release he was shot and the album was never released. In 2002, after 50 Cent released the compilation album Guess Who's Back?, he was discovered by Eminem and signed to Shady Records, under the aegis of Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.
With the aid of Eminem and Dr. 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. In 2003, he founded G-Unit Records, signing his G-Unit associates Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. 50 Cent had similar commercial and critical success with his second album, The Massacre, which was released in 2005. He underwent musical changes by his fifth album, Animal Ambition (2014), and is currently working on his sixth studio album. He executive-produced and starred in the television series Power (2014–2020) and is slated to produce its spin-offs.50 Cent has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and won several awards, including a Grammy Award, thirteen Billboard Music Awards, six World Music Awards, three American Music Awards and four BET Awards. As an actor, Jackson appeared in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), the war film Home of the Brave (2006), and the crime thriller film Righteous Kill (2008). 50 Cent was ranked the sixth-best artist of the 2000s and the third-best rapper (behind Eminem and Nelly) by Billboard. Rolling Stone ranked Get Rich or Die Tryin' and "In da Club" in its lists of the "100 Best Albums of the 2000s" and "100 Best Songs of the 2000s" at numbers 37 and 13, respectively.
Show no love, cause love will get you killed.
I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading because I know where I've been.
Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.
When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other.
It's Fifty, not Fiddy.
I have a romantic side.
Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.
Sleep is for those who are broke.
The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.
Being broke is against my religion.
Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.
If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.
Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.
Show no love, cause love will get you killed.
I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'
Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.
Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.
I wanted to do something as an extension of my passion for music. My aim for the STREET by 50 On-Ear Wired Headphone range is to present music as it's meant to be heard, in studio-mastered sound.
I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.
It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better.
There had to be a better way -- if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.
I'm a track star running through life, chasing my dream.
I make music cuz it's almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music. I don't do nothin but make music.
I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.
Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.
Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are.
Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.
Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.
I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.
I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.
Anybody who says that money don't change you -- they only say that because they don't make enough.
Success is my drug of choice.
The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.
When I nearly died it made me think -- this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.
50 Cent is a metaphor for change. But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.
My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.
The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.
Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.
What comes around goes around.
For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.
Now I am in to fat chains, sex and techs, fly new chicks, new kicks,
I love you like a fat kid love cake.
Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change.
I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.
When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position -- I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.
If you don't have finances to jump on opportunites or at least room to support yourself while you're tryin to move into new situations then you can't even evolve.
Look into the windows of my soul. The eyes never lie, they bloodshot red.
My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.
If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.
I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that.
I've been patiently waiting to blow!
Real man is someone who handles his responsibilities. Take care of all of his responsibilities. No matter how, by any means take care of your situations.
I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.
God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.
My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.
If I didn't smell so good would you still hug me?
You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest,
I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest,
Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest.
Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.
Get Rich or Die Tryin. That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.
When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?
I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.
Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the President is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?
If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?
The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around -- to defeat an opponent and lift you up.
I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.
When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.
God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana.
Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.
Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.
What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.
If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.
I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.
You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.
My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it.
You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house
And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth
Cause I'll break your face.
I love you like a fat kid love cake.
Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.
Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain.
Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain.
Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard;
It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.
Death must be easy cuz life is hard.
If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.
At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.
I need you. I need you to hate, so I can use you for your energy.
I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.
A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.
I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.
Everybody mad when their paper don't stack right.
Get rich or die tryin'.
I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.
I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.
I have less compassion than the average human.
People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.
I'm really sensitive. And they don't understand that, because my most comfortable feeling is anger. So I'll get angry if you said something to hurt my feelings or you're making me uncomfortable, I'll get angry, and be ready to do something about it.