![]() A trio of singles preceded the album's proposed release: "Your Life's on the Line," "Thug Love" (featuring Destiny's Child), and "How to Rob." The latter generated a significant buzz, attracting a lot of attention for its baiting lyrics, which detail how 50 Cent would rob specific big-name rappers. Trackmasters signed the rapper to their Columbia sublabel and began work on his debut album, Power of the Dollar. ![]() Not much resulted from the deal, though, and 50 Cent affiliated himself with Trackmasters, a commercially successful New York-based production duo known for their work with such artists as Nas and Jay-Z. Impressed by what he heard, Jay signed the aspiring rapper to his JMJ Records label. ![]() His break came in 1996 when he met Run-D.M.C.'s Jam Master Jay, who gave him a tape of beats and asked him to rap over it. It's around this point in time that he traded crime for hip-hop. 50 CENT GUN JAM CRACKThe crack trade proved lucrative for 50 Cent, until he eventually encountered the law, that is, and got arrested repeatedly in 1994. As a teen, he followed the lead of his mother and began hustling. His hustler mother passed away when he was only eight, and his father departed soon after, leaving his grandmother to parent him. By the time of his third album (Curtis, 2007), however, 50 Cent faced a formidable backlash, particularly among hip-hop purists, who were displeased by his turn toward crossover pop-rap and thus away from street-level credibility.īorn Curtis James Jackson III on July 6, 1975, and raised in Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York City, 50 Cent grew up in a broken home. He helped his G-Unit crew grow into a successful franchise, spawning platinum-selling solo albums for his group members, lucrative licensing deals for the brand name, and sell-out arena tours to promote the franchise internationally. And too, 50 Cent didn't forget about his posse. As a result, his music crossed over to the pop market, appealing to both those who liked his roughneck posturing and rags-to-riches story as well as those who liked his knack for churning out naughty singalong club tracks. But all-importantly, 50 Cent may have fit the mold of a prototypical hardcore rapper, but he could also craft a catchy hook. He even looked like the ideal East Coast hardcore rapper: big-framed with oft-showcased biceps, abs, and tattoos as well as his trademark bulletproof vest, pistol, and iced crucifix. He reveled in his oft-told past, he called out wannabe gangstas, and he made headlines. Of course, such experiences became 50 Cent's rhetorical stock-in-trade. The product of a broken home in the rough Jamaica neighborhood of Queens and, in turn, the storied hood's hustling streets themselves, 50 Cent lived everything most rappers write rhymes about but not all actually experience: drugs, crimes, imprisonments, stabbings, and most infamously of all, shootings. ![]() Following an unsuccessful late-'90s run at mainstream success (foiled by an attempt on his life in 2000) and a successful run on the New York mixtape circuit (driven by his early-2000s bout with Ja Rule), Eminem signed 50 Cent to a seven-figure contract in 2002 and helmed his quick rise toward crossover success in 2003. f_ the COs f_ all of 'em makin' money off of n_s They just mad Yayo Cause they can't make no more money off you They was makin' a percentage off your head every day in there Now you makin' off of them f_ 'em YayoĬledus T.Though he would later struggle with the nature of his fame as well as market expectations, 50 Cent endured substantial obstacles throughout his young yet remarkably dramatic life before becoming the most discussed figure in rap, if not pop music in general, circa 2003. You screamin' ya gun jam n_ your gun ain't jam They let off ya b_ a_ ran You screamin' ya gun jam I know your type fam You p_ I understand You screamin' your gun jam You run when the shots fire You scared the f_ to death of that hollowtip diet Intensive Care Unit after n_s get sprayed up Jamaica Hospital third floor when you layed up Make sure your bills get paid up So its nine one one When you see my gun I'm popular n_ the police know me Just cause of this rap s_ i'm rich now homie Man when you not around I got your b_ all on me She want to be my wife now She like my lifestyle My shotty b_pin' its the sweetest taboo I play something smooth when I stunt in my coupe Ooooooo you know these n_s ain't like me Everything I say I got in these raps I got bee The cars, the cribs, the jewels, the tools The nines, the Tecs, the Macs ooooooo The burners the gats man if you confused I'll send a n_ from my hood to put a hole in you I rock G Unit hats, hoodies and shoes Got "G Unit" tatted on my b_ too I drink G Unit water watchin' G Unit p_ This is Shade 45 n_ G Unit on Yeah this is just my intro Its serious man this is Sirius Radio right here GGGGG Unit Radio Shady ha ha ha Just givin' 'em a little somethin' somethin' ![]()
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