- Born
- Birth nameCurtis James Jackson III
- Nicknames
- Interscope
- Fiddy
- Boo Boo
- Height1.83 m
- 50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson) is an American rapper, actor, producer, and entrepreneur.
He began 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 Jackson 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 help of Eminem and Dr. Dre (who produced his first major-label album, Get Rich or Die Tryin'), Jackson became one of the world's best selling rappers and rose to prominence with East Coast hip hop group G-Unit (which he leads de facto). In 2003, he founded G-Unit Records, signing his G-Unit associates Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. Jackson had similar commercial and critical success with his second album, The Massacre, which was released in 2005. He released his fifth studio album, Animal Ambition, in 2014 and as of 2019 is working on his sixth studio album, Street King Immortal.
During his career Jackson 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. He has pursued an acting career, appearing in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), the Iraq War film Home of the Brave (2006) and Righteous Kill (2008).- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- Children
- His mother was killed at age 23, when he was just eight years old.
- Released a series of street mixtapes (2002). They became so popular that Eminem heard them and signed him to his record label. Even after his success, 50 Cent still releases street mixtapes on a regular basis.
- Neither drinks alcohol nor smokes. 50 has stated in multiple interviews that after peddling drugs on the street for money (but never partaking himself), he saw how drugs, alcohol and smoking were adversely affecting his close relatives, so he made a conscious decision to change not only himself by finding legitimate means of making money, but also abstaining from the things that were destroying his relatives.
- His cartoon-like photo on the cover of his album "The Massacre" was meant to make him look like a Ninja Turtle, his son's favorite cartoon characters. He is also a huge fan of the cartoon, his favorite turtle being Donatello.
- His debut album "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" was the highest debut ever with 900,000 copies sold in the first week.
- In Hollywood, they say there's no business like show business. In the hood, they say there's no business like ho' business.
- I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.
- A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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