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15 Things You Don’t Know about 50 Cent

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  1. His mother gave birth to him at the age of  15
  2. 50 Cent stated that his mother worked as a cocaine dealer and was a lesbian . His verse on Game’s Hate it or Love “”Coming up I was confused, my mommy kissing a girl” refers to his mother’s sexuality
  3. n 1983, she became unconscious after having consumed a drugged drink and eventually died as a result of the gas in her apartment turned on amidst closed windows.
  4. His album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ has been certified eight times platinum by the RIAA
  5. 50 Cent began drug dealing at the age of twelve
  6. After leaving drug dealing to pursue a rap career, he was shot at and struck by nine bullets during an incident in 2000
  7. He was signed by Eminem to Interscope Records in 2002
  8. 50 Cent was ranked as the sixth-best artist of the 2000s by Billboard magazine
  9. At age eleven, Jackson started boxing
  10. In the mid-1980s, Jackson competed in the Junior Olympics as an amateur boxer.
  11. At the age of sixteen, he was caught by metal detectors at Andrew Jackson High School.
  12. He adopted the nickname “50 Cent” as a metaphor for “change”. The name was derived from Kelvin Martin, a Brooklyn robber known as “50 Cent”. Jackson chose the name “because it says everything I want it to say. I’m the same kind of person 50 Cent was. I provide for myself by any means”.
  13. On May 24, 2000, Jackson was attacked by a gunman, alleged to be Darryl “Hommo” Baum, outside his grandmother’s former home in South Jamaica, Queens. He went into a friend’s car, but was asked to return to the house to get jewelry.
  14. The birth of Jackson’s son Marquise changed his outlook on life. He stated: “When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn’t have with my father.”] He credited his son for inspiring his career and being “motivation to go in a different direction”.
  15. In 2007, Jackson was the second wealthiest performer in the rap industry, behind Jay-Z

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