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15 Things You Don’t Know about 50 Cent
- His mother gave birth to him at the age of 15
- 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
- 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.
- His album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ has been certified eight times platinum by the RIAA
- 50 Cent began drug dealing at the age of twelve
- After leaving drug dealing to pursue a rap career, he was shot at and struck by nine bullets during an incident in 2000
- He was signed by Eminem to Interscope Records in 2002
- 50 Cent was ranked as the sixth-best artist of the 2000s by Billboard magazine
- At age eleven, Jackson started boxing
- In the mid-1980s, Jackson competed in the Junior Olympics as an amateur boxer.
- At the age of sixteen, he was caught by metal detectors at Andrew Jackson High School.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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”.
- In 2007, Jackson was the second wealthiest performer in the rap industry, behind Jay-Z
