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Real Name: Curtis James Jackson

Date of birth: July 6, 1975

50 Cent (a.k.a. Fifty or Fiddy as pronounced in African American Vernacular English, born Curtis Jackson on July 6, 1976 in Queens, New York), is a usual African American hip-hop artist. Once almost unknown outside his hometown of southside Jamaica, Queens, he is presently signed to Eminem’s record label Shady Records and Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment. The rapper, who was the initial to sign to Shady Records, was scouted before knowing Eminem. Eminem firstborn came across 50 Cent with MTV News reporter Sway Calloway; Eminem apparently had not heard any of 50 Cent’s performances before seeing him in person. He appeared on the 8 Mile soundtrack with an accompanying song and video (“Wanksta”) that without delay went into heavy rotation on BET, MTV, and radio stations all over the country. In the sentiment of a heap of observers his continued success seems guaranteed by his huge underground fanbase and the street believability he has gained by appearing on almost each major mix tape sold in New York in the past few years.

Early Life

Curtis Jackson never knew his crack cocaine-addicted father, and his mother, a bisexual Queens drug dealer working underneath “Fat Cat”, was murdered when Jackson was only eight years old. Her death had a major affect on Jackson, the degree of which is speculated over by fans, and her sexuality likewise played a key part in Jackson’s aroused growth, which he would later reference in the song “Hate It or Love It” off The Game’s album The Documentary), “Comin’ up, I was confused, my momma kissin’ a girl/ Confusion occurs, comin’ up in a cold world”. The same song also holds a mild indictment of his father’s absence, “Daddy ain’t around, in all probability out committin’ felonies”.

After his mother’s death, Jackson ended up living with his grandparents, where as a teenager he became immersed in the local drug trade. Hustling around his native Jamaica, Queens neighborhood, Jackson went by the name of “Boo Boo”. It was for the duration of this amount of time of propagating narcotics that Jackson met fellow Queens native Tony Yayo, who would later become a fellow member of Jackson’s G-Unit group. In June of 1994, Jackson was arrested on felony drug charges. Being a second time offender, Jackson was competent to plead out of substantial prison time by accepting seven months in a “shock incarceration” boot camp. He would later brag in regards to this amount of time as his doing “seven to nine.

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