Biography of Fifty Sent
Greyer or die and The Massacre English. Born in the area of South Yamaika, Kuins, in New York 50 Cent began to trade in drugs at the return of twelve years during the CREC epidemic. After he abandons drug trafficking, to devote himself to the rapper’s career, they shoot at him 9 times a year. Using Eminem and Dr. Dre, which produced his first main commercial success, he becomes one of the best -selling rappers around the world.
The death of mother 50 is cent, grew up in the quarter of South Jamaica English. South Jamaica, the Queens district in New York. He grew up without a father, brought up by his mother Sabrina Jackson English. Sabrina Jackson, who gave birth to him at the age of fifteen. Sabrina traded cocaine. The main time of 50 cent spent with her mother’s parents, she tried to compensate for the lack of time with her son with money, as Curtis recalled: “Every time I saw her, it was something new for me.
Christmas every day. She dressed me early in jewelry. ” When Curtis was eight, someone came home with Sabrina, poured sleeping pills in her drink, closed all the windows, turned on the gas and left her to die. It was found a few days later. She died at twenty -three years. After her death, Curtis moved to the house to her parents, with his eight uncles and aunts.
She is not going to return to pick you up. Now you have to stay with us. ” Jackson grew up with his younger cousin, Michel Francis Michael Francis, who earned a nickname 25 Cent. Francis read rap under the stage pseudonym Two Five. Jackson became interested in boxing at the age of eleven. At the age of fourteen, a neighbor opens a boxing hall for local children. Subsequently, 50 cent recalled: “When I did not kill my time at school, I boxed in the hall or traded Crac on the street.
In the ring in me there was a spirit of rivalry, in hip-hop, this spirit also has a drug trade at the age of twelve years, Jackson begins to trade in drugs, while his relatives think that he disappears in optional classes at school. He took weapons and money earned on the sale of drugs with him to school. In the tenth grade, he comes across a metal detector in Andrew Jackson High School.
He later remarked: “I was confused when I got on this after I was arrested, I stopped hiding it. I openly told my family: I am selling drugs. ” Three weeks later, Curtis was detained again, after the search of his apartment by police officers who found there heroin, ten ounces of Crack and a pistol, for which he was sentenced to three years in prison, but achieved conditional release. He takes the nickname 50 Cent as a reason for "changes".
The name was taken from Kelvin Martin English. I provide myself by any means. " The start of the 50th -center career, began to read rap in the basement of a friend where he used turntables to record a minus. In, a friend introduces him to Jay Masta Jay English. This was the first time Curtis was in the studio. Jay taught him to count the tacts, write refinements, structure songs and make notes.
He trusted Jay as a mentor who helped to significantly expand his capabilities. After the 50 Cent is finishing cooperation with Jam Master Jay, the “platinum” producers of TrackMasters sign a contract with him in Columbia Records. In two weeks, he creates thirty -six songs. Eighteen of them were included in his unofficial album “Power of the Dollar” in the year. The track comically explains how he can rob famous artists.
He explained the meaning of the song as follows: “On this laible is a hundred artists, you are separated from them and become special.” The attempt on May 24, Curtis Jackson, leaving the house of his relatives in South Jamaica, Queens was attacked by unknown people. The criminals acted quickly and confidently. The rapper only managed to get into his friend’s car, as shots rang out.
One of the criminals shot the musician nine times through the car’s door that had barely closed behind him. The hand, thigh, both legs, chest, and left cheek were seriously damaged. The bullet hit on the cheek hit her tongue, knocked out a couple of teeth and almost deprived the musician of her voice. The damage was very serious and 50 urgently required hospitalization.
The wounded friend was able to deliver the musician to the hospital, where the 50 Cent immediately did the operation. Curtis stayed in the hospital for thirteen days. The rapper himself tells about this incident as follows: “It happened too quickly, I did not have a single chance to get out of this shootout by the winner, I was scared, it burns.” In his memoirs, from Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in SouthSide Queens 50 Cent writes: “After I was shot at point blank and I didn’t die, I began to think about my goal in life only a few centimeters higher and I would die.” The first four months, 50 Cente moved with crutches, and five months after leaving the hospital it completely recovered.
After that, he moved to Pokonos with his son and his girlfriend.Columbia Records, learning about the incident, terminated the contract, frightened that the rapper could not continue to make music. The musician was returned to his records and a deposit of half the amount. Thus, the musician received in his hands the finished album “Power of a Dollar” and the right to do everything he pleased with the records.
Soon the records came to the pirates who sold the disk on every corner. It included one new track, “Wanksta”, which entered the soundtrack of 8 Mile. The album had an incredible success, the popular Internet portal All Music Guide christened this most loud debut of the decade. The album immediately took the first position in Billboard, sold in copies in the first four days.
The title single in Da Club was marked by The Source, for its unique sound style, for its originality, set a record as the most listening in the history of the radio. Thus, 50 declared himself to the whole world. The rapper The Game left the group due to creative disagreements and now consists in Aftermath Entertainment. In March, 50 Cente releases the second commercial album The Massacre, which was sold 1.
Curtis became the first artist whose three single Candy Shop, Disco Inferno and How Do were simultaneously in Billboard 5 for several weeks. Bush after Kanye West criticized that the victims were assisted too slowly. The rapper said that if his criminal past did not prevent him from voting, he would vote for Bush. Later, Spider Loc, M. In September, the third commercial album Curtis is released, which was inspired by the memories of Curtis's former life, when he was not yet famous.
The album immediately after his exit took second place in Billboard, sold, copies. However, later 50 Centes denied this statement, noting that outside America his album turned out to be more sold. In the year, 50 Centes was recognized as Forbes, as the richest person in the rap industry after Jay-Z. Business 50 Cent, in addition to its musical career, is actively engaged in business.
In November, he signed a five-year contract with Reebok, according to which Reebok received the right to distribute part of the sneakers of G-Unit Clothing Company. He voiced the protagonist in the video game 50 Cent: Bulletproof, which was released by PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PlayStation Portable, will also voice the hero in the game 50 cent: Blood on the Sand that will be released on February 24.
Curtis plans to release a line of sex toys for women and a collection of condoms, which is called “condoms of a magic wand” and help people with HIV patients. In the year, 50 CENT voiced itself in the episode of Pranksta Rap, the animated series The Simpsons, in which he with humor draws public attention to his problems with the law. He also starred in the film Home of the Brave as an American soldier returning from Iraq.
He also wrote the book by The Ski Mask Way, Roman talks about the life of a small drug dealer who decided to rob his entrepreneurs, the film on this book should be shot in the year. Now he writes several new books. The media very quickly turned the personal confrontation of two rappers into the confrontation of labels. In the end, this confrontation grew into a real war into which Eminem and Dr.
Dre will help Curtis, they will regret it. Soon, in his own studio, the rapper Jam Master Jay died. From the testimonies of one of the internal income agents, the investigators suggested that the label had ties with Kenn’s “Suprim” McGriff, a New York drug lord, who, perhaps, stood behind the murder of Jam Jay and a shootout in which 50 SENT participated. An excerpt from the testimony of the Jay murder case: “The investigation established that McGriff and his accomplices were really involved in the murder of rapper Jam Mast Jay due to the fact that the texts of his songs contained lines regarding McGiff's criminal actions.
The investigation also established that Murder Inc. This track “lowered” most of the rappers, especially FAT JOE, NAS, and Jadakiss. Fat Joe also answered these attacks with a song, which is called "My Fo, Fo". Potato Head. Diddy Didi, he even recorded a track called “HIP-hop” in which he explains his dislike for these rappers.