He reveled in his oft-told past, he called out wannabe gangstas, and he made headlines. Of course, such experiences became 50 Cents rhetorical stock-in-trade. The product of a broken home in the rough Jamaica neighborhood of Queens and, in turn, the storied hoods hustling streets themselves, 50 Cent lived everything most rappers write rhymes about but not all actually experience: drugs, crimes, imprisonments, stabbings, and most infamously of all, shootings. 50 Cent Bulletproof Mixtape Crack Trade Provedįollowing an unsuccessful late-90s run at mainstream success (foiled by an attempt on his life in 2000) and a successful run on the New York mixtape circuit (driven by his early-2000s bout with Ja Rule), Eminem signed 50 Cent to a seven-figure contract in 2002 and helmed his quick rise toward crossover success in 2003.
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