50 Cent

50 Cent’s legacy as an entertainment icon was launched through the art form of rap. Growing up, the Queens, New York native started to experiment with music outside of regular hobbies. Around 1996, he aligned himself in Run-D.M.C.’s Jam Master Jay, who essentially taught 50 how to structure a record and more specifically, lace hooks. He eventually landed a deal with Columbia Records and went on to create his debut album, Power of the Dollar, in 2000. On the effort is a record called “How To Rob,” which tells a fictional story about then-popular rappers getting their pockets run. The track came out and bolted 50 into popularity, though the album didn’t.

Around that time, 50 Cent was ambushed outside of his grandmother’s house, where he was shot nine times. He was dropped by Columbia, but continued to work with his G-Unit collective cooking up music. He infiltrated the mixtape market with efforts like Guess Who’s Back? (2002), releasing his own iterations of popular rap songs at the moment. Soon after that, Eminem was put onto 50 as an artist and signed him to Shady Records through Dr. Dre’s Aftermath label. Fif’s label debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, a project led by singles like “In Da Club,” "Many Men (Wish Death)" and "21 Questions." The chart-topping project nearly went platinum in the first week, solidifying Fif as a superstar. A respective movie and video game proved that as well.

He continued to grind through the 2000s, releasing multiplatinum-selling projects like The Massacre, which spent over a month at the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s 200 chart, radio dominant singles like “Candy Shop” and “How We Do” and stretching his solo and G-Unit brand’s reach to video game, fashion and TV spaces. Moving onto the 2010s, his music releases slowed down, but his business ventures shot up with minted endeavors with Branson Cognac, Le Chemin du Roi, Effen Vodka (previously) and of course his television takeover through his production company Green Light that aligned him with networks like Starz.

These days, Fif is rising the ranks as an entertainment role by overseeing some of the most popular shows on TV with BMF and Power, plus he has everything from movies to cartoons coming out in the near future. His music career was more than successful, as he’s accumulated a room full of plaques that are near diamond, and made rap history for dropping some of the most successful and respected rap songs/albums to date. His track record in the TV space should be just as interesting when it’s all said and done.

50 Cent, Busta Rhymes And Mobb Deep Take An Epic Selfie
50 Cent, Busta Rhymes And Mobb Deep Take An Epic Selfie
50 Cent, Busta Rhymes And Mobb Deep Take An Epic Selfie
50 Cent, Busta Rhymes and Mobb Deep got together for an epic selfie last night, taking a page from Ellen DeGeneres's Oscar selfie, last night at Red Bull Studios NY. The photo was snapped during an event for the release of Mobb Deep's new album, The Infamous Mobb Deep...
50 Cent Flies A Plane In New Video
50 Cent Flies A Plane In New Video
50 Cent Flies A Plane In New Video
50 Cent comes forth with the third visual from his highly anticipated upcoming album. Now unveiling the "Pilot" video, the mogul shows off his stuntin' status not only a passenger on a private jet but actually flying it, as the plane's captain...
50 Cent Says Interscope Turned Into Beats Records
50 Cent Says Interscope Turned Into Beats Records
50 Cent Says Interscope Turned Into Beats Records
50 Cent left Shady Records/Aftermath and Interscope in Feb. for freedom. In a interview with MTV News, 50 expounded on his recent Forbes intertiew where he said  “There’s no artist that has a marketing budget supporting what they’re actually doing that doesn’t have Beats headphones in the actual visual to support that brand, that company.” He told MTV that Interscope Tur...
Best Hip-Hop Tweets Of The Week 3/16-3/22
Best Hip-Hop Tweets Of The Week 3/16-3/22
Best Hip-Hop Tweets Of The Week 3/16-3/22
From YG releasing his long-awited debut album to 50 Cent making news headlines everywhere, this week on Twitter was certainly live. As Drake also began to wrap up his tour, Dr. Dre assisted Jon Connor in launching Connor Season, and Azealia Banks threatened to leak her album; things on the social site got quite crazy...
50 Cent Was Once Banned From Using SMS Audio At Interscope
50 Cent Was Once Banned From Using SMS Audio At Interscope
50 Cent Was Once Banned From Using SMS Audio At Interscope
Now that 50 Cent has gone indie, more details are surfacing around the Interscope/G-Unit break up. After already unveiling that both parties parted ways peacefully, 50 Cent goes on to add that their was a tab bit of an audio war going on behind the scenes...
Steve Stoute Once Told 50 Cent Not To Sign With Eminem
Steve Stoute Once Told 50 Cent Not To Sign With Eminem
Steve Stoute Once Told 50 Cent Not To Sign With Eminem
Following the heated encounter at MSG, both 50 Cent and Steve Stoute were mum on the topic. However, 50 came forth speaking on the matter stating that their beef stems much deeper than recent events. Even though Stoute now opts to throw jabs at 50's career, Steve was once trying to give an up and coming Fif advice...
50 Cent Hits The Club In “Don’t Worry Bout It” Video
50 Cent Hits The Club In “Don’t Worry Bout It” Video
50 Cent Hits The Club In “Don’t Worry Bout It” Video
50 Cent follows up dropping the second visual off of his upcoming album. Delivering the video for "Don't Worry Bout It", Fif takes fans back to his "In Da Club" days as him and his boys tear the club up in the clip. "Don't Worry Bout It" is off of Animal Ambition...

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