50 Cent, The Journey to Famous
50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was born on July 6, 1975 in South Jamaica, Queens. He did not know her father and mother Sabrina is just fifteen when she gave birth to him.
His mother was a drug dealer and slain in 1988 at the age of 25, so Curtis was living with his grandparents.
At the age of twelve he began making drugs in a crack epidemic in 1980. He said he never smoked just to sell.
On June 29, 1994, he was arrested for helping to four vials of cocaine to sell to undercover police. He was arrested again three weeks later after police searched his home and found drugs. He was sentenced to nine years in prison, but managed to accomplish in six months to a boot camp.
50 Cent 1 began rapping around 1996 in the basement of a friend he turntables to record over the instrument. It was the same year a friend introduced him to Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC, who founded his own label.
Jay taught him to count bars, write choruses, structure songs, and how to take notes. Jam Master Jay Curtis credits to help the ability to write hooks improve.
Jam Master Jay has worked with 50 Cent of the first album to produce, but it was never released.
Jackson’s popularity began to rise with the underground single “How to Rob,” which he claims he wrote in half hour in the car on the way to the studio. The song was very controversial, and explain how they rob famous artists.
On May 24, 2000 he was shot nine times outside his grandmother’s house in South Jamaica, Queens. He was hospitalized for thirteen days and managed to fully recover within five months.
While in the hospital, he had signed a deal with Columbia Records, but his song “Ghetto Koran” and put the black in the recording industry.
So he went to Canada and Canada took more than thirty songs for mixtapes, which he did for the purpose of building a reputation.
That was in 2002 that Eminem listened to a copy of the 50′s Guess Who’s Back CD. Given to him by Jackson lawyer with Eminem’s manager Paul Rosenberg worked at that time.
Eminem was so impressed that he invited Curtis to fly to Los Angeles, which he did and he was introduced to Dr. Dre. He signed a $ 1 million record deal and the rest as they say is history.
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