„Eu quero me encontrar com George Bush, apertar sua mão e dizer a ele o quanto de mim eu vejo nele.“
— 50 Cent
Em 2005, para a GQ Magazine.
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50 Cent
Data de nascimento: 6. Julho 1975
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Curtis James Jackson III, mais conhecido pelo seu nome artístico 50 Cent , é um rapper, ator, diretor, roteirista e empresário norte-americano. Ficou conhecido com o lançamento dos álbuns Get Rich or Die Tryin' e The Massacre . Get Rich or Die Tryin' obteve a certificação de platina seis vezes pela RIAA e vendeu cerca de 13 milhões de cópias em todo o mundo. Seu disco The Massacre foi certificado cinco vezes pela RIAA e vendeu 11 milhões de cópias.Nascido em South Jamaica, Queens, Jackson iniciou no tráfico de droga com onze anos, durante a epidemia do crack da década de 1980. Depois de deixar o tráfico de drogas para começar uma carreira no rap, ele foi baleado por nove tiros durante um incidente em 2000, depois de tal acontecimento Jackson recebeu uma operação médica de alto risco, apesar que isso indicaria que o atirador era alguém a quem Jackson estava devendo dinheiro por drogas. Após o lançamento do álbum Guess Who's Back?, Jackson foi descoberto pelo rapper Eminem e assinou contrato com a Interscope Records. Com ajuda de Eminem e de Dr. Dre, que produziu o seu primeiro maior sucesso comercial, 50 Cent tornou-se um dos rappers com mais vendas no planeta. Em 2003, fundou a G-Unit Records, com seus parceiros do grupo G-Unit: Tony Yayo, Young Buck e Lloyd Banks.
50 Cent envolveu-se em várias brigas e discussões com outros rappers, incluindo Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Cam'ron, Rick Ross e os ex-membros do G-Unit The Game e Young Buck. Ele também prosseguiu na carreira de ator, atuando no filme semi-autobiográfico Fique Rico ou Morra Tentando, em 2005, A Volta dos Bravos, em 2006, e As Duas Faces da Lei, em 2008; e em 2012, participou de um episódio do spin-off da série Bones, The Finder. Nesse ano, sua fortuna foi acrescida em 150 milhões de dólares, o que faz ele ser considerado o rapper mais bem-sucedido financeiramente daquele ano. Em 2009, 50 Cent foi escolhido como o sexto melhor artista da década e o sexto mais bem-sucedido entre 2000-2009 pela revista estadunidense Billboard. A Billboard também o nomeou como o melhor cantor de rap deste período.
Citações 50 Cent
„That watch is nice! That's what you bought for me?“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005), Ski Mask Way
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„There'll be no white flags, and no peace talk.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003), Heat
„I want to explain my environment to those who don't come any closer to it than the records they buy or the images they see on television. People want the truth. Even if they can't handle it, they want it. I let you know that I survived nine bullets not to sell records, but because it's the truth. Every time I sit down for an interview, I'm asked, "Well, 50, how did it feel to get shot nine times?" But those stories don't hold the weight, the pain, or the hope of my experience. It just can't. This is my mindset and these are the things that go on. This is why I say the rhymes that I say. This is what happened when I was trying to get rich before I died in Southside Queens.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens (2005), Extract of From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens http://aalbc.com/reviews/50_cent_interview.htm.
„Sometimes, I sit back and look at life from a different angle. Don't know if I'm God's child, or I'm Satan's angel.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005), I'm Supposed to Die Tonight
„Go ahead, switch the style up. If niggas hate, then let them hate and watch the money pile up.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin (2003), In Da Club
„When that window rolls down and that A. K. comes out? You can squeeze your little handgun, until you run out.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003), Heat
„In 2002, if you asked me to make a wish? I simply would've wished that my music would be a hit.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005), I'm Supposed to Die Tonight
„I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003), Don't Push Me
„Have a baby by me, baby, be a millionaire.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, Before I Self Destruct (2009), Baby By Me
„The mis-perception is gangster 50. That's the biggest misconception. Because, I can be those things that people – I have a reputation. My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do. Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.“
— 50 Cent
Interview: 50 Cent http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/647/647683p1.html. IGN. 6 September 2005.
„I came from the bottom of the bottom. It's hard for a lot of people to comprehend my story – a lot of people just don't get me because they haven't experienced it. I came from the bottom and I have risen up and I have changed but I have never forgotten.“
— 50 Cent
From his interview with Louis Gannon for Live magazine, The Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, 25 October 2009.
„I had his poster on my wall. He had me moonwalking around my bedroom. I'd love to have written any Michael Jackson song, so maybe start with one of the greatest.“
— 50 Cent
As quoted in "Soundtrack of my life" (1 October 2015), by Gavin Haynes, NME, p. 48
„They say I walk around like I've got an 'S' on my chest. No, that's a semi-auto and a vest on my chest.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003), What Up Gangsta
„Being broke is against my religion.“
— 50 Cent
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005), Ryder Music
