2002–present: Rise to fame"In da Club"The breakthrough single from Get Rich or Die Tryin'.Problems listening to this file? See media help.In 2002, Eminem listened to a copy of 50 Cent's Guess Who's Back?...
2000–2001: Shooting On May 24, 2000, 50 Cent was attacked by a gunman, alleged to be Darryl "Hommo" Baum, outside his grandmother's former home in South Jamaica, Queens. He went into a friend's car, but...
1996–2000: Early career50 Cent started rapping in a friend's basement where he used turntables to record over instrumentals. In 1996, a friend introduced him to Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC who was organizing...
Early life50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson III, grew up in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City. He grew up without a father and was raised by his mother, Sabrina, who gave birth to him...