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Curtis James Jackson III, known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, television producer, record executive, and businessman. Born in Queens, a borough of New York City, Jackson began pursuing a musical career in 1996. In 1999–2000, he recorded his debut album, Power of the Dollar, for Columbia Records. During a shooting in May 2000, he was struck by nine bullets, causing its re…
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VICE: Pioneering British Rapper Who Beat 50 Cent and the Game for Historic MOBO Award Dead at 44
HotNewHipHop: 50 Cent Expands His Business Portfolio With New Casino Game “Head Crack”
DailyVoice.com: Inside The $9.9M Farmington Mansion Too Big For Mike Tyson And 50 Cent
The Economic Times: A Connecticut mansion once owned by Mike Tyson and 50 Cent has now spent another year without a buyer at $
The Guardian: TV tonight: Fightland is 50 Cent’s big and bloody boxing drama
“When your time comes, you go. I think that comes from God.”
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Island Free Press: What would Dare County’s proposed quarter-cent sales tax pay for? A closer look at the Parks and Recreation plan
The Source Magazine: Reebok and 50 Cent Bring Back Iconic G-Unit G6 Sneaker
Yahoo: 50 Cent to Executive Produce 'Payday' Series Based on Video Game Franchise
Daily Republic: American Canyon seeks voter approval for 1-cent sales tax bump
Published video “G-Unit Sneakers Return August 20th #Reebok”.
PAUSE Online: Reebok and 50 Cent Bring Back the G-Unit G6
The Sole Supplier: Reebok and 50 Cent Reunite for the Return of the G-Unit Sneaker
FloralDaily: “Drought and heat destroy 20 per cent of Belgium’s begonia crop”
XXL Mag: Diddy Countersues Rodney 'Lil Rod' Jones, Claims Producer Stole Footage for 50 Cent's Netflix Documentary
Billboard: Diddy Says Producer Stole Footage For 50 Cent’s Netflix Documentary In New Countersuit
Published video “50 Cent Performs 'No One Told Us' For the First Time in Malaysia”.
Published video “50 Cent Feat. Leon Thomas & Fetty Wap - 'No One Told Us' | Extended Version”.
Snopes.com rated the claim “In March 2026, people began boycotting rapper and actor 50 Cent after he supposedly said children should not be allowed to watch cartoons with LGBTQ+ themes.” False.
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Published video “50 Cent Feat. Max B - ‘No More Tricks, No More Tries’ (Video)”.
Published video “50 Cent Feat Max B - 'No More Tricks, No More Tries'”.
Published video “50 Cent Feat. Leon Thomas - 'No One Told Us' | POWER Origins Theme Song”.
Published video “Fight Land”.
Published video “50 Cent feat. Sheff G, Sleepy Hallow & Jeremih - "Fight Land" | Official Music Video”.
Published video “Fight Land video coming soon.. 🥊”.
Published video “Fight Land Coming Soon 🇬🇧🥊”.
In an Instagram post promoting his Cognac brand, Jackson wrote that he had been practicing celibacy: "My new idea is so big, I don't have time to be distracted I'm practicing abstinence, I have been meditating and focusi
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And named him the sixth top artist of the 2000s decade
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The Guardian: Power player: how 50 Cent went from rapper to unlikely TV kingpin
50 Cent was a surprise performer in the Super Bowl LVI halftime show, receiving a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) in September for the performance
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Became one of the headliners of the music festival Golden Sand in Riviera Maya
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USA Today rated the claim “Picture shows rappers Ice Cube and 50 Cent in pro-Trump hats” Altered.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Photo shows 50 Cent and Ice Cube wearing Trump 2020 hats” False.
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AP News rated the claim “Photo shows rappers Ice Cube and 50 Cent wearing hats that support President Donald Trump.” False.
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fact checker rated the claim “A photo depicts rappers Ice Cube and 50 Cent wearing Trump hats.” fake.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows Ice Cube and 50 Cent wearing "Trump 2020" hats.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Ice Cube and 50 Cent wearing "Trump 2020" hats.” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Photo shows Ice Cube and 50 Cent wearing Donald Trump hats.” False.
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BBC rated the claim “50 Cent and Ice Cube wearing Trump hats” False. The photo has been edited so the word "Trump" has been added on both caps, suggesting both rappers support the president..
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The Guardian: 50 Cent on love, cash and bankruptcy: ‘When there are setbacks, there will be get-backs’
Jackson stepped in as executive producer for late rapper Pop Smoke's debut album, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, having been one of Pop Smoke's biggest inspirations
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Jackson was a subject of controversy for his involvement in a viral video of him giving money to a Burger King restaurant in New York City on behalf of a local scammer who was later arrested and charged for Bitcoin scamm
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Endorsed Trump due to his dislike of Joe Biden's tax plans
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When Jackson wrote that he "used to" love his son
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It was reported that Jackson was producing two television series for Starz, an anthology about hip-hop and a biographical drama about sports agent Nicole Lynn
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Released album “Americaz Most Wanted”.
Released album “Nothin’ but a G‐Thang”.
Released album “Hip‐Hop Showdown: 50 Cent v Snoop Dogg, Round 2”.
Released album “Hip‐Hop Showdown: 50 Cent v Snoop Dogg”.
The Guardian: Janet Jackson and 50 Cent to perform at controversial Saudi Arabia concert
50 Cent was featured on English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran's fourth studio album, No
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Released album “Come and Get You”.
Released album “Rare”.
Lead Stories rated the claim “50 Cent Buys Murder Inc Records, Owns All Ja Rules Music Publishing (VIDEO) - CelebTriCity” False.
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When Ja Rule took to Twitter, calling out 50 Cent on social media
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Released album “Best of 50 Cent”.
Interscope Records released 50 Cent's final album for the label, the greatest-hits album Best Of
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50 Cent described Jay-Z's thirteenth studio album 4:44 as "golf course music" in an Instagram post, elaborating: "I listened to Jay sh*t, that 4:44
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Released album “Street King Immortal”.
A judge declared that Brandon Parrott gave Dr
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Jackson posted a photo on Instagram of a shirtless muscular Crews with the caption: "I got raped
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Released album “The Kanan Tape”.
The feud between the two rappers later reignited when Ja Rule gave a feedback to a social follower via Twitter over a similar feud between Meek Mill and Drake
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Jackson filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U
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Jackson said in an interview that the first single from Street King Immortal would be previewed on Memorial Day weekend and likely be released in June
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Where he reportedly sold 1,400 bottles (277 gallons) of Jackson's signature liquor brand
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“Itu fakta, kawan. Kau melawanku? Kau payah.”
“There'll be no white flags, and no peace talk.”
“Tidak akan ada bendera putih, dan tidak ada pembicaraan damai.”
“I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.”
“Saya adalah saya; Anda bisa menyukainya atau mencintainya. Rasanya menyenangkan menghabiskan lima puluh ribu dolar tanpa berpikir apa pun.”
“Lihat sayang, ini mudah. Kau tidak bisa melihatnya? Kau mempermainkanku? Kau mempermainkan seorang P.I.M.P.!”
“Look baby, this is simple. You can't see? You're fucking with me? You're fucking with a P.I.M.P.!”
“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.”
“I'm Supposed to Die Tonight”
“Seperti yang dikutip di "Soundtrack of my life" (1 Oktober 2015), oleh Gavin Haynes, NME, p. 48”
Released album “CandleWick”.
“Wawancara pada From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens”
“Sono riemerso dal basso del fondo. È difficile per un sacco di gente comprendere la mia storia – un sacco di gente semplicemente non la comprende perché non l'hanno mai sperimentata di persona. Sono venuto dal basso e sono risorto e sono cambiato, ma non ho mai dimenticato.”
“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.”
“Saya datang dari bawah. Sulit bagi banyak orang untuk memahami kisah saya – banyak orang tidak memahami saya karena mereka belum mengalaminya. Saya datang dari bawah dan saya telah bangkit dan berubah, tetapi saya tidak pernah melupakannya.”
“I can't believe my grandmother's making me take out the garbage. I'm rich. Fuck this, I'm going home. I don't need this shit.”
“Aku tidak percaya nenekku menyuruhku membuang sampah. Aku kaya. Persetan dengan ini, aku akan pulang. Aku tidak butuh omong kosong ini.”
“Posternya terpajang di dinding. Dia menyuruhku berjalan-jalan di kamar tidurku. Aku ingin sekali menulis lagu Michael Jackson, jadi mungkin aku bisa mulai dengan salah satu lagu terhebat.”
“I've got the sickest vendetta when it comes to the cheddar... You play with my paper, you're going to meet my Beretta... She looks good, but I know she's after my cheddar.”
“Aku punya dendam paling sakit ketika menyangkut keju cheddar... Kau bermain dengan kertasku, kau akan bertemu Beretta-ku... Dia terlihat bagus, tapi aku tahu dia mengincar keju cheddarku.”
“Go ahead, switch the style up. If niggas hate, then let them hate and watch the money pile up.”
“Silakan, ganti gayanya. Kalau orang-orang membenci, biarkan saja mereka membenci dan lihat uangnya menumpuk.”
“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.”
“Mereka bilang aku berjalan seperti ada 'S' di dadaku. Tidak, itu senjata semi-otomatis dan rompi di dadaku.”
“The Lord's blessings leave me lyrically-inclined. Shit, I ain't even got to try to shine!”
“Berkat Tuhan membuatku cenderung pada lirik. Sial, aku bahkan tidak perlu mencoba untuk bersinar!”
“Keep thinking I'm candy; until your fucking skull gets popped.”
“Teruslah berpikir aku permen; sampai tengkorakmu yang sialan itu pecah.”
“When that window rolls down and that A.K. comes out? You can squeeze your little handgun, until you run out.”
“Ketika jendela itu terbuka dan A.K. itu keluar? Kau bisa meremas pistol kecilmu, sampai kau kehabisan.”
“God's on your side? Shit, I'm alright with that. Because we're going to reload the clips and come right back.”
“Tuhan ada di pihakmu? Sial, aku baik-baik saja dengan itu. Karena kita akan memuat ulang klip-klip itu dan segera kembali.”
“It's a fact, homey. You go against me? You're fucked.”
And ended on February 9, 2020, after six seasons
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Released album “Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win”.
Released album “Breaking Point”.
Jackson became a minority shareholder in Effen Vodka, a brand of vodka produced in the Netherlands, when he invested undisclosed amount in the company, Sire Spirits, LLC
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Jackson pleaded not guilty to one count of domestic violence and four counts of vandalism in a Los Angeles County court
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Released album “Going No Where”.
Jackson became a minority investor in Hang w/, a live video broadcasting mobile app used by dozens of celebrities to broadcast their daily activities and chat with fans
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“Escape Plan - Fuga dall'inferno (2013)”
Jackson became a licensed boxing promoter when he formed his new company, TMT (The Money Team)
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Released album “5 (Murder by Numbers)”.
Released album “The Lost Tape”.
Released album “The Big 10”.
Released album “NY State of Mind, Vol. 1”.
Jackson announced the release of Before I Self Destruct II after his fifth album
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Released album “Don't Call It a Comeback, Volume 1”.
In November 2011, Jackson released 50 Cent's Playground, a young adult fiction novel about a bullied, violent boy and his gay mother.
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Released album “When I Come Back”.
Founded SMS Audio, a consumer-electronics company selling Street by 50 headphones, pledging to donate a portion of their sales to charity
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Released album “Sleek Audio”.
Released album “Am I My Brothers Keeper? (Southside Edition)”.
A week after it offered buyers 180 million shares at $0
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Released album “Nobody Likes Me”.
Released album “Heartless Monster”.
Released album “The Death of All My Enemies: The Best of 50 Cent's Diss Records”.
Released album “Criminal Minded”.
“50cent at Twitter. Twitter. 26 Agustus 2010”
“50cent at Twitter. Twitter. 26 August 2010”
Released album “For Love or War”.
Jackson revived G-Unit Films, renaming it G-Unit Film and Television, Inc
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And debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200, giving 50 Cent his fourth consecutive top 5 album in the U
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Released album “Get Rich or Die Tryin’ / The Massacre”.
Jackson posted a video for the Soundkillers' Phoenix- produced track, "Flight 187", introducing his mixtape and book (The 50th Law)
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Released album “Forever King”.
Released album “War Angel LP”.
And was scheduled to appear in a fall 2009 episode of VH1's Behind the Music
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Released album “The City Is Mine”.
Released album “Return of the Bad Guy”.
Released album “The Undertaker”.
Released album “’90s & My Heart’s Broken”.
Released album “Return of the Bad Guy Pt. 1”.
Released album “Before I Self Destruct”.
Tompkins sued Jackson for $50 million, saying he promised to take care of her for life
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“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. (dall'intervista di Louis Gannon per Live magazine, The Mail on Sunday (UK), 25 ottobre 2009)”
“Dari wawancaranya dengan Louis Gannon untuk Live magazine, The Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, 25 Oktober 2009”
Released album “Blown Away”.
Released album “The Street Election: Politics as Usual”.
Released album “This Is 50”.
Episode of Total Request Live, Jackson said his fourth studio album, Before I Self Destruct, would be "done and released in November"
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Released album “Sincerely Yours, Southside”.
Released album “Elephant in the Sand”.
Released album “The Return of the Body Snatchers, Vol. 1”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Invincible: The Lost Tapes, Volume 2”.
Released album “The Time Is Now”.
Released album “Invincible: The Lost Tapes, Volume 1”.
Released album “The Official Best Of 50 Cent & G-Unit”.
Jackson visited a platinum, palladium and iridium mine shaft in South Africa, and met with South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe in talks of purchasing an equity stake in the mine
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Jackson sued Taco Bell over an ad campaign that used his name without permission, in which it invited him to change his name for one day from 50 Cent to 79 Cent, 89 Cent, or 99 Cent, in line with pricing for some of its
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Released album “After Curtis”.
Released album “G‐Unit Radio, Part 25: Sabrina’s Baby Boy”.
Released album “Curtis”.
For using his image in a promotion he said threatened his safety
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Released album “Freestyle B4 Paystyle”.
Released album “Dealin’ w/50”.
Released album “Bullet Proof”.
Released album “B.C.: Before Curtis”.
Released ep “Still Will”.
Ranking him second behind Jay-Z in the rap industry
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Released album “G Unit General”.
Released album “The Ruler’s Back”.
Released album “Live at the Hard Rock”.
Released album “The Ruler's Back 3”.
The mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, declared October 12, 2007 "50 Cent Curtis Jackson Day", honoring him with a proclamation and a key to the city.
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Released album “50's Back (Say Something Bitch)”.
Released album “G-Unit Radio, Part 22: Hip Hop Is Dead”.
Released album “G‐Unit Radio, Part 18: Rags 2 Riches”.
Released album “G Unit Radio, Part 21: Hate It or Love It, Verse 1”.
Released album “G-Unit Radio, Part 15: Are You a Window Shopper?”.
Released album “G-Unit Radio, Part 14: Back to Business”.
For a May 2004 incident, when he was charged with three counts of assault and battery after jumping into an audience when he was hit by a water bottle
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Released album “The Massacre”.
Released album “Tha Gangsta Mix”.
“From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens (9 August 2005), New York City: Simon & Schuster, Inc.”
Released album “Fifty’s Finest: Underground & Unreleased”.
Released album “Bulletproof Part 1”.
Which sold 73,000 copies in hardcover and 14,000 copies in paperback; a crime novel and a book with Robert Greene titled The 50th Law, an urban take on The 48 Laws of Power
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Released album “Bulletproof: The Mixtape”.
Released album “G-Unit Radio, Part 13: The Return of the Mixtape Millionaire”.
Released album “G‐Unit Radio, Pt. 7: King of New York”.
Released album “Guess Who’s Back Again”.
Released album “Mixtape Legend”.
Released album “Street Legends”.
Awarded Billboard Music Awards for Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003).
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Released album “G‐Unit Radio, Part 2: International Ballers”.
Released album “G‐Unit, Pt. 5: Bulletproof”.
Released album “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”.
Launched the record label G-Unit Records, namesake of a hip-hop group he formed two years earlier; the label's initial signees were its members, fellow East Coast rappers Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo
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Released ep “The Realist”.
Released album “The Future Is Now!”.
Released album “G‐Unit Radio: Smokin’ Day 2”.
Released album “G‐Unit Radio, Part 4: No Peace Talks!”.
Released album “Exclusives and Remixes, Volume 2”.
Released album “Diary of a Soldier”.
Released album “The New Breed”.
Released album “Gangster and a Gentleman: The Mixtape, Part 1”.
Released album “Behind Da Bars”.
Released ep “Collaboration”.
Released album “24 Shots”.
Released album “The Hits and Unreleased, Volume 2”.
Released album “G‐Unit Radio, Part 3: Takin’ It to the Streets”.
Released album “Guess Who’s Back?”.
Released album “No Mercy, No Fear”.
Released album “The Shady Aftermath Sampler”.
“Pada tahun 2002, jika Anda meminta saya untuk membuat sebuah permintaan? Saya hanya akan berharap agar musik saya menjadi hits.”
“In 2002, if you asked me to make a wish? I simply would've wished that my music would be a hit.”
Jackson filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to register the term "50 Cent" as a trademark for clothing, sound recordings, and live performances
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Released the mixtape Guess Who's Back
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Released album “The Hits and Unreleased, Volume 1”.
In 2002, Jackson filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to register the term "50 Cent" as a trademark for clothing, sound recordings, and live performances.
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Released ep “Power of the Dollar”.
Jackson was attacked by a gunman outside his grandmother's former home in South Jamaica
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Survived and thereafter refused to cooperate with law enforcement regarding the shooting
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Released album “From Ashy to Classy”.
After Jackson left Jam Master Jay, the platinum-selling producers Trackmasters signed him to Columbia Records
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With the release of the single "How to Rob", 50 Cent attacked his rap peers, including Jay-Z, who responded to the provocation with the single "It's Hot (Some Like It Hot)" in which he raps "Go against Jigga yo ass is de
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Released album “Power of the Dollar”.
Jackson's girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins, gave birth to son Marquise
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A&R of Def Jam Irv Gotti turned down demo tapes by Jackson that Jay showed him for a potential record deal on the grounds that they were too similar to Jay-Z
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A friend introduced him to Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC, who was establishing Jam Master Jay Records
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Jackson was arrested for selling four vials of cocaine to an undercover police officer
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Born 1975-07-06.
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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. (dall'intervista di Louis Gannon per Live magazine, The Mail on Sunday (UK), 25 ottobre 2009)
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