He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and won several awards including a Grammy, 13 Billboard Music Awards, 6 World Music Awards, 3 American Music Awards and 4 BET Awards. Since then, 50 Cent has released six albums including his most recent with Street King Immortal. 50 Cent founded G-Unit Records in 2003, and signed his friends Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. He released his first major-label album with Get Rich or Die Tryin’ which is how he became one of the world’s best selling rappers rising to prominence as the leader of the all-star East Coast hip hop collective G-Unit. 50 Cent’s tenacity to succeed in music and entertainment is apparent from the beginning of his journey to now.įrom hits to Hollywood, 50 Cent continued to level up as his career progressed.
Two years later, the South Jamaica Queens rapper released a compilation album Guess Who’s Back which led to Eminem discovering and later signing him to Shady Records under Dr. He produced Power of the Dollar for Columbia Records and just days before the planned release he was shot and the album was never released. Source: Bernard Smalls / 2000, Curtis James Jackson III, better known as 50 Cent, came into the world of hip hop on fire.
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