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GRAMMY award-winning 50 Cent is an American rapper, actor, television producer, and businessman. Born in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, he began pursuing a musical career in 2000, when he produced Power of the Dollar for Columbia Records.
50 Cent has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and won several awards, including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, thirteen Billboard Music Awards, six World Music Awards, three American Music Awards, and four BET Awards.
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He cites Boogie Down Productions, Big Daddy Kane, The Juice Crew, EPMD and KRS-One as his rapping influences, while citing LL Cool J as an inspiration behind his writing of “21 Questions”. He also states that he drew influences from Nas, Rakim and The Notorious B.I.G. while working on Animal Ambition.
In 2002, after 50 Cent released the mixtape Guess Who’s Back?, he was discovered by Eminem and signed to Shady Records, under the aegis of Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.
His first major-label album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003), was a huge commercial success. The album spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles “In da Club” and “21 Questions” (featuring Nate Dogg) and was certified 9× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That same year, he founded G-Unit Records, signing his G-Unit associates Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo, prior to becoming the de facto leader of the East Coast hip hop group G-Unit.
50 Cent had similar commercial and critical success with his second album, The Massacre (2005), which contained the single “Candy Shop” (featuring Olivia).
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In September 2007, 50 Cent released his third album, Curtis, which was inspired by his life before Get Rich or Die Tryin’. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 691,000 copies during its first week. It sold behind Kanye West‘s Graduation, released the same day.
50 Cent was ranked the sixth-best artist of the 2000s and the third-best rapper (behind Eminem and Nelly) by Billboard. Rolling Stone ranked Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and “In da Club“ in its lists of the “100 Best Albums of the 2000s” and “100 Best Songs of the 2000s” at numbers 37 and 13, respectively.
On February 13, 2022, 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.
In 2023, Billboard ranked 50 Cent as the 17th best rapper of all time.
His discography includes five studio albums, ten mixtapes, two video albums, four compilation albums, two soundtrack albums, 76 singles (including 26 as a featured artist), and 88 music videos.
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