50 Cent

If we announce that Curtis James Jackson will stop by us as part of his Before I Selfdestruct tour, this information does not tell us much. If we add his nickname 50 Cent, it becomes clear to us that he is a rap star of global dimensions. His life was not paved with flowers. Sabrina Jackson's mother was a drug dealer who died of an overdose when 50 Cent was eight years old. Soon he too was tempted by drugs, and at the age of twelve he was arrested and convicted of drug trafficking. He took on the nickname 50 Cent as a metaphor for change. He borrowed his name from the thief Kelvin Martin, who first used this nickname in the mid-1980s, but it means a change in Curtis's life. He devoted himself to music. He met Jay from the band Run-DMC, who became his great teacher and introduced him to the first steps of rap. His first album, Power of the Dollar, was released at the beginning of the new millennium. It was precisely the controversial song How To Rob that 50 Cent has to thank for his worldwide success, as it was then that he was noticed by Eminem, who introduced him to Dr. To Dre. His first commercial album, Get Rich Or Die Tryin, was released in 2003. The Massacre and Curtis albums soon followed. All of his albums have been very well received by fans. Their sales were excellent and as a result, Forbes magazine ranked him as the second richest person in the rap industry, after Jay-Z.