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So I just said — fuck it. I started writing lyrics full time in I met Jam Master Jay from Run DMC and he had his label, which would take people on and develop them until they were ready to go to a major.
Jay taught me how to count bars — and when the chorus should start and stop. And I kept practising. Sometimes hard work beats talent. I wrote all the time, and so I got better and better. I had all the jewellery, I looked like a hustler. The honest truth is, at that point, the drug dealers were the leaders of the neighbourhood. They had more money than the rappers. Now, of course, the artists are way richer than the dealers, the hip hop culture has grown so much. Eminem had this competitive energy that made him the guy all the other rappers worried about [Eminem signed 50 Cent to Shady Records in ].
From early days, he was this great battle artist. So everything they had against him, he took it away. Another town attraction is Oakley Park, a museum housed in the former mansion of Martin Witherspoon Gary, like Dunovant a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.
After the war, Gary was instrumental in the formation of the Red Shirts, a paramilitary group that, through violence and intimidation, suppressed the voting rights of black freedmen and their Radical Republican allies. You might think that parachuting 50 Cent and a film crew into a place like this would have resulted in fisticuffs and histrionic arguments—especially when you consider that this was for VH1, home of Rock of Love, Mob Wives, and Sober House with Dr.
What transpired when we filmed there in May was much more nuanced and revelatory. There were moments approaching rapprochement, as when a descendant of R. Still, he took pains not to condemn the woman.
The most pronounced conflict, in fact, was one that occurred between 50 and us, the filmmakers. I worked with the director Ron Yassen and the writer-producer Sacha Jenkins, both of the production company Roadside Entertainment. The songs 50 Cent produced were raw, and his lyrics were taken from his own life on the streets. As Evan Serpick of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "they reverberated with authenticity. Fifty Cent quickly became a hit in the underground world of hip-hop. This means he was recording and releasing discs independent of any major record company.
As a result, the big record labels started to take notice of the "street thug"-turned rapper. He kept his "day job," which meant that he continued to sell drugs to make ends meet. Once they had 50 Cent under contract, Columbia was not sure what to do with him.
As 50 Cent told Serpick, "I needed them to stop and look at me. In May of , 50 Cent's street life caught up with him. While sitting in a friend's car in front of his grandmother's house, another car pulled up, and the driver fired round after round into 50 Cent's body.
All told, he was hit nine times, including a bullet to his hip, which shattered the bone, and a bullet to his head. Although 50 Cent survived, the close call was too much for Columbia Records, and the company dropped him from its label. Ever optimistic, the rapper returned to the mixed-tape circuit. In , 50 Cent wrote "Wanksta," the song that would be his ticket to the big time.
The feud between the two musicians began in , when Ja Rule was robbed and then accused 50 Cent of being involved in the incident. Fifty Cent delivered "Wanksta," along with a few of his other songs, to Paul Rosenberg, manager of the hottest rapper of the moment, Eminem —. Eminem immediately called 50 Cent and asked him to come to Los Angeles. According to Serpick, it was a "match made in hip-hop heaven. Later in , three of 50 Cent's songs, including "Wanksta," appeared on the soundtrack to 8 Mile, a movie loosely based on the life of Eminem.
As a result, 50 Cent and Eminem went into the studio to work on 50 Cent's debut disc. Eminem produced several of the songs; other tracks were produced by hip-hop legend Dr.
Dre —. Just days after it debuted, it sold almost one million copies and made it to number-one on the Billboard charts. Get Rich or Die Tryin' sounded like an anthem for 50 Cent's life. Diddy" Combs — , and he included dance cuts, like "In Da Club," which became an immediate hit single.
Almost all the songs talked about drugs, guns, and death, and all of them were definitely R-rated. Fifty Cent, however, was not apologetic about his lyrics. As he told Ebony magazine, "I curse to express how I feel
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