50 Cent

Known for ActingBorn 1975-07-06 (age 50)New York City, New York, USA

Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, and television producer. 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; however, he was struck by nine bullets during a shooting in May 2000, causing its release to be cancelled. Jackson is to be dropped from the label. His 2002 mixtape, Guess Who's Back?, was discovered by Detroit rapper Eminem, who signed Jackson to his label Shady Records, an imprint of Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records that same year. His debut studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003), was released to critical acclaim and commercial success. Peaking atop the Billboard200, it spawned the Billboard Hot 100-number singles "In da Club" and "21 Questions" (featuring Nate Dogg). It received nonuple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That same year, he launched the record label G-Unit Records, the namesake of a hip-hop group he formed two years prior; the label's initial signees were its members, fellow East Coast rappers Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. His second album, The Massacre (2005), was met with similar success and supported by his third number-one single, "Candy Shop" (featuring Olivia). He adopted a lighter, further commercially oriented approach for his third and fourth albums, Curtis (2007) and Before I Self Destruct (2009)—both were met with critical and commercial declines—and aimed for a return to his roots with his fifth album, Animal Ambition (2014), which was met with mixed reviews. He has since focused on his career in television and media, having executive-produced and starred in the television series Power (2014–2020), as well as its numerous spin-offs under his company G-Unit Films and Television Inc. Jackson has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and earned several accolades, including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, thirteen Billboard Music Awards, six World Music Awards, three American Music Awards and four BET Awards. In his acting career, Jackson first starred in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), which received critical panning. He was also cast in the war film Home of the Brave (2006) and the crime thriller Righteous Kill (2008). Billboard ranked Jackson as 17th on their "50 Greatest Rappers" list in 2023. and named him the sixth top artist of the 2000s decade. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article 50 Cent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

50 Cent | Rap Star

The Game: The Documentary

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

Not Afraid: The Shady Records Story

Power Book IV: Force

Power Book II: Ghost

Power Book III: Raising Kanan

BMF

For Life

Black and Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop Cop

Top of the Pops Reloaded

50 Cent | Shoot First

The Defiant Ones

Tupac: Resurrection

The Simpsons

Power

Robot Chicken

MTV Video Music Awards

Tapia

Southpaw

CD:UK

Live 8

Sean Combs: The Reckoning

Entourage

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Elvis | Viva Las Vegas

Conan

The Graham Norton Show

Tale of the Tape

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

How to Make Money Selling Drugs

The Finder

LA Originals

The BMF Documentary: Blowing Money Fast

Den of Thieves

Missionary

Spy

Beef

THE SHOW: California Love

Beef II

Ridiculousness

Escape Plan

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Grounded for Life

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Saturday Night Live