Name: 50 Cent

Birth Name: Curtis Jackson

Sex: Male

Nationality: American

Birth Date: July 6th, 1976

Birth Place: Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York

Profession: musician

Genre: Rap

Mother: a hustler, who passed away when he was 8 years old

Big Break: in 1996 after meeting Jam Master Jay (of Run-D.M.C.), who gave him a tape of beats and asked him to rap over it

Violent Past:
Stabbed at the Hit Factory studio on West 54th Street in Manhattan
On May 24th, 2000, he was shot nine times with a 9mm pistol

Major Label Debut: Power of the Dollar (2000) unreleased (shot 9 times)

Career Breakthrough: Siging with Shady/Aftermath and releasing the singles "Wanksta" and "In da Club" from "Get Rich or Die Tryin'"