People usually think they're complementing me when they say I look like a handsome version of the rapper 50 Cent. I'm like, whatever. I came to this planet first.
I like 50 Cent, the persona, though. His Music? It’s aait but I can’t really dance to it.
Talk to 50 Cent and you'll discover he is an intelligent and sensitive man. Hands down, his marketing and business acumen is genius. Since dropping his first album Get Rich or Die Trying, millions of folks are: listening to his music, drinking his water, wearing his clothes, wearing his shoes, AAAANNNND playing his video games. Now you can read his words, too. Right before the movie version drops.
Penned with hip hop journalist Kris Ex, From Pieces to Weight , 50’s memoir, is a vivid account in the first person of 50 Cent's, nee Curtis Jackson 3rd, phoenix-like transformation as a young crack dealer in South Jamaica, Queens into one of the planets most powerful and revered rappers.
The title is slang and references crack cocaine, the vehicle most rappers talk about slanging one time or another in their green lives, before becoming superstars. The Pieces are pieces of crack 50 cooked and sold while the Weight refers to the raw source: kilos of cocaine. The title is also a line of trajectory, a double entendre and a metaphor, chronicling 50’s evolution from a runner to boss, from a cramped house in Queens, to living in Mike Tyson’s spacious mansion in Connecticut
Raised by an extended family of 8 eight aunts and uncles and two maternal grandparents readers will be weaved a picture of the late 80’s and 90’s of black folks in poverty and violence; and on a quest for material goods in order to rise above their status.
There are no jobs in young 50’s world. If there are jobs, the time it takes to acquire the materials one needs to elevate ones status in the eyes of the men and women around him, is too short.
Lets review: Material goods= status. Status=respect. Respect = p***y from the women, head nods and pounds from the dudes who probably won’t shoot you if they keep their jealousy in check. Fly gear, fly cars, crispy clean sneakers, must be got NOW, not every other Friday with a paycheck. For 50, its all about the benjamins, f**K a ho!
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Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Eric Olsen
powerful Cacy, really gives me a different perspective on him - thanks!
2 - Jewels
Makes me want to read more about him.
I was just passing through to check a post notification (I am doing office work today...)and saw your article up; thanks.
3 - Mark Sahm
I enjoyed your stylistic delivery, very funny. It's too bad 50 Cent had to go through that lifestyle before he blew up. But I guess that's part of what made him real, and not a poseur. Great review.
4 - yo
50 cent rules!
5 - ggg
amazin
6 - alisa
I LOVE YOU 50 CENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM YOUR NUMBER 1 FAN I MEMORIZED ALL YOUR SONGS I WEAR YOUR CLOUTHS , IVE ALWAYS DREAMED OF YOU , YOU COMPLETE ME! PLEASE COME TO MINNESOTA AGAIN!!!!
7 - Jenny
OK. all ya'll who say ur 50 cent's number one fan are full of it. Believe it or not I AM! Ok! And omg i pre-ordered 50 cent's book and it is the GREATEST. It really shows u all about him and u finally find out what he is really about. I just wish i could have gone to one of his concerts but my family cant afford it. If i could afford i would go toaton of his conerts...buy all his clothes..
xoxo,
Jenny
8 - Angelique
Man I love ths book it really got me to understand 50 better as a person and as an artist he never ceises to amaze me.Keep up the good work 50.
9 - Belmir
50 cent is number 1
10 - QUINTUS
YOUR NOMBER 1 50CENT
11 - QUINTUS
YOU ALL WAS BEEN MY FAVORITE 50CENT I WENT TO SEE YOU 50 CENT
12 - krystal
hi baby i love your song called candy shop and 21 questions. i love u u r the best raper ever but i would like to see u i new york but the only thing is that i am a boston red sox fan ok,and yankees suck donkey dick i hate the yankees.
13 - brianna
Ih 50cent my b hes ur num 1fane and the number is [Deleted]
14 - krystal
hey baby i invite u to my candy shop so u can let me lick your lollypop go ahead boy don't u stop Keep goin 'til you hit the spot (whoa) I'll take you to my candy shop so u can taste all of what i got i haven't spent all you got so keep going to u hit my spot "go go go hell yea baby go till u hit the spot".
15 - krystal
hi baby i miss u when r u comin here u r the best raperu r number 1
16 - krystal
hi baby u r number 1 but u r my number 1 raper
17 - Christopher Rose
krystal: i guess you mean rapper?
roflmao
18 - krystal
shut up Christopher stupid assholl
19 - Christopher Rose
krystal: nice try, but it's asshole
still rofl
20 - krystal
stupid butch what school do u go to? i wanna know butch maybe we r in the same school.
And i hate u very much u r stupid but i have a peom for u
Rosed are red vilots are blue nobody in school is as ugly as u
21 - unknown
it sounds like you need to go back to school b****
22 - unknown
krystal.
23 - krystal
hey christopher don't think that i am stupid know that was you all along ok i am not stupid butch [Deleted in line with BlogCritics' Official Comments Policy. Comments Editor.] i know that was u when u typed unknown name i am not stupid once again i am not stupid k butch [Deleted]
24 - krystal
i am 11 years old ok i am i 5th grade i am not stupid
25 - krystal
i am not stupid like you
brik wall water fall christopher thinks he got it all but he do't i do so boo with the attidue reccyes pieces buter cup you mess with me i mess you up your mama your papa your greacy greacy grand mama