50 Cent celebrates success of ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’’ and ‘The Massacre’ (2024)

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How successful was Get Rich or Die trying? ›

50 Cent's 2003 debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin' is critically acclaimed and spawned a slew of Billboard Hot 100 hits, including “P.I.M.P.” and the project's two chart-toppers “21 Questions” and “In Da Club.” The album is 9x platinum, while the latter shares the same accolade.

50 Cent celebrates his first RIAA diamond-certified song with "In Da Club" “[Ten million] singles sold. The 43rd hip hop song to go diamond, 121 songs of all time to do [so]. I feel good, I'm that thing, 50 Cent,” the Queens rapper said.

On the 8 November 2005 edition of Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993), 50 Cent said that this film is "about 75% accurate". 50 Cent hired an acting coach but Jim Sheridan had the woman removed from the set. Sheridan told 50 "If this fails, it won't be because you can't act. It's because I didn't direct you right."

At Marcus's concert debut, Majestic shows up with his goons and tries to intimidate Marcus as he goes on stage. Majestic reveals that he killed Marcus's mother years earlier for spurning his affections.

Only three hip-hop artists besides Eminem have a Diamond-certified album: Outkast (Speakerboxxx/The Love Below), Lauryn Hill (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill), The Notorious BIG (Life After Death), and Beastie Boys (License to Ill).

Only about 200,000 of the 50-cent coins made it into circulation, making them a rare find. A coin enthusiast has revealed the small detail that could make some 50-cent coins worth up to 140 times their face value.

He added two more to his total in 2022 for "Hotline Bling" and "One Dance." Drake is tied with The Weeknd for the third-most diamond-certified songs in history.

In 2002, 50 Cent was discovered by Eminem and signed a $1 million contract with Shady Records, under the aegis of Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. After signing to Interscope, he was granted his own record label, which led to the creation of G-Unit Records.

The character Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson plays in Get Rich or Die Tryin', his acting debut, is called Marcus Greer, but you could be forgiven for calling him Fifty. Like Fifty, Marcus grows up in a New York ghetto, with no father and a drug-dealer mother who is murdered when he is eight.

Jackson adopted the nickname "50 Cent" as a metaphor for change. The name was inspired by Kelvin Martin, a 1980s Brooklyn robber known as "50 Cent"; Jackson chose it "because it says everything I want it to say. I'm the same kind of person 50 Cent was. I provide for myself by any means."

Who taught 50 Cent how do you rap? ›

The roots of 50 Cent's rapping career, much like his life, began in Queens when he met Jam Master Jay while trying to position himself as a mover and shaker in the eyes of the Run-D.M.C. co-founder. “I was hustling my way into a situation when I met Jay for the first time,” 50 told BET during a recent interview.

They also have a comic book-inspired alter ego called Gatman and Robbin, which they used to diss their enemies in a song of the same name. - They have each other's back and help each other out in times of need. Eminem helped 50 Cent recover from being shot nine times and gave him a platform to showcase his talent.

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It remains 50 Cent's best-selling album, with certified sales of 9 million copies in the United States, and is the tenth best-selling hip hop album in the country.

Get Rich or Die Tryin' became the biggest rap album of 2003 – and one of the best selling debuts in music history – thanks to 50 Cent's alchemical blend of earworm hooks, unflinching storytelling, and seemingly infinite swagger.

After performing his 2014 hit single “No Role Modelz,” J. Cole left the stage with a message — crowning 50's classic debut studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', the best album of all time, putting Michael Jackson's best-selling project Thriller right behind.