In 2003 he founded G-Unit Records, signing his G-Unit associates Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. Dre (who produced his first major-label album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’), Jackson became one of the world’s best-selling rappers and rose to prominence with East Coast hip hop group G-Unit. After Jackson released the compilation album Guess Who’s Back? in 2002, he was discovered by Eminem and signed by Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Although he left drug-dealing to pursue a musical career, he was struck by nine bullets in a 2000 shooting. Born in the South Jamaica neighborhood of the borough of Queens, Jackson began selling drugs at age twelve during the 1980s crack epidemic. ![]() ![]() Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, singer, entrepreneur, investor and actor from New York City.
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