50 Cent
Born 1976 07 06
Location Queens, NY
Genres Hip-Hop: East Coast ,  Pop
Biography:
Unless you've been stranded deep in the Amazon jungle or studying with monks in Kathmandu, chances are 50 Cent has swaggered his way into your psyche. The Queens-based hip-hop sensation can boast to what amounts to total chart domination, but this was not always the case. In fact, the rappers' Shady Records debut, Get Rich Or Die Tryin' is appropriately titled in more ways than one. Raised by his grandparents, 50 had, by early adolescence, earned both a small fortune and an impressive rap sheet through various illicit enterprises. He might have been well on his way to becoming yet...