![]() "That was the first time I ever went in a studio. ![]() "Jay was cool, he taught me a lot," 50 Cent says. "That would be like saying you're afraid of success," he says.ĥ0 Cent learnt his trade after being taken under the wing of Jam Master Jay, the DJ with seminal rap group Run-DMC, who was shot dead in October. He had a close brush with death when he was shot nine times in 2000 ("only nine"), but his philosophy is that "when your time comes, you go".įame may make 50 Cent a bigger target for jealousy and trouble - but that is not something that worries him, he says. ![]() "But if you're a working class person and you say 'get rich or die trying' then it means that you're determined." "When you listen to that title, it might feel a little negative, right?" he says. His new album, the first to be released on Eminem's record label, Shady, has the starkly honest title of Get Rich or Die Trying. "If you come from it, you're going to have people who don't like you." There are "a few people in my hood" who would like to see him dead, he says. ![]() "They'd rather hear it from someone who's experienced it than someone who's just making it up," he says. Jam Master Jay signed 50 Cent in the late 1990sĪnd fans have picked up on his music because he knows what he is talking about, he says.
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