50 Cent Might Easily Have the Best Life Advice I’ve Ever Seen
From dealing drugs on the streets, he built a $40M hip-hop empire
As 9 bullets from a 9mm sprayed into his face and body, 50 Cent almost lost his life — and career.
Long before he was “50 Cent”, Curtis Jackson was a drug hustler.
Orphaned at 8, he grew up on the streets—eking out a living dealing coke to fretful addicts.
Hounding police. Cut-throat fellow hustlers and gangs. Whimsical customers. Pesky informers with unsuspecting smiles.
It was a tough life — despite or because of this, his segue into the hip-hop industry was a fat success.
But at the cusp of his career, an assassination attempt brought his career crashing down.
What sane producer would want to deal with a man entrenched in crime?
Dealt such a blow, most would have wallowed in self-pity and resigned themselves to a slow death of alcohol and bitter cribbing.
But 50 Cent isn’t most people — life in the streets had injected fearlessness into the blood coursing through his veins.
“Having a brush with death, or being reminded in a dramatic way of the shortness of…
