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More so than any other music since the blues, hip-hop
is all about stories. And its stories are both criminal minded and
grand, making them enthralling and unbelievable, but also making
them only as interesting and convincing as the teller. That's why,
despite being blackballed by the industry, without a major-label
recording contract, heads still gravitated to Jamaica, Queens' realest
son, 50 Cent, like the planets to the sun. 50 Cent, born Curtis
Jackson 26 years ago, is the real deal, the genuine article. He's
a man of the streets, intimately familiar with its codes and its
violence, but still, 50, an incredibly intelligent and deliberate
man, holds himself with a regal air as if above the pettiness which
surrounds him. Couple his true-life hardship with his knack for
addictive, syrupy hooks, it's clear that 50 has exactly what it
takes to ride down the road to riches and diamond rings continue
to the 50 Cent Biography...
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