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Article: The 9 lives of 50 Cent: rap star survives shootings, stabbing and death threats.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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SOME cunning people live two lives, but 26-year-old Curtis (50 Cent) Jackson has lived nine and is working on his tenth.
1st life
There is, to begin with, Curtis Jackson, the only son of 15-year-old Sabrina Jackson, one of the biggest, most feared drug dealers in Queens. "My mother was tough," he says. But she also spoiled him rotten. Being Sabrina's offspring earned him a ferocious street credibility from birth and a bevy of riches that rivaled that of some of the wealthiest blueblood children in faraway suburbia.
2nd life
There's Curtis, the halo-wearing tyke who was the apple of his grandmother's eye--"I was my grandmother's baby," ...