After healing from his injuries, he vowed to create music and bounce back from a failed deal (his 2000 album, Power To The Dollar, was shelved by Columbia after the shooting). This didn’t always work in his favor: In 2000, 50 was shot nine times in a parked car. No one was safe, and he governed his career with the same bravado. Case in point, his first single was “How To Rob,” a controversial track about stealing money from R&B singers, rappers, and Hollywood A-listers. The Queens-born rapper entered as hip-hop’s newest villain: a fearless, battle-ready MC who wanted to make a mark through unconventional methods. The icons who built the genre in the 1980s and ‘90s had moved on or-in the cases of The Notorious B.I.G. In 2003, hip-hop was in transition it had become glossy and needed an antagonist-that's where Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson came in.
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