Before becoming a hip-hop star with the 2003 album Get Rich or Die Tryin’, American rapper, actor, producer, author, and entrepreneur 50 Cent survived a difficult upbringing in which his mother was murdered when he was eight years old and he began dealing drugs at age 12. When he was 24 he was shot nine times, which resulted in Columbia Records dropping him from a record deal.
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