50 Cent is a true Transmedia Storyteller. His music videos are great examples fo the convergence of Fashion, Music and Sports. 50's Swag is undeniable and his business acumen second to none in the Rap Game or as quiet as its kept Wall Street. 50 those of us from Queens are pround of your many accomplishments and how you have risen above the circumstances that keep many of us down.
WCN Transmedia Group Music Showcase “50 Cent”: Rise Above Profiled on Ovation
WCN Transmedia Group’s Showcase of Queens Own ^50 Cent* Profiled on Ovation. As you may know I have been pretty hard on Cable TV with the constant reruns and commercial interruptions. Well we found something new on the Verizon Fios Platform a network called Ovation. Now did they re-run it all day sadly yes. However its seems that a number of Hip Hop Documentary’s were programmed this Sunday that captured a couple of hours of my attention.
It is an esteemed honor to present and provide this space for one of the world most successful Rappers, Writers, Actors and Businessmen.
My question is which Rap Icon will step up and work with WCN to monetize streaming video for the planet?
We can change the game of merchandising across streaming video so that anything seen can be clicked on purchased and delivered to the home.
When you see the level of fashion and coolness of the Transmedia Storytelling ability of 50′s Music should be a clear indication to merchandisers and advertisers the opportunity to get into that Transmedia relationship between Artist and Fan. Brother 50 people could be shopping from your music videos. Lets cut a deal.
Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003) and The Massacre (2005). Get Rich or Die Tryin’ has been certified eight times platinum by the RIAA[1] and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.[2] His album The Massacre has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA[1] and has sold 11 million copies worldwide.[3]
Born in South Jamaica, Queens, Jackson began drug dealing at the age of twelve during the 1980s crack epidemic.[4] After leaving drug dealing to pursue a rap career, he was shot at and struck by nine bullets during an incident in 2000. After releasing his album Guess Who’s Back? in 2002, Jackson was discovered by rapper Eminem and signed to Interscope Records. With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre, who produced his first major commercial successes, Jackson became one of the world’s highest selling rappers. In 2003, he founded the record label G-Unit Records, which signed several successful rappers such as Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo.
Jackson has engaged in feuds with other rappers including Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Cam’ron, Rick Ross, and former G-Unit members The Game and Young Buck. He has also pursued an acting career, appearing in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin’ in 2005, the Iraq War film Home of the Brave in 2006, and Righteous Kill in 2008. 50 Cent was ranked as the sixth best artist of the 2000–2009 decade by Billboard magazine. The magazine also ranked him as the fourth top male artist and as the third top rapper behind Eminem and Nelly.[5] Billboard magazine also ranked him as the sixth best and most successful Hot 100 Artist of the 2000–2009 decade[6] and as the number one rap artist of the 2000–2009 decade.[7] Billboard ranked his album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ as the twelfth best album of the 2000–2009 decade[8] and his album The Massacre as the 37th best album of the 2000–2009 decade.[9] He is currently working on his yet-to-be-titled fifth studio album, which is allegedly set to be released in November 2011.[10]
Early life
Curtis Jackson III grew up in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, in New York City. He grew up without a father and was raised by his mother, Sabrina, who gave birth to him at the age of fifteen. Sabrina, a cocaine dealer, raised Jackson until the age of twelve, when she was murdered in 1988. Twenty-seven at the time, she became unconscious after someone drugged her drink. She was then left for dead after the gas in her apartment was turned on and the windows shut closed.[11][12] After her death, Jackson moved into his grandparents’ house with his eight aunts and uncles.[13][14][15] He recalls, “My grandmother told me, ‘Your mother’s not coming home. She’s not gonna come back to pick you up. You’re gonna stay with us now.’ That’s when I started adjusting to the streets a little bit”.[16]
Jackson began boxing around the age of eleven. At fourteen, a neighbor opened a boxing gym for local kids. “When I wasn’t killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip”, he recalled.[17] In the mid 1980s, he competed in the Junior Olympics as an amateur boxer. He recounts, “I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too… I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they’re the champ”.[18] At the age of twelve, Jackson began dealing narcotics when his grandparents thought he was at after-school programs.[19] He also took guns and drug money to school. In the tenth grade, he was caught by metal detectors at Andrew Jackson High School. He later stated, “I was embarrassed that I got arrested like that… After I got arrested I stopped hiding it. I was telling my grandmother [openly], ‘I sell drugs.’”[16]
Following time spent in a correctional boot camp, Jackson adopted the nickname “50 Cent” as a metaphor for “change”.[20] The name was derived from Kelvin Martin, a 1980s Brooklyn robber known as “50 Cent”. Jackson chose the name “because it says everything I want it to say. I’m the same kind of person 50 Cent was. I provide for myself by any means”.[21]
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