50 Cent relived the harrowing 2000 taking pictures that just about ended his life and reshaped his future throughout a revealing sit-down on Fox & Friends, tying the life-altering second to the creation of his multi-platinum debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin’.

The Queens-born rapper was simply 25 when he was shot 9 instances exterior his grandmother’s dwelling in South Jamaica.

The ambush left him with bullet wounds in his legs, arms and face, and compelled him into months of restoration. The violent assault additionally value him his report deal.

“It shifted my concept,” 50 Cent said on the morning show on Tuesday. “My first album concept was Power of a Dolla_r, and then I went to _Get Rich or Die Tryin’, the stakes just got higher.”

After the taking pictures, Fif discovered himself deserted by the trade and compelled to rebuild from scratch.

“You look, and you go, well, what am I going to do?” he stated. “The record company’s not answering the phone anymore. Everything’s changing. And then it’s like, you got to figure out how to do it on your own.”

That adversity turned the gas behind Get Rich or Die Tryin’, launched in 2003. The album’s standout observe, “Many Men (Wish Death on Me),” straight references the taking pictures and have become an anthem of survival and defiance.

50 Cent’s resilience didn’t start with that assault. He misplaced his mom in a hearth when he was simply eight years previous, a tragedy that left him to navigate a tough upbringing in one among New York’s hardest neighborhoods. His early years have been marked by avenue life and drug dealing earlier than he pivoted to music.

Now, 50 Cent has expanded far past rap. He’s the host of “50 Ways to Catch a Killer” with 50 Cent, a true-crime collection streaming on Fox Nation_,_ the place he delves into unsolved instances alongside a staff of investigators.

“I had a team of people help me curate it, and what I do is try to solve things before they solve it on television,” he stated.

The rapper-turned-mogul additionally provided motivation for anybody dealing with setbacks.

“There are no excuses. There’s no situation that they’ll go through, or that they can’t go through, and still be successful,” he stated.

50 teased extra initiatives forward, together with a attainable second season of his present and a job in a brand new Street Fighter movie. But he’s not attempting to reinvent himself.

“I don’t want to be someone new,” he stated. “I just want to be a better version of who I am.”

The taking pictures, extensively believed to be linked to his previous avenue dealings, occurred as 50 Cent was attempting to depart that life behind and deal with music. That brush with demise turned the defining second of his transformation.

The remaining two episodes of 50 Ways to Catch a Killer with 50 Cent can be found now on Fox Nation.

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