50 Cent has at all times been open about how the try on his life formed the way in which he moved in music. Speaking with Fox News, he described the taking pictures that left him with 9 bullet wounds because the turning level that gave his profession new course. “It shifted my concept,” he mentioned. “My first album concept was ‘Power of a Dollar,’ and then I went to ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin,’ the stakes just got higher.”

The expertise of preventing his method again from restoration gave him a brand new perspective. He defined that when Columbia Records dropped him, he had no selection however to create his personal path. “You look, and you go, well, what am I going to do? 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.” He leaned into independence, forming G-Unit and releasing mixtapes that unfold rapidly within the streets. Those initiatives ultimately caught the eye of Eminem, which opened the door to a cope with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath.

The first main file that broke by means of was “Wanksta.” During a BET.com interview celebrating its twentieth anniversary, 50 Cent recalled how the observe gained traction by itself with out label assist. “That record was organically connected. It actually was being picked up by radio, by radio DJs, without any make-sure assistance, there was no record company, nobody’s saying play this, none of that s**t,” he defined. With DJs like Stretch Armstrong behind it, the thrill rapidly snowballed.

The success of “Wanksta” was so huge that it even precipitated discussions at Shady Records. “There actually was a point where [Shady Records president] Paul [Rosenberg] wanted to take ‘Wanksta’ off to put a record that me and Em did for the 8 Mile soundtrack on there, and I was like, Nah, just put that on 8 Mile. And that’s what happened.”

Looking again, he famous how totally different promotion was earlier than social media. “We were in a different climate, so I couldn’t do anything that the new artists can do. They go record and upload music to YouTube and Apple iTunes. I had to trick bootleggers into thinking to steal it so they could reproduce it and distribute it for me, ’cause there were no other outlets to get it out.”