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New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Glued binding Paper over boards With dust jacket 223 p Audience: General/trade From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review The rap superstar known as 50 Cent was born Curtis James Jackson III in 1976 His mother, a smalltime drug dealer, was murdered when he was eight, but that didn't stop him from pursuing her profession 50 Cent is unflinchingly honest about his mother, his drug past and just about everything else in this raw, literate memoir chronicling his rise from Jamaica, Queens, to the top of the Billboard charts In his neighborhood, recalls 50 Cent, the only people with money were the drug dealers: "'"They were my role models "'" By 11, he'd made his first sale Over the next decade, 50 Cent evolved from a hustler selling capsules of crack cocaine ("'"pieces"'") to a kingpin purchasing by the kilo ("'"weight"'") With money came girls, clothes, cars and trouble 50 Cent describes spraying bullets at rivals, outrunning police on his.