Med bara några dagar kvar till 50 Cent och G-Unit’s besök i Stockholm (biljetter här) så publicerar den brittiska sajten Big Issue ett “öppet brev” av Curtis Jackson, som just nu befinner sig i Storbritannien för spelningar i Glasgow, Manchester och Newcastle.

I brevet berör 50 Cent allt från sin uppväxt till den cancersjukdom hans kära farmor drabbades av under hans tonår. Han går även vidare och berör musikkarriären och i synnerhet Jam Master Jay, Eminem och succéalbumet “Get Rich Or Die Tryin”.

“I started writing lyrics full time in 1997. I met Jam Master Jay from Run DMC and he had his label, which would take people on and develop them until they were ready to go to a major. Jay taught me how to count bars – and when the chorus should start and stop. And I kept practising. Sometimes hard work beats talent. I wrote all the time, and so I got better and better.”


“Eminem had this competitive energy that made him the guy all the other rappers worried about…”

Om debutalbumet “Get Rich Or Die Tryin” skriver 50 Cent:

“If I could go back to any time, I’d go back to when the sales figure for the first week of Get Rich or Die Tryin’ came out. I went to sit at the back of the tour bus and just thought, wow. I couldn’t believe it. When I got those sales I knew that from now on I didn’t have to wait for someone else to say it was okay, I could say it was okay myself. But I also knew that feeling, that confirmation, that finally you have the momentum – you only feel it once. I knew I would never have that feeling again. ‘Cause everything was about to change.”

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