{"id":855246,"date":"2026-08-12T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:58:13","slug":"curtis-50-cent-jackson-was-once-nicknamed-boo-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855246\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis \u201850 Cent\u2019 Jackson Was Once Nicknamed Boo Boo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFifty, Fiddy. Boo Boo. All these have been, at some point, nicknames for Curtis Jackson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tFortunately, Boo Boo never quite took off, the hip-hop star told Jimmy Fallon<\/a> on Tuesday night (Aug. 11) when he stopped by NBC<\/a>\u2018s The Tonight Show.<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson, or Fifty as he\u2019s happy to be called, revealed his unfortunate old nickname while going a few rounds on his new TV series, and philanthropic ventures. The Queens rapper\u00a0has just returned from the United Kingdom, where Starz<\/a>\u2018s new drama\u00a0Fightland was filmed<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tA drama that enters the ring of professional boxing and London\u2019s criminal underbelly, Fightland is Jackson\u2019s first U.K.-based production through G-Unit Film & Television.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI was able to get some guys to work on it. I was using my juice card, know what I mean, calling up people,\u201d he tells Fallon. The\u00a0series\u00a0has been in development since 2022, premiered July 31, and stars Howard Charles as a former heavyweight champion who, after a lengthy stint behind bars, returns to prize fighting with revenge on his mind.<\/p>\n

\n\tDamione Macedon and Raphael Jackson Jr. (Power, Genius: MLK\/X) are showrunners, writers and executive producers, while Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith\u00a0serve as writers and EPs.<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson and Starz have a longstanding relationship; he\u2019s an executive producer of the Power franchise, BMF\u00a0and the unscripted\u00a0The BMF Documentary: Blowing Money Fast. But there\u2019s one genre he hasn\u2019t cracked. Comedy. \u201cI want to do a scripted comedy show,\u201d he tells Fallon. Naturally, the talkshow host put his hand up.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe New York hip-hop heavyweight, who scored four No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 2000s, including a nine-week reign with 2003\u2019s \u201cIn Da Club,\u201d is also the proud owner of green thumbs.<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson recounted the opening of the Curtis \u201c50 Cent\u201d Jackson Community Garden in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, a green space inspired by Bette Midler\u2019s New York Restoration Project and his G-Unity Foundation. \u201cWhen I realized what they did,\u201d he said of the project to transform a neglected lot into an outdoor learning space, \u201cI wanted to do that in my neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the interview below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifty, Fiddy. Boo Boo. All these have been, at some point, nicknames for Curtis Jackson. Fortunately, Boo Boo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58695,49,48,75,13397,341,7817],"class_list":["post-855246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bbnews","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-music","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}