{"id":591603,"date":"2026-08-13T03:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591603\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:12:11","slug":"50-cents-nickname-boo-boo-was-nearly-his-stage-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591603\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent\u2019s Nickname Boo Boo Was Nearly His Stage Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/50_cent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">50 Cent<\/a> was just a lil bit away from rocking a different stage name.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;In Da Club&#8221; rapper (born Curtis Jackson) revealed there was one adorable nickname he considered adopting as his alias before becoming known in the music industry as 50 Cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My first nickname was Boo Boo,&#8221; Jackson confessed during an Aug. 11 episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cqH7f_tDhV0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Tonight Show<\/a>, playfully noting, &#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t work well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the 51-year-old is familiar with answering 21 questions about his pseudonym, including how fans should pronounce the moniker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question I get asked the most is Fifty or Fiddy?&#8221; Jackson said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=29lUopky_XY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a> in 2014, emphasizing the different pronunciations of the number. &#8220;If you say fifty, call me Fifty.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the New Yorker gave a prime example of when he can tell a fan is leaning into replicating his Queens accent to &#8220;try to be cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you see hundred dollar bills, call me Fifty,&#8221; Jackson explained while an image of cash flashed on screen, before joking, &#8220;If what you see is Benjamins, Fiddy is just fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"50 Cent was just a lil bit away from rocking a different stage name. The &#8220;In Da Club&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-591603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}