50 Cent has revealed what was going through his mind after he was shot nine times, a moment that forever changed his life and career.
During an appearance on Fox News, the rap mogul revisited the critical 2000 shooting, describing the immediate aftermath and how it reshaped his perspective. When asked if he had doubts about returning to music, 50 admitted his career wasn’t even on his mind at first.
“I wasn’t thinking about a CD,” 50 said with a laugh. “As soon as you feel fine, the doctors are telling you you’re fine, you’re going to recover and you look and you go, ‘Whoa, what am I going to do?’ The record company is not answering the phone anymore, everything is changing, and then it’s like you got to figure out how to do it on your own.”
With no streaming platforms at the time, 50 explained how he had to find unconventional ways to get his music heard.
“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,” he said. “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.”
Earlier in the interview, he noted how the shooting forced him to rethink his debut album. Originally titled Power of a Dollar, the concept shifted dramatically in the aftermath of the near-fatal incident, setting the stage for his landmark 2003 release Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
50 Cent was shot outside his grandmother’s home in Queens in May 2000, taking nine bullets to the hand, arm, hip, legs, chest, and face. He spent months recovering from his injuries, including a bullet that pierced his jaw and left him with the distinct slur in his voice that fans recognize today.
The attack sidelined him from the industry at the time, but ultimately became the turning point that fueled his rise.
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