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...rapper 50 Cent were any more hardcore, he’d be dead. Not only is his debut album titled Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, this former crack dealer (born Curtis Jackson) was shot nine times in 2000—once in the jaw and once in the hip, in front of his grandmother’s house, no less. As he sings on “Many Men (Wish Death),” “Many men / Many, many, many men / Wish death upon...
...Cent doesn't mind being known as the world's most bullet-ridden rapper, so long as he's known. "It's cool if people laugh," says 50, a.k.a. Curtis Jackson, who has nine bullet wounds. "I mean, it's not funny when you're actually getting shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny. People ask me questions about it all the time." Like where does it hurt the most? "The hip. When I got shot in the hip it cracked bone and when I got out of the hospital they didn't give me medication, so that really hurt...
When Columbia dropped 50 Cent, Eminem picked him up. Eminem also produced and rapped on Get Rich or Die Trying's best track, Patiently Waiting, in which 50 talks about how long he's been itching to show off his talent. 50 has some talent to show, and when he's rapping about his desire to be somebody he can even be poignant. But he's also capable of disturbingly thuggish behavior. The track Wanksta is the latest salvo in an increasingly absurd feud 50 is conducting with rapper Ja Rule. Two years ago, Ja Rule was robbed of several...
...typical 30-year loan). But what's more intriguing--and maybe a little scary--is the big surge in people taking out reverse mortgages. These are loans that let homeowners who are 62 or older take cash from their home equity and pay nothing back--not a cent--until they move out or die. Some reverse mortgages guarantee a fixed monthly payment for life (an annuity). By the latest measures available, the pace of new reverse mortgages has leaped 74% in just one year...
...major project, questionnaires and interviews will be obtained from faculty members of 116 colleges and universities, about 10 per cent of the number of liberal arts institutions with accredited four-year programs. From these results, Parsons and Platt hope to substantiate these and other tr ends they found in their initial study...