Overview

• In a Fox & Friends appearance, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson revisited the 2000 ambush in Jamaica, Queens that left him with nine gunshot wounds and months of recovery, including a jaw injury.
• He says the near-fatal event “shifted” his debut from the planned Power of a Dollar to the higher-stakes concept behind Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
• After his record company stopped answering, he recounts using pre-internet tactics by “tricking bootleggers” to reproduce and distribute his music.
• That grassroots push fueled a dominant mixtape run, the formation of G-Unit, and ultimately his Shady/Aftermath break through Eminem and Dr. Dre.
• He is promoting Fox Nation’s 50 Ways to Catch a Killer, with the final two episodes available now and a possible second season hinted, while the 2000 attack remains officially unsolved.