50 Cent

50 Cent also launches a new Charitable Organziation called G-Unity, aimed at helping the less fortunate in the inner cities.
. On March 9th, 2005, 50 Cent and The Game hold a press conference to announce their reconciliation.
. The Game counters that he quit G-Unit before being kicked out. She has also been featured on the Hitch Soundtrack with her single "1 thing" in late 2004. 50 Cent excised him from the group, citing The Game had been disloyal. Amerie has delved into acting since, hosting the BET televison series, The Center, and showing up in the film, First Daughter, with Katie Holmes.

As of March 2, 2005, G-Unit member, The Game (Jayceon Taylor), is no longer associtated with the group. She also earned a BET Award nomination for Favorite Female Artist. Newest members include R & B singer Olivia and west coast rapper Spider Loc. which didn't perform as well as Paradise, although their videos received a lot of attention from the digital music video channels. Members of 50 Cent's G-Unit include: rappers Lloyd Banks (Christopher Lloyd), Young Buck (David Darnell Brown), and Tony Yayo (Melvin Benard). Amerie returned to the music scene briefly in 2003 as a featured vocalist, first on LL Cool J's top 40 smash, Paradise single and later on DJ Kay Slay's "Too Much For Me". NB: Power of the Dollar has not been officially released as 50 Cent was dropped from the label before it was issued. However, the CD was finished and is found circling on the Internet. Late 2003 she won a Soul Train Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist, she was also nominated for Album Of The Year (Female) and Single Of The Year (Female), she also performed the Top 20 hit 'Talkin' To Me" with a live band at the show.

His latest hit is "Candy Shop". VH1 Soul has been known to spin both Amerie's videos with regularity since their debuts, and MTV Jams still occasionally spins Why Don't We Fall In Love. It was originally entitled "Valentine's Day Massacre", but after the album was pushed from a February release date to March, 50 Cent thought the title was inappropriate. The album's next single, Talkin' To Me, did not hit as big at urban radio as her first single, but it's video still enjoyed strong support from MTV2. On March 3, 2005, 50 released with his highly anticipated album "The Massacre". Amerie's debut album was released amid the success of Why Don't We Fall In Love, and the media immediately began to judge her successes against those of other recent female R&B upstarts, Tweet and Ashanti. He guest starred on an episode of The Simpsons entitled, Pranksta Rap on February 13th, 2005. Throughout that spring and summer, the song received heavy urban radio play, its music video was spun in heavy rotation on the American music video stations MTV2 and BET, and Amerie was toted as the next big thing in hip-hop music.

Despite G-Unit member Tony Yayo's imprisonment on weapons charges and prior warrants, he will appear on the CD courtesy of several old verses already laid down prior to his arrest. In the spring of 2002, Rise/Columbia released Amerie's debut single, Why Don't We Fall in Love. By the time her first album, All I Have, appeared that July, the single had reached the Top 10 of the R&B/hip-hop charts and the Top 40 of the pop charts. I don't want to get ahead of myself." Also in the plans are the G-Unit album tentatively titled Locked and Loaded to be released in September or November of 2003. They led to a deal with Rise Entertainment and, in turn, with Columbia Records. I still got records I could shoot visuals for. Blige, and began developing demos with him. "Get Rich or Die Tryin' -- I don't think it will be over by then. While living in Washington, D.C., she met producer Rich Harrison, who worked with such performers as Mary J.

"I was thinking of releasing the next album in November, but I'm gonna wait," 50 Cent said in April 2003. After her high school graduation, her family finally settled down in Virginia, while she began to attend Georgetown University, from which she later graduated with a degree in English and Fine Arts. Although originally planning on releasing a new album before the end of 2003, 50 has decided to push the album release back to February of 2005. She studied dance from an early age and performed in talent contests throughout her youth. 50 Cent is currently not on tour, and is preparing for his second major label release. She grew up on bases from Alaska to Germany, meanwhile gaining an appreciation of the classical arts from her mother and of R&B music from her father. Although he looks back on this time with displeasure (his biography refers to it as being "locked up in the studio"), the 18 days spent in a studio in Upstate NY produced 36 tracks which later became his breakthrough album Power of the Dollar. Although never officially released, the album was heavily bootlegged, judged a classic by Blaze Magazine, and the humorous ode to robbing a slew of industry rappers (Jay-Z, Puff Daddy, DMX, various members of the Wu-Tang Clan, even Track Masters, and many more) was an instant hit for New York radio. She is the daughter of a Korean mother and an African-American father who was a career military member.

He teamed up with the all-star hip-hop production duo Track Masters who recognized 50 Cent's talent for incisive lyrics and signed him to Columbia Records in 1999. Amerie, (born Amerie Rogers, January 12, 1980), is a North American singer. Despite learning all this, 50 saw that he wasn't going to get to where he wanted to go with JMJ, and left the label in search of someone who could help him achieve his dream of rap stardom. July 8, 2003 Talkin' To Me. 50 Cent was intent on learning the rigors of producing palatable rap music: how to count bars, the basics of song structure and importance of good production. April 21, 2003 I'm Coming Out [UK]. He met up with Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC fame and was signed to his label JMJ. October 7, 2002 Why Don't We Fall In Love.

His mother was killed in a drug deal, he was a drug dealer himself, he has been shot nine times (nine bullets in one single shootout, not nine seperate incidents as some believe), he overcame enormous disadvantage, and he built a large rap empire in New York City before ever signing a major record deal. July 30, 2002 All I Have #2 R&B #9 Pop. In this respect 50 Cent has a clear advantage over almost every other mainstream rapper. Interscope Records is very determined to sell 50 Cent as the "real deal", as the success of an artist in gangsta rap depends on his street credibility and reputation. In the opinion of many observers his continued success seems guaranteed by his large underground fanbase and the street credibility he has gained by appearing on almost every major mix tape sold in New York in the past few years.

He appeared on the 8 Mile soundtrack with an accompanying song and video that immediately went into heavy rotation on BET, MTV, and radio stations across the country. Eminem first encountered 50 Cent with MTV host Sway; Eminem apperently had not heard any of 50 Cent's performaces before seeing him in person. Once almost unknown outside his hometown of Jamaica, Queens, he became the first artist signed to Eminem's record label Shady Records who was scouted before knowing Eminem. "Fifty" (frequently pronounced "Fiddy" using African American Vernacular English) (born Curtis Jackson on July 6, 1976 in New York City, New York), is a popular African American hip hop artist.

50 Cent a.k.a. 50 Cent) #14 US. 2005 "Hate It Or Love It" (The Game feat. Olivia) #1 US.

2005 "Candy Shop" (feat. 2004 "Disco Inferno" #5 US. 50 Cent) #4 US; #5 UK (2005 release). 2004 "How We Do" (The Game feat.

Dre & 50 Cent) #25 US. Dr. 2004 "Encore" (Eminem feat. 50 Cent) #93 US.

2004 "Westside Story" (The Game feat. 2003 "If I Can't" #76 US; #10 UK ("Them Thangs" with G-Unit is also included in the UK, 2004 release). 2003 "P.I.M.P." #3 US; #5 UK. 50 Cent) #2 US.

2003 "Magic Stick" (Lil' Kim feat. 2003 "21 Questions" (featuring Nate Dogg) #1 US; #6 UK. 2003 "In Da Club" #1 US; #3 UK. 2002 "Wanksta" #13 US.

50 Cent is the Future (Released: June 2002). God's Plan (2002). No Mercy, No Fear (Released: August 2002). Fiddy The Hottest Nigga (Released: November 2003).

Guess Who's Back Again? (2004). Before the Massacre (March 2005). The New Breed DVD/CD (Released: April 2003) US #2. Power of the Dollar (Released: 1999).

Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Released: February 2003) US #1, UK #2. The Massacre (Released: March 2005) US #1, UK #1.