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by - written on 01/06/09 (Very useful, 18 readings)
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I always take a look at the books in HMV, as they have some well priced pop culture stuff in there. I saw this book for a fiver, and automatically presumed it was a biography, not an autobiography, but I was wrong! Somehow, under the surface, this potentially huge book was released, and I was able to get it for a fiver. 50 Cent is a rapper - one of the biggest of the past few years, and this is his life story in his own words. From a painful childhood with dodgy parents, to selling drugs on the street, and ultimately getting shot to pieces, the book charts it all. It's not fun reading - this guy had a nasty old life, and he is quite open about the ... Read the complete review
by - written on 24/09/06 (Very useful, 567 readings)
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American rap sensation 50Cent or Curtis Jackson to his Granny, burst on to the music scene a few years back with "Go, go, go shorty its your birthday, we gonna party like its you birthday" ( have no idea what it was called). In every review that was written about his music we were told that this was a "bullet riddled rapper" who had survived being shot 9 times, had very nearly died and had to learn to walk again following the attack. Given the publics interest in 50's apparent bad boy past it would have been stupid not to capatalise on it, which he did with the release of the semi - autobiographical film "Get Rich or Die ... Read the complete review
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