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More so than any other music
since the blues, hip-hop is all about stories. And its stories are both
criminal minded and grand, making them enthralling and unbelievable, but
also making them only as interesting and convincing as the teller. That's
why, despite being blackballed by the industry, without a major-label recording
contract, heads still gravitated to Jamaica, Queens' realest son, 50 Cent,
like the planets to the sun. 50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson 26 years ago,
is the real deal, the genuine article. He's a man of the streets, intimately
familiar with its codes and its violence, but still, 50, an incredibly intelligent
and deliberate man, holds himself with a regal air as if above the pettiness
which surrounds him. |
