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    Before I Self-Destruct

    The Ted Nugent of hip-hop seems to have reached his Little Miss Dangerous phase. On Fiddy's fourth album, the muscle-bound-warrior routine is the only one he trusts, so he keeps milking it. He's still got the knack in the superb Dre production "Death to My Enemies," baiting Lil Wayne over a stand-up...

    2009 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Biography

Dropping gory yet imperturbably cool rhymes, commanding attention with a massive media presence and turning the bulletproof vest into a hot fashion accessory, 50 Cent established himself as the most lovable hip-hop villain in years when his major-label debut arrived in early 2003. Curtis Jackson was born in New York's Jamaica, Queens, to a teenaged, cocaine-dealing mother who was murdered when he ...

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