His third album Curti is less successful. The fourth and fifth albums failed completely. Yet she manages to earn $ 8 million from her fifth studio album Animal ambition. The rapper lets himself be pay in bitcoinswhich will become more valuable later on.
Although the artist no longer releases a studio album after this, he does not stand still. In 2009 she brings the book The 50th law out, a semi-autobiographical story about how a Queens drug dealer makes a big splash as an artist. In 2020 he will come out with his second book: Hurry faster, hurry smarter.
His financial situation is not always stable. In 2015, the rapper was sentenced to pay $ 5 million in damages for posting other people’s intimate images online. Soon after, he filed for bankruptcy. He has about $ 36 million in debt, while “only” $ 20 million is on his account. Two years later he experiences bankruptcy to buy.
Not a single album of the rapper has been released since 2014. Yet 50 Cent is still seen as a defining name in the hip-hop scene. With the massive sales of his first albums, according to many musicians, he laid the foundation for a future hip-hop generation. Artists like Drake, J. Cole, DaBaby and Pop Smoke call the New Yorker a source of inspiration.
50 Cent has always been clear: music is incredibly important to him. “There was never a plan B. I had to become a successful musician. The only positive thing in my life was the music.”
