XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Feb. 6, 2003: It’s been 20 years since 50 Cent first made an impact in the game with his stellar debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. The ...

50 Cent hit hip-hop and the mainstream like a meteor when he dropped his debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin' on Feb. 6, 2003. The Queens rapper—who'd famously survived nine gunshot wounds and returned ...

Social media memes featuring the song "Many Men" help drive the album to its best rank since 2003. By Trevor Anderson Many streams for “Many Men (Wish Death)” power 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ ...

None of the many attacks Kim Howells has launched during his brief period as culture minister has attracted quite as much indignation as his recent lambasting of gangsta rap. In its wake, Howells was ...

Get Rich or Die Tryin' is a 2005 crime drama directed by Jim Sheridan. It tells the story of Marcus, a young man who turns to drug dealing after his mother's death. But prison and a chance encounter ...

"Trump gets shot and now I'm trending," the "Many Men (Wish Death)" rapper wrote. By Ashley Iasimone Former President Donald Trump was shot at in an apparent assassination attempt on Saturday (July 13 ...

15 years ago, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson released one of the most enduring albums in hip-hop history. Complex Editor-in-Chief Damien Scott looks back at what made 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin'' an ...

Jay made it a hot line. 50 made it a his intro. DJ Drama recently told Complex that 50 used “to open up his shows with that Jay-Z line, ‘I’m about a dollar, what the f*ck is 50 cents?’” Clever twist ...

It is January 2003 – many years before I began researching popular music professionally – and I’m flicking around the music channels on TV. Disillusioned by the usual paint by numbers chart fodder and ...

The Listening: New Music From Coco Jones, Future, Ne-Yo, DJ Premier and Alchemist, Bryson Tiller, Kelela, J. Cole and More This week’s new music Friday also features Tank, Ciara, The-Dream, Snoop Dogg ...