50 Cent Reveals What He Was Thinking After Getting Shot 9 Times

50 Cent recently reflected on how surviving being shot nine times in Jamaica, Queens in May 2000 shifted his perspective and ultimately became a catalyst for his rise to superstardom. During an appearance on Fox News, the rapper, who turned 50 earlier this year, spoke on his mind-state following the incident and his road to recovery. “I wasn’t thinking about a CD,” 50 told the hosts. “As soon as you feel fine, the doctors are telling you you’re fine, you’re going to recover and you look and you go, ‘Whoa, what am I going to do?’ The record company is not answering the phone anymore, everything is changing, and then it’s like you got to figure out how to do it on your own.” At the time, the rising star was left to not only heal physically, but also reimagine his career, as the industry appeared to turn its back on him. With the traditional music machine shutting him out, he was forced to adopt unconventional methods to reach fans. “We were in a different climate, so I couldn’t do anything that the new artists can do. They go record and upload music to YouTube and Apple iTunes,” he said. “I had to trick bootleggers into thinking to steal it so they could reproduce it and distribute it for me, ’cause there were no other outlets to get it out. Sustaining bullet wounds to his face, chest, legs, hand, arm, and hip, Fif would regroup in the wake of the shooting, spearheading G-Unit’s dominance on the mixtape circuit before landing a record deal with Eminem and Shady Records in 2002. The following year, the hitmaker released his debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, propelling him to global stardom.Though the attempted hit — widely believed to have been ordered by incarcerated Queens drug lord Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff remains unsolved, the attack set the stage for 50’s resilience.

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