50 Cent built a $100 million empire from rap royalties, Vitaminwater and a TV production machine
Billionaires Africa | 03.06.2026 01:57
Curtis James Jackson III grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, one of New York City's harder neighbourhoods, in a household held together by a single mother who sold drugs to keep the lights on. She was murdered when he was eight years old. He moved in with his grandparents. By twelve, he was selling drugs himself, working before and after school, learning the economics of scarcity at an age when most children are worried about homework. He collected his first arrest not long after.
