From Prison to Paid: Celebrities Who Did Time Before Their Shine!
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MadameNoire
4. 50 Cent
50 Cent was busted for selling crack and ended up doing time in the 90’s. But unlike most crack dealers, the man originally known as Curtis Jackson didn’t do time in a conventional prison. Instead, he was sent to a boot camp prison where he spent the next several months presumably exercising and getting screamed at. Upon exiting, he renamed himself 50 Cent, “a metaphor for change”. He was signed by Columbia Records in 1999, and recorded an album, Power of a Dollar. In 2000 he was famously shot nine times in front of his grandmother’s house, and Columbia quietly canceled his contract while he was recovering.
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