50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

Look into the windows of my soul. The eyes never lie, they bloodshot red.