From rapper to clothing designer and author, U.S. hip-hop artist 50 Cent is adding a new branch to his business empire — a book imprint of novellas set on the drug-ridden streets he grew up on.
The bullet-scarred, tattooed rapper, whose given name is Curtis Jackson, launched G-Unit Books on Tuesday in a joint venture with Simon and Schuster’s MTV/Pocket Books.
50 Cent, who took the name of a fabled New York thief, said the hip-hop novellas would feature gritty and true-to-life stories about sex, guns, cash — and the brutal short lives of players on the street.
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