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50 Cent: No Holds Barred |  | Author: Jake Brown
Publisher: Colossus Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Seller: Bricktunes Books
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 387610
Media: Paperback
Pages: 193
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 097677352X
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421649092
EAN: 9780976773528
ASIN: 097677352X
Publication Date: June 15, 2005
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Product Description
In terms of keeping it real both with his own child and with his fans, 50 makes no apologies, and offers only honesty about what he did to reach the remarkable pinnacle he has attained at 28 years of age, almost a decade removed from his prison sentence for crack dealing, and a lifetime from where society statistically expected him to end up. EVERY DETAIL OF 50'S "LIFE ON THE EDGE" IS COVERED in such chapters as: "50 Cent: The Rebirth of Tupac on Hip-Hop", "Get Rich or Die Trying", and "G-Unit".
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 vERY weLL writtEN, GREAT bOOK! May 10, 2008
Cristian Ellauri (honolulu, HI)
yo, this booK is just cuT waY above. the style is uptempo and your never bored for a sec. Also some of the comparisons and insight into TupAC and his place in history are beautiFUL. Loved it.
peace.
 Nothing but a collection of information snippets September 18, 2007
Dannyboy
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just finished reading 2 chapter excerpts on Google Book Search and am already fed up. This is a book I could probabely write myself after pursuing my ongoing research. I doubt Jake Brown has ever spoken to 50 Cent. All the information given seems collected out of interviews, news releases and reports, publicly known information, police reports and mixed together into a 'disclosure' book. I have not found a sinlge information I did not already know. But what I've found were a number of errors: The shooting took place at 11:22 AM, not "On the night of May 24, 2000, while sitting in the backseat..." (be aware, this little error is the first sentence of chapter 9 ...). How this happens? It's just one example of writing when you don't know what you're talking about and rely on google results which you fail to interpret correctly (the police system printout uses the 24hr time scheme BTW).
He keeps on writing that 50's grandma called 911 for an ambulance... huh, little invention here? Everyone knows that the driver (Curtis Brown) was still able to steer the vehicle and they drove themselves to Jamaice Medical Center. Very surprisingly and funny, this exact sentence is unquoted (missing) from the reprint of the MTV.com News report quoted at the head of the chapter...
Nothing new about the injuries and the surgery also, all he found in google it seems was the lawsuit of Dr. N. Paksima vs. 50 Cent regarding the payment of the hospital bills. This is all what is being delivered as information about the surgery. Awesome news!
If that is the kind of journalism and research you're into, go ahead, buy the book. For people who didn't do the research I did, there may be a few new things to find out. However when coupled with assumptions and guessing and misinterpretation of clear and solid facts while throughout the book giving the reader the impression he was talking to Fifty about all those things all the time, I feel nothing but being deceived.
I was tempted to give only 1 star but I credit the author for collecting a lot of information, so it's 2 stars. Still a bad performance for all that work.
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