50 Cent Biography Page 2: 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Shady Records
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50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Eminem & Shady Records
50 Cent is the Future was heard by a very impressed Eminem who brought the rapper to Dr. Dre's attention. Dre endorsed the ideas of signing a deal and working with 50 Cent on an album. Eminem was quick to get onto New York's hip-hop radio circuit with the message that 50 Cent was his favorite rapper at the moment. After a meeting with Interscope and Eminem in Los Angeles, 50 Cent quickly signed a deal with Interscope/ Aftermath (Dr. Dre's label)/Shady (Eminem's label) to release a record. Before starting production of his new album with Eminem and Dre, 50 quickly released another bootleg album of his raps over stolen beats entitled No Mercy, No Fear with the only 'original' production being "Wanksta", a veiled dis aimed at 'industry' rapper Ja Rule.
Although "Wanksta" was never meant as a radio single, under the barrage of 50 Cent albums and the buzz over Eminem's words of praise and subsequent deal with 50 Cent, "Wanksta" quickly became the most requested song on New York radio. Capitalizing on the appropriated song's success, it was added to Eminem's hit movie soundtrack 8 Mile and had its own video release, quickly entering heavy rotation on MTV, BET, MuchMusic, and radio stations around the country.
In its first week of release, 50's first major label debut Get Rich or Die Tryin' sold 872,000 units. The album was certified gold in its first week and platinum the next, and it broke the record for first week sales of any major label debut in the entire SoundScan era. On April 12, 2004 Get Rich or Die Tryin' was certified seven times platinum (i.e. has sold 7,000,000 albums) by the RIAA. 50's bootlegs reached Eminem. Em eventually signed 50 to his Shady Recordings label together with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records. 50's first release on his new label was Wanksta, not as you might suspect an attack on George Michael's proclivity for lurking in LA toilets but a diss to all mouth and no trousers gangsta rappers. The song was perceived to be an attack on Ja Rule, helping to simmer a feud that exists to this day. The feud began in 1999 when Rule was robbed at gunpoint. Rule later saw his assailant joking with 50 in a club and assumed Mr. Cent had a part in the attack.
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