Get Rich or Die Tryin’ – a brisk, funk-inflected reflection on a life most violent. Just three years earlier, he'd cheated death after being shot nine times at close range outside his grandmother's house.
His mum, a drug dealer, was murdered when he was eight – four years later he was on the streets himself, selling crack cocaine.
Now he was a hip-hop kingpin, and the industry that had once blacklisted him was hammering on his front door. Never one for subtlety, Jackson purchased his hero Mike Tyson’s sprawling, 50,000 sq ft estate in Connecticut for $4.
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