One of the things that 50 Cent has achieved is this sort of media convergence where you have the video game and film and the album and the clothing line all happening at the same time,

One of the things we often forget about gangster rappers is they are kids coming up from the real underbelly of American life,

People are either artists who want to make music and make headlines or they are really celebrities who are flash in the pan and grab as much (as they can) when that flash is hot,

You're always trying to tell a story in the first person. What we're seeing now though is instead of a rhyme at a local performance or an album that comes out and makes some national waves, we're seeing this translated into an actual Hollywood film and a video game.

He was the first to put these four pieces together and I think we can expect other artists put together even more pieces.

Hip hop was always about keeping it real,