50 Cent at our interview! Credit: Wilson Morales

Curtis Jackson had a rough start in life but he's living large now with multiple rap hits on the charts and a new film role in the semi-autobiographical Get Rich or Die Tryin'.50 has lived what most rappers can only imagine...born in tough Jamaica, Queens New York, thrust into the drug life as a kid, stabbings, shootings, gang wars..you name it all before his first album. With new hits like "The Massacre" and his contributions to the soundtrack of his new film, the hard-livin' rapper is successfully expanding his entertainment career.

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Credit: Paramount Pictures

50 felt that the recent controversy over the billboards for the film was much ado about nothing but Paramount has pulled the pics of the rapper holding a gun in one hand and a microphone in the other and replaced them with shots of 50 holding the baby his character has in the film. It's a strong image..big, tattooed 50 tenderly cuddling a little bundle of joy. Well, he stands to make a bundle with Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Whether you like 50's rap or not, he's an interesting character and quite intelligent and charismatic to talk to so pull up a chair and tune in as 50 spills all about his music, his film co-stars, the soundtrack and doing his first big love scene........

TeenHollywood: Did this film feel like therapy for you to relive some of your life again?