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50 Cent only wants to help you, Roland
By Aly Barchi | Published on Monday 6 October 2014
That guy who made a couple of cool songs and picked a couple of good roles in film and television, Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson has said he’d like to be remembered as a person who helped others. Like a rap game Janet off of ‘Grange Hill’, you might say.
To be fair to Jackson, his ‘helping people’ comments were made in ref to forthcoming American reality TV show ‘Dream School’, which he’s appearing in.
As in Jamie Oliver’s British version, the series will feature 50 professionals at the top of their respective games acting as ‘teachers’ for children considered ‘problem kids’, and trying to advise them on ways they can make the most of themselves. Which is cool, like something Janet off of ‘Grange Hill’ might do if she was real, and not a frozen-in-time child herself.
Talking to Rolling Stone the other day, a reflective 50 said: “I started assessing my legacy and how I want people to remember me. Not as a guy who made a couple of cool songs or picked a couple of good roles in film and television, but more as someone who helped others the most”.
Actually, I can only think of one film 50 Cent has been in, and that was the one where he played himself in a (not very good) movie version of his own life. Can’t argue with the ‘couple of cool songs’ bit, though.
And this is 50 Cent’s Justin Timberlake-featuring cool song ‘Ayo Technology’, which I for one can say has helped me through some very trying times.
