'Get Rich or Die Tryin''

50 Cent got a $1 million recording contract from Dr. Dre all thanks to a mixtape. I always wondered what the impact is for one guy to "escape" the inner city life to super stardom and millions of dollars.

Curtis Jackson III had no future. He was born and raised in South Jamaica, Queens and his mother was a coke dealer (and apparently a lesbian, although I don't see how it affects anything more or less Jackson's future).

Jackson became a crack dealer himself and was infamously shot nine times. His life turned around after attending a correctional boot camp and adopted the nom de plume, 50 Cent.

Get Rich or Die Tryin' went six times platinum and his next album, The Massacre, went five times platinum. He's richer than almost anyone and the dead future that he was primed to accept has reversed. He'll probably never have to work again and his kids will never have to work. He's created a whole new life for himself and probably anyone he's associated with. Consider every kid that "escapes" the hood (sports, music, college) and how that impacts the lives of a dozen people, a dozen futures here and there.

Have you ever thought about it?