50 x 50 Book is Trash

Anything the talented wannabe "rapper" 50 cent puts out is garbage.

Page-long anecdotes follow the rapper through his mother's murder, his early drug deals, the shooting that left him fighting for his life, his recovery and rise to fame.It was a rough road, but, says 50, it was his.

"I was just utilizing the things that were right in front of me," he says of his early drug dealing.

"If you're a kid having a hard time in school and they tell you, well you can do this for 12 years and then get a college degree, a kid with curiosity is able to find someone who acquired the finances to get the things that he wanted in six months. It seemed like the only option at that point."The book doesn't downplay the financial success 50 Cent enjoyed as a teenager on the street, but it offers a vivid look at the sacrifices involved.

The first time he was busted by police, after accidentally carrying a stash of cocaine to school in the toe of one of his gym sneakers, provided a rude awakening. His business, he writes, had distanced him from his grandparents, who took him in after his mother's death.

"I blamed my grandparents. That was the worst part," he writes. "The moment it sunk in what had happened and what was about to happen, I reacted by being angry, like, 'If I hadn't had to hide this from them, I never would have gotten caught.'"

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