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50 free 50 Cent trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few rappers have a back story like 50 Cent's. He came up through the New York mixtape circuit, survived a shooting that almost ended his career before it began, and returned with Guess Who's Back, the tape that put him in front of the biggest names in hip-hop. His first studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', went on to be the best-selling album of its year in the US. This quiz covers the whole run: the singles and albums, the G-Unit years, the feuds that kept him in the headlines, and his second act as an actor, television producer and investor. Expect questions on Power and BMF, his film roles, his books and his best-known business deals. It is pitched for fans who know the hits and want to test themselves on the details, with easier openers for casual listeners and a few deep cuts for anyone who still has the mixtapes. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which rapper heard 50 Cent's 2002 mixtape Guess Who's Back, invited him to Los Angeles and signed him?
Eminem
Eminem got the mixtape from 50 Cent's attorney and signed him in a deal worth $1 million. It had been recorded in Canada because American studios would not work with him.
Q 02What is the birth name of the rapper 50 Cent, whose third studio album bears his first name?
Curtis Jackson
Curtis Jackson was born in 1975 and raised by his grandparents after his mother died in a fire when he was eight years old.
Q 03In which New York City borough was 50 Cent born and raised, in the neighborhood of South Jamaica?
Queens
Queens left a permanent mark on him: he has the word Southside tattooed across his back, and says it sits there because all of that is behind him.
Q 04Which lead single from 50 Cent's debut album topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine consecutive weeks?
In da Club
In da Club was first offered to the group D12 for the 8 Mile soundtrack, but they passed on the beat because they did not know how to approach it.
Q 0550 Cent reportedly earned about $100 million when Coca-Cola bought the maker of which drink he endorsed?
Vitaminwater
Vitaminwater's maker gave him a minority stake in exchange for becoming its spokesperson, and he helped create a grape flavor named Formula 50.
Q 06Which record label dropped 50 Cent in 2000 after he survived being shot nine times?
Columbia Records
Columbia Records shelved his finished debut album, Power of the Dollar, and the full album has never had an official release.
Q 07Which rival's 2018 concert did 50 Cent prank by buying 200 front-row tickets and leaving them empty?
Ja Rule
Ja Rule had been feuding with him since before 50 Cent signed with Interscope. The discounted tickets for the Texas show cost about $3,000 in total.
Q 08Which fast-food chain did 50 Cent sue in 2008 after an ad campaign invited him to rename himself 79 Cent?
Taco Bell
Taco Bell had offered $10,000 to a charity of his choice if he took the new name for a day. The case was settled out of court in his favor in 2009.
Q 09Which former heavyweight champion once owned the Connecticut mansion that 50 Cent bought in 2003?
Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson's old estate proved hard to sell on: 50 Cent listed it for $18.5 million in 2007 and finally let it go in 2019 for $2.9 million.
Q 10Which character did 50 Cent play in the crime drama Power, a series he also executive-produced?
Kanan Stark
Kanan Stark later got a prequel of his own: Power Book III: Raising Kanan follows the character's early years in the 1990s.
Q 11Which 50 Cent single featuring the singer Olivia became his third number one on the Billboard Hot 100?
Candy Shop
Candy Shop sat at number one while Hate It or Love It, a song he also rapped on, was stuck right behind it at number two.
Q 1250 Cent's third album lost a much-publicized same-day sales battle in 2007 to which Kanye West album?
Graduation
Graduation sold 957,000 copies in its first week to his 691,000. 50 Cent had claimed he would stop releasing solo albums if he lost, then took it back.
Q 13Which producer executive-produced 50 Cent's album Get Rich or Die Tryin' and co-wrote its lead single?
Dr. Dre
Q 21Which hip-hop DJ signed an unknown 50 Cent to his own label and taught him to write choruses?
Jam Master Jay
Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC also produced his first album, which never came out. The rapper credits him with sharpening his knack for writing hooks.
Q 22Which Nashville rapper left Juvenile's UTP collective to join 50 Cent's group G-Unit in 2003?
Young Buck
Young Buck titled his solo debut Straight Outta Cashville, a nickname for his hometown modeled on the name of an N.W.A classic.
Q 23Which debut album did 50 Cent's group G-Unit release nine months after his own Get Rich or Die Tryin'?
Beg for Mercy
Dr. Dre built the lead single's beat about six months before its release, as one of five productions grown from the same drum programming.
Q 14Which 50 Cent album sold more than a million copies in its first four days in 2005?
The Massacre
The Massacre was first announced under a longer title naming St. Valentine's Day, after the 1929 Chicago gang killings, with a mid-February release planned to match.
Q 15Which award did 50 Cent win for his surprise appearance in the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show?
A Primetime Emmy
A Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) went to the performance, the first time a Super Bowl halftime show had won that category.
Q 16Which premium cable network aired the 50 Cent crime dramas Power and BMF and their spin-offs?
Starz
Starz launched Power in 2014 and kept it for six seasons, by which time it was one of the network's highest-rated shows.
Q 17The stage name 50 Cent came from Kelvin Martin, a man known in 1980s New York as what?
A robber
A robber said to hold up anyone, however little they carried, Martin died in 1987. The rapper says he took the name as a metaphor for change.
Q 18Which 50 Cent single with guest vocals from Nate Dogg became his second straight Hot 100 number one?
21 Questions
21 Questions nearly missed the album: his producer argued that a tender love song did not fit a gangsta image, and 50 Cent replied that he had always been two people.
Q 19Which 50 Cent single reached number three on the Hot 100 and got a remix featuring Snoop Dogg and G-Unit?
P.I.M.P.
P.I.M.P. was produced by Mr. Porter of D12, who has suggested that 50 Cent picked the steelpan beat believing a more famous producer had made it.
Q 20Which Compton rapper's hit Hate It or Love It featured 50 Cent shortly before the two fell out publicly?
The Game
The Game was dismissed from G-Unit on the radio station Hot 97, and the pair went on trading diss tracks for more than a decade before making peace in 2016.
Beg for Mercy was made largely without founding member Tony Yayo, who was in prison at the time and appears on only two of its songs.
Q 24Which sportswear company signed 50 Cent to a five-year deal to distribute his G-Unit Sneakers line?
Reebok
Reebok's G-Unit shoes arrived in the same year as a clothing line that he built with Marc Ecko, the founder of Ecko Unltd.
Q 25Which controversial 1999 underground single raised 50 Cent's profile and drew replies from Jay-Z and other rappers?
How to Rob
How to Rob was written during a half-hour car ride to the studio, and even the song's own producers, the Trackmasters, are on its list of targets.
Q 26Which 50 Cent track has a music video about his 2000 shooting, with two CSI: Miami stars playing detectives?
Many Men
Many Men was only ever issued as a promotional single, yet later rappers keep returning to it: Metro Boomin and 21 Savage sampled it for a 2020 track of the same name.
Q 27Magic Stick, a number-two hit featuring 50 Cent, was meant for his own album before going to which rapper?
Lil' Kim
Lil' Kim kept the song because she did not send it back before the deadline for his album, so he let her use it on her own record, La Bella Mafia.
Q 28Which singer is the featured guest on 50 Cent's 2007 top-five single Ayo Technology, produced by Timbaland?
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake appeared on a song that was renamed three times in 2007, briefly going by She Wants It before an earlier title was restored.
Q 29Which product did 50 Cent start selling under the name Street by 50, pledging a share of sales to charity?
Headphones
Headphones also cost him dearly in court: a former partner accused him of taking the design of his earlier Sleek by 50 line and was awarded more than $17 million.
Q 3050 Cent had the best-selling US album of 2003 yet lost the Best New Artist Grammy to which rock band?
Evanescence
Evanescence took the award at the 2004 ceremony, where 50 Cent went home empty-handed despite five nominations across the rap categories and Best New Artist.