50 Cent On the Brink of a Billion: ‘Building an Empire for My Son’

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00:00Hey, I'm 50 Cent. This is Us Weekly's Cover Shoot.

00:05And not quite yet. I'm not sure I'm in a hurry to reach that.

00:10Because I've reached a point where I don't have anything that I want that I don't have.

00:16You know, so I don't know what the rush is to get to that point is.

00:21You see what I'm saying? Like when you already, look, I bought every car that I wanted to two

00:25or three times. Bought them, put them back. The newer versions came. Put them back. The newer

00:31versions came. You know what I mean? And that's just the success from 03. And it habits within

00:37lifestyle. You know, if you're earning a decent amount of money, if you don't spend it, they're

00:41just going to take it. That's what they have in the IRS. There was a person that you could point

00:46to. You go, well, why did you change your mind and decide you want 58% of all my money? Like,

00:52what is going on? Like it even will make you adjust where you decide to lay your head. Common

00:59sense would say, if you don't need the things that are right there, they're going to change

01:05where high network people are staying. They'll move to territories that are more fitting for

01:11their life and stability of them continuing to function on the level they're on. Instead of

01:15staying in a place that is not offering you anything better or anything bigger as it

01:22increased. Financially, when you get to that point, you got to figure out how to put it back.

01:27You got to figure out where, what are you doing as a philanthropist? This is when you start building

01:32legacy. You start doing things that are a little more sophisticated because people remember people

01:39who helped a lot more than people that just done. We can say he's a billionaire. You're a

01:45billionaire. And they go, okay, what did he do? How did it benefit anyone else? How significant

01:53was him making it to that point? If it doesn't affect other people's lives. And when I can get

01:58them away from the video game, yeah, that's what I'm talking to him about. No, it's because look,

02:05they grew up different. Really small kids, they have iPads to occupy them, to keep them from not

02:14doing things. For me, I grew up, my grandparents had nine children. So they spent a lot of time

02:21when you had free time, you were having fun outside, go outside to play. You go have fun

02:28outside. Now they in the house, the video game with the thing, they're not going outside to do

02:33that and be physical. So I take them, we'll do those stuff. I make that a part of the experience

02:39for me. There's a big difference. I don't want to overload him. That is something that I deal

02:49with personally because I don't want to over inform him or give him so much, but it feels

02:55like you're putting pressure on him to understand things that he's not there yet. Because he's a

03:01young 12. I had already done a lot more experience. I was off to the races already by the time I was

03:09his age. I think it's the comfort of the environment that he's growing in. He got a lot

03:16of women around him. So my playing with him is a lot different. I'll throw him across the room

03:21onto the couch and do this and stuff. They're not picking him up doing that stuff, but he's having

03:26a ball out of it. Like, yo, if you heard his arm or you heard something, it's just a part of it.

03:33Yo, you almost broke my arm. Everybody happy to do it again. It's just the energy,

03:39our interactions are completely different.