50 Cent On His Hollywood Firsts: From 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' To 'Power' & Why He Doesn't Trust LA | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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50 Cent sat down on the set of his Hollywood Reporter cover shoot to reflect on his "Hollywood Firsts," from attending his first red carpet after 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' to working on 'Power' and more.

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00:00Don't trust nobody.

00:01In Hollywood, specifically, when you get there,

00:03a lot of people don't know how to say no.

00:05That's the difference between New York City and California.

00:08New Yorkers, they tell you no.

00:10And in California, they don't know how to tell you no.

00:12So you talk to the person and say,

00:14yeah, let's work on this project together.

00:16It'd be a fucking great guy.

00:17And then next thing you know, the movie is actually shooting.

00:20Nobody called to tell you that you're not in the movie.

00:23Hey, what's up?

00:24This is 50 Cent hanging with The Hollywood Reporter.

00:26And you're about to hear my Hollywood first.

00:30Well, the first movie I saw that made me want to make movies was Scarface.

00:34I watched the movie. It was exciting.

00:36It's like, it's one of those things where in urban culture,

00:39they would look at it and say, insert me here in the role that Pacino was playing in the film.

00:44But it's really about trust issues.

00:46But he developed trust issues through his whole journey.

00:49And it was like, it's one of those cool films

00:51because it was real human activity and behaviors and imperfections in it that made me relate to it.

00:57The first song soundtrack I listened to was Superfly.

01:00It was Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack for Superfly.

01:03It was probably the best soundtrack made to a film period.

01:06The first television show I watched over and over was Dukes of Hazards.

01:10That was what Fast and Furious is now for these kids.

01:14That was my Fast and Furious back then.

01:16First time I acted, oh, I was getting ready to get my ass whooped for my grandmother.

01:21And I was acting like I didn't do what she said I did.

01:25That was the first time.

01:26And I gave a great performance.

01:28And it spared me.

01:32The first time I stepped on the set was, it wasn't my video.

01:36It was someone else's music video.

01:37I was just there to see what was going on.

01:40It was React. It was with Onyx.

01:42The first time Curtis began 50 Cent was when, it's in the music.

01:48It's in the process of, because you start to put your best foot forward first.

01:53Like when we meet people, they don't see your imperfections.

01:56They see what you're presenting, the best part of you.

01:59And through the music, I was doing that.

02:02Instinctively, we do it, all of us.

02:04The first time I attended the red carpet was, that was after Get Rich or Die Tryin'.

02:10It was actually the award shows for that album.

02:14Well, Get Rich or Die Tryin' was that.

02:16Like that was my story.

02:17And it was easy for me to put it together because I was in a camp that had already had the success of 8 Mile.

02:24I had Terry Winters.

02:25He went on to write the Sopranos and Wolf on Wall Street, like Jim Sheridan.

02:30You know, my left foot, only in America.

02:33The first collaborator I worked with that I was most in sync with, it was easily for me to sync up with Mobb D.

02:39It was like, we could take the same track, go in two different rooms and we would be writing things that fit.

02:45If we put them onto a song and it was because they had that, their music was Queens based.

02:50We could be, not even hear what each other did, take it and put it together on a song and it would match.

02:56The first person I met that left me starstruck was, I've been starstruck a lot of times.

03:02There was certain people that was like big to me that didn't matter to other people, like Roger from What's Happening.

03:08I remember I ran into him, it was me, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheeto and Roger from What's Happening.

03:15The first time I spent a lot of money on something was my grandmother.

03:18When I got, when I did the deal with Em this time, I had money before and it kind of got away from me.

03:25So as soon as I did the deal this time, the first thing I did was buy a hard car.

03:31And then my grandfather said he went to work, he worked hard and your mama brainwashed my kids.

03:38Because I got a hard car and I didn't get him a car so I ended up going to get him a car.

03:43I took care of people who took care of me when I couldn't take care of myself.

03:46And it was more valuable to me to be able to do that.

03:50Well, the first time I realized I could pursue things outside of music, you couldn't pursue things outside.

03:57The first time I realized that you couldn't pursue things outside of music,

04:02but there's a point that you have a, your career works in that way and entertainment looks at you that way.

04:10So you kind of got to stay in that box for a little while and then it took time.

04:14It took for me not to release music for a while for people to even take the things that I was doing behind the camera.

04:20The first project that I took on that surprised everyone was Power.

04:25And it's because, you know, it's number one in African-American and Latino households for 10 years now, the series.

04:31It isn't losing any momentum.

04:34I was looking for a title that represented me overall, and it was for fragrance.

04:41Later, when it came time to name the series, I named it Power, but it could have been Choices.

04:47Like that was, it was the life choices.

04:50I've received bad reviews through my entire career.

04:52Like everything that I've done has received bad reviews.

04:55They wanted to be what they'd like it to be in pop culture.

04:59And the culture loves things that have been damaged or bruised by the experience.

05:04The first opportunity I turned down and I regret it, man.

05:11It was a Spanish woman I met.

05:13I can't believe I did that.

05:15I am so stupid.

05:16I don't know what I was thinking.

05:18I don't know. I make a lot of mistakes.

05:22I just don't stick to them.

05:24I just don't carry them with me to feel like I regret them.

05:27Don't trust nobody.

05:28In Hollywood, specifically, when you get there, a lot of people don't know how to say no.

05:32That's the difference between New York City and California, specifically.

05:37Because New Yorkers that tell you no, and so many people on top of people, they'll just avoid you.

05:42Like they don't even want your conversation and get away from you.

05:45You know, like you go to Southern markets, they're like, hey, how you doing?

05:48Like that hospitality thing.

05:50It doesn't exist in New York the same.

05:52In California, they don't know how to tell you no.

05:55So you'll talk to the person and say, yeah, let's work on this project together.

05:59It'd be a fucking great guy.

06:00And the next thing you know, the movie is actually shooting.

06:03Nobody called to tell you that you're not in the movie.

06:06But it's the truth.

06:07They don't want you to remember them as the person that they said no to when you could potentially be the next person.

06:14And then you hold it against them because they told you no.

06:17I understand it, but I'll just say no when I'm not going to do it.

06:21I'm just going to say no.

06:23I would say the first moment that you feel like you've accomplished something in Hollywood is a point that you haven't actually made it.

06:33You just got something going.

06:36So if you just have one, it's just one.

06:38You have to have consistency for it to mean something.

06:42All right.

06:43Thanks for listening to my Hollywood First.

06:45Catch you later.

06:46Hollywood Reporter.

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