50 Cent, Back In The Day
Before stardom, rapper sold crack from moll's underpants
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50 Cent, Back In The Day
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50 Cent, Back In The Day
NOVEMBER 11--With 'Get Rich or Die Tryin',' the 50 Cent biopic, now in theaters, it's a fine time to recall the days before the rapper/actor went platinum and he made money selling cocaine and heroin. And while the bullet-riddled 50 (real name: Curtis Jackson) has crafted a tough-guy persona, he actually made a girl do the dirty work. In fact, his 16-year-old accomplice hid their crack cocaine stash in her underpants, according to New York court records that reveal Jackson was arrested twice in 1994 on felony drug charges. On June 29, Jackson and Taiesha Douse, his teenage cohort, were nailed for selling four vials of cocaine to an undercover NYPD officer. According to court records--which you'll find on the first four of the following nine pages--Jackson steered the cop to Douse, who carried out the hand-to-hand transaction. When searched, Douse was found to be hiding 36 vials of crack in her panties and had 12 packets of heroin in a pants pocket, an NYPD evidence voucher shows. A lab analysis showed the pair's product to be 83.6 percent pure, so to speak. Jackson was nailed again on July 19, when cops--executing a search warrant at his Queens home--discovered heroin and crack (rocks were hidden in a boot and a dresser drawer), drug packaging material, and a starter gun, which cops found sitting on top of a safe in Jackson's bedroom. Jackson pleaded out to both cases and was hit with a concurrent sentence of 3-9 years in prison. But the wannabe star, 19 at the time, avoided hard time, instead spending only seven months in a youth 'shock incarceration' boot camp in upstate Beaver Dams. Jackson's parole term ended in January 2001.
