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...drug dealer, was murdered when he was 8. By age 12 he had escaped his grandmother's supervision and was selling crack. "I wrote rhymes too," he says. "I loved music, but I never saw a way to break into it." In 1996 he met neighborhood legend Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ from Run-D.M.C. From that point until his shooting death last year, Jay acted as 50's mentor and promoter, with an eye toward a future payday. "He was really patient with me," says 50, who was questioned by police following Jay's murder...
...signed a deal with Columbia Records. (Jam Master Jay got a reported $50,000 of the $65,000 advance.) While Columbia spent the next two years figuring out how to market him, 50 marketed himself, releasing a bootleg single called How to Rob, in which he fantasized about ripping off every hip-hop star from Jay-Z to Mariah Carey. "Making that song was not a creative decision," he says. "People who sell a lot of records have a lot of diamonds and a lot of cars. I wanted those, but I also wanted to get those people's attention...
Eliot House Master Lino Pertile, who was at the CHL meeting, said he would support the resolution...
Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson said that he wants to talk with Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans and the other masters before he decides whether he will support the trial period...
...haven’t heard the discussion,” said Cabot House Master James H. Ware. “This is the first moment I’ve heard about it, that it’s even on the agenda...