History YMMV / FiftyCent

* WTHCastingAgency: He pulls it off, but his casting as TheSmartGuy in ''Film/EscapePlan'' raised a few eyebrows.

** 50 threw a epically bad first pitch at a Mets game in 2014. For some reason, this incident follows him around. Although he did manage to regain a bit of respect for his good-natured self-deprecating "explanation" on why his pitch was so bad during a Website/{{Reddit}} AMA[[note]]He claimed that he had been [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating]] too much with that arm[[/note]].

** Comedian Creator/AzizAnsari is known for telling a stand-up anecdote where he allegedly eats at a restaurant and overhears that 50 Cent apparently [[CriticalResearchFailure does not know]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waCF81HdKAA the difference between between a grape and a grapefruit]]. 50 for his part has denied this.

* MemeticMutation: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwUR-_j16A This is a special ASL/ELS challenge for you, Floyd]]"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Rather than doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge properly back in 2014, 50 Cent instead chose to diss Floyd Mayweather by challenging to "read one full page of a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' book", and that he would donate $750k USD to whatever charitable organization Floyd desired if he completed the task, before throwing the bucket of ice onto the grass behind him. In addition to being part of the ongoing feud between 50 Cent and Floyd at the time, it has also become a snowclone for people across the internet to challenge someone to do something that they would realistically never do, either as a joke or as a way of dissing them.[[/labelnote]]

* MemeticMutation: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwUR-_j16A I This is a special ASL/ELS challenge for you, Floyd]]"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Rather than doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge properly back in 2014, 50 Cent instead chose to diss Floyd Mayweather by challenging to "read one full page of a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' book", and that he would donate $750k USD to whatever charitable organization Floyd desired if he completed the task, before throwing the bucket of ice onto the grass behind him. In addition to being part of the ongoing feud between 50 Cent and Floyd at the time, it has also become a snowclone for people across the internet to challenge someone to do something that they would realistically never do, either as a joke or as a way of dissing them.[[/labelnote]]

* FandomRivalry: His fans do not get along with fans of Music/KanyeWest (especially THAT moment in 2007), Music/RickRoss and Music/TheGame, the latter two who have thrown disses towards him back and forth (though Fifty and Game reconciled in 2016).

* OvershadowedByControversy: What ultimately made him fall off the map. While his beefing initially helped make his career, he just didn't know when to stop; coupled with his absolutely gigantic overexposure (for people who were too young to remember, 50 Cent and G-Unit were almost omnipresent in the early and mid-2000s beyond just "In da Club", "21 Questions", and "Candy Shop" playing everywhere; to say that they had a licensing deal in every corner isn't really an exaggeration), people were already getting tired of him by 2006, and while he still kept going after the Kanye beef blew up in his face and made him look like an idiot, the damage was done.

* OvershadowedByControversy: What ultimately made him fall off the map. While his beefing initially helped make his career, he just didn't know when to stop; coupled with his absolutely gigantic overexposure (for people who were too young to remember, 50 Cent and G-Unit were almost omnipresent in the early and mid-2000s beyond just "In da Club", "21 Questions", and "Candy Shop" playing everywhere; to say that they had a licensing deal in every corner isn't really an exaggeration), people were already getting tired of him by 2006, and while he still kept going after the Kanye beef blew up in his face and made him look like an idiot, the damage was done. After ''Curtis'' failed critically and commercially, the modern image of 50 Cent and G-Unit was set in stone: a pretentious, obnoxious loudmouth who could have avoided a mere fifteen minutes of fame if he had been smart about it, but instead kept short-sightedly milking his cash cow the same way that he had been doing it since 2002 even when he knew full well that that approach had a shelf life that was almost up.

** His appearance on ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'', with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bx-DBraNxc a parody trailer]] as [[Film/{{Maleficent}} Male]][[Pun FiftyCent]]...

** His appearance on ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'', with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bx-DBraNxc a parody trailer]] as [[Film/{{Maleficent}} Male]][[IncrediblyLamePun FiftyCent]]...

-->'''[=MaleFiftyCent=]:''' I've been shot nine times; I ain't scared of no white girl...

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhVA5p-nd9g These]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ-dFNyt3Ls&feature=related skits]] that diss Music/JaRule's singing. They are also HilariousInHindsight, since 50 has since been accused of the same thing just a few years later.
** Then his appearance on ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'', with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bx-DBraNxc a parody trailer]] as [[Film/{{Maleficent}} Male]][[IncrediblyLamePun FiftyCent]]...

* HoYay: His relationship with Music/{{Eminem}} is quite close.
** It's not hard to find images of them hanging over each other. Eminem has {{lampshade|Hanging}}d it.

* NeverLiveItDown: When set to released his third album ''Curtis'' on the same day as Music/KanyeWest's third album ''Graduation'' in September 2007, 50 infamously declared that if Kanye outsold him, he would retire from rapping. When Kanye's sales easily outdid 50's own, 50 backpedaled from his previous comments, and many hip-hop fans and journalists still mock him over it to this day.

** SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: However, the follow-up ''VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand'' was considered [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel a huge improvement]], with fun gameplay, a solid online co-op mode, great graphics, and [[SoBadItsGood a hilariously stupid plot]].

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhVA5p-nd9g These]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ-dFNyt3Ls&feature=related skits]] that diss JaRule's singing. They are also HilariousInHindsight, since 50 has since been accused of the same thing just a few years later.

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: He pulls it off, but his casting as TheSmartGuy in ''Film/EscapePlan'' raised a few eyebrows.

** 50 threw a epically bad first pitch at a Mets game in 2014. For some reason, this incident follows him around. Although he did manage to regain a bit of respect for his good-natured self-deprecating "explanation" on why his pitch was so bad during a Website/{{Reddit}} AMA[[note]]He claimed that he had been [[ADateWithRosiePalms masutrbating]] too much with that arm[[/note]].

* BrokenRecord: "Get It In". Yes, it's the name of the song, but how many times can one [[TitleDrop repeat a track name]] without going crazy?