50 Cent.While this space is generally reserved for world-class models, good-looking actors and others who make a beautiful statement by simply waking up in the morning, we are willing to make an exception for 50 Cent. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Certainly, he stands as an exception. He started dealing cocaine at age 12, has been shot nine times, lost his single-parent mother at age 8 and wears a bulletproof Refers to extremely stable hardware and/or software that cannot be brought down no matter what unusual conditions arise. See industrial strength. bulletproof - Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robust; lossage-resistant; capable of correctly vest in public, yet the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. native ranks as one of the top-selling acts in music today and owns the largest residential home on the U.S. East Coast (He bought Mike Tyson's former Connecticut mansion after his debut album went platinum). Straight out of Queens, the intrepid Curtis Jackson III released "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" last year and saw it break a single-week record in sales, selling 1.5 million copies. It went on to top the 6-million mark by the end of the summer and became so popular that the hit track "In Da Club" was informally renamed "In Da Car" for its constant play on the street. The 27-year-old star has since launched a clothing and sneaker line and gone on a worldwide tour, stopping in Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi in March. Although he only sang for one hour, his presence electrified the crowd, albeit a timid one by hard-core rap standards, largely consisting of middle-class teenagers from Del Valle and other bedroom communities in the Valley of Mexico The Valley of Mexico is a highlands plateau in central Mexico roughly coterminous with the present-day Distrito Federal and the eastern half of the State of Mexico. Surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, the Valley of Mexico was a center for several pre-Columbian civilizations, . The world's hottest rapper strutted onto stage to his tune "What Up, Gangster?" and saw an audience created in his likeness. The sight must have been arresting for the former convict (the one-time drug dealer copped a plea at 19 after being arrested with half a kilo Thousand (10 to the 3rd power). Abbreviated "K." For technical specifications, it refers to the precise value 1,024 since computer specifications are based on binary numbers. For example, 64K means 65,536 bytes when referring to memory or storage (64x1024), but a 64K salary means $64,000. of cocaine), seeing some 12,000 chilangos singing his lyrics word for word while outfitted in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Knick jerseys and do-rags. But apparently he felt at home, dropping down into the audience several times during his 70-minute, nonstop performance to dance with some of the adoring ladies. He also performed without his de rigueur de ri·gueur adj. Required by the current fashion or custom; socially obligatory. [French : de, of + rigueur, rigor, strictness. bulletproof vest, content that no Queens gangbangers were lurking See lurk. (messaging, jargon) lurking - The activity of one of the "silent majority" in a electronic forum such as Usenet; posting occasionally or not at all but reading the group's postings regularly. on the floor of Palacio de los Deportes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To a man who was recently quoted in a Playboy interview as saying "I'd rather get caught with a gun than without one" and reflected on growing up in a "rats-in-a-box" environment in which the "object was to be the biggest (expletive) problem in the neighborhood," the warm welcome in a foreign land must have been reassuring. As he romped through his popular track, "P.I.M.P.," he smiled, revelling in the fact that there are still new markets to conquer. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] --M.B. |
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