Cents has been in the music industry for a while, yet even after twenty years, he continues to make significant musical achievements.
The G-Unit song “In Da Club,” from 2003, became his first song on the streaming service to achieve one billion streams on December 14 (via Chart Data).
Next month marks the song’s 20th anniversary, and its cultural impact hasn’t diminished. The official music video became the most-watched rap video on YouTube in July after surpassing 1.5 billion views.
During his appearance at the Super Bowl LVI Pepsi Show in February, 50 Cent also sang the song, and he even brought the tank top and headband he used to wear while performing with G-Unit back in the 2000s.
In 2021, when the song turned 18, 50 Cent claimed that it was still receiving up to 1,000 spins per week on radio stations.
“Hey, you ain’t gonna believe this one, but 18 years ago today I dropped a song I recorded in LA, and it’s still spinning 1,000 times a week on the radio,” he wrote on Instagram. “I tell @eminem I love him for what he did for me, he put me on.”
The song’s music video was also filmed in Los Angeles, and rapper Bizarre from D12 recently told a wild tale about how the now-incarcerated Suge Knight tried to frighten 50 on the set.
“It was like a standoff,” Bizarre said in a conversation with Math Hoffa over the summer. “I know it sounds like a fucking made-up movie but it’s really true. We were shooting the ‘In Da Club’ video, and somebody said, ‘Suge Knight here!’ And I was at the bar, the gang was there … and they stopped and Suge came in with 30 Mexicans, like you said, which is weird. And I just remember … Smurf or 50 was like, ‘What’s up man? Whatchu wanna do?’
“Suge looked at him and he took a puff of his cigar, and he blew it out and he did like this and he left,” Bizarre continued. “Just some LA-type shit, intimidation-type shit.”
Regarding his ongoing dominance of television, 50 Cent recently disclosed that his upcoming series will focus on notorious New York City criminal leader Clarence “The Preacher” Heatley.
In 1983, Clarence “The Preacher” Heatley established his criminal organization. To gain notoriety for The Preacher Crew, the group engaged in drug sales, extortion, kidnapping, and even murder in New York City. Heatley was called “the black head of death” because of the brutality of his reign of terror.
