The location where 50 Cent was shot

This is the location where 50 Cent was shot.

It is situated outside his grandmother's former home at 140-52 161st Street in Jamaica, New York.

Shooting

At approximately 12 p.m. on May 24, 2000, 50 Cent was entering a friend's car when a gunman ambushed him with a 9mm handgun.

The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was shot nine times.

The incident occurred roughly three years before his debut studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', propelled him to fame.

A fragment from one of the bullets hit Jackson in the tongue, leaving him with a distinctively slurred voice.

Following the failed hit, his friend, who also suffered a bullet wound to his hand, drove them both to the hospital.

Despite receiving close-range hits to his face and chest, Jackson managed to survive the attack. After spending nearly two weeks in the hospital, he moved to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, where he remained for the next five months recovering from his injuries.

Darryl Baum

The gunman who allegedly shot 50 Cent was a gang associate named Darryl Baum.

Baum was a close friend of boxer Mike Tyson, as the pair had spent time at a juvenile center together.

In early 2000, 50 Cent recorded a song called "Ghetto Quran," which mentioned the criminal activities of a drug lord named Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff:

"Yo, when you hear talk of the Southside, you hear talk of the team. See n****s feared Prince and respected Preme."

This line referenced the "Supreme Team," a drug syndicate that McGriff founded in the 1980s.

McGriff was reportedly unhappy about his name and organization being mentioned in a song.

The gangster had close ties to a record label called Murder Inc., which he was using to launder money. Two months before the shooting, 50 Cent got into an altercation with several associates of the record label.

Consequently, Supreme ordered a hit on the rapper.

Baum, who was nicknamed "Hommo" for "homicide," was the gunman who allegedly attempted to carry out the contract.

Roughly two weeks after the shooting, Baum was shot dead in retaliation for the killing of Myron Hardy, a co-founder of the Cash Money Brothers (CMB) gang in Lafayette Gardens.

In 2003, 50 Cent referenced Baum in his song "Many Men (Wish Death)":

"In the Bible, it says what goes around, comes around. Hommo shot me, three weeks later he got shot down."

Grandmother's house

Jackson spent his formative years at this address. He moved into the residence at the age of eight, following the death of his mother, Sabrina.

Sabrina was a drug dealer who gave birth to Jackson when she was 15 years old.

He later followed in her footsteps.

By the age of 12, he was selling drugs when his grandparents thought he was at after-school programs.

At 18, he was charged with felony drug offenses after the police raided this address and discovered heroin and crack cocaine.

Facing a maximum prison sentence of nine years, Jackson agreed to serve six months in a correctional boot camp in upstate New York.

His grandmother passed away in September 2014.