How Much Did 50 Cent Make Off Vitamin

Thirteen years ago a 25 year old up-and-coming rapper named Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson was shot nine times at point blank range while sitting in the back of a car outside of his grandmother's house. As if coming within a heartbeat of dying wasn't traumatizing enough, just a few weeks later 50 Cent's dreams of being a famous rapper were crushed when Colombia Records dropped him from the label and permanently shelved his upcoming debut album. Somehow, 50 Cent managed to re-build his physical and mental strength to the point where within a few years he was the number one rapper in the world with an album on its way to selling 15 million copies around the world. Amazingly, not only did 50 Cent take over the music world, he also launched an incredibly lucrative business empire that earned him a well-deserved nine-figure, $260 million fortune today. One of 50′s biggest paydays came after he famously took equity in place of a huge salary to promote the sport beverage company Vitamin Water. But how did a relatively young and extremely controversial artist like 50 Cent land that deal in the first place? And exactly how much money did 50 Cent make when Vitamin Water was eventually bought out by Coca-Cola?