Life indeed is not about how you begin, but how you end it!

American Rapper, Curtis James Jackson III popularly known as 50 Cent-has revealed that conditions in the early part of his life were very unpleasant.

The 40-year-old rapper in a recent interview with Big Issue disclosed that he started dealing with drugs at the age of 12.

50 Cent who also began boxing at about age 11, says he cannot write his success story without mentioning the name of his late grandmother who helped him to lay the foundation of his life.

“At 16 I had already been involved in street life for years [50 Cent started dealing drugs at 12]. I was aggressive enough to get by on the street – but then I’d go home and be my grandmother’s baby. I was outside hustling but I still had to talk my grandmother into letting me walk home from school myself. I said to her, look, I’m bigger than you now.

“I’ve seen a lot of people pass in the neighbourhood, I’ve lost them to motorcycles or altercations or drugs,” he said. “But none of them impacted like when my grandmother died. She was the love of my life.”

“If I could talk to my teenage self, I’d tell him to focus on music with a stronger intensity. He could still have this career without going through all the things I went through,” he said. “And thinking about relationships — I think back to when I was with someone and that person could have been the person I was going to be with for the rest of my life but I didn’t have the references yet to know there was something special there. It’s like the clarity I got about my grandmother after she was gone. Some people have been better at that than me. If I look at Jay Z, I’d point out he capitalized on people better than I did.”