50 Cent.... what a goofy name.

The guy has no acting talent at all and brings down any movie he is in.

I don't think it matters what he goes by. Sometimes he's credited as Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, just like they do with Dwayne The Rock Johnson, everyone knows who they are so it doesn't affect their career negatively by sticking to their original stage names that got them famous. If anything it helps by bringing in their original fan base. And it's not like actors use their real names half the time either anyway.

50 Cent has great talent for self promotion, but has no acting talent at all.

And who shared Executive Producer credit for The Frozen Ground?

You have to admit, it's the nickname that sticks in your head.

I always reference a response Chris Bridges gave before an interview regarding a film in which he had a significant role. Introduced to the audience as Ludacris, he quickly retorted (I'm paraphrasing, thus no quotes!):

My name is Chris Bridges, I am an actor. Ludacris is a persona, another character I portray when rapping.

Many people (including some budding hip-hop artists themselves) don't seem to "get" that these extremely successful professionals create bigger-than-life caricatures that hide the savvy business personality behind it all.

There's that, and I think some cultures just prefer nicknames. When I was a kid, if my mom called me by my full name, instead of my nickname, it probably meant I was in big trouble.

Years later, I met another adult man who's nickname was "fool". He hadn't been introduced to us that way, but as his neighbors greeted him, one-by-one, "Good Morning, Fool!" "How are you today, Fool" "Nice weather we're having Fool" "Fool, do you have the time?"

It was mind-bendingly hilarious!

And you know what? He owned it (whether or not he earned it!)

Shakespeare wrote, "What's in a name..." expressing the understanding hundreds of years ago, that what a person is called has little (if anything) to do with who they are.



"For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody BEFORE they do something horrible. Alright?"

Nicolas Cage is a fake name too ^^

speaking of goofy what about the dreads he was rocking in this!

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

Whats hurting 50 Cents career is him 'trying' to act. He is plain awful. As a smart business man he should understand a bad investment when he sees one. He has no skill in the movie game, as an actor or as an executive producer. Him trying to cast himself in his own funded project is namely what destroys them. Maybe 50 should do what Usher did and find a Beiber type talent or Lil Wayne with YMCMB. Either way, the movie industry is just not working for him, its different from back in the day when casting wasn't a thing the audience was aware of. We as viewers know he stinks as an actor, we're educated in film and the art of acting, so when you put a 50 cent performance up against the 500 or so movies people have seen in their lives, his horrendous acting stands out like dog turd, 50 needs to just drop this whole thing and f&*k off. If hollywood allows people with money to fund and cast themselves in movie after movie then we'll start seeing the next James Bond as Sir Richard Brandson or Gladiator 2 starring Donald Trump.

Nicolas "Cage" isn't his real name. I mean, it's whatever they want to do. Like someone mentioned above, at least The Rock changed that ridiculously laughable name to Dwayne Johnson.

Some people go from bad to worse of course. Snoop Lion, namely.