I can pull up 50 shit from before 98. I say 98 because that's when a real buzz was being created around his name and music. That's why he was getting dissed by Hov in 99/2000, he was getting dissed by Pun and Ghostface 99/2000.
I'm not saying when they first picked up a mic, i'm talkin about when they started buzzing in hip hop.
If you listened to hip hop in 99/2000 you knew who 50 was cuz he was being mentioned on classic albums, i'm not talkin about Ross making songs that only 13 people heard.
"Im about a dollar , wtf is 50 cent"