XXL MAGAZINE - August 2007 Issue (#94) COVER STORY / FEATURE ARTICLE: 50 Cent Reporting live from 50 Cent's grandmother's basement in the house 50 lived in until 2000, XXL Magazine interviews the general of the G-Unit empire and the recent recipient of a Vita-fortune. Taking 50 Cent back to his roots, the new School's iconic gangsta rap figure breaks it down, spitting the XXL truth on everything from G-Unit to VitaminWater to rap beefs and his upcoming Curtis. Here's some excerpts from the XXL interview (as taken from XXLMag.com): "XXL: So you were living here until when? 50 CENT: 2000. I got shot out front. I went and stayed in the Poconos after I got out of the hospital. It was me, my son's mom and my son. I had a place that we was staying in the Poconos. And then I came back here. Then when the record took off, I went from this space right here into a 65,000-square-foot home—Mike's house. But this is why I had to be that excessive. It had to be that big. XXL: What's the story behind this house? How long has it been in your family? 50 CENT: Prior to Get Rich or Die Tryin', this was the largest asset in my family. It's worth about $250,000. Now I got cars in my yard that cost $400,000. My grandmother don't stay here no more. I bought her a house in Long Island. I own, like, five other houses. XXL: And you wrote your new album down here? 50 CENT: Yeah. Curtis. XXL: It's musty, the floor isn't finished… Why did you come back here to write? 50 CENT: I mean, it just brings memories back to me. I'm in my old space, see old faces, things start feeling the way they used to. Being able to write material from a perspective I couldn't probably write [from] in any other space like that. And I was in one of those funky creative spaces where I couldn't come up with nothing… For me, when I come back here, it's like my feet are on the ground. I don't think nothing is more painful than having known what it feel like to be successful and then having it taken away from you. So on some levels, it's healthy for me to go 'head and come from the financial space that I'm in back to here, as a reminder, so I can actually appreciate what I've got." And more featured in Issue #94 - August 2007 Including: - LIL' BOOSIE & WEBBIE - FABOLOUS - BONE THUGS & HARMONY - SEAN KINGSTON - HURRICANE CHRIS - WC AND MONTHLY FEATURES: Eye Candy, Reviews, Fashion, Columns and more.