In this month’s edition of JET magazine, the man of many entertaining talents, Fifty cent dishes the dirt on his upcoming book ‘50 Cent Playground: The Mostly True Story of a Reformed Bully’. During the interview 50 explains that he wrote the book he hopes will encourage kids to think about the reasons behind bullying and how it impacts communities. He tells the American weekly urban magazine:

“I was [a bully] at different points during my childhood,” the 36-year-old shares. “I was dealing with my emotions the wrong way. From a child’s perspective, you don’t understand. As an adult, you get that’s not the way to deal with things.”

“The story follows Butterball, a youngster who hits a kid on the playground… with a sock full of batteries. Butterball comes from a broken household and is dealing with relocating and feelings of powerlessness. “It’s for everyone,” he adds”.

“My son is 15, and I have conversations with him about things like this. He isn’t being bullied, but he meets people who have expectations of him because of the aggressive energy that I have and the content of the material I create. They look at him like he’s supposed to be like that,” he shares. “But he’s not. He doesn’t even know what it feels like to need for something. When we didn’t have any money, he was too young to notice.”