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From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens by 50 Cent MTV Books, August 2005 $23, ISBN 0-743-48644-7

Before America was sold the music of rapper 50 Cent (nee Curtis James Jackson III), they were sold the brutal backstory he tells of his life.

So one wouldn't expect to find anything fresh or insightful in his memoir, From Pieces to Weight.

In this autobiography, 50 rehashes the story told in numerous magazine features of his growing up in the house of his grandparents, and then getting bit with entrepreneurial ambitions in the rap game.

Surprisingly, the exceptional moments of 50's story aren't in the lurid details, but in the wit and introspection.

With an intellectually observant voice, no doubt aided by the book's ghostwriter, music journalist Kris Ex, 50 makes his memoir socially relevant, weaving it around a supporting cast whose lives, like his, are