[Applause] well welcome back there we go ladies and gentlemen my first guest tonight is an Emmy and Grammy award-winning rapper producer and entrepreneur he has just written a new novel The accomplice please welcome back to the Late Show Curtis 50 Cent Jackson [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good to see you good man happy be here it's nice to have you back Curtis it's it's nice to have you back it's been it's been too long I always appreciate this you take this gig seriously the three-piece suit the color coordination I got thank you thank you for the
respect thank you for the respect that you show by how nice you look I can't come out here and let you just outdo me I know you don't let anybody out do you you taught me that don't let anybody out do you you got to keep them down keep you got to keep them now uh you recently showed up at a Hollywood Reporter shoot and is this true because I got a photo here I want to know if this is actually real supposedly you're sitting on a bunch of money right here you showed up with
the shoot with 3.5 million dollar in cash yeah Ste I I was trying to mirror a a photo that I seen that Muhammad Ali took well this I we have this photo right here this is that there's Ali okay his million dollar getaway all RightWay uh getaway but you know I you know you know um they have Photoshop now why did why did you why did you have to be real for you or why couldn't you just put like a100 Bill on a stack of construction paper like same way I pay my taxes I like
how you act like you don't have a lot of money Stephen this is I I'm very comfortable I do fine I I do fine but I don't carry 3.5 million you're on season 10 you're on season 10 bro like you know he's posturing himself he's posturing himself this way so he doesn't have to give his relatives money I'm a man of the people Curtis I haven't forgotten my humble routs on a dirt road in South Carolina that's a good time to remember when your family's asking you you like no I was on a dirt road
how much do you want I'm guessing you don't carry a wallet to family reunions no what was the reaction of other people cuz this is real we're joking but this is real you walked in with 3.5 million in cash first of all how heavy is that that that's you when you watch a movie and it's like a bank robbery that's not real if they have when they put the money in the bag and then you see they run out like this yeah they're not you're not running it's about 70 77 PBS wow wow so you
walking out no machine gun no none of that you just going to walk out and just say if they didn't get me then yeah I made it is that why you work H is that why you work out to be able to lift that kind of money no no it's not an everyday type of thing I just wanted to make the picture good like make picture good okay you're here's here's talking about cash right here I gotta I got to I got to ask you about this on US Weekly here you are right there it
says up here in this cor a little bubble it says on the brink of being a billionaire yeah what does that's lovely I'm very happy for your success um what does on the brink mean like high sevens or what on the brink I mean we're all on the brink of being billionaires they're looking at they're looking at deals that I got going that that might pop you over the top really good deals because if you say if I don't have that kind of money that's exactly what I'm gonna say when they sue me you know
cuz you know the lawyers is coming these ambulance chases lawyers out here they you said you got a billion dollars they say oh those pockets are deep we are going to get him for anything they trip in front of you they' be like 50 he tried to kill me like so like 8:25 give me a number here I also like this and I got a follow-up question here on the bottom if we can get a close shot here it says right there right there it says is he really celibate 50 Cent are you celibate listen
when you calm down you can focus all right it's been good I've been good to me okay but what's the money for if you're Cel you know there's a a couple of motivating factors in our evolutionary biology and they don't include celibacy it's when things start getting complicated things start getting confusing because people comeing for different reasons and then if you like go on a date but you have no interest in anything you can kind of I can see you now I said goddamn girl you fine but you ain't got nothing going on oh but
so the intoxication of of a romantic desire clouds your ability to absolutely does Ste wow most men right right right yeah most of us mat man yeah yeah have you been married I asking me have you been married in the past I'm safe I'm not a happy hostage you've never been married no never ever been married I'm here man I'm free wow yeah free and I made some mistakes just not that [Laughter] one okay take me through a typical day of uh 50 Cent let's compare pair days I get up do the whle you I
get up I go to the gym go to the gym yeah like or in the house if I'm not I'll go work out there then do you lift bro yeah I do you LIF what you what do you what do you lift oh man I don't try to make this you try to make like I'm bragging no I'm just I'm just curious man I left I'm look it depends on what day it is if doing I'm doing chest and tries or back and bu but I'll break them up chest and tries let's keep it simple
baby are we on a machine are we in a bar are we doing like you know the reason why I 80 lb dumbbells what are we doing yeah I can get to about 105 lbs in the dumbbells 105 lb on dumbbells I was trying not to break I was trying it's impossible when your Curtis 50 when I was doing it but when I go early I go early because I can't call anym like I can't interrupt the workout to talk to people about what I'm thinking oh okay and that that happens if you go later
what time are we talking here like 8 o' if that's not bad that's pretty civilized 8 o00 yeah it's not terrible it's not crazy if you're not especially if you didn't if I hadn't had if I didn't have to be out late the night before and you're not cuz there are no women involved in this story you're just going home you're watching Wheel of Fortune on to having a warm milk and going to bed putting on your night shirt in your cap you make this sound like it's like the worst thing ever bro sounds lonely
is what I'm saying I need you I want you to have someone you can love in your life Curtis I want someone I can love in my life too I just don't not right now I'm fine it's just cool not getting any younger we're not getting any younger Curtis you got to find somebody someday the money goes away don't say that don't say that you do have a love in your life we have to take a quick break here but we're right back with more Curtis 50 Cent Jackson everybody [Music]