Meet The Team Behind 50 Cent’s Money

The hip hop entourage isn’t what it used to be. Finally rappers (well at least the more succesful and enterprising ones) are starting to replace those iced out, gun-toting yes man for a skilled team of business-managers, marketers and publicists.

Forbes Magazine profiles 50 Cent’s new entourage who enabled him to pull in $150 million (pretax) last year and helped him oversea his various business ventures. Meet the people who made it possible for fif to have the clothing, sneakers, movies, videogames, ringtones, a record label, international tours and, soon, a line of dietary supplements.

Chris Lighty
Manager

Fifty’s right-hand man, involved in all licensing, joint venture deals; blocks bad endorsements. Has his own talent management agency, Violator.

Nikki Martin
G-Unit VP

Oversees stable of artists on Fifty’s record label. Helps run his 250,000- member ThisIs50.com, a social network and fan club.

Barry Williams
Brand Manager

Chief communicator. Keeps all of Fifty’s businesses informed of his latest mandates. Also helps scout out new investments.

Keesha Johnson
Publicist

Fields press inquiries; sets up interviews, photo shoots. Also flacks for Sean (Diddy) Combs and Kimora (Life in the Fab Lane) Lee Simmons.

Laurie Dobbins
Violator Coo

Works under Lighty, handles Fifty’s day-to-day operations and those of other artists managed by Violator.

Theodor Sedlmayr
Attorney

Takes care of all licensing, contracts, trademarks. Keeps his boss far from trouble.
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Comment by cashvilles don on June 16, 2008 at 4:06pm: i used to like 50 but i see how he"s doing buck supreme should have offed him better than that throw him a bananna and tell him to go play monkey azz nigga

Comment by Killmatic on June 16, 2008 at 8:08pm: This is the kinda team I need to run with. They sound like they live in nice safe neighborhoods and have a lot of money to spend w/o the paranoia...

Comment by jaynic on June 16, 2008 at 10:23pm: thats whats good he is doin it right I tell these young boys everyday its 95% business and 5% skills wake up nigga

Comment by Jamey Tomund Davis on June 17, 2008 at 2:32am: that's real talk, but hey you got's to get money

Comment by LUNGZ on June 17, 2008 at 12:42pm: Seeing the bigger picture is a beautiful thing.

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Comment by cashvilles don on June 26, 2008 at 11:41pm: itz cool on the biz but remember what goes up must come down and the people you meet going up your gonna see coming down dont burn your brigdes and keep it 1oo all the time cause this is rap and these streets is real i live in these streets

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