According to 50 Cent, marriage is good for you, but not for him. The hip-hop mogul sat down with Stephen Colbert The Late Show on Wednesday night (September 4) to comment on his happily celibate lifestyle, as well as doubling down on his vow of celibacy that he claims has allowed him to stay extremely focused.
“Listen, when you calm down you can focus,” 50 said when Colbert read a recent magazine headline touting the near-billionaire's sexless lifestyle. “I was good to myself.” Colbert wondered what the money was for then, if not to share it with the love of his life, with 50 (born Curtin Jackson) explaining:[Money is] When things start to get complicated, things start to get confusing, “because people come for different reasons.”
When Colbert asked the father of two if he had ever been married, the 50-year-old told him, “I'm safe. I am not a happy hostage. I'm here. I am single. I made some mistakes, not this one.” Colbert, who often touts his undying love for his wife of 31 years, Evie, asked what life is like as a single man, after explaining that it usually starts with Wordle.
50 said he goes to the gym or works out at home, trying not to brag as he occasionally mentioned that he usually grabs 105kg dumbbells. Colbert sweetly suggested that Curtis' solitary lifestyle sounds, well, lonely. “I want you to have someone you can love in your life, Curtis,” Colbert said.
“I want someone I can love in my life too, just not now, I'm fine,” the 50-year-old assured him.
Colbert also posted an adorable photo of 50 Cent chilling with his 12-year-old son, Sire Jackson, at the little man's birthday this weekend. “What do you think it's like to have 50 Cent as a father?” Colbert wondered. “Great,” the rapper said with a big smile, describing a special steakhouse dinner he had for his son that included a pop-in from Dr. power.
The interview also included 50 running what the audience was like in Almaty, Kazakhstan when he first appeared there on the Final Lap tour last year. “They don't know I'm not Michael Jackson… it was so cool. It was unbelievable,” said the 50-year-old, recalling how fans chased his car as if it were in fact the late King of Pop.
The multi-hyphenate 50 was ostensibly at home to promote his debut novel, The Accomplicewhich the “In Da Club” MC said he essentially dictated to writer Aaron Philip Clark based on a rough outline he had. And, being a 50-something media mogul, he said he's already in talks with some TV networks to pick up the story about Texas' first Black Ranger hunting down master criminal Desmond Bell.
Watch 50 at The Late Show below.
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