50 Cent Owes Career To Jam Master Jay

50 CENT has credited JAM MASTER JAY with his successful career, insisting it was the late hip-hop DJ who showed him how to make music. The In Da Club hitmaker is currently promoting his documentary The Life And Death Of Jam Master Jay, about the Run DMC star, which is one of the first projects produced by his new production company Cheetah Vision. And the star - real name Curtis Jackson - maintains he wouldn't have been able to launch the new film venture if Jam Master Jay, who was shot to death in 2002, hadn't taught him his trade. 50 Cent initially struggled to land a record deal because album labels were intimidated by his past as a drug dealer - but Jay, real name Jason William Mizell, signed him to his own label and taught him to "count bars, write choruses (and about) song structure". He tells the New York Daily News, "Jay was a mentor. Heâ