50 Cent: Always The Lion In The Room

ON MEETING the rapper and business mogul 50 Cent, the first thing you notice is that he's a lot smaller than he looks onstage. In live performance, his muscular physique seems almost implausibly pumped up – rather as an iguana will inflate itself with air, so it can fall from a considerable height without hurting itself. In person he is a more contained but still commanding presence; impeccably polite and even jovial.