50 Cent Makes Extra Cash Shoveling Snow

Rapper 50 Cent was determined to get rich or die shoveling Monday after a gigantic year-end blizzard dumped heavy snow on the whole East Coast, and he enlisted a posse of neighborhood kids to help him with his latest business venture.

“I’m going out to shovel snow and see if I can make me a few extra dollars today. I’m charging more if they want to take pictures,” the millionaire MC tweeted on the day of the blizzard. “I want a hundred dollars per house. I bet anybody ill make a grand moving snow today.”

50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, wasn’t kidding, and he was soon posting photos of himself shoveling snow in his Farmington, Conn., neighborhood.

“I got 4 people on one street to agree to my fee after they saw the first job I did,” he wrote. “Now I’m looking for employees.”

He found some young employees, whom he hired at a generous $30 an hour, and put his business savvy to work. “One is a cute kid he has on a snow suit. So I’m sending him to ring the door bell to ask if we can shovel there snow,” he wrote. “When you look at his eyes its hard to tell him no … then I come to tell them how much they have to payus.”

Some fans tweeted praise of his entrepreneurial spirit, and one offered to spread salt but not shovel — for which 50 would only pay five dollars — while another was concerned about the safety of the whole operation.

“Where are your gloves?” a follower asked. “I don’t want your hands to get cold!”

“I JUST GOT SOME,” 50 replied.