From Pieces to Weight - Review by Tristan Heisler

From Pieces to Weight

By 50 Cent

Reviewed by Tristan Heisler

From Pieces to Weight Review

            I’ve never been to Southside Queens, but the author and rapper, 50 Cent, gave me the feeling I was walking along side of him down the street in the autobiography about his life.  The story of the life in Southside Queens is told by 50 Cent himself in From Pieces to Weight.

            There were many reasons I enjoyed reading this book.  The main reason was because it wasn’t just some made up story by someone that knows nothing about what they are talking about.  50 Cent is a well known rapper, and a lot of people would love to hear his story.  I like that in this book he holds back on absolutely nothing; he tells the straight up truth.

            50 Cent starts telling the story about his childhood.  He tells how all of these people around him are making tons of money without a job and he does not understand how it is happening.  When he realized what they were doing and finally put all the puzzle pieces together, he wanted in on it.

            When 50 Cent was younger his mother was not around because she was out selling drugs.  He rarely saw his mother, and then one day he never saw her again. That puts a rough patch in his life, and makes his life devastating.

            From Pieces to Weight shows how 50 Cent goes through many complications in his life.  “I can remember when there was no such thing as crack” (50 Cent).  That is the first line in the book, and just from that you can see that this man has a messed up life.

            50 Cent is really the only character in the book that you actually get to know much about.  He is writing his own autobiography about how he made it through his rough life.  He shows that he is really the only one that stands up for himself.  I believe that the theme of this book is that no matter what life brings on you, you can get through it.  You  just need the will.

            In From Pieces to Weight by 50 Cent basically explains how you have to fend for yourself in the ghetto.  In the ghetto they say you have to get rich or die trying.  50 Cent shows how this phrase becomes true in his life.

            50 Cent becomes a drug dealer at a young age, but when he wants to get out of that business, he can’t.  He becomes a very well known dealer.  He realizes he wants to get out around the time that the dealing becomes life threatening.

            If you would like to find out the true life story about 50 Cent and how he survived the rough patches in his life, I recommend you read From Pieces to Weight.