50 Cent is often called by his nickname, “Fiddy”… 50 Cent says in his autobiography that he borrowed his name from a local robber, a “stickup kid from Brooklyn”… The rapper announced in March of 2003 that he’d had a special bullet-proof jacket made for his six-year-old son… 50 Cent swapped insults with rapper Ja Rule in an ongoing public feud throughout the early 2000s.