On April 1, 50 Cent posted on social media that Hulu had paid $75 million for a new documentary about his life, beating out Starz, Netflix, and Apple in a bidding war. The internet assumed it was an April Fool's joke. It was not.

Hulu has officially greenlighted a three-part documentary series on the life of Curtis Jackson, known worldwide as 50 Cent. The series, per Deadline, will trace Jackson's journey from growing up in South Jamaica, Queens, surviving being shot nine times, and building one of the most improbable and sustained empires in entertainment history.

The series will cover the full arc: the Queens childhood, the drug dealing, the nine bullets in 2000 that nearly killed him, the 2003 debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin' that launched one of the biggest careers in rap history, the business empire that followed, and the pivot to television and film. Per Variety, the logline calls it a "definitive" portrait of Jackson exploring "how he relentlessly reinvented himself across music, business, and film while redefining the rules of power, influence, and success."

The story of Curtis Jackson is one of the most documented and still somehow underexamined in hip-hop. He grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, raised largely by his grandmother after his mother was killed when he was eight. He started selling drugs as a teenager. At 24, he was shot nine times outside his grandmother's house and survived. Two years later, he released "In Da Club," which became one of the best-selling singles of all time. He sold more than 30 million records worldwide. He invested early in Glaceau Vitaminwater and walked away with a reported $100 million when Coca-Cola acquired the company. He built Power into one of Starz's most successful franchises. The doc has no shortage of material.

The series will be directed by Mandon Lovett, whose credits include "Boys in Blue" and "The French Montana Story: For Khadija." It is executive produced by Jackson himself through his G-Unit Film & Television banner, alongside Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman for IPC, with Patrick Altema also serving as showrunner, per Variety. Jackson's involvement as executive producer means this is not a doc made about him from the outside. He controls the frame.

The announcement comes off the back of 50 Cent's biggest documentary play to date. He produced Sean Combs: The Reckoning for Netflix, the bombshell Diddy documentary that reached number one on the platform, per Yahoo News. That success clearly proved his value in the documentary space and made the bidding war for his own story inevitable. He is now stepping from behind the camera and into it.

For Hulu, the deal adds to a growing slate of music documentaries that includes Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story and Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. A 50 Cent doc is a different kind of cultural bet, not legacy rock, but an origin story rooted in Black resilience, Queens grit, and the kind of self-made mythology that hip-hop has always run on.

No premiere date has been announced. Given 50 Cent's promotional track record, expect the rollout to be loud.