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Before I Self Destruct (film)

Before I Self Destruct
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Directed by Curtis Jackson
Produced by Curtis Jackson (also executive producer)
J. Jesses Smith
Ken Kushner
Frank Mosca (associate producer)
Written by Curtis Jackson
Starring Curtis Jackson
Clifton Powell
Elijah Williams
Gabriel Ellis
Sasha Delvalle
Music by Curtis Jackson
Ky Miller
Victor Bruno
Stephen Tubin
Edited by Stephen Franciosa Jr
Ned Silhavy
Jimmy Higgins (co-editor)
Vilan Trub (post-production supervisor)
Production
company
Kreative Film Empire
Distributed by Cheetah Vision
Release date
  • November 23, 2009 (2009-11-23)
Running time
79 Minutes
Country United States
Language English

Before I Self Destruct is a 2009 American crime drama film starring Curtis Jackson, who also served as writer, director, producer and executive producer that is included with his fourth studio album of the same name. It was released on November 23, 2009 when the album was released 14 days earlier.

The film is about Clarence Jenkins (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson), who lives with his mom and his gifted brother Shocka (Elijah "Strong-E" Williams). Clarence loves basketball and had dreamed on making the pros in the championship. However, due to breaking his knee in the end, his basketball career ended before it begins. Basically, he has no way to earn a living and ends up working in a supermarket where he longs after pretty girls that he feels are beyond his reach as a stock person, where he also checks out a woman named Princess (Sasha Delvalle).

After his mother, Donna Jenkins (Kar) was accidentally shot and killed by a gunman named Tiny (Shorty Red) in a drive-by shooting when she was leaving a local bodega, Clarence has no idea what he can do to take care of his brother and prevent him from going into foster care when he got fired from his job, after getting caught for stealing a can of cookies that was caught on camera. He is stuck trying to find a way to take care of Shocka, who had already been accepted to all eight Ivy League universities.

In anger and frustration, he finds Tiny and kills him with a revolver that came from inside a shoe box, which was covered over a shirt, that was under Clarence's bed at his hotel room, after coming back from the local bodega to find an eviction notice on the hotel door. Clarence visits Sean (Clifton Powell), who is the local crime boss, to inform him that he killed Tiny who had previously worked for Sean. Sean decides that he likes Clarence's style and way he carries himself, so he hires Clarence to be his new hitman.

After obtaining financial success from his newly found criminal lifestyle, he runs into Princess, the beautiful woman from the supermarket, who had captivated his attention, yet he felt was unable to obtain her affection. Now that he makes hundreds of thousands of dollars and can support his brother, life is easier and so is the money, once he gets past his original shock at being a hired gun. He begins to develop a close bond with Princess and believes she feels the same. However, he is unable to see Princess' true motivations, as she is using him. Clarence bestows gold, diamonds and payback when Princess's ex-boyfriend Rafael (Gabriel Ellis) gets released from prison.


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