Timothée Chalamet’s Unexpected Childhood Connection to 50 Cent Proves He’s Always Had an Eclectic Soul

Timothée Chalamet might have a penchant for playing characters from the past (Little Women, The King, and even Marty Supreme), but his music taste has always been as modern as possible. He has made it rather evident throughout the years and even more during his promotional tour for A Complete Unknown.

Chalamet never fails to stun his fans, whether it is his choice of projects, his acting skills, or his taste in music. Recently, he revealed something that established a connection between his childhood self and the rapper 50 Cent. Needless to mention it is as surprising as some of the other facts about the Dune star.

Timothée Chalamet’s first record was one of 50 Cent’s albums

Timothée Chalamet was a teenager when he stepped foot in the entertainment industry as an actor in commercials. He starred in a few plays and even did several screen roles before he made his breakthrough with Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 romance drama Call Me By Your Name, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination.

In the past 8 years since then, he has risen through the ranks fast enough that he is soon going to be an A-lister if he continues with the career trajectory he currently has. From the blockbuster sci-fi franchise Dune to biographical films like A Complete Unknown and Marty Supreme, he has proved that he is worthy of the label of an A-list actor.

That said, his music taste is as eclectic as his taste in projects. That one viral video of his younger self doing a high school performance is still quite popular among netizens. An interesting fact that he has revealed about himself is the first 50 Cent record he got. In an interview for LADbible alongside his co-star Edward Norton, Chalamet asked Norton which was the first record he got and gave him 3 options.

The album was Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and Norton passed the friendship test as he guessed it right in the first chance. The other two options were Confessions by Usher and Monkey Business by Black Eyed Peas. Chalamet was impressed with the options that had been chosen and with Norton picking the right album name.

Timothée Chalamet was quite young when he got the Get Rich or Die Tryin’ record

Chalamet’s love for rap or hip-hop music has been no secret. Last month, he hit Soulja Boy’s iconic dance from his groundbreaking 2007 track Crank That during an interview with YouTuber Brittany Broski (via The Wrap). A week or so later, he posted a video of a 14-minute Instagram live in which he could be seen dancing alone to I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas.

In a 2019 interview with W magazine (via Inquirer.net), he disclosed that he was only 7 or 8 years old when his mother let him buy 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ album.

First record I got was at Tower Records in New York, and I was 7 or 8 … we were in there because my sister was getting a record, and my mom went in there with me. I picked up 50 Cent’s ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’.’ It had the parental advisory sticker on it.

Despite his sister’s disapproval, Chalamet’s mother let him get the album for which the star thanked his mother because that was the album he listened to from the ages of 7 to 9. This has certainly had a huge impact on his music taste.