Key Takeaways

50 Cent told Variety he felt no shame after his grandmother explained that his late mother, Sabrina Jackson, was gay.

He turned his childhood confusion into a vulnerable verse on “Hate It or Love It,” rapping about seeing his mother kiss a girl.

He said he and Jay-Z have never discussed their shared experience of having lesbian mothers, while noting that they reacted differently.

50 Cent is speaking openly about the day he understood that his late mother was gay, and he says the realization never carried any stigma for him.

"When your mom has friends around, you look at them and just see friends," he told Variety in a new interview. "As a child, I just saw two women hanging out. My grandmother informed me later that there was more going on and they weren't just friends, and I was like, 'Oh! Now I know what that was!'

“I'm not ashamed of that in any way,” he added.…