GENRE

To which genre does the text belong?
The movie has a hybrid genre, mainly it is an action movie because it includes many crimes happening, and also the genre can be musical because there is a lot of use of 50Cent's music tracks so that is promoting his songs in some ways and because the movie is mainly based on the life of the rapper 50 cent.
it can also be romantic when he meets his girlfriend and they get married and have a child, when they show them together.

Does the text feature a star, a director, a writer etc who is strongly associated with the genre? What meanings and associations do they have?
The movie features (Curtis) 50Cent's life and that is associated with the musical genre because his proper music is played on, which is promoted in the movie, Action is associated with his life due to the crimes and murders that he faced, and that association of the genre with the text is to show the audience how he was able to become a famous rapper after facing all of those problems, the cations is therefore to show how he was involved in crimes etc...
the musical genre of the movie is there to promote his music and also associated within the scenes to show how he became a rapper and how he actually started his career.