50 Cent was brought up on the streets, and therefore he’s not a man you want to mess with – he’s gangsta, he knows how to hold a grudge.

Cross 50 Cent and you’ll know. You’re entire family will know it. Everyone you’ve ever cared for will know it. Unless, you know, it’s a dispute that can be peacefully mediated in a courtroom within the space of about five minutes, because if that’s the case 50 Cent will probably just do that instead.

And that’s just what 50 Cent did yesterday, to settle a custody agreement over visitation rights to his 12-year-old son Marquise. In the agreement 50 Cent will spend more time with Marquise, and that’s important. Not because a boy of Marquise’s age needs a strong father figure, though – but because now 50 Cent has even more time to relentlessly apologise for deciding to name him something as crap as Marquise.

If you’ve seen Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, you’ll know how much 50 Cent has been through. But you haven’t seen Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ because you can read, and we suspect that the movie was for the medically illiterate only.

So, to fill you all in, 50 Cent has been involved with guns and drug dealing, his mother was murdered when he was eight, and 50 Cent himself got shot once. Keep that to yourself, though, because Fiddy likes to keep that a secret.

But recently 50 Cent had found himself saddled with the hardest problem of his entire life – custody visitation rights. You might think that we’re joking, but we’re really not – look at what it did to Alec Baldwin. The custody saga of 50 Cent’s son Marquise has already stripped 50 Cent’s gangsta credibility to its bare bones – he even had to go to court to admit that he doesn’t take drugs at one point – and now tragedy has struck.

That’s right – a judge has ruled that 50 Cent is allowed to see his son more often than he currently does. That means before long we’re likely to see 50 Cent taking his son to the park or feeding ducks or – worst of all – showing traces of actual kindness towards another human being. MTV reports:

The judge in the case granted 50 one weekend visit a month (he had requested two a month), as well as half of Marquise’s winter and spring breaks from school. TMZ reported that 50 was also granted one month in the summer. “50 is pleased this has been settled and looks forward to spending some quality time with his son,” the rapper’s attorney, Brett Kimmel, told People.

Although giving up his credibility as a hip-hop hardman – look, even his lawyers are too scared to call him anything but ‘50′ – is going to be hard, at least little Marquise will be able to spend some quality time with his father from now on, and that time will be too precious to put a price on.

Right up until puberty hits Marquise full force, that is, because living with a hormonal boy who’s just realised that girls won’t talk to him because his dimwit parents decided to name him Marquise will easily be the most formidable opponent that 50 Cent has ever faced. If we were Fiddy we’d get our bedroom doors reinforced – that boy’s a timebomb.