Posts tagged as 50 Cent
What It Was Like To Work At 'The Source'
"I rarely interacted with Mr. Scott at The Source until November 2004, when I wrote a cover story on his friend, the rapper Ja Rule. I thought I’d written a fair piece, despite the fact that Ja Rule, like The Source, was feuding with 50 Cent. I was wrong. On the Monday morning after publication, Ms. Osorio told me that Mr. Scott was furious about the story and I was going be fired. Mr. Mays and Mr. Scott met with the editorial staff that afternoon in Mr. Mays’s office. The meeting quickly turned into an inquisition on the cover story, and Mr. Scott asked if I was a fan of Ja Rule’s music. I rambled about objectivity and journalistic integrity. He then asked if I preferred 50 Cent’s music. It was a yes-or-no question. I told him I did. Throughout the meeting, Mr. Scott picked at his cornrows. After an hour or so, half of his mane was an unruly mess while the rest remained braided. His hair looked wild. A colleague said that it was an intimidation tactic he often used during long meetings." READ MORE
Haikus About Rap
"Fif states he’s on 'it'
But whatever 'it' may be
'It' is not the beat"
—Ego Trip reviews eight new rap songs in haiku and it is just the thing today.
Will 50 Cent Adopt Phila The Black Rhino?
Wow. A South African community group has mounted a campaign to get 50 Cent to adopt an endangered black rhino name Phila-because Phila, like 50 himself, has survived being shot nine times. 50 named Darryl "Hommo" Baum, who was killed shortly thereafter, as his shooter in the 2003 song, "Many Men." It was poachers who shot Phila, in two separate incidents this past summer, both attempts to harvest her valuable horn. READ MORE
50 Cent Wants In On Cee-Lo's Action, Will Take His Gold Digger
"Ironically, this week the Pajamas Media site ran a piece reporting that Egyptian Islamic scholar and self-proclaimed jihadist Abd al-Muti Bayum has condemned the 'Ground Zero mosque' as a devious 'Zionist conspiracy' to discredit Islam by linking it to the September 11 attacks. This was cited as an argument against the Cordoba Center. This is strange logic: the center shouldn't be built because radical Islamists will like it.... or because they will hate it." That's Reason's Cathy Young, whose colleague Radley Balko gave us such a good angle on the "NYC Terror Mosque" controversy last week. READ MORE
Tony Yayo, "Pass The Patron"
Parental alert!!! Following yesterday's important warning about the "digital drugs" craze, newly discovered video evidence indicates that rapper Tony Yayo is DOSING young internet nerds with extremely potent Patron tequila THROUGH THEIR COMPUTERS!!! Also, Yayo's boss 50 Cent has become Max Headroom.
Robots Taking Over Sooner Than Expected--They Got Janet, Too!
I'm starting to think that the singularity has already occurred and I just didn't notice it up to this point. Apparently, computer intelligence has already gotten more advanced that the human brain and figured out how to fuse itself with human cell tissue and that the robots are already reprogramming themselves and re-enhancing themselves and regenerating themselves-into today's leading hip-hop and R&B stars. READ MORE
