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50 Cent Could Be Getting Some Fox Attitude

Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmongerer, I'll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up airspace in gossip columns, blogs, and our tips inbox.

THE RUMOR: News Corp is signing 50 Cent and the rest of his G-Unit posse to a $300 million deal that includes "a large stake in every aspect of 50's businesses," 50 signing to MySpace Records, a G-Unit book deal with HarperCollins, and Curtis becoming one of the media company's largest shareholders.

TRUTH THRESHOLD: 20%.

1:30 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Maura Johnston
291 views, 1 comment

the law

50 Cent's Chain Snatcher Gets Pinched

The man who swiped 50 Cent's chain from his neck during a performance at the International Peace Festival in Angola was turned in by his own parents (!) after the footage of his crime wound its way around the Web. Bruno Carvalho (pictured at left) will face criminal charges for his foray into the jewel-thief world, charges that will probably be kind of hard to evade. Especially since his pool of character witnesses seems to be a bit, shall we say, shallow. [Angola Press via AllHipHop]

11:15 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Maura Johnston
182 views, 1 comment

Latest by Silverfuture: Stop Snitchin', MOM! more »

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50 Cent To Lil Wayne: Too Many Bad Sexual Metaphors Drive Listeners Away

50 Cent thinks that the path Lil Wayne is currently traveling down—while it may have led him to his first career No. 1 single—is a dangerous one, because it's one that Curtis sees as similar to the path he traveled down in recent years. You may remember that era, when he released "Candy Shop" and "Amusement Park" back to back, only to see the latter greeted by yawns that were so loud, they pushed Curtis' release date back by months. So is 50 saying that "Lollipop" is a crummy song propped up by a persona that's as calculated as the supplement list in a bottle of Vitamin Water, and that No. 1 lightning doesn't strike twice on those sorts of combinations? As if! He's under the impression that the masses rejected "Amusement Park" because it just gave the audience too much sexy after the lick-heavy metaphors of "Candy Shop"... and that people will do the same to Weezy's next track from Tha Carter III if he isn't careful. More »

1:30 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,147 views, 1 comment

Latest by Empire: I thought the release of Curtis was pushed back in a failed effort to make it not suck so much? No? I listened to half of that album once. Then I decided I was taking my masochism too far. more »

videodrone

Angolan Concert Attendee Steals 50 Cent's Chain, Feeds Family For A Month

At 1:40 in this clip of 50 Cent performing in Angola, you can see someone jump on stage and swipe the chain off Curtis' neck. Not shown and possibly imagined: 50 Cent, having his crest stolen, fell to the ground powerless, as The Game ran away laughing, screaming "X THE EEEELIMINATOR!" as he dangled from a rope ladder off a getaway helicopter that read "G-UNOT!" on the side. [YouTube]

11:20 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Anthony Miccio
654 views, 5 comments

clara peller dept.

50 Cent Befuddled By Alicia Keys' 'Classical Music Shit'

Alicia Keys clumsily claims that the concept of "gangsta rap" was a concoction of the government/media in a Blender interview, and uncommercial maverick artists like 50 Cent get in a tizzy over the idea that they might be playing into some sort of conglomerate-approved caricature. "I don't like Alicia Keys no more though ... the same reason why I said that I don't like Oprah Winfrey." moaned Fid, "I'm prejudice(d). I don't like people who don't like me." Maybe he's just bummed he hasn't been asked to play her boyfriend in a music video. Not that he likes that "classical music shit" she's been putting out. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,029 views, 8 comments

Latest by zaky: Anyone who uses the phrase "she be doing" shouldn't be allowed to use the word 'bright'. more »

50 Cent has thrown Young Buck out of his G-Unit crew for public insubordination. While the rapper is still signed to to G-Unit records, his recent public complaints about his diminshed presence on group mixtakes struck his employer as disturbingly "Game"-like in their whininess. Said Fid: "In order to validate himself as a man, he feels he has to go against what I'm doing, similar to some of the things we've seen from Game..." And the empire of Curtis crumbles a little more. [MTV]

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50 Cent has succeeded in kicking his ex-girlfriend and son out of a $1.5 million dollar home he owns, complaining that she was living there with a new beau. "To have her living there with her boyfriend and several other people is inappropriate," said Fid. "She had a sense of entitlement over me because she was around before I had success." Her entitlement may also stem from the fact that she's raising his son on $6,700 a month in child support. The cash ain't bad, but kind of paltry from a guy who claimed to be worth "about a billion dollars" at her eviction hearing. [New York Post]

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50 Cent, MC Breed Set Bad Example For Babydaddies

What kind of man invites ladies to the candy shop and the amusement park, only to kick his child out of his home? Shaniqua Tompkins, 50 Cent's ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Marquise, has filed court papers to keep the erstwhile Curtis from taking back a $2.4 million house she and her child have been living in. "This is somebody who was with him when he was shot in 2000 and who nursed him back to health," said Tompkins' lawyer. Surely you've got enough Vitamin Water money to cover this, Fid. More »

1:30 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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web 2.no

Radiohead Social Network To Bring The Circle Jerk A Little Closer Together

Radiohead fans, are you tired of congregating everywhere on the Internet to sing the praises of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and those other dudes? It doesn't seem like it, from the way that you'll take to any comment section in any far-flung blog, but the boys in the band are betting that you'd love to find just one place to get together and find people just like you! (Plus, now that Thom et al have already changed the music industry forever and ever, they need to give their Web team something to do.) Head on over to Waste Central, Radiohead's safe space for fans to bond over their shared ownership of the In Rainbows box set. The best part about the site? It shows that the trailblazing band isn't afraid of following in the footsteps of Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent, Kylie Minogue, and other artists who have decided to "monetize their userbase" by cutting them off from the rest of the Internet and plopping them inside boutique social networks that are emblazoned with lots of e-commerce links. More »

11:05 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
809 views, 2 comments

Latest by GOKOR: I missread and thought you were talking about The Circle Jerks, not an actual circle jerk. Radiohead blows. more »

The low first-week sales totals of Fat Joe's Elephant In The Room can mean only one thing: 50 Cent finally has someone to razz about crummy SoundScan numbers. [XXL]

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50 Cent will be a guest at Wrestlemania XXIV on March 30, where he'll accompany boxing champion Floyd Mayweather—who apparently uses "I Get Money" as his entrance music—to the ring before Mayweather's match with the seven-foot, 400-pound wrestler who goes by the name The Big Show. On a business level, it's smart for 50 to bring his music to new audiences, but part of me thinks that this appearance is an odd one as far as PR goes, given that 50's name popped up in a performance-enhancing drugs investigation a few months back. Maybe he just misses the excitement offered to him by trumped-up conflicts that are egged on by an all-too-eager public? [MTV]

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What's next for 50 Cent's apparel line G-Unit Clothing? The blog associated with clothing store Dr. Jay's—which sells a fair amount of G-Unit-branded merch—is saying that something is up, with marketing and design staff being given (unwearable) pink slips. The brand is currently a joint venture between Marc Ecko and 50 Cent, and the deal between the two entities expires this Friday. Whether it's closing or not is being debated right now, although the odds would be on 50 teaming up with another apparel-industry partner given that the company reportedly brings in about $75 million a year. [Dr. Jay's via XXL]

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50 Cent is now denying that he recently requested that Paris Hilton "get the fuck off the stage" while he was performing, making Paris tear up on her very own birthday. Oh great, the first thing 50 Cent has done in years that's actually earned him some widespread affection, and it turns out to not be true. [MTV]

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This Just In: Musicians Not Particularly Good At Picking Believable Fake Names For The Purposes Of Drug Trafficking

Special "you're shitting us, right?" update! From the Albany newspaper story that initially broke the news of 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and other musicians ordering illegal steroids through a shady online pharmacy:

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tony little wept

Musicians May Be Trading Their Personal Trainers For Steroids

When one thinks of pop star scandals involving drugs, one doesn't usually first think of the "performance enhancing" variety, but at least three musicians have now been "named in connection with an Albany-based steroid investigation." So who's ditching their Hip-Hop Abs workout videos to join the sports world's finest anabolic abusers? More »

10:30 AM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By jharv
1,358 views, 13 comments

A "best of '07" list from someone who clearly isn't a Z100 listener: "Who came out and did something cool / unique / effective to sell the stuff they made in this rapidly bursting bubble (down another 15% in 2007) that is record sales? Here are my humble opinions on this question.... I left music quality and integrity opinions totally and completely out of it, making this possibly the only 'top songs of the year' gimmick that includes Daughtry, 50 Cent and Miley Cyrus." [AndrewJStone]

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The Best Way To Make Big Money In The Music Business: Mix Yourself A Drink

In its latest bid to inflame class war, Forbes has published a list of the top 20 "celebrity paydays," i.e. days during which the rich and famous got even richer, if not more famous. Most of the deals either involve real estate being flipped and/or people who first made their names during the tabloid era of the '80s (seriously, every time I see Donald Trump's name invoked in a positive way somewhere, I feel like we're all living a bad We Got It Made rerun on endless loop). But! Somehow, three out of the top five spots were taken by musicians... although when you see what the source of those paydays was, you'll realize that their musical roots were merely stepping stones on their way to big cash. No. 2 was 50 Cent, whose Vitamin Water payday netted him $100 million; No. 4 was Jay-Z, who made $82 million when he sold Roc-A-Wear; and No. 5 was Sammy Hagar, who made a cool $80 million when he sold an 80% stake in Cabo Wabo Tequila to Gruppo Campari. Madonna was at No. 8 for her $43 million Live Nation deal, although $25 million of that came in the form of stock—so there may need to be some recalculations done there. Anyway, get your class consciousness all whipped up and kick yourself for not buying that Manhattan penthouse when you could have with the full list, which is after the jump! More »

9:40 AM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By mjohnston
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bad internships

50 Cent: I Get Street Team

Just in case you ever wondered what ~~a day~~ several weeks in the life of the Curtis promotional team was like. All that money and donated muscle, from Queens to the White House lawn, and he still got flattened by Kanye. A shame, really. (Also, would it have killed him to hire someone who knows how to hold a video camera steady?) More »

5:45 PM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By jharv
376 views, 4 comments

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