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50 Cent Does Not Want To Think Outside The Bun, Thank You Very Much

Remember when Taco Bell tried to pull off that dumb publicity stunt where it would have donated $10,000 to charity if 50 Cent changed his name to 79, 89, or 99 Cent for a day? Remember how pissy Curtis got about the whole thing, how he said that Taco Bell had ruined his reputation among bloggers and how he was going to sue the MexiMelts off the fast-food chain? He wasn't kidding: He filed a suit against the Bell in July, saying that the company "stole his endorsement" when they sent out that admittedly goofy letter and got press for it. (He also said that Taco Bell "diluted the value of his good name," although if he was going to sue everyone guilty of that, you'd think he'd be suing a) the radio programmers who haven't given a crap about any of his singles lately; b) all those people who didn't buy the last G-Unit album; and c) himself.) Now, Taco Bell has responded with a 13-page court filing that basically asks, "Why don't you show some courtesy, Curtis?" More »

12:00 PM on Thu Nov 20 2008
By Maura Johnston
362 views, 8 comments

Latest by perfectomix: All I could think of was Indiana Jones: "This is Miss Scott. This is Mr. ... Round.""Short. Round." In fact, they should find the kid (well, now he's a grownup) who played Short Round and pair him up with Jackson in a more »

The release of 50 Cent's Before I Self-Destruct has been pushed back to an unspecified date in 2009, although he's "paying it forward"—his words, not mine—to fans by bundling a DVD of his film of the same title with the album. Perhaps he can also come up with some sort of deluxe package where real fans get to be on the next season of his reality show? [PRNewswire; HT Reed Fischer]

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mariah's bringing ice cream

The "TRL" Finale Will Mark The End Of Pop Culture As We Know It

We've already mentioned the imminent TV return of Jesse Camp thanks to this Saturday's TRL finale, but somehow this momentous occasion keeps getting bigger and better—so much that the network tacked on another half hour to the program. (Be bold, MTV! Make the TRL finale one of those 24 hour long programs you were so fond of for awhile. Carson Daly, Fred Durst, and Taylor Swift all holed up in your Times Square studio—what's not to like?) MTV has announced that the show will feature a one-time-only (for now) performance by Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Nelly, as well as music from Beyoncé, 50 Cent, Fall Out Boy, and the Backstreet Boys. Still, perhaps the most exciting announcement is that both Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez are scheduled to appear. We're two-fifths of the way there, MTV—call the other three guys and history will be made! Lance and Chris are probably over that whole "bad dancer" thing by now. [MTV]

4:30 PM on Tue Nov 11 2008
By Dan Gibson
1,516 views, 13 comments

Latest by Halfwit: @Tauwan: Way late, but still... Next. Next. Next. more »

50 Cent On How The Celebrity-Industrial Complex Gets Money "People enjoy looking at pictures! That's why they go to gossip sites. Half the time what they're saying is [baloney]. They want to see you when it's not the red-carpet look, that you've got the designer dress that cost $20,000 and $2 million in jewels and when they gave you the chain they gave you a security person. They don't want that. They want the real deal—they want to see you going to the store. This is why products like Uggs got popular real quick. Because they got a chance to see the celebrity paparazzi shot with the woman wearing Uggs. Same deal with Von Dutch. They see so many people wearing that—they didn't realize Von Dutch was giving those hats to celebrities." [LAT via Gawker]

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50 Cent's Before I Self-Destruct has reportedly been pushed back a week, from Dec. 9 to Dec. 16. Perhaps Curtis can use those extra seven days to reflect on all the political parallels people are drawing between today's largest political figures and his sputtering career! Or he could garden. [StreetCred.com]

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Behold: The Pliesroll, Brought To You By Some Bored Guy On The Internet

This morning while doing my YouTube rounds, I found a clip claiming to have as its audio bed a high-quality version of Kanye West's Tears For Fears homage "Coldest Winter," so I—hoping to hear the song without all that peaking and radio static that nearly ruined last week's leak somewhere around listen No. 10—clicked. But instead of "Coldest Winter, however, we're treated to a video that fuses together a photo of Steve Jobs holding a pitcher of Kool-Aid, paparazzo shots of The Game and Snoop Dogg, and gunshot sounds in a way that's seemingly inspired by both Paperrad and ransom notes. More »

2:15 PM on Tue Oct 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
145 views, 1 comment

Latest by Al Shipley: Part prankster, part Plies fan, part "person with way too much time on their hands," ChangeStyle feels like he can only communicate with the YouTube community by freaking/faking them out. Please excuse his hands. more »

Dept. Of Things You Never Really Wanted A 50 Cent "reality" show in which he babbles platitudes from the pretty awful "business" tome The 50 Laws Of Power while lording over 14 aspiring entrepreneurs who are holed up at—I swear I am not making this up—"Camp Curtis," where the beds are actually tents. Yes, really. The "winner" of this program, which debuts on MTV two days after Election Day, gets $100,000 to do with their choosing, but really, can anyone say they've "won" if they've had to be subjected to Curtis and semi-coherent "Machiavellian" observations on how to get ahead in life? Ah well, at least one of the benefits of the recession will be a license for more people to look at 50 Cent and his "special" brand of asshole capitalism and roll their eyes. [Nah Right]

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A few weeks ago, I posited my theory that Katy Perry had helped pave the way for Sarah Palin, but now The American Prospect's Adam Serwer has a better idea: he thinks Palin more closely resembles 50 Cent. Palin's supporters "demand merit from others and only mediocrity from themselves, because said mediocrity is touted as proof of authenticity," Serwer writes. "The conservative movement at this point basically reminds me of people who thought 50 Cent was going to be the greatest rapper ever because he had been shot nine times, not because he could actually flow. Let's face it, 50 is wack. He's wack like Sarah Palin is wack. But like Sarah Palin, he had a story that reflected the cultural values of realness and authenticity that Hip-hop fans had come to place above actual rhyming ability." Somehow, "Drill, Baby, Drill" doesn't seem to have caught on the way "In Da Club" did, but hey! There's still a few weeks left, don't'cha know say it ain't so Joe Six-Pack hockey mom you betcha? [Tapped]

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50 Cent Returns To The Club, Scott Storch In Tow


Well, 50 Cent has released the first single from his forthcoming album Before I Self-Destruct, and the Scott Storch-produced "Get Up" sounds kind of like an inverted, oddly muted take on "In The Club," only with 50 gritting his teeth during his boastful/boring rhymes. Because, as he would like to remind you: He has money! He is utterly convinced of his awesomeness! He still uses the phrase "make it rain"! Kind of weird that 50 is singing about having lots of wealth as Storch twiddled the knobs, given the producer's well-chronicled cashflow issues, but I guess 50 figured that he should just be happy getting any work after the Paris Hilton/Brooke Hogan one-two punch. [YouTube]

11:00 AM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
876 views, 3 comments

Latest by Al Shipley: @panfriedcharlie: Oh god, yes, Storch has some of the cheesiest synth patches in major label rap. And his beats aren't even that catchy, really. more »

let's not let facts get in the way

50 Cent Might Have Said Something Mean About Jay-Z

The lure of a juicy quote is hard to resist, even if it's from someone quickly descending into irrelevance like 50 Cent. Even better is if said quote manages to rag on other easy-to-tag luminaries like Jay-Z and Beyonce. But what happens when it's impossible to find this super-beefy quote's actual source? More »

12:00 PM on Fri Sep 26 2008
By Dan Gibson
718 views, 3 comments

"While approving the final cut for the Love Lockdown vid, I marvel at the fact that it was written less than 3 weeks ago. I'm very excited about the everything... I guarantee this will be 50's favorite album of mine. This will be gangster's album of the year." Hee hee hee. Oh, nothing gets me going in the morning like a little bit of Curtis-related schadenfreude. [kanYe West: Blog]

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Tony Yayo Has Sipped Freely From 50 Cent's Kool-Aid I was going to say "50 Cent's Vitamin Water," but it would have ruined the image that this sentence immediately conjured up in my mind: "In my eyes, I don't think Kanye will never be bigger than Fif, no matter what his numbers do." Although, wait a second, does the double negative mean that Yayo is actually dissing the G-Unit's head honcho? Somebody call the Grammar/Beef Police! [MTV]

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50 Cent Continues Spiral Into Worthlessness


Not content to cede the battle that he lost a year ago, 50 Cent took time out of an appearance in Albany over the weekend to make fun of Kanye West's (admittedly flawed) "Love Lockdown," and not even in a remotely witty way. If Curtis was maybe a more interesting person, I'd feel kind of bad for him, because apparently all he can do these days is shill Vitamin Water and talk about his wealth and continue riding off music-related glories that are receding further and further into the past. Will he ever be relevant for his recorded output again? Judging by the lackluster crowd reaction to the announcement that he'd have a new album, Before I Self-Destruct, dropping this December, I'd say that maybe dude should look into developing a new flavor or two in his beverage line before anything else. [YouTube]

9:30 AM on Mon Sep 15 2008
By Maura Johnston
364 views, 1 comment

Latest by Rock You Like An Iracane: On the bright side...no, wait, Righteous Kill sucked. more »

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50 Cent Hits The Game Where It Hurts (You Know, His Wallet)

As you may know, 50 Cent and the Game have been feuding for a while, over credits on albums or actions in strip clubs or just general assholery on the part of both parties. And you also may be aware of the fact that the Game has a new album, LAX, that came out yesterday. Well, some dude on 50 Cent's mazelike social-networking site ThisIs50.com decided to "celebrate" that fact with presents for his readers! More »

11:30 AM on Wed Aug 27 2008
By Maura Johnston
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50 Cent reportedly met with Suffolk County, N.Y., officials on Wednesday to discuss a structure-destroying blaze at a house he owned in Dix Hills. Apparently 50's people responded to anonymous grumblings that their client was delaying the investigation with a statement that read in part "The meeting had been arranged weeks ago. 50 is eager to review the findings of the investigation, when it is concluded." [MTV]

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Whitney Houston Saves A Rough News Day


My friends, the Idolator RSS reader is rough, rough going during the waning days of August. To give you a sampling of the "news" items I can write about right now: More »

4:30 PM on Thu Aug 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
720 views, 17 comments

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Five Lessons LifeStyles Condoms Learned From The Whole 50 Cent/Taco Bell Debacle

Now that the end of Hannah Montana might be near, LifeStyles Condoms is ready to help bring the image of its star, Miley Cyrus, into a realm that's even more grown-up than those wet T-shirt pictures might imply; it's offered to pay Cyrus a cool million dolalrs to become its spokesperson. "With teenage pregnancy running rampant throughout the US, LifeStyles Condoms wants to ensure that Miley Cyrus and her legions of loyal fans don't become just more statistics. As one of the leading condom makers in the country, LifeStyles is offering Miley Cyrus $1 million to become the new company spokesperson to appeal to the younger demographic that is in need the most." This "open letter to a potential endorser" recently worked out in a very bad way for Taco Bell, which is now being sued by 50 Cent for offering him a measly $10,000 and "requesting" that he change his name to 79 Cent in a letter they leaked to the media. But there's been no response from the Cyrus camp yet, which one could see as a sign that Cyrus might be interested—or, at the very least, not completely insulted by the condom company's offer. Five lessons that LifeStyles took from Taco Bell's marketing burp, and that you might want to keep in mind should you want to follow a similar route, after the jump. More »

1:00 PM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,019 views, 7 comments

Latest by Halfwit: @Al Shipley: Wait... we're hoping that they don't look like the Lil Wayne ads? Okay, I'll go notify my neighbors that I've moved into the neighborhood now. more »

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50 Cent Is Really Going Through With That Taco Bell Lawsuit

"50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, accuses the Mexican-style fast food chain of 'diluting the value of his good name' and employing a guerrilla advertising campaign to fool consumers into thinking he had endorsed the chain, said the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court. ... 'As Taco Bell intended, many customers believed that 50 Cent had agreed to endorse Taco Bell's products. Indeed, postings on numerous Internet 'blogs' castigated 50 Cent for 'selling out' by his apparent endorsement of Taco Bell,' the lawsuit said." Wait, 50 Cent cares about what bloggers think? I thought his immense piles of money acted as soundproofing from the Internet hoi polloi, although maybe his associates' albums chronic stiffing has changed his perspective on things. [Reuters / Previously]

6:45 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Maura Johnston
428 views, 2 comments

Latest by liquid444: What exactly was the 'value of his good name'? He's called 50 Cent for a reason... more »