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For those of you who thought those major-label record-listening sessions couldn't possibly get any more awkward:
[Entertainment Weekly editor Lori Majewski], who was hired at EW last September after previous gigs at Us Weekly and Teen People, committed a cringe-inducing gaffe at a private advance listening session for 50 Cent's forthcoming record two weeks ago, insiders say. The rapper was present, and at one point he told Majewski of the formative role that Run DMC cofounder and hip-hop legend Jam Master Jay, aka Jason Mizell, played in his career. To which Majewski responded, "Do you still talk to him?"
If so, it would be one spectacular conversation, seeing as how Mizell was famously gunned down in his Queens studio in 2002, as readers of EW's In Memoriam 2002 issue will recall.
According to a source familiar with the conversation, Fiddy answered Majewski's question by standing up and walking out of the room without saying another word.
Yvette Gayle, a rep for 50 Cent who was present at the meeting, confirms that Majewski asked the question, but insists that Majewski had simply been confused by 50 Cent's lengthy and complicated recounting of his business history with Mizell and his label, JMJ Records. "I don't think that she knew they were specifically talking about Jam Master Jay," Gayle says. "She wasn't really coherent about who 50 Cent was talking about." And Gayle denies that 50 Cent walked as soon as he realized that he had been speaking to an irretrievably white girl who lives in New Jersey and doesn't know the first thing about hip-hop. "He answered that Jam Master Jay had passed, and they finished their conversation for another 20 minutes," Gayle says.
According to multiple sources, Majewski grilled Fiddy on a number of hip-hop hot topics during those twenty minutes, asking him whether Eazy-E was worthy of a mention in the "It List" issue, and wondering why Big Pun "hadn't put a new song in like forever."
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And she's an editor?!!
Well, I should say, she's STILL an editor??!!
Now I know why EW sucks more than ever....I guess she should stick to stuff she cares about, like what the cast members of "Buffy" are up to these days...
this makes me sad to be a woman. and also white. i'm assuming that lady is white.
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Her name is Lori Majewski. I'd give up my firstborn if she's not white.
Fiddy pushed one of the Top Model girls into a pool. Dude don't take no shit from dumb white girls.
Yeah, 50 is/was so influenced by JMJ and RUN DMC that he doesn't rap solely about bling and shootings and being rich, just like RUN DMC. Oh, wait.
No wonder EW has sucked so hard lately.
wasn't he gunned down OUTSIDE his studio?
@RepentTokyo: No.
colour has nothing to do with this one and everything to do with a crass journalistic failure. how she still has a job is beyond me.
She still has a job, Morrissey, because EW cares more about its "hip, irreverant attitude" more than it does about its actual content, and its contributors are more concerned with getting onto "Best Week Ever" than they are with making informed observations and astute criticisms or, you know, getting their facts straight.
So, I take it everyone is dismissing 50's rep's defense of Ms. Majewski? Why?
@Hyman Decent: because someone at ew or interscope prolly got in his ear to squash this before it becomes really embarassing.
I liked her a lot better when she was the editor of a Duran Duran fanzine. And yes, she is from New Jersey. And I'm not saying I know more about rap than she does, but *I'm* not the EIC of EW.
@Hyman: i think because there is a prejudice that older, successful white people have no real understanding of black culture. i'm not saying it's always true, but in this case it seems glaringly obvious.
"i think because there is a prejudice that older, successful white people have no real understanding of black culture. i'm not saying it's always true, but in this case it seems glaringly obvious."
But it's not like 50 Cent was talking about, say, Scott La Rock. Run-DMC were *huge* among those who are now "older, successful white people," and it was national news when JMJ died. You'd think the editor of E friggin' W would have a clue, in other words. It goes beyond ignorance of black culture into ignorance, period.
So, um, to ask again...NO ONE HERE believes the completely logical story put out by 50 Cent's rep? The one that actually sounds more logical than the controversial story?
hey i agree, she shouldn't have made the mistake. that's why you couldn't pay me any amount of money to work as an editor. writing articles is bad enough, but being responsible for getting everything right at every minute of the day sucks ass. that being said, i agree with you - it is more than just ignorant about a culture, it's just ignorant in general.
as for not believing 50 Cent's rep, i don't really believe anyone's rep. it's their job to lie most of the time, and the odds that this one time the rep is telling the truth are slim to none. his rep is paid to maintain a positive image of him in the media, and that includes not pissing of a prominent magazine like EW.
Oh, come on. Nobody understands what Fitty is saying half of the time.
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