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Probably pretty uncool for this page but.........have recnetly
stumbled upon the lyrics of 'In da Club'and have been marvelling/laughing
at the changes made to make it radio friendly,not much of a question,
just wondring if anyone else had any opinions.
not traditionally one to go for mainstream(altho' can appreciate a good song).....so AHH anyone got any opinions about the song thats had over 1000,000 plays on Mp3 then?EH??????????

― Bang Marie, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

In all sincerity, why do people care about this guy? I don't hear any specific edge he might have over his peers? What's the big deal?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

His unfeasibly large muscles.

― russ t, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

If you refer to him as "Fifty Cents," you can get the most priceless "oh my God you're so SQUARE" looks from people

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not about 50 Cent. It's about Dre. 50 Cent himself is a mushmouthed moron who couldn't write a lyric if his life depended on it. Good production, though.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

...which Radio One DJ has done the spoof 50 Pence?

Funny, apparently.

― russ t, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Bit of an overstatement there Kenan

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly it isn't even about Dre, it's about Eminem- anything even remotley connected to him gets swallowed up. But yeah, great production, and while the song doesn't really say that much, 50 Cent's flow is pleasant enough (plus the "shortie, it's your birthday" line = geekiest yet most contagious chant evah)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Bit of an overstatement there Kenan

I guess maybe, yeah. Too bad I can't edit my own posts.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the guy's got talent (although not astounding talent or anything) but doesn't do much with it. I've only heard a couple of the early tracks that made his rep, and them in the know say it's unfair to judge him by Get Rich, so maybe the second album will be the real Fitty. That said, the first four tracks on the album are pretty goddamn good.

Meanwhile, I went and tracked down a bunch of David Banner stuff after Kalefa Sanneh's writeup in the Sunday NYT. I've only listened to a couple of tracks, but it sounds like some kick-ass Dirty South stuff.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

it's all over MTV right now, color me alot more curious in the Killer Mike album though

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The other thing about 50, of course, is that he's been shot 9 times! He's a superhero.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

If you subscribe to EMusic, you can get the album 50 made before "Get Rich...", it's called "Guess Who's Back". Good shit, I can see why he had buzz. Funny, smart, and of course the stone-killer edge.

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The other thing about 50, of course, is that he's been shot 9 times!

Or so he says.

He's a superhero.

Or supervillain.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex comes out as a Ja Rule fan

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"ja rule. . . comes out"

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Until the homoerotic undercurrent of everything that Dre's released with the help of his twinkish underlings in the last several years is discussed... all these other points are moot.

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"In all sincerity, why do people care about this guy?"

It's his voice. He's got an incredibly thick accent, which sounds great, but makes the words hard to decipher. i got digital tv recently, so i've been watching lots of the pop channels again, and "In Da Club" is the tune i am most pleaed to see come on.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Until the homoerotic undercurrent of everything that Dre's released with the help of his twinkish underlings in the last several years is discussed... all these other points are moot.

If anything it's been overdiscussed! Where were you when we were getting high?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

His son is titled "25 Cent". God helps us all.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

he 'titled' his son?

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, come on, 50. Change his name to 2 Bit!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Freeway pisses on 50, from a great height even.

― squirl plise (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

50 cent used to be a boxer, right? that explains unfeasibly large muscles.

excelling at one profession before excelling at current profession: k-classic.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

50s rep and aura have nothing to do with dre or eminem. why do people love to see themselves talk without even knowing a damn thing about what theyre speaking? 50 was a mixtape don in new york and hustled and scrapped to get where he is now with a million dollar deal and basically is one of the few rappers since NWA to create his own cross over success on his own terms. hes also got the grimiest and rawest flows since NWA so you need to recognize before you get on your predictable "hes got no talent hes ignorant commercial" bourgeious lofty music consumer lameness. he has two other diy releases before he ever even met dre or em that built his rep, totally self released and self promoted. so again, shut up.

― Mitchell Saulsberry, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

someone named Mitchell Saulsberry told yall to recognize! maybe we can get Nigel Buttersworth and Terry Pericott to drop some science! (concentrate)

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

or simon trife even?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ja Rule is completely indefensible. I may not see what's so great about 50 Cent, but if it came down between those two, I'll ALWAYS side against Ja Rule. 50 Cent's "Wanksta" was pretty good, I guess....not least for the "Daaaaamm, homie!" refrain. Holy shit, I just said something complimentary towards 50 Cent!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I have grown to like "Wanksta" because it just sounds so goddamned ridiculous. I catch myself making "bewp bewp" noises to the tune of the unrepentantly-awful-yet-back-around-to-great ringtone/calliope hook. But "In Da Club" grates on me because (as I may've mentioned before here) lyrics=party happy shorties c'mere gimme a hug and dance; music=EPIC MATRIX NINJA SWORDFIGHT TO THE DEATH

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Mitchell is accusing ilm of being into backpacker hip-hop, which earns him entry into the "people unclear on the concept" competition

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 29 May 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Unfortunately not so much anymore.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

REPRESENT REPRESENT-SENT

http://hipsterdetritus.blogspot.com/yayforelp.JPG

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

nate the song is about hooking up in da club, not ninja fights. 'we be clubbin' has an 'epic' quality also. such is the nature of clubbin.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 May 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

just got a copy of this album today
am listening to it now,nothing really sticks out at the moment,although i already like in da club

― robin (robin), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

'in da club' is the male 'jumpin jumpin'

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

What does that make Beyonce's version?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the third track is good
fairly audacious of eminem to compare him to tupac and biggie

50 cent seems to be something of a departure for dre,the strings and bassy production slowed down so as to appear more druggy and droney and menacing rather than the more upbeat,dancy stuff off 2001 and the laid back stuff off the chronic and the snoop stuff

― robin (robin), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

lol,thats a fairly spot on comparison
haven't heard the beyonce version yet though

― robin (robin), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

touche, i do have a pussy sounding name. my beef is not with backpackers or indie hoppers, that shit is too played to even need calling out (and i dont know what you mean by `not getting the concept` either. my beef is very simply with bourgeouis analytical music consumerists (all yall who make being a music consumer into some kind of profession/ uber lifestyle) who are predictable enough to have beef with 50cent over being `talentless`. probably for some reason having to do with 50s rehashing of the familiar topics of hustling and death. concepts that are repeated in music only cuz their repeated in the realm of earth. if 50s flows dont shed new light on these topics for you or at least open the floodgates of adrenaline in yer body through the verbal groove interlockings (`cowards get hard lip synching my lyrics`) then thats you. theres this new book that has greg tate and someone else in a interview and their talking about what hip hop needs to be jolted into some new phase of innovation. they both agreed that it needed a renegade mc that didnt fall back on his crew and was ready to call out everyone in the game and bring anarchy. isnt that what 50 is i thought to myself? and people should quit referencing get rich in this thread as their 50 example. what about how to rob? or `problem child` or some of those old mixtape tracks? who has the presence on any given instrumental these days that 50 does? i can think of Ludacris or maybe Peedi Crack or someone or even Murs maybe but thats about it. but what do i know. but by the way, has anyone seen the new 50 dvd? he says in it, `who you know determines how you get into the music biz but what you know determines how long you stay there.`

― Mitchell Saulsberry, Thursday, 29 May 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

my impression from the three singles i've heard is that he sounds at least half-retarded when he raps and it makes me think the hype/acclaim is an 'everyone's a winner at the special olympics' thing.

was he shot in the head at all? he really is slow and simple.

― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

dnftt

― minna (minna), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to wonder that, seriously, about Mase.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm serious too. he just sounds like a zombie. i don't hear any sort of 'presence' at all in his rapping.

― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

'in da club' is right jiggy, though.

― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one of the few rappers since NWA to create his own cross over success on his own terms

I would buy this if 50's breakthrough success had been off of his self-released DIY stuff rather than an Eminem-produced track that was the lead single from Eminem's hit movie.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Its funny you mention the laid back flow sounding half retarded. i dont think that about 50 (he can switch it up nice too, peep "G Unit In Tha House") but i have always thought that about Diddy and Mase. and more recently i think fabulous sounds retarded. i thought fabolous was kinda nice when youngin came out, but then i saw him try to rock a crowd (on tv) and his crew was outshining him. he acted like his schtick was to be skinny and high on methadone. then later i read somewhere i think Harry Allen compare Rakim and Fabolous in that they both have these laid back deliveries that dont translate well to rocking a crowd. but didnt it used to be a rule that yer not a real mc unless you can Move Crowds? what do the always sharp people on this list think?
ps. fabolous rocks some of the most intense ice ive ever seen though.

― Mitchell Saulsberry, Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

surely his self released stuff was the reason that it was him and not someone else who ended with the eminem produced lead single from eight mile though dan?

― robin (robin), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh the story goes that Eminem was hearing the 50 bootlegs and was like oh shit this is amazing we gotta sign this dude. "My advice to any nigga that get hit the fuck up, my advice if you get shot down, get the fuck up!"-50

― Mitchell Saulsberry, Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

in the realm of earth

All of a sudden I'm reading D&D manuals again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

He's the Ma$e of the new millenium! Hopefully, he'll find god via those Sister, Sister girls and drop the fuck off.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 May 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

1) can I just say "welcome" to Mitchell, whose contributions seem really insightful to me?

1a) even though I in my squareness am at a loss to explain what fabolous rocks some of the most intense ice ive ever seen though means: does it mean he has really nice jewelry?

2) my impression from the three singles i've heard is that he sounds at least half-retarded when he raps and it makes me think the hype/acclaim is an 'everyone's a winner at the special olympics' thing

Metathread: how many fingers and/or toes would you willingly cut off if your sacrifice meant 50 Cent would actually call his next record Everyone's A Winner at the Special Olympics?

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 30 May 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

even if I did call him clueless earlier, sorry 'bout that: it was 'cause you were all "you people don't like commercial rap," and, well, if there's one thing ilx likes, it's commerical rap

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 30 May 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

*braces self against impending barrage of rocks*

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 30 May 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

*throws tiny pebble*

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 May 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

in da club is the greatest song of all time. except for euphoria (ninos dream). it is simple people. go outside, wait for a car to come past, listen closely, there, look, see that car coming now? you can here some bass right, but nothing else cuz its too far away, right, now its closer, its kind of jiggy, no, wait, its fucking rugged, whats that great tune you think, its, no, can it be, yes, its in da club

you see, you only had to do that. so just think next time, ok

― midland ajax, Friday, 30 May 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

2) my impression from the three singles i've heard is that he sounds at least half-retarded when he raps and it makes me think the hype/acclaim is an 'everyone's a winner at the special olympics' thing

Metathread: how many fingers and/or toes would you willingly cut off if your sacrifice meant 50 Cent would actually call his next record Everyone's A Winner at the Special Olympics?

heehee. i dunno which of these statements is funnier. but i'll offer a pinky.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 30 May 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah thanks for the welcome. i wish i knew people in real life that could talk music as witty as people on this list. which makes me wonder, why are you hating on 50 you wankstas? in the UK i had imagined that the clubs musta loved that song since everyone calls each other wankers over there (sorry if that sounded UK ignant). and since when is sounding laid back and ice cold pimped out confused with retardation? but are you talking about FAB or 50 sounding like Ma$e?

― Mitchell Saulsberry, Friday, 30 May 2003 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

ditto to j0hn re: welcome mitchell. also people comparing mase and 50 are insane.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 30 May 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, hurrah for new people! :-)

why are you hating on 50 you wankstas?

I just don't think he's all that. I heard the songs and went, "Er, pretty boring MC." Nothing more than that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 May 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Mase is just my stock example of an obv braindamaged MC, sorry.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe this belongs on the backapcker thread, but isn't one of indie rap's ideological boners a distrust of comprehensible, simple rapping? This seems like the source of all the "retraded" talk. Nobody ever called Spoonie Gee retarded, and he wasn't. He just didn't like to blab. Mase and Clipse and Fabolous all sound great to me--using simple words and leaving space in the bar doesn't seem like the same thing as "dumb". I love El-P's production, but I can barely listen to the rhymes on Fantastic Damage because most of my energy is taken up simply trying to make them out.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

too much mc joe isuzu

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

too much mc joe isuzu

Means what?

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

same thing as too much mc danny kaye

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll say that mc's can make or break a song for me, but the majority of the time (a slim majority maybe) what makes me wanna hear the record once, twice, fee times a mady is something else - 'wanksta': the ringtone, 'in da club': the gurgly guitar line that's half buried, '21 questions' (which I don't like half as much as 'wanksta' or 'in da club'): 2003 the g-funk era.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

if you are listening for anything in "in da club" except the vocal you are mental. last night the dj was spinning the bootleg of the "in da club" vocal chopped-to-fit over nine inch nails' "closer". the dancefloor went all crazylegged and twitchy because even though the vocal had been chopped into awkward metre to fit people couldn't help but dance to it INSTEAD of the beat.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 30 May 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

This seems like the source of all the "retraded" talk

Or maybe it's lines like this:
'Now we can have a lil' drink you know a nightcap

And we could go do what you like, I know you like that'

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 May 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

that's actually a very good line, because there's no doubt as to what "what you like" refers to.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 30 May 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I love El-P's production, but I can barely listen to the rhymes on Fantastic Damage because most of my energy is taken up simply trying to make them out

I hear you, but at the same time, that's kind of the appeal of some of that stuff: which is where B.I.G. has more in common with the backpackers than with his commercial acolytes. To catch what's going on in "Things Done Changed," you have to pay real close attention (I do, anyhow, I could be just real slow or something), and listen several times, and agree to listen for other stuff (beats, sounds) later. There's a real appeal to that kind of listening; of course, there's also a real appeal to stuff that lays its cards all right out on the table. For me, decided that I didn't have to take sides was very liberating.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 31 May 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually its a good line because the meter is perfect.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 31 May 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

for real, this, is coming straight outta widney high.

i pretty much listen to ho-gat-bling rap strictly, so it's not a backpacker mentality thing. it's a this guy sounds like someone has to mash his carrots for him thing. dim and dull. i don't care about his lyrics, and if the beat is good i'll listen to it, but don't tell me he's a good rapper or has great mic presence.

or you're retarded too!

― brian badword (badwords), Saturday, 31 May 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Things Done Changed," you have to pay real close attention

I totally agree, John, about "Things Done Changed" and not taking sides. I guess I'm just trying to locate the reasons people might think 50 and Mase are "retarded." "Thigns Done Changed" is a good example, because it's internally rich but I don't find that the song itself has a stake in obscuring Biggie's details. The vocal isn't fighting the beat and the vocals are mixed up nice and high. Some indie rap seems to have picked up a bad habit from indie rock and mixes the vocals down too often, esp. Def Jux stuff. Turning up the vocals a bit might solve a lot of the headachey quality.

Bit rambly, sorry. I'll try again. Uh. Every genre ends up with self-defeating tendencies that don't apply to every act but which help form a status quo opinion. (How else would we know who we meant when we said backpackers, or blingers, right?) Commercial thugism has too much faith in off-the-rack keyboard sounds and stories about fake crimes, indie rap has too much faith in wildstyle obscurantism and 10 dollar words. That's why Clipse look "retarded" from inside the Gift of Gab viewpoint. But everybody can make any of these strategies work. That is, take two, twist the generalizations around: commercial rap will maybe have better beats for dancing, but there's no single community with all the best MCs. The bar has risen high enough that every little subdivision seems to have technically skilled rappers, even the boring ones. Aesop Rock and Joe Budden can both tear a beat up. (No, they're not the boring ones.) This thought is just not coming out right. Putting it down. Feh.

What I heard on DJ Enuff last night made me think we're hitting a phase where these divisions don't matter at all. He played four songs in a row, each one totally great, and soncially and lyrically, it would be almost impossible to say where they fit in. There was this new Joe Budden track, "Fire," with Busta, then the "Get By" remix with Jay-Z, then some insane new Timbaland beat with horse hooves and strings and Southern rappers I couldn't identify (not Petey or Bubba) and then the new Jada. This whole new generation of producers like Kanye and Blaze sound like they grew up with Marley and Premier but have no problem being as big and juicy as a Diddy or Gotti production, like they hear no differences. The "Get By" beat could easily have been on Two Kings In A Cipher, or frigging Main Source, even. And the new MCs can be simple then chopped up, boasting, then all emo, y'know, line reading is hard to put across, but it doesn't sound like folks are being lazy.

It could be a great summer on the radio.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

it IS a great summer on the radio.

maybe people think 50 & ma$e are "retarded" because they're so hip and clued in and signed up to the other music mailing list and therefore can make hilarious jokey references to that awful widney high record, but then i doubt either 50 or the reverend (get it right, fuckers) ma$e would have been snookered into spending $15.99 on a cheapjack slumming sub-wire exploitation indie novelty record.

― joe wayans (thajumpoff), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://dewin.oldbattery.com/venura/image.php?id=14688&mtime=1054398432

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 31 May 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

curtis i kiss you

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 May 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

it looks like he should be riding around in a tiny dune buggy or something!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 May 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

50 cent bobblehead dolls! (hey jimmy iovine - call my lawyers!)

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 31 May 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

>i doubt either 50 or the reverend ma$e would have been snookered
>into spending $15.99 on a cheapjack slumming sub-wire exploitation
>indie novelty record.

Yes I bought that Summer Hymns album full price. Yes I feel
snookered. Yes, I think .50 and ma$e are retarded.

― squirl plise (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 1 June 2003 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Saw/heard him for the first time on SNL tonight. Girl at work is crazy about him, another girl doesn't get the fascination. The whole time, I've been wondering, "Who's 50 Cent?"

He's ugly in a Mike Tyson sort of way. Looks like a real dummy, too, but I don't want to get all judgemental here... I think the appeal is that he's new and he has a cool name!

― Scaredy Cat, Sunday, 1 June 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

He was absolutely soporific on SNL.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 2 June 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the 21 questions was an okay rendition but In Da Club sure did have the life drained from it and the second "go shorty" chorus was ugly playing to the crowd.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 2 June 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

but then i doubt either 50 or the reverend (get it right, fuckers) ma$e would have been snookered into spending $15.99 on a cheapjack slumming sub-wire exploitation indie novelty record.

Well, maybe not, but most of us nerdy Other Music shoppers wouldn't blow fifteen large on a gold chain, either, so it kinda evens out.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 2 June 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

50 cnet i am worried that u will neva come to see me so y dont i do this i will give u my email address for u to email me and u better do it please i have some information to share with u so please if u can try to write me a quick message to me and i will get back to you as soon as possible i have neva been to one of ur concerts so if u can send me to one and i no u think im crazy but if u think of it i am not crazy just crazy of u about u and think u r so fine. well my email address is lovelydovely10@yahoo.com if u can email me by:7:00pm so i will check my mail then peace!!!

― Latasha Renee Smith, Saturday, 24 April 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Finally listened to one or two more tracks than In Da Club. Awful... Just awful...

Was smiling on the way in to work this morning at direness of lyrics. I now really want to hear The Massacre!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

RIP Mitchell Saulsberry

― luriqua, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 06:30 (eighteen years ago)

LONO Nate Patrin

― luriqua, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 06:32 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

i really really really love "21 questions"

forgot about the kinda weird video. lol at the part where he smilingly tells his girlfriend 'i love you like a fat kid loves cake'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDMhlvbOFaM

― uptown churl, Saturday, 8 May 2010 01:33 (fifteen years ago)

ive always wanted a gif of his being shot in righteous kill

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 May 2010 01:36 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2010/05/curtishanson.jpg

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 23:36 (fifteen years ago)

what's up with skinny 50 cent? is that really him?

― /\/\ /\ Y ( ) (dyao), Saturday, 29 May 2010 03:36 (fifteen years ago)

looks like chappelle imo

― symsymsym, Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:29 (fifteen years ago)

50 has bullet cancer

― abanana, Saturday, 29 May 2010 07:18 (fifteen years ago)

It's for his latest role in what I'm sure is destined to be another straight-to-video film.

― rennavate, Saturday, 29 May 2010 07:50 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/14/chinua-achebe-50-cent

can't believe fifty thought he could use this COMPLETELY ORIGINAL phrase for a title

― watching my swag like a hawk (history mayne), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

'stuff fall apart'

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:34 (fourteen years ago)

'shit falls apart'

― historyyy (prettylikealaindelon), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:59 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://m.deadspin.com/5986533/50-cents-attempt-to-kiss-erin-andrews-was-one-for-the-ages?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

lol fail

― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 February 2013 19:16 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

yikes this new story about the texts with his son... :(

not cool

― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 July 2013 23:11 (twelve years ago)

what a prick

― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 8 July 2013 23:25 (twelve years ago)

http://gawker.com/50-cent-bashes-son-that-dick-sucking-bitch-you-call-m-704336445

― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 July 2013 23:27 (twelve years ago)

Nice guy

― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:02 (twelve years ago)

seems like just yesterday he was getting the kid his own lil' bullet proof vest

― some dude, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:08 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2k6LkL_wOI

― color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 17:52 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2015/07/13/rapper-50-cent-files-for-bankruptcy/ "> http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2015/07/13/rapper-50-cent-files-for-bankruptcy/

Didn't this guy have millions from the vitamin water?

― dinnerboat, Monday, 13 July 2015 16:51 (ten years ago)

100 million from coca cola iirc

― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 July 2015 18:48 (ten years ago)

well at least he has 50 cents

― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 July 2015 20:56 (ten years ago)

wesley's theory

― rushomancy, Monday, 13 July 2015 21:04 (ten years ago)

I think this is some sort of litigation ploy involving a sex tape?

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 13 July 2015 21:58 (ten years ago)

yeah not the broke "bankrupt"

― Spottie, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 23:15 (ten years ago)

nine months pass...

i really like

https://youtu.be/Yltq23WMK04

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 12 May 2016 00:41 (nine years ago)

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