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50 cent - smarter than he looks? On Don Imus, Hip Hop, Ghostface and Oprah
July 17th 2007 04:15
One of the more interesting interviews I've read in a while was SPIN.com's chat with Curtis "50 cent" Jackson earlier this month. The reporter's smart comments were shielded and reflected so well that you begin to realise just how smart 50 really is. Politically savvy, an intelligent businessman with the balls to tell it like it is (when it comes to subjects other than him); however, interviewer
Fiddy denies he's a role model but strongly believes he's "inspiring to people". The interviewer challenges his claims of using guns and being shot, and asks how 50 can rap about being in the streets when he's living in a mansion. 50 credits all the bad things to happen in life to his mom's passing:
To me, after my mom passed, everything, literally, that went wrong, went wrong because she wasn't there. If I wanted to go to the park, and it would start drizzling, it was happening because my mom wasn't there -- because everything good came from her.
... to which the reporter replied, "But she was a drug dealer?"
Gold.
When the Don Imus incident came up, 50 was quick to divert the attention from himself and Hip Hop and label it as a racial issue. He made ridiculous statements dissing underground rapper Ghostface, and equated popularity (measured in albums sold) with talent -
You're actually hurting the art form, if your music isn't urgent enough to drive people to buy it, you're hurting the art form. You're just another shitty release on the schedule.
Fiddy also spoke out on Oprah's catering to the 'white women' crowds to which the interviewer remarked:
But isn't the majority of your audience white kids? Aren't you thinking about them when you're making a record?
I think I really like that SPIN guy...
Read the whole interview HERE.
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Comment by Brenton
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It's easy to dismiss someone as an idiot - almost convenient to do so... its very rare that this won't be a bad mistake that'll bite you.
I can't say I like 50 but He does certainly have a clever sense of linguistics.
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hope to hear from you soon.
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