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50 Cent Bashing TVs With A Baseball Bat As A Promo For Vevo [Video]

Amit Chowdhry | December 7, 2009 | 619 views | Comments
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Vevo is geared to launch tomorrow. As many of you know Vevo is going to be the Hulu of music videos. This means that those of you that are sick of MTV playing more reality shows than music videos these days will finally be able to get your fill of music videos again in one central place. Sony, Universal Music Group, and EMI Music have all agreed to place music video clips on Vevo too. YouTube technology will be used to power the video streaming. In order to promote the new service, Vevo has given 50 Cent a baseball bat to bash up some TVs playing his music video. Just in case you don’t get the metaphor in the video, Vevo wants you to stop watching music videos on TV and come to their website instead.

Fabolous Feels Wrath Of Twitter Mob For Dissing 50 Cent

Amit Chowdhry | October 8, 2009 | 593 views | Comments
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Rapper Fabolous who is known for the songs “My Time,” “Throw It In The Bag,” “Make Me Better,” “So Into You,” etc. Fabolous grew up in the Brooklyn area of New York which is within 15 miles where 50 Cent was raised in South Jamaica.

On October 6th, Fabolous wrote the above Twitter message and 50 Cent’s blog wrote that he wrote the message because he wasn’t invited to the ThisIs50 Fest. The ThisIs50 Fest had artists performing such as Kid Cudi, Wale, Wyclef, G-Unit, Slaughterhouse, Maino, Jadakiss, Papoose, Crooked I, Uncle Murda, Jim Jones, and Juelz Santana.

Fabolous wrote “Its interesting to c 50 Cent unit wit NY artists when he’s 1 of the reasons NY hip hop became so isolated & crumbled..DO u agree NY??” Thats a pretty bold statement considering that 50 Cent is one of the most prominent rappers from New York.

50 Cent personally responded to the statement on his blog:

Reading what Fab said about me on Twitter was disappointing.
I have extended myself to Fab personally to allow him to expand himself as an international Touring Artist.
I Thought we were Friends but that’s cool.

Law #2: Never put too much trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
—50th Law of Power.
Am I 50 Cent or Am I Machiavelli? Dammmm!!!

After 50 Cent responded and Twitter users were angry with what Fabolous said, the rapper from Brooklyn immediately regretted what he wrote as displayed in the below tweets. 50 Cent has about 1.7 million followers on Twitter and Fabolous has about 300,000.
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50 Cent Believes Music Piracy Is Simply Part Of The Marketing

Amit Chowdhry | September 14, 2009 | 495 views | Comments
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50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) recently wrote a book called The 50th Law with Robert Greene. 50 Cent is one of the smartest rappers slash businessman. He invested in Vitamin Water and made $100 million after-taxes when Coca-Cola bought them out for $1.4 billion.

50 Cent recently appeared on CNBC to talk about his “business acumen.” During the interview when 50 Cent was asked about how piracy makes him feel? Does it anger him or is part of the marketing? 50 Cent: “I say its a part of the marketing because the people that didn’t even purchase the material from a pirating perspective… They end up at the concert.”

50 Cent added that piracy could not be stopped. If they could the major labels would actually stop it, but they can’t.

50 Cent Hangin’ With YouTube Celebrity Pruan2eForever

Amit Chowdhry | July 4, 2009 | 1,347 views | Comments
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Pruane2Forever is one of the most subscribed channels on YouTube.  Pruane2Forever is best known as the Canadian kid with braces that vents about movies, rap music, Bill O’Reilly, and life in general.

The kid also refers to himself as “Sexman.”  The reviews seem serious, but actually come off as pretty entertaining.  As a matter of fact, I find Pruane2Forever more entertaining to watch than LonelyGirl15.  I think this kid should get some sort of book and movie deal.  In one video, Pruane2Forever vents about rapper 50 Cent for endorsing Vitamin Water, make-up, and sex toys.

In response, 50 Cent decided to befriend Pruane2Forever.  Below is the video.  Pruane2Forever’s thoughts on 50 Cent has forever been changed.  In the video, Pruane2Forever even uses 50 Cent’s typical catchphrase when referring to his rap group “G-G-G-G-Unit!”

“Crack A Bottle” By Eminem, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre Breaks Digital Download Record

Amit Chowdhry | February 12, 2009 | 1,599 views | Comments
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Eminem, Detroit’s rapper that has fallen with tough times, plans to rise again with the release of a new album called “Relapse.”  So far he is off to a good start with a track that he released called “Crack a Bottle.”  The song got about 418,000 download sales in the first week and was #1 on iTunes for the week.

The record song before “Crack a Bottle” was T.I. and Rihanna’s “Live Your Life” at 335,000 downloads in the first week.  “Crack a Bottle” knocked Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You” from the top.  Most recently, “Right Round” by Flo’ Rida featuring Katy Perry took the number one spot from “Crack a Bottle.”