50 Cent

50 Cent at Fabrik Club in Lille, France last October

Honestly, this seems like part of a sensible retirement strategy. The markets have been too up and down lately. From The New York Daily News:

For 50 Cent, there's a lot riding on Feb. 5's Super Bowl XLVI. The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, apparently has so much faith in his hometown team, the New York Giants, that he is willing to wager $1,000,000 on the Giants in the Super Bowl, according to his Twitter account ("I'm up 500,000 off the last one. f*ck it ill bet it back Ill put a 1,000,000 on my G MEN. STUNNER you got the # hit me if you want it.").

Uh oh, looks like Curtis needs to get in a few more Bat Mitzvahs before summer. He's only putting up a measly $1 million, but some other rapper put up $5 million on the Pats. What's his name? Birdman? Birdshit? I don't remember because rap isn't music, but it's nice to see Curtis and friends making such wise decisions with their money. Is that the insurance money he got from burning down his baby mamma's house? Zing! Boo ya! Uh huh!

Btw, I'm kidding, Mr. Jackson. Pretty please don't sue me.

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50 Cent at the "42nd Annual Image Awards Nomination announcements and press conference" in Beverly Hills (1/12)

50 Cent used the power of Twitter to make himself a cool $8.7 million earlier this week. How? Because his 3.8 million followers are dumb. From the New York Post:

Rapper 50 Cent made $8.7 million yesterday -- by tweeting. The 35-year-old celeb, aka Curtis Jackson, helped pop the shares of a no-name penny stock company he's invested in by 290 percent yesterday after chatting it up this weekend on Twitter, the social-networking site.

"You can double your money right now. Just get what you can afford," Jackson tweeted about H&H Imports, a money-losing venture out of Clearwater, Fla., that owns TV Goods, a marketing firm recently founded by Kevin Harrington. "They are no joke get in now."

Jackson received 30 million shares of H&H in a private placement last October, including a series of warrants granting him the opportunity to cash in as the stock rises: at 15 cents, 25 cents or -- no kidding -- 50 cents. For some of the warrants, he only has to put up 10 cents a share, according to a recent regulatory filing.

Stockbrokers call the illegal practice of buying a stock for themselves and then telling other people to buy it "Front Running." Why the SEC doesn't hold rappers to the same standards as Wall Street types is beyond me -- especially since both like to screw as many people as possible. Hopefully after this, 50 will realize that the only "pumping and dumping" he should be doing is with his bitches and hoes.

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50 Cent looks different

50 Cent > All other actors in Hollywood. From ThisIs50:

50 Cent lost a lot of weight for his upcoming movie "Things Fall Apart". In the movie 50 Cent plays a football player diagnosed with cancer.
He dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for nine weeks.

"I was starving." Now he's back on tour and says, "I've been eating. I'll be back in shape in no time!"

54 pounds over nine weeks works out to 6 pounds a week. Dude lost close to a pound a day for nine straight weeks just for a movie role. Compare that to Tom Cruise who once threw a hissy fit on the set of Mission Impossible because his trailer wasn't set at the right angle to catch the morning light. OK, I might have made that up. But my point still stands that most actors are pussies.

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50 Cent is one rich mofo

How much did you make last year? I bet it was less than the $75k 50 Cent made in about 30 seconds last week at a club in London. From the Daily Mirror:

50 Cent raked in £50,000 ($75k) for uttering one word at a launch party on Thursday.

And the word in question? "Hey."

Fiddy - who is in the UK on his Before I Self Destruct tour - was wooed by the owners of flash new Liverpool club Bamboo to attend its nopening night. And the extravagance didn't stop at his super pay npacket - he also had a budget-busting rider to match. Once he'd been ferried by a Hummer Heaven stretch limo to the city's first seven-star club, his entourage had magnums of Cristal and Dom Perignon champagne on tap - served up by two models.

Our spy says: "It was the most blinging night ever.

"People thought 50 Cent might perform a track or two, given the massive fee, but he just greeted the crowd with a 'Hey' and got back to his two personally requested ladies, who were lavishing booze on him."

When you consider the fact that 50 Cent made about $100 million by selling his stake in Vitamin Water, it's probably safe to assume that he used the money from his appearance fee as toilet paper. Although it certainly sounds like being a famous rapper is glamorous and exclusive, there's actually a name for the type of person that gets to travel around in a luxury car and spend money without a care in the world: Senator.

50 Cent did not beat up Marv Albert

I think that headline is worth repeating: Wait, what? From AP:

Marv Albert said Saturday he was never involved in an altercation with 50 Cent, denying Internet reports of a fight on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

"I couldn't even tell you what the guy looked like or the security guard looked like," Albert said.

Albert said he even read one account that he was punched by 50 Cent, who was the show's musical guest, but insisted they never crossed paths.

"They embellish. It keeps getting embellished more than anything else," Albert said. "What do you say, it's just wrong. I don't know what tomorrow will bring. It will be Jimmy Kimmel got punched. I'm sure this will be funny to me in a couple of days. It's not funny to me now, obviously."

Marv's right -- tabloid stories about him are ridiculous, false, and totally blown out of proportion . . . except when they're about forced sodomy. In this case, there is a pretty good chance the story is made up. Because if Marv had really been in a fist fight with 50 Cent, he'd be too busy eating through a straw to give interviews.

50 Cent leaving Alto nightclub in London (10/22)

The shitty economy is really starting to take its toll on 50 Cent -- he was only able to spend £75,000 ($122,000) last week at a nightclub in London. So sad . . . so so sad. From the Daily Mail:

50 Cent took bar tabs to a whole new level last night after dropping £75,000 over the bar at the after-party of Dead Man Running at Alto club in London's Soho. The 33-year-old rapper hired the entire VIP area for his entourage, friends and film colleagues. And he's not even the star - being officially billed behind Tamer Hassan, Danny Dyer... and Brenda Blethyn.

A guest at the party said: "When he arrived at the club it was mayhem. The area was cleared for him and security ushered him straight through. On his table were bottles of champagne but he wanted a magnum bottle of Ace Of Spades champagne.

"You could tell that he was loving all the attention as people were trying to take pictures on their phones and were shouting his name."

Moments after he arrived, security was left in a state of panic when a horde of girls tried to break into the VIP area in a desperate bid to meet the American star. Out of the hundreds that were pushing against the ropes, 15 girls managed to get past security and he allowed them to sit at his table for the remainder of the night.

Considering 50 made $100 million by selling his stake in Vitamin Water, spending $100k+ at a club is nothing for the guy. What's most surprising is that 15 girls were willing to sit so close to him -- especially since he's been known to attract more bullets than Lincoln's head.*

*too soon?

50 Cent and Bette Midler at the New York Restoration Project's 8th Annual Spring Picnic at the New Leaf Restaurant & Bar in New York (5/19)

I don't mean to brag but I saw this hookup coming a mile away. Bette turns into such a little whore around gangster rappers.

50 Cent at Salt Lake City Airport (1/16)

The new, sane Britney, that is. Because she's just not as entertaining as she used to be. From OK! magazine:

It seems that Britney Spears is the unlikely muse for 50 Cent's new album. The rapper has told OK! that he was inspired to write Before I Self Destruct by watching the singer's massive, head-shaving, umbrella-attacking meltdown in 2007.

"She was the greatest show on earth last year," the rapper, born Curtis Jackson, 33, tells OK!. "She was going through her issues in public... It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better." (Source)

Watching Britney go batshit crazy made 50 feel better about himself? What does he need to feel better about? He's a famous multimillionaire who gets his pick of tail each night. Frankly, 50's comments are downright insensitive. A guy that points and laughs at the misfortunes of famous people is sad and pathetic . . . wait, don't I do that for a living? Dammit.