Posted on 11/28/2005 8:03:01 AM PST by SDGOP
50 Cent and Kanye West are the only ones selected to be GQ's "Men of the Year" who have no false modesty about it — both of the hip-hop stars justify their big egos in the mag's pages. But they also have more on their minds
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50 Cent, Kanye West In GQ's 10th Annual "Men Of The Year Issue"
than just themselves. Like George W. Bush, for one. 50 thinks the president is "incredible ... a gangsta." "I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him," 50 told GQ. If the rapper's felony conviction didn't prevent him from voting, 50 said he would have voted for Bush. Meanwhile, Kanye basically called Bush a racist on national television, and has since rethought his strategy for speaking out. "When NBC edited it out on the West Coast, that was a wakeup call," West told the magazine. "It let people know how censored we still are. This is supposed to be America, but you can't get your opinion out. There's all kinds of things I want to say, but I need to pace myself, to make sure my opportunities to say these things aren't taken away too abruptly." Kanye says after giving us entertainment, his next goal is to give us "inspiration." 50's next goal? He wants to market a condom. ...
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sure i heard fiddy's songs I like P.I.M.P
I made a disco inferno ringtone for my phone, the black people look at me funny when they hear it.
$.50
I explicitly stated that a lot people don't like hip hop or rap. My point has been from the beginning that just because a lot of people don't relate to a genre of music it doesn't mean that genre is "crap" and talentless.
As I stated before, I don't like bluegrass and I'm sure many other people don't either. That doesn't mean that it is "crap" and the artists are talentless.
If you don't like rap or hip hop that is fine. The point is that many believe that their individual personal tastes are some sort cosmic barometer of musical quality.
People tend to like the musical style that was popular when they were in the formative years. That is just classic old fogey syndrome. It's not limited to musical genres either - it includes others like athletes, movies, actors, sports, etc.
That's one man's music I never allowed in my house. Never.
Wait a sec. A few weeks ago when Fitty's movie premiered (poorly, and with 2 people getting shot), the man could do nothing right on FR. Now that he's saying he admires Bush, he's okay? Makes no sense.
Either way, I like his music and was listening to him while I was cleaning the house Saturday. Then again, I also had some George Strait and Krokus in the mix. I try to tune out what musicians and celebs have to say about politics, good or bad.
Much of the gangsta stuff is crap, some of it is good.....occasionally it achieves an artistic level.
Name for me any form of popular music that doesn't do the same?
Maybe he'll go the Puff Daddy/P. Diddy route and in a few years change his name to "4 Bitz"
Redemption is the game, apparently, everyone can play.
Ahhhhhh...hollah, hollah, if you like fiddy!
Bush now has another kind of street cred.
Jumping off the Mackinac bridge would be inspiring to me.....
LOL!!!
LMAO!
I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, but with any mention of 50 Cent, it is obligatory to mention that he was shot 9 times.
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Nope. But they seem to have run-ins with amazing regularity and much to the acclaim of their audience. Their music is crap and their image is destructive.
OK, OK. Upon further review, I realize that the point isn't that the other stuff is good and rap is crap, it's that it's ALL crap. Our parents were right, 90% of pop music really is garbage.
We can look at Rap as "avant garde" pop music, eschewing melodic construction in favor of the angst of the modern concrete jungle portrayed in vividly colored imagery carried on the backs of the eye shaded young black men's raw, angry rhythms and rhyming.
(I tell ya, I've heard this swill so many times I can regurgitate it effortlessly.")
Personally, I'm waiting for $3.50 ("tree fitty").
Damned monster.
True dat, man.
And hey, doesn't Bush wear a bullet-proof vest, like 50 Cent?
Suffice it to say most popular art is mediocre at best.
"Now, if we can just get Marilyn Manson's endorsement..."
"That's one man's music I never allowed in my house. Never."
I knew him when he was coming up here in South Florida on the local scene, not very well but he was around. I remember him as this skinny artsy-fartsy nerdy character who used to wear eyeshadow playing in a warehouse with 4 guys. I also remember a picture of him in an indie magazine with tattoos that he did not have in real life. (What did he draw them on with a marker for some local music rag?)
I remember he worked at a "Peaches" record store and made fun of me for buying the Beastie Boys "Check Your Head" album. (I guess maybe he thought it was beneath him..LOL...) Brian Warner is his real name, he went to Taravella High School in Coral Springs FL.
I would never have thought that band would go on and sell millions of records. He really did seem doomed to play the Elbow Room every Friday night for the rest of his life and work at a gas station during the week. Shows how much I know.
But anyway, back on topic.. I went to see my Dad this weekend which is about a 2 hour drive and I jammed the soundtrack to 50's new movie almost the whole way.. favorite song so far on that album is 50's song called "What If?"
Bones
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