Fiddy

You might not have seen this if you don't read the rap blogs.

Bol called it a new low for hip-hop.
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Rapper 50 CENT has lashed out at fellow hip-hop star KANYE WEST for accusing US President GEORGE W BUSH of racism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The IN DA CLUB star believes human intervention could not have prevented the effects of the hurricane, which killed over a thousand people in the US gulf states in August (05), and sees no point in reprimanding the President for something which was beyond his control.
He says, "The New Orleans disaster was meant to happen. It was an act of God.
"I think people responded to it the best way they can.
"What KANYE WEST was saying, I don't know where that came from."
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To summarize for the uninformed: 50 was mad at Kanye a while ago because Late Registration came out the same day as whatever Tony Yayo's album was called, and everybody bought Late Reg, because it was good, whereas Tony Yayo's album was really bad. Therefore Tony Yayo didn't do any numbers and he's going to have to go back to hustling coke, and so he'll probably go to jail again, which in turn will give him more material to write new, equally bad rap albums about.

So 50 said something about how he created the climate in which Kanye got so huge and was thus responsible for Kanye's success, and that was really stupid and everybody ignored him, Kanye included. 50 Cent cannot stand to be ignored. So that's why he's saying shit about Kanye, but I don't understand why it had to be this. Not only is this mad ill-informed, it's also really untimely. Kanye said that shit months ago.

I'm probably not going to buy any more 50 Cent paraphrenalia, not that I would anyway.