50 Cent is known for being a lot of things in life. He's been known as a thug and is now mostly known as an impressive business man. However, with all of the glamor surrounding his music and movie star lifestyle, little is ever said Fif as a father. Curtis Jackson is now putting that as a priority as he fights to see his eleven year old son Marquis.
"I'm not going through a custody battle; just a transition," 50 told MTV. "I'd like to be able to just see my baby."
While his son has traveled with him on major tours in the past, things have changed and their time together has been taken away.
"In the summertime, for the first two years I was successful, my son has traveled with us on those tours. He was on the Rock the Mic Tour, he was on the Anger Management Tour. This summer, when he's free, it's, like, no communication. It's tough."
That's not the only change in their lives. His mother Shaniqua Tompkins' home was burned down recently. When it happened, she told TMZ she thought it was 50 Cent who burned the home down. Fif denied the allegations.
"I really don't wanna talk about it, because my son at some point will have the opportunity to see the tapes. She's still his mother, and I'm still his father, regardless. He's gonna love both of us," he said.
Still, according to 50, Marquis' relationship with his mother has also changed.
"My relationship with my son is changing because he and his mom aren't friends anymore. There's different channels I have to go through. He has lawyers appointed to him through the court. So I have to talk to his lawyer to get things situated for me to for me to actually get him. The relationship between my wallet and his mom has changed. When people have expensive habits, it's a hell of a transition for them when that money is not there anymore. She said all kind of things about me I never would expect."
This has hurt 50. As he explained, it is the toughest moment he's had to go through.
"I think he doesn't want his mom to feel like he's a traitor," he continued. "The time I spent away is the time he developed this thing he's afraid to break with her. There's nothing you can do about that. This is the toughest [thing I've had to face], because he's my motivation."
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CAM'RON OVER WEEZY!
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1503157775cb4cee/
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JOEY BUDDENS BREAKS DOWN WHY RAP IS SO FAR OUTTA CONTROL:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1503013889bf69a5/
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MOS DEF DOES A TRIBUTE TO JAY ELECTRONICA?! WOW:
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DIDDY SAYS: DRIVE SAFE! LOL:
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MURS IS THE MOTHERFUCKIN HOMIE. SUCK IT IN:
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JEAN GRAE'S PAIN:
Down In Front
The Trials of Jean Grae
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
By Rob Harvilla
Wednesday, July 7 2008
http://villagevoice.com/2008-07-09/music/the-trials-of-jean-grae/2
Jean Grae once had two different albums leak on the same day. That is really hard to do. This Week, the official follow-up to the brash, volatile, riveting New York City MC's 2002 debut, Attack of the Attacking Things, saw official release as scheduled, in September 2004. That's also when Jeanius, a superior effort to This Week, began a horrifying four-year odyssey of neglect, abandonment, and (very) gradual evolution. Some of this ludicrous delay goes down to sample issues: Helmed by former Little Brother producer 9th Wonder, it's a mesmerizing ghost-town of classic funk/soul echoes—easy to love, hard to clear. But darker calamities have plagued our heroine, too, which explains, as we near Jeanius's long-awaited official release on Blacksmith Records (co-founded by Talib Kweli, overseen by Warner), why Jean herself is now threatening to retire via her MySpace page.
Her initial salvo, dated April 26, had the unmistakable ain't-we-had-fun wistfulness of a breakup letter. ("It's been a wonderful and awful journey all at the same time. Mostly leaning towards the wonderful part . . . lol.") It freaked people out. And though she continued to post, the content ranged from the suspiciously frivolous (a swarm of gnats sticks to her over-glossed lips) to the directly confrontational. There's a video for Jeanius's first single, the obscene-phone-call sex jam "Love Thirst," in which Jean frolics sexily in the back of an olde-tyme taxicab. She has disowned it. ("I think that shit is wack.") But even bloodier battles await: Though the record is by turns hilarious and vicious, there's an anguished insecurity at its core: "Don't Rush Me" is mired in frustration and self-doubt, while "My Story" recounts Jean's experience getting an abortion at 16 in brutal, vivid detail. Now her label wants to make a video for that one. Without her. Jean's not having it. And she might walk away still. But not quite yet.
Here are some excerpts from our chat.
So, I take it you didn't actually retire.
[Sighs.] I've never done anything for the sake of a publicity stunt or anything else. But I was genuinely, really just like, "OK, I've had it." For many reasons. And I get that, being disenchanted with the industry—who's not disenchanted with the industry at some point? And especially after that many years?
Age-wise, kind of wanting to do other things, including changing careers. Been about 15 years. Wanting to have a family, wanting to be a mom. That, and not getting enough champagne in my room at all times. Always upsetting. Delayed product. I could come up with tons of 'em. It really did come from a really honest place. I definitely meant it. And at this point, it's kind of: "This is my job for better or for worse right now." And I do have a responsibility to do something I think is really important. Sometimes it feels like a real huge burden, but, yeah. [Sighs.] That, and—well, we can get into the other things later.
"My Story" mentions a heart murmur, an abortion, a miscarriage, and an attempted suicide. Is anything there even remotely embellished?
No. No. No. "My Story" is a really important song. It took me about 10 years or so to do. There's an energy that happened around that Jeanius album. With that specific song, it was just myself and 9th in the room. We have a very good chemistry working together. We never have to ask, "Go in and do this," or "I feel like this should happen here." It was just really natural and pure.
The letters and e-mails that I've gotten from men and women on the subject have been extremely important. I think you've seen my comments, how I felt about the "Love Thirst" video and putting it out. What really hurts at this point is that they have now gone ahead and done the "My Story" video. I don't know if they're done or not. Initially, it was: I'm gonna get to read the treatment. And I said: "Thank you. I really appreciate you took the time out, especially for this song—it is, to me, the most important song on this album, the most important song I've ever done. But the treatment that you wrote, it really goes against the whole idea of the song: It's become, 'Everything's gonna be OK; it's a happy ending'—no."
The whole idea of it was, no, I wanted to do a song that was this real about it. Taking you into the room. The anaesthetic. You're going through the whole process, especially experiencing it as a teenager. And not having anyone to share that with. And I said: "Please don't do this." The next thing I heard, they were going ahead with it. Casting it.
The most hurtful thing being that it's such an important song. The personal part of me baring my soul is fine. The political aspect of it—you couldn't have a more pro-choice song. So now, in essence, what you've done is taken the choice away for the video for the song called "My Story." I think it's the most disrespectful thing ever. It's really prompting me to have the kind of voice that I know I should have. I can't let it go. I can't let something like that go. And it's not fair.
So where do we stand with this now?
You know, I don't know. As far as I know, it was being shot. So I'm gonna assume it's done already. And I was like, "Do I say something about it before they decide to release it—will that stop it from coming out? Or do I let them go ahead and let them do it and then we'll deal with it?" I guess I just made my choice.
Does being on Talib Kweli's label help? Wouldn't he have a better grasp of what you want and what you need?
I think the whole experience over the past year has definitely given me a better idea of how much more vocal—and vocal with tact—I have to be in certain situations. There's tons of things you could say. It's hard to not speak about anything passionately. And if you speak about it passionately, then you're being too emotional and whiny. Can't do that. And if I don't say anything about it, am I shirking my responsibility and leaving it open for everyone else to step in? How angry can I really be if I'm not doing anything?
The interesting duality comes from being female and immediately being written off saying anything—it's: "Oh, she's complaining again. See? And that's why bitches shouldn't rap." It's an interesting place to stand. It's sort of a "damned if you do, damned if you don't." I do wanna very much take a position on this song and this record and this video, because it would be insane of me not to.
With that MySpace bulletin, were you trying to scare people a little bit?
No. Definitely not.
I think from your fans' perspective, people were starting to take you for granted, and the thought of you being gone really kind of woke people up.
No, I mean, I haven't had music out in a while, and I can't expect the buzz to stay up if you're not putting anything out. I thought it was very interesting, and 9th and I discussed it: It was a real emotional time, and not just because I'm a girl—it was a huge thing to be like, "Hey, I'm not gonna be doing this anymore." And 9th and I spoke—he was like, "It's like you're dead." And I'm like, "It is like I'm dead!" It was amazing. I've never gotten so many hits on my page. I was like, "You know what? Not that it was a publicity stunt, but shit—maybe I've should've thought of it before as a publicity stunt."
Are you working on new material?
Uh-huh.
Is there a timeline there, or are you waiting to see how this goes?
I was. I was. After Jeanius, it's hard to go back and do something else. We actually went back and started Phoenix. Got about halfway through it. Really interesting album. Kind of modeling it after classic albums that we loved. We were like, "This one, this is Supreme Clientele." And I don't think I was in the right place to completely finish it at that moment. Really went through a period of not knowing the right way to go, what direction to be in. I was like, "Jeanius took four or five days. It shouldn't take long." It's been four years. And the songs are amazing and wonderful, but I don't exactly know if that fits into where I have to go for the next project. Which is great, because I love just recording and having things, have a catalog behind me. But. Yeah.
So when you threatened to retire, you talked about the things you'd do instead. What are those things?
Anything! Anything. Anything. I'm a writer. This is why I started doing this. So that'll fall into play. I don't know. When it's really time, and it's absolutely and completely right, and I don't feel like there's anything I really need to finish, then it'll be done.
Do you think you're gonna be doing this a year from now? Is this gonna turn out well? Or do you think you're walking away?
You know what? I need that Grammy. I think I might be able to stop after that.
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http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/07/the_politics_of_lil_wayne.html
THE POLITRICKS OF LIL WAYNE:
As Karen notes below, Barack Obama crossed the pop culture/politics divide today by praising Lil' Wayne's rhyming ability at a campaign event in Powder Springs, Georgia. Before dismissing this development as trivia, consider that Lil' Wayne is both the most acclaimed rapper of 2008 and one of the biggest pop culture figures in the nation, with a song, Lollipop, that is #2 on the Billboard charts four months after its release and an album that sold 423,000 copies on its first day in stores. Add to this the fact that Weezy, as he sometimes calls himself, is perfectly willing to rap about politics, albeit crudely.
Take the lyrics of Lollipop, the aforementioned song which, if you have not yet heard on the radio, then your children certainly have. As is the habit of most modern Hip Hop, it is a song of sexual conquest, with Lil' Wayne boasting of his ability to attract women and enjoy their company. Not so interesting, you think? Check out this set of lyrical couplets:
I get her on top / She drop it like it's hot
And when I'm at the bottom / She Hillary Rodham
In the song, these lines are meant as a compliment both to the girl in his bed and the former presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, whose take-charge, ready-from-day-one attitude the artist apparently admires. Of course, the precise context of the compliment is insulting to millions of Americans, but then the Lil' Wayne oeuvre is not exactly sensitive to such considerations.
Now, I don't have data on radio play, but I am willing to bet that more Americans have heard this homage to Clinton more times in the last month, on the radio, in their iPods, in dance halls, on television (MTV and BET play the video in heavy rotation), than any segment of a speech by Barack Obama or John McCain. These pop stars have some serious messaging power.
For the same reason, the pop culture stature of Rev. Al Sharpton, another former Democratic candidate for president, has been directly challenged by another track from Lil' Wayne's latest album. At the end of the song Misunderstood, the rapper goes into an extended rumination on race, crime and politics in America. It ends with a blistering appraisal of Sharpton:
Mr. Al Sharpton, here’s why I don’t respect you, and nobody like you. You’re the type that gets off on getting on other people. That’s not good. . . . And rather unhuman, I should say. I mean, given the fact that humanity - well, good humanity, rather - to me is helping one another no matter your color or race. But this guy and people like him, they’d rather speculate before they informate, if that’s a word.
It turns out informate is a word, at least in one dictionary. Lil' Wayne goes on to call Sharpton "just another Don King, with a perm, hahah, just a little more political, and that just means you're a little unhuman." This is not the sort of language that is often heard in political debate. But then Lil' Wayne is not the sort of person who usually enters the political maw. In addition to his critical acclaim and success--TIME calls him "the best rapper alive"--he has survived an accidental self-inflicted gun shot, a subsequent arrest for gun possession, and an arrest by U.S. Border Patrol for possession of cocaine and ecstasy. All that, and the man is among America's reigning masters of wordplay.
Politicians everywhere, beware.
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RAP IS OUTTA CONTROL CAUSE OF FOOLS LIKE THE GAME:
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NOAH 23'S NEW ALBUM!
1. HUNGRY prod. by MR SOCH
featuring guitar by ALL THINGS INVISIBLE
2. PINBALL prod by MADADAM
featuring GREGORY PEPPER
3. HALF DRUNK prod by MADADAM
featuring CADENCE WEAPON
4. CRYSTAL PALACE prod by LORD KUFU
featuring WORMHOLE
5. RAW NUKES prod by SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL (formerly of UNICORNS)
featuring LIVESTOCK
6. GAIA BACTERIA prod by PLAYPAD CIRCUS
featuring DEMUNE
7. FADED prod by CESCHI RAMOS
featuring CESCHI RAMOS
8. ELEPHANT MARCH prod by GREGORY PEPPER
featuring BLEUBIRD & FIDGET
9. TOY STORY prod by GREGORY PEPPER
featuring THE MAIN
10. MOON LANDING prod by ANUCONGO
featuring JOSH MARTINEZ
11. RUSTY ROBOTZ prod by ANUCONGO
featuring BARACUDA
12. THINGS GET DONE prod by DEBMASTER
featuring MODULOK (of RED ANTS)
13. GIVE IT TO THE PEOPLE prod by SUBTITLE
14. ILS PERSISTENT prod by EKLECT
featuring DELECTABLE
15. TRAGIC COMEDY prod by THUR DEEPHREY
featuring EPIC, SOLE & K-THE-I
16. THE SUBTLE DOCTOR prod by NAVAL AVATAR
featuring HANGNAIL & HOMESICK
17. OLFACTORY MEMORIAL prod by ZOEN
18. BLACK BALL prod by FRESH KILS
featuring TYKUS & WORDBURGLAR
19. WISDOM TEETH prod by THE SAD CLOWNS
featuring THE SAD CLOWNS
20. DEAD END GAME prod by RIFF RAFF
featuring STAPLE MOUTH
21. TRUE ROMANCE prod by FACTOR
featuring ATHENA & SANKOFA
22. TORN AGAIN prod by JIM GUTHRIE (of ISLANDS ect.)
featuring JIM GUTHRIE
23. FAME prod by MADADAM
BUY THE ALBUM WHEN HE DROPS IT, SEPTEMBER 23RD!
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=====RUMOR ALERT! WOOP! WOOP!=====
Controversial Hip-Hop artist David Darnell Brown also known as Young Buck attempted suicide last night by taking an overdose of prescription pain pills, according to a Nashville Police Department report. A copy of the report is also attached. The former member of the gangster rap group Guerilla Unit, 27, was depressed and told cops that he was trying to harm himself, the report states. A female companion of the rapper told officers that Brown last week filled a prescription for 40 pain pills, but had only taken five of the pills up to yesterday. Brown told police that he had taken the balance of the pills last night. The woman, who has been identified as Lizzie Grubman, Brown's publicist, also told responding officers (RO/S) that she observed Brown(identified in the report as "comp," or complainant) put two pills in his mouth, which she tried to retrieve by placing her fingers in his mouth. He was treated at Metro Nashville General Hospital for a drug overdose. While the police document does not name Brown, Nashville media reports (including one from WTVF Channel 5, which broke the Brown story) have identified him as the "victim" referred to in the report. Early this morning, Police reported that Brown had been taken to a hospital emergency room after suffering an adverse reaction to painkillers.
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WE CAN STOP HERE.
I MUST CREATE LOVE AND MAGIC.
OFF I GO!
BE GOOD,
LOVE,
MINDBENDER
P.S. PEACE TO GRACIOUS CLARITY! IT'S QUITE NICE TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN...
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