Robin Thicke, 50 Cent, T.I. and others gathered in Hollywood yesterday to announce the nominations for the BET Awards yesterday. Afterward, 50 participated in a press conference, during which EURweb caught him spouting the following gems of wisdom. Pay close, close attention.
“Are you familiar with politics? Are you familiar with the President’s No. 2 man? You’re familiar with him resigning based on him using, maybe what we’d call a dating service? Maybe he’s hanging out with hoes that we mention in the music. If that doesn’t make you aware of a situation that exists….
“Music is a mirror, and hip hop is a reflection of the environment that we grew up in. It’s the harsh realities that end up in the music. If I ask you to paint a picture of the American flag and not use the color red, you’re gonna have a difficult time. To capture what we try to capture in the art form, I’m sure some conservative Americans can’t [identify] with it because of their lifestyle and the way they’ve actually been brought up, and they haven’t been exposed to those realities.”
Bailey used Master P as an example of a rapper who made the decision to sign positive rappers from now on who do not use the three aforementioned words in their lyrics.
“Well Master P doesn’t sell CDs anymore,” 50 said calmly, which caused the room full of reporters to burst out laughing. “You can tell him I said it. Cameras is rollin’ right? …‘Curtis,’ June 26.”
Right. 50 Cent’s rambling thoughts make me dizzier than Miss Jay’s do. He’s right on the money about Master P, though.
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Master P also isn’t doing the kind of promotion for his music that 4 bits does.
Is he still wearing bulletproof vests?
For all that, I actually understood what he said. It helps to be immersed in postmodern fiction where beginnings and ends are irrelevant.
Mmmmmm, I would love to be the person sitting between TI and Robin Thicke. 50 needs to move so I can sit down.
I second that, JillyBean, oh except that I went to a T.I. concert and he is just a fool. Fake bullet tracks. Threatening to kill a student who threw a bottle of water.
50 is a mess. Always has been. Always will be. You can take the boy out the hood…
second that, jillybean. 50 represents everything that is wrong with hip hop today.
Someone should tell .50 that, outside of the east coast, he doesn’t sell CDs anymore either.
Robin Thicke = yummy